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Assaults . — John Parish was charged at the Mansion House with a ferocious attack on his wife . A quarrel arose between them at breakfast , and the man , seizing a glass , broke it over his wife ' s forehead , inflicting a verybad wound . From the evidence of a police inspector , it appeared that the ruffian was in the habit of ill-using and half-starving his children and his wife ; but the latter now endeavoured to screen him , saying she provoked him by irritating language . The Lord Mayor sent him to gaol for six months , with hard labour . The wife , however , appealed to him so strongly , upon the ground of the provocation which she declared was given by her own intemperate behaviour to her husband , that the Lord Mayor called back the delinquent , and reduced the
severity of the sentence one-half . —A carpenter , named John Morgan , has been sent to prison for six months for a series of assaults committed in an eating-house where he was working . Having refused to leave at the time for concluding his work , a policeman was sent for ; but he furiously attacked the officer , and bit him very seriously . Some other policemen were also attacked , as well as a gentleman who was in the house at the time ; but the wild beast was at length caught and overpowered , after escaping from the premises and running away . He wished , when brought before the Lord who
Mayor , to be allowed to remunerate the policeman had been most hurt , as a method of compromising the matter ; but this was refused , and he was sent to prison for three weeks , and ordered to find bail to keep the peace for an equal number of months . —Samuel O'Brien , a naihnaker , living at 14 , Waterloo-terrace , Chelsea , was charged at the Westminster police court with violently assaulting and wounding Leopold and Mary Paget , man and wife , -with a poker . The woman was so severely injured that she was unable to attend , and is lying at St . George ' s Hospital in a very precarious state . He was remanded .
Alleged Attempt to Poison a Husband . —Jane Newton was tried at Liverpool on a charge of attempting to poison her husband , a blacksmith . The wife was shown to have purchased some arsenic at a chemist ' s shop , under pretence of cleaning her bed and ridding it of fleas ; but it did not appear that |! she had applied the- poison to any such purpose . One morning , she divided a quantity of stew between her husband , herself , and her two children , for breakfast . Her husband ' s portion having been put into a separate vessel , the wife was observed to stir it about with a spoon . Soon after eating it , Newton became very sick . The rest of his stew was given by him to his children ; but the mother took it from them . However , one had already eaten a
small portion of it , and she also was very ill . Arsenic Was discovered in the vomits ; and the wife gave contradictory accounts of the place where she obtained the stew . The only motives for the act that could be suggested were that the wife had been pawning some of her husband ' s clothes , that she had made purchases without his knowledge , and that she would receive 81 . from a burial-club on his death . The defence was that the motive was not sufficient , that the prisoner had made no secret about purchasing the arsenic ( which she believed to be mercury , and did not know to be poison ) , and that the whole affair might have been an accident . She was acquitted . Both the jury and the judge expressed their great indignation at the fact of the chemist ' s assistant , a
boy , selling the accused a quarter of a pound of arsenic . Central , Criminal Court . —The August session of this court commenced on Monday , when the trial of Mr . Snape for the manslaughter of a lunatic in the Surrey Asylum was again postponed , in consequence of the illness of Sir Frederick Thesiger , who was retained for the prosecution . The trial of Mr . Gosling for a misdemeanour in the Regent ' s Park was removed to the Court of Queen ' s Bench . It was originally to have taken place at the Middlesex Sessions ; but was removed to the Central Criminal Court . —James Reilly has been sentenced to two years * imprisonment , with hard labour , for an attempted garotte robbery committed , in conjunction with another man , who escaped , on the person of a
butler , in a court turning out of Gray s-inn-lane , on the evening of the 8 th inst . —Cornelius Urell , a gentlemanlylooking youth of twenty , pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with forging an acceptance to a bill of exchange for 510 ? ., with intent to defraud Charles Joachim Hambro . Almost directly after he had committed the forgery and obtained the money , he repented of what ho had done , told his employer , and enabled the police to recover the proceeds of tho forged acceptance . He was sentenced to imprisonment , with hard labour , for one year . —Charles Arnold , described as a checsefactor , surrendered to take bis trial upon un indictment , charging him with having feloniously
neglected and omitted to surrender to pass his examination at tho Court of Bankruptcy on tho day limited for that purpose , after ho had been duly adjudged a bankrupt , lie was found guilty , but judgment was deferred . —John Dunning , a fisherman , waa tried for the manslaughter of Francia Toombs . Both mon got horribly drunk on board a Dutch vessel off tho const of Holland , and in that state they wore carried to their own smack , where Toombs fell down in his cabin and went to sleep . While thus insensible , a quantity of nnptha waa thrown over him ( though how did not appear ) , and was set light to . Ho woko in flames , and rushed up on deck , where ultimately some water > vna thrown on him ; but ho . wua
