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    minutes after came put again with several pairs of boots ¦ with -which he hurried ofiV after replacing the hasp s as to avoid suspicion , of the way in which the robber ; had been effected . The policeman let him get shortl ; ahead , and then followed him until he entered a neigh bouring street , where he v ^ as joined by the woman Kirh with whom he walked till they got to Plough-court Whitechapel , when , as the male prisoner was handin , over tie stolen property to his female companion , th " detective" stepped in between them and secured both On searching the woman ' s lodgings , he discovered ; trunk containing an extraordinary number ef duplicate relating to boots and shoes pledged at various shor intervals since the month of January last ; and anothe constable also produced a small bag containing severa more duplicates relating to the same kind of property which the female prisoner had dropped beside her wbil on the road to the station . At least twenty pawn brokers , and assistants of pawnbrokers were in attend ance at the police-court , with a vast quantity of boot and shoes which had been pledged at their houses ; but although Mr . Ruddock , on identifying them , estimate * their value at about 40 / ., he stated that this was only . portion of his loss , as there were still about one hundre < pairs unaccounted for . Forgery . — "Wilhelm Sternfeld , a person of respect able appearance , who described himself as a merchant at present residing at 32 , Wilson-street , Finsbury , ha been charged at Guildhall with absconding from Stettin in Prussia , after stealing 5002 ., forging bills to th amount of 2000 ? ., and embezzling bills of lading , witl intent to defraud Messrs . Pollock and Co ., merchants o Mincing-lane , who have a branch of their establishmen at Konigsberg . When the prisoner was arrested , a lette was found upon him , in which are the following singula passages : — " Your system of forging bills , sending then into the world , and relying on other people to take then up , displeases me greatly . The limited confidence whiel I ever paid you is thus thoroughly shaken and vanished and I have no hesitation in prognosticating to you s disgraceful future , although I wish you prosperity fron the bottom of my heart , and have cautioned you verj often . .... You desire us to do things whicl are beyond our reach . You know that we have acceptec bills for you already to the amount of 3300 dollars including other claims ; it is , therefore , very inconsiderate on your part to request that we should comply with anything more . It appears yoff endeavour tc throw the entire burden of your liabilities upon us ; and even if we were to submit to it , it would not relieve your predicament I appeal to your conscience : do not deceive yourself in your affairs , and do not elicit things from us which our solemn duty dictates to decline ; do not forget that our existence is entirely at ypur mercy already . We have induced the manager of the discounting bank to retain the bill till to-morrow ; mind , therefore , you send the money , so that we may save you from the brink of destruction . " Sternfold was remanded , and , on the following day , he was discharged , the offence having been committed out of the jurisdiction of this country . Shortly after leaving the court , however , ho was arrested by a sheriff ' s officer , and taken at once to Whitecross-street prison . Fraudulent Pretences . — -Charles de Fleury , a tall , well-dressed , respectable-looking Frenchman , said to be related to a family of distinction in the French empire , and who described himself as a civil engineer connected with a company called the French and English Canal Company , is under remand at the Soutliwark police-court , charged with obtaining 70 , 000 firebricks , valued at 3001 ., from Mr . John Patrick Traquair , fire-brick merchant , Banksidc , under false and fraudulent prctonces . Woman Beating . —This execrable crime appears , if possible , to be increasing . Cjjn ,. Monday last , no less than six coses of violence to women came before the various police magistrates of the metropolis . —At Worship-street , Michael Newman , a brickluycr , was sentenced to six months' hard labour for knocking his wife about till she was insensible . On finding her in this condition , he remarked , " I've cooked her goose for . her now . " The poor woman said she had been married twenty-eight years , and had been constantly ill-used during that time . A witness called by . the man in his defence merely helped to prove the case against him . —At the Marylebone office , William Beer , a man not more than four feet high , was fined twenty shillings , or sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment , for an assault upon a young woman , named Annie Eaves . It was shown that he waa drunk , and that h <> had no provocation given him for the outrage . — Thomas Toome , a " navvy , " was charged at Clerkemvell with Assaulting his wife . It appeared that he seized her by the hair , knocked her head against the floor and wall , and kicked her . Owing to her husband ' s treatment , her milk had been affected ; she was unable to support her infant , and it would probably die . She had boon married four years , and had often boforo boon Hl-uscd * Toome was sentenced to six months' hard labour . - — Edward Cfillings , a strolling player , was sentenced at Lainbtith to a fine of 8 / ., or one month at Wandsworth , for beating his wife and knocking her through a , window . —rAt the Thames office , Johnson David Stubbs , a tobaccomflfc w « 8 charged with a similar offence . The wife , nocordkig to i her own Admission , went to bed not quite

