On this page
-
Text (3)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
to Mm , " Why , Jem , you look like a murderer . " After he . had been drinking for some time , he returned home , went to bed at six o'clock in the evening , and at about one o ' clock In . the morning disturbed Mrs . Lakeman , her mother , and the two children ( a boy and girl ) , who all slept in another room , by moving about a great deal , apparently in an excited state . He afterwards entered Mrs . Lakeman ' s room with wild looks , told his boy to go into his bed in the other room , and asked for a light . The old woman got up , partly- dressed herself , and went down stairs for a candle . Farraday then pulled up the blind , to get , as he said , * all the light he could , ' and cut the woman ' s throat with a razor in the presence of the little girl . Both he and Mrs . Lakeman had been drinking a great deal together on that and the two previous days : Farraday was found Guilty , and sentence of death was recorded , as in the previous case . Thomas Barlow has been found Guilty at Liverpool of wounding his wife ( from -whom he was separated ) by discharging a pistol at her throat . Sentence was deferred . Edward Hart , a labourer , was tried at Worcester on a charge of -wilfully murdering his wife . The medical evidence showed that the poor woman had been suffering from choleraic diarrhoea , and that she had been suffocated ; but whether the death was occasioned by the ¦ wilful act of the prisoner , or was the result of his drunkenness , was so fer doubtful that the jury gave him the benefit of the doubt , and found him Guilty of manslaughter only . Mr , Baron Martin sentenced him to be imprisoned , with hard labouT , for fifteen calendar months . Charles Butcher , a post-office clerk , pleaded Guilty at Northampton to a charge of stealing a letter containing money . Mr . Merewether , who appeared for the prisoner , stated that he had been employed in the Northampton post-office for a period of thirty years , and called the postmaster of Northampton ,, and several other witnesses , to speak to the man ' s character . The counsel for the prosecution , however , drew the attention of the Judge to the fact that , for twelve months prior to the commission of the offence charged , the complaints of missing letters in the Northampton office had been very numerous . Butcher was sentenced to six : years' penal servitude . J ' ames Wright , a farmer , was tried at Nottingham on Tuesday for the murder of William Holland , another fanner , at Crirton , otx the 5 th . of September . There was a dispute between the two as to the possession of a certain clover field ; and Wright , after some wrangling on the day in question , shot Holland in this field , in the presence of the son of the latter . Wright was found Guilty of manslaughter , and the Judge condemned him to penal servitude for life . Aaron Mellor has been tried at Liverpool for the murder of his wife . They had been separated for a time ; but at length the woman consented " to return home with her busband . On the way home , a quarrel took place , and Mellor , after striking his wife several times , cut her throat with a knife . He then cut his own throat , but afterwards recovered , while his wife died . He was found Guilty , and sentenced to death . George Tolson , a railway engine-driver , has been found Guilty , at York , of causing the death of a Mr . Yates , who was killed in a collision on the Hull and Bridlington Railway on the 25 th of July , resulting from the culpable carelessness of Tolson . The jury recommended him . to mercy , and he was sentenced to six months' hard labour . Emily Elizabeth Jones was tried at Winchester on a charge of setting fire to a house while several persons were in it . The inmates escaped , though with great difficulty ; and the woman afterwards told a man at a public-house that she had set the house on fire purposely , in order to burn ' the old woman . ' She appeared very wild , and seems to have been out of her senses . She was found Guilty , and judgment of death was recorded ; but inquiries will be made as to the state of her mind . —A similar charge against a man has been tried at Gloucester , and resulted in a conviction . Sentence of death was recorded . An attempt to show that there was madness in the family entirely failed .
A young man named James Ainsworth has pleaded Guilty at the York Assizes bo a charge of being unlawfully in the United Kingdom , after having been transported for life . He gave himself into custody , and made a statement ( which he repented on being brought up for trial ) to the effect that ho escaped from Spring Creek , near Hobart Town , where he was sent after having several times murderously assaulted his overseers , &c . ; that ho wont to the diggings , and ultimately to New York , Boston , nnd' Halifax 5 and that at the last-named place he again got into custody for a robbery , but escaped and came to England . He has now been sentenced to imprisonment for a . week , and then to return to ponal servitude for life .
A surgeon , named Frederick Deano , residing at Cosham , near Portsmouth , has been tried at Winchester on a charge of causing the death of a Mrs . George by culpable negligence in attending her during her lying-in . He was found Guilty , and sentenced to eighteen months ' imprisonment .
