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    S^S THJBS JU *M A JJ Jfi-.K. [J3O. 39i, ...

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    GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURT...

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    Murder Rs Shropshire.—An Old Woman Named...

    confessed the crime , and were written in a TeKgiotts strain . Clarke wai committed for trial . — A yoimg Irishwoman , named Bridget Kavanagb , is tinder remand at Marlborough-street , charged -with administering a narcotic poison to her infant , who is in a very dangerous state . The woman , asserts that she gave the ' stuff' 3 > y mistake . '„ . ¦ ' Riot at Exetbr . '—Some drunken railway ' navvies ' at Honiton have kept the town for a day or two iu a . n alarmed state by riotous conduct . Several were arrested , and , as they were ^ eing conveyed from the 'lock-up * the Town-hall for ] examination , some others appeared upon the scene , and rescued three of the prisoners . The lest were taken before the magistrates , and fined , and , during the examination , the others remained outside -the court , making hideous noises . Some of the police have 'been severely- injured , and a larger force or constables has been sent from Exeter .

    Irish Disturbances . —Three Irishmen and an Irishwoman have been charged before the Westminster magistrate with creating a riot in Great Peter ~ street , « uod seriously injuring three constables . They were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment . —Jeremiah Donovan has been committed by the Ttatnes magistrate for trial for striking a policeman a violent blow on the head with a piece of sharp wood , causing great loss of blood . He was quarrelling with a woman , and had merely been told by the constable to leave the spot , which was close to the gate of the London Docks . He was intoxicated at the time . —A drunken tailor , named Patrick Crawley , has been sent to prison for twenty-one days for an assault on a policeman . He is an old offender .

    GAKNiBAiasM . —Two horrible cases of brutality have lately occurred m different parts of the metropolis . The first was that of a ruffianly-looking man , named James Moore , who was charged at the Mansion House with biting off a part of one of the fingers of Ellen Sullivan , a shomaker ' s wife living in Halfmoon-street , City . Her husband a few nights ago saw the shadow of -a strange man in the passage of his house , and when he asked him what he did there , the intruder threatened to strike him , on hearing which , Mrs . Sullivan and her youungest son ,

    accompanied by several other people , ran down stairs from the upper part of the house , to his assistance , Sullivan being unablti from disease to defend himself . His son offered to fight Moore , and the latter then struck the youth , and to-re off his shirt-front . The mother interfered to protect him , upon which Moore oaught her hand , and , getting it into his mouth , bit off the top joint of her forefinger . It is supposed that he must have afterwards swallowed the piece as it could not be found anywhere . He told lira . Sullivan that he had called to see his father-in-law who lived on the first floor . Both she

    and her husband declared that the man was an Titter stranger to them , and that tliey knew nothing whatever of his father-in-law . Such is the version given by the Sullivans . Moore tells a very different story . He said , when before the magistrate : —• " I went to see my fatherin-law , and just as I knocked at his bedroom door , Sullivan came down stairs and asked me what business I had there . I told him that was nothing to him , upon which -Tie gave an Irish howl , and at least a dozen , men and women , most of them in their night-dresses , rushed downstairs , kicked me all over the body , and jumped upon me . " ( Moore had a -. black-eye , and was a good deal < sut about the face . ) " Mrs . Sullivan got her fingers into my mouth , and tried to ' gag' me , and , to

    tear the flesh from the roof , and in order to release myse-lf I was ebliged to bite her . If my father and mother-in-law had not opened their door -and dragged me in , I am sure I should have been killed . Several of the persons that attacked me tried to rip up my cheeks , by putting their ffngers in my mouth . " Moore was committed for trial . —The second case of this kind happened in James-street , Covent-garden , the accused being a lowlooking woman named Mary Ann Taylor , who was charged at the Bow-street police-court -with , biting off anotiher woman ' s under lip . Ellen Downey , the complainant , stated that she was buying some fish at an eel stall in Jumos-atroot , and liad just taken ball a sovereign out < yf her pocket to pay for what she had bought , -when Taylor rushed suddenly at her , and attempted to BWktoh the money away from her . JTailing in this , she

    flew at the other woman with great ferocity , seized her hatt ^ bit away a large pioce of her under lip , and then spat the fragment of flesh out of hor mouth and kicked i it down a . ketvnel . She was given into custody , and , on her way to the station-house , declared that she would do for the woman Downey when she was again at liberty . She told the magistrate that she waa drunk at the time ahe committed the assault , and that eho did not ; remember any tiling about it . She said that tlio half-Boipereign -wlviuli aha tried to got from the other-woman wbb hor own money . This statement the other denied . It appeared that tbiB female , savage bad ofton before been in custody , and was , on ono occasion committed for biting a policeman ' s nosa nearly oil " . Mr . Henry fined hor 4 ? ., and , being unable to pay tlio money , she was ; sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment and hard labour

