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Leader (1850-1860), 25th April 1857, Edition 1 of 2, Page 390, Untitled Article

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      a despatch frnm . Paris ) appears in a fair way of settlemeat . Prince Danilo has released a prisoner , and Austria , as a recognition , of- this friendly proceeding , Las ordered that the Montenegrin , refugees shall be removed to the interior .

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      A PROFESSED GAMBLEH . An action of an interesting nature vvas brought in the Court of Exchequer last Saturday by a person named Kansom , against one Bosville , for the recovery of the sum of 50 / ., lent by the former to the latter . The defendant pleaded never indebted , and that the money was lent for the purposes of gaming-. Both Kansom and Bosville . were on the turf , and they used to meet at the Prince of Wales Club in St . James ' s-street , which was a gambling-house . One day , Bosyille , being " cleaned out , " borrowed 50 / . of Hansom , giving him in exchange an I O TJ of aBIr . Pilcber , which , proved ' . to he worthless . On being cross-examined , Kansom said , that the Prince

      of Wales Club was a gaming-house . " He had been there frequently . He did not know who kept it . There were a great many persons who appeared to be working there , but he did not know them . He was not there every night . He might go once or twice a month . He did not know whether they played there on a Sunday . He had never been there on a Sunday . He had played hazard there with his own money . He did not play with the money of the house . He had "been told what a ' bonnet' was . "—Mr . Ballantine ( for the defendant ) : " I don't mean a lady ' s bonnet . "—Mr . Edwin James ( foi the plaintiff ) : "I should think not . Nobody knows what a . lady ' s "bonnet is now . It is impossible to describe it . ** —Cross-examination continued : " A ' bonnet' is a

      fictitious player . He did not know that it meant a cheat . He might think it meant that , but he could not say so positively . He should not like to play with one . He had betw £ en 200 J . and 300 / . in his pocket when he lent the money . He had won the greater part of it that evening . He had been very lucky at play . He / was playing for sometime at the same table as the defendaat . The defendant was not playing , because he had nothing to lose . He heard the defendant ask some persons to lend him 30 / ., which they refused doing . Thedefendant

      did not * ask for the 30 / . at the gaming-table , but down stairs in the refreshment-room . When he began gaming , he might have had 120 / . to 130 / . in his pocket . At that period he was living at Church-street , Chelsea , where he was living still . He betted on horse races . He had no other means of living . He had been a gambler for twenty years . He was forty-three years old . He had formerly been an engraver , bat he had left that off .. He had always contrired to live upon his present profession . " A verdict was given for the full amount claimed .

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      Cock-fighting at Liverpool . —AXiverpool publican has been fined 5 / . and costs for permitting cock-fighting in his house . Stabbing . —A German baker named Weber has been lined 5 / ., or condemned to three months' imprisonment in default , for stabbing another foreign baker in the course of a quarrel . —William Woodie , a youtli of nineteen , son of a coaclirnaker , has committed a murderous assault with knives . He was ill-using his father at nn eating-house , and , a policeman being sent for , he furiously attacked the officer . It was then found that he had two table-knives in his hands , mid with these he bad wounded the constable in several places . He was then struck over the arms with the stafF , and forced to drop

      the weapons . On being brought before the Worshipstreet magistrate , the j-outh ' s father , who was painfully affected , said his son was a person « f very violent and uncontrollable temper . He was remanded , that the result of the policeman's wounds might bo ascertained . The KiDDKitMinsTEit Eiotkrs . —The persona concerned in these disturbances were brought up ngaia on Friday week . Mr . Henry Chillingwo-Tth , gentlomun , was discharged . After bearing some further evidence , the magistrates said the chargo against Mr . Alfred Talbot and Mr . J ? itt must be dismissed . Ueujamiii Wollings , Robert Westwood , Henry West-wood , William Wood , George Porker ^ Albert PorrinB , John Cook , Samuel Payno ; and Benjamin Potter , were committed to tho Assizes .

      Death from STA-RVATurer . —An inquest was held on Monday afternoon on the body of Mrs . Plank , the - \ vifo of Daniel Plank , shoemaker , of the Marsh , Marlborough , who died on Friday week under peeulinrly distressing circumstances . Plank ia now in Devizes " prison on a committal from the County Court far debt . Ho vaa taken there the day prior to tho death of his wife On the following day , a ffcrnale friend of tho poor creature paid her a visit , and found her in a sinking and doplorable state . She sent for a surgeon , who- promptl y attended ami afforded relief , but it was too Into ; the woman expired tho sam « da ) v 'JJlie j « ry returned H . v . erd . iot of " Died from tho want otf . coromou necessaries , oxving to Uie disputed liablts of her husband . "—tktluburg Journal

