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    y a - sive frauds committed by a clerk of the City Union named Paul , and by a parochial rate-collector of the name of Manini , in . consequence of which a committee of emergency has been appointed to inquire into the matter . The investigation related chiefly to Paul , who has for the last twelve years been carrying on many fraudulent transactions of a very serious character . The Board has engaged one of the most experienced officers of tbe detective police to trace out and apprehend Loth the culprits , for whose capture a reward of 100 / . has been offered ; and notices have been issued in several of the City parishes warning the ratepayers to abstain from paying any more parochial rates until they receive furtier orders from the Board . Mr . . Rowsell , clerk to tbe guardians of the poor , has been suspended , though it is BOt stated that he participated in the frauds .

    A Solicitor in a Mess . —In the course of some investigations iu the Bankruptcy Court into the -affairs of Daniel Greenaway Porter , a wine-merchant , it was alleged that the petition for adjudication was obtained under suspicious circumstances , and , that a debt on an 10 U had been proved against the estate by one William Snell , at the instigation of Mr . George Marshall , solicitor , of Sion College-gardens . An adjourned meeting took place on Monday , when Mr . Marshall denied that he had had any previous conversation with Snell ; but he objected to answer a question whether or not he had had any conversation with the bankrupt . Later in the proceedings , however , he denied the truth of

    the statements of the bankrupt and of a Mr . Bird , who asserted that Mr . Marshall had said " " debts -must be made . " "When exculpating himself before the commissioner , Mr . Marshall ; stated that " a Mr . William Duvall , commercial traveller , was the ouly other creditorwho had proved a debt . The signature ' W . H . Duvall' produced was in his ( Marshall ' s ) own hand-¦ writingj but Duvall had himself-affixed-the second ( or underneath ) signature oil the same paper . It was a mistake his affixing the first signature . Stiell had acted as an attorney , and bis ( Su ell ' s ) name bad been entered-as such . He wished to add that he had never employed Snell on the bankrupt's behalf . " A further adjournment was ordered .

    Manslaughter by a Cabm . vs . —A cabman has been -charged at the Marylebone police-office with causing the death of a young woman who was riding ; in his vehicle with her sister . The evidence gone into was given at great length , but the facts of the case are briefly these : —On the previous night , the cabman , who was drunk , was driving his cab along the New-road , having in it two women , and came into collision with another cab . He was thrown off his seat and lay in the mud stunned , and his horse , which was left to itself , ran away at a furious rate . When near Baker-street , the cab came into collision with an omnibus , which was going to the City , and by the concussion the pole of the omnibus was

    forced into the cab , and from the injuries which-. were inflicted the poor woman died within live minutes after being extricated from the cab . She was removed to the Marylebone Infirmary , where the body remains awaiting a coroner's inquest . It was further stated that tbe cabman was exceedingly violent on his way to the stationliouse , and that he swore repeatedly that , if he had a revolver , such as he had in the Crimea when he was in the Land Transport Corps , he would shoot the constables l ) y whom he was taken , as he did a sergeant in the Crimea , owing to whom he was flogged . He was remanded till Monday next , upon which day a surgeon from the institution will be in attendance .

    Gahoiting is Oxfohi ) Stkkrt . —A singularly audacious instance ofgarotting is related by a correspondent of the 7 'mies , who writes : —" Last evening ( Sunday ) , between eight and nine o ' clock , a young lady -was returning homo from church . Her way lay along Oxfordstreet , and she took the quiet south niclo , apprehending no danger in such a crowded thoroughfare . Just as she was passing Laurie and Mnr ' ner's coach manufactory , a man , whom she had noticed for some , time dodging alongside of her , suddenly seized her by the arms , and pinned them behind her back . At tltc same moment , another fellow rushed forwardj apparently to assist in rifling her . The lady ' a terror was so great that she could not call out ; but , fortunately , at this instant , a policeman turned into Oxford-street from one of the small streets ' , and the vagabonds immediately ran across the street , where they mingled with the crowd , and disappeared ,

    The young lady was brought home in a cab , half-dead with terror and agitation . "—Another outrage still more daring is alao communicated to the Times by a correspondent . The event occurred at about half-past three o ' clock , p . m ., at a house in ( Jurzon-street , Mnyfair , and the facts arc thus related : — "A man came to the liouao with a parcel which ho said was to bo left thoro ; tho woman in charge of the houso told him it was a mistake ; he then pushed by her and said it must be l « ft ; when inside , ho shut tho door , and ho immediately endeavoured to strangle her by placing his arm tightly round her neck ; sho managed , however , to get the door open and scream loudly , which caused the rullian to decamp . " —An attempt to rob an old lady iix Tooley-street , Southwark , by means of tho garotting process , haa failed . About twelve o ' clock at night , a Mrs . Anderton was passing by ono of tho railway arches , when a man

    seized her by the throat , which he twice heavily struck , and then grasped hold of her victoriue with the intention of stealing it . Her sister , who was with her at the time , screamed loudly ; on which the fellow , being frightened , ran away , but was pursued by a gentleman who was passing , and caught . ¦ ¦ 'When brought before the Southwark magistrate , the man said , in answer to the charge , that he was struck first by the lady , who called him very bad names , and then he took hold of her victorine and struck her . Mrs . Anderton denied that she ever saw tbe man until he pounced upon and nearly strangled her . -He-was-committed to . prison for three months , with hard labour .

