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to Pierce , -who answered , "Make away wth themdestroy them ! " A workman and a police inspector standing by heard this » but they disagreed a 3 to the time when it occurred . Dackombe , the man who had whispered to the prisoner , was also in the court last M « nday , and he denied the truth of the charge . He added that he had known Pierce , but was not interested in the present case . The Lord Mayor said he would take measures to prevent such communications ia future .
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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . The November sessions of this court were opened on Monday , -when the first case brought forward was that of John Pringle , a young man -who was charged with Bending a letter to the Bank of London ( on which he thought he had some claims ) , threatening to " make disclosures which would be prejudicial to the concern . Ilk counsel now appeared and offered an apology , stating that the young man regretted what he had done , and felt that there was no justification for it . The charge wa 3 therefore withdrawn , and a verdict of Not Guilty was returned .
Selina Elizabeth Arriett and Emma Foreman , two respectable-looking young girls , surrendered to take their trial upon a charge of stealing a 20 / . note ami six sovereigns ,, the property of John Biggs Tloldsworth , a gentleman living in Clemeut ' s-inn . The facts of the case appeared in . this journal -when the prisoners were before the police magistrate . Both were now found Guilty , and sentenced to three months' imprisonment . Robert Charles "Wyatt , a well-dressed , gentlemanlylooking yonng man , who was stated in the calendar to be nineteen years of age , was placed at the bar to plead to two indictments charging him with uttering a cheque for 921 , and another for 250 ? ., with intent to defraud the London and Westminster Bank . He pleaded " Guilty " to both charges , and wag . sentenced to four years' penal servitude .
Charles Buller was charged with setting fire to the house of a gentleman living at Peckham Rye . A policeman discovered him one night in the grounds of this house , the officer's attention having been attracted by a light which came from the dwelling , and which was afterwards extinguished . He took the man into custody with some difficulty , and afterwards discovered that a hole had been burnt through one of the shutters of the house , and that this had been enlarged with a knife with a view to a burglarious entrance into the house . The man now denied all knowledge of the fire , and said he had gone into the grounds in order to find some shelter for the night . , He was found Guilty ; and the Common . Sergeant ordered that sentence of death should be recorded . This , however , of course , is only nominal .
Frederick Huggins , a youth of seventeen , was charged with stealing property belonging to his employers , warehousemen in the Citj ' . He was found Guilty and sentenced to six months' hard labour . — -John Eons pleaded Guilty to charges of housebreaking and larcend at the Sailors'Home , Poplar . A great many robberies had been committed at the establishment , and several of the servants had been discharged on suspicion ; but it would appear that Huggins was the thief . A sentence of four years ' penal servitude was passed on Bond .
Samuel Summers pleaded Guilty to a charge of escaping from custody after being convicted of stealing Lead . It was shown that he had conducted himself very honestly ever since ; and Mr . Baron Alderson said he could not regard tho act in any very serious light , as " nothing could be more natural" than for a young man to endeavour to avoid a sentence of a year ' s hard , labour . He had , however , done wrong , and he ought not to obtain any advantage by such a proceeding . He was sentenced to be imprisoned for a year , and that sentence lie must still undergo , and , in addition ho must undergo a further imprisonment of one month for the offence to which he had pleaded guilty , making in all thirteen months' imprisonment . : llobert Hawkins has been found Guilty of uttering a forged 57 . Bank of England note with intent to defraud . He was sentenced to four years ' penal servitude .
Thomas Gilmour , of Ramsay , Isle of Man , was on Thursday finally examined on a charge of obtaining three bills of exchange for 250 i each by false representations . . Mr . Capreol , of Gray ' s Inn , said he had been instructed by the friends of the prisoner to appear for the accused , and he had to state that arrangements had been made tt > the satisfaction of Mr . do Bots ( the solicitor for the prosecution ) , and they had so exonerated Gilmour , that he would leave the court without a stigma upon his character . Mr . de Bprs added that . he declined to prosecute . j \ Ii % Dayman , the magistrate , then said the
prisoner would bo discharged . He was about to-leave the court by the private door , when he was stopped by the gaoler , who pointed to the public entrance . At this time , a sheriff's officer was at the side of Gilmour , ready to take him into custody upon a capias , at the suit of Mr . Bennett , the watch and clock maker of Ghcnpside . Ultimately , Gilmour vyas allowed to .. go tlirough the private door to the cells , as be had left a-bundle there ; but he -was followed by the sherifFs oilicer , and they were shortly . - afterwards ; seen walking together from the cell entrance into the roail , the officer carrying the bundle . . ¦ ¦ ¦ ' : ¦ ¦' . '¦ ' . ¦
llenTyChivers pleaded Guilty to a charge : of bigamy . It appeared that the second wife was aware of the existence of the first at the time of the marriage . The man was sentenced to four montlis' hard labour . — Frederick Trevass pleaded "Guilty : ' tp an assault and robbery . This was one of the recent garotting cases . A sentence of transportation for fourteen years was passed on him . — - "William Henry Wootten , Joseph Young , Charles Cullen , Charles Homer , and Mary Anne Clark , were tried for a burglary at the house of Sir . Swire , a chemist on Brixton-lull , and for receiving the stolen
property . The particxilars have been related but recently iu these columns . Homer was Acquitted ; the others wore found Guilty . Cullen , Clark , arid Ayootten , -were sentenced to various terms , of penal servitude and hard labour , and the sentence on Young vas respited till next session . —Another case of burglary , in which a man named Philby Fish wns concerned , together with Herbert Fish and William Roberts , has terminated in the Acquittal of the last two , and the conviction of the firstnamed , who is an old oifimder , and who was sentenced to four years' penal servitude .