      Saturday-. The ease was fully proved , and the man de- i clared lie would : never play again , and pr ayed- to be dealt with leniently . The . magistrate hoped that the light- ! ness of the sentence he was about to inflict would have ¦ > the desired effect . He then , sentenced him to one month ' s imprisonment with hard .. labour . — -Grant ' s wife was then charged with attempting 1 self-des-traction , whieli she attributed to her being in . actual want on . account of the imprisonment of her husband . After a severe admonition , and a promise on her part , not to repeat the crime , she was discharged ,. and the moneys which had been sent to'the magistrate for her temporary assistance w-era handed to her . The Suspected . Mukoek of ast AoriXLEnvaiAN . Catherine Coulson aud John Walsh have been committed for trial on a charge ( tho details . of . which'have .. already appeared iu this paper ) of-causing the death of James Lawler , a private in the Royal Artillery , by striking and frighteaiug him , in consequence of which he jumped into the river at Woolwich , and was drowned . Cruet , Trkatjieist of a Cuild at ItLvNcriEsiffiu .- — Robert Matthew , a railway , labourer , has been brought before the magistrates at Manchester , charged with throwing his child , a girl about three years oid , on the fire . Its back was shockingly burnt , and it is doubtful

      if it will survive . The man was drunk at the time . The magistrates committed him for trial . Alleged MutIution of a Deeu ' o-j Setjclemiskt . — The important inquiry now beiug instituted on the part of the shareholders of the Athenoium . Life Assurance Society into tlie alleged mutilation of the deed of settlement of that association , by the abstraction of a clause in it purporting to limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount of their shares , was proceeded with last Saturday before Mr . Richard Bloxhavn , Chief Clerk to Vice-Chancellor "Wood . After the examination of several witnesses , Mt . Burton , solicitor to Mr . Harding , the official manager , suggested that the portion of the deed which had been tampered with should he submitted to a minute microscopic examination , in order to complete the evidence . This was understood to be assented to by the chief cleric and the meeting adjourned .

      Execution of Thomas Nation . — -Thomas Nation , the man who vyas convicted at the late Assizes of the murder of John Aplin , was hung in front of the Somerset county gaol , Tannton , on Tuesday morning . Efforts had been made , on various legal ' and other grounds , to obtain a comnautatiora of the . sentence ; but Sir George Grey , after consultation with Lord Chief Justice- Cockburn , who tried the ease , refused to interfere . Nation to the last denied his guilt . He acknowledged that he had committed criine 3 " as numerous as the hairs of his head ; " but he would not admit that he had killed Aplin . A day or two before his death , he addressed

      ¦ the middle of the following day the door of the bedrr ^« , waa found locked on the inside , an < l shortly afterv-W Miss King was seon going down stairs uith somethJn in her hand . Sie went out into the garden , and s 2 quently returned , shivering with cold , and so -ill + w ifc was necessary to restore . her with , brandy Cert *^ indications , of a nature to eanse suspicion , wereitt 1 covered in the bedroom , ami the police , who had mt some infonnation with reference to the affair went fc ! the house , and found the dead body of a male infant i the waterdoset . A surgeon was examined before tfc magistrate , and , while declining to assert positively that the child had "been born alive , he said he believed it would have been if proper assistance had been rendered The young woman , who had been seated during the esn j nination of tha witnesses , and ivh . o exhibited so mud nervous prostration and debility that she was partiall supported in th « anas of her mo ' ther and another femak attendant , here became so hysterically affected that fttr D'Eyncourt ordered her to be conveyed home in a cab and adjourned the case- for a fortnight , in the meantime accepting the bail of a gentleman attached to the Gitv Mission , ^ who had much interested hi mself in the prisoner ' s behalf , and who voluntarily tendered himself for the purOose ,

      letters to his brother and other members of the family , pointing out the evil effects of bad . company , and expressing a hope that lrisdear sister would meet him in heaven . . He also made gifts of some of the publications of the ' Religious Tract Society to ' bis brother . On the morning ot" the execution , while being pinioned , he said to Calernft , " Don ' t hurt me ; I can hardly breathe . " At this time ho seemed to be suffering great mental emotion ; but ho afterwards recovered , and appeared to meet his fate with composure . The execution was witnessed by several thousand persons , chiefly rustics ami gipsies , including nearly an equal proportion of men aud

      women . A Public-house Quarrel . — Tho landlady of a public-house at Hackney has been nearly murdered , by a bargeman named William Wielt 3 . Mrs . 35 adcock , the woman in question , saw the man , when in front of her bar , last Saturday evening , misconducting himself with some womon . She reproved him , when ho called her by several very abusive names ; on which , according to her own admission , she threw some pint pots and cans at him . Exasperated at this , ho seized a quart pot , and flung it at the woman's head with groat force . The missile cut open her temple , dividing an artery , nnd deluging her person with blood . Her husband was present all the while , but ho did not interfere for her

      protection , as he is a great friend of Wicks . It is said also that ho habitually ill-uses his wile ; and , after tho assault , be observed that he wished sbo had been killed . On a policeman going to YVicks ' s house to arrest tho man , he found tho door fastened , and lienrd ji noiso within ns of a musket being loaded , followed by a woman ' s voice , saying , " for Q-od ' s sake , don't . " He therefore thought it prudent to -wait outside . Wicks promised to surrender in the morning . A police sergeant , howovor , wa 3 . v aften \ 'urda admitted by eoino one in the houso , and ho then took tho man , who was oxuiuinod at Worship-street ou Tuesday . Mra . Badcock was vary ( hint while giving hev evidence , and it is doubtful whether erysipelas will not set in . Tho man was remanded for a week .

