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    Threatening Sir Richard Mayne. —A discha...

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    A " Hue And Cry" Libel. A Trial For Libe...

    a paper , in -which-he distinctly charged Mr . Saltor with having forged the-will of the deceased gentleman , aud also stated that he had admitted the fact to him ; and Mr . Burnaby upon ' . tins consented to allow a notice to appear in the Police Gazette , offering a reward of 50 £ . for the apprehension of the prosecutor . The affidavit also represented that Lane had made a charge at the Old Bailey against Mr . Salter of having forged a "will , and that he had proved it to the satisfaction of the grand jury ; also , that Mr . Salter had obtained possession of a large amount of property belonging to Mr . Hood , and that he ( Lane } had obtained a judgment in the Court of Queen ' s Bench for the restitution of the property . This judgment arose from the following circumstance : — Lane had brought an action against the Bank of England to recover a . sum of 139 , 000 ? ., which he alleged was in their hands at the time of the death of Mr .

    Hood ; and the Bank authorities treating the matter with contempt , and not taking any proceedings , Lane " snapped a judgment , " as it is technically called , for that amount . This was , however , inunediately set aside . In consequence of the announcement which , appeared in the Police Gazette , an , officer , actually went down to Chard for the purpose of apprehending Mr . Salter ; but the inquiries he made speedily satisfied him that there was no foundation for the charge , and the prosecutor consequently escaped thia additional annoyance . . :

    The . defence -was that Lane , being an . excitable , violent man , had actedrashly , under a real belief that the -will had been forged . At the same time , it -was admitted by the counsel for the defence that the charges against Mr . Salter were altogether incorrect . A verdict of Quilty was returned ; but sentence was respited till next session . In the mean-while , the prisoner -will remain in Newgate .

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    Threatening Sir Richard Mayne. —A Discha...

    Threatening Sir Richard Mayne . —A discharged policeman has been brought up at the Greenwich office for-sending threatening letters to Sir Richard afayne , chief commissioner of police . The man alleged in these letter * - that he had been tyrannically ill-used and oppressed by Sir Richard for the last three yeaTs , and that ; owing to . him , he ~ had been unable , in spite of all his exertions , to obtain a living , however degrading : therefore } he was determined to make the chief commissioner " a hVing memento of his vengeance . " , During his detentioa in Maidsione Gaolj Casey , the accused , - wrote a letter expressive of contrition : and" stating that he had

    made the threats while in a fit of desperation , but that , laving afterwards met .-with a friend who had instructed lumritr the means of getting a livelihood in the fish-* rade ,. he'had abandoned all evil thoughts , which had ¦ "been induced by his deplorable situation . He further "Stated * thutr the chaplain of the gaol had conversed with him , by which he bad'benefited , and now saw the error of his ways ; Sir Richard Mayne not wishing to send the man foirtrial , he was- simply required to find heavy sureties for-good behaviour for the next year . These , of course ^ were not forthcoming ; and Gasey was removed , saying he should now be unable to follow his new course of livelihood for the benefit of his-wife aud

    family . AEomabce of Emma Forest ;— "William Jennings , a respectable and delicate-looking lad about seventeen years of 1 age , formerly in the service of Messrs . William Stevens" and Sons , wholesale stationers , Throgmortonstreet , City , has been examined at Guildhall on a charge of stealing from his former employers a large number of gold pens , silver pencil-cases , and other property , to the amount of 25 OZ ., together with 201 . in money . He appears to have broken into the premises and carried away the property during : the night of Friday week . The police , having reason to suspect Jennings , arrested him

    at his father's house , when he said he had hidden some of the property beneath a tree in Epping Forest . On talcing him there , the : police found that the property had vanished ; bat the ground appeared to have been recently disturbed , and it ia therefore probable that the things had been taken away . The rest of the stolen articles had been directed by the young , man to a person of the name of Hooper , of Leeds ; but they were intercepted at -the Great Northern Railway station . Jennings stated to the police that , during the preceding week , lie had picked f , erns , made a bed with them , and slopt in Epping Forest . Ho- wa » committed for trial .

    Foboeby . —Robert Wyatt ,, a gentlemanly-looking young man , who had been a clerk at a varnish manufacturer'a at Battlo < -bridge , waa brought before tho Marlborough-atreet magistrate , charged with forging , and . uttering two cheques , one for 250 L and the other for 9 L , 15 & ,. on the London and Westminster Bank , St . Jameft ' arequare .. He induced a fellow-clerk ( who was not-then , a-vvace that the accused had been discharged fronv hia . situation ) to got the cheque for 250 / . cashed at the-bank ; aad , theimitation of the signature , which was thafc . qf Qw > , of ^ firQL by ^ j ^ m -yyyatt bad bceu em-I > io- »« ay ^« 8 so good » that both the clerk who took it to do caabaa ,, wad tl » persona at the bank , believed it to bo genu » a .. Anothen < 0 erk at the varnish manufactory S "L ^ 1 f W ( lt ' « W » 6 > s * rate , the extraordinary feet that ^ haddh ^ n , ^^ in the counting-haufle , seen Wy ^ tUmhatiag . the signature which ho aftwwttda attached , to th * chaquo . Tb * culprit was

