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      The Condemned Italian Seamen. Sir George...

      ivere exclaiming in Italian at the top of their voicesi itid in tones which created the most painful excitement imong all who heard them , the drop fell , and iu a few moments the bodies of the men were hanging lifeless . Mr . George Bowyer has written to the Times to complain that a system of prosely tism was adopted towards the unhappy men by the chaplain and other authorities of Winchester gaol . According to this gentleman , tho

      love of life was so strong ia tlie convicts , especially Pietrici , that they renounced their former faith in the belief that by becoming ; Protestants they would propitiate the Government and lead to a commutation of their sentence . They had been provided with two priests of their own faith ; but the chaplain brought in the interpreter Ferretti , formerly a Roman Catholic , but now a Protestant , and through hini made a perpetual crusade against the faith of the foreign prisoners . " The effects of these efforts , and of th < s terror of death and the hope of clemency , " says Mr . Bowyer , " soon became visible . Barbaalo received the priest ( the Rev . Mr . Stone ) with declarations against Roman Catholic doctrines , and then , with curses and blasphemy , and

      imprecations , and shocking gestures , he afterwards refused to see the priest . The others showed symptoms of the same altered state of mind . The priests could bring them to no feeling of repentance or devotion . Their thoughts and hopes were all bent on this world . Their faith in their own religion had been shaken , but they had not been brought to repentance by the chaplain . Then came the final answer from the Home-office , that they must die . The wretched men were thunderstruck . Barbaalo , finding that there was no ho [ ffe of a respite , sent fox the priest ( the Rev . BIr . Stone ) . Tavo Italian pr iests also attended , Dr . Fan di Briiuo and Dr .

      Baldacconi , and by the joint efforts of the Roman ' Catholic clergy Barbaalo and T ^ agava were brought to repentance , and to receive the rites of the Church on the very day before their execution . " Hot so Pietrici ; but it is said , according to Mr . Bowyer , that he did , in fact , after all , go out of the world a Romau Catholic . , " An application , "; continues Mr . Bowyer , " had previously been made through me to the Home-office , praying that tinder the circumstances some further time might be allowed for the miserable men to prepare for death . But this was refused , on the ground that there was no precedent for it—a rather strong instance of the red-tape system ! " : " ¦¦ : ' ' ¦ ' ' - '¦ - . - . ¦ ¦ ¦ " ¦¦ ¦ ' . ' . "¦ - ¦ . ¦

      1230 The Leader. [No. 353, Satubdav

      1230 THE LEADER . [ No . 353 , Satubdav

      The Winter. Assizes. George Ball Pleaded...

      THE WINTER . ASSIZES . George Ball pleaded Guilty at Lewes to a charge of breaking into the house of Colonel Windham at Brighton , and stealing a workbox and other articles . While waiting for trial at the Lewes prison , he simulated madness so successfully that he deceived two medical men and three of the visiting justices , and a certificate was about to be signed for his removal to a liiuatic asylum , when he imprudently made a confidant ofoneof hisfellowprisoners , and admitted that his conduct was all a sham , and thus the attempted deception was discovered . He was convicted of robbery at Leicester in 1851 , Was sentenced

      to ten years' transportation , and removed to Dartmoor prison , where he remained for some time , and was then sent to Millbank prison . He there also feigned insanity , and succeeded in deceiving the medical officers of the prison , who certified that he was a lunatic , and he was removed to Bethlehem Hospital , where he remained two years , when he was supposed to be cured and was sent back to his old quarters at Millbank , whence he was discharged under a ticket of leave in April of the present year , and nothing more was heard of him . from that time until the commission of the present offence . He was now sentenced to transportation for fifteen vears .

      James Clout , a young man of nineteen , pleaded Guilty to a burglary at tho house of a working man . It also appeared that he had set fire to the house , in order to conceal the first offence . He was condemned to six years * penal servitude . Joseph Pahner pleaded Guilty to stealing a letter containing money . Mr . Creasy , who appeared for the prisoner , said he was instructed to state to the court that he had borne a respectable character up to the time of this transaction , and that he had on several occasions handed over property which had accidentally come out of letters in the office . He had also communicated to the Postmaster-General a plan he had devised for preventing the plunder of letters passing through the Postoffice , and the PoBt-office authorities had communicated with him upon the subject . Ho hoped that the

      knowledge of these facts would induce the court to pass a more lenient sentence than was usually inflicted in cases of thia kind . Mr . Baron Bramwell , however , sentenced him . to four years' penal servitude . Thomaa Jupp , a toy of fourteen , was tried for a highway robbery , with , -violence , upon George lteed , and stealing from him threepence . Reed waaa lad of the same ago as the accused , and being one day out with a truck , m company with Jupp , the latter turned the truck into a ditch , andsata that he would have Reed ' a money or hia life . Ho then knocked tho fcoy down , and took away the threopenoe already mentioned . It appeared that Jupp was already known aa a bad character , and had once before been convicted of felony . He waa therefore aentenced to one month ' s impTiaonnoent , the last week to be passed in ( solitary confinement } after that , fco be kopt

      five years in . a reformatory , where liis parents are tocouj tribute towards his maintenance .

