The Press. — London, England, 1853-09-17 00:00:00

466 Xab) anb AmoTHEit WIFE having been killed by the brutal violence of her hw,hw►d, the latter was brought up at H a mm e rsmith Police Court to answer the charge. is .1, 11. an Irish labourer the His name . )ames Hayes, in employ of Mr. Saint, brickmaker, at Shepherd's Bush. It appeared that lie had not lived with his wife for some time, but cohabited with another wo man. The deceased, however, was accustomed to come to him every Saturday, humbly to receive what ever dole he chose to allow out of Ins wages ti►r her maintenance. 1;pon her last visit of this nature, this day week, the brute committed the outrage which caused her death on the following day. The evidence adduced was given chiefly by comrades and fellow labourers of the accused, who appear to have witnessed his ruffianly conduct without a thought of interfering, or else afraid to do so. Among these heroes was Thanes Tauter, wise &petted that Risen half-past eleven e ' ellock nil Saturday night Ise wow in Nitepherd ' s Hush %leapt, with the primmer and his wife. and mealier 1111111 1111111181 1i1•11114/.. /it , 1111 W the primmer knock his wife dews' twice with his fist. When /111 r gad ill. the 111.4 . 1111/1 tits she ran le . lthel witness her pre- Wetness Ile told her 111 1:11fr11111 111'1111111 111111, 101 he Ultimata that primmer might fancy he was harhaturing his wife, and would atlas* Wm. she I lwas went away, suet the pri.miter ran after her, sand threatened wills an oath that he would lock lint her brains. Ile kicked at her several -s, but witness believed he did net. tench her wills his feta. The primmer abet declared that he wands, ale for her that night. Flu. ....ceased rails 1.1111/11/(11 that nsarket, and the prisamser folleeed after her. The witness, its answer to further queaUantll, said the prittmaer was intoxicated at the thee, Mit Isis wife Mllll4quite /1111N.t. Witll ,, ol heard the deceased ask her husband b. c f , 1 ise sm. meillottely struck her s o d katecked liar down. Kttenni lieerge, a brickanaker, also in the employ of Mr. Saint, etorrelostrateol this evidence. Ile was certain the deceased was in ne drifter the scuts,' of l'onee-eitiastahle Merle raid : Mbertly after ease Weltwk on Sun day meriting I 11/1411 ma duty swar Shepherd's flush Market, anti heard a Heise where the g al is being slug out for the Amanita tions of 14 , 1111•1 111118 bllll , lllll/$l. NS if sense perste' wan. /1/THllll , llllg tip the bank. It was very fuggy at the time, and I multi scarcely see anything herein , 1110 1 . 1 lunsrd 011 my lantern, and SAW the prisoner standing in fruit' of me. I raked hilts whet he did there, and Ise replied wills all 1111111, " Wlll4l 111011111 . 101 is that to yen ?" Ile appeared stupefied at the thee, 111111 seemed bo tremble very 'ls, whirl. I attributed to his having been lying slewie U 111 1 . 1 ,111 lie 1.111.11 tumid his face te the spa wherot the de ceased was afterwards f I, suet non t i ttttt Irsoking in the MUM' dirl . l4lllll. 1 teld lains that he moat leave the place, as 111 , 111111 11,1 blllllll.Olll there. Ile sighed and 11iah . ..n . .1 a geed &al, which I still attributed 1.11 the flog and cold. Ile then waist away, 111111 I 41141 net 11111.1111 a retsina. I bean' melting moons unlit the deceased was found ha the meriting. She was discovered hi few of the hides in the gn ti which haul been thriown tap Mr the fonatatien of a Meow, within six yards (rem the place where 1111118 the lan • met standing. If itlasiti net been so fuggy 1 usual have /14.01 tr. Mr..lohn Brown, a surgeon, 'dated that he first NNW the erased alsortly after seven o'clock im sooday m o roo l g, sh,. wso , thenfu a Mta t r0(1.0111111114), Very euld and quilt She appeared to have revolved N violent blow 1111 the right e)e, and also on the lower jaw. The fare wax very ls 14,101101, mid it 11/.19111041 to Mtn that the ball of the right ear had 11..011 ruek. It noun have been done by some r I instrument, or by the fist of a man. Mr. Braden remanded the pri4ottur fora week. AN Et.ntAtim " IiENTI.EMAN OF INDEPENDENT I'ItOPERTY," James Taylor by name, was charged at. Worship Court with having committed an outrageous 1 1 assault on Amelia Manning. The complainant ap peared in court to be suffering severe pain front the injuries intlicteti by the defendant. She stated that herself and her husband had beell tenants of the defendant, who owned several houses in hackney. They had been compelled to pay several rates anti taxes which their landlord had omitted to discharge, and had left h is house in consequence, and after wards dunned and summoned him for the money .disbursed on his account. Meeting