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JohnrBlagg ^ a shoemaker , has been fotmd GuUty j » t dneate * of the murder ofJoTm . BeBbiiapoSi i «^ 6-fieeper , on the leta of Apr ** . T& 6 eviaencS waT W circumstantial , aid rested chiefly on thei similarity : of oertainiootprintrf , iefjfc , in tie- field where the mai was . shot , tortuft boote of Blagg ¦ ;¦ on some' wadiliiig ; found about tfie place corresp onding" with that possessed by ttie prisoner : arid on the fact of Blagg havirig home greatf &Vwiti . to Bebbingtbri , and having openly threatened to murder him whenever he had an , Ppp 6 rtunky . S entence of death was pronounced by Mr . JustiWGrowder . ¦* ¦¦ ¦ ' *¦ jfes .-LePage ^ housekeeper to Mr . Foot , a gentleman resitting at Bath , has brought an action at Bristol against on&Holman , a shopwalker at a draper ' s , for false imprisonment . On the 6 th of Slay , Mrs . Le Page went to the shop to make some purchases , but , seeing no prospect
of being soon served , she went away , and subsequently returned , bought some" blond , and left , stopping for a moment at the door to pat a dog . A , lady shortly afterwards missed a . purse , and suspicion having fastened' on Mrs . Le Page * - partly on account of her stooping as she went out , she was followed at the instance of Holman , taken into custody , stripped to the skin at the stationhouse * and searched , but without effect . Her master ' s house was also searched ^ and she herself was kept in custody till the following morning , when the magistrate discharged her . At the present trial , Holman offered * through' his counsel * to make an apology , but pleaded for moderate damage * as it would ruin him to have t < i pay much ; A verdict was given for the plaintiff ; damages 1-0 & Mr ' . TFdot'then-broughit : an action' against the same defendant for searching his housei The verdict in this case also was for the plaintiff ; damages 2 fc
A house-agent arid furhiture-dealer , named Clark , has brought an action at the Groydon Assizes against Sir Frederick- Pottinger to recover the sum of 84 J . 13 s ., for work done and goods supp li ed by the authority of that gentleman , -who ,-however , pleaded that he was riot liable . Sir Frederick took a house in Cambridge-streetj . Pimlico , for a' Miss Perry , a' young woman who was * living under his protection . Clark did work about the house , and supplied goods , to the amount of the sum claimed ; and Sir Frederick * thinking the bill was 44 j . offered to pay 20 ? .-on-account ; butywhen he found that nearly double the supposed sum was claimed , he refused to pay anything , and therefore this action was brought . Clark contended that Sir Frederick was liable , as the house
was-taken by him , though not in his name , but in that of the lady . The lady , however , it seems , was sorne ^ times called Lady Pottipger , and the servants always gave her that rank . One of the witnesses , Martha-Weatwood , deposed that she acted as cook at the house in Cambridge-streefc . " Sir Frederick used to come there frequently , and stay all night , and breakfast ; but he never dined ' there . She remembered that when the billwas sent in Sir Frederick was very angry , and she had repeatedly heard him say to Miss Perry , 4 You must not be extravagant , darling . ' ( A laugh ,. " ) . At the ' time he saw the plaintiff ' s bi ll , he gave Miss Perry 20 / ., and he then gave her and her fellow-servants half a sovereign eachand went out of the house . Sir Frederiok would
