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telling her own fortune with cards and t "; g ™ " * J cup . It was also suggested that Mrs . M'MuHan had carried on an illicit intercourse with another man ; but nf fhis there was some doubt . Se evSrof the shop-boy who sold the powders , and of hi emp loyer , was remarkable . The former ? Joseph Hardman ) said : — "lam an assistant to Mr . SimXn , draggist and grocer , Bolton . I have served ^ Priso ner with groceries , and I sold her an emetic powder on Tuesday , the 1 st of July . That is the oiilr one I remember . " Cross-examined by Mr . Serjeant Wilkins : " I don't remember that this woman bought 1 quietness' at our shop ; I have repeatedly sold them to others . " We have let Bolton women have them
frequently , but we have cautioned them when we sold the powder to them . I know there is tartarized antimony in the ' quietness' powder , and we kept four , five , six and seven made up together . I don't know what they are for , only they say they want them for their husbands . I did not know that tartarized antimony was poison . I went from school to Mr . Simpson ' s shop . I am nineteen years of age now . Mr . Simpson mixed them up , and I was to sell them . We charged one penny each for them . On the 1 st of July , when she came for a ' quietness ' powder , I asked her if she meant an antimonial or emetic powder . I was told to caution purchasers to give only dose
one-fifth part of a powder at a . " Mr . James R . Simpson stated : — " I have seen the prisoner once or twice in my shop . I never sold her ' quietness' powder . We never sell it under that name . We make them up of four grains of tartar emetic and fifteen grains of cream of tartar . " Cross-examined : " The last witness is my only shopman to sell drugs . I don ' t to my knowledge remember the prisoner coming for ' quietness . ' I can't remember everybody coming into my shop . I don ' t make the nineteen grain powders into four , because it is the practice in the town to sell them in that quantity . They are used by factory operatives to clear cotton from their stomachs . I don ' t remember ever having seen a
man come for these powders . We always tell purchasers to divide each powder into four doses . We sell about five a week . " The defence was , that the accused administered the powders with no evil , but rather with a good , intention , and that at the worst she could not be convicted of anything more than manslaughter . Of this she was found Guilty , the jury adding that they had taken a merciful view of the case ; and on Monday Mr . Justice Willes sentenced the culprit to transportation for life .
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THE BEATING OF GIRLS IN MARYLEBONE WORKHOUSE . An inquiry was opened at the Marylebone Workhouse on Monday into the charges against Mr . Ryan , the master , and Charles Brown and Matthew Green , two of the porters , in connexion with the recent flogging of some of the girls in the house . The accused did not deny the imputation , but pleaded as an excuse that the girls were rebellious , and had used language to them of the most abusive and indecent character . ^ Ppme of this language , as mentioned by Green during the examination of the witnesses , was of so shocking a nature that its repetition was put a' stop to at the request of the rector of the parish , the Hon . and Rev . J . T . Pelham ,
one of the gentlemen before whom the inquiry was made . Each of the girls concerned—Mary Ann Sullivan , Elizabeth Edmonds , and Sophia Howard—gave evidence , the result of which was that , for not obeying certain orders , they were beaten on several occasions witli a cane and a whip . Sullivan , it appeared , had been dragged by the hair of the head out of a ' refractory cell , ' in which ehe had been confined , and beaten by all three , Brown holding her by the hair . This continued for a considerable time . She had all her clothes on , and she was not struck below the waist ; but Green and Brown kicked her while she was on the ground , where she was
thrown and held for about a quarter of an hour . She was a great deal bruised , and some of the places bled consideraWy . The statements of Edmonds were to similar effect . In answer to Brown , she suid " she was not one of the girls who some time ago was refused admission into the chapel by Mr . Moody , the chaplain , for disgraceful behaviour . She never went near the chapel . ( A lau / i . ~ ) She had been three times in prison , twice for misconduct in the workhouse , and once for an assault on the matron , about eighteen months ago . " She denied having struck Brown on the night in question , alleging that she never had the chance , as he had her down , and was ' thrashing' her with the cane .
