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      Seeds Of Paradise To For The. Oe> The Le...

      . THE LEADER . [ No . 382 , July 18 , 1857 . DoJ ^ ¦ • - ¦ .- ' ' ¦ ¦ ; ' ' ¦ ' \ " — —

      Our Civilization. _ —^-— The Assizes. Th...

      OUR CIVILIZATION . _ —^ - — THE ASSIZES . The last case tried at the Hertford Assizes was an action for false imprisonment brought by a young man named Galligan against one Barford , a straw hat and bonnet . manufacturer at St . Albans . Galligan was in the service of Barford until last December , and , being a good-looking young fellow , he excited some jealous feeling in the mind of his emploj-er , -wbo ' had married a second time . Indeed , both husband and wife were iealous of one another , the wife always accompanying her spouse when lie went out , and the husband constantly suspecting his better half of an undue familiarity with young Galligan and with any commercial traveller who happened to go to the shop on business . Much wrangling consequently ensued between Barford and

      Galligan , and words not unfrequently l ? d to blows . Galligan would always take the part of the wife in any disagreement between her and her husband ; and the latteT dismissed the young man on the 2 nd of last December . About two months before , a cash-box , containing 11 ? ., was missed ; and , on the 10 th of December , Galligan was taken into custody on a charge of stealing it . He was examined before the St . Alban ' s magistrates , and Mr . Barford then furthermore charged him with stealing some wine . There appeared to be some reasonable cause of suspicion , and Galligan -was committed for trial ; but , on the case coming before the sessions , no evidence was offered , and he was discharged . The present action ended in - an arrangement that a verdict should be returned for the plaintiff for 150 ? . —50 ? . as damages , and the remainder to cover costs . and

      Henry Waller was tried at York for cutting wounding Robert Walker , a police officer who was apprehending him . Walker , on the night of the 20 th of last month , saw three men in a field , attempting to catch some sheep . He advanced towards them , when Waller attacked him with a life-preseTver .. He struggled with , all three , and exhibited so much valour that he would probably have captured them had not five other ruffians hastened to the spot . These men , together with the first three , beat him so unmercifully that , when they left , -. they thought he was dead . However , he wad enabled to crawl to a neighbouring house , where he was taken in . Waller was subsequently arrested . The defence wa 3 that it was a case of mistaken identity ; but the jury found the man Guilty , and a previous conviction for felony was proved against him . Sentence was deferred . A reward of twenty guineas was gjven to the officer for his gallant conduct .

      An action for slander arising out of the late Beverley election has been tried at the York Assizes . There was a contest between Mr . Denison , Mr . Glover , and Mr . Wells . The plaintiff" in the present action—Mr . Martin , a barrister , and the editor of the Sun newspaper—went down to Beverley on the eve of tie nomination , and called a public meeting , at which he challenged Mr Glover to be present , in order to answer certain statements to his discredit . A deputation then waited on Mr . Martin , heard what he had got to say , nnd asked for his proofs . These Mr . Martin bad left behind him in his hurry on leaving London . Considerable disturbance then ensued , and Mr . Glover refused to meet Mr . Martin . He was afterwards elected for Boverloy , together with

      Mr . Denison . At a subsequent meeting on the 27 th of May , Mr . Hodgson ( the defendant ) made a speech in which he denounced Mr . Martin as " a contemptible wretch of six feet two inchos , dressed in a shabby black coat , and looking like a felon in the dock about to receive sentence oi' death . " He was also mentioned by Mr . Hodgs 6 n as " that man Martin , who , if he had hia deserts , ought to have been sent beyond the seas long ago . " Mr . Baron Watson was of opinion that , as the words complained of did not impute to Mr . Martin any specific offonco of a scandalous nature , there was no libel ; and the jury found a verdict for the defendant . — An action was then brought by the same plaintiff against the publishers of the Beverley Observer for publishing

      Mr . Hodgson ' s speech , and making comments on it . In those comments occurred the words , " the rubbish of tho notorious Martin . " In giving hia evidence , Mr . Martin said that , when at Bovcrley , " u handbill was shown to him which ho was asked if ho came to support , and ho said he know nothing about that handbill j but ho said to them , ' If you ttsk mo whether I believe tho statements in it aro true , I do boliovo a great many of those charges , but I don ' t como t o substantiate them , though , of course , as being an in . solvent debtor , Mr . Glover cannot bo qualified to hold it seat in Parliament . ' Ho ( Mr . Martin ) had only quo paper with him , which ho produced . It was an unstamped deed—a deed executed by Air . Glover , and purporting to convoy a certain ostuto In Ireland to witness in consideration of . advances ho had mudo to him ; and , on investigating tho title , witness found it to bo utterly worthless , and that he coulJ not got a shilling advanced upon it . Tho deed wus therefore not worth stamping . " Mr . Barop Watson : Am I trying tho Bevorloy election ? This evidence might bo voiy proper before an election committee" In hia croaa-oxanilnution , Mr , Martin said : — " Ho challenged Mr . ( J lover to moot him , Ho wont down In consoquonco of a throat ho had mudo to Mr . Glover that ho would moot him fuco to faoo ou any hustings ho dared to appear on . Ho went down