so severely burnt that he died . Dunning was standing near him at the time ; but there was no other evidence to show that he had set light to the spirit , and he was acquitted . The prisoner , who appeared to feel his position very acutely , went into a fit while the Judge was addressing him on the offence of drunkenness , and some time elapsed before he was in a state to be removed from the court . —Tonquin Savella , a native of Peru , described as a merchant , was indicted for feloniously having in his possession certain forged bonds or undertakings for the payment of money by a foreign state—namely , the Republic of Peru . The facts have already appeared in this paper . The accused was found guilty , but sentence was deferred . —James Hunter has been acquitted of a
charge of robbing a jeweller ' s shop , and attempting to garotte the prosecutor . —Michael Murphy , a young Irishman , has been found guilty of abducting a child , six years of age , from its mother . He appears to have taken the child from pure kindness , as the mother did not use it well ; and he was merely ordered to enter into his own recognizances for future good conduct . — George Richard Westcott , a publican , has been acquitted on the charge arising out of his supplying a customer who applied for gin with a poisonous fluid . The evidence -with respect to the nature of this fluid was very unsatisfactory , and the Judge ( Baron Martin ) having directed the jury to an acquittal , they returned a verdict to that effect . —James Williamson , a young man , was found guilty of attempting to extort money frrm a Mr . Robert Dye , under a threat of charging him with a felony . He was sentenced to penal servitude for life . —
William Sunners has been found guilty of uttering a forged Bank of England note ; William Seaman pleaded guilty to a charge of uttering several ; and George Williams has been acquitted of a similar offence . — Sarah Gibbs , a young woman , was indicted for feloniously attempting to murder her illegitimate child . She was in the service of a milliner in Conduit-street , Regent-street , and on the afternoon of the 3 rd of July she was observed by one of the young women engaged in the establishment to be looking very ill , and very soon afterwards a child was heard to cry in the coal cellar . Upon going there , a newly-born child was discovered , nearly covered with coals , and it was taken out and found to be alive , and did not appear to have sustained any injury . The prisoner admitted that the child was hers , but said that she had no intention to injure it by placing it where it was found , and it appeared that she had been delivered of the child in the coal-cellar . The
jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty . What are : the Polick About ?—A correspondent of the Times—who prefaces his observations by saying that he does not complain of being garotted , that he is quite prepared to be robbed and murdered in the streets , as it seems the police canuot prevent it , but that be objects to being invaded in his own home—gives some details of three robberies that have been committed at his house , which is situated " in a broad , respectable , welllighted street , opening directly into one of the most populous London thoroughfares . The first time , the thief was caught by my brother , who came in from an evening party at an inconvenient moment for the burglar . The man confessed that he was going to a 'job' in Westbourne-terrace , but seeing one of my drawing-room windows open , he had mounted the area railings , ' swarmed' up the pillar of the doorway , and so
entered the house . He had three months . 1 he second time , a large amount of property was removed , probably in a vehicle ; but the offenders were not detected . Two years then elapsed , and the house was protected with additional defences ; but last Sunday morning , at a quarter pa 3 t five , in broad daylight , it was again entered . The thieves were disturbed , and , though several articles were injured , very few were carried off . The writer adds to these details : — "Will you tell these blackguards , Sir , from me ( they luiow pretty well by this time who it is th . it now addresses you ) , that they may now ransack the house from top to bottom without getting as much swag as would pay for their 'jemmy and glim ; ' and that I am determined to . shoot dead—at all hazards and without hesitation or challenge—any person whom I may find in my house for the purpose of nlundoring it from this time forth ?"
Highway Kohiucuv . —The neighbourhood at Bnrnaley lias obtained an unenviable notoriety for tho munbor of highway robborics and other outraged committed therein . The most recent event of the kind was investigated on Tuesday last , before two of the West Riding magistrates . John Beaumont , a cattlo-duulcr , waa proceeding along the road from Dodworth to Stainborough , about halfpast Dine on tho night of tho 12 th inst ., when lie waa attacked by two men , who rushed out of tho ^ hedge bottom at the Hide of the road , threw him down , filled his mouth and eyes with dirt , and , after using him in a very rough manner , robbod him of a promissory note for 60 / ., and 1 / . lO . s . in cash . Tho men were afterwards apprehended , and are now committed for trial . Beaumont , tho lirosecvitoris eighty-three yearn of ago .