* not allow any one to come to visit Miss Perry but himself , and she had heard him say that if he evdr found any one in the house he would kick hint but . ( u * laugh . ) Cro&s-examined : " Miss Perry formerly lived in Stanley-street . She would rather not answer the question whether other gentlemen besides Sir Frederick Pottinger used to visit her there . " Sir Frederick denied his liability , and urged that the claim was an attempt to extort money . "The first time I heard of such an amount as 84 / , " he said in his evidence , «« I was very angry ,, and gave Miss Perry 20 ? ., tellidtf her she might pay if she pleased , and . I gave the servants a sovereign and left- the house ; intending not to return , TVhen I heard of the first bill , I offered to pay
theplaintiff 207 . on . account of Miss Perry , but I did this-polely because I took an interest in her . However , when I found that the claim was 84 * ,, I refused to pay a farthing . Soon after this , I was arreirted while at dinner at the Great Western Hotel , upon affidavit made by the plaintiff that I was about to leave the country , and X was , obliged to deposit tho amount of the claim . " Iq answer to further questions , Sir Frederick said he had apcertaiped' that Miaa Perry was paying . 20 / . per month interest upon a debt of 200 / . for Jewellery , and he paid the i debt for her , to pave her from the annoyance and pressure that paying suoh an amount occasioned her . 3 tfr .. Chambers ( who appeared for the , plaintiff ) said / : ^ "'j < believe the house in Cambridge-street is etui carried
on as UBual , and ypa continue to go these ? " Sir ^ redorick .: " Certainly , and . I was there and saw Miss Perry , last nighty but I only spoke to her at the door . " ( A laugh . " ) , Tho jury returned , a verdict fox tho do * jfyndant , Ztfory Browning , who had boon convicted of tho manslaughter oft the Illegitimate child of her daughter , was brought into court at tho Gloucester Aaalzea on Tuesday , and Wfr > , Baron ; Bramwell sentenced her to bo imprisoned for one year . lit was stated to tho Court that the prisoner had been certified : to be of unsound , mind , and that , eh © would bo removed to a , lunatic asylum ^ A « action wa »' brought on Wednesday , at Cray don , by tfca administratrix and representative' of tho firm of Tylljfoina and Sowerby , »> lk mercers ,. &c . of Oxford ? troet to recover 62 * . for silk drosses and other good *
| Buppfied ~ * 6 Alga , de Viffiray , {* j ^< % 9 ^ 'Cfig ! ^ &ar& ^ ter ; ' J ^^^^^^^^ S ^ l ^ - 11 ?^ ifof an iniirior ^ purposes ; the' defendant a ^ v M * W d ' resked' Frenctw ' omanV was" e ^ ainined ,, dna stated JBat she nad been in the HaBit of purchasing - a * Scles of dress at ttie establishment : of the plaintiff , aid always paid ready money for them . tTjpoti on 6 occasionV howeverV she saw Mr . Orant ; the manager of the establishment ; and he inquired whether she was not a gay woman , arid she told him she was ; and he then said ! that he thought
she might get more friends if she dressed more expensively , and that she might have anything , slie required upon credit . He showed her sonie expensive dresses , and said that she would look like a queen in them , and at the same time told her thiat' stie should go to the Argyll-rooms and other places of a similar kind , and she would easily find' a friend who would pay flie bill . She affirmed that it was solel y in consequence of this that she was induced to purchase fhe dresses . This statement was" dented * by Sri Qrarit ; but the jury found for the defendant .
