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from the Uorough Gaol on Sunday morning . They climbed up the wall of the yard , -where they were taking exercise , got on the roof of a house , slid part of tbe way down the wall , and dropped a distance of twelve feet into a churchyard . The police were at once set on their track , and one of the men was found disabled and stunned in the churchyard , and was taken back to gaol . The other had got clear . off , and it is supposed has come to London , where , as he is well known to the police , he will probably soon be captured . Supposed Fatal Effects of Practical Joking . — Two respectable-looking' men , named Thomas Willis and Thomas James , were charged at Guildhall with having caused the death of Thomas Hinfcstou , a lad of sixteen ,
under rather singular circumstances . Hinkston was the son of a man living in Oxford Market , and was employed with Willis and James at Mr . Lavington ' s . One evening when lie came home from work , he complained of acute pains in the stomach . He went to work as usual on the following morning , but came home in the evening very ill , and went to bed , where he remained for some days . Finding the boy ' s handkerchief saturated with blood , his father asked him if he had received any injury , and the son answered that he had not . He became at last so much -worse that it was found necessary to send , for medical advice , and he then got a little better , but was still much troubled with pains in the bowels . One day , young Hiukston called his father to his bedside , and said that he felt he was going to die ,
but that he could not die in peace until he had told him something . He then stated that T when he was at work at Mr , Lavingston ' s about a fortnight since , the two men , Willis and James , laid him on the platform used for the delivery of goods , and rolled a firkin of butter on him , from the stomach to the chest , at vliich he cried out with pain , and" they then desisted . This statement the boy repeated to one of the neighbours who was called in , and likewise to two police constables sent for by his father . He did not believe , however , that the men intended , anything more than a joke . On the following morning , he died . An inquest was held , and the verdict returned was , that the lad had died from acute inflammation of the bowels and lungs , which might , however , have proceeded from natural causes . Willis and James ¦ were remanded , and have since been discharged .
Profligate Policemenv—A charge was preferred at tlie Mansion House on Wednesday by a City policeman against a Mr . William Bray , whom he accused of abusing and striking him' on Cornhill . He went up to the officer accompanied by two or three women , and all began denouncing liim as a scoundrel and vagabond . Q neof the women accused him of detaining her daughter . He aaid he knew nothing of her daughter , and finally the man assaulted him , and was taken into custody . Bray stated to the magistrate that the policeman had three times taken away his ( Bray ' s ) wife , and kept her in a disreputable house , and that his own wife helped to support him by a .. life of abandoned " vice . The constable denied this , and said that the woman whom Bray
called his wife was a professed courtesan . Bray s account , however , was confirmed by the mother of his wife . The Lord Mayor adjourned the case , and directed that the facts as regarded the policeman should be reported to the Commissioner of Police . —Gerald Longley , a constable in the Metropolitan force , "was charged at Bowstreet with absconding with his uniform , and a suit of livery which he wore in his office of assistant groom of the stables at Scotland - yard . He was engaged to be married , but , having obtained from the girl to whom he was to be united a Bible and Church Service , a lawn handkerchief , a watch and gold chain , and a sovereign , he deserted her , and finally left his post . It was understood that he had paid attentions to another girl . He was sent to prison for a month .
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND TOLICE COURTS . 0 » Monday last five men , named Robert Collings , George Boyce , George Pickering , Francis John Maybery , and Dennis M'Carthy , were examined at the Mansion House on a charge of stealing seventeen casos of boots and shoes , the property of Mr . Louis Isenburg , of 21 , Loadenhall-street . Mr . Isenburg , who is a wholesale boot and shoo manufacturer , consigned , or rather intended to consign , to Melbourne -very large quantities of boots and shoes in the course of last year ; and Maybery was the man to whom were entrusted the boxes contnining them , to take to the docks . Instead of taking them thoro for shipment , they wero conveyed olaewhere , the contents wero abstracted , and cinders and dust
substituted in their place . The fraud was not discovered till the- arrival of the boxes in Melbourne , when they wore opened by the person to whom they had beou consigned . Tho other men appear to have been accomplices of Maybery . Tlvo chief witness against them was ono Timothy Desmond , a man now out of work , who acems to have been a friend of tho accused , « nd who ia suspected of having l > eon concerned in tho robbery . Cross-examination of this man elicited tho fuct that ho had boon dismissed from Messrs . M ^ scb ' s service for participation in a robbery , also of boota . All tho prisoners wero remanded . —On "Wednesday , two women wore accused of l > eing concerned iu the same robbery . Desmond and
