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    • Sbvwi in tt © dark several times , srad said fco herself , ' I will kill you ! ' She then got tire lueifisr-box , II the caudle , aud went into the cellar again , and was there for some time , but I did not hear the girl speak again , < aad -all was quiet . A short time after this , she catmein , shut the door , and went upstairs . My master Vtsb out at the time , but he came home ' about one o '« look . He let himself in with a key . I kaew it was about ene o ' clock , because I did not go to sleep for the rest of , the night . I had seen the girl at the house one Sunday evening before . That was about a month ago . I knew it . was the same girl , because I opened "the street door and heard my mistress tell the girl to -wipe her feet and go into the parlour . She

    went in , and my mistress and the girl went out , and returned with a box with three clasps . When my mistress went out with the girl , she had a large stone With her , wrapped up in a piece of cloth . My mistress told me to go to bed on that night , but I refused , when she took the girl away with her , and told nie to stop up until she returned . That was the only occasion I ever saw the girl there . When my mistress went out cxl Saturday evening , she had the same dress on that she now has , but when she came into the kitchen she ? had an old black dress on . After all was quiet , my mistress came to my bedside and said she had been to market ; that she had got change

    for half a crown , but that she would not pay me until Sunday morning . My mistress then went up to bed , and I did not see her again that night . When she was talking to me at my bedside , she appeared to be very white and much agitated . My mistress also said in the kitchen , while ahe was walking about , ' She will not tell any more lies about me . ' " The surgeon who examined the body said that there were cuts on the left-. baud and . arm , as if she had put them up to save her throat . Her right side also was very dirty , as if she had lain on that side while the throat was cut from the front , and then been pulled round .

    Subsequent investigations made by the police seem to render i t probablethat the child was the illegitimate daughter of the woman , and that she was murdered "because her mother had to pay a certain sum a-week for her maintenance , against which expenditure it is said the husband grumbled . Mrs . Spinner has made a confession of the murder , which she says she effected with a knife ; but ahe asserts that the child was not her own , but her brother ' s . Mr . Somneiywlio is a Geinaan , denies that he objected to the sum paid for the poor child's keep .

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    A Barrister's Punishment .- —in the corirse of a oase which was heard on tlie 9 th instant , before Mr . Kenyoc Parker , examiner in Chancery , a Mi \ Warwick Augustus Hunt , a solicitor , and one of the witnesses , was subjected to some very severe cross-examination by Mr . Jessel , Who asked him several questions with respect to some alleged fraud . Mr . Hunt , having refused to reply on the ground that bis answers would subject him to penalties , Mr . Je&" » el asked what penalties . The counsel on the other side said something about Mr . Hunt ' s naaene being struck off the Rolls ; and Mr . Jessel rejoined ! , " And very deservedly

    too , perhaps ; but that would not make it a criminal offence . " After the examination , Mr . Hunt complained to Mr . Jessel that he had made statements he would not have made elsewhere ; to which Mi * . Jesse ] replied , " You are mistsiken : if you attend at the hearing of the cause , you will hear much stronger observations on your conduct , " The same afternoon Mr . Hunt called on Mr . Jessel in his chambers , in company with a gentleman , asked for satisfaction , and , on being ordered to leave the room , seriously assaulted Mr . Jessel . He was therefore given into custody , and brought up at Bow-street , where he was committed for trial .

    that it m the habit of pawnbrokers to give all WOm « n thename of Ana—" , " said the magistrate ' s clerk , " some men too . " This , of courBe , offers an obstacle to golice investigation . A Story op a . Bond . —An action has been brought in the Cotlrt of Common Pleas against a eotton :-dealer of Liverpool , named Martindale , to recover £ 2 , 000 , money received by that individual to the uBe of the plaintiff , Mr . Litt , a gentleman living near Carlisle . In tne course of last September , Mr . Ldtt

    felt uncertain as to how he should apply this money and he was referred by a friend to a stockbroker of Liverpool , named Gladders , who recommended him to invest it in . the purchase of a bond , value exactly £ 2 , 000 , in the West Hartlepool Dock and Railway Company . Mr . Litt agreed to this proposal , and instructed Mr . Gladders to buy the bond , which hie did , and shortly afterwards received the £ 2 , 000 purchase money , together with £ 10 for his commission , in the form of a letter of credit on Mr . Litt ' a bankers

    at Carlisle . About a week after this , Mr . Litt had a letter from the broker employed by the seller of the bond , demanding immediate payment of the money In consequence of this , Mr . Litt went to Liverpool to Mr G-ladders , but , on arriving at his office , was told that Mr . Gladders was not in town , but that his clerk had an intimate friend who would tell Mr . Litt all ne desired to know . This was Mr . Martindale , to whom Mr . Litt therefore went , but it was some time before he could learn , from him much respecting Mr . Gladders . At length , however , Martindale , with some reluctance told him that he had got £ 1 , 947 of the £ 2 , 010 which he had sent to Mr . Gladders to pay for the bond . This be said , he had received in payment

    of a debt that Gladders owed him , and refused to give it up . It afterwards appeared that , hearing of the purchase by Gladders of the £ 2 , 000 bond , Martin ? , dale requested the stockbroker to lend him the money for one day , saying that he wanted to buy some cotton which he had not sufficient money to pay for . Gladders at first objected , on the score of such a proceeding being-, under the circumstances , unlawful ; bttt , after a good deal of persuasion from Martindale , he consented , and placed ill his hands £ 2 , 000 , the value of the bond , retaining the £ 10 commission for himself . On the afternoon of the same day Martindale called upon Gladders , and tokl him that he had got a balance against him amounting to £ 1 , 947 , which account he had conae to settle :

