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lieved ha was under aa obligation to give the bank the benefit of the proceeds . He would not recal that statement . The bank had no power to interfere with the freights of the vessels . He had received a letter from Mr . Esdaile , dated the 17 th of April , 1855 , requesting him to insure the vessels . By a memorandum , dated May 3 rd , 1855 , he had agreed to register the ships in the port of London . That agreement was never carried out . " ( Sensation . ' ) The Commissioner : " You seem to consider that as an excuse which was in fact a breach of the agreement . " Examination continued : "He was quite sure Mr . Esdaile did not speak to him about the registration of the ships . He could not recollect that he told Mr . Esdaile that there could be no injury in not registering the vessels as they were abroad . In a letter , dated October 12 th , 1855 , he promised to get the ships registered , but he never did . Three out of the five Gloucester ships were mortgaged by him before that time . On the 2 nd of March , 1856 , he received a letter from Mr . Cameron , telling him that no more money would be placed to the debit of his account . However , after the account wa 3 dosed , he obtained a loan of 1200 / . Nothing could be easier . ( Much laughter . } The loan was amply secured . It w as an idle ceremony to ask him to pay the demands of the bank . ( Laughter . } He had protested against he issuing of new shares . Before the close of 1855 , he believed he had come to the conclusion that between fifty . and sixty thousand pounds had been lost . In 1856 , the bank was represented as solvent . Beyond the securities the bank held for his debt there was little chance of their getting anything . " ( -1 laugh . } This concluded the examination of Mr . Humphrey Brown- An adjournment then took place to the following day . The first person examined on Thursday was Mr . Hugh Thomas Cameron , son of the late general manager ; but his testimony was merely to the effect that his father ¦ was in Paris , and that Mr . M'Leod was ill . Mr . Linklater said he did not propose to examine Mr . Paddison , as he felt convinced he was not inculpated in the transactions of the bank . Mr . George Gillott was next examined . According to the account he gave of his directorship of the bank , he was entirely unaware of the dishonest practices that were going on , and had no conception , a few weeks before the bank stopped , that there was anything wrong : in short , as Commissioner Holroyd observed , he appears to have taken everything for granted . Two other directors—Mr . liichard Hurst and Mr . Josiah Butt—were next questioned ; aad the upshot of their statements was the same as that of Mr . Gillott —that they were entirely ignorant of the real state of things . The further hearing of the case was adjourned to uext Monday .
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ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT BRISTOL . An Irish labourer in the stone-quarries , Black-rock , Bristol , named Coonay , about sixty-six yours of age , has committed self-destruction by cutting his throat after attempting to murder his wife . The perpetrator of this double crime is said to have been a very steady , sober man , who hardly ever drank a drop of beer . Last Sunday , in the course of the afternoon , he went into an apartment occupied by a labouring man named Crawloy , lodging in the same house , and , after he had been there aome time , said to Mm . Crawley , "Ah , you will hear something one of these mornings that will frighten you —you will hear of me very soon . " There was nothing unuaual about his behaviour that day . Noxt day , ho was observed to take a hatchet out of the parlour cupboard , and carry it into tho yard behind the house ; but this circumstance did not causu any suspicions . Between nine and ten o ' clock , Mrs . Coonoy cunio down atairs , and gave her daughter money to buy some tea for their broakfust . No sooner was the girl gono on her errand , than Cooncy auissed tho hatchet , and , without any apparent cause , commenced a murderous u . sHuult on hia wife , striking her with all his force on tho head and other parts of her body . Mrs . Coonoy struggled violently with her hudbaud , and at List succeeded iu getting away from him and running . into thu back yard . She was followed , however , by the man , who throw her down , and , forcibly holding hor , began attacking huranew ; but some of the neighbours being brought to the spot by the woman ' s cries of "Murder ! " Cooney ran down stairs into tho cellar , His wife was at that timo almost inaunaiblu from the numerous injuries oho had received ; her head , which was covered with wounds , was blooding profusely ; hor body wan sovoroly bruised in various places , several of hor ribs wore driven in , and ouo of hor eyoa was nearly chopped out . Shu wna immediatel y removed to the infirmary . Hor husband afterwards com- : nutted suicide iu thu cellar into which ho had rotnuited . i Ho was discovered by his tton at a nubnequent period , ; weltering in hw blood , a very deop and oxtunsivo wound i having been inflicted nora . iH his throat with a ratfor , by < which tho voiua and arteries of tho windpipe and gullol , woru cut completely through , and tho head nearly severed <
