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quite unprovoked , and was . clearly the result of a disordered intellect . ' . , ¦ The grand jury have found a true bill against Antonio di Salyi , tfce Italian charged ^ with pounding Mr . Robertson in ^ he Queen ' s Bench Prison . The bilj-with reSP £ SV to Mr . Gower , in , connexion , -with the same ofjfencs . was tbjrqwn out ! ¦¦ , »» . TiH-ee men , and tyro women -were charged , witn a garotte robbery committed on the person of the landlord of a pubtfc-hpuse in Beathstreet , Leicester-square . The jury coja ^ icted the men ( who were sentenced to ten years' pjjnai servitude ) , and acquitted the women . A few aid pf ^ was given to a policeman who secured one of the ruffian ^ .
„ ^ Qteorgi ? Mprley and James Smith were found guilty of a burglary in the house of Mr . Proctor , a solicitor , living in Ca ^ bridge-tesra ^ e , Regent ' s-park , on the morning of the 2 nd inst . . They were caught by the police in the act of escaping , and it was found that they had endeavoured to burn through pn ^ of the doors which stopped their progress Morley was . sentenced to ten ,, and Smith to six , gears ' penal , servitude .
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MI J DPL ESEX , SESSIONS . A distressing case was . tried last Saturday . Richard Payne , a youttt of eighteen , was indicted for stealing four shirts . He had selected them at the shop of a widow in Drury-lane , and had ; ordered that they should be sent to his residence in Holywell-street . Thfe was done ., bat instructions were given to the bearer nofc to leave them without beiag paid . However-, the youth , on- reaching the place , took them- from the girl , and told her to run- backhand fetch two more . She went on this eraandv but , on her-return , Payne had left with the four shirts in his possession . Some days afterwards , he was gtoen into custody-i The prosecutrixj in her- crossexamination , admitted that she went ; to the Strand
Theatre and saw the- young' man ' s father , who w the lessee of that establishment , but denied that she-went there feo obtain payment- for the goods ; She . wanted to know where the' youth was to be found . Mr . Metcalfe , for the-defence , urged- that the matter ought to have been treated ' as oae of debt , and that- the prosecution had been instituted to ' screw' the money out of the father—a highly respectable person- ^ -when it was found that ? it could not be got out of the son . Though the latter-had done wrong ia getting these things in the way he had * still it was but a fair conclusion that he did so in the belief that he should obtain the money from hiB father ; and was nofc actuated by the felonious
intention imputed to him by fchis indictment . Mr , Payne , the prisoner ' s father , in answer to the court , said his son had been leading a Very irregular life latterly , and he had done all he could to reclaim him . He had promised to . furnish him with everything he might require if he would leave London , and there was an arrangement for him to go to Southampton . The prosecutrix applied to him at the theatre for the money ; but these proceedings had been hastily taken , or it would have been paid . The prisoner- pleaded * Guilty' to a second charge of a similar kind . Mr . Payne said he would send him out to Australia : at the expiration of the sentence the court might impose . Mr . Bodkin sentenced the prisoner to six months' hard labour .
John Macarthy , a young man of nineteen , was found Guilty last Saturday of stealing from the Imperial Loan Society' an iron safe containing 216 ? ., and' one hundred pounds of bacpB . The booty had been removed from the room in-which it was placed , but was not carried oway > the -thieves being- apparently interrupted in their work . The evidence to conneot Maoarthy with the robbery , or rather the attempted robbery , was in itself very slight ; but it was strengthened by a kind of confession which he made to the policeman who took him into custody . This- he now contradicted ; but the jury found' him Guilty , and' he was sontenced to twelve months '' hwrd labour . Ho was known to associate with bad characters ;• but- he had never before been in custody .
