The Press. — London, England, 1855-01-13 00:00:00

With this was theinformation that F. B. W., of 77, Leadenhall-street, City, was the actual Mr. W. Ward roper, of No. 4, Railway-place,. that the informant had had an interview with that gentleman, and that the security offered for an advance of 3,0001. was a mortgage upon the ship and freight; that the money was wanted for four months only, and that fifteen per cent. would be given. Applicant had since seen Mr. Wardroper upon the subject of the appointment of 1501. per annum on the advance of 3001. or 4001., and was informed by his " man of business," or "secretary," as he termed him, that his friend was only one of thirty applicants; but as the question of security for the money advanced was much too diffi cult to be got over, the negotiation was not com pleted. Although dr. Wardroper assured applicant that he was going out in his own ship, the Sparrow hawk (a schooner of ninety tons), with several thousand pounds' worth of his own goods on board, he had been since informed that he had not char. tered any vessel. Mr. Wardroper subsequently addressed a letter to the Daily News, setting forth the advantages of his scheme, and the success he had already achieved, and stating, among other things, that he " had char. tered a vessel." . . Mr. Aldridge, having just returned from the seat of war, could positively speak of the privations and sufferings in many unimagined ways that must of necessity be encountered in such an enterprise. Mr. Wardroper (he added) is far advanced in life. He is, by his own account, an invalid, and has been so many years, a stick and the arm of an attendant appearing necessary for his sate locomotion. Mr. Wardroper was sent for by the alderman. His bodily health seemed to be very indifferent, and in answer to Alderman Wilson he stated that he was a great sufferer, and was paralysed in both hands. He acknowledged that the advertisements alluded to were all published by him, and he at the same time said that his object was unexceptionable with respect to each of them, although there was an apparent mystery about the variety of the addresses and the proposals of the advance of the sums of money. In reply to questions he said that he had retired from business these seven years in consequence of the state of his health, which he expected to be benefitted by going to the Crimea. He had been in the medical profession in Welbeck-street, Cavendish square. He had not yet chartered a vessel, but was in treaty for a vessel, and the negotiation was almost compleied. Alderman WILSON : Do you mean that such quai titles of goods have been consigned to you to take to the Crimea that it will be necessary for you to charter more than one vessel to that destination ? Mr. Wardroper : I do. Mr. Aldridge : He mentioned to me that he would perhaps charter a line of ships. Mr. Wardroper said he believed the result would justify the speculation, which he assured the alder man was a bona fide one. After some further questions, Alderman WILSON said: And do you seriously consider yourself qualified to go to the Crimea on such an enterprise, prostrated as you say you are in health, and paralysed in your hands?—Mr. Ward roper : I do. I intend to go out as supercargo, and to take a secretary with me. I determined to do so as I thought the trip would do my health good, and would turn out profitable. Here a professional gentleman, employed by Mr. Wardroper, entered the justice-room, and upon being informed of the peculiar circumstances under which Mr Wardroper was before the alderman, ex pressed himself decidedly of opinion that the speculation of his client was not at all likely to be successful, but that there was nothing wrong in the intention. Ultimately, the inquiry was adjourned, Mr. Ward roper undertaking to appear. On Wednesday Mr. Parry, the barrister, appeared for Mr. Wardroper. Mr. Aldridge said he had been waited upon on Tuesday by a lady who represented herself to be the wife of Mr. Wardroper, and who stated that her hus band had been in a totally incapacitated and helpless condition during the last seven years, and that she apprehended he had fallen into hands from which it would be hard to release him, without damage to himself. He subsequently received a letter from the same lady, in which it was stated, after a description of the weakness by which Mr. Wardroper was afflic ted, that he had been made the instrument of other people's designs. After some statements, which it would not, in the present state of the investigation, be proper to give to the public eye, - - - - Alderman WILSON said he was satisfied that Mr. Wardroper was the dupe of some designing persons, who were endeavouring to make a profit by putting his name forward in a speculation, which must ulti mately result in disappointment. Sir R. W. CARDEN, however, could not suppose that Wardroper wee entirely blameless upon the THE PRESS. accasion, under whatever influence he might have acted. The inquiry was finally postponed to Saturday (this day.) A PRISONER, who was convicted at the last Middle sex Sessions of a robbery from the person, was brought up on Monday for judgment. He