other witnesses having been examined , the women were remanded . Another case , connected with the preceding , was brought forward , at the Mansion House on Tuesday . Thomas Wai cot , formerly a journeyman in the service of Messrs . Moses and Son , at their shoemakLng -warehouse on Tower-hill , was accused of robbing th « firm of six pairs of water-tight boots . Timothy Desmond , who gave evidence in the previous case , was the chief witness in this "; and his statement criminated himself as veil as Walcot , as lie confessed that he and the other were in in the hauit for some time of stealing their employers '
property . Walcot cross-examined Desmond , and asked , " Are you not ashamed to look at me ? You confess yourself to be a thief . " Desmond answered , " I don ' t know why I should be ashamed of myself , I ' m sure . " To whicii " Walcot retorted , " You are the biggest villain upon eartli , and you ought to have a rope round your neck . " Walcot was committed for trial . —llichard Steer , a shoemaker , was charged on Wednesday with being the receiver of the stolen goods ; but , the only -witness against him being Desmond , he was discharged , on giving recognisances to appear when the case was again brought forward . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦'
Lieutenant Ernest Lloyd was finally examaned at Marlborough-street on JVIonday , charged with obtaining goods from several tradesmen under false pretences . He had been in the habit of giving cheques « u Messrs . Cox and Co ., the bankers , which cheques were always dishonoured on presentation , the Lieutenant no longer having any effects there , There were at least thirty charges against him , but only a few were gone into , and he ; was committed for trial . A little bit of election history came out on Monda } ' at the Southwark police-office . A person , named Edward John Syer was summoned by a cabdriver for the sum of sixteen shillings , cab-hire on the day of the Southwark election , when the vehicle was emploved in taking voters
to the polling place . Syer admitted that lie had hired the cab , and said he had engaged thirty cabs on the 28 th ult ., at from sixteen to eighteen shillings a day . He had received his orders through Mr . James , Sir Charles's committee agent , and he was appointed " superintendent of cabs for the election . " He thought it was very hard that he should pay , as be was a poor man ; Mr . Combe , the magistrate , said , that , as Syer had engaged the cabs , he was responsible for the fares ; but he added that he had no doubt Sir Charles would ultimately pay- At this , a e » b proprietor in the body of the court called out , " The committee hired twenty-five -of my cabs , which were used in conveying voters to the poll , and I can't get my money . It ' s rascally conduct of Sir Charles Napier and his committee ; but I'll make them pay . " Ultimately , Syer was ordered to pay sixteen shillings , and five shillings costs , but was allowed a week for
collecting the money . The magistrate advised him to summon Sir Charles Napier in the County Court , but recommended him , first of all , to apply to the Admiral . This the unfortunate " superintendent of cabs " said he would do . — -Mr . James attended on Tuesday , and said that Syers had sublet his contract to another man , named Baldwin , who had also made a claim on the committee . There had been thirty-seven different claimsby cabmen , amounting to 2 QQL Those claims it would be necessary to investigate ; and Baldwin having taken from Syers the contract to provide th « cabs , the former would be paid . The magistrate said that , as the committee had made the contract with Syers , he ( Syers ) ought to receive the money ; Imt Mr . James evinced no willingness to adopt that opinion , observing that , in such a case , there would bo two or three hundred more claims from cabmen . And so the matter rest 3 for the
present . The attention of the Westminster -magistrate was occupied on Monday and . Tuesday by two charges of making a disturbance at the house of Yiscountess Porisonby , brought against an old woman named Anne Robinson and her unmarried daughter . They conceived , whether rightly or wrongly is uncertain , that the house occupied by her ladyship in Lower Belgrave-street belonged to them , a suit in Chancery , as they alleged , having terminated in their favour . They therefore went
to tho house to demand tho rent , and , on being referred to her ladyship ' s lawyer , mado a great noiso , refused to leave , and were given into custody . The magistrate discharged them on their entering into their own recognizances to keep the peace ; but they went again on tho same night , and wero still more violent , and the younger woman assaulted tho servants who put her out . Accordingly , they were again brought beforo Mr . Arnold , who discharged the old woman unconditionally , and ordered tho daughter to find bail .