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THE ASSIZESHannah Smith , a singlq woman , aged forty-four , was Indicted at Liverpool for the murder of her infant child , niW months old . The woman worked in a- factory . At five * o ' clock in the morning of the 29 th of May , she went to , tho house of 1 a woman who usually had the care of thq child ;; ^ * hair was dishevelled' , and , the whole of the upper part of her body dripping with wot ; and she snid } "I havo attempted three times to go with my child 1 ) but' I could not 5 I have been in tho water three times , but tho Lord' has pulled me baok . I went' into the * water with the ; child At my bosom . " Tho woman- to whom this was told Boroamcd , and tho noise brought up who to
person ^ went Hannnh Smith ' s house , and found hop sitting on a chair , and the child in a mug of water , its logs hanging out , and the face downwards . For tho defence , it' was contended that death might havo been ca \ isod by tho mother embracing her child and causing Sttfrbcatfpn before sho attempted to destroy herself ; and tfoaty oron if it- wore not so , eho was not in that state of mind 1 which made her responsible for her actions . It was shown that-, in order to pay off ' some debts , eho had boea living almost on- brend and water ; that she had fallen Into « state of deep , hopeless dosppndency ns oarly ne Mtarch . t and that her conduct was that of an irrational
and irresponsible agent . She was accordingly Acquitted on the ground of insanity and will , of course , be kept in safe custody .. ¦ ' , ; ' ' . . ¦ _ . An action for- breach of promise of marriage has been brought at the Liverpool Assizes against a master dyer of Saddleworth , near Oldham , named Garside , . About four years ago , when GaTside was rather more than thirty years of age , he fell in love with a Miss Wood , a farmer ' s daughter * then only seventeen . The girls father objected to the match , on account , partly , of disparity of age ; and the girl herself was at first very shy , and would have nothing to say to her suitor . He pressed his case , however , and appears to have enlisted the services of a male cousin of Miss Wood , and of the sexton of the parish . The latter said in his evidence : —¦ <• Garside inquired if he could be married at Gretnat nt his folks
green , or at the Isle of Man , as he didn ' wa to know- of- it , for they were very rich . He seemed very serious in the matter , as they generally are in those matters . "' QLaugkter . y—Cross-examined ¦ ,: ¦ " What occupation were you ? - " Witness : "I was sexton . "—Mr . Hill ( counsel for the defendant ) : ¦ "> ' Well , but a sexton is to help people to- get into the grave , not- to help to get them married . " —Witness : " Bait we have to get a population before we can bury them . " { Loud lemghter . ' ) FMmately Garside obtained possession of * the girFs affections and confidence , which he basely abused , for he seduced and abandoned her . The father then called on him , and ' said his daughter was fretting very much- ; to which he replied , "I don ' t mean-to do anything ; thave had all I wanted . " Old ? Wood told him he was a scoundrel , and left him . The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff 5 ; - damages . 3-50 &
A sentence stuangely disproportioned- to- the- offence was passed at a trial 1 for manslaughter at Liverpool , on Friday week . James- Bavies is a Liverpool tailjor , and on- like night of the 25 th of May he entered a publichouse , drunk- and highly excited , and asked a man , named Robert Hudson ,, to go-with him to his house , as a man was then with- his ( Davifes ^ s ) wife * He added that" he would show . Hodson ' -some . ton ; ' The man went-with Bavies to the . house , and the wife was ft « md by herself in a tower room . Her husband struob aa& abused , her , and then went up-stairs ; and ' , i * h a garret , lying in a bed on the floor ^ apparently asleep , but with hts clothes on , was discovered the man of whom Davies was in search—a man named Robert Reuses . Daviee immediately-jumped on his face , and the ' man turned and fell on the floor ; The next moment , Davies pulled from his pocket a pair of scissors , and plunged them
into Reuses ' s side . Hodson asked if he meant to &a * the man ; to which Pavies answered , " Stand back * or I'll serve you the same !" " Davies then went down stairs , and Hodson ran for a doctor "; but Reuses died in ten minutes . Two wounds were found in the left breast , and some contused wounds on the face . It was satisfactorily shown on the trial that the seduction really had taken place ; and Baron Watson , in summing up the evidence , called the attention of the jury to the law as laid down by the text writers , that a man who kills another caught in the act of adultery with his wife does , not commit murder , but manslaughter in the lowest degree ; and it was for them to say whether the circumstances of this case warranted such a finding . The jury found the prisoner Guilty of manslaughter of tbe lowest degree . His Lordship sentenced him to four days' imprisonment . This is virtually an acquittal ; but , though sanctioned by law , it is clearty against reason and-justice .
An action to recover money , Vhich was brought at the Bristol Assizes a few days ago by a young man of seven-and-twenty years of age , named Robson , against a Mrs , Bbtheridge , aged for ty-eight , brought out some amusing details . Two or three years ago , Mrs . Botheridga , though no longer in the bloom of youth , was a very handsome woman , and Robson was deeply in love ¦ with her , she being at that time a widow . She kept tho Anchor public-house at Tewkosbury , to which tavern Robson would often resort , nnd get drunk . He would then go to bed' in tho house , and tho widow ( according to the plaintiff * s statement ) would take the money from his pockets , and return it to him in the morning , minus certain sums , which she would admit she had appropriated , observing that what belonged to the one belonged to the other also ; and to this ho would assent . However , at last they quarrelled . Robson went 1 to the house drunk , and wanted'half a pint of rum . Sho refused to lot him have it : on which ho made a
disturbance , and was given into custody . Some time afterwards , having reason to bolievo that sho was favouring the addresses of another man , ho enlisted in a frenzy into tho Hussars , and wont to tho Crimea , on his return from w-hioh lie was discharged from the army , not being up to tho required standard . By that time tho widow Had married her present husband , Tho defence was that , so far from Mrs . Bothoridge owing Robson monoy , ho owed hor somo . This was con fir mod by tho evidence of two witnesses . Mrs . Bothorfdgo gave somo particulars of tho courtqhlp In hor ovidonco : " Ho said ho should like to mako her his wife . Sho said silo should not like him for a husband . Ho said he should liko to bo a landlord . That was a fortnig h t after Ho camo . Ho continued ' wooing for flvo yoarsi Ho asked hor a good many times to become Mrs . Robson . She did not know of his sighing ; that was behind hor bn « k . Would not swear ho did not got a marriage license , but lie gavo her n bit of pnpor 11 nd told hor if ho
did not have her he would cut his throat . She put the paper in the fire . She- did not iead its . He sakl ¦ & # ¦ w ould buy- another . H . e came- and Bved in her house for some time . He still wenton cotirtfrig : ; but , if the lady had bo mind for it , ifr did not go- on very smoothly . " The jury gave a- verdict for the defendant * . Thomas Fox Lings has been , found . Guilty at Liverpool of embezzling between eight and nine thousand pounds from his employers , Messrs . Kershaw , Leese , and Sidebottom , of Manchester * in whose service he had been for nearly twenty years . For twelve of those yearsi , he
had been cashier at an annual salary of 270 / . ; but at length alarming deficiences were discovered , and Lings admitted his guilt . Mr . Hampson , the prosecutors' solicitor , asked him what he had done with the money , and he said he had lent it to two persons , a man named Glover being one ; and he produced vouchers for nearly 16 , 0001 ., part of which he said was paid off , but he h aid not given back the vouchers . He offered to assign these vouchers ,, and make all the restitution in his- power . Glover has skice petitioned the Court of Bankruptcy , and is offering 8 s ; in the pound . Lings has been senteBeed to a year ' s hard labour .
