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    ¦ . THE LEADER. f No. 385, August 3, 185...

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    RAMPANT RUFFIANISM. A more than usually ...

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    Wife-Beatino. — William 11 ay ward, a ca...

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    Three Weeks Old, Budge Was Seen Carrying...

    Kichard Bowman , a shoemaker , at Keswick , was tried at Carlisle for stabbing a police sergeant in the execution of his duty . Bowman , who had been a soldier . in the Crimea , where he had been wounded , on account of which he had a pension , besides a medal and two clasps , had committed a murderous assault On a mannmed Cockbain ; and the sergeant went with another officer to apprehend him- He then aimed a blow with a stick , and , failing in this , made several stabs with a large knife . He was found Guilty of an attempt to stab , and was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour . The case with respect to Cockbain was not proceeded with . John Lilley and Joseph Solomons , two watchmakers at Coventry , have been tried for , and found Guilty of , stamping certain wares of base metal with an imitation of the die used by the London Company of Goldsmiths . They were ordered to enter into their own recognizances to appear and receive judgment at any time they might be called on to do so ; and were then discharged . Samuel Essex , aged between seventy and eighty , was charged with embezzling certain funds , amounting ^ 130 OL , from the Rugby Savings Bank , of which he had been a clerk from 1818 to the autumn of last year . He had been held in great estimation at Rugby , where he ¦ was a collector of taxes and poor-rates , and an auctioneer : ~ ^ nc , M O r Ow < . hnainess . The management of the bank

    had been left almost entirely in his hands . He was found Guilty , and was then tried on a charge of stealing a cheque for 501 . in September , 1847 . He was convicted of this charge also , but was admitted to bail while a point of law in connexion with it is being determined . A very strange case was tried at the Wells Assizes , where Mary Ann Hicks was indicted for cutting and wounding her husband , James Hicks , with intent to murder him . Hicks was a workman on the railway at Burnbam , and he and his wife had lived together in great happiness . On the evening of the 1 st of May , Hicks had remained out till between nine and ten o ' clock . Upon his reaching home his wife met him , and threw her arms round his neck as if to kiss him , but he felt something cut his neck , and it was found that she had cut part of his neck with a razor . She said to her husband that he had dug a hola for her in the garden . When a neighbour asked her what she had done it for , she said she did not know . She was in a state of pregnancy at the time . She took one of the neighbours into the garden , and pointed out a hole there which she said her husband had dug for her before he went out in the morning . After she had done the act , she said she would go fora doctor , but the husband said , No , my dear , you shall stay with me ; send some one else . She was then very affectionate to him . The husband said that he had observed a change in her manner . She had a little boy three years old . She was found Guilty and sentenced to six months' hard labour .

    ¦ . The Leader. F No. 385, August 3, 185...

    ¦ . THE LEADER . f No . 385 , August 3 , 1857 . —— " " —^—^—^ M ^ i—^^—— * ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ 7 - _ _ j ? t > a . j : m » ... S 4 . 1 * K «** Sn ** * -h *» + V *^ i 1 AfK . rf \ f In ah Jiiiia a * * of Reading with havingon the 16 th of last June at

    Rampant Ruffianism. A More Than Usually ...

    RAMPANT RUFFIANISM . A more than usually large number of assault casessome of them of a very serious kind—came before the police magistrates on Monday and subsequent doys . At Westminster , Thomas Rush , a stonemason , was charged with inflicting on his wife two scalp wounds , a considerable bruise on the left arm , and other injuries . The woman was lying in a dangerous state at the hospital , and the case was therefore remanded . The man told the policeman who took him into custody that ho had inflicted tho wounds with his boot . —William Payne , a coal-dealer at Homerton , was charged at Worshipstreet with an attack on an elderly man named Baker , a porkbutcher . There had been a fight between two men , one of whom knocked the other down , and still continued to strike him . Baker endeavoured to raise him , saying that it was unfair to ill-use him when ho was prostrate : but at this moment Payne came up , and instantly struck Baker so terrible a blow on the face that he became insensible , and had not recovered his consciousness when the charge was made . Ilia condition excited great fears for his life ; and , to ascertain tho issue , the case was adjourned , Payne in tho meantime being allowed to go on bail . —Daniel Carlisle , an Irishman with several aliases , was sentenced by the Thames magistrate to six months' hard labour for striking , kicking , and stamping on , Mary Anno M'Garthy , who had Interfered between him and his wife , to protect tho latter , At tho Southwark office , James Randall , a coBtcrmongor , was examined and remanded on a charge of stealing , with violence , a half-sovereign from the porson of a boy about twelve years old . Tho lad had boon sent by a woman to change tho hulf-spveroign , ' when he mot Randall , who wrenched tho coin from him . Ho shouted for assistance , and a man came up , and detained Randall , who , on tho arrival of a policeman , gave up the money . Soveral similar cases , involving groat brutality , were hoard on subsequent days , and among thorn waa a serious charge against a policeman . A constable named Wyre found some girls making a nbiso near Ploughcourt , Carey-street . Ho interfered ; one of tho girls realstcd , and ho then drew his staff , and struck lior so violently over ( ho head that ho was obliged afterwards to take her to King ' s College Hospital . Ho charged hor tho following morning at Bow-street , when he at first assorted that ho was obliged to use tho staff in selfdefence , nn 4 then affirmed that the girl ' s head

