The Press. — London, England, 1856-12-20 00:00:00

DECEMBIIR 20, 1856. train started. One of them gave me a shilling after be was in the carriage. I had not objected to the tickets previous to my receiving the shilling. Mr. BODKIN: What observation did you make about the tickets? Witness : I asked them whether the bags were from Ostend. They said, " Yes." I said, " Has your baggage passed the Custom-house, gentlemen ?" They replied, " We came over last evening." Mr. BODKIN : Was it after you had asked about the tickets and they had entered the carriage that you received the shilling ? Witness : It was. M. W. Dickinson, a railway police-officer, said : I remember hearing of the gold robbery in the month of May last year. On the following morning I was on duty as porter on the arrival of the train which left Dover at two o'clock and reached Lon ion•bridge at half-past four. I think there were four passengers by the train. 1 let two passengers out of one of the compartments of a carriage. Nobody else was in the same compartment. One of the two had a bag in his hand. I cannot recollect whether the other had anything in his hand or not. I spoke to the one who had the bag, and who wore a loose cape. I did not notice the dress of the other. I offered to get a cab for them, but they said they did not want one. They walked down the platform towards the end of the station, where the passengers pass oat. I could not judge of the weight of the bag. The man appeared to carry it with ease. The man to whom I spoke had dark hair and dark whiskers, as far as my recollection goes. T did not notice the features of the other. One was about thirtyflve or thirtreight years of age, and the other about forty. Evidence was then adduced to show that Tester in the month of May, 1855, had one day been down and bock to Redhill. Mr. F. Russoll, booking-clerk at the London ter =inns of the Greenwich Railway, knew Tester well : I remember hearing of the bullion robbery in the month of May, 1855, and I recollect Tester coming to our office in that month. It was about ten minutes past ten at night. The 7.30 train from Dover arrived at the London terminus at five minutes past ten. At this time Tester lived at Lewisham, and so did I. He came to the window of my office and said to me, " Good evening, Mr. Russell." I replied, " Good evening, Mr. Tester." He then asked me if I was going home by the last Greenwich train, which started at twenty minutes past ten. I told him that I was. He then said that he had been to Redhill and back since office hours. I re marked to him that I thought it sharp work. He ap peared rather excited, but stemed to congratulate himself on being fortunate enough to catch the Greenwich train. He then opened the office door and brought in a black beg, which he placed in a corner by the fireplace. Re•exaniined by Mr. BODKIN : I never knew Tester to go down by the last Greenwich train previous to his com ing to my office with his bag. If be ever did so the occasions must have been very rare. John Perry, one of the night watchmen at the London terminus of the Greenwich Railway . , said:— I remember hearing of the gold robbery last year. recollect seeing Tester at our station one night at about seven minutes past ten. It was in the month of May. About three or four days after this I first heard of the robbery. On the occasion to which I refer he walked to Mr. Russell's office and said, " Good evening, Mr. Russell." Mr. Russell replied, "Good evening, Mr. Tester." He (Tester) said he bad just come from Redhill. I did not hear anything more pass between them. He had a black leather bag in his hand. I left the office for a few minutes, and on m return I saw Tester's bag lying on the floor. I had occasion to lift it for the porpoise of getting et a small box. I cannot say its weight, but it felt very lumpy and heavy. I asked Mr. Russell whose bag it was, and he said it was Mr. Tester's. I made the remark to Mr. Russell, " It feels very heavy and lumpy." Cross-examined by Mr. BUCHANAN : I have read the greater part of the evidence in this prosecution in the newspapers. I first heard of the robbery three or four days after I saw Tester at the station. I read an account in the newspapers of Tester bringing a bar of gold in a black bag, and that freshened my memory about the cir cumstance of the bag which Tester had left in the office. I then went to Mr. Russell and told him that I thought it very probable that the bar of gold was in that bag. At the conclusion of some further evidence, Mr. Bodkin intimated that, although he might produce fresh evidence before trial, this was the whole of the evidence he proposed to offer at present. The ease was then adjourned pro formic till this day, and from that to the 24th instant. Nit. RUSSELL GURNEY has been elected Recorder of the City of London. THE ELECTION OF MR. BODKIN TO THE OFFICE OF COMMON SERGEANT, rendered vacant by the ap pointment of Mr. Russell Gurney to the Recorder ship of