Untitled Article
GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . The certificate meeting in the case of Bevan and Bevan father and son , carrying on business as bookbinders in . Cliupel-street , Grosvenor-square , was held in the Court of Bankruptcy at the close of last week . The elder bankrupt said he had discounted largely with Messrs . Seale and Low , of Leicester-square , and * had sometimes paid nearly fifty per cent , for accommodation . He was deficient to the extent of 629 Lin 1853 , when he induced his son to join him in partnership . There seems to have been great extravagance . The accounts showed an expenditure of 394 . 01 . against 1412 ? . profits ; and the result is that there are debts to the amount of 4-000 ? ., tlie assets being only about as many hundreds . The son has been living in a disreputable manner for some time past , though , only twenty-seven yeaTS of age . In his examination , he said , "he had shortly before the
bankruptcy borrowed money from various female servants at the West-end . Some of the money he got from the -firm he gave to a Mrs . Marriott . He thought it was in Trevor-square , Knightsbridge i that he last saw-Mrs . Marriott . She was tlie widow of Captain Marriott , and he had given her several sums of money . He was now married to a lady from the country . A cabman named Kingston liad not besn in" the habit of driving himself and Mm . Marriott about . He knew the Pitt ' s Head public-house , and had driven a lady there . " Mr . Commissioner Holroyd here stopped the examination and , in giving judgment , severely reproved the son for his mode of life . He granted him a third class certificate after three years ' suspension , the first six months to be without protection . The certificate of the father was withheld altogether , as he appeared to have dealt with certain life policies in a fraudulent manner .
Six men , whose ordinary work is that of silk-weavin" - were charged at Worship-street with deserting their wives and families in Uetlinal-gieen workhouse . They stated in extenuation that they had so many stones given them to break ( namely , seven bushels a day ) that they found it impossible to accomplish the task . If they failed they were punished by having only very email pieces of bread given to them . One of the men produced some of "these pieces before the magistrate : they were about the size of a man ' s thumb . Mr . Hammill , the magistrate , said it was very wrong to give men whose work is of so delicate a character as silk-weaving the same amount of stone-breaking as that allotted to labourers . He then told the accused to go before the board , and behave themselves as temperately as they had done there .
A person named Charles Pitcher , who had been part proprietor of the Berkeley Club , Albetnarle-street , St . James's , and also of the Doncaster Betting-Rooms , applied in the Insolvent Debtors * Court on Monday for a final order . In the course of his examination , he said tliat his partner in ' the Berkeley' ( which was a gaminghouse ) was Mr . Adkins , the individual who was sued about a year ago by a Mr . Sidebotham to recover largo sums lost at play . Ho ( the insolvent ) had been in tho habit of betting on the turf , and some of the debts on the schedule were balances on betting transactions . Hero Mr . Commiattioncr Phillips stopped the examination , and dismissed the petition .
A strange case was inquired into at tho Mansionhouse on Monday . Mr . E . Smith , a lino manufacturer in Goaaett-strect , Bethnnl-green , iiled his schedule as an insolvent debtor on Friday week , nnd on tho following day his son received a cheque for 8 / 1 2 a , lid . from Messrs . Barker and Co ., on bulmlfof tho father . Immediately afterwards , a Mr . William NTairn , a more-hunt of Goorgoatreet , Trinity-square , accused him of getting tho cshoque under ful . se pretences , called him . a vagabond and thief , and said tho money belonged to Inn 1 ' athor ' a creditors , of whom ho ( Mr . Nairn ) wun one . Ho then , in eompnnv with two other person * , took Mr . Smith , junior , to ' thu -warehouse of a Mr . Dodd , in Arthurtitroot West , kept him there for aomo time , and threut-
Untitled Article
A Solicitor oiiAuanD- wrm Pkrjuuy . —A little more than a year ago , u man named Stowell , who had acted aa un . informer , was sentenced to twelve months '
imprisonment for obtaining money from a Mrs . Penny , a public-house keeper , on the false pretence that he was clerk to a Mr . Bingharn , a solicitor , and could get her off from , some charge which -was impending over her . On the trial , Mr . Bingham swore that Stowell was not his clerk ; and the man , being now again at liberty , ha 3 charged Mr . Bingham at the Southwark police-court with perjury . He has produced several witnesses who proved that he was regarded by Mr . Bingham as his clerk ; and the magistrate has therefore committed that gentlefor trialbut admitted hina to BailStowell has
man , . also brought another charge of perjury against Mr . William Watson , a publican in , Wai worth . This case has been adjourned . Cruelty ox the High Seas . —Captain Christie , of the barque Elizabeth , and Jame 3 Millard , chief mate of the same vessel , have been further examined at Liverpool , and committed for trial—tlie former on the charge of manslaughter , the latter simply for an assault . The mate was admitted to bail . The evidence discloses a series of cruelties of the most heartrending kind , almost surpassing anything which even the criminal records of the high seas- ' have yet produced . —Another case of cruelty at sea on board an American vessel is being investigated at Glasgow .
