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, . . Ta ^nr^r . GATTIElUiNGrb lvKOM.ll.llii LAW AND 1OLICE COURTS.
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The Female : Impostor , Eliza . Tkemaine . —This woman , who has passed under several aliases , and victimised many persons , was tried last Saturday at the Leeds Quarter Sessions on a charge of theft , the particulars of which we gave in the Leader of January 24 . A verdict of Guilty was returned , and she was sentenced to penal servitude for six years . Under the name of Alice Gray , she made for herself considerable notoriety in the autumn , of the year 1855 by her impositions and her astonishing boldness of manner . Manslaughter by a Photographer . —The Inquest on Mrs . Bunn , who was killed by an American photographer by a blow on the head , has resulted in a verdict of Manslaughter against Clark , the man in question . It would , seem , that the woman was somewhat intoxicated , S 3 well as the man , and that there was a good deal of mutual abuse previously to the blow .
A Fictitious Custom-house Entky . — A person named Kichard Ware was summoned on Tuesday at the Mansion-house by the Custom-house solicitor , on a charge of clearing some goods from a vessel without his being a licensed agent , or otherwise entitled so to act , the fraud being effected by a document called " a prime entry , " which turned out to be counterfeit , and in a false name . It seemed probable that Ware ( who did not appear ) had committed the same offence before ; but , considering his youth , the Lord Mayor mitigated the penalty from 100 ? , to 25 ? ., with three months' imprisonment in default . The warrant of commitment was then made out .
Treatment of the Aged Poor in Whitechapel WoRKHousE .- ^ -Mr . Edmund Martin , a corn-merchant living at Mount-terrace , Whitechapel-road , applied to Mr . Hammill at the Worship-street police-courtf to solicit his aid in behalf of a miserable-looking , shrivelled old man ty whom he was accompanied , and who gave the name of William Williams , and stated his age to he about seventy-six . Mr . Martin , who had repeatedly been at the same police-office before , for similar benevolent purposes , stated that the man in whose behalf he then appealed had formerly carried on trade for some time , in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel , by the sale of fisli , and such other articles as his means enabled him to purchase . Mr . Martin knew him to have been alway 3
a very industrious and honest man . His business having at last failed , he made an application , about three months ago , for admission into the Whitechapel worihouse , a petition to that effect being drawn up and signed by Mr . Martin and several other respectable tradesmen in the neighbourhood . Notwithstanding this , Williams was obliged to attend at the board five times before he could he admitted to the workhouse , and , when he was at length taken in , he was put to very hard work , having to pick oakum for five hours without food . At the end of a month , the poor man was turned out , when he again called at Mr . Martin ' s house , and informed him of the fact ; in consequence of which , Mr . Martin , not being able just then to apply for aid to the magistrate ,
took Wilhams into his house , and maintained him at his own expense , until other steps could betaken . . The old man stated to Mr . Hammill that , while he was in the workhouse , the authorities offered to give him a shilling and a loaf of bread for three weeks , if he would go out of the house ; but he told them tbat that sum ¦ was useless , as he could not possibly do anything with it in the way of setting " himself up in business . They therefore turned him out . Ultimately , Mr . Hammill ordered the warrant officer of the district to go to the Whitechapel workhouse with Williams , and request that the latter might be taken in at once ; and , after some time had elapsed , the officer returned into court , and told the magistrate that the old man had been again admitted .
which was filled with silver , said , "It ' s of no use to take me back ; come , let ' s square it . " Payne , however , refused the offer , and took him back to the shop , where Mr . Walker found he had been robbed of more than 21 . worth of silver , the whole of which -was found on the boys . They were very boastful before the magistrate , but pleaded Guilty , and were sentenced , the youngest to three months in the House of Correction , with one private whipping , and the other to six months . Brager's face lengthened considerably at the prospect of the whipping . The Double Murder at Wal-worxh . —The final examination of Bacon and his wife on the charge of murdering their two children , which was appointed for Wednesday , could not take place on that day , but was postponed for a week , on account of Mrs . Bacon being ill , with symptoms of fever .
