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eacapeaffled among his own people , and stirred them up to resistance . Seven of the police have been killed ; and soldiers , with artillery , are oa their way to the scene of action , which is difficult to reach on account of the absence of roads . The Sowrahs allege that their deity has appeared to them in the shape of a brass image . Another rising among the Santals is also feared . From Oude , there are particulars of a little difficulty presented by the Rajah of Toolsepore , a feudatory of the late king , who refuses to pay his rent to his new master , as he did formerly to his old . A force is being organized to proceed against him . . _ , , at has
A violent burst of the monsoon Bombay removed all fears of want of water , rain having fallen to a great depth . Dr . O'Shaughnessy has published the first annual report of the working of the Indian electric telegraph . It appeara that the total number of messages despatched during the year was 9971 , one-third of which were sent by natives , -whose confidence in the telegraph is great , and steadily increasing . The receipts have averaged upwards of 1000 / . a month .. All public works , the completion of which costs more than a thousand pounds , have been stopped by order of Government , out of fear of a financial crisis . The Bombay money-market , however , is easier , and the Bank in that city has reduced its rate of discount one per cent , all round .
EGTPT . Ibrahim Pacha , brother of the Viceroy , has just returned from Soudan . He has brought back with him the assassin of Ismail Pacha , his brother , who was put to death at Soudan many years ago . The Nigritian regicide has been pardoned , and has come to thank the Viceroy . This act of grace is not without its importance , as it will cause the return to Soudan of 30 , 000 or 40 , 000 men who sided with the murderer .
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TRIAL OF WILLIAM DOVE . The trial Of William Dove for the murder of his wife by strychnine commenced at York on Wednesday , before Mr . Baron Bramwell . The High Sheriff had made precautionary arrangements to guard against the expected crowd , by causing barriers to be erected at the entrance to the court , and a strong body of police to be in attendance , in addition to the ordinary javelin men . On being placed at the bar , Dove pleaded " Not Guilty" in a firm and collected tone of voice . In appearance ( says one account ) he is a young man about thirty years of age , respectably dressed and intelligent-looking without anything remarkable about him to attract observation . Another reporter states that he has a twitching of the eyelids , which gives a sinister expression to his face . Throughout the day , he appeared perfectly collected and self-possessed , and occasionally looked indifferent .
Mr . Overend , Q . C , Mr . Hardy , and Mr . L . H . Bay ley , appeared for tLe prosecution ; and Mr . Bliss , Q . C , Mr . Serjeant Wilkins , Mr . Hall , and Mr . Middletou , were for the prisoner . The facts of this case were so fully narrated in the Leader at the time the case -was before the magistrates and the coroner's jury , that it -would be unnecessary to repeat them here . The chief testimony with respect to motive had reference to the prisoner ' s drunken habits , liis violence to his wife , who upbraided him for his intemperance , and his threatening to " do her job for her , "
if she did not " mind her own business . " A suspicious fact came out with respect to the obtaining of poison . Two or three days before Mrs . Dove ' s death , Mr . Morley ' s groom came out of the anteroom to the surgery , and he met Mr . Dove going into the surgery . At that time , there was no one in the surgery ; and after he had watered his horses , the groom saw the gas at full height in the surgery . He then went into the surgery , and found Mr . Dove with the gas up , putting it down , and looking very much flurried . Ho said , " I have come to light my pipe . " He was there twenty minutes alone , and he knew where the poison was .
One or two other additional facts were brought forward ; as that , during his wife ' s illness , he ostentatiously asked some of his friends if they had not noticed that ho was obliged to quit the sick-room , overcome by grief . On the night of the death , he told a Mr . Young , a confectioner , that his wife was gone , and that ho -wished he could weep , he was so excited ; adding , " Oh , that last look of hers , how it haunts moI" After that , he went to a public-house , got two glasses of brandy-and-wator , and , said his wife was dead , and the doctors had told him Bhe could not live , which was not true .
The object of the cross-examination was to show that Dove was under the influence of delirium tremens , and insane , and that he fancied himself haunted by fiends , and talked of having bartered his soul to the devil . The case for the prosecution closed on Thursday .