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Execution . — George Jackson ,, who , with Charles Brown , since respited , was concerned in the death of Mr . Charlesworthj a farmer , was hung last Saturday at Stafford . He had for several days exhibited the utmost agony at the prospect of death , and whenj on the previous Thursday , he was visited for the last time by his parents , three sisters and a brother-in-law , a scene took place which surpassed in misery anything that had ever happened within the walls of the gaols On Saturday morning , the criminal was found in a pitiable state of prostration . He sank to the ground , and * having been pinioned , wias'carried out almost insensible , and conveyed to the scaffold . Here he broke' out into horrible shrieks and sobs , and began to struggle violently . On the cap being placed over his ^ head , he succeeded in pulling it off , and ^ even after the bolt was : drawn , his body was agitated by convulsive throes . Death did not take place for several minutes . Several persons were present , though the rain was descending in torrents .-
The Religious Question Again . —A white-haired old man , named Crjpps , a salesman in Go vent- Garden Market , was charged at Bow-street , on Monday , with committing an indecent assault on a girl about twelve years of age . On the child being placed in the witness-box , Mr . Hall asked her if she knew what would happen to her if she gave false evidence after taking an oath to speak the truth—a question which she did not appear to understand , until it was several times repeated . At length she answered , *• I shall be paralyzed , or something . ' 'Mr . Hall : " Did you ever hear of heaven ? " The child : "No , sir . " Mr . HaU : " Nor of hell ? " The child : "No , never . " Mr . Hall : " Do you go to church ? " The child : " I go to chapel and Sunday-school . " Mr . Hall : " Why , what can they teach you there ? " Mr . Lewis ( who appeared for the accused ) observed that these children went once
in two or three months , and then forgot all they had been taught . Mr . Hall said he could not admit the child ' s evidence . A woman -was then examined , but her testimony was not considered reliable . The man was therefore discharged , after some severe comments from the magistrate , in which his own counsel joined . At these , he began to whimper and to affect an . air of penitence . As he lefb the court ( say the daily papers ) he was received by a mob of nearly two thousand persons , who had assembled in Bow-street early in the morning , and had patiently waited all day ( completely blocking up the street / for the purpose of seeing him . Even in walking from the door to a cab which had prudently been provided , he was hustled , scratched , and pelted , and , as the vehicle was driven through the yelling and hooting , crowd , it was followed b y a shower of rotten vegetables from the nei ghbouring , market . The scene was such as had not fteen witnessed in Bow-street for many years .
Wholesale Bobbery oit Boots . —Mr . Thomas Parry , boot and shoe maker , Tavistock-street , Coventgarden , and Edwin A . Parry , his son , were on Monday charged at Westminster with being concerned with others not in custody in stealing about nine hundred pairs of boots and shoes , tho property of Mr . W . Phipps , Cadogan-house , Sloane-street , boot and shoe manufacturer . On the morning of Friday week , about eight o'clock , it was dfacoverod that Mir . Phipps's shop had been entered , and that about nine hundred pairs of ladies ' and gentlemen ' s boots and shoes had been stolen . After a communication with the police , Summers , foreman to Mr . Phipps , went to the house of the elder prisoner with Inspector Oummlngs . They saw him , when lie admitted that he was at Mr . Phipps's shop on the previous day ,
and that he offered 6 d . a pair for the soiled stock in tho shop , which was refused ' . They subsequently saw the eon , with whom they had some conversation about thq robbery , but neither of them was then taken into custody . On Saturday , in consequence of some information , Cummings wont to Bow-street police-court , having hoard that tho younger prisoner was in custody on . a charge of assault . When he reached tlioro , ho found that the younger man had been fined < 40 s . and discharged . He was then In a public-house in tho neighbourhood , and had with him a boy named Ridgwoy , who stated that he saw three men ootno out of tho house of Mr , Phipps , and that ho thought lie could identify ono of tho men . Tho boy wont into tho parlour . He returned , and told tho inspector that tho prisoner was ono of tho men whom he
saw come out of the house . - He was then taken into custody arid cbnveyed ' to * the stiitfon-hotiBe . Mr . Cuinmings , the inspector , said that the young man , on being taken to the - StatibnthdttSe' obtffiNr&C tttat about two months ago he arrived in England from Australia . He added , " Since this happened , we have all been drinking perpetually . I . got into a bother last night and was locked up . " "VPhile he was at the station-house , the elder prisoner called and was detained . Mr . Arnold re-t marked that there was no evidence against the elder prisoner ( who was therefore discharged ) and that he must remand the other upon the evidence of the boy .
