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      ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A ckajik nt tlic railway foundry at Leeds , while lifting a heavy weight a few days ago , suddenly snapped . Four or five men were on the crane platform when the fracture took place : two were precipitated to the ground , and so severely injured that their lives are despaired . of , and a third man , who was directing the operations , was struck . l > y a bar of metal , and killed on the spot . A . man , named Thomas Walker , employed on the London and North Western Railway , tumbled off a ballast train , and fell under the wheels . Both legs were severely fractured ; great loss of blood ensued , and the man died aoon afterwards at the Huddcrsiield Infirmary . Some children in the country have inet with a very singular and sliocking death . A little boy , not quito four years old , " living at Hudderafleld , struyed into a bnrloy-fleld , and was literally lost among the high corn . Ho waa found dead flvo days afterwards , only tlirco yards from tho hedge or fence of the field , and the father , who had been out looking for him , had passed close to the spot . Two similar instances have occurred in other localities ; in one of which the child was found alivc-A -woman in the Lancaster Lunatic Asylum , nnmcu

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      of stealing three sovereigns from . Reuben Overy simple countryman . The story ia as old as countrv gullibility and London knowingness . The much believing Reuben had suffered himself to be drawn into a public-Louse , -where Cross induced ham to lend 3 / in order that he ( Cross ) might make a bet with a pre ^ tended countryman-that he could open a certain lock Of course he failed to do so , and the confederate snatched up the money and fled . Cross then pretended to look after him , but was given into-cuslody . The man who acted the part of a countryman said , just before -the betting , that he wished he had never come to London as he had lost his watch . Reuben then said he too was a countryman , aud sliould be careful of his money but the very next moment , he fell into the snare .

      The NoTMXG-HiLi . Bukglajis . —One of this gang a man named James Barnes , has been examined at Hammersmith , on a charge of breaking into , and robbing the house of Mr . G- H . Ullathorne , No . 2 , Lansdowneterrace , Notting-hill . In consequence of the numerous burglaries and robberies that have recently taken place at Notting-hill , andthe alleged deficiency of the police to protect the property of the inhabitants , it has been suggested by * a gentleman who has been a sufferer to appoint watchmen and provide each of them with one of Colt ' s revolving pistols , against the midni ght attacks of the gangs which infest the locality . The entry in this case seems to have been effected with great skill , and to have been an elaborate piece of work . Barnes -was remanded . —Another of the gang is also in custody .

      A CRIMEAN GU-AIUDSMAN CHARGED AVITII THEFT . — Robert Siridall , a private in the Guards , with a Crimean medal , stands charged at Guildhall with stealing a 10 / . note from the prosecutor , a young-looking gentleman named John Cooke , who had invited the soldier and someothers into a public-house to have ale . The note had been tendered in payment at various houses , but always refused . Sindall then said he would get change , and the note was given to him , but he appropriated it , and said it was his own . : A DittixKEN " Wife . —A charge of violent conduct -was brought against a Mrs . Edmonds , at Worship-street , by her husband . The woman is describee ! as well dressed aud pretty , but as exhibiting signs of dissipation ; and it appeared from the statements of the husband , a cabinet-maker at Hoxtoi ) , who evinced great distress ,

      property , by -which he appears to have been made almost insane . He is in the habit of indulging to excess , aud of taking disreputable women into his house , with whom , after drinking immoderately , he often quarrels . Sometimes he goes out into the street , and smashes all his windows without any motive ; and he has contrived to run through 2000 ? . in two months . In answer to some observations of the magistrate , Mr . Darnell said he did not think that Peckham , where he re .-ided while in town , was by any means respectable . On the contrarv ,

      it was the most blackguard place he ever was in , and he should get out of it without delay . -The magistrate recommended that he should put something handsome in the poor-box ; to which the idle weed that grows in the sustaining corn of Huntingdonshire replied , " Here is a crown—all -the money I have about me , " and left . the court . —There is something typical , almost mystical , " " this gentleman ' s name . Darnel is not only an " idle weed , " but it is a weed which causes headaches and lethargies—from which , no doubt , the Huntingdonshire farmer has sometime suffered .