    » , sober , and was awakened by her husband beating hei 0 with such violence that she threw herself out of the y window , and her little girl also flung herself out . y Neither was seriously hurt by the fall . . The prisoner , - who alleged his wife ' s drunkenness as his excuse , was z- sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard i- labour . — -Robert Tomlinson is under remand at the same g office , charged with kicking a pregnant woman in the e abdomen , without any provocation . Some doubt , howl . ever , appeared as to whether the kick was not accidental . a _ A wife has been beaten to death at Wigan . Both the s victim and her husband had been drinking until a late t hour of the night , after attending a funeral ; and the r fatal blows were given in the street . J Alleged Mdedbe at Nottes gham . —Johanna Dut-- , ton , the wife of a farmer , is in custody at Nottingham , e under suspicion of drowning her daughter , a child about - three years old , who had been previously subjected to :. great ill-usage . s Muedebs and Suicides . —A woman named Kussell , ; , residing near Bilston , Staffordshire , has murdered her 3 son , a boy four years old , by cutting his throat . She a immediately cut her own throat , inflicting such a severe d wound that the surgeon states her recovery to be impossible . It is imagined , that she also intended to kill - her two other children . The only assignable cause for ; the act is a depression of spirits from which the poor s woman has been recently suffering . —At Wednesbury , 1 in the same county , a woman named Budd , the mother e of three c hildren , killed the youngest child , two years i old , and herself , by jumping into the canal . Her body f was found in the canal with the child locked in her arms , t In this case , the cause alleged is that she had spent some r money with which her husband had intrusted her , and r that she was afraid to meet his reproaches . —On Friday i week , a woman named Mary Davis , aged twenty-three , i drowned herself at Lea-brook , near Bilston , from disapi pointed affection . Murder of a Woman at Hereford . —The number i of murders committed in different parts of the country i within the last two months has been almost unparalleled ; 7 and to those already known we have now to add anj other . Some workmen employed on the Hereford city I improvements went into a disreputable part of the town called Bowsey-lane . This locality is mostly inhabited - by abandoned women ; and the men , who were iatoxi-• cated , burst suddenly into one of the houses and into a i room where there was a girl in bed . She Was dragged [ out , and kicked by the ruffians , apparently without the ¦ least provocation . She screamed loudly for help ; but , before she could get any assistance , the men succeeded in dragging her into an adjoining house , which they forcibly entered . Here a quarrel ensued with the young woman who kept the house , and whom they beat in a most savage manner with a rolling-pin . The screams of the two women , together with the outcries of the crowd which had by this time assembled , alarmed the police , who , hastening to the spot , succeeded , after a desperate contest with the " navvies , " in apprehending four of them . The others escaped in the general confusion . The girl who was dragged out of bed has since died in great agony . Another man , supposed to be connected with the affair , was apprehended on Sunday . A Lunatic . —At the Lambeth police-court , a man named John Day , who described himself as a patentee for the prevention of burglaries , charged his son , William Day , with stealing an American clock and a French dial . It appeared that the clock had been sent by a relative to the father , who was of unsound mind and had been confined in a lunatic asylum , in order to be repaired by the son . The dial had been left by the elder Day himself at a chandler ' s shop as a security for some money ho owed there . These facta having been proved , the prisoner waa discharged . On his representing tp the magistrate that his father had already apprehended him several times on charges as false as the present , and seemed determined to ruin him , Mr . Elliott advised the young man to send his parent , whose reason was clearly deranged , back to a lunatic asylum , Daniel Loudan has been committed for trial on the charge of murdering his wife . Tiik Belleisle Nuisances . —With respect to the horrible condition of Bolleisle , a gentleman on Tuesday made an application for advice to the Clerkenwell magistrate . Ho said the case had been put into the hands of the police , who , under the sanction of Sir Richard Mayne , were making inquiries . The Home Secretary of State , having been applied to , ordered that proceedings should be instituted under the Smoke Nuisance Act . Mr . Corrie , the magistrate , advised a similar course . Criminal Assault . —Henry Francis , a photographic artiat , has been committed for trial on a charge of committing a criminal assault on Tabitha Bowie , a girl thirteen years of age . The girl was employed as his servant : on the evening of Sunday , the 28 rd ult ., she was asked by her master to drink tea with him , and after tea he induced her to take a glass of wine . It was then dark , and ehe asked if she should light the gas ; but her master answered , ( 'No , never mind , " and , immediately afterwards , threw her on the sofa , and commijbtqd the offence . The girl was crossexamined before tl ^ e magistrate , but her testimony was not shaken . ' The prisoner reserved his defence . —A few

