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Norwegian sailors were quareiling about a girl in Butestreet , Cardiff , when one of the former fired a pistol at the latter , and a general fight ensued , in the course of which a Norwegian seamen , named Simon Hausen , was stabbed in the abdomen so seriously that the bowels protruded , and he has since died . Two of the Irishmen are in custody . A Ferocious Woman . — -During the last two years , Emma Chatten , a woman between twenty and thirty years of age , the wife of a respectable man keeping a coffeehouse at Knightsbridge , has been three times tried at the Old Bailey , charged with violent assaults upon her husband . On the first occasion she "was committed
from the Hammersmith , police-court for attacking him with a pair of tongs while he was in bed . On the next , she was sent for trial from the "Westminster Court for stabbing him with a carving-knife , and beating him ¦ with her fists while the blood was streaming from the wounds she had indicted ; and on the last occasion she was sent before a jury for wounding him severely in the head with a poker . Through his intercession she escaped punishment altogether on the first occasion , and on the other two was only visited with . . short , terms of imprisonment ; the last sentence being for six months , and expiring last Tuesday . A few days ago , Mr . Chatten ' s sister received a letter from his wife , in which she
threatened her husband with death if , on her coming oat of prison , she was left to wander about the streets . Mr . Chatten , therefore , attended at the " Westminster office last Saturday , 'to ask for advice . The magistrate directed him to bring his sister with him on the following Monday , when a warrant for the apprehension of his wife , on her coming oat of prison , would be grauted . On Tuesday , the wife was brought before the magistrate , when she was ordered to find bail to the amount of 40 / . for her good behaviour for the next six months . This was produced in the course of the afternoon , and an arrangement with a view to a separation was entered into between the husband and wife .
False Pretences . —Thomas Gilmour , an elderly man , upwards of sixty years of age , and described as a merchant residing at Ramsay , Isle of Man , was on Tuesday brought up on remand before Mr . Dayman , at Hammersmith , charged with obtaining a bill of exchange for 2507 . by means of false and fraudulent representations . The evidence was not then gone into , and the accused was again remanded . Several of his victims were in court , and they manifested great satisfaction at the capture of Gilmour . Omnibits Thieves . —Two respectably-dressed-women have been examined at the Mansion House before Mr . Alderman . Salomons , and committed for trial , on a charge of picking pockets in au omnibus .
- The Murder in Parliament-street . —Cope died on the afternoon of Sunday- After death , it was found that the skull was even more fractured than was at first supposed ; and the surgeons wonder how he could have lived so long . The inquest on the body was held on Wednesday , when a verdict of Wilful Murder was returned against Marley , and the jury expressed themselves strongly in eulogy of the courageous conduct of the boy Lerigo , who first discovered the assassin at his murderous work , and wh ' o pursued him , and of the waterman at the cab-stand who seized and helped to convey him to the station-house . Marley , who still persists in giving the name of Jenkins , was examined at Bow-street on Thursday , and committed for trial . He ¦ was loudly yelled at on being taken into and out of the police-office . To these demonstrations he replied by a fierce scowl , and once by an indecent gesture .
Distressing Charge of Felony . —A few days ago , the barque Calder , Captain Henderson , arrived at Liverpool , having on board , among the saloon passengers , Thomas Cooper , a young man , son of Sir ThomaB Cooper , Bart ., Hertfordshire , aud grandson of the distinguished physician of that name . During the voyage , he had formed a friendship with a youth named Richard Simcox , who was coming from Bolivia , on the -west coast of America , to visit some friends in Cornwall . One morning , Mr . Cooper left a lodging-house where both had been staying , to go to the station for the purpose of b for Hertfordshire
ooking , and after his departure his friend missed his purse and nine dollars and a half from hia bedroom . The police were informed of the robbery , and soon afterwards Cooper was apprehended at the railway station with the missing property in his possession . He was taken before the local magistrates the same day . He acknowledged that he had appropriated the money , but with the intention of returning it to hia friend when he got home . The magistrates having inflicted a fine of 51 . and costs , or one month ' s imprisonment , the money -was paid by the captain . Mr . Cooper waB a mate in the Royal Navy .