was re ported as well known in the House of Correction, and in November, 1850, he was convicted and sen- tenced to nine months' imprisonment : The prisoner begged to say a few words to his lordship before sentence was passel upon him. When he left prison, after the nine months, he did all he could, and worked hard to get au honest living, and for some time he worked at the docks ; but a man called Sergeant Kelly, who had since been discharged from the fume, hunted him up, and gave information to tue head officers of the dock of his having been convicted, and conse quently he was discharged from his employment. After that he procured other work, but some evil-disposed person some weeks ago did him the kindness of letting his master know that he was a convicted thief, and he was turned away. Ile had done all he could to get an honest living, but somehow things seemed to run dead against him, and he could not get on. die had tried to live honestly by selling pens about the streets, but he could not get, a license, and now, he could assure the court that, if it ex tended its leniency to him, he would get a ship, and leave Eng land, and never set eyes on it again. The ASSISTLNT•JUDGE said the theft the prisoner had com mitted was a very bad one; he was one of a gang who got up a sham crowd in the street, and while one held the prosecutor, who went to see what was the matter, he (prisoner) robbed him. Prisoner: Well, my lord, after all, people mayn't be so black as they are painted. The ABSIeTANT-JUDGE: Well, I will remand you again, and if you can tell the officers the persons you have worked for, in quiries will be made ; and if your story should turn out true you shall have the benefit of it, if not you must take the conse quences. Prisoner : I'd rather not be put back again, my lord; let me have it at once. (A laugh.) The AINISTANTJUDGE : I thought so. The sentence is that you be kept in penal servitude for four years. The prisoner, without evincing the least surprise, walked out of the dock. COLLINS, the man charged by a policeman, Andrew Anderson, with assaulting him while in the discharge of his duty, the policeman having beeu at the time accused by him of having kissed his wife, was on Wednesday tried at the Middlesex Sessions, and acquitted by the jury. MR. EDWARD OLIVER'S CASE, whether or no he should be declared a bankrupt, was decided by the Court of Bankruptcy of Liverpool, on Tuesday. The petition for adjudication was set aside, nominally on the ground of informality. THURSDAY was the first day of Y 1137 Term. The Lord Chancellor entertained the judges and other dignitaries of the law at breakfast at his private resi dence. - - - IN THE CASE OF MR. CHICHESTER, recently before the Court of Chancery, a question of costs arose on Thursday. Lord Edward Chichester, Mr. Chiches ter's father, had guaranteed the payment of the costs of the proceedings against his son for contempt, in having clandestinely endeavoured to elope with a ward of the court. The Master had struck out cer• tam costs (1051.) from the bill of 2601., and the attorney claimed to have them allowed. The Lord Chancellor decided in his favour. BENJAMIN HOOPER SPIER, who was some days ago committed for trial upon the charge of having uttered a forged check for 3701., with intent to defraud Messrs. Spooner and Attwood, was brought up before Alderman Wilson on Thursday at the Mansion louse on the charge of having uttered a forged order for the payment of 581. Bs. 6d. upon the same establish ment. He was committed for trial. CHARLES KING, the policeman accused of inciting boys to thieve, was again brought up on Thursday at Bow-street. With reference to the prisoner, it should be stated that he was never one of the organised force of "detectives," although always permitted, for some reason which requires explanation, to perform the duties of his office in private clothes. There are several "private-clothes men" attached to each divi sion of police, but they are chiefly employed in the detection of pickpockets at places of public resort, or on the occasion of large crowds, ttc. It also ap pears that the prisoner was not actually in the force at the time of his apprehension upon the present charge. He had just been dismissed by the com missioners, chiefly in consequence of the part he bad taken in the prosecution of the servant of a lady named Butler, who was charged with concealing the birth of a child, which had been found dead under one of the seats in St. James's-park. Mr. Bodkin, retained for the Crown to prosecute, applied for a remand, which was granted, the magistrate refusing to take bail, as the prisoner had already attempted to escape. gatnis anb Caws. ANOTHER TRAGEDY IN MARYLEBONE. ScAccEix have the public recovered from the shock occasioned by the horrible tragedy in Warren•street, ere we are called upon to record the occurrence of a second catastrophe, very similar in its results and in some of its main featurest SATURDAY, The victims in the present case are a man and his wife named Lambert, residing at No. 5, Foley-pl ace, Portland-road, and the assassin is an Italian named Luigi Buranelli, formerly valet in