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    726 TH E DEADER. [No ^ 332, Saturday ,

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    Mr . Elliott . * te-tbe Juanabeth ; polwe-rOffiee , the . person accused being in this instance the -wife . Mrs . Elizabeth Wood was' charged with , marrying a man named John Riley , witfle her first husband , John Wood , was still living . The main facts of the case were very similar , to those of the preceding- one . After the . woman was taken into custody , she stated to the inspector at the station-bouse that she believed that her firefc husband , who -was , a sailor , and bad been abroad twelve years , was dead . In the course of last May , she became acquainted with Biley , whom she soon afterwards married . Wood , her , former husband , being in court , and haying stated to the magistrate that he could produce witnesses to prove his -marriage with the prisoner , Mr . Elliott remanded her f ° their attendance .

    Assaults . —The hot weather seems to have made violent -attacks < oa . the person even more than usually common . At Alarlborough-street , Cornelius Collins , an Irishman , has : been committed for trial on a charge of biting off the nose of Charles Marsh in a St . Giles's public-house . ? The prisoner was drunk at the time , and the attack appears : to have been wholly unprovoked . — William Corkin and William Daly ,. two men well known to the police , -have been charged at the Westminster office with a garotte robbery , committed about midnight in Peter-street . They were sent for triaL—Richard Glover and William Breen , two notorious thieves , were brought before the Clerkenwell magistrate on a charge of being- drunk and disorderly , and assaulting the police . These men have been in the habit of hangiug about the Angel at Islington , insulting the passengers , and preying on any ladies they may see alight from cabs . They ¦ were-sentenced to two months' hard labour . —At

    Lambeth , Thomas Doyle has been sentenced to a month s hard labour , and ordered to find sureties to keep the peace , for an assault on Martin Briggs . The accused had -married Sir . Briggs ' s daughter , whom ho ill-used . She accordingly fled to her father for protection ; and the ruffian then turned his wrath upon Mr . Briggs , saying that , if he could not beat his wife , he would beat him . Subsequently , lie flung a stone at his head , which was cut open . —Michael . M'Cormnck , manager to Mrs . Dawson , » a fruiterer in Co vent-garden market , has been fined forty shillings and costs for assaulting a Mr . Jeffson . The gentleman , had asked the price of some cherries , and had eaten one while so doing . The price not . suiting / him , he declined to purchase . M-Gormack then Abused him , and , though he paid a halfpenny for the cherry he had eaten , the man assaulted him . —William iBerryman has been sent to prison for six month , sfor murderous assault his wife andUjLi n 11111 f ^ T

    a on ; . " ,.,. - ley , a notorious ruffia ^ i * - - "" - " ^ " ^ a for " * trial on a ^^ SS ^ S ^ SSJS ^^ ious injuries on a policeman who ~ ± ag in turning him out of a public-house . o * e his conduct had been disorderly . Ebauo . —John Lahow . and Thomas Carey are under remand at the Mansion House , on suspicion of fraudulently uttering' a dividend warrant of the South-Eastern Railway Company , which had been lost by the proprietor , a Mr . Dashwood . A duplicate having been issued , the money was not paid to JLahow when he presented the warrant , and , inquiries having been made , ho and Carey were apprehended . They gave several contradictory accounts of the vray in which thoy became possessed of the document .

    AasiaaK Cases . —Thomas Fothergill has been found guilty . art Newcastle of the manslaughter of John Smith , wham lie struck on the head with a pickaxe , nfter having been greatly provoked b } - some taunts which the deceased had flung at him . He-was sentenced to transportation for life rAwniGwiUim , aged thirty-eight , pleaded Guilty at . Heiefordito aiaharge of concealing the birth of her illegitimate infant . Sue was sentenced to three months ' imprisonment . The Judge ordered -her to bo well taken care of , as sho was suffering from extreme debility . At tho iinae of her delivery , she was a nurse at the workhouse ofithe Weobley Union , and she had reduced herself . tocher present state of weakness and disease by walkintr-flixj miles oat and six miles home again on the very

