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    jPJ eviQUfi-case , and * aftEy . $ he jury .. liladbeenjockedup sprne , ^ e , tl ^ ey , acquitted . 9 ^ yejr r . ,., : .,.: ; ., ... ¦ , " i ) uringtjie , progress . ^ f ^ e s eco nd case , tbejury in , the first ' pnejcame twice into , cou ^ aftdLbeggedio , be . discharged , asthey cpuld not agre # . iJJleye . »)? ad ; agreed on an Acquittal , but one stood ; p . utand said Jues wpjuldifor . a . week , an , d the foreman created ixra . cn amusement by requesting tie Commissioner . to examine the one who dissented , as he thought ho -was . mad . . During all this , the dissentient Juryman said-. not . a .- ^ rpr dj ^ apd the whole twelve were locked-up for the night , refreshments being provided for them ,, of which they , stood" greatly inrneed , as none had dined , and some , even bad , had no breakfast . The night they are reported to : haye . . . spent in , depriving their obstinate ^ fellow , prisoflssof , rest , by pummelling and , throwing , Jwater ,, on him ; tiand ini ; the morning they were disch ^ ged , and ; the acciased waa , admitted to bail until , » 9 Xt . SeSBi 6 fl .. ' !„ . ;¦ .. ¦ - . ; ' : ¦ : < ¦ .: ' . ' ¦ -. .:. .

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    . A DAiaNoKoB ^ EBY . — -Jldw . ard Davis , q . well-dressed young mail , loplfVng like . / a , elerk , contrived to make lis way , on Monday . afternoon , into the house of Mr . Joseph Ration , of Highbury ^ airk ^ .. Islington ,.. and to possess himself of' a gold , bracelet , a large quantity of money , ajid various coins ,, $ cV . In , the meanwhile , another man , Bamed , Anderson ,., Waitexji , . for , , him in the road . The ' servant * happening to go inj » her master ' s bedroom , tfeund .. that the property had been abstracted from a case . She informed her rriis ; tresa , and , as they were looking for a- policeman at" the £ r © nt door , they heard a flower-pot fail , frpm * the third flopr -window ,- and saw Davis letting lumseif dow-n by means of a rope made of sheets , blankets ,

    and counterpanes . Having reached the ground , he ran off , but was seized by a neighbouring- shopkeeper . Anderson tlien wanted to takeirinrinto his own charge ; but this , of course , yvas . only a , trick , and . was not permitted . 1 M * ivteik &sfc ( fed W&Oto , 1 thei police , and Anderson tried to bribe the- officer to let him go . He and Da ^ s-were braa . glit ' . ' befQre the . Glerkenwell magistrate , and remanded . •» . . •• ¦ ¦•¦ ¦ ¦¦ - ^ ^ KbBBEttiES » Y ' (^ oM ^ TnrMaTgar . et Sullivan , a young womanJtyell known to . * $ e ppjjce / , was charged at the 7 Ii ^ mes '' police / p ^ oy ' . ^ itii \ . iiijigb . w ' ay ' robbery . Samuel ^ teele , a carpenter ^ sa ^' tfja ^ on Saturday night , about nine o'clock , he was . passing along Prickett-street , when the woman came up and a&kjed him . to accompany her a short distance . Ije told her to go away . She then put

    Iier arm ^ round his neck ,, and he then felt her hand in his ] j > Opket , in which was a sovereign , three florins , and other art icle ' s . . She took the . whole of them away , and then knocked him , down . When he was on the ground , she packed him . about' th e ' body , and also his head . He got ijip , and , after a severe , struggle , overpowered her , and called for the police , when she was taken into custody . She , has been committed for trial . —A similar ca 6 e lias ^> me before the Lambeth magistrate , and the woman 7 ? 5 , keen sentenced to two months' hard labour . l lBi ( 8 H ; R-uffiansI—Two stalwart Irish labourers , who K . yctheir xiamcs as Michael CJprcoran and John Donovan , W e J . e . charged , at tambet ; h , with the commission of a fjenes or outrages upon several respectable women in the ^ alwdrty ^ road . ' Tlie gentleman who gave them into custody ^ Baid he saw them assault no less than a dozen women . Donovan was sentenced to one month ' s , and Corcoran to twenty-one days' , hard labour .