The Convict George Holmes . — This notorious criminal , who was convicted of an outrageous assault upon a young girl in the West Riding , sentenced to two years' imprisonment , and liberated by order of the Home Secretary on the ground of ill-health after a short period of incarceration , has again been convicted on a charge of felony , at the last Wakefield Sessions for the West Riding , and sentenced to six years' penal servitude . Thk Two Dromios . —A boy of fourteen , of the name of Allen Beamish , has been examined at the Mansion House , and committed for trial , on several charges of obtaining money , by means of a forged order , from a fish salesman in Billinsgate Market , andof embezzling various sums of money from his employer , a mining broker in Union-court , Old Broad-street .- —At Guildhall , a man named Henry Beamish has been committed for trial on a charge of forging his master ' s signature to two postoffice orders , one for 21 . 9 s ., and the other for 3 ? . 10 s . which lie afterwards utteredThere was no connexion
. whatever between the cases . Our Workhouse SrsTEar . —Three wretchedJooking women were charged before the Lord Mayor with ringing the Mansion-house bell on Monday night , at a late hour , and refusing to desist when remonstrated with . The prisoners said that they had in vain endeavoured to obtain relief from the Unions , and they had , therefore , as a last resource , applied to his lordship to send them to prison , that being the only place where they could get food and shelter . They implored the Lord Mayor to grant their request , and save them the misery of applying for relief to the officers of the Unions . His lordship said it was a most shocking case ; however , he had no alternative but to send them to prison for seven days under the Vagrant Act . On hearing the sentence , one of the women exclaimed , " God bless your lordship ! We truly thank you . "
Middlesex Sessions . —The March General Sessions commenced on . Moudar , but the cases did not present any features of remarkable interest . Cutting and Wounding . —A lad named Michael Gallivan , of fourteen , was examined at the Southwark police-court on a charge of having , about a month ago , wilfully stabbed a man in the neighbourhood of the Dover-road . The man , who is a matmaker , was walking along Swan-street , Borough , with a bundle of mats slung over his shoulder , when he encountered Gallivan , who called him by opprobrious names . Being exasperated , the man struck him a blow on the face , thinking he should thus get rid of him . Shortly
afterwards the boy rushed suddenly on him , and plunged his knife into the man ' s back between the shoulders . Two of his fellow-labourers , who witnessed the attack , immediately came to his assistance , and pulled the knife out of the wound . Fortunately tho knife had been stopped in its progress by a bone , or the wound would p » obably have proved fatal . The man was conveyed to St . Thomas's Hospital , where he was obliged to remain uatil last Saturday ; and Gallivan was given into custody . The man denied giving the lad the least provocation . Gallivan stated that tho knife was in his hand when the man struck him , and , in raising his arm to protect himself , it slipped from his grasp , and accidentally lodged itself in the man ' s back . He felt considerable remorse at what he had done . Tho magistrate committed him for trial , but bail was accepted .
Ili > -treatment of A Son . —Joseph "Williams , the man charged with neglect of his son , a youth of weak intellect , h , as been again examined at Worship-street , and committed for trial , bail being tendered and accepted . Tho evidence given as to tho condition of the poor lad when taken to the workhouBe ( where ho still remains ) was too shocking for publication . Four witnesses—tho medical attendant of the family , a laundress , one of tho accused ' s daughters , and the landlord of tho house—were brought forward to rebut this testimony , and to show that tho youth wa 3 well cared for ; but tho magistrate did not seem to place any great reliance on their evidence .
Expert Boy Thieves . —Thomas Bedford , a boy of fifteen , and William Brager , thirteen , were charged befcro Mr . D'Eyncourt , tho Worship-street magistrate , ¦ with robbery . George Payne , a shoemaker , was passing opposite tho shop of Mr . Walker , a chemist at Stepney , When he saw the boya trying to look in at tho door . Bedford lifted Bragor up to the window , ftnd Brager said , " It ' s all right—thcro ' a no one in tho shop ; " and , on being dropped by hia companion , ho walked stealthily la at the door , tho other remaining outside . Brager carao out again immediately , handed something to Bedford and both ran off—Bedford pursued by a constable , who took him , and Brager by Payne , to whom ho turned xound in aa impudent manner , and , extending his . Land ,
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MISCELLANEOUS . Thk Count . —Tho Queen , it is anticipated , will remain at Windsor until after her confinement . —Prince Albert held a levee on behalf of tho ' Quecn on Thursday afternoon in St . James ' s Palace . Fielo-laub Night Rkfugk . — A public meeting in support of a new effort of tho committee of the Fieldlane ltagged School in opening a night refuge for homeless young women was held on Wednesday evening in the schoolroom , West-street , Holborn-hill , under tno presidency of tho Earl of Shaftesbury . Resolutions approving the institution were moved and passed , tho speakers being tho Hon . Arthur Kinnaird , M . P ., I ""*
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young lady would return to the residence of Mr Sn »« , and reside there " as heretofore , " for a period of S months , he undertook to marry her at the end of ttl period . Attached to this was a condition that T agreement was not to be shown to the father of M ¦ * Hills . The fact crept out , however ; and Mr . SmitlS his attorney , Mr . Cutts , were indicted , under the aS known as " the Bishop of Oxford ' s Act , ' ' for having Pw cured Miss Hills to be debauched . On the case c 2 « on for trial , the counsel for the prosecution applied f £ a postponement to the next Assizes , on the cround tw Miss Hills , being again on the eve of her cSeinen could not appear as a witness , and that her evidence-wp ! TI ^ : * L ™ * ±° ? S ed that s ** was moSfcr
- sirous to appear , but that she was forcibl y detained bv Mr . Smith , the house being taken care of by an elderlv woman , who cautiously opened the door to visitors amT would not admit them if they came from the youne- L&vl friends . On the other hand , it was asserted that Miss Hills remained at Mr . Smith ' s house entirely of her ow freewill ; and Mr . Smith put in an affidavit to that effect , adding that she was no party to this indictment and in fact disapproved of it . It was also asserted that the indictment was preferred by the attorney , Mr Shen herd , out of a feeling of malignity because he could not obtain from Mr . Smith the costs ( 89 ? . ) appertainine to
the previous actions , which the defendant considered exorbitant , and because the agreement to marry had not been carried out . Mr . Shepherd , it was argued was equally a party to the undertaking which had led to the proceedings , and might as well as Mr . Cutts and Mr Smith have been included in the indictment . In reply " it was said tbat Mr . Shepherd had never suggested the living in concubinage , and that , with regard to the present proceedings , the father of Miss Hills was the prosecutor . ^—The trial was postponed , in order that Miss Hills might attend as a witness .
