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      The Secrets Op The Prison-House. A Commi...

      not swear that , pped before many men before now . ' After her escape , he found her at a house in Blake-street , York , and used force to compel her to return to Acomb . She complained of her comb having been broken into her head . She screamed out , not in pain , but she screamed out . He hid neveT beaten her physically . When he found her in Blake-street , she -was in bed . He broke open the door . His authority for doing so was the fact that , -when he had persons under his treatment , he considered it ilia duty to take every « are of them . He might have called his groom to his assistance in carrying her to the cab . She told him he had torn the sleeve of her chemise offi , She complained of his treading on her foot , and that she was thrust against the bedstead . " It further appeared that she -was denied the use of pen , ink , and paper , and was treated with great harshness .

      Mr . Edwin James , who appeared for the wife , strongly denounced the cruelty to -which she had been subjected by Mr . Metcalfe , and sail that that gentleman " might rest assured that he -would meet with the punishment he so richly deserved . " Mr . Turner ' s counsel , in reply , said that , whatever the result of the inquiry , the husband ¦ would not allow his wife to return to Acomb House after the erne ! treatment she had experienced there . The jurygave a verdict in favour of Mrs . Turner ' s sanity , and appended some remarks calling the attention of the lunacy Commissioners to the management of Acomb House . The Commissioners have already signified their intention of holding an inquiry , which " was to commence yesterday .

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      Poison Cases. E»Wam> Morris, A French Po...

      POISON CASES . E » wam > Morris , a French polisher , living in Wildsstreet , IAverpooJ , has lat & ly died in a -very sudden and mysterious manner . One day in the early part of the present month , he fell from a step-ladder and sprained his foot . He was placed under medical care , and appeared to be going on favourably until about ten days ago , when he complained of a horning : sensation in his stomach . Another medical gentleman was then sent for ; but , on his arrival , the man was in a dying state , being in great agony , and scarcely able to speak . An anodyne and stimulant were administered to him , but -without effect , as he died very shortly afterwards . He was in two burial clubs , and his wife was to receive 201 at his death . One of the doctors vrho attended him in

      his last illness found some antimony mixed with a cougli syrup which he bad given him a few weeks before . A pott-mortem examination of the body was made , and a very small quantity of antimony—scarcely amounting to a grain—was discovered in the Stomach and intestines . This , it was supposed , must have been administered a few hours before he died . The medical gentleman whose services were last called in believed that the accident which the man had met . with was quite sufficient to have caused his death . An inquest was held , and the jury returned a verdict that he " Died from the effects of antimony ; but how , or by whom administered , there is no evidence to > prove . "

      Another case of poisoning , of a much more extensive and alarming- kind , but happily without the same fatal termination , occurred about a week ago at Dublin . Between seven and eight o ' clock in the evening , a number of women were seen rushing along the streets in a distracted state , carrying several apparently half-dead children in their arms . It afterwards transpired that upwards of sixty boys and girls had eaten a quantity of poisonous berries or nuts which had been thrown into the street from the stOTes of Mr . Maghew , a . wholesale corn-dealer on Crampton-quay . The constables at the nearest police-station being informed of the occurrence , most of the sufferers were conveyed in cars , by their direction , to two of the adjacent hospitals . All the children were attacked with spasms in the stomach , and

      retched considerably . For some time it was thought that the effects of the poisoned berries would prove fatal ; but the bad symptoms gradually subsided , and , at a late hour in the night , all cause for alarm had ceased , except in the case of a girl in one of the hospitals . A corn-porter employed by Mr . Maghew has been charged at the College-street police-station by a foreign optician , named Castello , with throwing the berries into tlie public high-way . The man admitted the act , but said he" did not suppose the berries would do harm to anybody . They had come to Ireland in a cargo of foreign wheat , and had been for some time lying in his master's stores ; and lie states that he threw them away to get rid of them . He was detained in custody preparatory to being brought before the College-street magistrate for examination .

      Accidents And Sudden Deaths. Two Weeks A...

      ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Two weeks ago , we related the case of a lady who was burnt to death in the gardens of tho Crystal Palace , owing to her dross having caught flro from a fusee , tho lighted end of whicli was lying on the ground . We called attention to the dangerous habit which some gentlemen have of scattering these perilous things about in public places ; and this week we have to mention two otliei oases of accident to ladies from the same cause . In the first case— -which was at Vauxhnll—Borne ono threw down a piece of lighted paper , with which ho had

      proy ghting a gar ; immediately afterwards a lady stepped backwards on to it . Her muslin dress was at once in flames ; but they -were speedily subdued , and she was taken to Westminster Hospital . —In the second case , the lady in question was walking in the streets , when she set her foot on a fusee , and was soon enveloped in fire . As soon as the names were stifled , she was conveyed to Guy's Hospital , where she lies in a dangerous state . By the neglect of the pointsman at the Willesden junction , the train leaving Euston-squ-nre at four o ' clock p . m ., on Monday , was turned off the main line on to the North and South-Western branch line , and came into collision with some coal tracks . The engine-driver -was killed , and several of the carriages were thrown off the rails ; but the passengers , with one exception , escaped without injury .