    'somehow came in contact with the staff' without his mean- , ing it . He added that he had been ill-used by the j young woman ; but his person exhibited no marks . The clothes of the girt , however , were saturated with blood , and her head was bandaged . It appeared , moreover , that , on a respectable tradesman interposing to protect her , Wyre struck him also , and made his head bleed . It was the opinion of the neighbours that the constable was intoxicated ; but the station-sergeant denied this . The girl was discharged , and the policeman s conduct will be inquired into . —Charles Brown , a labourer , was charged at Worship-street with assault . He was quarrelling with his wife in one of the streets in Hoxton , and finally knocked her down several times , though she had an infant in her arms . The woman called for the police ; but , on a constable arriving , she sided with her husband against him , and the man then fiercely attacked the officer . Some ruffianly fellows then came up , and illused the policeman , who at length used his staff upon Brown with some effect . The wife was examined before the magistrate , and gave her husband a very good character ; but he was sent to hard labour for three months and three weeks for the two assaults .

    Wife-Beatino. — William 11 Ay Ward, A Ca...

    Wife-Beatino . — William 11 ay ward , a cabinetmaker , was examined at Worship-street last Saturday on a charge of assaulting his -wife , a pretty young woman , to whom he had only been married ten months . Immediately after their marriage , he began to ill-use and neglect her , and shortly before her confinement he abandoned her altogether . It afterwards turned out that he was living with another woman , by whom he had a child . The wife , having traced him out , asked him for money ; on which he struck her several times on the chest and head , and finally kicked her in the stomach . When the case was brought before the magistrate , his paramour , with her baby in her arms , offered to corroborate his denial of the charge ; but her testimony was refused , and Hayward was sentenced to four months' hard labour . —A man , named Charles Norcott , has been sentenced by Alderman Rose to three months' hard labour for beating his wife . A few Sundays ago , he threw her down stairs , and broke one of her ribs ; and her child , at the time she was giving her evidence , was lying dead at home The man said his wife was given to drinking ; but it appeared that it would have been more true had he said this of himself . The Norton-street Nuisance . —A letter to the Metropolitan Vestrv of Marylebone from Mr . Roundell Palmer , Q . C ., M . P ., pointing out the scandal to the parish caused by the disreputable houses in Nortonstrtet and some of the other thoroughfares to the east of Portland-place , led to a discussion List Saturday in the Representative Council of Marylebone , when it was resolved to refer the letter to the solicitor of the vestry , with instructions to him to institute immediate proceedings against the occupiers « f the houses in question ; and further that the Commissioners of Police be applied to , ami be requested to co-operate with the vestry in putting an end to the evil . During the discussion , it was suggested that the parish solicitor should select some one house for prosecution , as it would be impossible to proceed against all the places , which amount to nearly one hundred and forty . To these dwellings , from nine hundred to one thousand abandoned women resort ; that is to say , one in every twelve of the whole population of the parish , and one in six of the poor population . A wealthy gentleman living in the neighbourhood had been obliged to give up his mansion on account of the nuieanco . One of the speakers ( a Mr . Hutchons ) thought nothing could be done in the matter , as the neighbourhood had possessed the same character for thirty or forty years . This was denied by some of the persons present . Mr . Hutchons continued : — " It was a most difficult question to deal with . The Colonnade of the Regent ' squadrant had been taken down some few years since , one of the main objects being to prevent the congregation of unfortunate women ; but he believed it had not resulted in effecting that object to any groat extent . " Finally , resolutions were carried to the effect already stated . Suspected Murricr in South Waives . —A young woman living near the village of Defynog , South Wales , named Elizabeth Evans , has lately died under suspicious circumstances . A short time ago , she succeeded to her father's property , consisting of household goods and fanning implements , and soon afterwards married a carpenter living in the neighbourhood . The match , however , proved a very unhappy one , and the young woman latterly suspected that her husband intended to emigrate to 'Australia in company with a girl who resided nenr * thoin . Sue had also had frequent hints from her neighbours that her lifq was in danger , and her husband had actually pulled her wedding ring off her finger in the night-time , and afterwards told her that ho bought it for another . One morning she was found dead in her room , her body , especially about the f < i < 5 b , presenting « n appearance which led her friends strongly to suspect that she hod boon murdered . A post mortem examination wan immediately made , and a coroner ' s inquest afterwards hold upon the body ; but tho result has not yet boon arrived at . Attwmpthid MisitOAxmiiK Fraud . —John Copley Hill , a young man describing himself as an accountant of tho City of London , Iu \ b been charged before tho magistrates

