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i be that of Mr . White . It was lying in the passage parating the two counters , with the head towards the > or . The alarm spreading , numbers of people flocked the place , aad , proceeding into the house , found Mrs . r hite also lying dead and weltering in blood in the pasga just opposite the front door . The little dog -was disvered lying upon the body of its murdered master , uninred ; b ' ut so cowed , and subdued that It had forgotten j habit of barking . In . the hand of Mrs . White a canestick was firmly grasped ; and it -would appear that ir husband was summoned into the shop by some appant customer , and that Sirs . White , hearing the noise of e death-struggle , came forward to render such assistceas she could give , and -was at once despatched . The
junds seem to have been caused by a heavy instrument , ch as a life-preserver ; and the skull in both cases was Lghtfully fractured and contused . The object of the urderer seems to have heen plunder , as a cupboard upairs was forced open , and apparently ransacked of oney . The shop till was also open and empty ; but , money was found in Mr . White ' s pockets , it is ought he may himself have emptied the till . An opeu Bible and some memoranda were lying on jr . White ' s table in the inner room . The latter seem i be meant for a sermon on Romans , via . 19 , and conlui references to several passages in the Evangelists id the Epistles . The text is— " For the earnest exjctation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of
le sons of God ; " on which it was noted that the Greek ord rendered " creature" meant " human creature , " iat the word rendered " earnest expectation " implied looking out—looking with the neck stretched out and le head thrust forward . " It had been the habit of Mi * , riiite to sing a hymn every evening , accompanying imself on the piano . The nearest neighbour remarked a the Thursday evening that he did not hear from Mr . White's house the accustomed song of praise . : An inquest has been opened , but it was adjourned ) Friday ( yesterday ) . A hawker was arrested on Monday ; but it was afterr ards found that there was no case against him , and ho as discharged . ,
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THE WINTER ASSIZES . A policeman and a porter employed on the Great i estern Railway have been sentenced at the Salisbury ssizes to four years * penal servitude for robbery of ) ods which were being transmitted by the company , he porter was also sentenced to six -months'iinprisonent , with Lard labour , for a theft Ln which the other ¦ an was not concerned . ' ¦ ' " ¦ . Robert Brewer has been found Guilty of uttering a sceipt for 292 . 10 s . 4 d . He was pay-sergeant hi the rilts Militia , and he appears to have misappropriated te money for which he gave the false receipt . He was sntenced to two years'imprisonment , with hard labour . Four men kave pleaded Guilty at Stafford , to the
large of assaulting a gamekeeper in the course of a ight-poaching expedition at "Wolseley , last July . They ere old offenders , belonging , apparently , to a large ing ; and they wore sentenced to three years' hard . bour . ¦ William Allen , alias Sidney Jones , and William Ray , 'las Walter Jones , were indicted for forging and utterig a request for the delivery of goods with intent to : fraud , on the 30 th of last July , at Stafford . Great inrest attached to this case , as the prisoners had acquired nisiderable notoriety as members of a gang of swindlers ho had for s-ouie time evaded justice , and carried on ith great ingenuity the proceedings for which they
ere now indicted . They seemed to know that giving an : der on a tradesman for goods , with a promise of paytent which they did not mean to fullil , is not a false retence , but tUcy were not aware that putting alictitious ime to such an ordor or promise , though it was tho ime by which they liad been for some months knowu , nd had carried on their business , amounted to forgery , hey have carried on their frauds for the last seven or ght years , . aad have before now been imprisoned . In le course of last Februnry , Sidney Jones took a publicouso in Stafford , under the name of William Allen , [ e was joined by hifi brother , and they went on till . ugnst , when , in consequence of the magistrates refualg to renew the license unless they had some reference
) character , Sidney Jones announced that he meant to 3 t up as ua auctioneer , and would sell off all his stocl ; . 'he articled included aoino goods which had beeu reeutly ordered and not paid for ; but , tho suspicions « f le police being aroused , procoodinga were instituted gainst Jones by tho Jixciso and by some of his creditors ; ie house wae eearclied , ft directory was fouud , with larks against the names of traders in different parts of lie kingdom , a number of envelopos addressed to those » favoured ready to be sent off , and a mass of monioinda respecting other tradesmen . Owing to the lotters ud papers thus discovered , a few being iu tho hantl'ritiug of Walter Jones , the lattor was arrested at lirencester . They - \ voro now found Guilty , and senonced to four years' penal servitude .
