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      Seeeiitro A Wife.—A Strange Tale Eanae O...

      toJs swurecU . 3 ? tiW man . waa found by them without any ' shoes or Biopfcmga , o % these being in hia pockets . He had apparently entered or retreated through a skylight , fojone was found broken , and the burglar ' s hands and feet were bleeding very . much . On Ms way to the station , he saifl , * M should have done it nice and clean , hadn't jthe woman . got out of "bed fox the oil , and I really thought I must have laughed outright at hearing their conversation ; I was obliged to hold my hand tight over my mouth to prevent it . It ' s of no use denying it , . of course . I did take the articles from the box , , but the watch I dropped in the street . " When examined before the "Worship-street magistrate , he laughed heartily at the scene he had described to the police . He was committed for trial .

      Hegujsct of Children . —James Cutler , a journeyman painter , has been charged at Lambeth with . neglecting his four children . His ill-usage of them had been brought before the attention of the magistrate , who had directed one of the summoning officers togo . to the . house and ascertain the facts . He did so , and found . the children in a state of iilth and squalor too horrible far description . They were removed to the workhouse , and taken care of : ; but , when brought up in court , their appearance was still very lamentable . Cutler , who has more than once been in custody , for ill-using his wife ( from whom he is now separated ) , was remanded , i

      Riot at Paislex . —The races at Paisley , on Friday Week , were signalized by a very disgraceful and alarming riot . Some ' navvies , ' after drinking . deeply , began to conduct themselves in a disorderly manner . A policeman took a rough-looking Irishman into custody , when he was attacked with the utmost ferocity by the bludgeons of the ruffians , and was left dead on the field . The respectable bystanders then rushed after the Irishman , caught and handcuffed him , and removed him to Paisley prison . Several fights succeeded , and the police got severely handled . Finally , they marched off the course , and left the ground to the ruffians and the respectable lookers-on . Towards the dose of the day , a hand of miners , numbering one hundred and fifty , and

      armed . with ' stobs , ' advanced in a phalanx , and made a desperate and altogether unprovoked attack on men and women indiscriminately .- Nearly a dozen persons received very serious wounds ; one , indeed , appeared to be on the point of deatU . A . t length , a ; number of gentlemen banded themselves together , and , armed with sticks , charged the scoundrels ; but three in front fell before the blows of the opponents , aud the rest , seized with panic , fled . A cry that the military were coming was then raised , as a means of intimidating the rioters , and it fortunately had this effect , for the ruffians walked , off , though in theomost self-composed manner . The wounded had their injuries attended to in tents which had been erected on the ground ; and several medical inen were fetched from Paisley for the purpose .

      Attempt to Upset a Train . —Two wooden sleepers and a bar of iron were discovered last Saturday night on the London and North-Western Railway at Penwortham , near Preston . . A train in passing received a severe shock from one of the obstructions ; and this led to the discovery of the infamous design . The perpetrator is not known . Attempted Suicides . —A young woman , named Sarah Freeman , living alb Glasshouse-street , Rosemar 3 ' - lane , Whitecbapel , has attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself into the water at the London Docks , Wapping . The woman had quarrelled with some of her associates at a public-house in the neighbourhood , where v Bho had been drinking , and on her return home , she endeavoured to throw herself from one of the windows of

      her own residence . Having failed in this attempt , she went to the Hermitage lock , and after raving wildly , and declaring aloud that she would drown herself , gave an hyeteriaal laugh and leaped from the edge of the quay into the water , which is there more than twenty feet deep . A policeman who witnessed the occurrence , but who could not lay hold of the woman in time to prevent it , immediately procured the drags and grapnels and got the woman oat of the . water . She was quite insensible , but waa racoverod by the aid of stimulants , anxl was Afterwards taken before Mr . Yardley at the Thames police-court . She waa still vory weak , and seemed to Buffer . greatly from the effects of her immorsion . In

      attempting to anawer when asked if she had anything to aay to the charge , she was unable to express heraelf . Mr . Yardley therefore remanded her to the House of Detention for a week , and directed that the chaplain should attend her during that timq . —Anothor woman , named Jane King , tiros also brought up at the Bamo court , and sentenced to . a weokte imprisonment , for attempting to commit suicide . She stated that she was a married woman . The evidence proved that she had created a diaturbanco in the Canal-road , Mile-End , while in a state of drunkenness . She afterwards attempted to throw herself into the Regent ' s Canal , but was provonted by the police .