the City of London, is being actively canvassed for at present. ANOTHER DEFALCATION CASE has transpired. The principal collector of the City of London Union rates had been discovered by a committee of investigation of the accounts of the union to have defrauded the board, and, of course, the ratepayers, of several thousand pounds. Swindling to the amount of from 12,0001. to 13,0001. has been detected. Some curious revelations, it is anticipated, will come out of the inquiry. Nine parishes in the City, so far as at present known, will be sufferers from these extensive frauds. THE PRESS. Ma. CHSRLES HENRI'H, aged nineteen, a son of Lady Gridleston, was on Wednesday charged before the Brighton magistrates with stabbing one Julia Pane, a girl of the town. The prisoner appeared, from the evidence of a policeman who witnessed the whole transaction, to have stabbed the girl in a fit of drunken excitement. The policeman had seen him some minutes previously waving an open knife about and swearing he would stab the first person he met. The girl happily was not dangerously wounded, but the young gentleman was remanded till this day, when the case will probably be sent to lira Liaises. THOMAS MANSELL, a private in the 49th Regiment, was tried on Wednesday, at Maidstone, before Mr. Baron Bramwell, for the murder of Corporal M'Bur• rill, on the 27th of August last, by shooting him in camp at Dover. The evidence was conclusive. The jury returned a verdict of " Guilty," and the prisoner was sentenced to death, without hope of mercy. IN THE COURSE OF THE EXAMINATION IN BANK RUPTCY this week of Redpath, the petitioning credi tors, Messrs. Wood and Field, filed a copy of their account current with the bankrupt, beginning from May last, and extending to November 21, the date of the petition. This account shows transactions to an enormous amount. The totals of half•monthly are as follows : May 15 May 31 June 15 June 30 July 15 July 29 August 13 August 29 September 13 113,224 18 11 September 26 78,008 15 0 October 16 October 31 November 21 These transactions embrace large dealings in Console and railway shares of various kinds, but principally Great Northern. A HORRIBLE CASE OF CRUELTY TO A CHILD has been disclosed at Nantyglo, Glamorgan. One Eliza beth Oram has been arrested for causing the death of her illegitimate child, a boy about ten years of age. A few days since the child died, and, the woman having been known to ill-treat him, an in• quest was held, and evidence adduced to prove that the poor child for months past bad been subjected to barbarous treatment, being kept on unwholesome and insufficient food, and at times beaten with dreadful severity. The boy bad often been seen by the neighbours picking up garbage and eating it to satisfy his hunger, and even going to the pigs' trough and devouring eagerly such refuse as the pigs had not eaten. Some of the neighbours at times had been induced to strip the child and examine his person, when his emaciated body was found horribly excoriated and bruised. The mother, whose desire seemed to be to get the boy out of her way, began a few months since to keep him in the house alto gether, until he died. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against Elizabeth Oram," the mother, and the coroner at once issued his warrant for her committal to prison. THE OTHER SIDE of the ticket-of-leave question was exhibited at Marlborough-street Police-court this week. A stout, determined-looking man, says the police report. a few days ago brought the following letter to Mr. Bingbam, the sitting magistrate . Sir,—l am a returned convict, relieved on a ticket of leave on the Bth of October last. Since that time I have used every means to get employ. ment, but have not been able to succeed. I am now very badly off, and have no means of living except I have recourse to something dishonest, which I never will, though my circumstances should be worse than they are at present. My object in applying to you is this: I have the offer of a free passage to New York on Thursday next by the New York Town ship, Capt. Meyer ; but, being without a friend and destitute, I am at a loss how to set, except some humane person would assist me. I have therefore made bold to lay my case before you, trusting you will be kind enough to assist me under my unfortunate circumstances. —Your humble servant, WILLIAM PARSON. Mr. BINGHAM immediately called the writer forward, and questioned him. It appeared that the applicant had been tried for burglary at Durham, and had been sentenced to transportation. He had been in Mill. bank Prison for some time, and was discharged with about 4/. in cash and a ticket of leave. From that time he had wandered about seeking work, but beyond an occasional job he could find no one to give him employment. For the last four or five nights he bad been without a shelter, lying like a dog in door ways and sheds, or any place where he could remain unmolested. He had at length obtained the