    . Burola-RY . —Two lads , named George Sinclair and ^ fad Smith , described as , journeymen printers , were qharged ^ t the Mansion House on Monday with stealing a quant ^ of boots , shoos , fyc , from the warehouse of Mr . ' Penning , in Queen-street , Cheapsido . The upper part of the premises were occupied aa a printjng-otlice , by a Mr . Corker , to whom Sinclair was apprenticed , and where Smith likewise occasionally worked . Some clogs were kept as guards on the premises , and last Sunday Evening , William Kemp , a compositor in Mr . Corker ' s employ , went to the house ,, accompanied by a friend , for the purpose of feeding tha animals , and was much surprised to find that tlie Btreot door was only single-locked . Aa he had double-locked it on |( eaviug the night before , nw ausplciohs were aroused , aqd they were still further lqcreasea » t finding , when he entered tho house , that a portion of the passage flooring , over tho cellar , had taifen

    won up . ir « proceeded up-stairs to Mr . Corlcer ' 3 prjntinB room , and perceived that tho door , which ho yffl . J ^^ tho prevloua eyeing , had hevn forced open , S ^ lMffl ^ TW P ? » r . fl 9 fi ^ had keen deposited in side , fancying he heard » noise in the loft , Kemp called out , WMI naked who waa there ; but , aa no answer waa returned , ho went downstairs aerain , and fastened tho door

    to iprerejit ' any one escaping , v , hile his friend werat for trie policed He presently returned ' with two constabj « 5 , by whom the thieves were found . concealed in a cupboard , which , was empty a few minutes before . A . l ^ rge carpetbag , 4 lled"With boots ,, shoes , and . slippei ?^ , ' amounting'in value to nearly 13 ? .,. was also fbuhd ' in tlie closet ; and a harnrrieri a chisel , a pair of pincers , and two keys , were discovered on each of . * L'h , e prisoners . Fourteen rnore pairs of boots , and t ^ To pairs of goloshes were afterwards turned up by pr . e of , the policemen , at , Smith ' s lodgings , concealed litid ^ r ' a bid . , The two young ; men were takeu into pus tody , ' , they have "been committed for trial . .

    Huki > ek of a Boy . —A little boy , eight years old , named Atkinson , was playing about on Thursday week with some other lads in the neighbourhood of Nottingham , when a man , who is supposed to be an associate of gipsies , came up , arid said to one of the children , " Show me the road to Basford , and I will give you ten shillings . " . The' boy replied that he did not know it , when . Atkinson said , " I do . " The man repeated his offer to him , and he consented to show " the way . The two ' left together , but the boy was never again seen alive . He did not return to his home that night , and on the following morning his parents issued a placard offering 27 . reward for his recovery . About six o'clock

    in the evening , some boys were playing near the Forest , when one of thein , to recover a-cricket-ball , got over a hedge into an adjoining field . He there found the dead body of a boy under the hedge . Information was given to the police , and the body was found to be tliat of young Atkinson . Unmistakable marks of strangulation were visible on the corpse ; and the boots , which had brass lace-holes , had been taken off the feet . It would seem that this petty booty was the only object of the crime ; but it is thought probable that the ruffian did not intend to murder , but only designed to prevent the poor boy crying out by gripping his throat . Two men have been arrested oil suspicion of being concerned in the crime .