      because he believed Mr . Glover not to be a propeiv person to represent Beverley , and because he had obtained his ( witness ' s ) money by false pretences and false securities . " Mr . Baron Watson : " Take care , take care ; you may have an action against you . " Witness : " I will bear all the . consequences , my Lord . And I also went down because Mr ! Glover sent me a very insulting letter when I was in the Queen ' s Bench and could not answer . " It further appeared that Mr . Martin had twice been obliged to go through the Insolvent Debtors' Court on account of bill ti'ansactions in which he had been involved with Mr . Glover thirteen years ago , and of which he averred that Mr . Glover had the benefit . The jury in this case gave a verdict for the plaintiff ; damages one farthing .

      At the Oakham Assizes ( Midland Circuit ) , there was but one case to be tried—that of a woman charged with murdering her infant and with concealing its . birth . The grand jury having ignored the bill charging wilful murder , no evidence was offered on the coroner ' s inquisition in connexion with that offence . The woman then pleaded Guilty to the charge of concealment , and was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment . The whole business of the assizes was over in two hours . A horrible case of child-murder was tried at York on Monday , when Sarah Jemmison was charged with murdering her illegitimate son , who was between two and three years old . The woman was in service , and seemed to be perplexed what to do with the child , her master

      refusing to have it in his house . She then left to take it to a relation ' s , twelve miles off , and parted with a companion at the entrance to a large tract of moorland . Tho child was never again seen alive ; This was during last December . Three months after , a shepherd observed his dog feeding on something , and , on inspecting it , found it to be the leg of a child . He returned home , taking it with him , and , on same one ' s suggestion , the dog was fastened up and kept without food for two days , and then let out . He at once went away to the moor in question , and returned apparently sated . He was then again taken to the moor , and led the way to a spot near and

      where Jemmison had parted from her companion ; there a thigh and , not far off , the skull , of a child were found . Further search was made , and other parts , sadly mangled and torn , as was supposed , by the dog , were discovered . On the skull were traces oi ? injuries , as to which evidence was laid before the jury by medical men , to the effect that in ; their opinion those injuries had been inflicted during life , and were not such as could be caused by the gnawing of a dog . The dress of the child was found distributed about , and some of the remains were lying at least a mile from where those , first mentioned were discovered . The woman was found Guilty , but recommended to mercv on account of her destitute

      condition . She was sentenced to death . A strange charge of child murder was tried by Lord Campbell at Aylestmry on Tuesday . Caroline Marson , aged forty-four , was indicted for the murder of the female infant of her daughter , Emma Marson , at Olney , on the 13 th of last December . In the same bedroom of the house occupied by the prisoner , slept , on the night of that day , the woman herself , her son William , aged sixteen , the girl Emma , and an illegitimate child of hers , three years old . During the night William Marson was disturbed by the faint cry of a newly-born baby , and , opening his eyes , saw his mother standing w ith a light near his sister ' s bed , the curtains of which were drawn . Immediately after his mother came to his bedside and moved the light across his eyes , as if to satisfy herself that he was asleep . Tho boy closed his eyes

      during the examination , and then his mother returned to the other bed , saying , He ' s fast asleep . " In about ton minutes tho boy really fell asleep , and next day he noticed that his sister was not about as usual . In a few days he tulked about the occurrences of tho night , and , after somo months , his sister made a statement that she had been delivered o , f a girl on tho night of tho 13 th of December , and that her mother had taken tho child away , and had told her that she had thrown tho body into tlio privy of an inn whoro sho worked . This turned out to be tho ease . The mother was therefore arrested , when she admitted that sho had conceuled the body , but denied the murder , and , in a natural and unaffected manner , described the events of tho night . Lord Ciunpboll summed up strongly for an acquittal ; und tho jury , after a deliberation of ton minutes , returned a verdict of Not Guilty .

      Charles Finch , a sullon-looking young man , who had boon with tlio Land Transport Corps in tho Crimea , was tried at Chelmsford , on Wednesday , for tho murder of Harriet Frcoborn , a girl whom ho hud boon courting , but of whom ho was jealous , though apparently without foundation . Ho lay in wait for tho girl on tho high road at Rironhall , Esnox , on Sunday tho 21 th of May ; and , suddenly springing out on Uor , cut her throat . She hmguiwhod till tho 26 th of Juno , when uho diod . While confined in tho Witliam police-station , Finch mnrto the following horrible atatomont to tho constable : —" That girl him boon tlio ruin of mo . I got hold of hor , and guvo her a cut with tlio razor , and sho saiil , ' Don ' t do that , Chni'lQH ; you know I lovo you . ' Sho thon askod mo to IdrtH hor , < ind I cut ; liar again , find thon wont away ; and who auld I wits a bluokgunrd , and 'I wont bnuk and out hor again . " Ho was found Guilty , and sentenced to ( loath . Isaao Rushforth was tried at York for administering

      seeds of Paradise to a young woman , for the purpose of procuring abortion . The case was similar to that of Harrison , the Leeds ' wizard , ' tried a few months ago . Rushforth also assumed the character of a magician , and the woman consulted him about hex health . After giving her various nostrums , he said she would never be better until she had consented to admit him to certain privileges . She resisted for a long time , but at length consented , being then under the influence of some stupefying drug . She became pregnant , and he then gave her the seeds of Paradise , in consequence of which she had a miscarriage . She appears to have put absolute faith in the charms and conjurations of the scoundrel . He was found Guilty , and sentenced to eighteen months ' h ard labour .