      Middlesex Sessions. William Olive, A Pai...

      MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . William Olive , a painter , has been found Guilty of an indecent assault upon Elizabeth Spicer , a little girl only nine years of age , in the Regent's Park . Senteuce was deferred . Two women , named Jane Berry and Ann Butler , were brotight up last Saturday from the House of Detention under the following circumstances : —On Tuesday week , two prisoners , named Casey and Sullivan , were convicted of a street robbery and ; -sentenced to four years' penal servitude . When the prosecutor gat into the hall of the building , lie and the policeman were assailed by a number of persons , friends of the prisoners , with the most scandalous abuse . The two women now before the court were the principals in the matter ; and their language , which was of a horrible description , brought tlie proceedings of the court to a standstill . They swore many oaths that the prosecutor should be murdered before night . Tu . e officers brought them before the Assistant-Judge , who ,, after taking evidence of what they had uttered , decided upon committing them for contempt . They were now brought up to be dealt with for that offence , and , after being severely rep ' rinianded , they were ordered to be kept in prison eight days .

      Moke Frauds On Tius Gukatt Xoimreitn¦Rai...

      Moke Frauds on tius Gukatt XoimrEitN ¦ Railway . — -Thomas Hogben , a clerk in the service of Messrs . Field , Sou , and Wood , stockbrokers , of Wnrnford-court , Throgmorton-street , City , was brought up before the Clerkenwell magistrate , iu the custody of Mr . Williams , the inspector of the Great Xorthern Hail way , pu the charge of being concerned with Leopold liedpath in the forgery of a signature to 1000 / . 4 ^ per Cent . Consolidated Preference Stock of that line . Messrs . Field , Son , and Wood were the principal stockbrokers of liedpath , and upon their evidence and that of Mr . George Sydney Hammond , the adopted sou of Redpath , the prosecution mainly relies . Mr . Mowatt , the secretary of the

      company , having his suspicions aroused , looked into the transfer-book , and , ascertaining that llogbeu had been the attesting witness to a document purporting to transfer 1000 ? . -1 J per Cent . Stock of the Great Norlhem Railway from Redpath to Mr . Stephen George Hammond , he went , in company of Mr . Williams , and took the accused into custody . The signature of Mr . Hammond was in the handwriting of Redpath ; the attesting witness was Hogben , and he admitted that he had signed his name to the document , adding that he thought at the time the signature of Mr . Hammond was genuine . He was remanded till Wednesday ; but bail was accepted . On that day , he was committed for trial , together with Redpath and Iveut .

      Foijgery . —Anthony Hood , a young man respectably connected , was brought up at Southwark , charged with obtaining the sum of 10 / . from Mr . Burrell , the landlord of the Bridge-house Hotel , Wellington-street , London-bridge , by means of a forged draught upon Messrs . M'Grigor and Co ., Charles-street , St . James ' s , army agents , purporting to be drawn by Lieutenant JaineaD . Dundas , of the 60 th Rinc 3 , at present stationed iu Bengal . He was also charged with having several other forged draughts in his possession , and uttering some to various tavern-keepers at the West-eud . He waa remanded for a week . Moke HANOiNG .- ^ Calcraft , last Saturday , hung William Jackson at Chester , for the murder of his two children . The man died with many expressions of penitence . The last previous execution at Chester was as many as eight years ago .

      Plundering a Wbeck . —Six men were charged , a few days ago , at the Arkiow Petty Sessions , with attempting to plunder the cargo of a vessel named the Irrawaddy , which was stranded on the Blackwaterbank on the night of the 18 th of October . It waa proved that four hundred or five hundred armed meu , among whom were the accused , - went to the place wore the vessel was stranded , threatened tho captain , and succeeded in taking oft" a part of the cargo . Tlie magistrates inflicted a fine of 601 . on each , or , in default , six months ' imprisonment .

      Attempted Suicjudk by a Woman . —A young woman , named Emma Jones , was charged at the Thames police-office with attempting self-destruction . A policeman was called into the shop of a chemist and druggist in Shad well , where the woman had asked to be supplied with some poiaon , and been refused . She was very ill , and admitted having already taken threepenny worth of sugar-of-lead , which , she hud purchased at different shops . According to a statement made by the gaoler of the court , the poor creature had been on the town ever

      since she -waa eleven years of age ; but ho bad never known her to be disorderly . The policeman was directed to take her to an asylum , and to boo after hor comforts . The Murduiusr , Diodjca Ukdanius . —The trial of Dedea Redanicg for tho murder of tlie two girla , Maria and Caroline Back , has taken place , and haa ended in tho accused being found Guilty and sentenced to death . The particulars of this extraordinary case were fully narrated in tho Leader of August Oth and 28 rd . The uinn seems to be of disordered intellect ; as a proof of which , it may bo mentioned that be . recently gave to the pcurgon

      appointed to watch over him a pencil drawing of the muroW as a < niemento . ' It Ls done on a sheet of common * 2 *' paper aud . is divided into two ' scenes , ' represeutw * ™ syeclivcly the murder of each girl , bii the ontsfde £ se en the figure of a woman lying on the ground under a palm-tree , with blood issuing from woundt iu her boso ' while above is the representation of an au « Bl ™ i , - supposed to be conveying the soul of the girl to he »™^ The rising sun is depicted iu the ¦ btt ^ uVul " aSd !^ the murder was committed shortly before live o ' il t ^ the morning , this is probably a faithful represent ^ - 1 » the scene . There is an inscription underneath of « Jlf well , my dear Maria—Dedea lledanies . " o » U . p \ tl half of the sheet is represented the death of CajolL ? £ murder's sweetheart ; aud here the girl is drawn « 8 £ S 5 " * % J * feisty . ^ o hi- left 12