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Manslaughter . —Joseph Dunn , a waiter at n publichouse in the City , is now undo * remand at the Mansion House , charged with killing Richard Branacombe , an Itinerant vendor of oysters , known as " Ono-armcd Dick / 1 by a blow of the flst . The deceased appeared ( o
be drunk and quarrelsome , and the waiter struck him . The inquest , which terminated in a verdict of Accidental Death , appears to have been held with great haste , and with a desire to hush up matters . A Mother's Tragedy . —A lamentable story was disclosed on a trial a few days ago at the Aylesbury Assizes , when Mary Ann Jones was charged with the murder of her infant child . She had been dismissed with the newly-born child from Lambeth workhouse on the 2 nd of the present month . She walked all the way to Uxbridge on that day , and put up at a public-house , but -was turned out by the landlady , who feared the child would die there . " She then appears to have got another lodging , but on the following day the infant was
found dead , apparently from the effects of laudanum . Before the coroner , the woman made the following statement : — " I have had a deal of trouble these last few months , and the anxiety of my other child ; this is the first time that ever I committed any offence before the magistrates . I hope they will have mercy on me for the sake of my other child . 1 gave him a few drops , thinking to compose the child because he was so fretful . He sucked at the breast about two o ' clock the next morning , but there did not seem to be anything for him . I did not think when I gave him the cordial that it
would cause his death . I uncovered him at the nighthouse to warm him , but he seemed very cold . I did not leave the night-house till past three , and I think he died about four . I won ' t be positive sure . My arr as were quite stiff with carrying him , and , when I found he was gone , it gave me such a shudder I could not bear the thought of it . When called on for her defence at the trial , she said nothing . Lord Campbell , who undertook to watch the case in the prisoner's behalf , on account of her not being defended , and who was affected to tears , summed up for manslaughter , of which she was found Guilty . She was sentenced to one month ' s
imprisonment . Assize Cases . — "William Brown , aged thirty-three , a returned convict , has been found Guilty , at Leicester , of the murder of Edward Woodcock , a tollgate-keeper , near Melton Mowbray , on the 19 th ult . It will be remembered that the deceased was an old man , and that his grandson , a boy eight years old , was murdered at the same time . The evidence against Brown was entirely circumstantial . A pistol and a tobacco-stopper , which were left behind , were proved to be his ; some of his clothes , imperfectly washed , and with spots of blood on them , were found a day or two after the murder in some weeds ; he Avas proved to have made inquiries into old Woodcock ' s habits a few days previously ; footprints
were traced to a spot near the toll-gate where he had been seen pulling off his shoes on the evening of the crime ; and the next day he was met dressed in different clothes to those he had previously worn . On being apprehended , he gave contradictory accounts of himself ; and he now protested his innocence . He was sentenced to death . —Samuel and Susannah Barratt , man and wife , and Elizabeth Barratt , their daughter , have been found Guilty at Bedford of the manslaughter of Helen Barratt , also the daughter of the two elder prisoners . The case was one of starvation and perpetual ill-usage , and was described in the Leader in the early part of last April . The man , as being the least culpable , was sentenced to one year ' s imprisonment , and the women to four years '
penal servitude . —Edward Stafford has been Acquitted of a charge of administering certain noxious drugs to Ellen Robinson , a young woman whom he had seduced , hia object being to procure abortion . The acquittal was received with shouts of approbation , both within and without the court . —Mark Antony Johnson , and Edward Watson , have been tried at York for a burglary at the house of a Mr . Birtlea , accompanied with great violence , on the 14 th of last March . The facts appeared in this journal at the time . They were found Guilty , but sentence was deferred . —John Spencer and Mary Ann Davidson were found Guilty at York of setting fire to a haystack belonging to a Mr . Denison , who had refused to employ them . —John Murdock and John Wright , the
latter a boj r , were tried at Lewes for the murder of James Wellard , the keeper of the gaol at Hastings , on the 10 tli of last March , under circumstances which have already appeared in this journal . The grand jury having ignored the bill against tho younger prisoner , the jury at once returned a verdict of Not Guilty . Tho defence on tho part of the other was that ho did not mean to kill Wellurd , but only sought to make his escape , and that the keeper , under feelings of excitement and alarm , may have had an apoplectic fit , and not have been strangled , as alleged . The jury found him Guilty , but recommended him to mercy , on tho ground that thoy
believed his intention was not to kill tho keeper . He was sentenced to death ; on which , with much emotion , ho turned round to the people in tho court , aiul exclaimed , " There ' s a lesson for you !"—Henry Vullior , an old man , was acquitted at the Harno Assizes of a charge of cutting and wounding hin sou . It appeurcd that tho Bon lived in a very immoral way in the father ' s house , and that ho was told to leave Refusing to do ho , the father struck the son on tho head with a sword ; but tho wound was of a very trifling description . — Hannah Ueecroft , a young woman , waB tried at York , on a charge of murdering her newly-born illegitimate infant by throwing it
down a privy . She was found Guilty of manslaughter and was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment with hard labour . —Elizabeth Empsall , at the same Assizes , . has been found Guilty of a charge of ill-using her illegitimate daughter , aged nine years . The poor child was nearly starved , kept half naked , deprived of rest at night , beaten with a poker and other heavy instruments , and confined in a coal-cellar . On one occasion , her head was cut with a carving-knife ; and she appears to hare
suffered most prolonged ill-treatment , and to have been nearly killed . The woman was sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour . —John Phipson , a nailer , has been found Guilty , at Worcester , of tho manslaughter of Elizabeth Milwood , another nailer . The act appears to have been done in a fit of passion , and partly by accident . The sentence was a fortnight ' s solitary imprisonment . —David Davis pleaded Guilty to a charge of causing the death of Mary Pardoe . He was condemned to two years' imprisonment .