      Attempted Murder . —A man , named William Smith , was charged at the Worship-street police-office with an attempt upon the life of Mr . William Ward , a cabinet-maker , living in Great Chart-street , Hoxton . Mr . Ward encountered Smith on the previous day in a public-house , and the moment the latter saw him , he exclaimed , " You don't know me , do you ? " Mr . Ward answered that he did not desire to know him , upon - which Smith drew a pistol from his pocket , and presented it at the head of the other , saying that that would male him know . Mr . Ward seized hold of Smith ' s arm , and , having thus diverted the aim , hastily left the house , and took refuge at the dwelling of a friend who lived near . Smith followed Mr . Ward to the other house , outside the door of which he remained for some time ; but , a policeman being sent for , he went

      away . Nothing more was seen of him until the afternoon of the same day , when Mr . Ward , having occasion ¦ to return to the public-house , again encountered Smith there , who immediately rushed at him , pistol in hand , and pulled the trigger close to his head . IFortunn tely , the powder did not ignite . The ruffian then struck Mr . Ward four heavy Mows on the head with the butt end , causing blood to flow copiously . Some of the bystanders interfered , and having wrested the pistol from Smith ' s hand , gave him into custody . At the stationhouse , he declared that he intended to murder Mr . Ward , and added that "he would do for him yet , " alleging , as his reason , that Mr . Ward had seduced his wife , with whom he had carried on a criminal conversation for the last two years , in consequence of which she had gone raving mad . " Smith -was remanded .

      Attempt to Extort Moxet . —John Pringle , clerk to a solicitor at Glasgow , has been charged at the Mansion House with having , in a letter written , to Mr . Benjamin Scott , secretary to 'the'Hank of London , offered to suppress the publication of a pamphlet intended to do injury to the bank , on condition of being paid " a liberal sum of money . " Pringle claimed to have projected a bank of the same name some time before the establishment of the concern in question , and asserted that the idea was stolen from him- ^ asseverations which were denied by Mr . Scott . When brought before the Lojd Mayor , Pringle admitted that he had written the letter , but urged that he had only executed a commercial right , in endeavouring to get remunerated for tlie title of tlie bank . He was remanded , but adnrittted to bail . The accused was on Wednesday committed for trial , but liberated on bail , having previously read over a document , purporting to be his defence , ia which he complained of having heen very harshly used , and prevented communicating with hia friends .

      A Sham Auction Room . —Beware of 88 , Regentstreet ! In an action a few days ago in the Marylebone County Court , it appeared that some rooms in the house thus indicated are , or were , opened as sham auction-Tooms , and several persons wcr ^ engaged as ' touters . ' A quantity of rubbish piled about gave a falso appearance of business ; and the bidders were of course cruelly victimized . The action was brought by one of the 1 toutors' against a Captain Hync , to recover 121 , a sum which Myers , the ' touter , 'said the defendant had « n-

      Pratt , a youth of seventeen , charged -with stealing 98 / . 10 s . from the Chartered Bank of Australasia , where he was employed as a junior clerk . On the re-examination , the Iteeper of the house of ill-fame where the youth was arrested , and one of the girls in whose company he was found , were among the witnesses ; and it appeared from cross-examination that both , the man and the woman ( though they denied it ) were cognizant of the robbery . A 20 / . note , part of the plunder , was taken by the man to the Bank of England and changed for gold . It had the man ' s name and address on . it . . The girl stated thai ; the youth , Pratt , " used to drink lots of neat spirits out of a" tumbler . " ' . She added : — " I had about 102 . of him in two days . He bought me two new dresses , a visite , a cloak , and a hat—one of those ' flop' ones . " When Pratt found he could not escape from arrest , he burnt some of the notes , and said to the girl , " Don ' t frighten

      yourself , Harriet , dear ; Im all right now , if you will be true "—and she said she would be true . The j'outh was in the liabit of taking Mr . and Mrs . Withers ( the keepers of the house ) , together with the girls , out on parties of pleasure . The man . Withers , in the course of his evidence , gave a singular definition of ' wilful lying . ' He said that , on the . Sunday morning when , the arrest . took place , he obtained brandy for the youth , under pretence of its being wanted for a person with cholera . " Then you did not mind telling a lie ? " asked Mr . Lewis , counsel for the prosecution . "No , " answered " Withers , " but I never tell wilful lies . " Aldexman Carter asked what he called the story about the brandy but a wilful lie : to which he answered , " I knew I could not get the brandy unless I said it was for a case of choleTa . " —Pratt was committed for trial , but liberated on bail .

      Central CmMrxAT , Cocbt . - —William Hawthorn , William Cook , and Charles Fowler , three boys , were indicted for feloniously setting fire to a waterproof clothing manufactory . They were seen to enter a shed attached to the factory , and Cook was heard to say , " What a lark it -would be to set it on fire I" They then got some shaving * and a match , and the shed was very soon in flames , the result being that nearly 1507 . worth of property was destroyed . The jury found all three Guilty , with mischievous , not malicious , intent , and the prosecutor recommended them to mercy . They were sentenced to two months' hard labour .: —Elizabeth Ann Holwell was tried for the manslaughter of her infant "by neglecting to provide it with proper nourishment . She was a married woman , separated from her husband , -who