      ^ round hor waist , and his right hand in hers , " bidding hS an eternal farewell , as the convict himself expressed it Blood is seen issuing from wounds in her bosom -6 iit 1 , I ground is the kuiie , covered with blood , while above are the palm-tree and angel , as iii the other > Se Thetn scription . here is , " Death of Caroline Hack , tVoin Dedea Kedanie . s oi' ^ th August , 18 . 3 d . Farewdl , my dear Carohue . kedauioa has entirely recovered . from tlie wound * which he gave himself ou being apprehended . . 1 ho : local papers report that he has g ~ t quite stout lhat uto say , he has boon fattened and made healthv for the gallows . He is to be hung on New Year ' s Dav and Mansell , the soldier , will sulfur- at . the same time

      :. Thk Orm-UiKAT BiuGHToN . — Charles llemieh the young gentleman charged , at Brighton with stabbing a woman iu the streets , was again brought-up last Saturday , when the injured girl gave her evidence against him and he was committed for trial . The girl is progressing favourably , but was still in great pain when at the police-pilice . The youth was tried at Lewes on Tuesday and found Guiltyj on which the judge seuteiieed him to one year ' s hard labour . Change or . Fraud as-jl >; For <; i : iiy a <; aixst a Pouch

      SLi ' iciii-vncNUKNT . —The North Shields superintendent of police , Mr . liobert Mitchell , lias suddenly disappeared , and is charged by . ' . the-watch committee \\ it h fraud and forgery . In consequence of suspicious circumstances which had transpired , the committee determined to examine hid accounts , but , immediately buforc they closed their first-evening ' s sitting , the superintendent made off . The committee have discovered that Mr . Mitchell has forged the names of several of the lire brigade and of the police force to pay-sheets , and -appropriated the money to his own ' use . ¦ * - .:.

      MiiitriiYii Tvx > viL Stabbixg Cas ' ic ..: —Joseph- Pearco , who was savagely attacked on the niglit of the ICtli inst ., has expired in great aguny from the injuries received . .. ¦¦ ' .. ' . A Dasgeuous IIoax . —Several of the AVest Riding papers give an account of the shooting of a burglar by a woman' who believed her house was about to be attacked by rubbers . It turns out that no robbery was intended , but only a joke . A surgeon who lives in the neiglibourhood of the woman's residence wua in the habit of paying visits to hor occasionally , lie was on some such errand on the morning of Friday week at about two

      o clock , and was followed by two or three boon companions , who had been spending the evening with him , and who made their appearance just as lie was endeavouring to obtuiu admittance to the woman ' s house . She , being Alarmed at the noidc they made , opened her chamber window , and , hearing them aiy something about going rouud to the back dour , lired a hordepistol at one of the intrudei'M , who instantly fell , aud was noon afterwards removed by his comrades . " The wounded man is the surgeon alluded to , and ho is rather seriously injured in the neck , where tlie contents of the picitol principally lodged .

      Smuggling Tobacco . —A man named William ( jtoioy has been examined before the magistrates at Southampton on a charge of having smuggled twenty-six hundred ' weight of tobacco at the village of Woudmill , about three miles distant . A large quantity having been seized a short time since , an ollicer of the customs at Southampton went to the house of Gorey , aud commenced a search . When the latter was aceused of concealing the tobacco on his premises , he admitted having done so , but > vaa very sorry , and oflercd to show tlie oilicer where the smuggled property was hidden . He therefore' took him to his bedroom , where , behind a partition , thirty-two bales of cured tobacco were found , anil in another part of the room a bale of stalk , which (» oiuy said he had placed there to dry . Besides these , thuonieor discovered with

      in the house not less thau lii'ty-one tin eases Jilled tobacco , aud one wita shug . On being interrogated as to how ho obtained possession of those , Gorey replied that ho had tuken clmrge of them at tho rarest of sonic persons who said tlie roads were ho bad that they could not travel with the tobacco ; but ho ( Gorey . ) greatly repented having done so . His HoKcitor in court argued that the accused had not committed the act with any intention of defrauding the customs , but had merely done it iu thoughtless compliance with the request which had been made to him . After a brief deliberation , the niagiatrutea Haiti that they saw no reiiBon for mitigating tu 0 penalty in the least dogrec , and thoroforo convicted Goroy hi thu full amount of 1589 / . 5 b . Fhaudm in i-iiii ! Cit y ov London Umion . — -Tho Bonn

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 27, 1856, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27121856/page/6/