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    GATHERINGS FROM THE X.AW AVn POLICE COUR...

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    the 3 nry to be discharged . The accused -will be kept ia cufetefdy , and tried again . HfcttEMtrED Suictdb . —A young woman of twentytwo , named Kosina Burns , .-was charged at the Thames p ' e'Iiee' -conrt -with attempting to commit self-destruction . A policeman on duty near St . Katharine ' s Dock , ieard a violent splash in the water just below the lock at the cMtfance . He then proceeded to the spot and sa-w the wontan floating on the surface of the stream -which at that place is about two-and-twenty feet deep . An

    officer from the Custom-house was called , and he and the policeman dragged the woman out of the water . Sire appeared quite dead , but after some time was restored to animation . On being asked by tie magistrate what had induced her to make the attempt , she said that she had lived a life of degradation , of which she was weary , and had therefore determined to put an end to her miseries . She had since repented of what she had done . As shejstated , that she bad friends -who would take care of her , she was discharged .

    " Gentlemen" verszts Working Men . —Two 3 'otrag men , described by the reporters as being " of good appearance , " giving the names of William Blafcesley and Thomas £ > . Prestow , were charged on Monday at Bow-street with being drank on the previous Saturday night , and committing several assaults . Two respectable men were returning home with their wives at about halfpast nine o ' clock from the house of a friend where they had been spending the evening , when they encountered Blake 3 ley , Prestow , and another young man . The two " gentlemen" were excessively drunk ; the working men W « re quite sober . The former laid hold of one of the

    married -women in an improper manner ; and , on her husband interfering , the three young Bacchanals furiously assaulted the two -working men . At length a policeman came up ^ and Blakesley and Prestow were secured , their companion escaping . During the examination on Monday , a young man came forward , and" said lie was tie third ; but . the working men refused to have a warrant against him , as they did not feel certain as to the part he played in the business . Blakesley and Prestow , who said they had bean at a supper-room , and had drunk too much , were fined 51 . each , which , they instantly paid .

    Stealing Gas . —A rather singular case was heard last Saturday ^ at the Marlborcragh-street police-court , where Sir . Henry Tilbury , brass-founder and gas-fitter , a person in a large way of business in Upper Marylebonestreet , was charged with stealing gas from the Imperial Gas Company . The company , having reason to suspect that they had been defrauded , sent their inspectors to Mr . Tilbury ' s premises , where they discovered a pipe connected with the main , and passing through the house , where it was very ingeniously concealed by the walls , into a baok yard . Here it supplied a great many jets and melting stoves , and must have consumed u large

    amount of gas . Mr . Tilbury at first denied the fraud , but afterwards admitted that he had been burning the gas surreptitiously for two or three years He exclaimed that ho -was a ruined man , and should become the inmate of a prison and his wife of a madhouse , where she had been before . The company said they could prove that they had been robbed in this manner for five years at the rate of at least one thousand cubic feet of gas a day . Mr . Tilbury , who seemed deeply humiliated , pleaded Guilty , and waa sentenced to two months' imprisonment . As ho -was being removed , several of his workmen who were in the court rushed forward , and shook hands with him .

    The Domestic Poisoning Case neaji Southampton-. —The maid servant who was apprehended last week for attempting to poison her mistress , Mrs . Read , of Bittern , in Hampshire , has been committed for trial . 1 'he crime was accomplished by putting corrosive sublimate in somo porter which Mrs . Read drank . The [ servant , whoso name is Harriet Vassingcombe , confessed that sho was guilty cf the offence . A SfcTOANGK Sxohy . —Some few Saturdays ago , a Mr . Schlob , a German , living in Spitalfields , was going out of his liouse , when he saw a dragoon guardsman in the passage ) , who , in a confused and hesitating ; manner , asked to see Mr . Smith , of Oxford-street . Mr . tiehlob replied that ho did not know any such person ¦ but

    Ed-; wards , the soldier , contrived to fasten himself on the German and Ha wife , insisted on sending for drink ( though ho was already intoxicated ) , and , after treating them , was with difficulty got rid of . The intruder being gone , Mr . Schlob and his Wift went out , and , on their return home they found that the kouso had been robbed , ami that a box , containing a good deal of property , had been taken away . This , however , w * s speedily restored by the police ; for Edward ., the dragoon , had bom acen staggering along with it , nnd had been stop , cd by a S ^'"^*™ ?*«> -tody . On bei ^' broK before the AYci-shistr ^ t £ & £

    p- * . " ^ JS a singular story m defence of himself . Ho said that ; l , o had previously mado tho acquaintance or Mval Schlob , who Lad accosted him in tho street oa a former day , and , aflor drinking with him at several miblictauaos , had mvited him to her home , where thoj . p « t tho night together in her hunband ' a absence . On living her in the morning , ho missed various articles from his pockets , Amongst which was a valuable knifo , which had been presented to him ns a tributo to his service * in tho Crimea . Icollng anxious to recover . such a token as bo had been recently allowed to embark for India as

