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Leader (1850-1860), 28th February 1857, Edition 1 of 2, Page 200, Untitled Article

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      admitted by the o . Tieials that large numbers that eveuing had applied for admission , but , not having att order from the relieving officer in Fenchurch-street , they could not be taken in . The distance thus necessary to be traversed i 3 about three-pules . The Double Murder at Walwortii- —Another examination of Bacon and his wife took place at the Lambeth police court on " Wednesday , when the chief additional witnesses were , Mr . Wendover , an assistant at an ironmonger ' s shop in Bishopsgate-street Without , who said that Bacon purchased a chaff-knife of him on the 24 th of last December ; and Mr . Dixon , a tailor at Stamford , to whom Bacon went on the 4 th of January ( after the murder ) , and asked him to repair his trousers ,

      which he said had . been torn by accident . " While doing it , " continued the witness , "he asked me if I recollected having made a great-coat and other things for Mm a long time back ; but I told him I never recollected having made a great-coat for him at -all . He then said , ' You must recollect it ; it was a sort of rough coat . ' I replied that I could not call it to mind , upon which he said , ' You will be sure to he called about those clothes—a great-coat and a suit of clothes , which were stolen from my house on the day-of the murder , with 71 . in money and . a watch . ' I saw him again on the same evening on tlie platform at the raihvaj' station , as he was going to London by the train , and he then

      said , ' You will do what I ask you ? It will "be doing me a great kindness , and will do you no harm . ' Shaking hands with , " me , he said , ' You will do so , and say nothing to any one . ' What he wanted me to do , was to say I ha , d made the clothes that had been stolen . He said , ' If they find tlie clothes , there will be no marks about them to swear they belong to me . '" While saying these things , he was in a state of the utmost excitement , and could scarcely hold a limb still . lie showed Mr . Dixon the picture of the two dead children , and said , " Who would ever think that-my wife could murder two dear children like these ?"—Both , prisoners were again remanded for a week .

      Attempted Murdee . —An attempt lias been made to murder one of the warders in Reading Gaol by a prisoner , one Gorman , a ticket-of-leave man . The warder was struck heavily on the head with , a piece of wood ; but another prisoner succeeded in overpowering the rufiian . Extensive Burgi ^ ry in the City . — Information has been given to the police of an extensive burglary on the premises of Messrs . Tegg and Co ., booksellers , Queen-street , Cheapside . Property to the amount of several hundreds has been carried away . The burglars , no doubt , were concealed on the premises , as no forcible entrance was made .

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      GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Hbnry Milwarjd "West , a sorter in the General Post Office , has been examined at Bow-street , and committed for trial , on a charge of stealing a letter containing two shillings . It appears he had previously stolen a book which was being transmitted through the post . A " swell mobsman , " named Henry Moore , well known to the police as an old offender , is under remand at the Marylebone police-olfi . ee , charged with attempting to extort money from a gentleman ' s footman . The man had gone into a public-house in the New-road , where

      Moore and some of his companions came in , and wanted to sell the footman some necktie pins ; but he refused to purchase , saying he had no money . Moore then offered to lend him money , but this he also declined . One of the men next drew forth some nuts , and requested the footman to pick up one M which ho did , whereupon Moore said to the other sharper , " Now you arc a witness that I lent him a sovereign upon the throw , and that he has lost it . " The footman then left , but was followed by the sharpers , who said they wanted tlie sovereign , and Moore asked the servant where his master kept his plate , which of course tho' other " refused to reveal , Moore then threatened to knock his brains out with a stone .

      The men tracked him home , and waited outside the house , nnd tho footman , being frightened , gave them a sovereign ; but , a constable coming up shortly afterwards , Moore was charged and taken into custody , lie admitted that ho had received the sovereign , and produced it , but ho violently resisted being apprehended . Flash notes and card 3 were found in his possession . Tho case was adjourned for further evidence . Two pawnbrokers have been fined each forty shillings and costs , by tho Worship-street magistrate , for advancing money upon property pledged by a littlo girl who had robbed her father . Tho law indicts a line upon any pownbrokcr receiving goods from a person apparently under sixteon years of uge .

      The Southwarlc magistrate was engaged lust Saturday for several houra in investigating charges of a very serious nnturo ngrainst two of tho wealthiest hide merchants and glue manufacturers in tho district of tlio court . Four labou rora wore charged w ith stealing upwards of eight hundredweight of hide-pieces from the premiss of Mr . Arthur Waring , hide merchant , Spa-roml , llermondsoy ; nnd Messrs . James Proctor and Alfred Bevington appeared on summonses charging them with receiving tho same from one of tho prisoners , knowing them to ho stolon . In tho latter part of January , Mr . Waring