James Edwance , a respectable-looking young man , pleaded Guilty to an indictment for stealing a cheque of the value of Gill . 10 s . belonging to his master , Mr . A . Jones . The prosecutor recommended the prisoner to mercy , on the ground of his previous good character and the act being one of sudden temptation- Senlenee , three months' imprisonment .
Charles Hunter and Thomas Murty have been found guilty of the garotte robbery committed in the Borough upon Mr . Edward Mason , a banker ' s clerk , of which the particulars have already appeared in the Leader . They were sentenced to transportation for life . The moment the sentence wss pronounced , Hunter threw himself on his knees , and Avith horrible imprecations declared that Murty -was innocent . Murty also asserted his innocence . Both prisonersjwere exceedingly violent , and ^ itwas with some difficulty that they were removed from the dock .
Henry Franklin , was indicted for the manslaughter of "William Taylor . The prisoner , the deceased , and some ¦ women who were related to the latter , were drinking at & public house at Kingsland on the 13 th of October , and the whole party were more or leas intoxicated . A quarxel took place between Franklin and Taylor ; they went into the street to fight ; and tho latter was knocked down , and , while ho was upon , tho ground , Franklin kicked him on tho head and neck . Paralysis ensued , and Taylor died on tlie following day , it being alleged that tho kick on tho neck was the cause of the death . The jury found the prisoner Guilty , and he waa sentenced to fourteen days' solitary confinement .
Sarah Nicholls , a pTetty-looking young woman , said to bo seventeen years of age , surrendered to take her trial for concealing the birth of her illegitimate child . The infant was found dead in a box ; but thero were no marks of violence . Nicholls was found Guilty , but recommended to mercy ; and was sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment . , Emma Reynolds and Susan Hazeltino wore found gp uty of an omnibus robbery , and , being noted bad characters , were sentenced each to nine months' imprisonment .
Henry UetheTcott , $ lettor-carrior , pleaded Guilty to a charge of atoallng » letter containing a half-sovereign , a sixpence , and four postage atampa , the property of tho Postmaster-General HU wage £ were only twelve hfllbiga a week ^ the lilgheatamn given to letter-carriers ; wJ . ? T **?** £ the habit of getting intoxl iflated . He waa aonUnced to four yeaTs * penal servitude .
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THE SUPPOSED MURDER AT ERITIT . An inquest was opened last Saturday on the body of Worrell , who , as we stated in our last week's Postscript , poisoned himself in a cell of the Greenwich police-station while in charge under suspicion of being concerned in the supposed Erith murder . It appeared that the young man , who had recently come bade from Australia , had been in a desponding state of mind for some time previous to the death of Carter , the person whom he is suspected to have killed ; and , when taken into custody , his depression was very great . He said ho could not live with such a charge hanging over him , and he threatened to poison himself . He was therefore- strictly searched and frequently watched ; but ho contrived to swallow prusaic acid . Previous to so doing , ho had unadc a statement to tho effect that he had been with Carter on the Thursday ' before his death , but not on the Friday , as
alleged . The inquiry was adjourned till "Wednesday . On tho resumption of tho inquiry , the chief additional witnesses were a cabman who drove Carter and Worrell to the London Bridge Railway station on tho day when the murder is supposed to liave been committed ( Fridayi tho 7 th inst . ) , and who had been previously examined at tho inquest on Carter ; somo other persons who had also givon evidence oh the name occasion , and who showed that Carter and . " Worrell had been a good deal together on tho Thursday and Friday ; and Mrs . " Worrell , tho wife of tho supposed murderer , who was painfully affected . She said : — " My husband left homo on Friday , tho 7 th , a few minutes after nine , and returned homo to dinner at three o ' clock . I know that was tho time , becauso ho took out his watch and said it was an hour later than wo ought to have dined—two o ' clock . I -wont by his watch and what he said as to
furthermore appeared that the gouge with which « . murder is supposed to have been committed , or partial ? committed , belonged to a " -workman who had lent it t y friend employed by Worrell ' s father . At the concln ^ J of Mrs . Worrell ' s evidence on Wednesday , the Co ™ sumned up , and the jury , after a brief deliberation returned a verdict to the effect that Worrell had destrovwl himself wliile in sound mind . This being equivalent to a verdict of J ' c / ode sty an order . has . been made out for burying the body without any religious ceremonial .