      Tin ? Oin Story . —A painful . scene took pltioe nfc tho Worship-street polica-court on Wednesday . Martlm King , n young woman , wbo was described us the daughter of a tradesman at lloincrton , was charged on suspicion of wilfully causing the death of her infant . Miaa ISmily Mitcholl suitl that Miss King was an intiniato frUiiul of liors , and , on the . droning , * of tho 27 th ult . sbo slept at her ( Miss Mitchell's ) fathor ' ri houso . She Hhimtd Mlsa Mitcholl ' a bail , aud . wna very ill in . the uigb . 1 . In

      line Caiu ) Shaiu-kranwuwWhcjc . —liichaoi Grant the car < l-sharpcr , taken into custody for following his trndo in a carriage on thts South-Western liuilwuy avus again placed ' at ttie bar of tho Lambeth polico-court lnet

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      GATHERINGS FHO 5 M TI 1 U LAW AND POLICE COUlt'L'S . Mil . G-Koaojs Alpiikd Wisnsrait , thu tempovory lessee of Sadler ' s Wells Theatre , obtained last Saturday an injunction in Chancery to restrain Mr- Charles Dillon , tho actor , of tho Lyceum Theatre , from performing at Pruryljinc or any other theatre dxiring twolvo conaecutivrti nights , commencing lust Monday . TSlr . Dillon had engn « cd to play at Sadler ' s Wells during that perioil , but had broken hid ongagomont because he , waa not peiniitted to perform in Vh \ rjl > iLus ; which Mr . Webster was precluded by liia contract from producing . An aiinonucemcut had been put forth that Mr . Dillon would perform Macbeth at Drury-lauo on Monday , tho 20 tti ; and tlio present injunction wua thercforu sought , and at oneo granted by tho Lord Cliaitcellor .

      An ingenious trick waa peifornied . on a French gentleman a few duys ago in Chiswell-. street . M . l . iicimi Kounud hflB aoino conuoxion with the corn trade , iincl , « s ho wits , ou bid way to Miwk .-ln . no froiu hb rcaidcucc w

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      Attempted Mukdeji . —Edward Atkins , a plnmber has been , committed for trial on a- charge of cutting the throat of a woraau with , whom lio had Iive 4 . till recentiv when they parted . The woman was seriousv iniurAd but not killed . / J a ' A Novel Escape fhom Custody . —Joseph Lewis who , together with another young man , both from London , were in custody at Bath on a charge of stealing has escaped from the charge of a . policeman in a siagular manner . He and his companion had been brought ithe from the to the

      n van gaol poh ' ce-station , and , cm getting out , the policeman who liad charge of lewis simply walked by his side , instead of taking hold of his arm . The thief watched his opportunity , suddenly sprang ; back , darted through a little crowd of persons , and was gone , He was followed for some distance , trat he soon distanced his pursuers , aud , turning into an inn , watched the crowd pass the coffee-room window He has not Tjeen heai * d of since . The quick-witted London thief was too much for the stow-idead Batli policeman .

      lLt ,-UaAGE op a Step-daughter . — -Ellea Coanpr , the wife of a gas-fitter at Skoreditch , is . under remand at the " Worship-street police-court , on a charge of illusing her stepdaughter , a child about twelve years old . She . waa in the habit of heating and starving the girl , and . a few days ago- she struck her repeatedly with a hot poker , because , in the extremity of her hunger , she helped herself to some bread . The child ' s unhappy appearance in court excited great commiseration , itoiniKUY by a Surgeox . —Joseph Langton , a surgeon , has been examined at the Mansion House , and committed for trial , on . a charge of stealing three waistcoats aud a piece of blue silk from a tailor by whom he was being mensured for some clothes . Tao stolen things were seen to drop from under his coat , and lie was given into custody . When beiug examined before the Lord Mayor he protested before God thai lie was innocent .

      MuKoiou of A Gamkkeei- 'ku . —The adjourned inquest respecting the death of John Bcbbington , head gamekeeper to Mr . Corbett , of Tilstone , near Chester , was held on Thursday , at the Tollemaclic ¦ Arms , JBeeston , and terminated hi a verdict of Wilful Murder against John lilagg , a poacher , who had fired at Bebbingtou . He has been conunitt ed for trial . Abduction . —Richard George Clarke , a married man , but separated from his wife , and Rosa Bush , -were on Thursday committed by the Westminster police magistrate for trial , charged with the abduction of lilizabetk Harris , daughter of a Hebrew tradesman , to whom . Husk Avns a servant .

      CiiAncuc ox' Poisoning . —George lleathcrlcy , a gunner and driver in . the Royal Artillory , was again examiuetl ou Thursday at tho Woolwich police-court on the charge of poisoning a girl named timith . It was then stateil by a medical gontloman that tho girl did not die by poison , and Hcatuorloy was thcreforo disclxarged .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 25, 1857, page 390, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2190/page/6/