      Cutting and Wounding . —A Chilian seaman , named Miguel Poroira , a man of colour , was charged at the lhamea police-office , on remand , with severely wounding two English sailors , named Charles Bishop and John Webster . They wore walking together along Noptunoatreot , RatoliflP-highwny , a UtUo before twelve o ' clock at night on the 18 th of last June , whau , perceiving a qrowd Assembled at the corner of the' street , they stopped to Boo what w » fl tho mutter , and had no sooner dano so

      than the Chilian xushod at Bishop , and deliberately stabbed hiuk without the slightest provocation . The man staggered and fell , and Pereira then jumped upon and kicked ihinj -until he was insensible , and afterwards ran at Webster , and stabbed him twice , first under the left arm-pit , and again on the right shoulder . Both men were removed to the London Hospital , where they had bean ever since , and they'were fetched from thence to give their evidence in court . Pereira was afterwards tracked by the police to a house in the neighbourhood , in which were a number of Spanish seamen , and was there taken into custody . Two blood-stained knives were found at the same time . Both the English sailors w . ere in a very weak condition -from their wounds , and Bishop is disabled for life . Sir . Yardley . committed Pereira for trial , and h . e has since been found Guilty , and sentenced to four years' penal servitude .

      Incendiarism .- ~ -Two Polish Jews , father and son , have been committed for trial at Newcastle for setting fire to then : premises , with intent to -defraud the Phoenix Fire office . They had carried on a small business as pawnbrokers , tand . it is stated fhat , the class of goods they received was so poor that the premises could not Jbave held 100 J . . wrorth . The policy they held was 301 . fox the fixtures , 100 / . for the furniture , and 670 / . for the stock . On the 19 th of July , the premises were discovered to be in flames . Neither of the prisoners helped to extinguish the fire , which , however , was got under , and the premises werelocked up by the police , who found in the shop a feather-bed and a child ' s garment , both saturated with , naphtha . A few weeks before , the elder prisoner had gone to London and purchased several quarts of naphtha ' for a secret purpose , ' as he told a friend . He had made application to insure the-stoekfor more than 1000 ? ., but had not been able to do so .

      Suspected Poisonjcno at Pontefract- —After a long inquiry , repeatedly adjourned , before Mr . Foster , coroner of Pontefract , a young woman , named Fanny Speed , has been committed for trial on a charge of having murdered her husband , John Speed , by administering to him a quantity of arsenic . They had been married only eighteen months , and were both about twenty-eight years of age . The woman was known to have purchased arsenic ; to have expressed a wish that her husband was c dead and stiff ; ' and to have prophesied his speedy demise , though he was then in good health . Arsenic was discovered in the body after death ; and a paper , containing some of that poison , was found in the privy of Speed ' s house . The widow strongly opposed the post mortem examination ; and it was shown that she was intimate with a male cousin who had just returned from sea , aud whom she had formerly promised to marry .

      . Manslaughter at York . — 'Margaret Burns , a girl aged fourteen , has been , killed at York . On Sunday evening , she was standing in the street with another girl , when an Irish youth of the name of Conway commenced throwing beans at the latter . Burns , thinking they were meant for her , remonstrated with Conway , and they commenced fighting . At length Conway struck the girl a severe blow on the breast . She staggered and fell heavily en . the flags , was rendered insensible , and died in about twenty minutes afterwards . The coroner ' s jury has found a verdict of manslaughter against Conway , who has been committed for trial . Charles

      Robbery and Attempted . Murder . — - Heat her , a coalheaver , was brought before tho Southwark magistrate on Wednosday for re-examination , charged with being concerned with others not in custody in breaking into the counting-house of Messrs . Cory and Sons , coal-merchants , Commercial road , Lambeth , and stealing 70 ? . in Bank of England notes and gold and silver , besides several shares in the Crystal Palace Company . Ho was also charged with being concerned in attempting to murder Henry NoweU , tho watchman . The latter person was so cruelly ill-treated by the thieves that ho was unablo to attend to give evidence until Wodnosday , though tho affair took place on tho 2 Gth of Juno . Ho w « s garotted and rendered insonsible by chloroform ; a thick cloth was then fastened over his mouth , and his arms and legs wero tied together . During his insensibility , tho robbery was effected . Heather was remanded .

      Murderous Attack on a Policeman . —Georgo Gymor , a police constable , was taking a boy in custody on Wednesday , when , just as ho reached tho corner of EudeU-stjeet , Long-acre , an Irishwoman of looso character , named Ann Donovan , rushed on him , and , in tho course of a strugglo which ensued , stabbed him Bovoral times in the head and neck . Tlio woman was brought before tho Bow-strcot magistrate on Thursday , but tho officer , who was in Choring-cross Hospital ) waa unable to attond , and the case was therefore remanded . Tirui Fokokby ov Admiralty Navy Pay-Bilcs . —

      Charles Holloway , whp Btanda charged with having uttered a forged navy pay-bill of tho value of 46 / . < fcs ., purporting to bo drawn by Lioutonant W . G . H . Morgan , and endorsed by Captain Charles Frederick and Paymaster II . S . Dyer , lato officers on board her Majesty ' s ehip President , 50 , paid ofl at Chatham , underwent a final examination boforo tho Earl of Darnloy nnd tho county mng > tratoa at Rophostor on Wednesday . Ho was committed for trial , nnd bail was reamed . Two Exkoutionh at Maidhtonh . —Stephen ^ Fox , found guilty of murdering lib sweetheart , and George Kibble Edwards of nmrdorJng his brother , wore hung on