      Some few days ago , a number of platelayers were at work on the North-East era Railway between Newcastle and York , when a special train came up . On the driver seeing the men in advance , he sounded his whistle ; but the wind blew the sound in the opposite direction , and the noise made by the men in their operations contributed to prevent their hearing the shrill summons to clear tie line . Accordingly , they were not aware of the advance of the train until it was close upon them . They then became confused , and one of them -was hurled against the train with such violence as to cause instant death .

      A lamentable accident occurred on Saturday , the 17 th inst ,, by the falling in of a portion of the Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s coal stores at the Pieta , Malta . At a quarter to eleven in the morning , when the coalmen were employed in loading a lighter with coals from No . 8 store , the wall dividing it from the adjoining store , No . 7 , being unequal to the pressure of the large quantity of coals contained in It , suddenly gave "way , and a number of the workmen who had not time to escape were crushed to death by the falling mass of stones , coals , and rubbish .

      Criminal Record. Embezzlement Ani> Suppo...

      CRIMINAL RECORD . Embezzlement ani > Supposed Murder . —A seaman named William Thistle , belonging to the Tyne , is in the custody of the Newcastle-on-Tyne police on a charge of embezzling nearly 1000 £ belonging to Messrs . Stevenson and Scott , shipowners , of that town . The circumstances of the charge made against him are peculiar . Messrs . Stevenson and Scott were the owners of a vessel which , during 1857 , sailed from Bombay . A mutiny occurred

      among the crew at a place called Mangalore , and several of the men -were given , in charge and found guilty . A day or two afterwards , the vessel took fire , and the master was burnt , or came to his death by some violent means . Thistle , who was the chief mate , then took the command , sold the ship and stores , and appears to have put the money in his own pocket . lie also drew bills in the names of the owner 3 of the ship . On Saturday evening , he was arrested in London , and has been remanded . '

      Alleged Murdkr at Guernsey . —Nicholas Brouard , a man of sixty-five , has been found guilty at Guernsey , of murder , and sentenced to transportation for life ; but there appears to be a probability of his innocence .

      Gatherings Prom Law And Police Courts. T...

      GATHERINGS PROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . The certificate meeting of James Beagle , upholsterer , of . Bridge-road , ' Lambeth , took place in the Court of Bankruptcy on Monday . The bankrupt ( who was represented by Mr . Lawrance ) had been in business twentyfive years , and had been in the habit of fitting up houses with furniture , keeping them seemingly occupied , and in some instances placing wine in the cellars , and then selling the furniture by auction , as if some gentleman had been residing at the houses . The Commissioner : " What course of business must this bo called ? " Mr .

      Lawrance : * ' The bankrupt for sorne time derived considerable profit from it . " Tho Commissioner : " But latterly it has resulted in a loss . " Mr . Gammon admitted that the assignees , for -whom he nppcarod , and who were creditors fora considerable amount , were quite aware of the course of business pursued by tho bankrupt . Mr . Commissioner Goulburn said that the bankrupt mi ght take a second class certificate , after three months from the 14 th of May . A nice point of law , in connexion with tho revocation of a -will , was decided by Sir Cresawoll Crcsswoll , in the

      Court of Probate , on Monday . The testator , Lieulonan t Jacob , made a -will , which was duly executed ; but , ono day , designing to annul it , ho toro tho several shoots t f paper ( which were then folded together ) very nearly through . He would probably have completed tho severance , but that ho was reminded that , if the will were destroyed , and he died intestate , a lady in whom he was interested would receive , nothing . He therefore checked himself ; and tho question now Vflfl , whether the will was annulled by being partially torn . The Judgo decided in the negative , and pronounced for the validity of the document .