from the body . A large and formidable knife was found secreted in his clothes , besides the razor . An inquest was opened and adjourned for a few days , in order that the evidence of the injured woman might be taken , should she be sufficiently recovered to be able to attend . Extkaordinakt Proceedi : ^ . —On the night of Wednesday week , about an hour after midnight , Mr . Mitchell , a resident at Sheepridge , was awakened by a knock at the door of his , house , and , thinking the demand for admittance came from a member of his family , went down stairs and opened it , when in rushed about thirty men , who proceeded to break open the door of an inner room , which contained a couple of machines to be used in a process for turning and curling the hair in the manufacture of mohair cloth . After examining the machines and turning the handles three or four times , one of these unceremonious guests cut an end off a piece ly ing near . An exclamation of "All right ! " was then heard , and the whole of the party left the house as summarily as they had entered it . From what we can gather , the cause of this extraordinary proceeding arose from the alleged infringement , by the construction of these machines , of a patent belonging to Mr . Isaac Beardsell , of Hagg , who had a special agreement with Mr . John Brigg , of Huddersfield , for the exclusive working of the patent . Mr . Brigg not long since obtained in one of the superior courts a verdict against Mr . Beardsell , in maintenance of that agreement . A subsequent arrangement with Mr . Beardsell has , we understand , still further secured the working of this patent to Mr . Brigg . From information received by that gentleman as to the production of the class of goods which he supposed himself to be exclusively manufacturing , and their appearance at a cheaper rate than he could produce them in the American markets , it was suspected that a large commission-house in Huddersfield had furnished the goods in question , and one of their former employes was supposed to have a principal hand in the construction of the new machines . To a neig hbour of the last-named party the possession of the machines was traced , and , a friendly demand for their examination proving fruitless , the above mode of visiting this person was determined on . —Leeds Mercury . Wife-Beating . — Ezekiah Barrett , a journeyman hatter , has been sent to prison for three months , with hard labour , for an assault on his wife , an industrious woman , whose earnings He squandered in drink , and repayed her by continual ill-usage . Mukdek ix Woolwich Docktard . —Samuel Long , a corporal of the Royal Marines , lias been killed by a seaman , named George Bave , on board the receivingship Hebe , moored off Woolwich Dockyard . Bave had been liberated from confinement below on the morning of Thursday week , and on that very day savagely assaulted Long , cut the ship ' s boat adrift , so as to prevent all communication with shore , and stabbed the marine in tha groin with a bayonet . He then nourished the weapon above his bead , and looked out for another victim . Several of the ship ' s company hurried on deck to the assistance of the wounded man ; and , after awhile , the boatswain contrived , by a stratagem , to approach the murderer , and disarm and secure him . He was shortly afterwards given into the custody of the dockyard police . Long died last Saturday morning . The murderer boasts of his crime , and declares his sorrow at not huving killed some one e ' . se also . Witchcuai't . —The country magistrate who recently communicated to the Tt / ncs an account of an application to him by a labourer for liberty to put a woman suspected of witchcraft to the ordeal of drowning , again addresses that journal to asseverate tho absolute truth of that narrative . He thus narrates a conversation botwecn himself and an old man on the all-absorbing subject : — " ' 1 don ' t know , sir , whether we ' ve one on ' eiu in this parish novr ( though old Mrs . L , who died last year , she bore a vary moderate character , and when Mr . P , the farmer , offended her once , ho had a colt wont very awkward afterwards ) . But old Mrs . Pointerwhen I wiiz a boy—she wuz a real witch ! Har they swum . A long ladder was put across the river , and old Mr . Lovoday atood on it , pushing her underwater ; but ' twas no iiHc—up aho come every time Then they pulled her out , anil beynn to mob her . Then she called out to bo weighed against tho church book , but the churchwarden siworo with a great oath that she . should not come near tho Biblo , and told her "to go home , for a inforuul old witch an she wnn . " And so she was , air . They uaed to nee liar littlo things crawling about jioar tho clock . ' 'What littlo things ? ' l Har imps , they called ' em . ' ' I want to know what an imp id like V ' 1 nover see ouo , sir ; 1 waa only a boy . But 1 'vo heard | thoy was like littlo muoee' ( mico ) . " As . sault . —Patrick Barry , a . powerful-looking follow , who li ! W been in custody for eight vvuuku , wan on Monday brought before Mr . Combo , thu Southwurk magistrate , for final examination , charged with committing a murderous assault upon William Uondall , n policc-eonitablo , by kicking him and rendering' him unlit for any further duty . Thu aM .-miilt , occurred iu thu course of a auulllo arii-iing out of tho ruffianism of Barry towards two I other polii . ' omon . Thu man was committed for trial . RonnultY uv a Youth . —Charles JJillaiH , a smartly ilrcsriod young fellow , was examined lust Monday nt