      Three Mysterious Robberies. Information ...

      THREE MYSTERIOUS ROBBERIES . Information has been received by tlie metropolitan police of a robbery of money from one of the vessels which lately left the port of London . The screw steamship Armenia has lately cleared out of the new Victoria Docks on a voj'age to the Mauritius . On Wednesday , the 1 st hist ., Mr . . Iiobinson , merchant , of Tokenhouseyard , City , placed on board , while the ship was still in dock , a small specie box , containing 2000 sovereigns , which was consigned to a gentleman at the port to which ( he vessel was bound . The box , which was about eight inches by ten in size , was delivered into the care of Mr . Macneil , the chief officer , and a receipt was duly taken . The Armenia was also engaged to take out the

      mails to the Mauritius , and had a considerable sum of Government money on board for the use of the authorities , amounting to something like 52 , 000 ? . The 2000 sovereigns were taken on board in the middle of the day , and placed in the captain ' s cabin . The Government money came down on the Thursday ; and Mr . Macneil , having seen the other money on the same morning safe , where he left it the day before , went to the cabin to put it away with the 52 , 000 I . in the ship ' s strong room , but , to bis surprise , was unable to find it . A rigid search all over the vessel immediately followed , but without any satisfactory result . On the Sunday morning , however , tlie empty box was found in a water-closet , the door of which was locked . There is ho clue to the

      perpetrator of the robbery . The sum of 390 ? . has been stolen-whilst in transit from the bank of Messrs . Head and Co ., at Whitehaven , to the Risehow Colliery , near Flimsby , in Cumberland . It has been tlie . practice to send money fortnightly to pay the colliery workmen , and on Monday the cash was seut as usual by the bank , locked up in a leaeher bag , one key of which was kept at the bank and the other at the colliery . There were 390 ? . in gold in a canvas bag , placed within the leather bag , and 80 ? . in silver , loosely placed in the leather bag in parcels of 6 ? . each . The whole weighed thirty-six pounds . The bank clerk brought

      the bag to the station at Whitehaven , and the railway guard placed it in his van . The train then proceeded to its destination at Maxyport station , two miles distance from Flimsby . On the train arriving at Marypprt the colliery clerk was not in waiting on the platform , and the guard left the bag in the station , as he had done before . In a few minutes , the colliery clerk , to whom the key of the bag is entrusted , and who had it then in his pocket , arrived for the bag , accompanied by another person ; and these two conveyed it to Flimsby , when it was found that 390 ? . in gold were missing . The 801 . in silver remained . Tlie affair is involved in obscurity .

      An oxtonsivo robbery of watches , gold guards , chains , rings , brooches , soals , keys , & c . —amounting in value to about 1000 / . —has been effected in the shop of Mr . Greenhalgh , watchmaker and jeweller , St . Mary ' s Gate , Manchester . No person sleeps on the promises ; but tho shop is strongly guarded by an iron-cased door , and a largo part of the property was kept in a lock-up safe . A reward of 100 ? . has bean offorred for the discovery of tho depredator ; but ut present it is not known how or by whom the robbery was committed .

      Central Criminal Court. William Burgess ...

      CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . William Burgess has boon tried on an indictment charging him with creating a nuisance in the vicinity ot his manufactory in Bormondsoy , Tho defendant , a gentleman of considerable chomicul skill , became iu 1855 tho owner of n largo plot of ground , now tho contro of a rapidly riBing neighbourhood , situated in tho Blue Ancnor-road , bormondaoy , closely adjoining tho South-Enstorn Railway , where ho commenced tho manufacture of manure from banes , thro insidos of horses , trimmings

      of raw hides and other offul . To effect this , tho bones and offal arc boiled and subsequently mixed with sulphuric auld and gas refuse , a quantity of which has also boon allowed to accumulate upon tho promises . Tho result of tlii . i was that from thno to tlmo noxious smalls wore ongondoroil . Tho jury found Mr . Uurgoss Guilty , n nd ho was Llion ordored to ontor into hia own recognizances to como up whon culled upon , with an un < lor-Btunding that , if tho nuiwinco complained of wus itbntud , tho Court would not givo judgment . The triul oocuplod throo days .

      Middlesex Sessions. John Clioacoo, A You...

      MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . John Clioacoo , a young man of thirty , was found Guilty last Saturday of a criminal ftssuult on a girl of

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), July 18, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18071857/page/10/