Mrs . Clerk , the wife of a tradesman in Iscrmondsey , lias l ) een committed for trial from tho Southwark policecourt , on a charge of stealing the purso of a customer in a bnkcr ' a shop . Sho quietly took it up from tho counter , and walked off with it , but was soon afterwards taken , into custody . Mr . John Danger , a leather-merchant in Bristol , has been found Guilty nt tho Bristol Quarter Sessions of having obtained a hill of exchange for 18 ' 1 £ . 10 s . under fnls « pretences from a fclloAV tradesman . Sentence was postponed to next session . A man named Thomas Glass , formerly in tho employ
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NAVAL , AND MIEITAIiY . The Transit has been repaired after her accident . The opinion of the Lords of the Admiralty on the evidencefurnished by the Court of Inquiry , held on Good Friday , was promulgated on board on Monday . It acquits tie commander and master from all blame in the accident which has caused the ship ' s detention . Court-Martial . —A court-martial has been held at Sheerness , to try Edward Jones , ordinary supernumerary seaman , on charges of stealing a piece of cloth , and then deserting . He pleaded Guilty to both accusations , and threw himself on the mercy of the court . He was sentenced to receive three dozen lashes , to be imprisoned in Maidstone gaol for six months with hard labour , ant ? then to be dismissed the service with disgrace . Damage to the Martin Luther . —The Martin Iu »
ther , 1241 tons register , left Liverpool on the 9 * i mst . with 498 passengers and 1200 tons general cargo for Quebec . On Sunday , the 12 th , in lat . 50 - JST ., long . 8 "W " ., she experienced very heavy weather from tho north-west . At eiglit i \ m ., when under double-reefed topsails and reefed foresail , tho main top-gallant mast was carried away . At five a . m . on Monday , when under close-reefed maintopsail only , the fore and maintopmasts were carried away close to the caps , taking with them the boatswain , John Westwood , of Dunfermlme , Peter Branagan , and thrca other seamen , who wero on the weather yard-arm
endeavouring to secure tho foresail , which , had broken adrift . They wero all drowned . In oTder to clear the wreck , the officers and crc-w cut away the mainmast , which dragged the mizenmast with it , and Bhe thus became completely unmanageable . On Tuesday morning , she was fast drifting to leeward before a heavy sea and north-west -wind , and was only eighteen miles from Ushant , when she was sighted by the lagus , which , after considerable danger to herself and damage to the lifeboat , succeeded about noon in rescuing her . The hull of tho Martin Luther is in good condition , but in consequence of the heavy weather most of the berths were broken and knocked down , and the passengers have
suffered severely . _ . . . Tim Fjlbet in the East ov EuitorB —The Untisn fleet has passed tho Dardanelles and arrived in Smyrna-As soon as tho Turkish Government received tins intelligence , it issued a circular to announce that tho uaruanellos are henceforth closed to Bhips of war of nil nations that nro not provided with a special finnan for goingthrough , thus re-establishing tho rule in existence uctore the war . -l-m ™ AccimcNT at Wooi / wrcir . —During some niu » l" > evolutions which were being made on Woolwich torn mon on Thursday , in presence of Lord BloomndcJ , our Envoy at tho court of Prussia , a gunner was seriousi ) injured in the hand and face by tho premature explosion of his piece .
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of Messrs . Horthcott and Co ., wholesale lace-mannf fl 7 turers in Watling-street , was charged before Alderm , " Laurence , at tbe Mansion-house , with defraudineT late employers of various sums" of money , and likeJ ^ f with forging the signature of the firm to a cheque : 7 well as the endorsement of a bill . Messrs North ^ were in the habit of receiving advices , from their eu « tomers in the country , of certain sums of moner whiVh had been paid by the latter into the hands of their bankers in London , and Glass was the person usually sent t collect these . On the 3 rd of last January , the lead clert to the firm sent Glassto Messrs . Glyn's for three separate sums of money , amounting altogether to 103 ? . 133 gd and to Messrs . Kobarts for a balance of 257 . 5 s . 6 d ' due to them from a customer living at Cheltenham . The
man returned to the office of his employers after a time and brought three cheques for the money he had been sent to collect at Messrs . Glyn ' s , but the sum of 251 . 5 s . 6 d ., which he had been expected to receive at Messrs . Robarts ' s , was not forthcoming . Being asked by the head clerk why he had not got the latter Glass replied that they had told him at Robarts ' s , that the money was " not up . " He was then directed to write down this fact in his collecting-book , which he immediately did . On the same day , he absconded from his employers , and never returned to them afterwards Nearly two months previous to this , on the 20 th of last
November , the firm were expecting the receipt of a draft on Messrs . Jones , Lloya , and Co ., for 40 f . 3 s . 6 d ., from a customer living at Southport , a Mrs . Ball . The letter enclosing the bill for this amount never reached Messrs Northcott , and they afterwards discovered that it had been intercepted by Glass , who , unauthorized by any of the partners , had endorsed the bill in their name , presented it for payment , and received the money for it at Messrs . Jones Lloyd ' s . The same thing had been done with the cheque on Messrs . Robarts for 251 . 5 s . 6 d . Glass was therefore given into custody . Aldeiman Laurence remanded him , for the attendance of Mrs . Ball who was believed to be in France . '
Mr . Keating , on Thursday , in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , applied for , and obtained , a rule nisi for setting aside the verdict in the late trial at the Gloucester Assizes , " Roux © . Wiseman , and for obtaining a new trial . The verdict , it will be recollected , went against the Cardinal / The facts appeared in . our paper last week . ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ' - . ¦ ¦ ' ¦'' . ' . '' .. " . " . :. >¦ ¦ '¦ .. ¦¦
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368 TigpE ^ JLEAPEB . [ l ^ o . 369 , Sattj ^ av
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Leader (1850-1860), April 18, 1857, page 368, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2189/page/8/
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