      family to keep , had greatly assisted her in her trouhl and had saved her from going without a dinnPr Christmas-day . The note also said that the writer J * only just recovering from a severe attack of Darik-Iand that she knew not how to pay her rent he * I i lord having threatened to turn her out ; and though was well aware that she had no claim on Lord Eokeh she hoped that he would help her in her destitute con dition . As Lord Rokeby fully believed the contents of the letter , every word of which was confirmed bv Wil who pleaded Mrs Duke's cause with great earnestness * his lordship handed him 57 . for her relief . He called un Lord Rokeby again on two subsequent occasions brhV jng wiui ti

      mm eacn me a letter fro m Louisa DulTP written in a very similar strain to the first , informing lordship that the writer ' s health was growing daily woro » and worse . The second time , his lordship gave Wilson sT more for Mrs . Duke ; but , on the occasion of his third visit having previously entertained some suspicions as to the nature of the case , he desired the man to meet him at a particular hour on a certain day , at the . Wellington barracks . One of the letters being dated from Felix street , Lambeth , Lord Rokeby went there to niakeinl quiries , and learned that no one of tlie . name of Louisa Duke lived there

      . He therefore communicated with Sir Richard Mayne , who sent a couple of detective officers to the Wellington barracks . . Wilson met his lordship at the appointed time , when the latter told him he had ascertained that no such person as Mrs . Duke lived at the place mentioned in the letter . Upon this , Wilson confessed the fraud , and offered to repay Lord Rokebj tl ; e SI . if he would not prosecute him ; but lie was given into custody . The magistrate was about to commit the accused for three months ; but , a police inspector in court having said that he believed he could bring forward other charges of a similar kind against him , he remanded

      was . William Darley , a boy about thirteen years of age , and dwelling with his mother in Star-street , Commercial road East , was brought before Mr . Yardley , at the Thames office , charged with stealing a 5 ( H . Bank of England note ; and Morris Lipman , a Jew , and iescribedjas a general dealer of Petticoat-lane , Whitechapel , was charged with feloniously receiving the note , well knowing it to be stolen . The money belonged to the boy Parley's mother , and the lad took it to another boy , named Sharp , who told him the note was for 50 / ., Darley believing it was only a 51 . note . Sharp then disposed of the note to the Jew , Lipman , who it would seem gave only 2 L for it . A great familiarity with thieves' slang and with thieves themselves was exhibited by Sharp , who was only fourteen years of age . The accused were remanded for a week .

      olosed his . yard owing to the severe frost , and Tobui ( one of the accused ) was among tlie men he discharged . He was seen afterwards leaving Mr . Waring's premises with bundles of hide-pieces , but the persons who saw him believed he was still in employ . On the 29 th and 30 th of January , he hired a cart [ of a greengrocer , living an the Spa-road , and conveyed a number of bundles of hide-pieces from Mr . Waring ' s premises to Messrs . Proctor and Bevington ' s , hide merchants and glue manufacturers , in the Grange-road , to whom he sold them at a much lower price than the then market value . The defence was that Messrs . Proctor and Bevington believed the transaction to be bond fide and honest , and that the regular price had been given for the pieces . The case , however , was sent for trial , and the members of the firm were held to bail to appear and answer the charge at the sessions .

      An action has been brought at the Lancaster Spring Assizes ( which commenced on Thursday week ) for an assault committed by one of the county magistrates on another . A difference of opinion occurred between the four magistrates officiating at the Haslingden Petty Sessions respecting the renewal of a public-house license to a woman whose husband was in a lunatic asylum . The plaintiff ( Mr . John Hoyle ) and another magistrate were in favour of renewing the license ; the defendant ( Mr . ; lialph Holden ) and the fourth magistrate were against it , on the ground of the woman having allowed some men to toss in her house for a pot of beer . The

      fourth miigistrate , being the senior and the chairman , gave the casting vote ; on which Mr . Hoyle observed that he saw no more harm in two poor men tossing for beer than in a magistrate tossing for the price to be paid for some of his land . Mr . Holden asking for an explanation , "Mr . Hoyle said he alluded to him ( the defendant ) ; and it would seem that he also used very abusive language , and shook his fist in Mr . Holden ' s face . Tlie latter then struck Mr . Hoyle with his stick , and knocked him down , causing him to faint with , the pain . The defence rested on the great provocation received . The jury gave a verdict for Mr . Hoyle ; damages , 40 s . The Judge refused to certify for costs .