    Gladders in vain reminded Martindale of his promise to repay the money in a day , and represented to « him what a painful dilemma he should be placed in if the £ 2 , 000 -were not refunded . Martin ^] " rCTllsf ! that he could not keep his promise , and that Oladders should not have lent him the money . Gladders was therefore eventually compelled to take the £ 53 minus the £ 2 , 000 , and afterwards went out of town to avoid the difficulties which , he had brought upon himself by the transaction . Mr . Litt . then brought the present action against llartindale . Mr . HilL on . the part of the latter , contended that there was no case against his client , * but the judge ruled that Mr Litt was entitled . to recover the sum of £ 2 , 000 . The jury therefore returned a verdict iu his favour .

    Attemft to Poison . —A farm-labourer employed by Mr ., Thomas Wanklyn , of Haduock , has been charged before the magistrate at Monmouth , with having attempted to poison a shepherd named Tomkins , also in the-service of Mr . Wnnklyn . For the * better care of his sheep , Tomkhis had temporarily occupied a small cot situated iu the midst of his flock . Here he kept a bottle of cider with which he daily refreshed himself . One day lost week , being thirsty , he went to take a draught , but had no sooner tasted it , than ho thought it had a peculiar flavour , and therefore drank no more . Immediately afterwards he l ' olt a burning sensation in his throat and stomach . Iiis suspicions being aroused , he omptied the bottle , and there found sonio lumps of blue stone , partly melted . Having previously had a

    disagreement with tho other man , Toinkins nt onco suspected him . He , therefore , obtained assistance , sought him out , and charged him with attempting to poison him . This the other deuiod ; but Tomkina' suspicions being , strengthened by tho confused looks of tho man , ho porsiutecl in his chnryo , and , on snirohing him , found iu his pockets some milplmto of copper in lumps biiuilnr to thorn which had boon previously diaouvoroil in the bottle . Upon tliits , tho man was given into oiiBtody . Tomkina was afterwards taken seriously ill , but under modicol treatment ho rallied , and in now cousidorod out of clangor . Whon brought before tho miigifltruLo , tJio prisoner again denied tho charge , aud accounted for tho sulphate of load found , upon him , by saying that ho lmd ilinked ifc up on tho roiul , tiod in paper . Jlo was fully committed for trial .

    Tan Qou > Houbkiukh . —At tho further oxainination ou Wodnewday oi'John Hull , ohurgod with boiug con corned in tho gold robborrios between London and l arin , a policoman aaid tho priaouor lmd boon com miMod for trial , us long ojjo « . « Muroh , 1841 , for re coiving ft gold watch , whioli had boon stolon , but tha being " admitted to bail , ho had never nurroiulorod

    An "Independent" Swodler . —John King Gurney , a young man who has been in business at Uxbridge as a cook and confectioner , and who has been greatly respected by his neighbours on account of being a strict member of the Independent chapel , and a zealous teacher in the Siaaday school , has been examined before the TJxbridge magistrates on a charge of forging the name of Mr . David Baasett , corn-dealer , on ten bills of exchange , and thus fraudulently obtaining a sum . of £ 360 from the Uxbridge Old Bank . The name of Mr . Bassett was signed on them as the endorser ; and the lank , believing the signature to be correct , discounted them . Nine other charges of fraudulently signing names were preferred against Gurney by different persons ; and the consideration of the case was adjourne d *

    Shakes and Gdixs . — -Martin Breen was tried at the Central Criminal Court for fraudulently obtaining from . George Argent a watch and chain and the sum of £ 1 5 s . 6 d . The gentleman with the silvery name met Breen and another man in the streets , and was asked to buy some cigars at an . extraordinarily cheap rate , as the vendors were " hard up . " The offer bein g refused , Mr . Argent-was asked to step over the way , and look at some things which had been brought from abroad ; and , after some parleying , the gentleman of much , faith went home , got some money , adjourned with his acquaintances to a public-house , and yielded himself uj to the seduciaOns of . the moment . Gradually ^ unfolding the marvels a , ud