The Charge of Poisoning and Forgery .- —Hr . Monk , the surgeon at Preston , now in custody under suspicion of forging the will of a Mr . Turner , and of causing his death , was examined on Friday week on the former charge . Evidence was given to the effect that the will was produced by Mr . Monk some days after Mr . Turner ' s death , and after unsuccessfully endeavouring to obtain the deceased's money from the bank as the principal creditor and the agent for pa 3 'ing Mr . Turner ' s workmen . At first he said that no will had been found , and he therefore took steps to procure letters of administration ; but he afterwards produced a will , written in legal phraseology on the blank outside of a draft . It purported to be signed by Edward Turner , James Holden , and Thomas Wilkinson ; but one Robert Farnmouth , who said he knew Turner well , swore that the si gnature was not in his handwriting , and added that
he did not know any man of the naine of Holden , and that he had never heard Turner say anything about a will . Joseph Wilkinson said the signature of his name in the "will was not his hand-writing , and that he knew nothing whatever about it . The will bequeathed three shillings a week to Turner ' s housekeeper , and the remainder of the effects to Mr . Monk . On producing this document at the bank , Turner ' s balance , amounting to 56 ? . odd , was paid to Mr . Monk . The accused ( who is senior alderman of the borough and a deputy-lieutenant of the county , and who has been DIayor of Preston ) was remanded ; , He was further examined on Tuesday , when the principal witness was a Mrs . Pipe , who had been induced by the accused to make the copy of the will . Mrs . Pipe , on being put into the witness-box , wept bitterly , and fainted . She was carried into an adjoining room , and ultimately gave her evidence . Mr . Monk -was committed for trial .
Embezzlement . —William W . Thompson , traveller to the firm of Messrs . Jones and Co ., of Gracechurchstreet , oil-merchants , is under remand before the Lord Mayor , charged with having embezzled several suras of money , amounting to upwards of 2000 ? . —Mr . George Nathaniel Hosking , a surgeon , has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzling various sums of money , amounting to 170 / . Fra . iti > and Forqery . —Joseph Clarkson is under remand at Bow-street , on the charge of obtaining a quantity of damask from Messrs . Shoolbred , of Tottenham-court-road , by means of a forged order purporting to be written by Major Martin , of Ham Court , Uptonon-Severn .
Immoral Publications . —John Thornhill and Mary Elliott , booksellers of Holywell-street , have been committed for trial on charges of selling immoral books , pictures , &c . Tiik Murder of Thain . —An inquest has been held on the body of Thain , the detective ollicer , and lms terminated in a verdict of Wilful Murder against Sattier . Jewel , Robuicries . —Henry Morris , William Clark , Charles Stevens , and John Hughes , are under remand at Bow-street , charged with an attempt to take out a pane of glass from the window of a jeweller ' s shop in Henrietta-street , Covont-garden ; and also on suspicion of being concerned in several robberies from jowellera ' shops , effected in the same manner .
Alteiung a Tklisorai'iiic Signal . —Charles Hartley , described as a grocer ' s assistant , was brought up on remand before tho Greenwich magi . itrate , ' on , Monday , charged with wilfully altering a telegraphic signal at tho Deptford station of tho London and Greenwich branch of the South-Enstern Railway , thereby endangering the lives of the passengers . He was committed for trial . Tun Cash ok this Two Colouuici > Gnu . s . —The girls Rose and Minnie Avon , who represented themselves as slaves escaped from America , were again interrogated at tho Southwark police-court on Tuesday , when Mr . Ferguson , chief clerk of tho Mendicity Society , attended , and produced evidence which showed that the girls were impostors . They appear to be the daughters of an old black man now in Chelsea workhouse and an Irishwoman : and they have recently convoyed pence to tho
father at the woTkhouse . They vehemently asserted their innocence , but were told to leave the court , and to take care they weie not caught begging . The London and Eastern Banking- Company . — Mr . John Edward Stephens , one of the managers and shareholders of the London and Eastern Banking Corporation , is now undergoing examination in the Edinburgh Court , of Bankruptcy . The notorious Colonel Waugfa . was connected with the same company , which was conducted on fraudulent principles , in order that the directors
might appropriate the funds confided to their care . On the collapse taking place , Stephens fled to Scotland ; and hence his examination at Edinburgh . Waugli is in Spain— ' for the benefit of his health . ' - Horrible Tragedy near Croydon . —A Mr . William Helton Smttfiers , a young man employed at the Bank of England , and living at Thornton Heath , near Croydon , has poisoned his mother , his brother , and himself with prussic acid , early in the morning . The only cause at present assigned ( for the inquest has not yet been held , the tragedy having only occurred on Thursday ) i 3 that the murderer had recently been very unfortunate in some speculations , and had taken to drinking largely .
Untitled Article
No . 403 , December 12 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER . 1183
-
-
Citation
-
Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 12, 1857, page 1183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2221/page/7/
-