Poisoning at South Shields . —A woman has killed herself with arsenic at South Shields . She administered some of the same poison to her two children , who were fortunately recovered . A quarrel with her husband is said to have been the cause of the crime . Another Lady Thief . —Jane Hampton , an elderly woman , of lady-like appearance , and said to be a person of property , was charged at the Southwark police-office , on Monday , with stealing two books , one of which was a Life of William Painter , from a book-stall at the London Bridge terminus of the Brighton Railway . The offence having been proved , Mr . A'Beckett asked her if
she preferred being sent for trial , or having the case summarily disposed of . She elected the latter , and pleaded Not Guilty . A female friend was called for her defence ; but the witness could merely speak to the fact of the prisoner being a person of some property and respectably connected . Mr . A'Beckett again asked her whether she would not rather be tried at the sessions : if he was to deal with the case , she must plead Guilty . On this she exclaimed , in an imploring tone , — " I don ' t want to be tried at the sessions . I am guilty , and I will take my punishment now . " She was committed for two months with hard labour .
Embezzlejient . —Cornelius Urell , clerk to Messrs . Barnes and Co ., of Fenchurch-street , has been charged before Sir James Duke , at Guildhall , -with robbing his employers of six bills of exchange , amounting altogether to nearly 2000 / . An officer of the City detective police called on the prisoner , and asked him if he could give any information concerning a letter which had been stolen from Messrs . Barnes ' s office , and also whether lie had been out with two young men who were suspected of having taken it . To both these questions Urell replied in the negative , and accounted for his absence from the office of his employers that day , by stating that he had
been engaged clearing some goods from the West India Docks . A day or two afterwards , the detective officer called again at the prisoner ' s lodgings and took him into custody , upon which he delivered up three 100 / . banknotes , and said that he had buried the gold on the bank of the river Lea between Hackney and Bow . They accordingly proceeded to the spot , accompanied by one of the principals of the firm of Messrs . Barnes , and thn prisoner then took from underneath two stones a bag of gold containing 209 / . On their way to the station-house , Urell made a full confession of the whole transaction , and stated that he had afterwards destroyed all the exchange trills but one . He has been committed for trial .
Eakly Depravity . —T . liree young men , known to the police as suspected characters , and two girls , who , though only sixteen years of age , have pursued a life of profligacy for the last three years , were charged at Bow-street with being concerned in a garotte robbery , committed on the person of Frederick Abe " , a German . Missing lm way at night , ho asked for information of the girls , who said they lived in his street , and would take him there . They took him , however , to Charles-street , Drury-lano , when the three men sprang out on him , nearly strangled him , and beat him severely , finally running off with hw watch and money . They were all committed for trial ; on which tho girls burst into loud fits of crying , and protestations of innocence .
A Hoy's Money-Box . —Two boys wero charged at Bow-street with creating a disturbance in Drury-luno , and assaulting the police . In the course of examination it came out that ono of them had just been discharged from Reading Gaol . He was asked how lie obtained the money then in his possession . I To answered , "I had live sovereigns before I wont into the gaol , and I swallowed them just before I reached the prison gates . " Mr . Henry : " Then , where did you retain them afterwardsV" Hoy : " In my stomach . " ( A lauyh . ' ) Mr . Henry : "What ! for fifteen months ? " Boy : " No ; I recovered thom u day cr two after , and kept them concenled till my thru ; was up , and then I swallowed them again . " Hoth boys wero committed for a month .
Middlesex Sessions . —Cliarlcs M'Andrcw hns bc « u sentenced to twenty months' hard labour for a robbery and assault , of a vory violent nature , on tho police ; « nd Michael Ryan , for a similar o / Fonce , has been condemned to hard labour for eighteen months . —John Pulin « r , u ticket-of-leavo man , HenryTDrywood , and John l ' rle «' , wero indicted for an assault with brutal violence on William Burry . Thoy had all been drinking ul public-
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Leader (1850-1860), July 19, 1856, page 680, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2150/page/8/
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