    a volunteer in the 3 rd Dragoons , he went to the house for that purpose , but here he unexpectedly encountered the husband , of whose existence he was not before aTrare . He therefore feigned ih . e inquiry JEor an itsagin-ary . Mr . ' Smith , in order to shield the woman from the consequences of her indiscretion . This story -was in some degree strengthened by a-woman living in the house of Mr . Schlob . The magistrate said it was manifest that the soldier had appropriated the property to indemnify himself for the articles he had lost ; but , as he had no right to pursue such , a course , he should commit him for seven days to the House of Correction . BukgljUjy . — The d-welling-house of Mr . White , a

    farmer of Hamsterley , a village in the county of Durham , was broken open on the morning of Friday week by a ruffian , who severely injured the servant-girl with a gun which he found in the house . The inmates being aroused , he fled precipitately with the -weapon ; but for the next day or two the country was scoured by the police , who on Monday came up with the burglar in a field . He fired the gun / at one of the officers , but missed him , though very narrowly . The policeman then closed ¦ with and overthrew him , and he was secured . On his person was fouad a loaded pistol at full cock . He is fenown to be an old offender , though but a young man .

    Embezzlement . —Mr . James Hill and Mr . Thomas 3 Srough , coal-factors , carrying on business at 28 , St . llary-at-hill , appeared before the Lord Mayor on Tuesday , in answer to a summons which had been issued at the instance of Messrs Harrison and Co ., owners of the Ratcliffe Colliery , near Newcastle-on-iyne , and which charged thennvith having , as agents of Messrs . Harrison and Co ., converted to their own use two bills of exchange of the respective sums of 10 01 . 13 s . 6 d . and 100 / ., which had been entrusted to them for a specific purpose . Evidence having been received , the case was adjourned . —A gentlemanly-looking young man , named William _ Henry Bonsor , was charged before the Lord Mayor with embezzling various sums of money from his employers , Messrs . Ashurst , Son , and Morris , solicitors , in the Old Jewry . He was a confidential clerk , and it was a part . of his duty to take money on account of the

    firm , for which he gave receipts , the amount being always entered on the counterfoil of the receipt-book . He also had to enter the accounts in the day-book , and hand the money over to the ' cashier . ' He had written a receipt for 30 Z , which he had neither accounted for to his employers , nor entered in the receipt-book ; and this led the partners to suspect that he had appropriated the money to his own , use . They therefore placed the affair in the hands of a detective officer , who took Bonsor into custody . Mr . Morris , one of the principals of the firm , applied for a remand , as he believed he could bring forward several other charges of embezzlement against the prisoner . The latter requested that the affair might be . settled at once , and offered to plead Guilty , if that would . make any difference ; but the Lord Mayor said that such a case could not bo dealt with summarily . He therefore adjourned the case until Thursday , when Bonsor was committed for trial .

    "dTTiiitiNG Fokgkd Cheques . —A young man named Robert Goodacrs , formerly a clerk in tho service of Btr . H . R . Abrahams , surveyor , of Howard-street , Strand , was charged at Bow-street with uttering several forged cheques at Messrs . Dmmmond's bank in Charing-cross . Ho was remanded . Respectability in Trouble . —Samuel Wcddows , a very respectable-looking man , n clerk in the employ K > f Mr . Bacon , of Neckingcr-road , Berniondsoy , is under remand at Southwark charged with embezzling large sums of money , the property of Mr . Robert Tosswell , of Castlcnau-villa , Barnes , in whoso service he had been as confidential clerk .

    Muroek in Canaj > a . —G-reat horror has been excited in Toronto by tho murder of a wife by her husband , a tailor named Return J . M . Ward . Tho remains of the woman were found imperfectly consumed by fire on "Ward ' s premises . The man is iu custod 3 . The Uouhle Murdek at WjU / vvoutji Bncon and his wife wore brought up nt the Lambeth police-court on AVcdesday , for the final proceedings ( which merely consisted of reading over tho depositions ) , and were committed for trial . " When his wife ' s statement , charging him with the murder , was read over , Bacon changed countenance , and , on an allusion being made to one of his children , and to his having said at tho police station that ho " could not hurt a huir of his dear littla head , " lie sobbed loudly , screening hid face on tho upper part of tho dock . The defonco of both tho accused waa reserved for tlio trial .

    A Nigilt FuAOAis . —John Bctts , a butcher of St . Gcorgc ' s-placc , KnightsbriUgo , surrendered on Wednesday to tako his trial at the Middlesex Sessions for assaulting n . policeman in Trcvor-fsquuro about one o ' cluck in tho morning . Tho policeman found him drunk in tho equnro talking with n woman , -who nlno was drunk . Ho abused the ofliccr in coarse language , thon nsBaultud him , and finally was taiken to tlio station . Tho du . fc . uuo was that neither tho man nor tho woman - \ v « s drunk , though both had boon drinking ; that tho abu . su and tho nsnault wore committed by tho oflicor on TM ' r . Butts , and that the latter waa apprehended -svhun simply endeavourin / r to tnlco tlio policeman ' s number , on account of tho . foul objurgation ho ( Mr . Betta ) had received . Tho evidence was very

    conflicting ; and it was admitted in the defence that « T Woman was living under fhe " protection" of aeenflJ man . The accused was found Guilty , and was S topaya fine of 20 * , ' and to be itnp . ^ W o ™ L et *