rose , and ran after the scoundrel , crying " Stop thief ! " day evening , and behaved rudely to them Mr * r « , "" The latter was soon in the hands of a policeman ; but slapped his face , and moved on : but lie DUrln he had previously thrown the watch into a tree near with an open knife . She took refuge in the «^ St . James ' s Palace , where if was found by a corporal of another German , who , though he saw his counts ^ the Guards , who was going by with the relief , and who follow Mrs . Garrett into his shop with th » d " * got it down . It had been probably thrown there by the weapon in his hand , did not interfere . The ' polite h "" thief for the double purpose of temporary concealment ever , opportunely arrived , arid secured Voight H h ~ and of a subsequent redemption , should the opportunity been discharged on paying a fine of forty suillincrq offer . A purse , containing ten shillings , was aLso taken Middlesex Sessions Mawdsley Draper a from Simkins . No previous conviction was proved chant ' s clerk , who had "been found guilty of embe ^ T " against the prisoner ; but he was sentenced to penal ment from his employer , was on Monday condemned t servitude for six years . penal servitude for four years . —George Cook Roiirf Giuseppe Sasella , a soldier of the British Italian Penrose , and William Stachall , privates in the C M Legion , who had been remanded on the charge of at- stream Guards , were indicted , with Joseph Harris wfr
tempting to stab a prostitute with a knife , was on surrendered , for having assaulted a police-const ablo Saturday discharged , as the intent to inflict any per- the execution of his duty * There were no less than eiehfc sonal injury appeared very doubtful , the man asserting other charges against them for assaults upon respectable * that he had been robbed and was fearful of further women and their husbands . Harris was found guilty depredation-being committed upon him . a common assault only , and the soldiers were found ffuUtv A DisreputableCaptain . — Great annoyance has generally . Sentence was deferred . -
Highway Robbers and Revolvers . — So many highway robberies , accompanied by murderous violence have been recently committed in the township of Ovenden , near Halifax , that a number of gentlemen living in the neighbourhood have armed themselves with revolvers , and are resolved to shoot any one on the highway who shall molest them . This fact was publicly announced in court by Colonel Pollard , tbe chairman of the bench of magistrates , and " he hoped the caution would be sufficient . "
An Illustrious Prison-Breaker . —A man bearing the siugular name of Ornar Shamgar , alias George Woodcock , has been apprehended at York on a charge of being an escaped convict . He broke out of Dartmoor prisou on the 25 th of August , 1855 , and got clear off through a drain nearly a mile long ; then , stealing a suit of clothes , he freed himself from his gaol costume . He has spent his whole life in crime ; and , besides the feat just alluded to , he has twice escaped out of Preston , has nearly succeeded in getting away from the York House of Correction , and has broken out of more than
one prison in iranee , for he has travelled over nearly all the continent . He told the governor of Dartmoor Prison that , if he had not been taken into custody , he had arranged witlv some more men to commit a burglary on the bauks of .. the 0 u 3 e , near York , which would have brought them ia at least 2000 / . He is a native of Shetlield . It is said tliat he professes a great knowledge of Scripture , and of three or four dilFerent languages . Outragics on Women .- —William Sabine , a hawker , has been sentenced by the Westminster magistrate to three months' hard labour for an assault on his Svife , whom he ill-used till she was insensible , and then thrust out of doors , finally jumping on her body , and returning into the house , from which he was taken by a policeman , who forced his way in , in spite of the roan ' s threats , A Gentleman Found with his Throat Cut . —A
Mr . Bisley , a builder , was found early on Monday morning by a policeman in Garratt-lane , Waudaworth , with Uis throat cut . The constable ' s attention was attracted by the gurgling noise of the blood issuing through the gash . The wounded man was still alive , but insensible . Garotting in the Citv . —Shortly before seven o ' clock on Monday night , while a respectable woman , residing in the Walworth-road , was returning home down Queen-street , near Southwark-bridge , she was violently attacked by a man , who grasped her throat , reuderedher insensible , kicked her in the stomach , and robbed her of her gold watch and chain , besides some gold aud silver . He afterwards escaped .