him accidentally on Saturday, she had asked hnn once more for pay ment, when, instead of money or civil excuses, he rushed at her with a thick stick and an execration, and dealt her such at heavy blow on the side of her head that she instantly dropped senseless to the pavement. On recovering consciousness she found herself supported in the arms of a neighbour, who placed her under the care of a surgeon ; but she was still suffering seriously from the eflects of the violence to which she had been subjected. The neighbours having given some confirmatory testimony, The defendant, who had throughout incessantly denied having Bushed the complainant at all, repeated that ottotert ion, and made a rambling statement, in shan't lie accused her of entering Lao a ...moons,- lA. eel the latstban Ma s h his I !WM that her huslamil might wears' himself the pet % ilege of %sating. 11.14 conelitilc.l by assuring the magistrate that he had tnin-aete4l braille's% with persons of the highest respectability. but that he had never assaulted any one, been guilty of using stich seettil language as that imputed to 1 , nor e‘er atonal I his life. Woolley, the ollieer: Why, y o ur worship, I have kn o wn thie defendant for the last two year., unit have ooustarlth seen hi m returning home drunk at one or two o'eloek in the morning: Iu fact, No drunk that I have been obliged to unlosit hats iloor for him with his latch key, and when iu that Slide I ii. 11111141114.7 C is really /MM. : What I Why, I as I , tevi.r was dnwk in my life. nor ever was is the habit s at timing Nil words. Sergeant Foy: I have known the defendant. your worship. for the last sit or seven years, and have myself generally found hint In the state described by the host witness. Defendant : 1 deny deny it altogether. Mr. D'Evxrovar : Why, yea ills' to sh o w it 110%* end the only probable ~tow you call otter for 'melt a ...millet, if it MI I,C regarded as 1111 excuse. is that you were her the titmice of drink at the time. You must be taught that ioissults of nay violent kind cannot be allowed to be eouimitted with im punity, end I shall thereforo wild you for six weeks, with bard THE PRESS. labour, to the Ilouan of I'nn•ectiou, without the option of paying any line. The defendant appeared perfectly astonished at the decision. GEOROE BIRCH, a member of Cambridge Univer sity, and one of the masters at Huntingdon Grammar School, applied for discharge from prison and his creditors at the Insolvent Court on Wednesday. His schedule showed that when he took his degree at college in 15441 he owed 7110/., and now his debts amounted to 1,7001. His income had been about ItAit. per annum. There was considerable opposition from the creditors, who endeavoured to overset his petition upon the ground that he was in custody under a friendly and collusive arrest. To support this plea it was shown that since he had been arrested the insolvent had received visits from the detaining creditor, and had given lessons to his sons. This fact having been corroborated, Mr. Murphy, the new commissioner, held that the plea was valid in oppo sition, and dismissed the petition. Two Wm:stems, worth 154)1., were found in the hands of a girl of the town named Mary Keigh ley, of Irish extraction ; and, to account for her possession of so large a sum, she was brought up before the magistrate at Marlborough-street on Wed nesday. William Wood, son of the landlord of the Feathers public-house, Oxford-street, said that the girl came on the previous night to the bar, put down a banknote, and asked for change for Si. When the note was examined it proved to be a note for 1001. The prisoner was asked where she got it from. She made no reply, a police constable was sent for, and she was given into custody. Being searched at the police-station, a pocketbook was found in her posses • sion, which contained a fifty-pound note and 13s. 4d. in money. The prisoner said she got the note from a sailor in I lyde-park, who had just come from Aus tralia. When asked the amount of the note, she said Int Mr. Hardwick directed that the prisoner sl Id be remanded, in order to give time for the police to find out the owner of the notes. A receipt in the pocketbook affording seine clue, the owner was afterwards discovered, and proved to be &returned emigrant, named Durban, who declared that he had met the prisoner, according to her own statement, in the park, but did not give her the notes ; on the coo trary, he missed his pocketbook immediately after wards, and found she had run away with it in the dark. The ease was adjourned. Mu. Atalten Feswi MTH, a surgeon, residing in Trinity-street, attended at Southwark Police Court, on Tuesday, to