    UxECUTiotf . —Captain Ileury ttogcrB , Into master of ' the barquo 3 Iurtha Jane , of Sumlerland , was hung at I Kirkdalo Gaol , Liverpool , last Saturday , at noon , for the murder , by a aeries of atrociouo cruelties , of Andrew Rose , ono of the crew , while on a voyage from Harbndooa to England . Groat oxertions were made by Mr . Snow- '

    ball , the captain ' s solicitor , to get the sentence commuted , both vriib . respect to Itogera and to Miles and Seymour , the two mates who were also condemned to death for abetting tie same crime . He was successful as regards the mates ; but Sir George Gr « y refused to spare the life of the captain . When Mijes and Seymour heard that they had been respited , they became quite unmanned , and wept for a long time , though , observes the Liverpool Albion , it is doubtful whether this was from " excess of joy at their own deliverance from an ignominious death , or from grief at the approaching fate of their commander , to whom they were evidently closely attached . " Captain Rogers exhibited more firmness ; and before he and Ms mates w-ere separated , they joined

    for an hour in pray ex . A final interview between the captain . and his wife and the two eldest of his five cTnldren took place on Friday week , and was necessarily of a most agonizing kind . The children were a boy of fourteen and a girl of twelve ; the latter did not seem to understand her father's . position , though he told her she would never see him again on earth . The boy , who had been present at the trial , was greatly affected . The wife is a Wesleyan Methodist , and she , her husband , and the two mates , partook of the Sacrament on . the Friday . The mates were overpowered with grief , and

    Mrs . Rogers was so prostrated after the final separation that she could not support herself , and was taken away in a cab with the children . The following morning ( last Saturday ) was very fine ,, and a ; vast crowd collected in front of the gaol , but they are stated to liave behaved with decorum . - For a short time , a body of Methodists paraded before the scaffold , singing psalms ; but this did not last long . At twelve o'clock the execution took place ; and Rogers , who had behaved with firmness , appeared to die quickly . The sentence on the mates has been commuted to penal servitude for life .

    The Recent Eqbbery in Liverpool . —Thomas Pimin , Louisa his wife , and John Rice , have been apprehended , and examined before the Liverpool magistrate , on a charge of being concerned in the recent robbery of 517 ? . from the shop of Mr . Kearns , wine and spirit merchant , Park-lane . An iron safe in the inner office was broken open , and the money abstracted . Several . drawers were also forced , and their contents were found scattered about on the following morning . The three suspected persons were apprehended in Manchester . They were committed for trial .

    Another Stabbing Case . — - Some labouring men were spending their harvest largesses , a few days a , go , at a public-house . at Earsham , when one , named Stone , repeatedly challenged another , named Hunt , to fight . Hunt declined , and Stone ait last pulled out a knife , and stabbed the other labourer twice . The rest then interfered , and took Hunt away ; and Stone was shortly afterwards apprehended . A Savage . —A horrible attack has been made upon an old woman at Bramley , near Leeds , by her

    son-inlaw- His wife went to her mother ' s house , and besought protection from her husband ' s violence . This was given ; but , in the evening of the same day , Cooper , the husband , came to the house , and inquired for his wife . The old woman tried to induce him to go ; but he struck her head against the wall , and knocked her down . He then kicked her on the chest , neck , and face , with his thick clogs . He then raised her in his arms , threw her into the street with great force , and again kicked her till she b « came insensible . He was brought up at the Leeds Court-house , aad sentenced to six months' hard labour .

    Belling the Cat . —A strange picture of town life was presented last Saturday in the course of a case wbicli came before Alderman Sir Peter Laurie at Guildhall . Two tradesmen living in Halfmoon-passage , Aldersgate , were summoned for creating a disturbance by ringing a great number of bells and making other , noises every evening . It appeared that there are two disreputable houses in the passage , which caused great annoyance to the persons summoned , and , having failed in other moans of abating the nuisance , they determined on making an incessant noise in their houses , which adjoined tuc places . complained of , every evening . This , however , was objeoted to by the other respectuble inhabitants ; aad lien co the proceedings . Inspector Cole

    proved the- existence of the noises , and stated « . lso his boliof that thexe wore two houses in the passage which had been devoted to improper purposes for forty years . Mr . Welsh ( ono of the persona summoned ) said that bis private door opened into Halfrnoon-passage , and his wife was -continually annoyed by persons mistaking the door , and , when she refused to direct them to the house they required , she was subjected to tlio grossest abuse . Ho held threo houses up the passage , which were tenanted by poor , but honest and moral people , aud th « y were continuall y annoyed in a similar manner , in the hot \

    ve » $ hcr particularl y , when they loft their doors open to admit the cool-air , in conscqueuco of which , they often found persona in different rooms of their houses . Ho had obtaiued legal proof o ( the houses being placeH of ill fame , and had applied to the parish to prosecute them but tUu request had alwuya been refund . —Mr . Harding the other tradesman summoned , auid ho had once commenced legal proceedings against one of tlio honses but ho was surrounded by several women , who threatened him with personal violence and broke hiu windows . The defendants were bound over to keep the peace Tho court , it acorns is in two different parishes , mid there

    is consequently great difficulty in proceeding amrinat ^ keepers of the disreputable house / * B » "O 3 t the Manslaughter by a Box—The boys empioyed at two rolling-mills belonging to the Midland Iron rlT pany at Masbrongh , near Rotherhaan , have for ^ oml time past exhibited great rivalry as to which diviS should get the work dooe earliest in the evenln J anfl the successful party always greets the other with d 7 risive huzzas . On the evening of Friday week tW demonstrations led to a quarrel and fight , durin g whii missiles were thrown about . One of these—a piece of a stone bottle—struck a boy named Bagnall on the head ss jt ^ fast had be ? * ° ™ ? ™ »**!¦ - * £