    CHILD MURDER . TTwo illegitimate children — the one five years , the other two years and a half old — have been drowned by their mother in the TJxbridge Canal . The mother , who is about twenty-five , has had three illegitimate children , one of whom , an infant , still survives . Elizabeth Ann Harris , the accused , left the workhouse on Friday week , and went to West Dray ton , where she left the infant in charge of a little girl , her niece , alleging that she was going to put the other two to bed at the Railway AririB Tavern . She returned in about twenty minutes , saying she had done so ; but she had been seen near the water with the children , and their bodies were subsequently discovered in the

    canal . On being taken into custody , and shown the bodies , she said they were her children , and she hoped they were happy . Sho has been committed for trial . — A young woman , named Maiy Bramwell , 1 b under remand at Morlborough-street , charged with drowning her infant in the Serpentine , When apprehended by the police , she told an improbable story to the effect that she had given up the child ( which seems to have been illegitimate ) toa gentleman who had found her crying in Hyde-park , and who had taken compassion on her , and that oho knew nothing more of its fate . Distress appears to have been at the bottom of the act . —Elizabeth . Webster , aged twenty-four , a

    miserable-looking woman , was charged at Clerkenwell , on her own confession , with murdering her infant . A policeman said : — " I was on duty in Portpool-lane , Gray ' s-hmlane , about bovou o'clock in tho morning , when I found the prisoner lying down in tho passage leading to a house fast asleep . I awoke her , when sho said''Lord bless ane ! I have done it . ' I naked her , ' What have you done V Sho replied , ' I have killed it . ' I asked her , ' What have you killed V Sho said , ' I have lolled my ohild . ' I inquired , ' Whoro is it V She replied , 'Itis at No , 7 , Oharlos-stroet , Hattou-gnrdon . ' Sho then Baid she had lived there 1 took her to tho

    Btation-houso in Bagnigge-wolls-road . ftho had been drinking , and was very confused and bewildered . " She added hug had squeezed tho child ' s throat . From inquiries , it appears sho did not live in Charles-street , and it scorned probable she was suffering from delirium tremens . Sho was remanded , in order that imjuirioH might bo made . —Islington haB beon tho locality of another tragedy , since that which horrinod tho town at tho commencement of tho week . Mary Ann Q nrrnn a servant girl aged twonty-ono , delivorod horsolf of a child , of which it was . not suspected hU « was prognant ., sxud , having nearly sovorod itn head from its body ' destroyed horsolf .

    splendpur 3 which their " hard-up " condition induced them to offer at ruinous sacrifices , the strangers produced a shawl , the story of which was quite a romance , iu more thaia one sense of the word . It was described as having- cost 16 s . 6 dk duty per ounce to bring it ashore ; and it was made of camel ' s htdr , and had been worked by Chinese nuns . Never was there such a shawl , except that one in the fairy tale which could be drawn through the eye of the finest needle ; nevertheless , being " hard up , " they woiild sell it to their friend , together with a gold chain and

    a chronometer , for £ 6 10 s . The silvery gentleman Avas tempted , but , alas ! he had not money sufficient ; so he come to an agreement that he should give £ 1 5 s . 6 d ., his own watch ( a silver hunter ) , and his guard-chain ( worth £ 4 ) 3 for the treasure . This was agreed to , and he -went away happy . So did the other parties ; for the shawl was an English shawl , made of wool and cotton ( worth about six shillings ) , and the chain was of brass gilt , and the watch , was almost worthless . Bxeen's companion has not yet been arrested . Breen himself was found guilty , and sonteuced to six months' hard labour .

    A Disorderly Clergyman . —A commission has been issued by the Bishop of Durham to inquire into charges of drunkenness against the Rev . Alexander J . Ho well , perpetual curate of Darlington . Tho oomnuBBiouers were tho Von . Archdeacon Thorp , tho ltev . Messrs . Eado , Dyke , and Dugavd , and Mr . J . H . Ay liner , a magistrate of Durham . Tho proceedings wore conducted with closed doors , but tho decision wns given in open court . Archdeacon Thorp stated

    their unanimous opinion that tho charges ot drunkonneas , and uomothing like habitual drunkenness , had been so far proved as to present primti facie evidence against Mr . Howoll , and it was their iutontion to ninko that report to the bi » liop , who would bo morally and legally required to proceed against him . Ho would \ tho Von . Arohdoncon l-opoatod ) bo not only morally bound , but legally bound to do so . Tho costs of tho daiono ? , it is said , htiro beon mot by u nubauription iu iha town . —Durham Advertiser .

    lCxTKNWVfl HoniiKJUisB . —Alfred Swinburne was ohargod at Worship-sbreot with boing oonoernod in uuvorul oxtojittivo rob"borics , and wuh romuudod . A pawnbroker *!} asuitstixut whoguvo evidence , Bairt Homo of tho property was plutlgod tlioro by a woman numed Ann Southoy . Thin woman , who wuh a cousin of tho prisoner , save ovidonau , and itappoarod that hor name wtis EliHuboth ; on ^ vl uoli tho magiatrutu roiniirltod

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    F&BirtJAiiY 2 S , 1856 B THE LEADER , 175

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 23, 1856, page 175, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2129/page/7/