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to capital punishment prevails . These challenges t ) eing exhausted , a good deal of discussion ensued , and the jury was at length settled , one gentleman retiring on the plea that he objected to punishment by death . Before the case commenced , however , Mr . Baron Brani-¦ well made some remarks to the effect that a juryman 5 s bound by his oath to give a verdict in accordance with the evidence , irrespective of consequences . Frances Wallace was tried at the same Assizes on a charge of murdering her child by cutting its throat . The particulars of this painful case were published in the Leader of November 1- The accused was Acquitted on the ground of insanity . Edward Chater , an engraver , has been found Guilty at Warwick of forging Bank of England notes , and was ¦ sentenced to be transported for life .
Dedea Redanies , the foreigner charged with the murder of the sisters , Caroline and i&Iaria Buck , was placed in the dock at the Maidstone Assizes on Tuesday and Wednesday , on both of which occasions he pleaded Guilty to the murder of the first , and ] STot Guilty of killing the second . Mr . Baron Bramwell , thinking that the prisoner , as a foreigner , miglit . be ignorant of the effect of his pleading Guilty , would not go on with the case either day , but gave the accused time to consider . lie has elected to be tried by a jury entirely composed of Englishmen , instead of one-half selected , from foreigners .
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CEXTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . The December sessions commenced on Monday . One of the persons tried on that day was John Dower , a labourer , charged with a garotte robbery committed near-. the Town Hall , in the Borough , with the aid of four other men ^ who are not in custody . The particulars have . ' . already appeared in this paper . Dower was sentenced to fifteen years ' transportation . William Suell , a gentlemanly-loolcing young man , pleaded Guilty to a charge of stealing an order for 500 / ., the property of the Great Northern Railway Company , "his masters . There were two other charges against the prisoner for embezzling and stealing money and cheques , the property of the same prosecutors , .- 'to ; , which ' he pleaded . Not Guilty .. He subsequently retracted those pleas , and pleaded Guilty to the . . whole of the charges . He was sentenced to eighteen , months * hard labour .
Charles Clement Brooke , late a captain in the OsmaiiH Irregular Cavalry Turkish Contingent , surrendered to take his trial upon an indictment charging him with having published a false arid , malicious libel on Baron Mostyn . It appeared that he had uiamed a natural daughter of Lord Mostyn ' s uncle , who , when hs xlied , left her a sum of 20 , 000 ? ., to be raised by sale or mortgage out of certain estates devised to Lord Mostyn for life . Lord 3 Io 3 tj'n entered into a . voluntary undertaking ; to carry out the provisions of the will ; but the estates were so deeply mortgaged that he found he had no funds equal to tlie payment of this particular sum and of various others which were chargeable on the property . The result wus that the estates were thrown
into Chancery nineteen years ago . Lord Mostyn was himself very largely in debt . Captain Brooke had been insolvent , and had parted with his life-interest in the property ; but from time to time he had been relieved by Lord Mostyn , through his Lordship ' s solicitors . Mrs . Brooke is dead , but a child of hers is still living . It was under these circumstances that Captain Brooke wrote a letter to Lord Mostyn , threatening to kick him publicly , and to cause his ejection from the House of Peers . The jury found the Captain Guilty , but recommended him to mercy , on the ground that he had acted under great provocation . After some discussion , he was ordered to enter into his own recognizances to keep the peace , and to come up for judgment if called upon .
Mary Ann Davis , a woman of the town , has been found Guilty of killing Ann Cox , a person in the same sphere of life , by striking her on the head with a tumbler . Davis wa 3 intoxicated at the time , and she had contrived to pick a quarrel with her friend ; but , after the act was committed , she expressed great sorrow . She was sentenced to six months' imprisonment .
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Mansion-house , on a charge of breaking a pane of glass in a jeweller ' s window , and stealing a large amount of property . He was caught in the act , and at once taken into custody . When at the police-office , he said : .- — "I have been ten years a convict , and I could get no work on account of being known . " Alderman Humphery : " Are you a ticket-of-leave mau ? " Summers : " No . After nine years I was pardoned . 1 was at Norfolk Islandj and from that place I went to Hobart Town , and thence to the gold diggings in Australia , where I laboured hard and made 150 ? . as my share . I paid GO / , for my passage from Adelaide to London , from other money
that I made . I spent all the 150 / . in London . " Alderman Humphery : " When were you convicted ? " Summers : "In the summer of 1816 I was tried at Maidstone for horse stealing , and found guilty . I am as industriously inclined as any man , and it is my wish to go abroad , where I can get my living by honourable industry . I have been obliged to sell my clothes , and , ns I am known , I can get no employment at all . I tore ; up my discharge because I did not wish that any one should know I was a prisoner . " He was then committed for trial .
