Current:

Leader (1850-1860), 2nd October 1858, Edition 1 of 2, Page 1022, OATHERINGS FHOM IrAW AND POLICE COTJUTS '

Page 1022
Page 6
6 of 32

On this page

  • Departments (1)
    • ' .' ~: . ' " " " '' '^ —., : =. 4Cni 4 l>fiYtt ^ tffivi ItrtiVtff-iV ~. .JTlLLl III it ^Uiv> 'l'U[t li'l'l ? " " - ^ ¦ ^ " *^"
  • Text (4)
  • 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

      alarm and when the door was broken open it was found £ the woman was quite dead . There was a rope fastened tightly found her neck , and a wound upon the rfeht temple . The name of the deceased was Susannah Reed and her age was about forty years . Her husband , Henry Keed , has recently served four years of penal servitude for a house robbery , and since Whitsuntide , when he was discharged , he * has obtained his living by selling sand . On Wednesday , the Reeds and some acquaintances were drinking together . Reed was drunk wheSfce went to bed ; and on the following morning he was still in liquor . He , however , understood what was said , and replied that she had done it herself ; she had tried to kill herself once before . He also said that she had not been to bed the previous night . He was th 6 n taken into custody . At the inquest a neighbour said the deceased andlier husband were drinking and

      fighting every night . About three o ' clock that morning -witness was awoke by a great noise in the prisoner ' s house . She heard three successive heavy falls down the stairs , and then a female cried out , but she could not distinguish what she said . The surgeon ' s evidence described a wound on the forehead , but the cause of death was strangulation , which had not been caused by the deceased herself . The deceased was in the habit of drinking a great deal . She was pregnant . The prisoner said that his wife had done it herself , and had tried to strangle herself twice before . Verdict , " Wilful Murder . "

      Bre + ktng into a Prison . — On Friday week the prison of Edinburgh , situate on the Calton-hill , was broken into , as is supposed , by some of its former inmates , f or the purpose of plunder . On the clerks eoming to the office they found that forcible entrance had been made , and a desk broken open , from which about 20 / . in notes and gold had been abstracted . Two of the city detectives were able to make out some traces , and apprehended two persons whom they had reason to suspect as being the perpetrators . One of these was Robert Campbell , who had only completed his period o imprisonment fo r housebreaking on the 18 th , arid the other James M'Gowan , who had for some time been one of the prison ¦ warders , and had only left his situation a fortnight ago . The prisoners were on Monday remitted by the police magistrates for . examination .

      Alleged Murder . —As an Irishman , named Philip ^ pnatty , was proeeeding-to his work on . TEursday morningV after breakfast , at Agar Town , he was furiously assailed by three or four of his own countrymen , and 3 truck and kicked in such a manner that he expired immediately on being removed to" his own house . The niffians who perpetrated _ this brutal murder have not yet been apprehended ; but as they are all well known they cannot long escape detection . The reason assigned For the attack is that they had " all heen quarrelling the previous evening in , a public-house , and the unfortunate deceased had given his cowardly murderers some offence .

      Untitled Article

      " ¦" FllANCE . ( From our own Corre $ j > on < leiU . ) Paris , Thursday , Cj- r . ar . To-day expires the decree which suspended the law of 1832 , and allowed corn to enter France free . No announcement has been niada in the 3 Jvnitciir yet , but the Constitutionnel allirms that the decree will not be extended . It is true that not much weight can be attached to this journal , although it pretends to be inspired . M . J . Uurat , who makes this affirmation , aud does in relation to the paper the business which eorresponds with what is called , in theatrical parlance , heavy or general , has the especial office of making assertions which arc likely or liable to be contradicted . Therefore , it would not at all bo surprising if to-morrow ' s JJoniteur should announce the extension of the decree or an early

      period when the sliding-scale shall be definitively abolished . The whole history of fche State's inturferenco with the corn trade is tho most furcical that can bo imagined were it not for tho misery it has caused . When the corn crops first faded , some harvests back , out oaino two decrees , one prohibiting tho exportation of corn , and tho other authorising its importation . This selfish policy , which was thought very clover , produced exactly tno contrary cflbct anticipated . Instead of corn flowing in to Havre and Marseilles , it went to London , wlioroi it was sure to bo free , and might-bo re-exported to tno highest markotB . Tho consequonco was , that « l » wn »" of six millions sterling had to be expended to imrcimw food for tho people . This was bad onoutfli , w » what came next was worso . Tho decree j » roliij > m"fa the exportation of nlluwod to romwu «

      com was force , with tho idea Unit it would lead to tno m . cumulation of stocks , but whun a good < ' «'> , " came , as last year , corn full below remunerative pnu . » i aa it could not bo sold out of tho country , ana n fa " " j . turists wore threatened with ruin . They could not , »«» thoir corn , and to moot their liabilities they worn owisj to soil thoir savings and luvostinonts of past y- ' " * ,, * Bourse was flooded with public « uuurlUo 4 ; all wow * dmw ^ i and this ovoa during tho commercial crisis- ai » matters booamo bo bad that Government was uwiff * allow tho froo exportation of corn . ™* {"[ , imi roljof oamo too lulo—aftor tho grannrUis of *''! , Ul ' ilt , olsowhoro had boon filled from Amorica . " ° I 1 aiitlathoroforo , of intcrforonco with trado has not UlW "* of faotory . It ha * uiuwod tho ugrloulUirul Inters «» y upwards of olg ' litaou million * slorllntf . blioiuji ^ . after to-morrow to the coutrariottaj of thojjllul » tf BOlu