    . - . had just before been struck on the leg by a small ' niece of iron thrown by Bagnall , and who therefore retorted Bagnall , however , was so irritated at the blov j ie rel ceived that he seized a heavy pair of tongs and threw them at Daniels . The latter stepped behind another bov named Cottam , who was struck on the temple so vio lently that the skull was fractured as if by a pistolshot . He died in about half an hour . Daniels remonstrated with Bagnall , who struck him , and refused to assist in the removal of Cototam ,- but he afterwards showed great contrition . An inqiiest lias b « en held ending in a verdict of Manslaughter against BagnaH who has been committed for trial . '

    Attempted Suicide . —Mary Ami Leach was charged before Sir R . W . Garden , at Guildhall , on Monday , with an attempt at self-destruction . William Guidley a coffee-housekeeper , of Fetter-lane , said : " The prisoner has been in my service since March last . About three months ago , she robbed me to some extent , bat , findin g she had been led away by other persons , I retained her in my service to give her an opportunity of repaying me and of redeeming her lost character , and I promised

    her , if she would stay twelve months with me , I would look over all that was past . Last Saturday , I found her out in a very paltry piece of dishonesty , and took her to task for it , upon which she went up-stairs to the third floor , threw herself over the banisters , and fell from the top of the stairs to the bottom . " Strange to say , she was not much hurt ; but she admitted that lier design ¦ was to kill herself , and she had also got a razor , as if ¦ with , the intention of cutting her throat . She now appeared very repentant , and cried bitterly . The

    alderman remanded her . A Woman Killed by her Father . —A man of seventy-six , living at W-adsworth , near Hebdon Bridge . Lancashire , has killed his daughter , a woman of forty . They had quarrelled , owing to t 3 ie daughter accusing her . father , of stealing some money of hers . At length , as he asserts , she pushed iiim into a chair , and threatened him with the tongs , which he took from her , and struck her a tap on the back . She fell to the floor , and a child of hers ran and gave the alarm . On the neighbours going in , they found the woman on the point of

    death . She gave one or two sobs , and then died . 'Xhe old man was sitting in a chair close by , peeling potatoes , and was quite composed . He said his daughter was only sick , and would soon come to again , and when told , she was dead , he would not believe it . At the inquest , a surgeon stated that death had resulted from fractures of the second and third vertebra ) . This might have resulted from many causes ; and the surgeon added that he hardly thought so feeble a man as the father could have given a sufficiently strong blow . The j ury accordingly returned on open verdict .

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    Gatherings From The Law And Police Court...

    GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . A meeting for the proof of debts and choice of assignee in the bankruptcy of Mr . John Townscncl , M . P . for Greenwich , took place before Mr . iCoinniitwioiier Fane last Saturday . The debts and assets arc , lesijectivoly , 5000 / . and L 000 / . Mr . Shepherd ( of the Surrey Theatre ) and a Mr . Wallis , of Lancaster-place , Kcgent's l ' ark , were appointed assignees ; Messrs . King and George , solicitors ; and Messrs . Butler and Cannings , accountants .

    Mr . Jardiae , the Bow-street magistrate , « s occupied for several hours last Saturday in hearing a summons against two picture-dealers , named Smart and Closs , residing in Leicester-square , charging them with conspiring to defraud Air . Fitzpatrick , a carver and gilder , of Sheffield , of 130 / ., by selling him a picture purporting to bo by Linnell , for that sum , when it was proved to be & copy , and not worth 6 / . Mr . Fitzpatrick hud made oilers to Smart for the purchase of tlie original , but had not

    come to terms . CIobs then , through tlio agency of a picture-frame maker , negotiated the sab of the copy , which h « put forward as the original . The negotiator , who asserts that he knew nothing of the tend , took 10 / . as his eommiflsion' for the trouble . Mr . Liinu'll waft examined in court , aud had some difficulty in identifying his own original . Several other nftirtts who wem > u court said that the copy was roniarknbly akilful . The case \ vnn adjourned , and the accused were allowed to go on their own rocoinmauccH .

    The petition of Lord Cecil Gordon canio on for henring before Mr . Charles Saundere , tlio judge <> f » 10 Taunton County Court , at tho last Hitting . M' " - $ * ~ good appeared for the detaining-crcditoi'H , and M » - iMllln . for the insolvent . Lord Cecil Jninea (»<> rdoii hnvuiK been sworn , Mr . Sargoori said lio appiwiul on brim" ol twenty tradesmen of ' Untli , to whom the insolvent Wfl »

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 19, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19091857/page/10/