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    GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COUNTS . A meeting for tkc proof of debts and choice of assignee in the bankruptcy of Mr- John Townsend , 31 . P . for Greenwich , took place before Mr . Commissioner Faae last Saturday . The debts and assets are , respectively 5 O 0 OJ . and 1000 / . Mr . Shepherd ( of the Surrey Theatre ) and a Mr . Wallis , of Laacaster-place , Kegent ' s Park , were appointed assignees 5 Messrs . King and George , solicitors ; and Messrs . Butler ami Cannings , accountants .

    M-r . Jardine , the Bow-stroct magistrate , was occiipiod for several hours last Saturday in hearing a summons agninst two picture-dealers , named Smart and Closs , residing in Leicester-square , charging them with conspiring to defraud Mr . Fitzpatrick , a carver and gilder , of Sheffield , of 130 / ., by selling him a picture purporting to be by JLinnell , for that sum , -when it was proved to lie a copy , and not worth 67 . Mr , Fitzpatrick had made oilers to Smart for the purchase of the original . -uut had not of

    conns to terms . Closs then , through the agency a picture-frame maker , negotiated the sale of the copy , which ho put forward as the original . The negotiator , who asserts that ho knew nothing of the fraud , took 101-as liia ' commission' for the trouble . Mr . 1 / mnoll was examined in court , and hud some ditliculty in identifying his own original . Several other artists \ vln > wiie « n court said that the copy waa remarkably skilful . ' ^ ci \ 8 q was adjourned , and tlio accused were allowed to go on their own recognizances . hear

    The petition of Lord Cecil Gordon came on ft > r - ing before Mr . Charles Saunders , the judge < ' * ' . Tauntun County Court , at the last sitting . Mr . S » rgood appeared for the detaining creditors , and Mr . Kdhn for tho insolvent . Lord Cecil James Cordon having bee « sworn , IUr . Sargood . eaid ho appeared on behalf of twenty tradesmen of Uatli , to whom the iniiolvent was

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    ball , the captain ' s BOlkito * , t 6 get the sentence commuted , both with respect to Rogers and to Miles and Seymour , the two mates who were also condemned to death for abetting the same crime . He waa successful as regards the mates ; hut Sir George Grey refused to spare the life of the captain . When Miles and Seymour heard that they had been respited , they became quite unmanned , and wept for a long time , though , observes the Liverpool Albion , it is doubtful whether this was from " excess of joy at their own deliverance from an ignominious death , or from grief at the approaching fate of their commander , to whom they were evidently closely attached . " Captain Rogers exhibited more firmness ; and before he and his mates were separated , they joined

    Confessed the crime , and were written in a . religious strain . Clarke was committed for trial . —A young Irishwoman , named Bridget Kavanagh , is under remand * t Marlbdrough-street , charged with administering a narcotic poison to her infant , who is in a -very dangerous state . The woman asserts that 8 he gave the stuff' bymistake . Ridif A . t Exsmou—Some drunken railway navvies ' at Honiton have kept the town for a day or two in an alarmed state by riotous conduct . Several were arrested , and , as they were being conveyed from the ' lock-up' to the Town-hall for * examination , some others appeared upon the scene , and rescued three of the prisoners . The rest were taken before the magistrates , and . fined , and , during the examination , the others remained outside the court , making hideous noises . Some of the police have been severely injured , and a larger force of constables has been sent from Exeter .

    Irish Disturbances . —Three Irishmen and an Irishwoman have been charged before the Westminster magistrate with creating a riot in G-reat Peter-Btreet , and seriously injuring three constables . They were sentenced to Various termB of imprisonment . —Jeremiah Donovan lias been committed by the Thames magistrate for trial for striking a policeman a violent blow on the head with a piece of sharp wood , causing great loss of blood . He was quarrelling with a woman , and had merely been told by the constable to leave the spot , which was close to the gate of the London Docks . He was intoxicated at the time . —A drunken tailor , named Patrick Crawley , has been sent to prison for twenty-one days for an assault on a policeman . He is an old offender .

    CannxbaijISM . —Two horrible cases of brutality have lately occurred in different parts of the metropolis . The first was that of a ruffianly-looking man , named James Moore , -who was charged at the Mansion House with biting off a part of one of the fingers of Ellen Sullivan , a Bhomaker ' s wife living in Haifmoon-street , City . Her husband a few nights ago saw the shadow of a strange man in the passage of his house , and when he asked Mm What he did there , the intruder threatened to strike him , on hearing which , Mrs . Sullivan and her youungest son *

    accompanied by several other people , ran down stairs from the upper part of the house , to his assistance , Sullivan being unable from disease to defend himself . His son offered to fight Moore , and the latter then struck the youth , and tore off his shirt-front . The mother interfered to protect him , upon which Moore caught her hand , and , gettingit into his mouth , bit off the top joint of her forefinger . It is supposed that he must have afterwards swallowed the piece as it could not be found anywhere . He told Mrs . Sullivan that he had called to see his father-in-law who lived on the first floor . ' Both she

