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Leader (1850-1860), 28th February 1857, Edition 2 of 2, Page 8, 200 THE LE AIDER. [No. 362, Saturday,

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      The Mormonitks At Ciiksteufriixi ) .—-Se...

      admitted by the officials that large numbers that evening had applied for admission , but , not having an order from the relieving officer in Fenchurch-street , they could not b « taken in . The distance thus necessary to be traversed is about three miles . The Double Mckder at Walworth . —Another examination of Bacon and his wife took place at the Lambeth police court on Wednesday , -when the chief additional witnesses were , Mr . Wendover , an assistant at an ironmonger ' s shop in Bishopsgate-street Without , who said that Bacon purchased a chaff-knife of him on the 24 th of last December ; and Mr . Dixon , a tailor at Stamford , to whom Bacon went on the 4 th of January ( aftet the murder ) , and asked him to repair his trousers , ¦ v vhicli he said had been torn by accident . " While doing it , " continued the witness , "he asked me if I recollected having made a great-coat and other things for Iiim a long time back ; but I told him I "ever

      recollected having made a groat-coat for him at all . He then said , ' You must recollect it ; it was a sort of rough coat ' I replied that I could not call it to mind , upon which he said , ' You will be sure to be called about those clothes—a great-coat and a suit of clothes , which were stolen from my house on the day of the murder , with 71 . in money and a watch . ' I saw him again on the same evening on the platform at the railway station , as he was going to London by the train , and he then said , ' You will do -what I ask you ? It will be doing

      m « a , great kindness , and will do you no harm . Shaking hands with me , he said , ' You will do so , and say nothing to any one . ' What he wanted me to do , was to say I had made the clothes that had been stolen . He said , ' If they find the clothes , there will be no marks about them to swear they belong to me . ' " "While saying these things , he was in a state of the utmost excitement , and could scarcely hold a limb still . He showed Mr . Dixon the picture of the two dead children , and said 3 " Who would ever think that my wife could murder two dear children like these ?"—Both prisoners were

      again remanded fora week . Attempted Mukdek . —An attempt has been made to murder one of the warders in Heading Gaol by a prisoner , one Gorman , a ticket-of-leave man . The warder was struck heavily on the head with a piece of wood ; but ano-ther prisoner succeeded in overpowering the ruffian . ExTfiJtsrvu Burglary in TUB City . —Information has been given to the police of an extensive burglary on the premises of Messrs . Tegg and Co ., booksellers , Queen-street , Cheapside . Property to the amount of several hundreds has been carried away . The burglars , no doubt , were concealed on the premises , as no forcible entrance was made .

      200 The Le Aider. [No. 362, Saturday,

      200 THE LE AIDER . [ No . 362 , Saturday ,

      Gatherings From The Law And Police Court...

      GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Hewht Milward West , a sorter in the General Post Office , has been examined at Bow-street , and committed for trial , on a charge of stealing a letter containing two shillings . It appears he had previously stolen a book which was being transmitted through the post . A . " swell mobsman , " named Henry Moore , well known to the police as an old offender , is under remand at the M arylebone police-office , charged with attempting to extort money from a gentleman ' s footman . The man had gone into a public-house in the New-road , where Moore and some of liis companions came in , and wanted to sell the footman some necktie pins ; but he refused to purchase , saying he had no money . Moore then offered to- lend him money , but this he also declined . One of the men next drew forth some nuts , and requested the footman to pick up one M which he did , whereupon Moore said to the other sharper , " 'iSTow you are a witness that I lent him a sovereign upon the throw , and that he has lost it . " The footman then left , but was followed by

      the sharpers , who Baicl they wanted the sovereign , and Moore asked the servant . where his master kept his plate , which of course tho other "refused to reveal , Moore then threatened to knock his brains out w ith a stone . The men tracked him home , and waited outsido tlie houae , and . the footman , being frightened , gave them a sovereign ; but , a constable coining up shortly afterwards , Moore was charged and taken into custody . He admitted that ho had received the sovereign , and produced it , but ho violently resisted being apprehended . Mash notoa and cards -were found in his possession . ITho case was adjourned for further evidence .

      Two pawnbrokers have been fined each forty shillings and . costs , by the Worship-street magistrate , for advancing money upon property pledged by a little p ; irl who had robbed , her futher . The law intliota a Jino upon any pownbroker receiving goods from a person apparently under olxtcon years of age . Tho Southwnrk magistrate was engaged last Saturday for several hourd in investigating charges of a very serious nature against two of tho wealthiest hide merchants nnd glue manufacturers in tho district of tlio court . Four labourers were charged with stealing upwards of eight hundredweight of hido-piocea from tho premises of Mr . Arthur Waring , hido merchant , Spa-road , 13 eimondscvy ; nnd Messrs . Jnmcs Proctor and Alfred 15 evington appeared on summonses charging tliem with receiving tho same from one , of tho prisoners , knowing tliom to bo stolen . Iu tho latter part of January , Mr . Waiinu