Mr . B rough ton , the Marylebone magistrate , has announced that he will return to the donors the sums sent for the benefit of Mrs . Allsop , whose alleged misfortunes are now believed to be impositions . All sums not recalled in a fortnight from last Saturday will be paid into the poor-box . Ellen Griffin and Eliza Field , two middle-aged women , were charged at Guildhall with sending a letter to Mr . Allingham , a surgeon of Moorgate-street , requesting him to transmit a sovereign to either of the accused , or to a third person mentioned in the note , on pain , of being taxed with disgraceful offences . By the advice of the police , Mr . Allingham sent a farthing enclosed in a letter , which he registered , and in the corner of which he put
a small cross as requested by the accused . A detective officer then watched the delivery of the letter to Griffin , who said to the postman that she expected tlie note , and that the cross in the corner was a private mark used by her and her friend in their correspondence . She was then given into custody . The woman Field was afterwards apprehended ; but the officers stated , on both the prisoners being brought up on Monday , that they were unable to prove any complicity between the two ; that they did not think it existed ; that the letter could not be shown to he in the handwriting of Griffin ; and that Field , who appeared to get her living by fortune-telling , exhibited symptoms of being out of her mind . The former was therefore discharged , and Alderman Carden ordered that the latter should be sent to the Union to be
taken proper care of . She protested that she was in her right mind ; threatened that , if she wero locked up , she would go straight to the Queen on comiug out , and complain against the alderman ; and said that she woufd speak what she meant if she were before fifty thousand kings , and that she had been persecuted by one scoundrel or another for the last five years . An important question was raised on Monday in the Judges' Chambers under the amended County . Courts Act of last session . By a provision in the Act , a Judge of the supremo courts can order the proceedings after
GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . An action which came on for trial at Chelmsford before Mr . Baron Channell , but which was postponed till lioxt Assizes , revealed a rather strange story , as far as can be judged from the statements of tho counsel for tho prosecution . A Miss Martha Augusta Hills is the daughter of an Essex farmer , and is a remarkably handsome young woman , under twenty-one years of nge . She was token away from her father ' s house by a Mr . Robert Ezekiel Smith , also a farmor , to whom she bore a child . Two notions—one for seduction , the othor for breach of promise of marriage—were brought against Mr . Smith by the father of tho young lady ; but they wero settled by tho payment of 60 ? ., and an agreement to pay the costs . A Mr . Cutts , an attornoy , acted in those matters for Mr . Smith ; and a Mr . Shepherd acted for the friends of tho young lady . Between these two legal gentlemen , a very extraordinary arrangement ( aa allogcd by tho prosecution ) waa como to . It was to the effect that , if tho
verdict to be removed from a county court and execution issue as if the action had been brought in the superior courts . In tho case of Box v . Mitchell , application was made to remove tho proceedings from the Westminster County Court . Judgment had been obtained for 40 ? ., and the expense of a judgment summons and commitment , it was stated , would exceed the expense of a ca . sa . to take the defendant into execution . Mr . Justico Crowdor , after consulting with some of the other Judges , granted tho writ to remove the proceedings into tho supremo court from tho county court .
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248 THE XEADER . [ No . 364 , Sattjbday ' ¦ ¦ — 1 1 __ _ ¦ — — - ¦ - - * N ~» — ¦ ¦ — ' - M
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Leader (1850-1860), March 14, 1857, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2184/page/8/
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