    and her husband declared that the man -was an utter stranger to them , and that they knew nothing whatever of his father-in-law . Such is the version given by the Sullivans . Moore tells a very different story . He said , when before the magistrate : — I went to see my fatherin-law , and just as I . knocked at his bedroom door , Sullivan came down stairs and asked me what business I had there . I told him that wa 3 nothing to him , upon which he gave an Irish howl , and at least a dozen men and women , most of them in their night-dresses , ruBhed downstairs , kicked me all over the body , and jumped upon me . " ( Moore had a Jblack-eye , and was a good deal cut about the face . ) " Mrs . Sullivan got her fingers into my mouth , and tried to ' gag' me , and , to

    tsar the flesh from the roof , and in order to release myself I was obliged to bite her . If my father and mother-in-law had not opened their door and dragged me in , I am sure I should have been killed . Several of the persons that attacked me tried to rip up my cheeks , by putting their fingers in my mouth . " Moore was committed , for trial . —The second case of this kind happened in James-street , Covont-garden , the accused being a lowlocking woman named Mary Ann Taylor , who was charged at the Bow-street police-court with biting off another woman ' s , under lip . Ellen Downey , the complainant , stated that she was buying some fish at nn eel stall in James-street , and had just taken half a sovereign out of her pocket to pay for what she had bouglit , when Taylor ruehed suddenly at her , and attempted to snatch the money away from her . Failing in this , bIio

    flew at the other woman with great ferocity , seized her hair , bit away a largo piece of her under lip , anil then spat the fragment of flesh out of her mouth aud kicked it "down a kennel . She was given into custody , and , on her way to tho station-house , declared that she would do for the woman Down « y when she w « s again at liberty . She told tho magistrate that she was drunk at th « time she committed the assault , and that sho did not remember anything about it . She said that tho halfeoTOreign whlcli Bho tried to get from the other woman w * a her own money . This statement tho other denied . It appeared that this fiemalo savage had often before been in custody , and was on 0110 occasion committed for biting a policeman ' s noso nearly off . Mr . Henry lined her 4 t , and , being unablo to pay tho money , she was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment and hard labour .

    Execution . —Captain Henry Rogers , Into master of tho barque Martha Jane , of Suudcrlcmd , was hung at . Kirkdalo Gaol , Liverpool , lost Saturday , at noon , for the murder , by a aeries of atrocious cruelties , of Andrew Rob * , oa « of tho crow , while on a voyago from Barbruloes to SSugland . < Jreat exertions were made by Mr .

    Snowfor an hour iu prayer . A final interview between the captain and his wife and the two eldest of his five children took place on Friday week , and was necessarily of a most agonizing kind . The children were a boy of fourteen and a girl of twelve ; the latter did not seem to understand her father ' s position , though he told her she would never see him again on earth . The boy , who had been present at the trial , was greatly affected . The wife is a Wesleyan Methodist , and she , her husband , and the two mates , partook of the Sacrament on / the Friday . The mates were overpowered with grief , and

    Mrs . Rogers was so prostrated after the final separation that she could not support herself , and was taken away in a cab with the children . The following morning ( last Sat-urday ) was very fine , and a vast crowd collected in front of the gaol , but they are stated to have behaved with decorum . For a short time , a body of Methodists paraded before the scaffold , singing psalms ; but this did not last long . At twelve o ' clock the execution took place ; and Rogers , who had behaved with firmness , appeared to die quickly . The sentence on the mates has been commuted to penal serviUi . de for life .

    The Ekcbnt Robbery rsr Liverpool . —Thomas Pimm , Louisa his wife , and John Rice , have been apprehended , and examined before the Liverpool magistrate , on a charge of being concerned in the recent robbery of 517 ? . from the shop of Mr . Kearns , wine and spirit merchant , Park-lane . An iron safe in the inner office was broken open , and the money abstracted . Several drawers were also forced , and their contents were found scattered about on the following morning . The three suspected persons were apprehended in Manchester . They were committed for trial . ¦

    Another Stabbing Case . — Some labouring men were spending their harvest largesses , a few days ago , at a public-house at Earsbam , when one , named Stone , repeatedly challenged another , named Hunt , to fight . Hunt declined , and Stone at last pulled out a knife , and stabbed the other labourer twice . The rest then interfered , and took Hunt away ; and Stone was shortly afterwards apprehended . A Savage . —A horrible attack has been made upon an old woman at Bramley , near Leeds , by her

    son-inlaw . His wife went to her mother ' s house , and besought protection , from her husband ' s violence . This was given ; but , ha the evening of the same da } ' , Cooper , the husband , caine to the house , and inquired for his wife . The old woman tried to induce him to go ; but he struck her head against the wall , and knocked her down . He then kicked her on the chest , neck , and face , with his thick clogs . He then raised her in his arms , threw her into the street with great force , and again kicked her till she became insensible . He was brought up at the Leeds Court-house , and sentenced to six months' hard labour .