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    GATHERINGS FROM THE X . AW AVn POLICE COURTS . MB ^ JoffNBONvan inspector of nuisances trader the Bo-mi of Health in Wakafield , ¦ s & feed aome samples of W f the 25 th of February , in the shop of Messrs . j 3 * and Sons , and afterwards lodged informations btfomtw magistrates , charging the vendors with exposing ( W sale flour which was unfit for food . It was suW qucntly proved , however , by the evidence of Professor Taylor and other chemists of eminenca who had ann lyzed samples of tjh « flour , that it was perfectly good " whereupon , the informations were dismissed Feeling himself ^ aggrieved , as his business had considerable fallen ofl m consequence , Mr . Jackson brought an action at Yoxkon Friday week against Mr . Johnson for tres pass , and for the breaking and entering of his shop antl the carrying away of the flour . Mr . Baron MartLn said that the law exempts from personal liability Boards of Health and their officers for anything done by them in the execution of their duty . The plaintiffs had clearly refuted the imputations against them ; and , their character being thus vindicated , he . should recommend that a juror be withdrawn . Both sides acceded to this suggestion , and thus the case terminated .

    One of those great -will cases which occupy the attention of counsel , judge , and jury for days together -with their intricate and wearisome details , was brought forward at the Aylesbury Assizes during last Treek , and spread over four days , the speeches of counsel alone taking no less than twelve hours in the delivery . The issue was directed by the Court of Chancery to try the validity of certain testamentary documents executed by the late Miss Elizabeth Lovett , of . Lisconxbe House , Buckinghamshire . The old lady was descended froni one of the martial followers of William , the . Conqueror , and lier estate at Liseombe , valued at from four to five hundred a year , had been in . the family for upwards of five centuries . Being very proud of her ancestry , ani desirous to keep the estate ^ undivided , sho bequeathed it to one of her male relations . But . she . appeared to have

    altered her mind several times , and to have made fresh wills ; and to the last will there was attached a codicil . The ultimate effect was to take the estate away from tie relation to whom it was first of all left , and to devise it to another male member of the Lovett family ; and those two Lovetts formed the defendant and plaintiff in the action . The points to be determined were whether the old lady , at the time she made the last two wills and tho codicil thereto , devising the estate to Cosby Lovett , was in a rational state of mind , and whether she was not unduly influenced by a Miss Marianne Lovett , her third cousin . In proof of her intellects being disordered , a letter of hers was produced , which certainly had a very incoherent character ; but the medical witnesses differed as to the condition of the writer ' s mind . As regards undue influence , Miss Marianne Lovett denied that sIlo had made the least endeavour to alter her relation ' s

    intentions with respect to the disposition of her property . The jury , after five minutes' consultation in . their box r gave their verdict in favour of the validity of the two last wills and tho codicil ; so that tho estate will go to Cosby Lovett , who is a captain in the morchant service , instead of to the Rev . Robert Lovett , as contemplated by the original wills . A respectable young woman attended on Monday before Mr . Arnold , the Westminster magistrate , -with a woeful complaint that she had not been christened , and

    that , although she very much wished to be , she couldnt get any one to do it . Two of her sisters were in the same dreadful plight , and so she went before the mngistratc to see what ho could do for them . Mr . Arnold said it wns a case i ' or a clergyman , not for him . Tho young woman observed that ladies did not like the idea of having im unohristcned servant in their houses-, and fiho therefore felt that the matter was of the utmost importance to her , and that no time should bo lost . IIcv father had not been married to her mother , she added ,

    and the duty of the parents to the children wns neglected . Tlio magistrate again assured her ho could do nothing , and sho retired , protesting that it was " a . very shocking thing . " Sonic further rovelations of tlio discreditable money transactions of young gentlemen not yet of age were contained in an action brought at tho Lewes Assizes upon a bill of oxchaugo for 300 ? ., drawn by the defendant , Mr . Fife , a cornet in the 3 rd Dragoons , and accepted by Mr . Joseph Paxton , also a cornet in the some regiment , ojid which wns endorfiod to tho iiliiintin Suveral

    ( a Mr . Wecdon ) I > y a person named Curluwis . pleas wcro put upon tho record by tho defendnnt : but tlic only material one was that the bill in question bad boon fraudulently obtained by a person named . lulm Charles Johns , and that no consideration had beenf-j'iven for it by the plaint id' . Mr . Paxton \ a a son of tbo I'olcbrntcd Sir Joseph Pnxton . Ho in not of ago , but until tho last three or four weeks was in tho army , whii-h he had left , according to bin own account , for private reasons that had nothing whatever to do with tho action . ' ITu admitted that he avjus a betting man , that he had bought horses , « nd that he hud had transne-

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 21, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21031857/page/10/