complain of an intolerable nuisance for some time existing in the vicinity of his house, and which had caused malaria and other diseases of a fatal nature to spread in that closely inhabited lo cality. lie stated that for a long time an india rubber waterproofing establishment had existed in some back premises on the southern side of Trinity street, and the stench bail been so noxious to the in habitants that many of them had been seized with malaria, and other complaints, which might terminate fatally. lie had been called to attend some poor persons in the neighbourhood, who were now se riously ill from the effects of the stench, and, unless some lawful means were used to put a stop to the factory, the lives of the whole population would be in danger : Mr. COMBE anid hr reviilleeted a Kitnibtr application being maiii• hi him alMnll the NH iiii • I.lllrr o HMI he ❑udersi,ssl fro3ll the proprietor of the establisl lit that the tttt isatiee would be put a stop to. Mr. l baworth replied that the smell in fact was worse thiut ever. _ _ Mr. Comm: asked in what 11110111er he vould assist him. Ile Milprim(d there was N 11 , 4111 IN.Nril of he slth in the parish? Mr. Elisaortli said there VI MS 0a...• was in the parish of st. Mary, Newington, *mil he bail been to the guardians Nod 1111 l riltinNl4l, but they told him they were tumble to du anything to abate the 111 l i14111( . 1., although cholera was raging in the neigh. bourliothl. They hail 11101 leWall Is , Nnl of health. mud. tiniest' the imitotiter was immediately *topped, he could not Na) N hut might Is the fatal results. . . Mr. Comity said he was aurprised that the party hail not kept his promise. lle told him that the nuisance should not In• r u n. ti tttt ell after Saturday. lle was ast tt ' 1u dto hear that such was the ease, when it was well known that cholera existed so near. lle directed Murray, the watiant officer, io isu immediately to the place and ascertain why the nuisance was tint abated. Murray returned in a felt • , 111141 1111 . 4 , 11114 4 11 his WOl4llll that the pnprietor of the premises refused to admit hill). ever. there was a great stench, hut not so had MP Oil Saturday when he was near the spot. There was a butcher's shop nest door, mid so filthy was the suteil from t h e fao..ry that his 10..4 wan extensive. . . . . Mr. Corn►:. upon the representation that the totr..eltiol titles ham declined to interfere. advised Mr. F.1.1m,.111, t.. ittoritilige the Seeretary of State, which that genticinon would do. Afterwards Mr. Holland, one of the ehurehw•nr dens of Newington. informed his worship that he should immediately give directions to their clerk and put a stop to the nuisance. He also said that every precaution wa►► taken to prevent the spread ofeholera in their parish. THE PERPETRATOR OF MANY Srt CESSEUE 110PREIHES upon jewellers was brought up at llow-street on Tuesday in the person of Maria cl a rksom a young woman residing in the neighbourhooa of the south. wark-bridge-road. The prisoner went into the shop of Mr. G. Cording, in the Strand, about a week ago, and told the assistant that she wanted a hair ring made. She had a lock of hair in her possession, and, SATURDAY, on being shown a collection of rings to select a pat tern from, pointed out one of them as her choice. In a minute or two afterwards the assistant missed one of the rings, and accused the prisoner of stealing it. Ile went round the counter with the view of de taming her, upon which she delivered up a diamond ring worth N. She was therefore given in charge : The police•oMcer who conducted the ease found 90 or 34) pawn. brukere' duplicated at the prisoner's lodgings, all relating to jewellery of a similar kind. On inspection of the property at the different ships where they had been pledged, the constubl bagel that all the rings were quite new. Twit of the rings were identified by Mr. Wert, goldsmith, of Lwlgate-hill, who return'. bend the prisoner visiting I at Mir • • ago, and ordering a hair ring to be made outer a tweuliar pattern. Mier she lost left the shop witness 'Mined the rings, one of which hail his tat. It writing upon it, is well as his privet• mark. Mr. Croswell, jeweller, of St. l'anl'e•eburchyard, also identified a ring which had been taken from his shop in a similar manner by the pri soner; and it appeared that she was rather extensively known it, the trade, from the repetition of the wine trick at so many different shops; but other trade/olden situ had been robls•d were unable to speak with certainty as to the identity of the properly. For the prisoner it was pleaded in mitigation that she bast be ell extremely unfortunate, having married a man who was sisal afterwards indicted for unwitting her with great !inutility, situ who was now undergoing a year a imprirounient Mr the oftener. 