Capture of a Uurglar . —Early last Saturday morning , at a village near . Bradford , in Yorkshire , a burglar was in the act of breaking into the ahop of a provision dealer . While he was thus occupied , however , a man of the name of Denby , residing in an adjacent hamlet , happened to pass through the village on his way to a neighbouring surgeon , his wifo having been tuken ill in the night . The housebreaker beiug disturbed at his work , immediately ran awuy and secreted himself in tlie corner of a building that stood in the shade of the moonlight . Remembering that the shop which ho had seen the man attempting to break into had been recently plundored of a great deal of its stock , Donby followed the thief into his place of concealment , and collared him . The latter then struck Deuby a violent blow on the head with a heavy crowbar , and
fulled him to the ground . Notwithstanding this rough usage , however , he rose to hia feet ugain , and recaptured the burglar . A fierce struggle then ensued , and , although Denby was at a groat disadvantage , being repeatedly struck and kicked by his opponent , besides bleeding profusely from the first blow , ho nevertheless managed to keep a firm hold of hifl prisoner , and the fellow was at last compelled to yield . Denby then took him to his house , where a constable was aeiit iur ana tUo tUicf wua given into custody . Several skeleton keys were found on his portion , and unother was afterwards discovered in the door of the house which hohnu been attempting to plunder . A bag containing various housebrouking implements and a box of . lucilers werfl likewise found cIobq to the spot where the burglar was captured . The prisoner , wlio wuh well known us u « oW poacher in the neighbourhood , aud who had more recently
He was at length captured and pinioned by some of the pass « rs-by , who handed him over to a policeman ; but the weapon had apparently been passed to another foreigner , who had been seen in his company . He was committed for trial . —Francois Bossei , an Italian , was charged at the Mansion-house , on Monday , with having stabbed John Flynn with a dagger . There had been a fight in the hall passage of a tavern in Aldgate , and in the course of it Bossei stabbed Tlynn in tlie back near the shoulders . The latter was conveyed to the hospital , where it was found that the wound was not dangerous , and Bossei was captured . He ia now under remand . — Minette Luigi has been examined at Worship-street , and committed for trial , on a similar charge . He went into a public-house for some beer , and dropped a sixpence from his mouth . A man standing by picked it up and returned it to him . when Luigi pulled out a knife and
made a stab at him . The man ran out , frightened ; and the . Italian then turned upon another of the customers , and tried to stab him . This man grappled with his enemy , threw him down after a violent struggle , and knelt on his right arm , so ' that ho could not use the knife , though ho made several attempts . At this moment , a policeman , who had been alarmed by the cries of the first man , entered ; on which the Italian dropped the weapon and was taken into custody . The knife appears to have boon an American bowie-knife . Luigi belonged to the Anglo-Italian Legion . —Josopho Matiosi has been committed for trial on a charge of attempting to atab a policeman in Stcpnoy , on the officer interfering between him and a prostitute with whom lie was quarrelling . This man also belongs to the late Italian Legion ; and it is said there are several of them idling about Stepney , ready to pull out their knives on the smallest provocation .
recently been caused to a Miss Hill , residing in the Lansdowne-road , Bath , by her letter-box being constantly filled with water , and the knocker and bell-pull being daubed over with offensive matter . A policeman was placed in the hall to watch ; and on the evening of Friday week he arrested Captain Briscoe , who is between sixty and seventy years of age , just as he was moving off after committing the outrage . On the followingday , he was required by the magistrates to iind bail , himself in 200 / ., and two sureties of 100 / . each , to be of good behaviour for a year . The only provocation he appears to have received was that , having several times , when Miss Hill ' s house was under repair , walked about the grounds , the lady objected to his doing so .
More Ticke . t-of-Lea . ve Ruffianism . —Mr ^ William Turpie , a printer and an elderly man , was returning home on Sunday night , between eleven and twelve o ' clock , to his house in Cobourg-street , Hainpstead-road , when , ori turning up a dark entry , at the end of which his dwelling is situated , a man , whom he had previously observed leaning against the wall of the reservoir in the Hampstead-road , and whose footsteps lie had afterwards heard dogging him , struck him a fearful blow on the head , which felled him . The man then pressed heavily oh . him , and unbuttoned his coat , to feel ' whether there was any watch in the waistcoat pocket . Mr . Turpie called out " Murder ! " and " Police ! "' on whicli the man exclaimed , " Don ' t halloo ! " A constable , however , speedily arrived , and the ruffian was secured . He proved to be a ticket-of-leavc man , named George "White , and hehn-shc-en committed for trial .
Sa . jiuel Lowry , the man charged with firing a gun at a labourer named Poulson , with whom he liad had a quarrel respecting the occupancy of a piece of land , has been discharged , the evidence not being sufficiently strong against him . The facts of this case were related in our last issue . Mobk Italian * Knifing *'—Carlo Coletti , lately a private in the Anglo-German Legion , but himself an Italian , has been charged at Worship-street with making attempts to stab several persons in tfcie streets of Hoxton at ten . o ' clock at night . He had been drinking , and , having been angered by a woman who had taken his purs « away from him , began foaming at the mouth like a madman , and ' running a muck' at any one ho met .
German * Knifino . ' - —Frederick "Voight , a discharged private of the Anglo-Gerniun Logion , has Leon charged at Guildhall with attempting to stab a Mrs . Garrett . Ho stopped her and her sister on Ilolbom-liill on
Tucs-RoBBEuir in St . James ' s Pakk . —John Holliday , a man about thirty years of age , has been tried at tho S ^ f 0 SeS T 8 ioua for an assault and robbery x : omwnrlini * ' JaaiB 8 ' 8 Parlc on th 0 26 th of October . A beinJ ™™ ?" ' ? Ted S'mWna > was going homo , when , 551 * 37 W ^ , ° Wn On ono of * ho be » chc 8 «» ikB ^ T ^ " ^ ^^^ He fell , and tho thief ran off , but Shnkina epeedily
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1856, page 1088, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2167/page/8/
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