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GATHERINGS FHOM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS,
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tried ) the first for stealing fifty dozen pairs of gloves , value 76 ? ., the property of his employer , and the second for feloniously receiving the stolen property . The facts have already appeared in this journal . They were found Guilty , and sentenced to two years' imprisonment each . Dr . James Mitchell "Wynne , a physician , and Thomas Tinley , his servant , surrendered to take their trial upon an indictment which charged them witl feloniously cutting and -wounding Mark Benjamin Benham , on the 29 th of last December . The quarrel arose out of some dispute relative to the prosecutor ' s occupancy of rooms
in Dr . Wynne ' s house ; but our readers were placed in full possession of the facts at the time the case was before the police magistrate . The defence vras that Mr . Benham had grossly insulted Dr . Wynne ; that a scuffle took place , in which the doctor was forced to defend himself ; that his servant assisted him ; that the prosecutor wished , in order to forward his own views , to get the doctor -within the meshes of the law ; and that the assaults had been greatly exaggerated . Several witnesses testified to Dr . Wynne ' s mild and , gentlemanly manners ; and the jury Acquitted both the accused .
John PauVand Joseph . William Hawes were charged , the former with having feloniously uttered a receipt for 2307 . knowing it to have been forged , and the latteT with having forged the same instrument , with intent to defraud the Guardians of the Poor of the City of London Union . This charge arose out of the frauds and forgeries committed by Paul on the Union to which he was clerk . It will be recollected that he was convicted at the last session of those felonies , and was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation . He now appeared in his prison dre 3 s , and looked extremely dejected and wretched . The case "was watched on his behalf , -but no defence was made . The defence for Hawes was that he had acted as the tool of Paul , and did not know he was doing wrong . The jury Acquitted him , and found Paul Guilty . No further sentence was passed on him , and he was simply remitted back to prison .
Edwin Hammond surrendered to tale his trial for the manslaughter of Richard Cottrell . On the night of the 31 st January , Cottrell and . a friend were passing King ' s-cross , when Hammond and two other men came up and assaulted them . The prisoner knocked the deceased down , and , his head coming upon the kerb , his skull was fractured , from the effects of which he died a week afterwards . Hammond was found Guilty , and sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment .
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The Case of Mrs . Hope . —This case , which has been argued for a long time before the Lords Justices of Appeal , has teen decided . The appeal -was ' from the decision of the Master of the Rolls , overruling a demurrer put in to the bill . The bill was filed by Madame Emilie Melanie Mathilde Hope , by her next friend , against Mr . Adrian John Hope , her husband , praying the specific performance of an agreement entered into between the parties at Paris in 1855 . The principal provisions of this agreement were—Firstly , that Mrs . Hope would immediately deliver up to Mr . Hope Mr . Adrian Elias Hope , the youngest but one of their children , the youngest , Mr . Jean Henry Hope , being to'be left under the care of his mother . Secondly , that Mrs . Hope would
furtively , carrying it to the dust-bin , to be out of observation , and occasionally glancing up to the windows of his father ' s house . At length , the publican brought the matter before the attention of the parish authorities , who went to the place , and found the lad seated in the kitchen by a small fire , horribly filthy , and covered with vermin . A room up-stairs where he ^ slept was in a sickening condition from accumulations " of dirt ; and the youth , on being taken to the workhouse , and stripped , was found to be dreadfully emaciated , and suffering from a great many sores and from general neglect . The father has seven other children , who appear to be well fed . The publican , in giving evidence , said he had seen one of them , a girl , laughing and mocking at her miserable brother , on account of the vermin on him . Williams was remanded , but bail was accepted for his reappearance .
Hocussing- ox the Hiohway . —A young woman servant was stopped in the evening in the outskirts of Wakefield by two men , who solicited alms . On her replying that she had nothing for them , one uncorked a phial , and , while his companion held the girl , poured some of the contents down her throat . Some persons at that moment approached , and the men ran away . The girl was found in a state of stupefaction , and her throat was severely burnt by the fluid . The police are looking out for the offenders .
Suspected Murder neah Lancaster . —The body of a man has been discovered lying in blood at the bottom of a very high precipice , called the Scotch Quarry , near Lancaster . Two men , named Nelson and Leach , have been apprehended under suspicion , and committed for trial on the coroner ' s warrant . One of them is a poacher and a man of dissolute habits ; both were known to have quarrelled with the murdered man on the night when he was missed ; and a great deal of circumstantial evidence points to them as the perpetrators .