'f he prisoner was finally committed for trial on three separate charges of felony. Two LovEas or Otis COOKMAID had liquarrel, which the Bow-street magistrate wax required to investigate on Wednesday. Charles Ricketts, a journeyman baker, was the defendant on the occasion, charged with having committed a violent assault upon George Barbary : The complainant said that he was a footman, and formerly lived in set-vice at No. 1, Upper Montague-place, where he be came attached to the coo► in the same family—a prepossessing young girl, of the Jewish itersuaaion, named Hannah, who now lived at No. 2 in the saute street. Since that time she had given I ' !very encouragement, as well as her portniit, and had Orli itlVited hint to Kee her. On Monday ev ghe paid her a visit, and timed the baker's man (defendluit) in possession of the area. lie Inked hind What he wanted there, as he was &eased in his Sunday clothes and watch-chain, and had no barrow outside. The baker, however, used threate ' g language, anal ordered him away. Early next morning he called upon Hannah for an expla. nation, and she requested him to look in again at one o'clock. lie went there accordingly at the hour named, and had scarcely spoken to her, when defendant came into the area, in a viola, i manner, anal twareely uttering a word co :::::: eneed a violent at tack upon hinh, breaking his home, and striking him four times on the head. Complainant exhibited his b ps end his linen which was covered with blood. . . . . Mr. lIENItY inquired if he suspected the rook of being in any way implicated in the attack, from her having invited him at that time? l'omplainant said he should be sorry to suspect anything, but the coincidence was very strange. lie could produce letters friao Hannah showing her feeling towards him if necessary. The I)eti•udallt: lie is always hanging about after the girl, and he has been forbidden the house by her repeatedly. lle is a mean fellow, and his only object is ill INOITOW Money, and get what he can out of her. bile asked me to stand by her, and put him out; and that is all I did. Complainant repudiated the selfish tives imputed to him; and said that Hannah had too much of the Jew about her to give anything away. lie had made her presents repeatedly. Mt. HENRY considered that the defendant, even it authorised, to defend the girl, had perfonned hie part with too much violence and, therefore, ordered hint to pay a tine of 405., or be committed in default. The hue was paid. gtuatnts anb Ofittuts. GREAT FIRE AT POPLAR.—One of the moat de structive conflagrations which has lately been wit nessed in the metropolis broke out early on the morning of Saturday last upon the vast shipbuilding premises of Messrs. Scott, Russell, and Co., at Mill wall, Poplar. The total damage dune by the flames in the course of a couple of hours is estimated at not less than 100,000/. The factory and ship-building yard stood on several acres of ground on the banks of the Thames, at the angle of the isle of Dogs, facing her Majesty's dockyard at Deptford. S3veral large vessels were in course of erection at the estab lishment, and R. 4 many as 1,5(W) hands were employed on the works. The bulk of them left at the usual hour, six o'clock, on the previous evening, but about RS) were detained at the factory, completing >ome particular work. Shortly after midnight the fire was first discovered in the forging-house, and appeared so trifling that a few buckets of water were brought up by the men in the expectation of putting it out. Within a few minutes, however, the flames shot through the roof of the building in which they origin ated, and, spreading over the whole range of work st.4ls, extended to the saw-mills, where they were A by nearly 1,000 tons of timber, piled lout dried for ship-building purposes, and eighty tons of coal heaped up in the neighbourhood. Thence the flames extended rapidly, unchecked for some time by the small fire-engines on the spot, and baffling afterwards the attempts of nearly the whole London brigade, aided subsequently by the steam floating; engine from Southwark bridge, whose utmost capabilities of coping with the conflagration were exhausted in cutting oft its progress in a lateral direction. The whole area where the tire had once taken hold was laid in ruins, with scarcely a relic of salvage left out of the tire. By five o'clock in the morning all further danger was over; but the destruction effected on the premises of Messrs. Russell, and on the adjoining factory belong ing to Mr. Napier, was sufficiently deplorable. in p