    s consequently great difficulty itt proceeding acainst ti « keepers of the disreputable houses . ^^ « 6 ««« c taa Maksi ^ oohtbb bt a Bot . - ~ The boys employed at two rolling-mills belonging to the Midland Iron < W pany at Bfasbroagh , near Rotherham , have for 80 ma time past exhibited great rivalry as to which divS should get the work done earliest in the evenine : ana the successful party always greets the other with de nsave huzzas . On the evening of Friday week thftsk demonstrations led to a quarrel and fight , during Mh missiles were thrown about . One of these—a piece of a STJS ?^^ JL ^ . ™** *» to ° * the head The projectile had been thrown

    by one Daniels who had just before been struck on . the leg by a small ' nieca of iron thrown by Bagnall , and who therefore retorted Bagnall , however , was so irritated at the blow helZ ceived that he seized a heavy pair of tongs and threw them at Daniels . The latter etepped behind another bov named Cottoni , who was struck on the temple so violently that the skull was fractured as if by a pistolshot . He died in about half an hour . Daniels rernon strated with Bagnall , who stnick him , and refused to assist in the removal of Cottam ) But he afterwards showed great contrition . An inquest has been held ending in a verdict of Manslaughter against Bagnall ' who has been committed for trial . '

    Attempted Suicide . —Mary Ann Leach was chared before Sir R . W . Carden , at < Juildhall , on Monday with an attempt at self-destruction . William Chidley a coffee-housekeeper , of Fetter-lane , said : " The prisoner has been in my service sinee March la&t . About three months ago , she robbed me to some extent , but , finding she had been led away by other persons , I retained her in my service to give her an opportunity of repaying me and of redeeming her lost character , and I promised

    her , if she would stay twelve months with me , I would look over all that was past . 3 Last Saturday , I found her out in a very paltry piece of dishonesty , and took her to task for it , upon which she went up-stairs to the third floor , threw herself over the banisters , and fell from the top of the stairs to the bottom . " Strange to say , sh& was not much hurt ; but she admitted that her " design was to kill herself , and she had also got a razor , as if with the * intention . of cutting her throat . She now appeared very repentant , and cried bitterly . The alderremanded her

    man . A Woman Killed bit iikr Father . —A man of seventy-six , living at Wadsworth , near Hebdbn Bridge , Lancashire , has killed his daughter , a woman of forty . They had quarrelled , owing to the daughter accusing her father of stealing some money of hers . At length , as he asserts , she pushed him into a chair , and threatened liim with the tongs , which he took from her , and struck her a tap on the back . She fell to the floor , and a child of hers ran and gave the alarm . On the neighbours going in , they found the woman on the point of

    death . She gave one or two sobs , and then died . The old man was sitting in a chair close by , peeling potatoes , and was quite composed . He said his daughter was only sick , and -would soon come to again , and when told she was dead , he would not believe it . At the inquest , a surgeon stated that death had resulted from fractures of the second and third vertebrao . This might have resulted from many causes ; and the surgeon added that ho hardly thought so feeble a man as the father could have given a sufficiently strong blow . The jury accordingly returned an open verdict .

    Belling tile Cat . —A strange picture of town life was presented last Saturday in the course of a case which came before Alderman Sir Peter Laurie at Guildhall . Two tradesmen living in Halfnaoon - passage , Aldersgj&te , were summoned for creating ; a disturbance by ringing a great number of bells and making otlwr . noises every evening . It appeared that there are two disreputable houses in the passage , which caused great annoyance to tho persons summoned , and , having bailed in other means of abating the nuisance , they detormined on making an incessant noise in their houses , which adjoined tho places complained of , every evening . This , however , was objected to by the other respectable inhabitants ; and hence tho proceedings . Inspector Cole proved the existence of the noises , and stated alao his belief that there were two houses in the passage which had been devoted to improper purposes for forty 3 'ears . Welsh

    Mr . ( ono of the persons summoned ) said that his private door opened into Halfinoon-passage , and his wife was continually annoyed by persons mistaking tho door , and , when sho refused to direct them to tho house they required , sho waa subjected to tho grossest abuse . Ho held tlnoo houses up the passage , which , wuro tenanted by poor , but honiwt and moral people , and they were continually annoyed in a similar manner , in tUo hot weather particularly , when they left their doors open to admit tlio cool air , in consequence of which , thoy often found iiersona in different rooms of their houses , llo had obtained legal proof of the houses being places of ill fame , and had applied to tho parish to prosecute them , but tho request hud always been refused . —Mr . Harding tho otUer tradesman summoned , said bo had onco coni inonc « jd legal proceedings against ono of tho houses but ho wasaurrounded by several women , who threatened him with personal violence and broke his windows . Tho defendants were bound over to keep the peace . The court , it seema is iutwodiflkrcutparujW mid there

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    898 fHE LEADER . [ No , 391 , September 19 , 1867 , ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 19, 1857, page 898, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2210/page/10/