    avrested by the police in a concert-room at Bath . He admitted his guilt , and said he was driven to it hv distress , and that bxe was four days without a meal before he forged the cheque fox hi . 15 s . lie was remanded . Bobbkry ni ^ r Cambridge . —A singularly daring robbery was committed about a week ago , at tho works of the Fulbourn Lunatic Asylum , near Cambridge . When the foundation stone of that building was laid at the end of September , a glass cylinder , containing several current coins of the realm , was placed , together with a vellum scroll inscribed with , the names of the committee of officers and visitors , in a concavity hewn out of a large stone block , on which the first stone of the Asylum

    was laid . This was secured by a quantity of masonry and brickwork being built around and over it . On the morning of last Sunday , it was discovered that two courses of brickwork above the corner stone , were demolished , supports being placed to shore up the remainder ; the stone itself was removed , and had been evidently forced by some lever . The lower stone contaiuing the coins , "being thus uncovered , the glass cylinder and scroll of vellum -were both stolen . From-the skilful manner in which the robbery was planned and executed there is no doubt that the perpetrators were well acquainted , not only with the situation of the cylinder con tabling the coins , but also with brickwork and masonry . The wonder is that the robbers were not crushed by the fall of the heavy mass of brickwork

    above the stone , as the shores put in by them for supports , to enable them to remove the courses of brick , were not strong enough to bear the weight , and consequently the buttress parted from the portion of the main wall to which' it -was attached , to the extent of an inch . The thieves did not , however , get nearly sufficient in the -way of booty to repay them , for the labour they had undergone , as the total value of the coins in . the cylinder did not amount to more than 21 . Is . Sd . The vellum scroll was afterwards found in a hedge near the spot . The -works of the building have been damaged to the extent of nearly 30 ? . A -watchman is usually appointed to guard the premises , but on the night pre ^ ceding the robbery he left * at seven o'clock . A reward of 20 / . has been , offered for the apprehension of the thieves . ¦¦¦ ' - ' : '¦ ¦ '•' ¦ . . ¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦; . : ¦ ¦ .

    Housebreakeng . —Two men have been examined at Exeter ; and committed for trial , on a charge of breaking into a dwelling-house and stealing wearing apparel , jewels , & c . The robbery was of a very audacious character . It appeared that the family locked tip the house , going out for a temporary visit , on the morning of Wednesday . At four o ' clock- in the afternoon , 'they received intelligence that the house had been broken into . Going home , they found that the thieves had entered through a back- window ; the rooms were ransacked , and an immense number of articles , some of them of great value , had been stolen .

    Attebipted Murder ocn the Hollo way JMopex . Piiison . —A murderous attack has been made on Edward Beavan , one of the warder 3 at the New Model Prison , Holloway . Thomas Denais , the person charged with the offence , is a convict , who ,, after several summary convictions , was sentenced a . short time ago from the Central Criminal Court to four years' penal servitude . He . was taught the trade of shoemaking , but had latterly become very sullen . Having been punished , at the instance of Beavan , for breaking the rules by talking to some of his fellow prisoners while theyvwere in their-walks , he conceived a project of revenge , and a few days ago , as the warder was quitting his cell , he

    struck him on the back with some instrument which the ¦ warder at first thought was a hammer . A struggle then ensued , Dennis swearing that ho would "do" for Beavan ; but some other warders came to their comrade ' s assistance , and one of them took from his shoulder a sharp-pointed knife , on which blood flowed copiously . The knife had been given to Dennis a few days previously to aid him in his shocmaking ; but he had sharpened it and added a handle . Being told some time afterwards that Beavan would probably die , he said it was a good job , and he hoped ho might die . He was brought before the Clerkenwcll magistrate last Saturday ' , and was committed for trial .

    A Bad Becunking op the Thieving Skasox . —Two men were given into custody a few days ago , by the proprietor of a linendruper ' s shop at Peckluun , on a charge of stealing handkerchiefs . When taken into custody , they denied all knowledge of each other ; but , after they had been locked up in different cells , a policeman heard one call out to his companion , " This is a bad job ; I -would not have had it happen for 20 / ., particularly at the commencement of tho season ; " to which the othur responded , "N " or would I have had it occur for any consideration . " > Vhen searched at the station , no money was found on them . Having been brought before tho Lambeth magistrate , they wore sent to prison for four months .