    day J » he / was delivered . This effort she was supposed to have made in order to conceal the fact of her delivery . — Eliza Davis , a young single woman , was tried at the same assizes for the -wilful murder of her infant . The body of . the child was found floating in a well , and one or itwo . circumstances seemed to ronder it probable that the . mother . 'had thrown it down purposely . Hut Mr . Justice Wightrnan thought the testimony was not sufficient to . make , a conviction safe . She was therefore declared Not Guilty , tout was immediately afterwards tned-. cm . > a charge of . larceny , and , being convicted , was Bentcocedto imprisonment with hard labour for three

    mnrttwi Tliinimii Qinlin irnn found Guilty at Warwick of < thfi ' . jttfciMlaufrhlGr , of Johu Joseph Tunnicliff . The deoeamd'fwcu » ije » iiju £ ili otnc in the evening , when ho 011-countwed -Giblia , who was one of u party of Irlah lifawnu . "fciquoneliensucd ; Giblin struck Tunnicliff avrioleabblow , « ud . encouraged another man to do the same , vriiidti-ho-did , aud employed a brickbat to make thobloirih * aTl * r t ( bath aliortly ensued . The very lenient BMitaaee dfsfour montha'ihard . labour . woa pronounced on Gihlin . —iEivo men (« no df them « black ) were indicted at Ipmfoh far : J » euig j concerned in a . prize-fight . The nwa-plaaded Gudlty ,. iMtd threw theineelvoa on the morcy of -. tbik 1 oonzt . It ^ appeared that , on tho police tolling

    them to desist , they did so , . and refrained from offering any . obstruction . to . the clearance of the ground . They were therefore , merely ordered to enter into recognizances to come up for judgment when called on . Indictments were . then preferred against Mr . Edward Dorlrag and Mr . Yarminski , two officials on the Eastern Counties Railway , for refusing to aid the police in , putting a stop to the fight . Upon being called , neither answered , and warrants were granted for their apprehension . —Michael Allen and Robert Swales ( the former of whom was tried and acquitted . at the last assizes in connexion with the Matfen murder ) have been tried at Newcastle on a charge of robbing , and attempting to " garotte" a sailor in the open streets of North Shields at night . Allen was sentenced-to transportation for life , and Swales to eight years' penal servitude . —Mary Ann Roberts was tried at Bodmin for the murder of her infant . She was

    a married woman , but her husband has been away three years , and , being about to return , the accused , as alleged by the prosecution , was anxious to conceal the result of her faithlessness . She was sleeping one night with another woman , and with two of her children , . all in the same bed , when a choking noise was heard , and Roberts seemed to be crying . She replied evasively to questions that her companion put to her , and shortly afterwards she went down stairs ; the cry of a baby was heard ; and the dead body of an infant-was afterwards discovered in the kitchen , bruised aud apparently strangled . For the defence , it was suggested that the child -was accidentally killed in the process of delivery . Mr . Baron Martin directed an acquittal , and the jury returned a

    verdict to that effect . —A precisely similar case ( with the exception that the accused was a single woman ) was tried at Warwick , and the prisoner , Sarah Harris , who was only eighteen years of age , was Acquitted © n the same defence . —Another case of alleged child-murder was also tried at Warwick . Catherine Murphy , a very young married woman , whose husband was in gaol , lived in a state of great poverty with her mother-in-law . One day , her infant fell into convulsions , frothed at the mouth , and finally died , the prisoner showing the greatest distress , and running about for assistance . It was

    afterwards found that aquafortis had been placed in its mouth , and the , mather was suspected to have done this . The jury , however , found her Not Guilty . —James Hollis has been sentenced to four years' penal servitude for inflicting some severe wounds on several cows belonging to his recent employers ,. on being discharged from whose servi 2 ftJ *^ -tnreatened to be revenged . —The Rev . Patrick ¦ £ ung has been Acquitted of the charge ( already detailed in this paper ) of attempting to drown his illegitimate infant . He then pleaded Guilty to an indictment charging him with exposing the child , and he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment .

    A Good Begixnixo and a . Bad Ending , —a lad named John Wick was brought before Mr . Henry at Bow-street , for refusing to perform his allotted task of stone-breakings at the Strand Union Workhouse . The porter , who also acts as labour-master , and who kept repeating to the magistrate that the lad was a very bad character , evinced , as Mr . Henry remarked , great eagerness for a conviction ; but the youth asserted that he had received an injury when he was young , and that he was afraid of bringing on a dangerous attack if he overworked himself . He had done as much as he could . Mr . Henry asked the labour-master if this were tho the admitted

    case , and , after some evasive replies , man that the accused had been injured , " a little . " Up to this point , the magistrate seemed to be taking a very reasonable and considerate view of the case ; but now , when the boy's assertion was found to be correct , lie advised him for the future to perform all the work that might bo assigned , whatever it might be , and then discharged him . In other words , tho overseer ia privileged to work him to denth , if he pleaso . Surely some limitation might havo been placed on the amount of toil . Mit . Johnstonjk , the person charged lust week with unlawfully arresting and locking up a Mr . Kay , has been committed for trial .

    A DnuNK . nK Tyrant . —A case of gross ill-iiaage of a number of apprentice girla has been brought before tho Worahip-streot magistrate . Some time ago a certain Charles Garnham , a horsehair-weaver and sieve-manufacturer in York-street , Itothnal-green , appeared , in order to make a complaint against aoaio of his girls for not doing their work . From one or two things that thon camo out , tho relieving over *< oer of the parish -waa directed to mako inquiries ; and he now brought forward several of tho apprentices to show that tho master and his wife , while indulging in excessive intemperance themselves , uaed tho girls with great cruelty , confining

    them in closo and squalid rooms , half starving them , and boating them with a strap . One of tho girla Bald , " Neither my master nor mistrosa over go to a place of iworship . We have not been ouraelvea for tho last twelve months ; wo had not clothes to go in . " Another Btatod : — "I have not slept between sheotti , nor boon to a place of worship , for twoyeara . Our bods are very dirty , and ' II have eoen both master and nqistrosa drunk . " A third , 1 who described herself aa a married woman , enid that the igirls could earn tenponco a day at their work ; out of Ithie , thoy paid their employer oightponco for food . Sho wdded , " I am twonty-throo , but have often slept in the isamo bod with my master and Ida wife , I bleeping nt the

    foot . " Garnham alleged that he had treated his apprentices as well as he could , ' but tbat his circumstances had altered from what they were formerly . The magistrate said he should order the indentures to be cancelled , and that 21 . out of the bl . premium which , hud-been paid with each girl should be returned . This Case of Mark Boyt > agaik . —A petiticm has been presented in the Court of Appeal by Mr . Wryghte the official manager , under the Winding-up Act , of , tie ' Royal Bank of Australia , against a decision pronounced by Mr . Fane on the 26 th of June last , whereb y lie allowed the bankrupt an immediate certificate of tlie first class . The petition prayed the reversal of that judgment ; and further , that the bankrupt might be refused any certificate whatever . The principal objections which were made by the petitioner to the allowance of

    any certificate at all ' were that , as he contended , the bankrupt had , in two instances and more , been guilty of fraudulent preference ; and also , as a member of the board of . directors of the Royal Bank of Australia , had sanctioned the payment of dividends out of capital irhen he knew that its affairs were in a state of hopeless insolvency . In support of the charge of fraudulent preference it was stated that tho bankrupt in one case received 1000 / . from Mr . Hudson , out of which he paid Messrs . Black and Co ., on the day of his bankruptcy , GQQl . as creditors of the firm of 15 . and M . Doyd , stockbrokers , although tlie Messrs . Black had not issued any process against him , or were not very pressing in their demands . Another charge of fraudulent preference was with regard to a sum received in respect of the purchase-money of a debenture of the bank . The debenture was sold three