      Thursday morning in front of " the county gaol , Maidstone . Fox , who always admitted his guilt , and expressed great penitence , died calml singing a hymn up to the last moment . Edwards , who only confessed on Wednesday , wasoveroome tfith terror . Death , however , speedily ensued in both cases . The criminals shook hands with one another before being pinioned . Edwards was only eighteen , Fox twenty-three , years old . Fatai . Fight . —A fight between two ' navvies' ill a field between ^ entish-town and Highgate , on Thursday morning , has resulted in the death of one of the men . The other has fled . The neighbourhood was in a state of great alarm during the progress of the fight , which was- « f the most savage kind . The survivor is himself severely hurt .

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      Gatherings From The Law And Poetce Court...

      GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POEtCE COURTS . T ^ ce improper fac ilities for : getting into debt given by traders to young men at the Universities were again exhibited at £ he Insolvent Debtors' Court last Saturday . The case w . as that of Mr . Hard wick Evans , a temporary clerk in the Audit Office , whose debts amounted' to 983 / . 18 s . 10 d ., and were nearly all . sHHrtractedatr-Catribridge . The Chief Commissioner , in gumming up the case , said that " the insolvent had got deeply into debt at Cambridge while an undergraduate . "As he' could not pay , the creditors complained of his condtict . The history of the young man was a very conraxori . one . He had lived at a rate beyond his means , and the parties who had suffered the most were his relatives ; ju fact , his family . After he had been three years at Cambridge , his parents , who were far from being opulent , his . fattier being a clergyman in London , disposed of some funds under their marriage settlement . What was now complained of was that this circumstance had not operated , as might have been expected , in making him prudent in contracting fresh debts . On the contrary , he incurred debts faster than he did before , and he and some of the creditors who had been paid relied no doubt on a second payment of the debts by the father ; but this could not be done . After the insolvent left the University , a situation was obtained for him in a Government office at 100 / . a year . It would have been better if his creditors had let him alone for a time ; but tha landlord of the Bull served him with a writ , on which the insolvent ' s attorney went down to Cambridge , offering to set apart 50 / . a year out of the 100 / ., and the matter was entertained ; but the Bull was ' stern , ' aud it went off . As nothing had been arranged , the _ insolvent was arrested by the hotel-keeper , and , being in prison , the question was how much longer he was to remain there . He ( the

      Chief Commissioner ) could not help saying had been want of caution by the insolvent in contraoting the debts after his friends had paid them once . But was there no want of caution on the part of the creditors ? He thought that most of the want of caution was on their part . There was a jeweller who claimed 50 / . for a necklace , rings , and other things , which the insolvent had given away as presents . Ho ( the Chief Commissioner ) must say that there was no circumstance of discredit in the case , as regarded the insolvent , except tho circumstance of getting into debt . There was no misrepresentation by him . Ho asked a jeweller for an emerald ring , and tho jeweller was fool enough to give it to him . Then there was 561 . for cigars , which the creditor let him have , and ho had no right to complain of the loss . " Tho Commissioner concluded by giving a judgment of four months , under the discretionary clause , from tho 24 th of June , at the suit of two of the creditors . As regards the other debts , Mr . Evans was discharged forthwith .

      Tho well-known gaming-house cose in which one James Adkins , the keeper of ' the Berkeley Clubhouse , ' discreditably figured , was revived last Saturday at tho Crqydon Assizes in connexion -with an interpleader action , tho object being to ascertain wh . otb . or a bfll of sale , executed by James Adkins to the plaintiff , a Mr . L ambert , was a valid instrument , or whothor it was executed fraudulently in order to defeat a judgmont that had boon obtained by the ' defendant ( Mr . Sidobottom ) against Adkins . Mr . Sidobottom , who is a gentleman of fortune , brought an action last Juno in tho Court of Queon ' H Bench against Adkins , who was the keeper of a gambling-house at tho west end of the town , called tho Berkoloy Clubhouse , to recover a sum of GfiOO / ., which ho alleged to have boon won from him at hazard by moans of false dice . Upon that occasion , ho clearly

      ostabliaJUfid that ho had boon plundered at the house in question , and Sir l- 'itzroy Kolly , who appeared lor tho defendant Adkins , consented to a verdict Tor tho sum sought to bo recovered . Judgment was subsequently entered on , and execution wan granted ; but , upon tho sheriff ffolntc to seize tho proporty of Adklns , who occupied a hou » o at Hrompton , culled Wlntowoll-IioiMMi , Mr . Lambert claimed a right to tho whole of the . proper y uudor a bill of salo . Tho Jomho nrul furniture of tno house were valued at 1800 / . Mr . !* " ¦>** *™ «* *«& it— -s « 5

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 22, 1857, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22081857/page/11/