    Escape of Convicts . —Three . convicts , named James Taylor , James Wright , and Joseph Wright , escaped on Monday night from the Defence hospital hulk , having first obtained possession of the gig belonging to the commander of the vessel ( Captain SVarreu ) , in which it is supposed they sailed down the river in order to land at a secluded spot . Murderous Assaults .- —A case of ' murderous assault was heard before the Bow-street magistrate on Monday . A man named ' 'Regan picked a quarrel ' with one Anderson , who is employed in a fish shop in Lincoln-court , Drury-lane , and struck him . On the following day , he went again to the shop , and boasted of the act , " swearing that he would have Anderson's life before

    night . The master of the shop sent for a policeman- on whiclij . Began went into his own house , a few doors off , provided himself with-a knife and bludgeon , and threatened to " rip open" any one who interfered with him . The policeman who had been summoned , knowing the desperate character of the man , went away for assistance , and returned with another constable . When they arrived , llegan struck Anderson with the bludgeon , and then cried out , " Where is the policeman who will take me ? " Thorne , the first constable fetched , said he would do , so , and immediately , closed "with the ruffian . . The other officer was at this moment attacked by some .-of Regan ' s companions , and was unable to render any assistance , lle ^ an , therefore , was enabled to make a stab at Thorne with the knife , but the blow was stopped by

    the-metal button of the policeman's under coat . Both the constables were then ill-treated by the disreputable characters who bad assembled , and Regan was rescued . Subsequently , however , he was again arrested on a warrant , and has been fully committed . —Daniel Sullivan , a big Irishman , was ' charged , at .-Bow-street with an unprovoked attack upon William Draper , a market gardener . He pushed Draper down into the Toad in hong Acre , and nearly caused him to ba run over by his own cart ; and , when he remonstrated , Sullivan thro ' w a large stone or brick at him , which struck him on the forehead and again felled him . The scoundrel then bent him over the head . w ith tbe ' whip till he was insensible . Sullivan was afterwards apprehended by a policeman , and he has been twice remanded .

    . Tjib KxiFE . r—Knianuel Cooper , a Portuguese seaman , has been examined before the Thames magistrate and committed for trial on a charge of cutting William Robinson , a coalwhipper . Ckimic in Duvonsiiiiu :. —The inhabitants of the town of Xcwton-x \ bbot , South Devon , were much interested List . week by the apprehension of a gang of burgling who have been committing numerous depredations in the locality for some months past . The chief of this gang is John Bray , a tieket-of-leave man , and the other four prisoners ai-e John Hockings , Sarah Brown , and John and William Brown , her two sons . My . stkuiou . s Death op a Youso Lady . —¦ Tho

    daughter of a Mr . Garland , a timber merchant residing at Bunbury , was left by her sister on the railway-bridge on Friday week , in company with a large Newfoundland dog . She did not return hou \ c when expected , and the family became alarmed . Those apprehensions were afterwards increased by the return of the dog , soddened with wet and mire . Saturday passed over without any tidings ; but in the middle of Sunday tbe young' lady ' s body was found in the river Chcrwell , about a quarter of a mile from where she was last seen . Miss Garland was about eighteen years of age .

    Impostuku . —Ihomas Hay ,. ' a square-built and rather corpulent person , apparently about fifty years of age , and described in the police-sheet as a gentleman , residing in St . Mary ' s-squarc , Ivenuington , was placed at the bar of the Mansion House charged with attempting to extort money by threatening language . He was also charged with obtaining money by f : ilsc pretences . A few days ago , ho . went to tho houso of a Mr . Grcatrex , u surgeon in llolbm-n , and told a rumbling story about Major Harvey , a friend of his , who had been upset from a carriage , and seriously hurt . This ho followed up by

    a request that Mr . Grcntrox would lend him "just a little small silver , to save him the troublo of going to the West-end , " for which he offered to give a cheque for 10 / . Mr . Greatrcx recollected that a similar story had been told him some time before by the applicant , and he therefore warned him not to call again , or he would bo given into custody . The man then became abusive , and was handed over to the cure of tho police . It was shown that he was an old impostor , and ho waa remanded , —A gipsy woman , named Jones , has been charged at Southwark with obtaining money under false pretences . Sho went into a cheesemonger ' shop in the

