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      were exclaiming in' Italian .-at the top of their voicesi and in tones which created the most painful excitement among all who heard them , the drop fell , and in a few moments the bodies of the inen werehanging lifeless . Mr . George Bowyer has written to the Times to complain that a system of proselytism was adopted towards the unhappy men by the chaplain and other authorities of Winchester gaol . According to this gentleman , tho love of life was so strong in the convicts , especially Pietrici , that they renounced their former faith in the belief that by becoming Protestants they would propitiate the Government and lead to a commutation of their sentence . They had been provided with two priests of their own faith ; but the chaplain brought in the interpreter Ferretti , formerly a . Roman Catholic , but now a Protestant , and through him made a perpetual

      crusade against the faith of the foreign prisoners . " 1 he effects of these efforts , and of the terror of death and the hope of clemency , " says Mr . Bowyer , " soon became visible . Barbaalo received the priest ( the Rev . Mr . Stone ) -with declarations against Roman Catholic doctrines , and then , with curses and blasphemy , and imprecations , and shocking gestures , he afterwards refnsed to see the priest . The others showed symptoms of the same altered state of mind . The priests could bring them to no feeling of repentance or devotion . Their thoughts and hopes were all bent on this world . Their faith in their own religion had been shaken , but they had not been brought to repentance by the chaplain . Then came the final answer from the Home-office , that they must die . The wretched men were thunderstruck .

      Barbaalo , finding that there Was no hope of a respite , sent foT the priest ( the Rev . Mr . Stone ) . Two Italian priests also attended , Dr . Fan di Bruno and Dr . Baldacconi , and by the joint efforts of the Roman Catholic clergy Barbaalo and Lagava were brought to repentance , and to receive the rites of the Church on the very day before their execution . " : Not so Pietriei ; but it is said , according to Mr . Bowyer , that he did , in . fact , after all , go out of the world a Roman Catholic . il An application , " continues Mr . Bowyer , " had previously been made through ine to the Home-office , praying that under the circumstances some further time might be allowed for the miserable men to prepare for death . But this was refused , oh the ground that there was no precedent for it—a rather strong instance of the red-tape system ' ! " . ¦' , ¦ . . ¦¦ ' . ' . ¦¦; - . ¦ " . ¦ : ¦"• . " /¦ . " - . ' ,

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      THE WINTER ASSIZES . George Ball pleaded Guilty at Lewes to a charge of breaking into the house of Colonel Windham at Brighton , and stealing a workbox and other articles . While waiting for trial at the Lewes prison , he simulated madness so successfully that he deceived two medical men and three of the visiting justices , and a certificate was about to be signed for his removal to a lunatic asylum , when he imprudently made a confidant of one ofhis fellowprisoners , and admitted that his conduct was all a sham , and thus the attempted deception was discovered . He was convicted of robbery at Leicester in 1851 , was sentenced

      five years in a reformatory , where his parents are to con tribute towards his maintenance .

      to ten years' transportation , and removed to Dartmoor prison , where he remained for some time , and was then sent to Millbank prison . He there also feigned insanity , and succeeded in deceiving the medical officers of the prison , who certified that he was a lunatic , and he was removed to Bethlehem Hospital , where lie remained two years , when he was supposed to be cured and was sent back to his old quarters at Millbank , whence he was discharged under a ticket of leave in April of the present year , and nothing more was heard of him from that time until the commission of the present offence . He ¦ was now sentenced to transportation for fifteen vearg .

      James Clout , a young man of nineteen , pleaded Guilty to a burglary at the house of a working man . It also appeared that he had set fire to the house , in order to conceal the first offence . He was condemned to six years' penal servitude . Joseph Palmer pleaded Guilty to stealing a letter containing money . Mr . Creasy , who appeared for the prisoner ,- ' said he was instructed to state to the court that he had borne a respectable character up to the time Of this transaction , and that he had on soveral occasions handed over property which had accidentally come out of letters in the office . He had also communicated to the Postmasters-General a plan he had devised for preventing the plunder of letters passing through the Postoffice , and the Post-office authorities had communicated with him npon the subject . He hoped that the

      knowledge of these facts "would induce the court to pass a more lenient sentence than was usually inflicted in cases of this kind , Mr . Baron Bramwell , however , sentenced him to four years' penal servitude . Thomas Jnpp , a boy of fourteen , was tried for a highway robbery , with violence , upon George Reed , and stealing from him threepence . Reed was a lad of the same age aa the accused , and . being one day out with a truck , in company with Jupp , the latter turned the truck into a ditch , and Baid that he would hare Reed ' s money or his life . He then knocked the boy down , and took away the threepence already nwmtlon « d . It appeared that Jupp ya a already known &a a bati character , and had once before been convicted of felony . He was therefore sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment , tho last week to be pa 8 « d in solitary confinement } after that , to l > o kept