Another Holt Babbit Case . ;—John Hagon has been again charged at tlie Holt Petty Sessions with trespassing on " the Low , " and taking a rabbit from that piece of ground which by right belongs to the poor of the neighbourhood . He was convicted , and sentenced to two months'hard labour . The Petty Sessions are acquiring a disgraceful notoriety . The Ashovjer Burgiary . —Thomas Wooton , the man in custody under suspicion of being concerned iu the burglary at the house of the Rev . Mr . Nodder at Marsh Green , Ashover , has been examined before the local magistrates , and committed for trial . He is apparently the man who wag shot by Mr . Uodder . His manner during the examination was very impudent , and he asked the court to allow him to leave for a time , to get his dinner .
Attempted Mueder . —A young woman at Southampton has been shot by a man with whom she had been living , and who had quarrelled with her . She was hit in the shoulder , but not mortally wounded . The man is in custody , and committed for trial . The City Bank Faruds . — The trial of James Townsend Saward and James Anderson for the celebrated frauds on the City and other banks took place at the Central Criminal Ccmrt on Thursday before the
Chief Baron and Mr . Baron Bramwell . Sir Frederick Thesiger prosecuted , with the assistance of Mr . Bodkin and Mr . Sleigh . The prisoners , who were not defended , were found Guilty , and on the following day ( yesterday ) the Lord Chief Baron sentenced them to transportation for life , not heeding a recommendation by Sir Frederick Thesiger , on the part of the Bankers' Association , who were the prosecutors , that Anderson should be regarded with some leniency , on the ground that be was a mere tool of Saward .
abandon a suit which she had commenced in the English courts for a divorce against Mr . Hope . Thirdly , that Mrs . Hope would not oppose a suit for divorce instituted against her by Mr . Hope in the English courts , but , on the contrary , would facilitate the obtaining of such divorce ; the understanding being that Mrs . Hope should have access to , and be allowed to correspond with , her eldor children . Fourthly , that Mr . Hope should pay Mrs . Hope for her life 75 , 000 francs per year . The bill alleged that Mrs . Hope had fulfilled tliis agreement , by performing the stipulations on her part , but that Mr , Hope had refused her access to her children , and declined to pay her the annuity of 75 , 000 francs . The Master of the Rolls had considered the question too difficult to be decided upon demurrer . The Lords Justices of Appeal
now said that , assuming the contract to be such aa would le enforced by the French tribunals—though that , perhaps , did not sufficiently appear on the bill—the demurrer must , nevertheless , be allowed , as the agreement waa one which could not bo enforced by the courts in England , inasmuch as it contained stipulations contrary to the policy of the law here . The first article of the agreement -was plainly so , being to withdraw the youngest child from the care and superintendence of his father , hia natural guardian according to the law of England ; and the third was equally , if not more repugnant to the policy of that law , inasmuch as it had a double object firstly , to promote proceedings for a divorce , and secondly , to frustrato underhand proceedings commenced in a court of justice . That being so , the agreement could not be enforced .
Ill-usa . ce of a Son . —A nhocking case of ill-usage of a son was brought before the Worship-street magistrate last Saturday . The lad is about eighteen years of ago , and is the son of Joseph Williams , a letter-. sorter at the General Post Office . Ho is of weak intellect , and appears to have been systematically neglected by his parents ; but it is assorted that the jnothor is also imb « cile . A publican living next d < w to the father , ob serving that the youth was sadW emaciated , would give him bread : which the pqor follow would cat
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A bian employed on the Bristol and Kxeter Itailway has l ) een killed while courageously performing an act of duty . Turner , the man in question , was in charge of the down luggage train , and observed that a truck had heen left on the line near the High bridge station . Although the train -was in motion , lie attempted to descend , in order to remove tho obstacle , but missed his footing , and was tlirown across the rails , where the wheels of . some of the luggage vans went over him . He was instantly killed .
