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neyreceived for her bad ., been handed ^ iiito the j > ank , Where ii remained intact , and it would be paid to the committee when they appUed for it . An account had already been rendered to the committee . The Court then ordered the matter to stand over until the 17 th of October , it being understood that a meeting of the shareholders should be held in the interim .
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; CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . Antonio di Sai / vi , the Italian charged with stabbing a Mr . Robertson in the Queen ' s Bench prison , has been tried for that offence . There had been money transactions between the two , and Di Salvi seems to have lost a great deal of money by Mr . Robertson , whom he accused of cheating him . On the 8 th of July , he went to the prison in company with a Mr . Gower ( a stockbroker , and one of Mr . Robertson ' s detaining creditors ) , and , after some angry discussion , stabbed him in the face and other parts of the body , Mr . Gower all the while exclaiming " Give it the villain ! " It seems , however ,
, that Mr . Gower thought Di Salvi was only striking Mr . Robertson with his fists . On perceiving the truth , he rushed from the room with a face of horror , shuddering , and exclaiming , "Oh ! " He was detained , and was found to be in so excited a state that he could hardly speak . Di Salvi was also secured , arid he at once admitted his guilt , and said that Mr . Gower had nothing to do with the affair . The latter , however , was remanded from time to time at the police-office , but was admitted to bail , and the Grand Jury at the Central Criminal Court threw out the bill against him . The utmost that could be said in defence of Di Salvi by Mr .
Edwin James , his counsel , was that the act was committed in an ungovernable fit of fury caused by the illconduct of Mr . Robertson , and that the accused did not intend to commit murder . Several noblemen and gentlemen , by whom he had been employed as a valet , gave him a good character . Mr . Baron Martin then summed up , and observed that , the counsel for the prisoner having admitted that the offence imputed to him could not be reduced below the crimeof wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm , the only points for the consideration of the jury were , whether the evidence made out the intent to be murder , or whether there were any facts in the casa that would warrant them in convicting him of the less serious offence The jury retired to deliberate upon their verdict , and in a very few
minutes they returned into coUrt , and found the prisoner Guilty upon the second count of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm . At the same time , they strongly recommended him to mercy on account of the good character he had received , and the provocation that had been given him . Baron Martin said he did not appear to have received any provocation . The only ground for his recommendation was his good character . Mr . Robertson appeared to be still in a dangerous state , and , if he died , the prisoner would still have to take his trial for murder . He was then sentenced to penal servitude for fifteen years . [ The Judge ' s anticipation has been fulfilled . Mr . Robertson died last Saturday ; and the inquest on his body has terminated in a verdict of Wilful Murder against Di Salvi . l
George Cox , found Guilty last week of stabbing his wife and her paramour , has been sentenced to six months' hard labour .
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THE ASSIZES . John Godfrey Patrick Bride , a surgeon , ha ? been tried at the Liverpool Assizes for the murder of Margaret M'Groal . The woman was a stewardess on board a veaael , and , finding herself pregnant , she went ( according to a statement made by her shortly before her death ) to Mr . Bride , and induced him to perform an operation which should cause the death of the infant . This , she asserted , was done by him , but she received a wound Which resulted in extensivo hemorrhage . _ On the 10 th of July she died , and a post mortetn examination showed that a serious injury had been inflicted . To contradict the case for the prosecution , the counsel for the defence on the trial produced a woman , a midwife , who swore thai M'Groal had told her during hor last illness , that she had operated on herself with a metal skewer , and that the wound was thus produced . On hearing this tho
evidence , the Judge said there was an end of enso , and tho jury accordingly returned a verdict of Not Guilty . Elizabeth Kelly has beon tried at Liverpool on a charge of murdering hor child , a boy aged four years . She was a widow , and , though tho boy had every appearance of beinij healthy , she constantly put forth that he waq ill and likely to die . After administering various medicines , by tho advice of medical men , « ho got a frjend to purchase for her some laudanum . On tho following day , the child died . It then appeared that lie was enrolled in a burial club , from which tho mother obtained 4 f . after the death , ' Sho had denied that tho child was in a burial club ; she tried very hard to get a certificate to tho effect that tho death was from fits ; and she wished to have the body buried immediately . Her counsel at the trial argued that there wan no ovidonco of the mother having administered the opium ; that , oven
if she had , it might have been simply used as a sedative ; that the woman tad always shown a mother ' s love ; and that she had worked like a slave , and almost starved herself ; in order ' that the child might live . The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty .
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MURDER IN THE HAMPSTEAD ROAD . An Italian shopman has been killed in the Hampsteadroad by a drunken smith . The name of the Italian was Gallo Benzanelli , and he was employed in the shop of Joseph Baretti , a confectioner , No . 17 , Adam ' s-row . About two o'clock on Sunday morning , a smith ,. named Cornelius Denny , went into the shop , the worse for drink , and had some ice and gingerbeer , together with a woman in whose company he was . He then sat down and went to sleep . The time for closing the shop having arrived , Denny was roused , when he fell on the floor , but was raised up , and reseated in the chair . He then became abusive , and the woman took him by the coat ,
urging him not to ' make himself silly . ' At the same time , Benzanelli put his hand to his back , and pushed him out . Shortly afterwards , while Benzanelli was putting up the shutters , there was a scuffle between him and Denny , and Baretti separated them . Benzanelli then went back into the house , and brought out a little stick , with which to strike Denny ; but Baretti took it from him , and it was then found that Benzanelli was seriously wounded in the abdomen . A policeman at that time came up , and Denny was taken into custody . Benzanelli ( who was only nineteen ) has since died . Denny is under remand at the Marylebone police-office . He is an Irishman , and this is not the first time he has used the knife .
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Forgery and Embezzlement . —John Hodges , a clerk in the Birkbeck Life Assurance Company , has been charged at the Lambeth police-office with embezzling various sums of money from his employers , and with forging the receipts of the persons to whom the amounts ought to have been paid . A part of the business of the Company consists in providing payments for seamen during sickness ; and it appears to have been some of these payments which Hodges misappropriated . He was remanded , and has since been committed for trial . Wife-bjeating . —A tobacconist , named Drurey , living in Tooley-street , Borough , has been sentenced by the Southwark magistrate to three months' hard labour for ill-using his wife . Ke appears to be in the habit of getting excessively drunk , and of making savage attacks on his wife , who , however , appeared against him with great reluctance . On hearing the sentence , he appeared greatly startled and shocked , and exclaimed , " Oh , good God !"
Conviction for Embezzlemunt . —J . C . Cox , late Grand Master of the Order of Odd Fellows ( Manchester Unity ) , was placed at the bar of the Southampton Borough Court , on Friday week , charged on remand with not giving up the funds committed to his keeping as corresponding secretary of the order . —The bench declared the charge to be proved , and ordered Cox to pay the amount ( 121 ? . 14 s . lOd . ) to the society , or in default to be imprisoned for two calendar months , with hard labour . The money was not forthcoming , and Cox was committed to gaol . As soon as he is set at liberty , he will again be arrested on a charge of embezzling the funds . Should he be convicted of this he will be transported .
Escai » k FitpM Bkdlam . — Joseph King , an insane felon confined in Bethlehem Hospital , has escaped under circumstances very similar to those characterising Jack Sheppard ' s flight from Newgate . On Friday week , upon going to the men's dormitory , tho keeper was astonished at finding that lying had gone , and that a large hole had been made in the wall , through which it was clear he had got out . A sheet and a blanket had been tied together , and by those means he succeeded in sliding down into the street , a distance considerably more than twenty feet , and had then got cloar off . The authorities are of opinion that it must have taken the man nearly a week to have bored the hole in the wall ; and how he succeeded in accomplishing his object without observation is very singular .
Seizure ov Tobacco , — -A man has been taken into custody in tho neighbourhood of Southampton , on a charge of having been engaged in smuggling 1644 pounds of tobacco . Ho was found , in company with another man , driving a cart , which excited tho suspicions of an officer of tho Customs ; and , tho cart being searched , tho tobacco was discovered . Both tho men wero then taken into custody i but one escaped .. Nigolisct of Chicdrknt . —Richard Pavett , a farrier ' s smith , has been charged at the Clorlconwell police-court with neglecting and starving his three children . The from
story was similar to many others which come out time to time before the magistrates . The children wore rescued from thoir misery by the parish officers , who found them emaciated and dirty , almoat naked , and covered with vermin . Tho father said ho had loft ' his dear children' in tho care of their oldest sister , and that it was no fault of his that they wore neglected ; but it appearod that ho spent a good deal of money in drink . It was finally Arranged that tho children should bo retained a $ the workhouse , imd that tho father should pay for them , which ho expressed hia willingness to do . Murdkr an »' Suioidk . —A desperate Irish faction
fight broke out in Dudley on Friday week , between two men named Michael Hickey and J . Higgins , which ended in the former rushing into a butcher ' s shop , taking up a knife from the block , and plunging it into his fellow-countryman ' s bowels , from which death ensued . Hickey was thereupon taken into custody . On Monday , as the constables having the charge of him were going their rounds , they found Hickey leaning- against the wall of his cell , apparently in a helpless state , with his head hanging down . On approaching him , it was discovered that he was dead , and that he-had suspended himself by his handkerchief from one of the bars of the window of his cell . He had chalked the following ( sup posed to be addressed to his wife ) on his cell-door : — life