    London-road , and offered to tell fortunes . Very speedily she succeeded in duping the sister of the master of the shop , and a young man who served , though the latter at first said " he didn't want any of her nonsense . " The result w-as that the young woman has been quite insane since , owing to what the gipsy had told her . The accused was remanded for a week . —Elizabeth Gaines , an elderly woman , is under remand at the Mansion House , on a charge of obtaining money from Mr . Cazenove , of the Stock Exchange , by pretending to be in distress , and presenting a letter of recommendation which purported to come from the Rev . Mr . Jenkinson , vicar of Battersea . —Michael Hyams is also under remand at the same office , chargeefwith' defrauding George Forbes , the master of a brig , from Sunderlaud , bv selling him for 37 chain which lie

    . a professod to be gold , but which was , in fact , sham , and not worth more than half-a-crown . Hyams , with astounding impudence , said that Mr . Forbes had cheated him by only giving SI for the chain ; that he did not wish to sell it , and therefore told Mr . Forbes that he ( Hyams ) had stolen it , thinking that would make him give up the idea of purchase ; - -but that , nevertheless , he would have it . When Hyams was told be was remanded , he said : — " why , my lord , am I to be detained ? What have I done ? He has certainly committed an offence , but I have hot . He is a purchaser of stolen goods . At least , he thought he was , and that ' s as bad . " Th « Lord Mayor told the accused that , as he had himself confessed to having stolen the chain , he must be remanded to ascertain to whom it really belongs . .- ;¦'•'¦

    Murder at Lekds . —An Irishman , named Pdley , has murdered another Irishman , named Burns , at Leeds , by striking 1 him ( apparently without provocation ) so violent a-blow on the head with a heavy wooden stool that the skull was smashed . This occurred as long , ago as the 20 th of last July ; but Burns lingered for five weeks , and then expired . An inquest was opened , adjourned from time to time , and only concluded last Moiidav . A verdict of Wilful Murder was returned against Kiley , who has absconded .

    Frightened to ' -Death . —Aboy , fifteen years of age , employed in agricultural- pursuits near Alfreton , has been frightened to death by a trick which was played off upon him by two youths , one about the same age , and the other twenty , who personated a ghost in a field , and threw the other boy into such a state of nervous excitement , that , after-suffering . for some days with delirium , during which he raved ofwhat be had secii , he expired . The coroner ' s jury has returned a verdict of Manslaughter . against the chief of the ghost personators .

    1 > ukglauy- —Two men are in custody , and under remand , charged with tbe burglary at tiie house of . Mr . Bradley , near Sheffield , the particulars of which appeared in the Leader of December 13 th . —A burglary was committed about ton days ago at the resideuce of Lieutenant Stokes , Royal Engineers , Fermpy . One of the thieves left belaud him a pair of trousers , in exchange for a pair of the lieutenant ' s , which he carried off " . This was the cause of bis apprehension . In the pockets of the garments a document was found purporting to-be the discharge of Patrick Shea from the West Cork Artillery . The police knew Patrick Shea as an expert pickpocket ; and he was speedily arrested , together with another man .

    Mr . Justice Willks ui'ox Transportation . —Two men , named Tombs and Parsons , were convicted at Warwick Assizes , on Mondaj ' , of burglary at Birmingham . It appeared they had been old offenders , and sentenced to four years' penal servitude in . 1855 at tho Birmingham Sessions , but the officers of the prison were ignorant of the reason for their being sot at liberty before the expiration of their period of punishment . In passing sentence , Mr . Justice Willes made some observations on the ticket-of-leave system versus transportation . Ho remarked : — " 1 think it is a great hardship upon men who have lost their character by being sentenced to penal servitude to let them Ioo 3 c in a- country where ' persons will not employ them . I cannot understand why , either

    for the sake of the public or tbe sake of yourselves , you , having been sentenced to four years' penal servitude in January , 1855 , should bo lot out to commit fresh depredations , in the same town aa before , in August , 1856 * . Those who did . that act may to themselves justify tho proceeding ; but for my part I cannot justify it , nor can I follow the example set by those persons , for facts have proved the proceeding to be fallacious and injurious to criminals and to the public . You two young fellows are well able to earn an honest lievolihood , and I heartily wish that you could . I hope , for the sake of tho convicts themselves , that we may return to a system wkicb

    sends them out to a colony where labour is iu groat demand , and where they may ( aa muny transports havo done ) regain good characters and become useful members of society . In order to give you a chance of being sent to such a place , in the event of tho former system being renewed—aa many persons , together with myself , fervently hope it will be , —I shall sentence you to bo transported for twenty years . "—The subjoined announcement appears in tho Morniny Star : — " We hoar that orders wero issued on Tuesday from tho Homo OtUcu for tho police to make strict inquiries into the habits of tho convicts now out on tickets of leave , as it ia the intention of Government ' to revoke thcliuciidos of all thqee who havo

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 27, 1856, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27121856/page/7/