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      MIDDLESEX 1 SESSIOKS . William Olive , a painter , has been found Guilty of an indecent assault upon Elizabeth Spicer , a little girl only nine years of age , in the Regent ' s Park . Sentence was deferred . Two women , named Jane Berry and Ann Butler , were brought up last Saturday from the House of Detention under the following ; circumstances : —On Tuesday week , two prisoners , named Casey aud Sullivan , were convicted of a street robbery and sentenced to four years ' penal servitude . When the prosecutor got into the hall of the building , he and the policeman were

      assailed by a number of persons , friends of the prisoners , with the most scandalous abuse . The two women now before the court were the principals in the matter ; and their language , which was of a horrible description , brought the proceedings of the court to a standstill . They swore many oaths that the prosecutor should be murdered before night . The officers brought them before the Assistant-Judge , who , after taking evidence of what they had uttered , decided upon committing them for contempt . They were now brought up to be dealt with for that offence , and , after being severely reprimanded , they were ordered to be kept in prison eight days .

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      More Frauds ox this Great Nortiieun Railway . - —Thomas Hogben , a clerk in the service of Messrs . Field , Son , and Wood , stockbrokers , of Warnford-court , Throgmorton-street , City , was brought up before the Clerkemvell magistrate , in the custody of Mr . Williams , the inspector of the Great Northern Railway , on the charge of being concerned with Leopold Redpath in the forgery of a signature to 1000 £ 4 i per Cent . Consolidated Preference Stock of that line . Messrs . Field , Son , anil Wood Were the principal stockbrokers of Redputh , ami upon their evidence and that of Mr . George -Sydney Hammond , the adopted son of Redpath , the prosecution mainly relies . Mr . Mowatt , the secretary of the

      company , having his suspicions aroused , looked into the transfer-book , and , ascertaining that Ilogbeu had been the attesting witness to a document purporting to transfer 1000 ? . 4 £ per Cent . Stock of the Great Northern Railway from Redpath t 6 Mr . Stephen George Hammond , he went , in company of Mr . Williams , and took the accused into custody . The signature of Mr . Hammond was in the handwriting of Redpath ; the attesting witness was Hogben , and he admitted that he had signed , his name to the document , adding that lie thought at the time the signature of Mr . Hammond-was genuine . He was remanded till Wednesday ; but bail was accepted . On . that day , he was committed for trial , together with Redpath and Kcut .

      pointed to watch over htm a pencil drawing oftliemuwW as a ' memento . ' It ia done on a sheet of common ^' paper , and ia divided into two ' scenes , ' represent ^ spectively the murder of each girl . On Co ^ g ^ seen the figure of a woman lying on the ground , !/ palm-tree , with Wood issuingVom wound ' s in"& ££ * * while above is the representation of an all £ vel T •' supposed to be conveying the soul of the cirl tn 1 , 1 - M The rising sun is depicted in the back gS ^ & ! the murder was committed shortly before live o ' ' it * the morning , this is probably a faithful represent ., h ™ " 5 the scene . There is an inscription underneSf o «* $£ p vell , my dear Maria—Dcdea iiedauies . " ou the tl half of the sheet is represented the death of Caroline ^ murderer's sweetheartand here the

      ; girl is drawn o ! leaning upon a soldier ( himself ) , who has his left arm round her waist , and his right hand in hers , " LiddineW an eternal farewell , " as the convict himself expressed it Blood is seen issuing from wounds in her bosom on rh » ground is the knife , covered with blood , while above ara the palm-tree and angel , as ha the other case The hi scription here is , " Death of Caroline Buck , from DedTa Redanies , of 5 th August , 185 G . Faru ^ ll , my dear Caroline . Redanies has entirely recovered from the wounds which he gave himself on being apprehended The local papers report that lie has sU quite stOut > 1 hat is to say , he has been fattened aud made healthy for the gallo ws . He is to be hung on Xew Year ' s Day and Mansell , the soldier , will sutler at the same time

      This Outuagk at Biughton . —Charles Henrieh the young gentleman charged at Brighton ay ith stabbing a woman in the streets , was again-brought u [> last Saturday , when the injured girl gave her evidence against , him and he was committed for trial . The girl is progressing favourably , but was still in great pain when at the policc ' -oflice . The youth was tried at Lewes on Tuesday and found Guilty , on which the jud ^ e sentenced hi m to one year ' s hard labour . Chauoe ok Fkaud and 'Foisgkhv ag ainst a Pouch

      St'i'EHiNTKNuicxT . —The North . ' Shields superintendent of police , Mr . Robert Mitchell , has suddenly disappeared , and is charged by the watch comnrittuo with fraud and forgery . In consequence of ' -suspicious * , circumstances which had transpired , the committee determined to examine his accounts , but , ' "immediately before they closed their first evening's sitting , the superintendent made olH The committee have discovered that Mr . Mitchell has forged the uames of several of the fire brigade and of the police force to pay-sheets , and appropriated the money to his own use . '• ¦ "• •¦'