      Jamos Finch , a youth seventeen 3 'oars of age , who was recently in tho service of Mr . Towlor , a cowkeopor and dairyman in Robert-street , Drixton , was charged at tho

      Lambeth police-office , last [ Saturday , ^ th Wiif ,, ii sett . ng fire to a cowshed belonging to Si . lateie . SJS " and pausing the death of seven milch cows , of the value of 150 ? His motive was revenge , because Mr . Towte had sent Inm away with only a week ' s notice . He * 2 remanded . was _ Mr . P . W . Stevens , a sharebroker , residing at the Royal Exchange , was charged at the Mansion-house on Monday , with appropriating to his own uses money with which he had been entrusted . A gentleman of proW named Rooke , gave Mr . Stevens the sum of 6000 / with instructions to puchase London and Brighton Railway shares , and it would seem that Mr . Stevens only s 2 a small proportion of this amount , and that he has appropriated the rest . In the course of the examination Mr . Stevens offered to hand over thebalance to the '

      pro secutor ; but the latter refused to accede to the pronosal After a remand , and further examinaton , the accuse d was committed for trial . Some other charges of fraud were mentioned , but have not been gone into at present A ruffian , named Edward Brown , has made a most savage attack on . Elizabeth Somers , a middle-aged widow , at a public-house in Shoreditch . He was intoxicated , and began by taking indecent liberties with the -woman . When reproved for this , he beat her until she fell senseless on tlie floor . He also kicked and severely injured the policeman who apprehended him ; and for these two assaults he has been sentenced by the Worship-street magistrate to seven months' hard labour On being led away , he thanked the magistrate—probably in bravado .

      Thomas Smith , the schoolmaster charged-with stealing books from the Rev . Henry Stewart Byrth , superintendent of an academy at Bow , has been sentenced by the Thames magistrate to four months' hard labour . The penalty would have been heavier had he not been recommended to mercy by the prosecutor . In palliation of his offence , the accused said that he had only the small salary of 30 / . a year , out of which he had to buy clothes , support his wife and two children , and maintain an aged father and a niece .

      Mr . Combe , tlie Southwark magistrate , was imposed upon on Wednesday by a tale of distress told by one John Lawton , a discharged soldier , who -was brought up accused of haying broken a street lamp . He was dismissed and told to attend again the following day ; but he afterwards obtained from the chief clerk means to take him down to Hull . On Thursday , ah officer from the Mansion House attended , and said that the man was an impostor , and that he had victimised nearly all the police-courts in the metropolis .

      A tall , powerful fellow , named Isaac Russell , has been examined at the Westminster police-office on a charge of violently assaulting , and attempting to robj a labouring man near Cremorne Gardens , between two and three o ' clock in the morning . When taken in charge by a , policeman , ho violently resisted . He was committed for trial . Judgment was delivered on Thursday , in the Divorce Court , by Sir Cressweli Cresswell , on the suit for a judicial separation instituted by the wife of Dr . Cargill , late of Newcastle-on-Tyne , on the ground of wilful desertion without cause , for upwards of two years . The separation was granted .

      . The Assizes. James Seaus Lias Been Tri...

      . THE ASSIZES . James Seaus lias been tried at the DorchcsUr Assizes for the wilful murder of Sarah Ann Guppy , at Stoke Abbott , on the 30 th of April . The girl was a cripple , and lived with her mother in a lonely cottage on the border of the fields . While she was sitting alone there on the day in question , Seale ( who had been previously forbidden the house ) went there , and , during Iiis stay , a scream was heard coming from the house . Seale shortly afterwards left , and was seen by an old woman with his hands and clothes bloody . The woman questioned him , and lie replied evasively ; and ultimately tlic body of the girl was found in the garden with her throat cut . Tho cottage at that time was on firo . Scale ' s motive does not apponr ; but ho lias been found Guilty , and sentenced to death . He is only twenty years of age , but is ft widower .

      Tho new trial of tho S win fen case , to which we referred in our last issue , commenced on Friday week at tho Stafford Assizes , and , after extending over that day , Saturday , Monday , and Tuesday , resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff , Mrs . Swinfen . Tho announcement was received with loud applause , which the lady heard witu great self-possession , though with marked signs of pleasure , and immediately left tho hall , amidst two warm congratulations of her friends both inside and outside tho building . The ense turned on the validity of ft will and the state of mind of tho testator ; but , na tho story is told in our leading columns , wo need not hew ropoat it .

      Tho celebrated case of Leopold Redpath came beforo tho notico of Judge and jury ut tho Cholmsford Assizes , u few dayB ago , in connexion with tho case of Mowatt v . tho Great Northern 1 { nil-way Company . The plaintiff , who was formerly secretary to tho Groat Northoru Railway Company , Bought to recover damages for having boon -wrongfully dismissed from his office . The defendants nut a . great variety of pleas upon tha record , tnu

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), July 31, 1858, page 738, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_31071858/page/10/