that being the time . His dinner was brought un k ., * 7 " ate very little of it 5 and he bad tea about lialf-SJi « " I am sure lie did not have dinner and tea together u husband seemed very strange ever since last Sni , a 7 week . I recollect that particular day , because hiaS ? and my sister were at our liouse that day . When T he was very strange , I mean he was very difWnf t ? " what he had ever been before . He made no conW ? cation to wo as to where he expected money S » l ' rom the evidence given at the inquest on Carter •?
With respect to the means by which "Worrell concealed the poison , it is supposed that it ivas hidden in one of his boots . The boots wero felt after he was taken into custody , hut they were not pulled off
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OUTRAGES ON WIVES . Cases of assaults on ; wives have recently diminished in .-number ; but . we have tlirecto chronicle this -week A journeyman , shoemaker , living iu Tatuirnacle-waik Finsbury , named Thomas Coiiolly , was charged at the Worship-street police-office with having committed a savage assault on his -wife and infant . child . The woman had been married to him about six years ; but tea months after their marriage lie began to beat and illuse her , and had -coiitiinied to do so UJiintermittuigly ever since . : A few nights since , he came home at a late hour very drunk , wlien his wife asked him for a small sum of money to buy some food , lie not only refused to give her any , Lut flew into a violent passion and seizing : the- tea-kettle which was on the fire at the
time , tilled -with boiling water , thing it at his wife ' s head . It only just grazed , one side of her face , fell upon the bed close to where her infant was lying , and discharged its scalding contents over its face , neck , and arms . A surgeon was fetched , but he said that . the child was so frightfully injured as to be quite beyond the reach of hi * medical skill , and he therefore advised the mother to remove it at once to St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital .. This'was accordingly done , and the child is now progressing favourably . Conolly , however , still continued ill-using his wife in various -ways ; - and at . last , ' at the instigati n of a neighbour , she took out a warrant against him . The magistrate committed him for trial .
A leather-dresser , named Jeremiah laulkes , waa brought up at the tiouthwark police-court , on a charge of beating his wife . The man had of late been aeonfirmed drunkard , and had deserted his house a good deal , and nearly starved his wife . Not being of a strong constitution , she could not work for her own livelihood , and whenever she Temonstrated with hoT husband on his conduct , he always beat her . One night he came home intoxicated aud iu a great rage , and his wife being much alarmed , attempted to get out of his way ; but he seized her , and after throwing her violently on tho ground , commenced kicking her . She contrived to get up , and fled for refuge to the house of one of her neighbours . The next day she took out a warrant against her husband . In his defence Faulkes inerelv said that
lie was drunk when he committed the assault , and that his wife must have " aggravated " him . Tho magistrate sentenced him to four month ' s imprisonment with hard labour . A third case of this description was heard before Mr , Elliott at Lambeth , tho accused in this instance being a man of the name of Patrick Mackler , formerly a rider at . Astlcy ' s Theatre . and other places , -who was charged with assaulting and severely injuring Mrs . Tanell , hia mother-in-law . Like tho ruffians in the two previous cases , lie came homo one night in a state of intoxication ,
and began quarrelling with his wife about somo trivial domestic matter j and-when her mother , who waa present , endeavoured to calm his anger , he took up a candlestick , und struck her violently with it on the bridge of her noso , which was cut coni ^ lctoly through , aud tho nose , in consequence , hung down over her face . Although it was properly set by a surgeon , Mrs . Farrcll believed , that sho was disfigured for life Tho man stated that his mother-in-law was continually annoy ing him in ono way or another , and not long ago had charged him with stealing somo of her money , How * sentenced , however , to six inonthu' hard labour .
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Garottinc * . —A caao of garotting is narrated by tiia sufferer in tho 2 'imes of Monday . Ho writes : — ' At about bcvou o ' clock Inst evening ( Friday week ) , as 1 was walking through St . James ' s Park , towards Pin * lico , I was attacked hy two men , one of whom fl « z ! a mo by tho neck , at th « snmo lime demanding my pu « 8 with n threat . I managed to extricato nvy throat from his clutches , nnd dealt liim a blow in tho face with my umbrella . At this crisis , a labourer ran to my oss ' . " anco , and struggled with tho other fellow , hut failed i& aocuring him , and they both made- off . I could not new
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1134 THE LEADIE , [ No . 349 , Saturday / — —__^
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 29, 1856, page 1134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2169/page/6/
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