Mrs . Sarah Elliott , an elderly maiden lady , who has lived for fiuveral years iu Nursery-row , Brandon -street , Walworlh , was found dead on Sunday morning by her Servant , lying in the parlour on three chairs with a halfempty gin bottle by her side . Her habits were very eccentric . She whs supposed by her neighbours to be highly connected ; l » ut none of her friends were observed to visit h-cr . She lived parsimoniously except in the matter of drink , in which she indulged . Tho house had
at one time been richly furnished ; but , from neglect , the furniture is now in a deplorable state . Mrs . Elliott , when the body was discovered , was dressed in miserable rngs , held together by an inconceivable number of pins , though there were plenty of clothes of a costly character in the house . Forty sovereigns , and six 5 / . Hank of England notca , were also found in a bag under the head of the corpse . Tho old lady bad drunk a whole hottlo of wine tho night boforc her death ; but she appears to have expired from natural causes . Tho inqucBt on . the bodies of tho men killed by the explosion at the fog-signal factory of the Eastern Counties Railway was concluded on Wednesday , when tho jury found u verdict of death from the explosion , adding— "And tho jury arc of opinion that the greatest negligence has been exhibited in conducting tho manufacture of tli « fog-signals , and the most ordinary precautions
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be applied to his Lordship . " The magistrate made out an order for the removal of the unfortunate man to Cohwy-batch Lunatic Asylum . Mr . Bell exclaimed that the decision of the magistrate was an act of tyranny and injustice , as they had not put Lord John Russell into the box ; but he was shortly afterwards removed . Mr . Commissioner Goulburn , in the Court of Bankruptcy , on Monday , spoke with great severity of those tailors who encourage young men , Tinder age , to reckless expenditure in clothes , by granting them credit . John Baxter Xolkard , a tailor of Jermyn-street , applied for a certificate . His accounts commenced on the 1 st of January , 1855 , with a surplus of 3387 ? ., and , extending over a period of sixteen months , close with xmsecuied creditors , 8377 ? . There are also liabilities to the further
extent of 68307 . to Mr .- Baxter , the bankrupt ' s godfather , for bills which , he has discounted , bearing the names of the bankrupt and his customers . The estate would now be solvent but for losses to an enormous amount by "bad debts by young gentlemen , who , it would appear , have but in few instances paid for their clothes . As it is , the assets to meet the debts of 8377 ? ., and such further amount as may accrue from the liabilities of 6830 / ., have as yet realized only 2800 / ., and the Commissioner calculated that the total amount could only be made up to about 300 W . After a severe lecture , Mr . Commissioner Goulbum said the bankrupt would merely receive a tlurd-class certificate after a year ' s suspension from 'that'day , ' with protection from three months to three months .
An American , named Alexander Ilarnett Clarke , pursuing business as a photographic artist in Suiircourt , Upper East Smithfield , is under remand at tho Thames police-office , charged with the manslaughter of a Mrs . Buan . That person had gone to Clarke ' s room , and . asked for a portrait which had been taken of her son . The man said that it was not in a fit state to leave his " establishment ; " but Mrs . Bunn rejoined that she had paid for it , and would have it . Clarke then seized a hammer and struck at a female companion of Mrs-Bunn ; but the blow fell on the latter , -who was much , hurt . The American was given into custody ; but the Thames magistrate , believing that the case was only one of ordinary . assault , ' -fined-Clarke twenty shillings , which he paid . The woman , however , has since died , and Clarke was -therefore again apprehended .
The old man calling himself Williams , who stands charged with obtaining charitable contributions from Lord Rokefcy , by false pretences , was brought before the Bow-street magistrate on Wednesday , for final examination . He then stated that he was unable to produce the Mr 3 . Duke , on whom he had relied for his defence , excepting by criminating another person , -which he refused to do ; and he therefore threw himself on . the mercy of the court , and besought the magistrate to consider his years and the fact of his having disease of the heart . He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment . Mr . Birclimore , the relieving officer of the parish of St . Pancras , attended at the Clcrkcnwell police-office to make a statement to the magistrate of tho results of some investigations he had been making into the circumstances , of the applicants for relief belonging to the society of the unemployed .. According : to this statement , n very large proportion of the applicants , were impostors .
looted , demanded upon what grounds the surgeon camo to tho conclusion that ho was of unsound mind . On having the last letter lie wrote to Lord John Russell put into his hand , he admitted it was his writing , and then assorted that ho had been slandered , and that persons had been employed to noison him by his Lordship , ifo repeatedly declared tliat they were " mercandott " slanders , and that Lord John " Morcandott" lius . scll deserved tho " morcandott" medicine , as he had repented the slanders at Dovcr-liouso to Lord Dover and others , and ho wished Lord John Rimcll to bo summoned as a witness , to see if he could deny it . In reply to the magistrate as to what was meant by tho term " mercandott , " which he used ho often , ho said , " Meroandott is an ash plant—a stick . Mercandott medicine ahould
GATHERINGS F 31 OM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS , Thomas Belt ,, a person charged at the Thames policeoffice on a previous day with sending threatening letters to Lord John Russell , was brought up again last Saturday , at the instigation of the Homo Secretary , to enable the magistrate to inquire as to the state of his mind , with a view to his future disposal , Mr . Thomas Meares , surgeon , stated that he had examined Mr . Bell on Friday and again that morning , and found that ho laboured under a delusion that Lord John Russell had disseminated slanders respecting him , and had employed persons to infuse poison into hia food and medicine . Ho admitted the authorship of the letters . Mr . Meares was satisfied that he was a lunatic , mid that , as his insanity might assume a dangerous form , he OAight to be put under restraint . Mr . Hell , who appeared iirm and col-
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March 7 , 1857 . ] THE LHADEB . 225
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Leader (1850-1860), March 7, 1857, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2183/page/9/
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