    Forgery . —Mx . Henry Foley Hall , a person of military demeanour , is now under remand at Lambeth , on charges of obtaining various sums of money by means of forged cheques . The Murder in Leigh "Woods . —The inquest on the body of the woman who was recently found dead hi Leigh Woods , near Bristol , terminated last Saturday in an open verdict . The body of the murdered woman has at length been identified as that of Charlotte Pugsley , who was recently in service , and who left her last - place In company with a -man named Beale , to whom she said she was going to be married . She had 77 . about her wlen she left . Sir George Grey has offered a reward of 100 ? . for the apprehension of the murderer , with a free pardon to any a ^ eemplice -not being the actual perpetrator of the crime . Beale is now irtcustody .

    A Dangerous ' Fkeak . '—A mannamed Leveston , a photographic artist , wearing long black hair in ringlets over his neck and shoulders , is under remand at Bowstreet on a singular charge . He had been drinking and raffling for nntH at a public-house in Charles-street , Westminster , when a dispute arose between him and another man , and , pulling out a pistol , he fired it over the head of his opponent . The bullet ( for the weapon was loaded ) passed through n , signboard , and lodged in a piece of wood behind . Leveston was apprehended , and on his person were found several bullets and a quantity of gunpowder . When before the magistrate , he said he had quarelled with lm wife , and parted from her , and was about to leave London foT Paris . He had forgotten thut the pistol was loaded , and did not mean to injure any one . It was a mere ' freak . ' Mr . Jardine thought that such ' freaks' could not be tolerated , and adjourned the case to another day .

    Mukdkr nicar Wkllclose-squake . —A quarrel arose last Sunday night between two foreign sailors in Neptune-street , Wellclose-square , on account of one , nn Italian , named Joseph di Rosario , having struck a girl of loose character . For this he was reproved by George do Matras , a Greek sailor ; when Rosario , after some disputing , asked him if he would fight English' —meaning with the fiats . The Greek replied that he would , and the contest straightway began in the road . In a very little time , however , Rosario pulled out a knife , and stabbed Matras in six different places . At this point tho police- came up , and took the assassin into custody . The Greek died shortly afterwards . Utosario was examined the next day before Mr . Yardloy , at the Thames police-office , and remanded . He has since been committed for trial .

    Incendiarism and Suicidk . —A horrible tragedy has taken place in the village of Bradford Peve : ell , about two miles from Dorchester . The Kev . Blnckstone Williams had a serving man , named William Howe ; and about six o ' clock last Saturday morning , this inuu was hoard by one of the servjinta to k *> u P to hid room . Shortly afterwards , the , ¦ woman perceived a smell of smoke , and , going to tho bottom of the house , ahc perceived that it was on iiro , together with tho lower part of the staircase . She rous « d her master , who first of all saved the children , and then looked after the other inmatea . It was remarked that Howo - \ va * not about ; so Mr . \ Yillituna went up to bis room , nud found him lying face downwards on the floor , with a discharged musket bosiita him . He called to another man to nsswt Howe , and then went back to his wife , whom ho usaiatcd

    oai « f ,. fhe house . Having got .. 'her ' safety away , Mr * Williams , returned to r Howe's xoonV , ' " ari

    lain down that night . At the bottom « f the house was found a heap of candle-ends , straw , empty casks , &c . ; and portions of the wall had been bared to the rafters to facilitate the progress of tLe Hr ? :... 3 f 0 cause can be assigned for Howe ' s acts . He had always bprnw-i 52 ° ^ - character , but was on the point of leaving Mr . Williams ' s service , and of entering the police force at Bristol . He was also about to be married . An inquest held on the body terminated in a verdict of Felo de se . The corpse was interred at midnight . . .