Our Streets .- —Under this heading , a correspondent of the Times , signing himself "Legion , " says : — "A number of children ^ varying in age from eight to fourteen years , are every evening sent into the streets ( they go in pairs ) for the purpose of enticing boya of- > theii own age to accompany them to their homes , where the parents of the girls ill-treat and plunder them . To particularize . There are two children , aged- fourteen and twelve respectivel y * who every evening leave a house in Hart-street-, Covent-garden , with instructions to join in play with others more innocent than themselves , and filially to entice them home to a house of ill-fame . They
may be easily recognized j the elder is an attractive little girl about fourteen , dressed in light attire , and her companion , who appears about two years younger , wears a dark brown dress . TWO : evenings agoy a little boy of respectable parents , was unfortunately induced to accompany them home , and from' the account he gave I can only Say that the loss of nearly everything of value that tie had about him was the least part of the evils he had to detail . Any one may see these children in the neighbourhood of Covenfc-garden ; there is no need to depend upon single testimony ; but surely this practice might be watched by the police , and people ' s children protected where they stand in need . "
Assaults . —John Wheelan , a solicitor ' s clerk , is under remand at Westminster , charged with assaulting a labouring man , with whom he picked a quarrel in the Queen ' s-road , Chelsea , and whose skull he laid bare by a violent blow . The man now lies in some danger . —' James Tapping , a well-known bad character about Whitechapel and Spitalfields , was discovered by a policeman on the 14 th ult . ill-using a woman . The constable interfered , and , being very unpopular among the thieves of the neighbourhood , on account of hi » great activity w arresting them , was attacked with the utmost vindictiveness by Tapping , who struck him savagely in the face , filling one of his eyes with' blood , and afterwards kicked him on one knee , seriously injuring the joint . It was not until the arrival of other officers that the ruffian
was secured . The injured policeman remained in the hospital from that day till last Tuesday , when he gave evidence against Tapping at Worship-street . He was still suffering severely . The accused was sent for trial , on which he exclaimed , " And so I've got to wait another six weeks for nothing 1 " Embezzlejoent . —Thomas Charles Henry Langley , clerk to Messrs . Chaplin and Home , the carriers , is under remand at the Mansion House , on a charge of having embezzled 800 / . belonging to his employers . The origin of the misappropriation , as of many others , was a . love of betting . —Mr . James-. Charles Cox , a Southampton tradesman , a member of the Town . Council , and frequently a guardian of the poor , is in custody on a charge of embezzling the widows' and orphans' funds belonging to the Southampton district of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows .
Attempted Murder op a Mother , —James Tulip , a lad of seventeen , was charged at tho Durham Potty Sessions with firing a gun , loaded with small shot , at his mother . He had previously quarrelled with ft female neighbour in his mother ' s house , and had threatened to shoot her ; for which purpose ho caught up a gun that stood in a corner of the room , and , after capping it , snapped it at her . His mother remonstrated with him , on which he said he would shoot her too , and immediately put a cap on- to another gun , and fired it . The oontenta lodged themselves in hia mother ' s back , and , on surgical aid being , oalled in , no fewer than eighteen shots were extracted . Tulip was remanded for the attendance of his mother , who was too ill from her wounds to bo able to appear in court . Bail was accepted . * . Attbwxtbd Suicide . — -A , young woman , named-Margaret Grove , has attempted to commit suicide undor from
very painful circumstances . She had boon seduced the house of a harnesB maker in Whitechapel , where s « o lived as maid servant , by a man whom she accidentally met in tho etreot , and who represented himself to her as a thriving mechanic . Under a promise of marriage , tbo girl left her place and went with him to a house in Kent- ^ street , but had not been thore long when eho found that her lover was a notorious thief , and a leading member ot one of tho worst gangs in the neighbourhood , by whom ho was called by the slang name " Fair boy . ' A «>« young woman having reproached him for his conduct , he retorted by a . torrent of Abuse . accompanied by several Wows on tho head , which oaueed hex to blood profusolyr and finally rendered her inaonsiblo . When she recovered her consciousness ,, her anguish was so groat at tiio thought of hor eharao and degradation , that she bougut a quantity of oxalic acid at tho nearest chemist a sl » opr with whloh she attempted to poison horaolf . Modwul a »« however was sent for by tho people of tho houso m
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' W 8 ! p [^ I'E A Rl ^ .. . pjfe ^ gS ^ Ayqjpy , 15 ^ 1857 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 15, 1857, page 778, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2205/page/10/
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