    days before the bankruptcy , and the bankrupt stated that his reason for selling it was because , seeing the hostile attitude Mr . Wryghte had taken against him , he was making arrangements " to -wind up and transfer a business that had existed for twenty years in the City of . London into other hands . " Some other instances of dishonest conduct wore alleged , and the case is now being argued . A Worn ) and a Shot . —Some lead robberies having been recently committed on the roofs of houses in the village of Ashton , near Bristol , a man -was set to watch , and saw four men on the tiles of one of the dwellings , stripping away the lead . He challenged them , and they answered by pelting parts of the coping-stones at him . He then fired with a gun he carried , ana , n \ u * , c aicm were wounded and captured . The other two escaped .

    An Elaborate Falsehood . —Our readers will recollect the strange story recently told by a . boy employed by Mr . Weaklcy , a tradesman of Wliitcchapcl ; how ha had been drugged , rendered insensible , carried off in a chaise into the country , and threatened with violence , which lie escaped hy running away and hiding himself . The result of a very painstaking inquiry by the police appears to be , that the tale was an entire fabrication , invented by the boy as an excuse for leaving his master and getting employment in the country . He repented with this

    after travelling nearly to Barnet , and returned story to account for his absence . This is confirmed by the fact that the lad could not point out the shop at which the gentleman stopped and took him into his gig , and numerous medical gentlemen , who have been consulted by tho police , all agree in tlie impossibility of a youth Lcing made insensible for so many hours without . a fatal result , independently of no policeman or tollgatekeeper on the whole distance travelled having scon on that day any vehicle with corresponding occupants .

    An Inokmious Tmicr . — A young bwiss woman , named Funchetto Elitio Mum-ban ' , who has been living as a kind of servant at a lodging-house at Brighton , has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment and hard labour for several robberies . On being su . specte . l , she was searched , and the ini . s . siiig property , including jewels aud articles of clothing , wciv found must cleverly secreted in various parts of liar < lios ^ . EjiLICZZLKMENT BY A BANK MANACJKlt . Mr . CoHKV lius Evans , mnnagcr of the Towkesbury branch of the Gloucestershire Banking Company , has bcun committed for trial on a charge of embezzling money to the amount of 3 , 250 / . lie had been manager nearly seven year . - ) , but resigned in the courses of last . April , owing to 11

    disagreement with the general manager of the bank , lhu new branch manager , on tanking the quarterly b < ilai ) c < : at tho end of June , discovered the deficiency ; audit appeared , from tho evidence of 0110 of the clerks , that Mr . Kvuns , before hia luaignaOon , h «< l directed Inn ) ( . "' 0 cleric ) to fulnify , or " cook , " the- accounts . Siu-roBKi ) MuiiiJJCit . —A dead body has been found m tho river at Tliamca Ditton , beuring marks of suveral mortal stabs . In the pockets of tlio clothes . V . ) OA was worth of New South Wulea notes . An inqm \ it l « aa " ( H- 'i opened , but ia udjouinod for tlio purpose of making 111-quhieu , as Micro ia no doubt tho mum has been murdered . A SiciuouH Chajuih :. —Mr . TIioimuh ( iosling , «

    gentleman of fortune residing in Portland-p lace , wiw on Thumday charged buforo tho Muryleboii" mngwU'iil' ! with having Incited cortain girls of tonder ago to ux |> o . s < thoir persona publicly in tho Uogent ' n Park . l- <> ' « - plaints of oiloncuH of thia nature have recently l >« ' « very frequently maclo to tho Commissioner * of Woixirf and ForostH . The evidence agahiHt Mr . Gosling wan » " » - ciently ntrong to Induce Mr . Broughton to commit lilmt * n trial : but ball wan ucconted for lii « future nppearuueo .

    726 Th E Deader. [No ^ 332, Saturday ,

    726 TH E DEADER . [ No ^ 332 , Saturday ,

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 2, 1856, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02081856/page/6/