Neg lect at a Boardixg Schooi A singular c ^ has been investigated at the Wandsworth police-oS A schoolmistress , named Sophia Myers , was cha ™^ with wilfully neglecting Maria Bailey , aJit « e gS £ mitted to her care . She kept a boarding school Tt Battersea , and the child ' s motlier sent htr dauritfe there for education . About a fortnight ago , Mrs . Bailev received information that her child was dyine- * a * J going to Myers ' s house , she found such to ha the cW ' lhe child was in a filthy condition , lying on an old and dirty coucli . Another dying child was also in the hoSe wluchwaa ma ^ revolting state of dirt , and almost e £ tirely denuded of furniture . Two of Myers ' s daughters four little children , and a young woman , were lik < S fS ^^ 5 ntrooms ¥ Policeman whom Mrs ?
, , . Bailey called m ; and they also were extremely dirtv and wretched in their appearance . It appeared ! how ever , that some necessaries , which the parish doctor hart ordered a few days before Mrs . Myers was -given into custody , weve supplied to the sick children ; and seve ral persons came forward to give a good character to the schoolmistress , who said it was only through , the illness of the two children suffe ring from typhul fever that the Others had been neg lected . The magistrate discharged Mrs . Myers on her entering into recognizances to appear again on Monday . When the case came on again on that day , the accused was not forthcoming , and no further steps could be taken . It was mentioned in court that Mrs . Bailey ' s little ' girl had died since the previous examination .
Buuguyuy at Cardiff . —The shop of Mr . Spiridon a jeweller in Cardiff , has been broken into and plundered ' of a considerable quantity of its contents . The shop , keeper and his assistants left the place between nine and ten o ' clock on the evening preceding the robbery , having first secured the premises ; but , on returning the following morning , they found that the shop had been entered and ransacked of almost everything that was portable , including an immense amount of jewellery , watches , ring ? , pins , pencil-cases , &c . It is estimated that the total value of the stolen property cannot be much less than 300 / . It
was afterwards discovered that the thieves had entered the premises through the adjoining shop , where they liad battered down a portion of the wall dividing the two liouses , and so worked their way into Mr . iipiridon ' s shop , the floor of which was thickly sprinkled with bricks and plaster . It is conjectured that the burglars afterwards started for London by an early train . The metropolitan police were speedily informed of . 'the robbery by electric telegraph , and the local police are likewise prosecuting an active search ; but no clue has as yet been obtained of the thieves .
Robkeuy . —Three men recently went to a publichouse in Jamaica-street , Bristol , at seven o ' clock in the evening-, and ordered some drink . The landlady , having supplied them , retired to the parlour behind * the bar , upon wliich one of the men placed a chair against the ; parlour door , while another w « nt into the side passage , and beckoned one of hia comrades in from the street , when they both endeavoured to remove a desk whicli was placed near the bar . Asj however , the desk was fastened by screws to a kind of counter , they found
themselvea obliged to wrench it off " , and they immediately set to work . While they were so occupied , the landlady came out from the parlour into the passage , when she ¦ w as knocked down by one of the ruffians , who struct her a blow on the head . She rose , and was again felled to the ground and kicked . The men , in the meanwhile , Laving succeeded in wrenching the desk from its hold , stole from it nearly 12 / . in gold and silver , and then escaped with their booty . A description of the thieves has been forwarded by the landlady to the police , and steps are being taken for their apprehension .
A Stahiu . no Case . —The borough magistrates of Brighton were occupied on Wednesday in investigating a charge of stabbing brought against a youth , nineteen years of age , named Charles Hcnrieh , who , it appears , is a son of Lady Girdlestone . The youth had been to the Casino on Tuesday night , and , on coming out late at night , he addressed a policeman , and , exhibiting a long-handled knife , which opened with a spring at the back , said , if he had the person who kept the Casino there , he would stab him to the heart . The policeman , who said he must be joking , took the knife from himr shut it up , and returned it . Henrich immediately opened it again , and said , " I will carry this home in my hnnd open , and will stal ) the first person who interrupts me . " At the same time , he made use of very
olscene language . Just at ' tliat moment , a woman of tlie town , named Julia Blundcl Paine , came up , and Henrich exclaimed , "Halloa , old gal , how do you do ?" again using several disgusting expressions . The woman answered , " I don't know you , sir ; " on which , Hcnrieh immediately stabbed her , eaying , " How do you like this ? ' The woman stood for a moment , and then exclaimed , "Oh , youliavo murdered me ! " The policeman then took the young man into custody , und the latter kept repeatedly exclaiming , " I am damned drunk , and I nm a blackguard . " The woman was taken to the liospitnl , where it was found that the wound was not serious . Hcnrieh was remanded to this day ( Saturday ) , -when it is oxpected that Julia Paine > YiH be able to attend and give evidence . MuKDiat op a Ciui . u uY his Motiikh . — Klissabcth