Lambeth on a charge of stealing from his emploj'er , Mr . ; Cook , a cheesemonger in Waiworth , 7 ft / . oat of a cash-; box , which he broke open , and a writing-desk , in which there were some deeds and other papers . After effecting the robbery , he absconded and went to Paris , where he was apprehended . He was committed for trial . Attempt to Poison Two Children . —Fanny Stanley , a girl of fifteen , has been charged at Chester with attempting to administer poison to two little children , the son and daughter of her master . She spread the poison over their bread and butter , apparently without any motive ; but it was discovered before the children had taken any of the food . The girl had only been engaged a week , and had been hired at the door . The poison she found in the kitchen , where it had been used to destroy rats . The case was remanded , and the girl has since been committed for trial . Betting-Houses . —Thirteen men were on Wednesday charged at Marlborough-street with having been found without lawful excuse in a betting-office at No . 17 , Great Newport-street . The poKce having entered the place found the thirteen men there , surrounded by evidences of betting . The shop was fitted up as a tobacconist ' s , but the cigar-boxes were dummies , and the only things real were the betting-books and the racing cards . One of the captured Was the keeper of the place , a man named Gideon . This man stood behind the counter , and called out , " Bets here for those gentlemen . Be as quick as you can , and do not occupy the office longer than necessary , but make way for others . " The business done appeared to be very large . " Gentlemen" were perpetually putting dowu their money on favourite horses ; and in the various drawers the police found 405 / ., while Gideon took 138 / . from his pockets . In one of the books , bets were entered to the amount of 1100 / . Gideon ( who , it seems , has a " partner "; said it was his first offence , and threw himself on the mercy of the magistrate . All the others were discharged , but Gideon was fined 50 / . —At the Worship-street office , Peter James Knott , the landlord of an ale-hou 3 e in Norton Folgate , was charged with the same offence . No betting was going on when the police entered the place ; but they found several betting-books and racing cards . Knott , through his counsel , said he had only been tenant of the house a short time . He found some betting persons there when he took the house , and unwisely allowed them to remain . He was a comparatively poor man with a large family , and his wife was near her confinement . A lenient sentence was therefore prayed for . The magistrate , in consideration of these facts , reduced the full penalty of 100 / . to 251 . Akson . —Mr . Poelet , the proprietor of a large school at Morton , near Middleborough-on-Tees , Yorkshire , has been committed for trial on a charge of setting the house which he occupied on fire . The names were found bursting out in live different places , and the furniture had been heaped up in the different rooms , as if with the intention of favouring the spread of the flames . The owner of the house was not insured ; but Mr . Poclet ' s furniture was , for 530 / ., the value being about 300 / . Bail was accepted for the appearance of tho accused at the trial . Riotous Women . —Two young women , inmates of St . Giles ' s workhouse , have been sentenced by the Bowstreet , magistrate to three months' hard labour for an assault on the schoolmistress , ag . iinst whom they felt some ill-will , and who . s . .- head they bent on the Hagstones of the yard till she was insensible and covered with blood . lr . L-us . us-K ok a Sti-: p-ciiili > . — Ellen Connor , tha woman charged ( as already related iu thuso columns ) with ill-using her step-daughter , lias been sent to prison for *? ix weeks , in default of being able to pay a penalty of . ' )/ . A Rouheuy jsY a Scotch . man . — Simon Nelson , an aged Prussian residing at Southampton , but at present in London on business , fell in with a Scotchman a few evenings ago in London , and was induced to go with him to a beer-. ihop in tlio Waterloo-rood . Thu landlord , who appeared to know tho Scotchman , invited them into tho parlour , into which two other men wont . Tho landlord then closed thu door , when tho Scotchman seized Nulson , and gripped him fast , whilo the other two men took from him forty sovereigns which they saw ho had about him . Thoy then ruahod away , and tho landlord prevented Nelson from following them . Tho throe men have not yet been taken ; but Gengo , tho landlord , was on Wednesday examined nt Southwark , und romanded , that timo may bo given for the arrest of tho others . Bail waa accepted . Gongo emphaticully denies all guilty knowludyo of the affair . JJimoLAitv in thu Stkand . —During the night of last Wednesday , tho ahop occupied by Mr . Charles Dear , carver and {{ ilrior and dealer iu miscellaneous goods , was entered , and a largo quantity of valuable property carried awnv , consisting of pictured , guns , pistols , ailvcr-mounted wulking-Htick . i , clocks , &o . Tho ahop is a part of Mr . Charles Groesmith ' s promise ? , at tho corner of Wellington-street , Strand , and was entered at tho snoot door , immediately opposite which is a night oab-Htund . li . would appear , therefore , irnposaiblo that tho robbery oould have beun committed without ( ho collusion of tliu uamiion . Committal ok a i-hkudo-Clkuovman t'oit l <\> nui&nY . —A poraon named William Frederick Stewart , who wad
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Mat 2 , 18574 THE LEADER . ' 416
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Leader (1850-1860), May 2, 1857, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2191/page/7/
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