      closed his yard owing to the severe frost , and robin ( one of the accused ) was among the men he discharged . He was seen afterwards leaving Mr . Waring ' s premises with bundles of hide-pieces , but the persons who saw him believed he was still in employ . ® n tue 29 th and 30 th of Januarv , he hired a cart [ of a greengrocer , living in the Spa-road , and conveyed a number of bundles of hide-pieces from Mr . Waring's premises to Messrs . Proctor and Bevington ' s , hide merchants and glue manufacturers , in the Grange-road , to whom he sold them at a much lower price than the then market value . The defence was that Messrs . Proctor and Bevington believed the transaction to be bond fide and honest , and that the regular price had been given fox the pieces . The case , however , was sent for trial , and the members of the firm were held to bail to appear and answer the charge at the sessions .

      An action has been brought at the Lancaster Spring Assizes ( which commenced on Thursday week ) for an assault committed by one of the county magistrates on another . A difference of opinion occurred between the four magistrates officiating ¦ at the Haslingden Petty Sessions respecting the renewal of a public-house license to a woman whose husband was in a lunatic asylum . The plaintiff ( Mr . John Hoyle ) and another magistrate were in faVour of renewing the license ; the defendant ( Mr . Ralph Holden ) and the fourth magistrate -were against it , on the ground of the woman having allowed some men to toss in her house for a pot of beer . The

      fourth magistrate , being the senior and the chairman , gave the casting vote ; on which Mr . Hoyle observed that he saw no more harm in two poor m « n tossing for beer than in a m agistrate tossing for the price to be paid for some of his land . Mr . Holden asking for an explanation , Mr . Hoyle said he alluded to him ( the defendant ); and it would seem that he also used very abusive language , and-shook his fist in Mr . Holden's face . The latter then struck Mr . Hoyle "with his stick , and knocked him downf causing him to faint with the pain . The defence rested on the great provocation received . The jury gave a verdict for Mr . Hoyle ; damages , 40 s . The Judge refused to certify for costs .

      Some petty gambling transactions between two clerks were revealed in an action in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , brought by a young man residing with his mother at Fulham , to recover 201 . 11 s . for money lent and paid for the \ tse of the defendant . The defendant pleaded various pleas , and amongst them one that Hi . 11 s . of the amount was won by gambling . Mr . Serjeant Ballontine said that the plaintiff and defendant were formerly fellow clerks in the Law Union Fire Insurance Office , and that the present action arose out of some gambling transactions between them . He proved , the plaintiff ' s case "by the production of two I O U ' s , one

      dated July 7 , 1855 , for 8 Z . Us ., and another dated August 10 , 1835 , for 121 . Mr . Hawkins , for the defendant , complained that the plaintiff had not been called to explain the transactions . The defence was , as regarded the I O U for 81 . 11 s ., that it was given for a gambling debt incurred by losses in playing at cricket and billiards at Chalk Farm , and by a bet against the Lord of the Isles , a horse ¦ which won the 2000 Guineas Stakes at Newmarket . A defence was also set up against the remainder of the claim . The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 12 / ., considering that the other I O U was given for a gambling debt .

      Mr . Edward Holmes Bahlock , M . P ., was summoned at the Westminster police-court on a charge of assaulting William Hulman , a man in the employment , of Mr . Sparkcs Hall , the Queen ' s bootmaker . Hulman was witli his master in his dog-cart on Saturday , February 14 th , when they observed Mr . Baldock talking to Lord Newport , in Iliillun-strcet , Belgrave-square . A clog was standing by , which Mr . Hall thought had onco belonged to him ; and he and Hulman got out of the chaise , and requested to be allowed to look at the animal . Mr . Baldock said the dog was his ; but Mr . Hall still exhibited some doubt , and expressed a wish to examine the dog . Hulman then stooped down and began looking at the collar : when Mr . Baldock struck him with his cane .

      The injury , according to the man himself , was serious ; but a medical gentleman , to whom ho went some four or live days afterwards , said the . bruise was but slight . After this assault , Mr . Hall demanded Mr . Baldock ' s card , but it wus refused . A policeman , was then spoken to ; but he would not take tho gentleman into custody . Mr . Hall subsequently called at Mr . Baldock ' s houso , when ho refused to give an apology . The tradesman was again assured that the dog wuh Mr . Baldock ' but ho expro .-sed incredulity , though , at the examination bofore the magistrate , he admitted that very likely tho dog did belong to its present owner . Tho magistrate thought the charge was n Blight one , and tliut Mr . Hall had acted very improperly . He inflicted a line of two ahillinga nnd costs ; in nil , four shillings .