    months ago , he was charged with an . assault on his wife ; and terms for a separation were arranged with the sanction of the magistrate . ' . _ ,. ' . ' . '_ . The End of " a Gay Life . - —A few weeks since , the body of a woman named Healey , the daughter of a Cornish baronet , and who had led a somewhat gay life , was discovered in a house in Queen ' s-place , Comniercialroad East , Ratcliff . It was much decomposed , and the woman must have been dead fifteen or sixteen days . An open verdict was returned at the coroner ' s inquest , that the woman was found dead , but that there was no evidence before the jurors as to how or by what means she came by her death . No post-mortem examination of the body took place , and considerable dissatisfaction has beea expressed by the people in the neighbourhood that no efforts were made to ascertain the cause of death . The house in which the body was found was hired a month previous by a man who described himself as a medical practitioner , but who was not forthcoming at the inquest . This man has since been discovered ; but he has given no information relative to the death , and the affair , therefore , still remains unexplained . " Vane , Young in Years , but" xn Weoks Doing " Old . "—Lord Ernest Vane is a" fast" young gentleman of twenty years of age , and it delighteth him to go behind the scenes of the Windsor Theatre , and flirt with the actresses . He has been permitted to do so for some time past ; but , a few evenings ago , finding his accustomed amusement nearly " used up , " and getting stale by repetition , he thought to vary it by entering the ladies' dressing-rooms while they were changing their attire . Accordingly , he put out the gas , and forced his way in . The prompter , having certain oldfashioned notions as to the impropriety of such conduct , remonstrated ; but Vane , " young in years , " replied , " You are a funny villain , and may go to whenever you like . " Instead of going there , however , the prompter went to the manager , Mr . Nash , and ultimately a policeman was sent for , on whose arrival the heroic Vane walked out . Meeting the manager shortly afterwards , he said to him , " You sent for the police—you sent for the police , " in " a good-humoured manner , " as it was afterwards contended ; but , as an evidence of this good-humour , he commenced scuff ling with Mr . Nash , and finally threw him down a pair of stairs , and pummelled ~ him when at the bottom . For these exploits , the chivalric Vane was summoned before the Windsor magistrates , and the foregoing facts were stated as evidence . His Lordship ' s counsel endeavoured to show that the charge was exaggerated . The youthful hero had had a slight scuffle with some one who had behaved rudely to him behind the scenes ; and , being annoyed at hearing that the police had been sent for , he had a little bit of " good-humoured " wrestling with Mr . Nash , and the two " accidentally" fell down the stairs together , the manager being " accidentally" underneath his Lordship . A friend was called to prove this ; bnt , on cross-examination , he admitted that Mr . Nash was thrown . This witness favoured the court with a statement of what he should have done under the circumstances—he should have " thrashed the manager for his impertinence" in sending for the police . The Windsor magistrates lent to the exaggeration view © f the case ; and his Lordship was allowed to compound for his amusement by the payment of a five-pound note . Assaulting a Man in Possession . —John and Michael Murphy , tenants of a house in Rose-street , Coventgarden , were charged at Bow-street with assaulting John Dove , a brokex- ' s man , who was put in possession under a distress warrant for rent . About three o ' clock in the morning , the two Murphies entered Dove's bedroom , dragged him out of bed , thrust him into a corner , and swore they would knock his brains out if he spoke or moved . John Murphy stood guard over him with a club ; and the poor man , being afraid to raise an alarm by " roaring like any sucking Dove , " was obliged to see the property removed into a van which had been brought to the door . A policeman , however , happened to pass by at the time , and , being surprised at finding goods removed at such an hour , entered the house , and found Dove pinned into the corner with a wound in his head . The Murphies were taken into custody , and wore fined 6 / . each , or sentenced to a month ' s imprisonment . A Sham Fight . —A Mr . John Ripley waa passing the Bishopsgatc terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway at seven o ' clock in the evening , when he saw a crowd . On trying to pasa through it , two men jostled him ; and , to an inquiry what was the matter , one of them replied , " Oh , it ' s only a fight . " At the same moment , ho found his coat-sleevo hold , and directly afterwards found that his gold watch had gon . He was a bout to dart at the men who had jostled him , when a man on his right made " a peculiar noise like a eheop bloating , and one of the men who pushed against him turned round and dashed off into the crowd . Mr . Riploy chased him ; his hat fell off , iind shortly afterwards ho was found in custody with a cap on . Ho had been seized by a railway guard , but contrived to pass tno watch to another man , who escaped . Steadmnn , tno man who was taken into custody , has been committeu for trial . » Muudicr at Ganteruurt . —A private in the Ursc regiment of the British Swiss Legion him been killed » y one of his comrades . A quarrel arose about the poB 8 « s-

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    aKft THE ¦ la E i-Al T > E B . [ No . 269 , Saturday ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 6, 1855, page 956, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2109/page/8/