      Oatherings Fhom Iraw And Police Cotjuts '

      church-street . On the day of the attempt at selfdestruction , a policeman was sent to tell him that his daughter was lying at the hospital . He demanded by what authority he was troubled on the subject , and flatly refused to go near her , or to do anything for her . She has always been a well-conducted girl . The defendant s sister , addressing his Lordship , said , " He is not like a father . He has deserted all his children , and there are seven of us , and we have no moth ** . " The Lord Mayor —" And is there no intelligible cause for bis conduct / "I know of none whatever . He deserted his family . . ' . ' _^^

      before my mother ' s death , of which I believe his conduct was the cause . When asked to contribute towards our maintenance , his uniform reply has been that he would do no more than the law would compel him to do . luis girl added , that to one of her sisters he recommended ' « the streets" as an alternative to starvation . The Lord Mayor said he had learnt from a trustworthy source that a more respectable family does not exist than that of these seven children , and that nothing cart be more praiseworthy than their efforts to maintain themselves since their mother ' s death . The defendant then , accompanied bv her sister , hobbled out of the justice room , and was conveyed in a cab to the iniirmary of the City of

      London Union . A singular-charge under the Scottish game laws was heard before the Justice of Peace Court at Paisley on Friday . William Forfar aud his sou were charged under an act of George III ., known as the " Close Time Act , " with carrying a hare on the public road , not being qualified to do so . The statute in question enacts that every person not qualified to kill game in Scotland , who shall have in his or her custody , or carry at any time of the year , upon any pretence whatever , any hares , other game , without the'leave or order of a person qualified to kill game in Scotland , shall be subject to penalties of 20 s . far the first , arid -10 s . for the second ofl ' ence , and to imprisonment in default . The defence was that the act had gone into disuse . The Court discharged the defendant .

      Arnold remanded tho defendant until his daughter should be able to attend . a A ticket-porter , named William Hill , attached to the Borough-market , while In a state of intoxication on Saturday night , struck his mother a blow on the forehead with his fist , when she fell down and soon after expired . The unfortunate woman also , it is stated , wa 3 drunk at the time . At the inquest , a verdict of " ilan _ slaughter" was returned . - . At Birmingham ^ a serious charge yrns preferred agaiiftt a Greek , named Antonio Calvocoresi ,. carrying on an extensive business as a merchant in Lloyd-street Manchester . In March last Mr . Calvocoresi came ' to Bir-A *« v % *^ 1 j'l ttjt *^^ n *^ / 1 r */ "l' ? 1 * f \ n ' rtrr % *^ # 1 r % » ^ 4 . - «« w * ^ £ 11 . ~*_ « .

      mingham , and waited Upon Mr . Ralph lleaton , of Bathstreet , who supplies the greater portion of the English and colonial copper coinage , and is also extensively engaged in the same way for some foreign states . Mr Calvocoresi intimated to Mr . Ileatou that he wished to have manufactured some dies , from which Turkish piastres could be struck , and at the same time stated that a largo order for the coins would lie given . Mr . lleaton however , refused to have anything whatever to do with the transaction ; and thinking , probably , that Mr . CalvOcoresi was not aware of the illegality of his proceedings , he pointed out the clause in the act of parliament

      upon the subject . Mr . Calvocoresi then left Mr Ileaton ' s , undeterred , however , by the result of the i nterview from prosecuting his design , as it appears that immediately afterwards he put himself in personal communication with Mr . Dipple , a manufacturer , in Great Hampton-row , and made a similar application to him . In this second attempt he -was more successful . Mr . Dipple undertook to make the dies , and also to supply the poin . These were being made when the detectives obtained information , communicated with the Turkish embassy , and . arrested-the prisoner . He was remanded . ——Jfanchcsfir ( imtrdhtn .

      The man Bandy , who is charged with having murdered Sarah Farroll , a woman with whom he cohabited , by throwing' her out of a window , has undergone a final examination before the Westminster police magistrates . The prisoner acknowledged , that he had quarrelled with the deceased , but declared that she flung herself out of tho window-. An important piece of evidence , in addition to that already tTicitod , was furnished bj * a woman , who swears to having heard the prisoner threaten to murder the deceased only about an hour previous to- hi * - actualiy doing so . The prisoner was fully committed for . trial . . ~~

      -Oii Saturday night a man named Waring , residing in Westminster , was awoke from sleep hy liis wife attempting t » strangle him with her apron . C / the gentle suasion of a blow on the eye he induced her to release him from the disagreeable pressure , and soon after betook himself once more to slumber . A second time he was aroused by the vigorous application of a stone bottle to his head , laid on by the hands of his loving -wife . He went to the hospital and had his wounds dressed , and the assailant was "brought before the magistrate and committed for trial .- „ . It seems difficult to stop the mischievous-practice of throwing stones upon railways . On Wednesday a- boy was fined 40 s . for committing that oflence at the Pimlico terminus of the Crystal Palace line .