      An old man , named William Wilson , was charged at the Bow-street policu-ollicc with obtaining money from Lord ltukoby under false pretences . l £ nrly in January , Wilson called on his lordship with a letter , purporting to bo written by a woman whom ho ( Lord Rokoby ) hud formerly known , named Louisa Duke . Tho letter contained a very piteous ( ale of tho writer ' s present circumstances , and stated tha . t the bearer , Mr . Wilson , although ho w «» himself very poor and had a largo

      family to keep , had greatly assisted her in her troubles and had saved , her from going without a dinner on Christmas-day . The note also & aid that the writer was only just recovering from a severe attack of paralysis and that she knew not how to pay her rent , her land ' lord having threatened to turn h « r out ; and though she was well aware that she had no claim , on Lord Rokebv she hoped that he would help her in her destitute conl dition . As Lord Rokeby fully fcelieved the contents of the letter , every word of which was confirmed by Wilson who pleaded Mrs . Duke ' s cause with great earnestness his lordship handed him 5 / . for her relief . He called upon . Lord Rokeby again on two subsequent occasions , bringing with him each time a letter from . Louisa Duke written in a very similar strain to the first , info rmin g his * lordship that the writer ' s health -was growing daily worse and worse . The second time , his lordship gave Wilson . 3 / more for Mrs . Duke ; but , on the occasion of his third visit ' having previously entertained some suspicions as to the

      nature of the case , he desired tbe man to meet him at a particular hour on a certain day , at the Wellington barracks . One of the letters "being dated from Felixstreet , Lambeth , Lord . Rokeby went there to make inquiries , and learned that no one of the name of Louisa Duke lived there . He therefore communicated with Sir Richard Mayne , who sent a couple of detective officers to the Wellington barracks . Wilson met his lordship at the appointed time , wlien the latter told him he had ascertained that no such persoa as Mrs . Duke lived at the place mentioned in the letter . Upon this , Wilson confessed the fraud , and offered to repay Lord Rokeby the 8 ? . if he would not prosecute him ; but he was given into custody . The magistrate was about to commit the accused for three months ; but , a police inspector in court having said that he believed he could bring forward other charges of a similar kind against him , he was remanded .

      William Darley , a boy about thirteen years of age , and dwelling with his mother in Star-street , Commercial road East , was brought before Mr . Yardley , at the Thames ; office , charged with stealing a 50 / . Bank of England note ; and Morris L / ipman , a Jew , and describedjasa general dealer of Petticoat-laue , Whitechapel , was charged with feloniously receiving the note , - well knowing it to be stolen . The money belonged to the boy Darley's mother , and the lad took it to another toy , named Sharp , who told him the note was for bol , Darley believing it -was only a 51 . note . Sharp then disposed of the note to the Jew , Lipman , who it would seem gave only 21 . for it . A great familiarity with thieves' slang and with thieves themselves was exhibited by Sharp , who was only fourteen years of age . The accused were remanded for a week .

      A case arising out of the Sadleir frauds was tried , iu the Court of Exchequer on Tuesday . Mr . Ginger , the plaintiff , a farmer at Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire , sought to recover damages from the defendant , Mr . Law , for an alleged fraudulent representation as to the value and condition of certain shares in the Tipperary Bank as an investment , and the honesty of a prospectus and balance-sheet relating to the same , on the faith of which the plaintiff had purchased forty of such shares . The representations of tlie defendant were treated in the second count as the foundation of a contract for the breach of which the plaintiff sought to recover the purchase-money , amounting to 500 / . A third count was for money had and received . The defendant pleaded

      not guilty ; a denial of the allegation that the plaintiff was induced to buy the shares through his representations ; and never indebted as to the money count . Mr . Ginger , in his evidence , swore that he bought the shares under the belief that they were old shares , not a new issue . It appeared that the Tipperary uank issued certificates of shares in blank ; and Mr . Kelly , tho manager of the bank , said , in his cross-examination : — " The books showed a capital of 100 , 000 / . paid up . John Sadleir owed 120 , 000 / . to the bank , which was treated as capital . At the meeting of 185 G , a prospectus wus

      put forward with the names of tho additional directors . I spoke to him about it , and he said he had their authority . The whole was a fraud concocted between James and John Sudleir . " A consultation between the counsel on both sides finally led to an agreement , one of the terms of which was an undertaking on the part of Mr . Law to refund to the plaintiff and all the other English shareholders the sum received by him by way of commission , and for the transfer stamps which never were used . The Chief Baron then directed 1 lie jury to nnd a verdict for the defendant . Both Judge and jury

      expressed their , strong disapproval of the practices resorted to by the Tipperary Bank . Tho case of Smith v . Lakeman , which had already occupied the Court the whole of three days , was resumed in the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Thursday morning :. It was an issue directed to bo tried by tho Lord J ustice . s of Appeal in Chancery , and tho questions of fact raided for tho decision of the jury related to tho genuineness of certain documents which disclosed tho state of accounts between tho parties , who had heeii jointly engaged in extensive mining and railway spcculi * - tion . s . ' At a previous stage of the case , the facts were laid before our readers . The jury now found for tho defendant on all tlie issues . Lord Campbell fully coucuiTed iu tho verdict .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 28, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28021857/page/8/