    , , - tempted to defraud Mr . Edward Pole , a groce r at Reading , of 501 ., under the false representation that Pole ' s creditors had met a few days previously , and had issued notices in bankruptcy signed by two eminent wholesale grocery firms in London , both creditors of Pole . Hill had likewise falsely informed that gentleman that his credit in London was altogether gone , and that his creditors were determined to wind him up . Hill belonged to an association holding its meetings at an office in the Old Jewry , London , called the British Mercantile Agency , the professed objects of which were to collect debts , enforce attorneys' warrants on all persons whose commercial affairs were failing , together with various other matters appertaining to those transactions . All expenses arising out of the business of this agency were paid by an annual subscription fee of twenty guineas . Hill was committed for trial . Bail to the amount of 400 L was accepted , but , as the required sum could not bo obtained , the accused was locked up . Garotte Robbery . —Three coarse-looking women , named Johanna Flannagan , Margaret Flannagan , and Mary Reddington , have been charged at the Southwark police-court with committing a garotte robbery , with violence , on a respectable young woman named Margaret Crotv . The latter , who said that she was a servant living at Maze-pond . Bermonsey , had been one night to the West-end , and on her return home lost her way in Gravel-lane , Borough , in consequence of which she inquired the right direction of one of the prisoners , whom she met in that locality . Under pretence of showing her the way , the woman took her up an adjoining court , but they had not gone far when the girl Croty was suddenly pushed down and forcibly dragged hito a house . Shortly afterwards she was again thrust into the court , stripped of all her clothing except her gown and a few under things . She informed the police of the occurrence , and the three women who had robbed her of her clothes were taken into custody . They were remanded to give the police time to make inquiries about them . Executions . —Brown , one of the men found Guilty of the murder of Mr . Charlesworth , at Abbott ' s Bromley , has been respited . Jackson , however , will be executed this morning , unless a respite should arrive ft * him also . —Charles Finch , the murderer of his sweetheart at Kavenhall , Essex , was executed last week . Stabbinq at Shadwell .-A woman , named baran Hamilton , has been stabbed by an American ^ sailor at Shadwell . The man afterwards escaped , and has gone , it is thought , to Liverpool . The Garotte Robber * in Bear-street . —William Goff , William Jones , Emma Grainger , and Mary Anne Clarke , have been finally examined and committed for trial on the charge , related in our last week ' s . paper , of garotting and robbing a publican in Bear-street , Leicester-square , late at night , in his own bar . Goff woo alao committed on the charge of attempting to steal a watch from a gentleman- _ ... at

    uhathaji—Military outrage . oume ov ™™ o belonging to tho 27 th Enniskillens and the 70 th Regiment , being irritated by the refusal of a beershop-keeper to supply them with drink , set upon him savagely , beat him about the head and body with tho pots , dashed m the-doors and windows , injured the landlady , and then went about the town , doing a great deal of damage to the houses , and severely injuring two passengers . At length , several hundred soldiers were sent from the . garrison , by whom the rioters were arrested . The object pf the scoundrels in causing thi 3 outrage was to prevent their embarking for India on the following morning ; but in this they were disappointed , as the whole of the men , with the exception of four who had taken a conspicuous part in the outrage , wore marched handcuffed from Chatham with their regiments . A Poisoxoua Mother . —A revolting talc of depravity was brought out last Saturday in the Bloomsbury County Court in an action brought by Mr . Huntorr the upholsterer , of Tottenham-court-road , to recover , from tho dofondant , a lady' residing at No . 4 , Ecclcstontorraco , Pimlico , the sum of UL 10 s ., for goods sold . The proof of service of the summons was disputed on a former day , and now came on for decision . To show that the summons had not been delivered to tho aefondont , Agnes WMoughby , but waa intercepted by tho butler , ' there were called Theresa , tho sister , a beautitui child of thirteen , Anne Rogers , the mother , and tno butler' himself . In cross-examination , the motiier . said : —• " I have told you I am servant to my daughter . She sees gentlemen . I can ' t tell you how many . »« ° gets her living that way . Has no othor mode ot suppprting herself . My youngest daughter soea tho same gentlemen that visit her sister Agnes . I have an income of my own quite sufficient to keep mo , but I "Iwfty s tiiko my regular wages from my daughter Agnes . Agues kgops a brougham . She has a butlor and secretary . " A thrill of horror pervaded tho court while tins , woman was giving her evidence . The Judge docidoa in . favour of tho plaintiff , and spoko in sovoro terms ot urn iufnniy of tho mother , adding that ho should aeo whotuor a prosecution could not bo instituted ugainstsucn a tion . of profligacy . Attbmitbr Wipe-Murder , —William Saundors , a seaman , is under remand at Marlboroug h-atrqot , ctaargcu witli stabbing his wife in fUo arm when under the umu-

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 8, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08081857/page/8/