Sophia Howard , the third girl , stated that , while she was being beaten , Mrs . Parker , the assistant matron , held her round tho neck . She admitted giving Mr . Ryan a kick on that occasion , but not before ho threw her down . In cross-examination by Green , she emphatically denied using certain opprobrious and indecent language which he Imputed to her , on hia going to ( ho cell and asking her to come out and give him no further trouble . A female searcher at tho Marylcbono police offlco , nnd two other girls , Inmates of tho workhouse , having given confirmatory testimony ( the former to the effect that ehe had seen marks ofstripen on the poraona of the three young women when they wore Jin custody on a charge of
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A Mischievous Boy . —A lad , about twelve , named William Young , was charged before Mr . D'Eyncourt , at Clerkenwell , with throwing a fragment of a horse-shoe at one of the trains on the Great Northern Railway . The accused was playing with some other boys on Ball ' spond Bridge , which crosses the line , and , seeing a train coming along , one of his comrades picked up the piece of horse-shoe and inquired which of the others would be bold enough to drop it down the funnel of the engine . Young immediately proffered his services , and , when the train passed by , he flung the missile on to one of the carriages , from which it bounded on to the line . One of
the ticket collectors said that the throwing of stones at the carriages is now quite a common thing ; and that , although men had been stationed at various parts of the line , they could not detect the culprits . Mr . D'Eyncourt stated that , according to act of Parliament , anybody convicted of the offence was liable to be transported for life ; but , as it appeared that the prisoner only committed the act for the sake of a mere frolic , and not with any felonious intention , he should sentence him , under the Police Act , to a fine of 2 ? ., or , in default , a month ' s hard labour . In passing sentence , the magistrate advised the railway company to have a notice of the conviction posted up along the line as a caution .
Assaults . —Jerome Cokeley , a mason , has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for a series of savage attacks upon his wife , an emaciated woman . Having quarrelled with the poor creature , he first threw a knife at her , then beat her with a hammer , and afterwards with a poker . She had been ill-used for a long while , and had once left her husband , and gone to service ; but the brute so annoyed her employer by demanding that she should be given up to him , that she was discharged . A police inspector said that Cokeley was well known to the police as a man of savage and desperate character . He and his brother had actually killed a constable . The prisoner being taken at the time "was sentenced before the man ' s death , and got off
with a short imprisonment on a summary conviction ; but the brother , who was apprehended after the man ' s death , was transported for seven j'ears . —William Fielding , a hawker , was brought up at Guildhall , charged with violence to the police . He was found drunk and disorderly in the streets , and the police , on interfering , were unmercifully beaten and kicked . The man appeared to be almost mad with drink . He was fined , with the option of imprisonment . —Two Irishwomen were charged at Bow-street with an attack of a very ferocious character on a policeman . The officer found a woman named Sweeney rolling drunk in the kennel in
Barleycourt . He asked her if she had been robbed , to which she answered " No , " but began fumbling about with her money , and let some fall on the pavement . The constable picked it up , and put it in his pocket , which induced a woman standing by to accuse him of stealing it . She and another attacked him , and threw him on the pavement . They then retreated into a house , but he followed them , and attempted to take them into custody . Renewing the attack , they beat him severely , and one bit his nose with great savageness . lie then sprang his rattle , and assistance arrived . The women were remanded . — Several other cases of assaults have been heard during the week .
The Late Collision between the Excelsior ano the Mail . —William Brower , a pilot , and William Shaw , mate of the ' Excelsior steamship , have been Acquitted at the Liverpool Assizes of a charge of manslaughter arising out of the fatal collision between tho Jtscelsior nnd Mail steamships at the mouth of the MenH ^ on the lGth of last July . The case having gone on for some time broke down on the fact as to grosa and wilful negligence necessary to be proved to constitute the crime of manslaughter . Several other charges against the prisoners , of the same nature , and arising out of the same collision , were not proceeded with .
Skduction . —An action has been brought at the Liverpool Assizes against a tax-collector , named Shimming , for seduction . Tho evidence of the poor girl , Ellen Hardwick , who had been a barmaid , exhibited a more than usual amount of hard-heartcdncss on the part of tho man . Having effected her ruin , under promiao of marriage , ho cast her off . " She mot him , and told him she did not know what to do . Ho laughed and put it off , and said he would see her when ho came back from Paris , but he never came near her . In October , after
some difficulty , she got to ace him , nnd told him she wanted half-a-sovoreign , and ho gave her one next day . She wanted it for baby ' s clothes . Ho fluid ho would call ami aeo her in a week , but ho never culled again . On the 16 th of January , tho child was born . She sent for him , and ho came . Ho asked her why alvo had not Hont to him a month heforc , nrrd lie would have sent her out to tho country . Sho told him nho had nothing to take to , ami not a bitu to put in her mouth , and hud nothing but a gloat * of cold water on tho table at her aide . Sho said she could not Ho there mid die . IIo said ho did not