      Miuumut Tyijvil , Stabbing Cask . —Joseph Tearce , who was savagely attacked on the night of the ICth inst ., has expired in great agony from the injuries received . ¦ ¦¦ . ¦ . ' ..- '¦¦ .. ¦¦ ; ' ¦; ¦ . ¦ ¦ . ' . A Dang kkous Hoax , —Several of the West Riding papers give an account of the shooting of a burglar by a woman who believed , her house was about to be attacked by robbers . It turns out that no robbery was intended , but only a joke . A surgeon who lives in the neighbourhood of the woman ' s residence was in the habit of

      paying visits to her occasionally , lie was on some such errand on tho morning of Friday week at about two o ' clock , and was followed by two or three boon companions , who had been spending tho e ' vcniuy with him , and who made their appearance just as he was endeavouring to obtain admittance to the woman ' s house . She , being alarmed at the noise the } ' made , opened her chamber window , and , hearing them s . iy something about going round to tho back door , lived a horsepistol at one of the intruders , who instantly fell , aud was soon afterwards removed by his comrades . The wounded man is the surgeon alluded to , and lie is rather seriously injured in the neck , where the contents of tho pistol principally lodged .

      Smuggling Tobacco . —A man named William Gorey has been examined before the magistrates at . Southampton on a charge of having smuggled twenty-six hundredweight of tobacco at the villago of WooUmill , about three miles distant . A large quantity uuviug been seized a ahort time since , an olUccr of the customs at Southampton went to the house of Uorey , and commenced a search , When the latter wus accused of concealing tho tobacco on hia premises , ho admitted having done so , but was very sorry , and offered to show the oilicerwhore the smuggled property was hidden . He therefore took him to his bedroom , where , behind a partition , thirty-two bales of cured tobacco were found , and in another part of the room a bale of stalk , which Ciorey said ho lnwl placed there to dry . Besides these , the oiliccr discovered wKli

      in tho house not less than fifty-one tin cases tilled tobacco , and one with uhug . On being interrogated a » to how ho obtained possession of these , Uorey rep lied that lie had taken eharge of them nt the request of some persons who said the roads wcro so bad that they couW not travel with the tobacco ; but ho ( Gorey . ) greatly r « - pentod having dono no . Ilia ' solicitor in court argued that tho nccused Jiad not committed tho act with uny in " tcntion of dofrauding tho customs , but hud merely dono it in thoughtless compliance with tho request which had been made to him . Aftor a brief deliberation , the mfigistratcs « aid that they saw no reason for mitigating the penalty in tho loast degree , and therefore convicted Uoroy in the full amount of 1689 / . 5 b . Fkauds in thk City of London Union . —Tho J 3 o » rd

      Fokgeey . —Anthouy Flood , a young man respectably connected , was brought up . at Southward , charged with , obtaining the sum of 10 / . from ' Mr . Burrell , the . landlord of the Bridge-house Hotel , Wellington-street , London-bridge , by means of a forged draught upon Messrs . M'Grigor and Co ., Charles- street , St . James's , armyagents , purporting to be drawn by Lieutenant James D . Dundas , of the GOth Rifles , at present stationed in Bengal . He was also charged with having several other forged draughts in his possession , and uttering some to various tavern-keepers at the West-end . He was remanded for a week . Moke Hanging .- —Calcraft , last Saturday , hung William Jackson at Chester , for the murder cf his two children . The man died with many expressions of penitence . The last previous execution at Chester was as many as eight years ago .

      PiiUNDEHiNG a Wkkcic—Six men -were charged , a few days ago , at the Arklow Petty Sessions , with attempting to plunder the cargo of a vessel named tlie Irrawaddy , which was stranded on tho Blackwaterbank on tho night of the 18 th of October . It was provod that four hundred or five hundred armed men , among whom were the accused , wont to the place were tho veseel was stranded , threatened the captain , and succeeded in taking off a part of tho cargo . The magistrates inflicted a fine of QOl . on each , or , in default , six montlia ' imprisonment .

      Attempted Suicide by a Woman .. —A young woman , named Emma Jones , was charged at tho Thames police-ofHco with attempting self-dcatruction . A policeman was called into the shop of a chemist and druggist in Shadwell , where the woman had asked to bo supplied with somo poison , and been refused . She was very ill , and admitted having already taken threepenny worth of sugar-of-lead , which she had purchased at different shops . According to a statement made by the gaoler of the court , tho poor creature had been on the town over

      since she was eleven years of , ago ; but ho had never known her to bo disorderly . Tho policeman was directed to take her to an asylum , and to boo after hor comforts . The Murdurkr , Djsdea Rkdanies . —The trial of Dedea Redanies for tho murder of the two girls , Maria and Caroline Back , has taken place , and has ended in tho accused being found Guilty and sentenced to death . The particulars of this extraordinary case were fully narrated in the Leader of August 9 th and 28 rd . The man seems to be of disordered intellect ; as a proof of which , it may bo mentioned that ho recently gave to the person an-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 27, 1856, page 1230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2173/page/6/