      At the Guildhall , on Tuesday , a serious charge of conspiracy was preferred by Messrs . Christie and Co ., spirit merchants of Liverpool , against Mr . Itiky , a general agent , and Mr . Thurgood , a surgeon . Riky was employed by the above firm as a sub-agent , and it was alleged that he represented Thurgood as an opulent London merchant , and on that representation obtained for him a considerable quantity of spirits , tho theory of the prosecution being that the two had conspired together to defraud Messrs . Christie .

      OATHERINGS FJtOM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . The authorities of St . Margaret ' s Workhouse will have no half measures , as appears from the fact that they refused to receive the lunatic wife of an unfortunate man unless , he also took up his residence in the house . The husbaad sought the advice of Mr . Paynter , at Westminster , police-court , aud represented that he was willing to remunerate the parish for his wife ' s support , and that it was absolutely necessary , from her dangerous state , she should be under control . The magistrate gave orders for the matter to be inquired into . Francis John Beckford , head clerk in the bill office of the banking-house of Messrs . Smith , Payne , and Smith , of Lombard-street , and who has been thirty years in their service , has been brought before the Lord Mayor , charged with embezzling to the value of 460 / . The prisoner acknowledged his crime , but was remanded for a further investigation of tho ease . On . the 20 th of July , Mr . Kilburn , a retired tradesman living at Peckham , left his house at three in the afternoon , leaving his aged , mother at home . He was » baent bat twenty minutes , and on his return found a xnwn , holding his mother down in a chair with a cloth ¦ over her head . Two other thieves were upxstaira rifling the place . The householder grappled with tho Taacals , but after a severe struggle , in which he was much hurt , th » y escaped over hia garden wall , jLn their retreat oomfclnlng insult with injury by pelting him with hia own flower-pots . They had not time to make off with any

      property . One of the men has been identified this week , attd committed for trial . Frances Johnson , aged eighteen , a girl of interesting appearance , threw herself into the Thames , from London Bridge , in March lost . She was rescued from drowning , bat was found to have dlslooated her hip , and was taken to Bartholomew's Hospital , where she has been under treatment ever since . On being brought before -the Lord Mayor this week to answer the charge of attempting suicide , she said . she . had been driven to tho act by tho cruel conduct of her father . She is still very ill , and her appearance oxoitos groat pity . Inquiries which hare been made by the police confirm tho poor creature's statement , Johnson her father a cutlor in

      Grace-The fortune-telling profession is decidedly in a flourishing condition at present . A swarthy female was brought before the magistrate at Worship-street , a servant ( rirl being tho prosecutrix , who stated that she had received a visit from tho prisoner , who , after assuring her of a speedy marriage , and all the desirable etceteras , carried away 30 Si worth of wearing apparel , " that it might be covered with mould in the churchyard , and receive a blessing . " A number of ( other charges , similar in nature , are expected ^ to bo brought against the prisoner , who is remanded . '

      Sarah and Ellen Newson , mother and daughter , were charged , the latter with stealing , and tho former with recoiling , a box of jewels . Tho prosecutor , a gentleman of Bristol , stated that he had been on a visit to a friend at New-cross , where the younger prisoner was servant , whon ho lost the property in question , and tho girl leaving her situation soon after , suspicion fell upon her . A search being made , part of the jewels were found in possession of the daughter , and part with the mother . Both prisoners arc committed for trial . A man named Lewis Lewis , formerly a draper , of Glerkenwoll , was brought up on a warrant , at Guildhall , charged with not surrendering , after having boon legally adjudged a bankrupt . Huggett , a City detectlvospoke to the identity of the prisoner , and stated

      , that after tho adjudication , which took place in May , 1857 , he wont to New York in pursuit of the prisoner , who * there delivered up to him 8607 . ; but as no international law applicable to the case existed , he could not bring tho prisoner to this country . Subsequently , tho defaulter had returned of his own accord , and was apprehended on Monday night . It was found necessary to adjourn the case , bail being refused . tfolin Owen , a shoemaker , was charged at Westminster police-court with having administered oxalic acid to his daughter . It was , however , urged that sho know tho nature of tho potion , and took It of her own accord . Tho woman was removed to tho hospital , when antidotes wore used * and she is in a state of recovery . Mr ,

      Untitled Article

      nAO 9 THE LEADER , [ No . 445 , October 2 , 1858 . 1 ' ¦ ' — ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ m ^^^ M ^ M ^^ E ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ¦ ¦

      ' .' ~: . ' " " " '' '^ —., : =. 4cni 4 L&Gt;Fiytt ^ Tffivi Itrtivtff-Iv ~. .Jtllll Iii It ^Uiv&Gt; 'L'U[T Li'l'L ? " " - ^ ¦ ^ " *^"

      Itergti Snteiligttttf / - "

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 2, 1858, page 1022, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2262/page/6/