    False . Pjjetea-ces . —Lord Charles Pelham Clinton and Mr . Alfred Jeffree , secretary to the Wheal Zion Mining Company in Queen-street , Cheapside , have appeared at the Mansion-house in answer to a summons charging them with having , together with several other persons whose names were not , known , obtained byvarious false pretences , from Mr . Francis Stockwell , stock and sharebroker of Old Broad-street , City , the sum of 5007 . At the beginning of the present year he was shown a bill of 300 ? ., drawn by Mr . Jeffree and

    accepted by Lord Clinton , -which he was requested to discount . Mr . Stockwell discounted the bill , and gave it up to Mr . Jeffree , receiving at the same time , as security for the loan , a transfer of three hundred and sixty shares in the Wheal Zion Mining Company , signed by Lord Clinton . A draft for 285 ? . ( 15 ? . being allowed for discount ) waa given , on the receipt of these and other shares , by Mr . Stockwell . A few days after the bill became due ( about the 25 th of April ) , Mr . Jeffree called at Mr . Stockwell's office and asked him to discount a

    bill for 552 ? . 10 s ., at the same time telling him that he had seen Lord Clinton , and that , if the previous 300 / bill , which had been already presented by Mr , Stockwell ' s bankers and returned by them , unpaid , was presented again , it would be duly honoured . It was accordingly once more presented at Messrs . Coutta ' s ( Lord Clinton's bankers ) , and again returned dishonoured . Mr . Jeffree then paid Mr . Stockwell 140 i on account of the bill , upon the understanding that he would discount the 5521 10 s . bill if he had further security . The balance of the 300 / . bill was to be considered as money advanced on the other bill , and Mr . Sfeockwellwas to have , besides , five hundred Wheal Zions and one hundred . other . shares as collateral security . Shortly after this , Jeffree requested Mr . Stockwell to discount for him another bill

    for 250 ? ., drawn by . him and accepted by Lord Charles Clinton , like the first ; but Mr . Stoekwell refused to advance Mr . Jeffree the money , until lie had seen the transfer of certain shares in his name . Two transfers of Wheal Zion shares were then handed over to him , and the following day he went to Mr . Jcffiee ' s office to sea that the shares were duly entered in tlie transfer book . When the book was shown to him , he perceived that the shares were entered in pencil , which he was told was the usual way . Mr . Stockwell , however , peremptorily required that they should be entered in ink , and it was therefore done . These shares were not to be re-transferred until the bill was paid . After a consultation among the counsel , the proceedings were adjourned , Lord Clinton and Mr . Jeffree entering into their own recognizances to appear again when called upon .

    Outrages on Policemen . —Two low-looking Irishmen , named Michael Barrett and Michael Bryan , were charged , at Marlborough-street , with creating a disturbance and breaking the leg of a police constable . Tho men , who were both drunk , were quarrelling and fighting in Hyde Park . They were separated by a policeman , who told them to go peaceably away . The men refused , and commenced fighting again . Another policeman then came up , and endeavoured to pacify them , but , not succeeding , he apprehended Barrett , wlio was extremely violent and struck the officer several times . The first policeman at tho same time took Bryan , who also resisted violently . As soon as Barrett was in custody , he began kicking the constable and finally threw

    him down , jumped on him , and vowed that he would ' do for him . The ruffians would probably have escnpetl , had not a gentleman , who was passing through the park at tho time , rushed to the assistance of the police , and by his aid tho two men were finally secured , but not until after they had mado a fierce resistance , during which tlie gentleman who interfered was thrown down three times . When tho prostrate policeman tried to rise , he found that his leg was fractured . Ho was immediately taken to the hospital . The prisoners were remanded for a week . —A labouring man named Jeromiiili Callaghanhaa been examined at tho Westminster police-court , and committed for trial , on a charge of attempting to stab a policeman .

    Immoral Litkratuicic . —Mr . Bodkin , instructed by the Solicitor to tho Treasury , has obtained from tho 15 cMv-atreet magistrate , six summonses , four against tho occupiers of houses in IIolywell-strcet , and two against tradesmen in Wych-atreet , to anawcr a charge of exhibiting immoral literature and pictures for sale . The application was mado under Lord Campbell ' s new act . Daring tho day , Superintendent Durkin , assisted by six

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 26, 1857, page 921, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2211/page/9/