George "Witham has been found Guilty of endeavouring to blow up a house with gunpowder , and has been sentenced to four years' penal servitude . Henry Rogers , master mariner , William Miles , mate , and Charles Edward Seymour ,, second mate , were indicted on Wednesday at Liverpool for the wilful murder of Andrew Rose , seaman on board the ship Martha and Jane , on the high seas , on the 6 th of last June . Rose was half-witted and dirty in his habits ; and , during the voyage , he was subjected to . the-most horrible brutalities , from which at length he died . AH the prisoners were found Guilty , and condemned to > death . The verdict was-received with loud cheering .
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Sewjing a Wife . —A strange tale came out at the Worship-street police-office last Saturday ,, when Thomas Bay , a bookbinder , attended to establish the settlement of his wife ., who had become chargeable to the parish . The marriage bad taken place in 1849 , . and * the husband gave this extraordinary-account of tihe- afl&tr-: — -H 5 s first wiffe had been dead barely a month when he att ended- a piibHc-house rafHe , and there met the woman whose settlement was now in dispute . She fell in love with him . at first sight , or at any rate affected to do- so , and at once offered- to marry-him . He objected on the ground of ; expense ; hut she borrowed as much money as womM pay for a . lfeeijae , andr they were married , fin less than a week , she made off' while he was out one evening , taking every movable thing with her , and he heard nothing of her until recently , when he received a message from a Scotchman named Robertson , inviting him to a public-house . There be found * the man in- company with his wife . Robertson offered to purchase his wife for half
a pint of gin ; the offer was accepted ; the gin was drunk , and more was ordered and paid for by the husband in the joy of his heart at thus disposing of his spouse ; and' finally the Scotchman marched off with his lovely prize . It would : seem , however , that he soon abandoned her . The husband had since ascertained that , after leaving him , the woman had cohabited with several other men , by whom she had had several children , but who had all' abandoned her ; and she then came worrying her husband for assistance , until the trouble became so unbearable that ho was rejoiced when compelled to give evidence as to her settlement , as ^ only apparent means of getting rid of her for ever ; The St . Luke ' s beadle confirmed this account of the profligate life led by the wife , who was the mother of four pr five children during hor eight years' separation from her husband . An order was made out , transferring tho wife to her settlement in the' country . Her own account of her reason for leaving hor husband was that ho had used her with great cruelty .
Murder ov a Cmio by its Mother at Lincoln . — A cork-cutter , named WPolfitt , living-in Beryford-lnne , Lincoln , loft his houso . for a few minutes on Sunday morning , when ho was recalled' by his neighbours , and , on . going back , found that hia wifo had cut off tho head pf one of his children , a baby about seven months old . Tho woman stated to the people who orowded into the place , that she loved hor children ' , bub that , if she had not boon prevented , sho would havo killed them all ' . Sho is said to have been lately in a low and desponding way . Tho child had been placed on the hearthstone , and its head chopped off with a cork-hatchet . Reported Forgeriks at Livkrpooii . —A merchant , recently deceased afr Liverpool , is said' to havo left liabilities reaching ffOO . OOOJ ., of which 10 O . OOOA are through forgod acceptances- to bills of exchange . His losses are beliovod to havo been caused by heavy spooulations both in cotton and shares ; and it is rumoured that he committed suicide .
The Jovxaj . Burglar . —Mr . William Gllbortson , an oil and colourman in tho HaoUnoy-road , was walcoa about half-past throo o ' clock on Simdny morning wltn pains in his back , and his wifo got out of bed to totou somo oil with which to rub it . Suddenly she etuinbloa over something on tho floor , and ncreamod out witn alarm . Mr . Gilbortson jumped out ; of bed , and found tuo room door open , though It was shut when ho wont to sleop . . Hearing a noise on tho stairs , ho looked over tho Dunistow , nnd saw a man . Ho than wont to tho front room--window and oallod tho police , by whom tho tuiei
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 22, 1857, page 802, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2206/page/10/
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