¦ A . juryman at tho Gloucester Assizes , at the coinlenceinent of a trial for child murder , requested the ndge to ox . cU 30 him from serving , as ho had n couciontioua objection to capital punishment , and would athojr forfeit hid' oatdu thau bo tho uioaua of bringing ; a
fellow-creature to that kind of death . Mr . Baron Bramwell replied that he could not see how a juryman's conscience could have anything to do M-ith the judgment of death . All that a juryman had to do was to say whether the accused was or was not guilty . However , if this particular juryman would take " so irrational a view of the case , " he ought not to sit on the jury , and the counsel for the Crown would probably challenge him . This having been done , the case proceeded , and . Mary Yarnell ( a married woman ) was tried for the murder of her infant child , four months old . Directly she was placed at the bar , she began talking incoherently , and this she continued throughout the whole of the trial , and likewise abused the witnesses by applying to them opprobrious names . It appeared that , though she had plenty of milk , she neglected to suckle or otherwise feed
the child . The doctor who attended her , and several of her neighbours , remonstrated , but in vain . The child became emaciated , and was allowed to be filthily dirty . Opthalmia set in , and the child died of marasmus , or starvation , after being takeu to the workhouse . On one occasion , a woman , one of the witnesses , saw Mrs . Yarnell washing the child ; but " she rubbed it , " said the woman , " as she would a floor , " and the witness took the child out of her hands and finished washiug it herself . It was evident , from this and from some other facts , that the accused Was insane , and , on this ground she Mas Acquitted of the charge , as well as of . another indictment , to the effect that she had killed her stepson , a child seven , years of age , by a kick on the loins . The woman -was ordered to be detained in custody during her Majesty ' s pleasure . .
In opening the Liverpool Assizes , Mr . Baron Alderson made some remarks on the tieket-of-leave system , which he strongly condemned . Several ticket-of-leave men are among the persons tried at those Assizes , the very first criminal being one . He was charged with burglary , of which offence he had been convicted in 1853 , and , being set at large in June of the present year ( his sentence was seven years' transportation ) , he again committed the same crime . Baron Alderson now sentenced him to transportation , for twenty years , adding , "If they let you out again , the fault is not mine . " . The jury , on ' . Thursday made a presentment to the Judge , iii which they expressed their hearty concurrence in his views with reference to the ticket-of-leave system . —Mr .. Baron Bramwell , at Chelinsford , has expressed liis opinion that the ticket-of-leave being at large cannot be regarded as the cause of the late increase of crime .
Richard Morris , a labourer , was ' - ' triad at ' --Shre ' wsbnuy , on a charge of abducting a girl of fifteen from the houso of her father , a farmer , by whom the man was employed . The girl was taken by Morris to the house of his brother , where he . remained -with her till half-past three o ' clock in the morning , when , he left . The following day , the police found her out , and took herback to her father . The man saitl , when taken into custody , that they were going to be married next May , and that till then the girld would be in service . He was found Guilty , and sentenced to nine mouths' hard labour .
Johu Brown -has been fouud Guilty at Durham , of a rape upon a married woman . Her husband was in the hosi > ital at the time , and she lived in a lonely roadside cottage . One night , when she was in bed with her children , the man broke into the house , and committed the oileuce . lie was sentenced to transportation for life . Ann Harrison was tried at Durham for the murder of her illegitimate child . She had been delivered in the Union workhouse at Stocktooi-on-Tees , and the body of the child-was discovered , after her leaving that place , buried in a heap of manure , but , as there was great doubt whether the death was not from natural causes , instead of from strangulation , as alleged by the prosecution , the woman was Acquitted .
Harriett Woollcy was tried at Liverpool fora similar offence . As in the previous case , ' the woman was a servant , nnd sho was delivered of an infant in the privy , down which tho dead body was afterwards discovered . It was considered possible tluit the child dropped down accidentally , and in 'thus case also there was a verdict of Not Guilty . A woman , named Martha Worrell , was tried at Oxford , also on a charge of murdering her illegitimate infant . Tlie body was found in a ditch 5 but here again a wilful murder could not be proved , and the jury simply found tho woman Guilty of concealment of birth . Sho was sentenced to three months' hard labour . —Bridget Kelly lias been found Guilty at Birmingham of murdering her infant by throwing it iuto the canal with a tape tied round its neck . The jury recommended her to mercv . mid sentence of death wns only recorded .
Johu Ingram , a posttnau , was indicted at Livorpool for aLealiny two letters containing bunk post-bills and bunk-noted to tho value of 5001 . Being found Guilty , he was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation . John lloHis , alias Williams , was charged at Shrewsbury with the murder of Benjamin Bromley . Hollis had bouxi behaving with brutal violence to a girl ; several poisons intor-Curvd , a good deal of lighting ensued , and Bromley , who > took the girl ' s part and struck llollia , at length received from liliu a mortal blow from some instrument . Tho jury found Hollia Guilty of
manslaughter only , aad he was sentenced to fourteen years ' transportation . A sentence of eight years ' penal servitude has been passed at Lincoln on James Campbell for a highway rob"bery at Ingham . This was an instance of very speedy justice . The robbery was only committed last Saturday night , and the offender was tried and convicted on Tuesday . George Spivey was indicted at Liverpool for the manslaughter of John Coup land , at Church Tenton , on the 25 th of July last , by his negligence in not attending to the danger signal of the railway , according to his duty . The facts of this case must bo in the recollection of our readers : it will therefore suffice- to say tliat Spivey was Acquitted .