care whether sho did or not . He said she ought to have come to him a month before , and he would have se nt her to the Isle of Man , that he did not like her having the child so near his place of business . He went out and gave her nothing . She afterwards sent to him for half-a-crown and said she was ashamed for the doctor to see her—she had nothing . He refused to give her anything . She then told him she would-go before a magistrate and father the child , and he said she was too poor —they would not hear her . She said she would see whether they would or not . She went ,-and they ordered him to pay 2 s . 6 d . per week . He told her to make up her mind as to what she wanted , as he was going to be
married and did not want to see her again . He gave her nothing . " An attempt was made by the counsel for the defence to damage the g irl ' s previous character ; but it failed . A consultation then ensued between the legal gentlemen on both sides , and the result was that the defendant , with much reluctance , consented to a verdict against him , with 50 / . damages ; upon which . Mr . Justice Willes observed : — " People are never satisfied . If the case had gone to the jury , there would have been 200 / . or 300 / . damages . " The defendant attempted to say something in answer to his Lordship , who interrupted him by exclaiming— " Hold your tongue , sir , or I will send you to prison . "
The Chauge against a Timber Merchant . —A further examination into the charge against Mr . Georg-e Fossey , a timher merchant , and William Neary , a clerk in the employ of Mr . John Walker , a corrugated iron merchant , of obtaining money by fraudulent pretences from Mr . Walker , was gone into at the Mansion House last Saturday . At the previous examination , a warrant was issued for the apprehension of Neary ; but it was not executed , and he now voluntarily surrendered himself . A great deal of additional evidence was taken , and it appeared that Mr . Walker first received information of the alleged frauds from a Mr . Steel , a clerk in the employ of Fossey . To show that the evidence of this person could not be depended on , he was subjected
to a very severe cross-examination , with a view to proving that he had em bezzled money from Fossey ; but this he denied . He stated , however , that he was in the habit of drawing 5 / . for his private use whenever he wanted that sum ; that he had given a necktie and breast-pin to a certain Hancock , formerly a clerk at Fossey ' s , but that this was out of pure charity , and not to avert a charge of embezzlement ; that Fossey , in the course of last November , broke open his ( Steel ' s ) desk , took out the cheque-book and other books , and locked them up , but did not order him to quit the premises ; that sometimes , after paying a man 17 s ., he would only enter the figure 7 , but that he would subsequently prefix the figure 1 ; that he did not make fraudulent entries in
the cash-book ; and that he frequently altered the crossing of cheques from Williams and Co ., the bankers of the firm , to the London . and Westminster Bank , the banking-house of his father , who was in partnership with Fossey . The Lord Mayor , in committing the prisoners for trial , -said : — " I give no opinion as to whether Steel acted rightly or wrongly in paying cheques of tho firm to his father ' s private account ; but I can readily fancy that he , being the servant both of Fossey and of the elder Steel , was authorized to do as he did . He
might or might not have heen justified in the course he adopted ; but I do not think , as far as that transaction goes , that the character of the witness is in any way whatever affected . " Fossey and Neary reserved their defence . Bail was accepted for both , but Neary was unable to provide tho r equired sureties , and was therefore taken to prison . Mr . Bodkin said that , in addition to the present charge , it was the intention of the prosecutor to prefer a bill of indictment against Fossey and Neary for obtaining money under false pretences , which is a transportable offence .
An Hotel Thief . —The Clerkenwell police-court was crowded last Saturday with hotel-keepers and housekeepers in various parts of London , to prefer charges of robbery against a person of fashionable appearance , who gave the name of John Murra 3 ' , and who , it appeared , was in the habit of visiting hotels , taverns , and lodginghousc-kcepcrs , having in his possession a carpet-bag , exhibiting an address and demeanour calculated to lull suspicion . Being accommodated with lodging , he would seizo the opportunity in the course of tho night of opening tho doors with false keys , would plunder the place of valuable property , and leave the house . Information , with a description <> f tho man , was given to tho police , who traced and apprehended him . Ho was identified J > y numerous persons who had been robbed , as well as by pawnbrokers where ho had pledged tho property . H «
said nothing in his defence , and was fully com mitted Jor trial on several charges . Mimnicn at LivKiti'ooi .. —William Ray , a man wlio was formerly in tho polico force of Liverpool , has been murdered by a prostitute with whom ho had been living for Homo time , supporting himself on her earnings . They quarrelled last Saturday night , were reconcile " and again quarrelled over a jug of alo they were drinking . Ray then struck tho woman ; on which sho snatched up a knife , and threatened to « stick' him if ho struck her again . H « did so , and who plunged tho blado into l » a brenst , near the heart . Going up to a room above stair * , Ray told a man named D uffy that ho w « 8 ' done .
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resisting the master ) , the inquiry was adjourned . The proceedings were resumed on the following day , when , after the reception of further evidence , another adjournment took place . The inquiry baa since closed without any decision being come to .
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g 24 THE LEADEB , [ No . 336 , Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 30, 1856, page 824, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2156/page/8/
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