, Dovk ' s Hangman : a Mysticky . —Thonma A . skren , the debtor in York Castle who ia generally supposed to hnvo hung William Dove , Iuih written un indignant letter to tho Leeds Mercury , denying that ho performed that respectable ollloo . A letter , also denying the titutement , and purporting to be written by Mr . Pours , the Caatlo schoolmaster , appeared in a Manchester paper ,
and the announcement with respect to Askren was attributed to a dislike of him on the part of his fellow debtors , and a desire to do him an injury . It now turns out that Mr . Pears ' s letter is a forgery ; and a Mr . Finlinson , one of the debtors , writes to the Leeds Mercury ^ to state the general opinion of the debtors that Askren was the man . He is in consequence looked on with great distaste . A Drunken Mother . —A woman , named Elizabeth Ann Helwell , is under remand at Lambeth , charged with causing the death of her child by neglect . The coroner s officer stated that he had been to the house of the
woman , where he found her lying on the ground , in a state of utter intoxication , close beside the dead body of the child , which presented every indication of having been starved . In the same room were four other children , dreadfully emaciated , and half famished . On the table was a bottle containing a liquid described by the label as poison . It appeared that the woman was of confirmed bad habits , in consequence of which , her husband , who is a respectable working man , had separated from her , giving her an allowance of fourteen shillings a week . The magistrate thought he ought not to have left the children with her .
Parricide . —Robert Telford , a labouring man , has been committed for trial by a jury at Askerne , near Doncaster , on a charge of killing his father . The motive does not appear . Manslaughter . —Miles Melia , a porter , was indicted at Liverpool for having , on the 12 th of July last , murderdered Francis Welch . He was also arraigned on the coroner ' s inquisition for the same offence . " The crime arose out of a quarrel . For the defence , it -was contended that the man ' s death had been caused by his falling with his head on the flags . Witnesses -were called to prove that the fight commenced with a dispute between Melia and Welch as to half a day ' s wages , which Welch said he did not owe the prisoner . The jury found the prisoner Guilty of manslaughter , and he was sentenced to transportation for life .
False Pretences . —Mr . George Fossey , a timber merchant , residing at Ferry-road West , Millwall , appeared before the Lord Mayor , upon a summons charging him with having unlawfully conspired with other persons to obtain by false pretences certain large sums of money , and with having cheated and defrauded Mr . John Walker , corrugated iron merchant , of Arthurstreet West , of the same . Mr . Bodkin , in opening the case , said : —" The prosecutor in this charge is a large contractor for the erection of houses for Australia and other parts of the world . He is a large consumer of timber , and from the year 1852 down to 1855 he dealt largely with the party before you , Mr . Fossey , for timber . In the year 1853 , Mr . Walker paid him
between G 000 / . and 7000 / . for timber bought of him in that year . The prosecutor had premises in Mill wall , were the business of his factory was carried on . He had also a counting-house in Arthur-street , in the Cit 3 ' , where his books and accounts were kept , and you will find that the fraud which has been committed systematically upon him has consisted in sending to the factory at Millwall , in some instances , small quantities of timber , which have been charged as larger quantities and in many instances charging for timber which never was delivered . " After a statement of the facts as
regards Mr . Fossey , Mr . Bodkin also indicated a case against a clerk mimed Neary , saying : — " By arrangement with Mr . Fossey , Neary , who was Mr . Walker ' s clerk , and who was constantly the drinking companion of Mr . Fossej-, was induced to enter in that book items which never appeared in the receiving-book , and which referred to timber which was not delivered at tho factory ut Millwall . " Evidence having been given to this effect , the further consideration of the case was postponed . Mr . Fossey was admitted to bail , and a warrant was granted for tho apprehension of Neary .
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A oikl about thirteen years of age , named Elizabeth Bramhall , daughter of a mechanic living at Stnlybridgo , Manchester , has met her death through a fatal mistake made by one of the assistants at a chemist ' s shop in that town . The girl being unwell , her father sout to the chemist ' H for a tincture of rhuburb , when one of laudanum was given instead . The two bottles containing each mixture stood close together in the shop window , and there was nothing to di- * tiugui » h them , art they
exactly resembled each other in colour . —A fatal accident hiu * happened at tho ilowgill Fells , Westmoreland , to a gamekeeper of that place , named Robert II «? rd . . Several yontleinen from Liverpool had come to the Folia on a shooting excursion , and Herd joined in tho sport . Ho and two others were engaged in shooting grouse , when tho contents of ouo of the gtinn lodged in tho lower part of Herd ' s body , lie was at onco taken home , and although medical asai « tance was speedily obtained , he died a few hours after the occurrence . An inquest waa held , and a verdict of " Accidentally Shot" returned . —A little boy
of six yearn old , named George Wood Downe , linn been killed at Putney by the fulling on hi » head of one of the heavy triangular supporta of a swing , which aomo people were putting up in u field near tho Half-moon Inn . Sovorul children were playing on tho wpot at tho timo , when the support , which in twenty foot high , and bolted with iron , Huddunly gave ~\ yny and fell on tho head of
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August 23 , 1856 . j THE REAPER . 801
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 23, 1856, page 801, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2155/page/9/
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