    Iuir-usAGK o » Children . —Thos . Sharp , of Trenches Fields , Doptford , was charged at Greenwich , with beating his daughter , twelve years of age , with a heavy utrap to which a bucklo was-attached .. A woman living in the neighbourhood saw the man beating tbo child , who was entirely naked , one Sunday night . Shortly after this , the child , was-misaed . and . on Monday morning she- was

    found , still naked , crouched in a corner of a shed in adjoining empty house . Sho appeared half d « ad W cold and-the effects of violence , and had been concS there during the whole of the night . Her person * 2 also shockingly bruised . The defence was that ahe wT tine vish ; but this was disproved . The father was C ordered to find bail in 20 / ., to be of good behaviour frT six months ; but , being unable to do this , he was can veved to gaol . —George Bniley has been charged kt Marlborough-street with cruelty to a . girl eleveni vou * of a ^ e by lifting her up and dashing her ou the pave merit . The motive for this violence does not appear " but it was fully proved , and the scoundrel was sentenced to pay a fine of 3 / ., or to go to prison for six weeks AxxEMPTicn

    jMouder at Bkiimo ^ dsky . Patrick Griffin , a labouring man and a native ' of Ireland ¦ fcr boon nearly murdered- in . Thomas-place , Berinondse } ' bv three of his' . countrymen , named ¦ ¦ Kichard Burchell Abraham Burchell ( brothers ) , and Patrick Ryan ' Griffin ' s brother , John Griflin , a young man of twenty was also severely injured ; but he was sufficiently-well to give his evidence at the Southwark police-court or * Monday . According to his statement , some auimosity existed between him and Richard BureheH , who hai beaten hiin five cr six weeks ago . On his brother Patrick going to see him last Saturday evening he mentioned this fact , and Patrick replied that Burchell would- not have ill-used his brother had-he been present

    , and he added a threat of doing something to Burchell which should not please him . The brothers stayed for some time at a beer-shop , drinking , and subsequently they went to Burchell ' s house . John G ri . ffin then challenged Burchell to come out , as "his brother was there ,, and wanted to see him . The challenge was soon , answered . Burchell issued forth , and , striking John . Griffin , over the left eye with a large piece of brick , knocked him down ^ He then appears to have turned his attention- to Patrick Griffin , who had been shouting , " Gome out ! I ' m here for you , " and who was also knocked clown , when a fierce struggle on the ground , ensued . Both the Griffins were beaten and kicked , and . Patrick was stabbed in the side with a knife , Abraham .

    Burchell and Ryan assisting in the outrages . When at length John Griffin rose from the ground , le saw his brother stretched at full length . "I thought he -was dead , " he stated at the examination before the magistrate ; •'¦ " I fell . on him and kissed him . Some women in the crowd were calling out ' Murder 1 ' " The injured man was then removed to St . Thomas' ' s Hospital , and on Sunday he- made a statement in presence of Sir . Uurcharn , the magistrate . According to this , John Griffin went to Richard Burchell ' s house to fight him , and the deponent ( Patrick Griffin ) endeavoured to get liimaway , but was attacked . He added that he . had been drinking , but was not drunk , and that ho might have said he would have Burchell's life before he went

    home , but tliat he did not thiuk he had said so . —The three prisoners were remanded . Child INI uiidbu at Dover . —A young woman aged about twenty-nine , living at Dover , and named Frances Wallace , is in custody uudor a charge of murdering her illegitimate child , a little girl live years old . Tho mother obtained her living as a lauudress , aud seems ordinarily to have been very fond of her offspring . The father of the child is the husband of the woanan ' s sister , who bos beeu kept in ignorance of the . existence of the intrigue between , the parties . Latterly , Mxs . "Wallace , the murderess , has been very intimate with a carpenter named Bligh , to whom , she communicated all the details of the story , even , mentioning the name of tho child ' s father , which she had never done to any one before . Afterwards , however , she beeamo possessed of tho idea that Bligh had gone up , to London where her sister and brother-in-law lived and had revealed the fact of tho

    seduction to the wife . Under a kind of frenzy produced by this idea , sho cut her child ' s throat with a table knife , aud nearly severed the head from the body . A revulsion of feeling appears to havo immediately como over her , and she rushed out into tho street , screamiug , and alarmed the neighbours , who found her trembling and with bloody hands . She said she had murdered her child , and this was found to be the case . On being taken into custody , sho expressed great remorse for what she had done , exclauiing to the policeman , an she hold up her hands , which were covered with blood , " Oh , wliat a

    hardened wretch I am ! " She likewise ninde repeated inquiries ns to when tho excursion train went to Londoii i adding , tl If that man goes to my sister ' s there will be murder upon murder . " Alludiug to the child iu terms of endearment , sho related that it had said to her on tuo preceding evening , " Put my alceves in uay frock , and yours iu yours , to-night ; and then you shall go to heaven , and not bo burnt . " She also observed , that tuc child , on coming down the sanio morning , aniil , " Mother , why did you get up so early ? " On being exivnunod before the magistrates , she exhibited great distress , am fainted more- than onco . Sho was committed for trial on

    a charge of murder . . Tiik Outuaou in Taroamicnt Strebt . — Bicbwa Copo , the shopman who was savagely assaulted on the evening of Monday week iu hb mnator ' fl shop iu Parliament-street , still lingers in thu hospital , aud hopoa nro entertained or his recovery . Thu culprit ,, who gives t" < i assumed name of Jenkins , ia a tii ; kot-y £ -lcuvo xnau . *> i

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 1, 1856, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01111856/page/6/