A case of early depravity caine before Mr . Russell G-umey at York . Ann Nicholson-was indicted for perjury ; and in proof of this charge it was shown that , last February , she being then under seventeen years of age , she was delivered of an illegitimate child ,- ' the paternity of which she swore upon her late master , Mr . Hudson , a miller and a preacher in the Primitive Methodist connexion , though she well knew that he was not the father . She was found Guilty , and was sentenced to nine months ' hard labour . John Autey , a master mariner , was found Guilty of discharging a pistol in the face of his > vife . and badly wounding her . The man always exhibited great affection , for his wife , and the motive for the act did not appear , but it seems to have resulted from a kind of temporary insanity caused by drink . Sentence was deferred .
. William Jackson ' was indicted at the Chester As 3 ize » foi the murder of his son and daughter in that city last September . His wife had left Mm ; . and one day Jackson took the children but with liiin , cut their throats in an orchard , and buried them . The jury having returned a verdict of Guilty , the iaan' was sentenced to death . Oa hearing the sentence , ho at'first-. turned' very pale , but , almost immediately afterwards , picked up his hat from the floor , and -walked composedly away . The " Leeds wizard , " Henry Harrison , has been tried at York , and found Guilty of marrying two women while his first ; wife was alive . He was sentenced to four years ' penal servitude .
A case of manslaughter , of a very savage kind , was also tried at York . During the last harvest , a quarrel took place near Great Smeaton between two labourers— -one named Thomas Bowes , and the other Itobert Cockfield . Aiter some wranglng and fighting , Bowes took up his scythe , and swept it round in the direction of Cockfield , who stepped ¦ back , but ; immediately afterwards again came forward , and told Bowes he was not half a man . Bowes then cut Cockfield ' s lug with the scythe He staggered and fell , bleeding so profusely that " , in about two hours , notwithstanding all the endeavours that were made to staunch the wound , he died . For this crime Bowes was tried , and found Guilty of causing the death ; t by carelessness . " Sentence was deferred .
Mariana Ooha , a Manilla seaman , has been found Guilty at Liverpool of an attack on . Thomas Smith , whom he stubbed in the breast so seriously that for some time his life was considered in danger . He was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment .-. —At the same Assizes , a mau has been found Guilty of a garotte robbery , and sentenced to fifteen years ' transportation .
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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . The December general sessions of the peace for the county of Middlesex commenced on Monday morning at Clerkenwell , before Mr . Pashley , Q . C ., Assistant Judge , and a bench of magistrates , llieliard Osborne , a labourer , was the first person tried . lie was charged with stealing signal lamps from posts on the Great Northern Railway , lie was found Guilty ; and , considering that the offence ¦ vraa one which might have led to most serious consequences on the railway , he was sentenced to a year ' s liard labour . The same punishment was awarded to Joseph Tetgrec , who pleaded Guilty to stealing a box . from a van belonging to the same railway . —Joseph JCdghill was sentenced to four ycara ' penal servitude for horse-stealing . — William Compton , a clerk , pleaded Guilt } - to having embezzled three sums of money , amounting to 80 / ,, received by him in his capacity of collector to Messrs . Palmer , candle inauufacturofa . lie was condemned to hard labour for eighteen months . —Minetto Luiy'i , one of the disbanded Italian Legionaries , was indicted for an attack with a knife on a mail in a public-bouse , whom , however , he did not succeed in injuring . Tho facts of this case have already appeared in tho Leader . The Italian was sentenced to sijf mouths' imprisonment . —Carlo Coleto , also an Italian formerly belonging to the Legion , has boon found Guilty of an assault with a knil ' o on . several persons at Iloxton . Ho was sentenced to twelve months' liurd labour . John Williams pleaded Guilty to a murderous assault on David Embk-ton , one of the warders of the Coldbathlields House of Correction , whero the accused was undergoing a sentence of twelve months" hard labour . Ho was now condemned to eighteen months hard labour . Louisa Allen Harrison , Ifanny Kodcn , and Thomas Finnorty were triod for a burglary committed in tho house of n gentleman , with wliom Harrison wan living as a servant . They were all found Guilty , when Harrison , told
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D . B 0 EMBBB . 13 , 1856 . ] THE LE A DEE . 1183
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1856, page 1183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2171/page/7/
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