the service of Thomas Stewart Drummond, Esq., a gentleman of fortune resident in Scotland. The circumstances under which the murder took place may be briefly related as follow :—About a quarter••past nine o'clock on Sunday morning police•• constable 36 E., who was on duty at the corner of Foley-place and I'ortland•road, was called by a woman, in a state of great alarm, to the house No. 5, Foley place. The woman having stated that her master had been shot, the officer instantly accompa nied her to the house, and, upon entering the back parlour on the ground floor, he ciiscoverecla remark ably fine man lying in bed quite dead, and by his side a woman, who, in a half-erect posture, described herself to have been shot by an Italian, who, having first murdered her husband while asleep, ha d subse ... quently discharged a second pistol at herself, and then rushed up stairs. The officer at this moment was joined by Sergeant Hayes (14 E), and rightly considerin3 the apprehension of the assassin the most important business to be accomplished, they together hastened up stairs in the direction indicated. As they ascended the staircase they heard the noise of some person knocking at one of the attic doors and calling out., but before they could reach the third floor it had ceased, and the sudden closing of another door on the same flight led to a presumption that the man of whom they were in pursuit had shut himself within this apartment. Before the door could be forced the report of a pistol, succeeded by a heavy fall, was heard the officers, and on breaking open the door they discovered the body of a young man, of foreign aspect, extended at length on the floor, the blood flowing rapidly .rom a bullet wound on the right side of the cheek, and a pistol, with the barrel still warm, lying by his side. Within a very short period several medical gentle men arrived, whose attention was first directed to Mr. aril Mrs. Lambert. Mr. Lambert was found to be quite dead from the effects of a bullet wound at the base of the skull, immediately under the right ear. He did not appear to have raised himself, or even moved, after receiving the shot, and he lay dead with his head reclining a little to the left, as undisturbed as if in a calm sleep. The pillow upon which his head rested was saturated with blood, and a portion of its linen case had been burnt by the explosion from the discharge. Mrs. Lambert was found to be suf fering from a dangerous bullet wound in the chest. She had been awoke by the discharge of the pistol which had killed her husband, and terrified at ob serving Buranelli with a second pistol in his hand levelled at herself, she hastily sprang up in bed and raised her right arm in the hope of shielding herself from his attack. In this she was not successful, and the assassin discharging the pistol the bullet passed through the thick part of the right forearm, struck the collar-bone and then took a direction downwards, lodging in the unfortunate woman's chest. The assassin was next examined, and a very cursory glance at, his wound sufficed to show that he had in flicted upon himself a wound of a most dangerous character. The bullet had entered the back part of the right cheek, a little in front of and below the lobe of the right ear, from whence it passed upwards and forwards through the deep structures of the face, and lodged in the floor of the right orbit, which was closed by its compression. The wretched man was not even stunned by this tremendous injury, and, although the floor of the room for the space of three or four feet was covered with his blood, he retained perfect sensibility. He was removed to the hospital at once. Associated with Mrs Lambert in the tenancy of the house in Foley-place was Jane Williamson, the two ladies intending, it is said, to carry on business as milliners and dressmakers. They had lodged together in Newman-street, and while there had formed an intimacy with Luigi Buranelli. By advice, it is said of Lambert, Buranelli came to lodge with them when the house in Foley-place was taken, and while here, as well as previously, the wretched man seems to have conceived a sort of wild passion for Mrs. Williamson, pursuing her with his attentions in a very unmistakeable manner, and carrying matters to such lengths on a recent occasion that Mrs. Williamson felt compelled to appeal to Mr. Lambert to protect her from his importunities. The course Lambert took was to speak to Buranelli on the first opportunity, and to tell him that, in conse quence of his offensive conduct to Mrs. Williamson, he could not be allowed to reside with them any longer, and that he must leave the house. This happened on Thursday se'nnight. Buranelli seemed much hurt at this intimation, and replied to Lambert that he was sure Mrs. Williamson did not wish that he should be turned out. Upon this Lambert called Mrs. Williamson into his room, and his wife appealed to her as to whether she had not requested to be protected from Buranelli's annoyance by his dismis sal from the house. Mrs. Williamson at once stated that she had expressed such a wish, and Buranelli now consented to leave, bidding both Lambert au