      Some petty gambling transactions between two clerks were revealed in an action in the Court of Queens Bench , Brought by a young man residing with his mother at Fulhara , to recover 201 . 1 is . for money lent and paid for the use of the defendant . The defendant pleaded various pleas , and amongst them one that SI . Us . of the amount was won by gambling . Mr . Serjeant Ballantine said that the plaintiff and defendant were formerly fellow clerks in the Law Union Fire Insurance Office , and that , tlie present action arose out of some gambling transactions between them . He proved the plaintiff ' s case by the production of two I O U ' s . one

      A case arising out of the Sadleir frauds "was tried , in the Court of Exchequer on Tuesday . Mr . Ginger , the plaintiff , a farmer at Heniel Hempstead , Hertfordshire , sought to recover damages from the defendant , Mr . Law , for an alleged fraudulent representation as to the value and condition of certain shares in the Tipperary Bank a 3 an investment , and the honesty of a prospectus and balance-sheet relating to the same , on the faith of which the plaintiff had purchased forty of such shares . The representations of the defendant were treated in the second count as the foundation of a contract for the

      dated July 7 , 1855 , for 8 / . 11 s ., and another dated August 10 , 1855 , for 121 . Mr . Hawkins , for the defendant , complained that the plaintiffhad not been called to explain the transactions . The defence was , as regarded the I O U for 81 . 11 s ., that it was given for a gamblingdebt incurred by losses in playing at cricket and . billiards at Chalk Farm , and by a bet against the Lord of the Isles , a horse which won the 2000 Guineas Stakes at Newmarket . A defence was also set up against the remainder of the claim . The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 12 / ., considering that the other I O U was given for a gambling debt .

      breach of which the plaintiff souglit to recover the purchase-money , amounting to 500 / . A third count was for money had and received . Tlie defendant pleaded not guilty ; a denial of the allegation that the plaintiff was induced to buy the shares through his representations ; and never indebted as to the money count . Mr . Ginger , in his evidence , swore that he bought the shares under the belief tliat they were old shares , not a new issue . It appeared that the Tipperary Bank issued certificates of shares in blank ; and Mr . Kelly , tho manager of the bank , said , in his cross-examination : — " The books showed a capital of 10 ) 0 , 000 / . paid up . John

      Mr . Edward Holmes Baldock , M . P ., was summoned at the Westminster police-court on a charge of assaulting William ITulman , a man in the employment of Mr . Sparkes Hall , the Queen ' s bootmaker . Ilulman was with his master in his dog-cart on Saturday , February 14 th , when they observed Mr . Baldock talking to Lord Newport , in Halkin-street , Belgrave-square . A dog was standing by , which Mr . Hall thought had once belonged to him ; and he and Ilulman got out of the cliaise , nnd requested to be allowed to look at the animal . Mr . Baldock said the dog was his ; but Mr . Hall still exhibited some doubt , and expressed a wish to examine the dog . Ilulman then stooped down and began looking at the collar : when Mr . Baldock struck him with his ennc .

      Sadleir owed 120 , 000 / . to the bank , which was treated as capital . At the meeting of 185 C , a prospectus was put forward with the names of the additional directors . I spoke to him about it , and he said lie had their authority . The whole was a fraud concocted between James and John Sndleir . " A consultation between the counsel on both sides finally led to an agreement , ot the terms of which was an undertaking on the part of Mr . Law to refund to tho plaintiff and all the other English shareholders the sum received by him by way of commission , and for the transfer stamps which never were vised . The Chief Baron then directed the jury to iind a verdict for the defendant . Both Judge nnd jury

      flio injury , according to the man himself , was serious ; but a medical gentleman , to whom he went some four or live days afterwards , said the bruise was but slight . After this nssnult , Mr . Hall demanded Mr . Baldock ' s card , Imt it was refused . A policeman was then spoken to ; but he would not take tho gentleman into custody . Mr . Hall subsequently called at Mr . Baldock ' s house * , when ho refused to give an apology . The tradesman was again assured that the dog was Mr . Bnldock ' but ho expressed incredulity , though , at the examination before tlie magistrate , he admitted that veiy likely the dog did belong to ils present owner . The magistrate thought tho clmrgo wan a slight one , and that Mr . Hall had acted very improperly , lie indicted a lino of two shillings and costs ; in all , four Htiillings .

      expressed their strong disapproval of the practices resorted to by the Tipperary Bank . Tho case of Smith v . Lakeman , which had already occupied tho Court the whole of three day " , was resumed in the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Thursday morning . It was an issue directed to be tried by tnu Lord Justices of Appeal in Chancery , nnd the questions of fact raised for tho decision of the jury related to the ^• enuineiiL'Sd of certain documents which disclosed tuc . state of accounts between the partioB , who hail l ' jointly engaged in extensive mining nnd railway fipcciiIn-Lions . At a previous stage of tho case , tho l ' nctA were laid beforo our readers . Tho jury now fount ! for the defendant on all the issues . Lord Campbell fully concurred in tho vordict ,

      An old man , named William Wilson , w « s charged at tho . Bow-street , police-oflice with obtaining money from Lord Rukcby under falso prutencerj . Early in January , Wilson called on lm lordship with a letter , purporting to be written by n woman whom ho ( Lurtl Uokoby ) had formerly known , named Louisa Duke . Tho letter contained u very piteous talo of tho writer's present circumstances , and titated that tho bearer , i \ Ir . Wilson , although ho wna himself vory poor and hud a largo

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 28, 1857, page 200, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2182/page/8/