Ihb TrcKET-or- Leavk SrsTExr . —A lecture by Mr . F . Hill was delivered by that gentleman at a meeting on Monday evening of the Law Amendment Society , Mr . M . D . Hill in the chair . The subject of the discourse was the present ticket-of-leave system , and its purpose was to show that that system has not 3 c t 1 > een fairly tried . Mr . F . Hill thought that the terms of imprisonment should be made longer instead of shorter , but he was not inclined to abandon the incentive to good conduct held out by the prospect of a remittal of punishment . He showed the fallacy of the popular supposition that there are no means at home for employing all our criminals . The number of criminals is far less than is generally supposed ; and , even if it were
much greater , there would be plenty of opportunity in a country like this of finding employment for prisoners , without deranging the labour market . Mr . F . Hill proceeded : — "A perusal of the evidence lately taken on the subject by the Committee of the House of Commonsparticularly of that given by Mr . Waddington and Mr . Matthew .-Hill—would quickly convince any person ' -of calm judgment that in this matter there can " have been neither failure nor success , since in fact there has been no Teal experiment . . ' ' It is trae , as we have seen , that th . it part of the general arrangement which consists in holding out a strong motive to industry and good conduct while in prison , lias been brought into partial operation ; and , I think , that a candid examination of
the results , so far as means have been provided for their ascertainment , will show that to the extent to which this principle has been employed , they have been satisfactory ; the recommittals Laving been fewer among the prisoners thus liberated in part by their own exertions , than among an equal number released by the mere lapse of time . But of the ticket of leave in the real sensu of tlie term , namely , a permission to be at large duringgood behaviour only , there has evidently been no trial ; for , although each ticket bears on its face a warning that tlie leave will be recalled if the bearer contort with bad company , or have no visible means of getting an Lonest livelihood , these conditions seem to have been almost a dead letter . It thus appears that an essential principle
of the ticket-of-leavc system has remained in abeyance ; and , therefore , whatever causes may have been a " t work to produce the late burglaries and gurotte robberies , these outrages cannot in justice be attributed to that system . " The lecturer afterwards made some suggestions : — " Let five hundred prisoners at the end of their confinement be released with tickets of leave , and five hundred other ? , as nearly as possible under the same circumstances , be released unconditionally . Then let the recommittals which may tiike place in the two classes bo carefully compared ; and the result will be more trustworthy and conclusive tlian any amount of it priori
speculation One way in whicli crime might be powerfully checked would be to render pecuniarily an 3 weraWe , to some extent , for the crimes they assist in producing , the landlords and proprietors of the various dens of iniquity in which criminals meet to concert robberies , to turn booty into money , and to squander away their ill-gotten wealth—the flash-houses , the dwellings o-f receivers of stolen goods , the gambling houses , and the brothels . " Considerable discussion followed the reading of this paper , and it was finally resolved that it should be received and referred to the Criminal Law Committee , to consider and report upon .
Another Great Raii / way Robbery . —The police have received information that a vast number of gold watches , which were in a leathern box , have been stolen from the Coleraino and Londonderry Railway . The maker's name , ' Mottu , ' of Geneva , is engraved upon the watches , and the numbers of them are known . Redi'Atii , Juniou . —A boy , bearing the now celebrated name of Redpath , -was charged at Guildhall with committing a fraud upon a . Mrs . Pulling , a fancy-bagmaker
, who employed him as an errand boy . He had sold some of the bags , appropriated the money , and absconded . The lad ' s mother said lie was one of seven children ehe had to provide for , and her husband was * y ln K » U of consumption . The person who had bought the bags consented to give them up on receiving his money ( ninety aWHings ) again . This was agreed to ; the boy waa discharged , and Alderman Musgrove gave ho mother a sovereign from the poor-box on account of her distressed condition . * - «« " ¦ ' «*
A Convict ' s Hummv . —A person apparently of great bodily 8 rength , giving the name of John LWore , appeared before Alderman Humphery , at the
Fatal Poaching Astray . —A conflict between a gang of poachers and some keepers in the employ of Mr . T . B . Vernon , of Haiibury , Worcestershire , about midnight on Wednesday week , has ended in the death of one of the poachers . A mun named Harrison , employed at the Droitwich salt-works , went out with two of his companions to shoot in Mr . Vcrnon'a preserves . They were encountered by two keepers ; a struggle ensued , and a lurge dog was set upon Harrison , who seized a gun , and knocked the keeper down by the buttend . There was then Borne further scuffling , and the gun accidentally exploded , lodging its contents in Harrison's abdomen . Ho died in about four-anU-twenty hours . The fatal occasion was the first time ho had ever been out poaching .
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1208 THE LEADER . [ No . 352 , Saturday
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 20, 1856, page 1208, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2172/page/8/
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