      allowed her 14 s . a week ; but it was alleged by the prosecution that she squandered the money in drunkenness . The parish authorities found the cliild dead in a wretched room , and the mother lying iu a torpid state , with a bottle of poison beside her . The evidence adduced to prove the habitual drunkenness broke down , nnd it appeared that the accused did her best to suckle the child , bnt that the infant refused the breast . She was Acquitted . —A well-dressed woman , named Clara Gowland Voustarke , was indicted for stealing a drinking glass from a public-house in Knightsbridge . She was in the habit of going to the house for gin-andwater , and one day she offered for sale iu Chelsea some glasses belonging to the publican in question , and with liis name cut into them . She was given into

      custody , and , on being charged with stealing the glasses , said the accusation was " quite amusing , " since she had honestly bought them , and sold them again on account of being in distress . _ There was Borne doubt as to the theft having been , committed , and the prisoner ' s counsel called several witnesses , who spoke to her previous good character , nnd her accomplishments as a teacher of music . She was Acquitted , and her counsel undertook to return the glasses to the prosecutor . —John Manstru , a welldressed young man , has been found Guilty of embezzling various sums of money received by him ' on account of Edward Moore , a surgeon , and his employer . He was sentenced to six months' hard labour . — Sarah Prout , a well-dressed , middle-aged woman , surrendered to take her trial on an indictment in which she was charged with having stolen three pounds of composite candles from the

      shop of Henry Hassell . This case lasted a considerable time , and seemed to create a good deal of interest , the prisoner being a person of good education , respectably connected , and of somewhat easy circumstances , having until recently kept a lodging-house At Great Coramstrcct , Russell-square . She had been ordering goods at the shop , nnd had endeavoured to secrete the candles , alleging , when found out , tliat she was going to order them to be sent to her house . Being found Guilty , she was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour . She asserted , however , that she had not had a fair trial : things had been omitted which ought to have been brought out , and things had been said which wore not true ; and how could any jury think she would Iring down ruin and calamity upon herself for the sake of a paltry Is . l'OAd , worth of candles ?

      gaged to pay him for hia services in bidding for him in the mock auction-ioom . Myers described himself as a commission broker , and said that he couldobtain articles cheaper than tho public in general , because brokers do not bid against one another . Of course , he added , the dealer suffers by this agreement in a genuine sale ; " l > ut that is his own look - out . " The goods purchased by Captain Hyne amounted to a little more than G 77 Z . Several teapots and other articles charged for were not on tho premises at the time , but were afterwards obtained from Birmingham . —Myerstho plaintiffwas nonsuited .

      , , JtOBBBRY in Pmtmoitth Citadec—Between noon ana midnight on Saturday , tho pay-office of tho GGth Knt 7 M robbtd of 90 ' - in Plymouth Branch Bank cLh hi ^? n w \ ? ' - in e ° voreigns . Tho small tin sss ^ stsafsss ss- - - •» ^ sSKBdsss t ?^*^

      Ncn-Smoke-consumehs . —Three firms belonging to tho tanning and leather-dressing business in Bermondacy have been fined at the Southwark police-court , in the mitigated penalty of 67 . each , and costs , for having their , furnaces so constructed as not to consume their smoke . The Old Story . —A man , named Thomas Cross , is in custody , nnd under remand at Southwark , on n charge

      that she is in the constant habit of getting drunk , and outrageously assaulting him . She is a very good woman , he said , when she is sober , but she has been intoxicated nearly every day for the last four years , and this has made her ferocious . The husband was obliged to take her before the magistrate last Monday , when she agreed to separate and to acccept a certain sura for maintenance ' T but she savagely assaulted him on getting home , and bit him in the back very severely . Edmonds stated to the magistrate , wlien the woman was brought before him again on Wednesday , that his business was ruined by her , and that he was so very fond of her that grief at her misconduct had broken up his , constitution . Nevertheless , he did not wish to prosecute her ; and the wife , having promised to keep away from her husband in future , was allowed to go . ,

      Robbery . — Henry Stevens , clerk to Messrs . Rowling and Co ., Friday-street , Norwich warehousemen , was charged at the Mansion House with having embezzled moneys to the amount of 501 ., the property of the firm . He was committed for trial . Diseased Meat . —Mr . Reece Williams , of Mitchamstreet , Lisson-grove , was charged at Marylebone with having in bis custody the carciiBO of a cow and some pieces of meat in the course of preparation for sale , the same being unfit for the food of man . Tho meat had been condemned by Mr . Broughton , and ordered to be destroyed , after an examination which he had made of them upon a former occasion in the street in front of the magistrate ' s entrance to the court , but it was found necessary to prefer the charge again . A mitigated fine of forty shillings , together with costs , waa imposed .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 27, 1856, page 920, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2160/page/8/