"If you do what I told you , I would not lose my . May the Lord have mercy on the soul I have taken through drunkenness ; and the Lord have mercy on mine ! Go to your child , and go to my sister . Do the best you can for your children . I forgive , and God forgive j'ou . " The ' inquest on the body of Higgins has been held before the coroner for " Worcestershire , and has ended in a verdict of Manslaughter against Hickey . " Wife-beating . ^ —Jeremiah Clark , a cabinet-maker , was charged at " Worship-street on Monday with an assault upon his wife . The woman , who had a young infant in her arms apparently dying , and who was in the family way , said : — " Yesterday afternoon , my husband came home drunk , and I told him he ought to be ashamed of himself to return in such a state when he . cnew my baby was dying . He instantly struck me two violent blows in the face , the first of which made my mouth bleed , and , on my threatening to stab him with a
table-fork if he illused me again , he struck me repeatedly upon the chest , arms , and face , till my landladj r came in and saved me from further violence . He has frequently beaten me in this way before , and in consequence of his cruel usage I was confined with this infant two months before my time , and Was therefore an hospital patient for three months . " The landlady confirmed thi : s testimony , and said that , on her remonstrating witlrthe husband , he said that he bad a right to do what he liked with his wife . Before the magistrate , he asserted that his wife had endeavoured to stab him after using irritating remarks ; and he called his father , who asserted that the accused was the best natured of his seven children , and that the wife was a drunkard . ' On beingquestioned , he admitted tliat this latter assertion was on the faith of what others had told him , and not from his own knowledge . The magistrate , therefore , indignantly told him to stand down , and sentenced the husband to
six months hard labour . The Robberv in this Commercial-road , La mbeth . —Charles Heather , the man charged with breaking into tho counting-house of Messrs . Cory and Sons , coalmex 4 > hants , Commercial-road , Lambeth , with stealing a large sum of money , and with assaulting the watchman , has been discharged by the Southwark magistrate , tha evidence not being sufficient to convict him . Attempted Murder in Milbank Prison . —James Gorman , a convict at Millbank , has made an attempt on the life of one of the sub-warders of that prison . One morning , about a week ago , four of the convicts were conducted to chapel by Warder "Wilkie and hia subordinate officer Bevirigton , to attend divine Borvice , which is held there daily . Owing to the ferocious character of the prisoners , it is considered necessary to permit only a very small number of them to attend the chapel at the same time , and , as the present band were leaving
the building at the conclusion of the service , Gorman suddenly rushed on Bevington and felled him to the ground . He afterwards inflicted a severe wound in the warder ' s face with a sharp-pointed weapon , which pierced quite through tho fleshy part of the face , coming out at the mouth under the upper lip . Wilkio immediately seized the assassin , who waa disarmed and locked up in one of the strong cella of tho prison . Little hopo in entertained of Bevington's recovery , and it is more than probuble that , if tie should survive tho injuries he has received , he will be disabled for life . It is conjectured that the blows aimed by Gorman were mount for Wilkio and not for Bevington , as it appears that tho former was grcAtly disliked by tho convicts in consequence of his determination to CArry out the discipline of the prison . From an investigation which was Afterwards made into tho affair by one of the prison' inspectors , at the instigation of the Homo Secretary , it transpired that Gorman , who is one of tho worst of tho Millbank convicts , has
twice before attempted tho life of the officers » n whoae charge he has beon placed . The first of these murderous assauUs was committed in one of the midland county gaols , whore ho was undergoing a short term of imprisonment j And for this assault ho was tried and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation . Tho other murderous attempt took phico in Pontonvillo Model l ' rison , in consequence of which , Gorman was transferred to tho penal cIass of convicts , And sent to the Millbunk Penitentiary but four months ago . Not many dAys before this lu » t affair , ho declared to tho chaplain tlmt lie would do for some of tho prison authorities before long .
Attkmit to Upskt a Railway Train . — Xho thirdclass passenger train from Lancaster to Ircston , lost Saturday evening , had just reached Broughton , when the engine-driver suddenly experienced a groat hIiook . At first , ho thought that tho train was thrown o » ti »« linoj but it proceedod to its deatln » t ! on without any further obstruction , niid It was then discovered that the
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No . 388 , August 29 , 1857 . 1 THE ^ a&ADEB ? 82 $
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 29, 1857, page 825, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2207/page/9/
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