promise of a passage to America, and all he wanted was a little assistance to enable him to live until the ship sailed. Ni Mr. BINGHAM said he would make inquiry into the case ; and, if he found the story correct, he would take care that the applicant had proper relief until the time arrived for quitting the country. On Thursday, the applicant, accompanied by Church, one of the officers of St. James's workhouse, where the applicant had been living, came again to this court, and stated that his hopes of obtaining a passage to America were completely frustrated, as he learned from American captains that a heavy penalty would be inflicted on any one bringing him into the United States. By the American law, neither paupers, convicts, nor cripples were allowed to be taken as passengers in American ships. Mr. BINGHAM regretted that this was the case, but he feared he had no power of doing anything of an effectual character for the applicant. Church stated that the man's story was quite cor rect, and that he received a very good character front Capt. Craig, the governor of Millbank prison. Mr. BINGHAM suggested Australia to the man, and advised him to renew his exertions to get employ. meat, at the same time giving him 10s. from the poor•box by way of a start. The man, who appeared to have been tolerably well educated, thanked the magistrate, and left the court. MARLEY was executed at eight o'clock on Monday morning in front of Newgate. The prisoner per sisted to the last in declaring that the robbery was quite unpremeditated, and that he had no idea of committing it half an hour before the attempt was made. He also for a considerable time denied that be had any accomplices in the attempted robbery, but one day last week be admitted to an officer be longing to the prison that the men outside the shop were concerned with him in the robbery, and there is no doubt that it was through their instrumentality that the basket containing the fish, and which the prisoner and his companions supposed to contain the valuable stock of Mr. Berry, was rade away with. A minute or two before eight o'clock on Monday, Calcraft, the executioner, was brought in, and he at once proceeded to pinion the prisoner. All the preparations were now complete, and pre cisely at eight o'clock the mournful procession passed from the condemned cell to the scaffold. The culprit walked with a firm step, and ascended the steps leading to the scaffold in the same manner. The can was then placed over his face, and the noose adjusted round his neck, the bolt was drawn, and the unhappy man died after the usual eonvulsive struggle. There was an unusually large concourse of persons to witness the execution, and their be haviour, wish very few exceptions, was orderly and decorous. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE Tuesday, December 9. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.—WILLIAM Wroontos, Haw ley-mills, near Dartford, Kent, and St. Paurs-churehyard, paper manufacturer. BANKRUPTS.—HENRY CHRISTIAN, Minolug•lane, °offs* merchant—MOßßlS ROBERTS SYERS, JAMES WALERS, and DANIEL BACIHEOUSE SYERS, Ball-alley, Lombard-street, HIST chants—WILLIAR BANES HEATHTIZLD and WILLIAM AIRJRROW, Prince's-square, Finsbury, manufacturing chewing—Rolla* YALLOWLEY BARNES, City-road, floor-cloth manufacturer — ABRAHAM, JOHN, Slid HENRY JACOBS, Crown-street, Finsbury, merchants—RtcHAlD Gairrrrits, sen., and RICHARD Gittr rafts, jun., Hatton•waU, and et James's-walk, Clerkenweß, brass fOIiDderS—HARRIET ROSE, Lynn, milliner—SAMOE'L GIFFORD, Mark-lane, sailcloth merchant—CHAßLES MCRAE DAVIS, Deptford, builder—Joszni Losnsit, alwortb-platie, Walwortb, upholsterer—TitottAs CitiLza, Aston Manor, junta Birmingbatn, victualer—Jolt N Josts, Aberyetwitb, draper— Tort Fowtstt BLArEa, Bradford, Yorkshire, grocer—WH.Luit FRASER. Leeds, cabinetinaker—RtatAan WILLIAMS, Lirerpocl, taiIor—JOSEPH LEERING, jun., Hartlepool, *httesmith. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. W. SIMPSON, ?Mb, plasterer —D. IL COLLINS, Perth, clothier —R. Warsaw, Camptielltowri, upholsterer—A. BANNATERR, Glasgow, me!. chant. Prid,sy, Dreesarer 19. BANKRUPTS. °Roans WILLIAM DRIIMNIE, Stockwell, Surrey, oil merchant—JOHN PROUT Davie STSPHZ/18, Brabant oourt, Philpot-lane, City, wine merchant WILLIAM HENRY ORIMSDALL and THOMAS HART GRIIIBDALE, Uxbridge, brewers —2llOllB LIPMAN, Liverpool, tailor and outfitter—Jaatra Loper WORE, Liverpool, provision dealer Jsmica REID, Liverpool, tailor and draper FREDERICK PULBROOK, Pi:trillion. Surrey, grocer EDWARD RICHARD NASH, College-hill. City, wine merchant —Jour Corcnino Rail Weston, Huntingdonshire, Wr . _ Hackney, • dtatent, beadle THE RAILWAY AND REVOLVER HOAX has at last been traced. A correspondent of the Times has this week forwarded a statement from the Savannah Republic by one "Jo" to the effect that the story was got up some time since by a mail agent on the railway and quietly imposed upon the unsuspecting Mr. Arrow smith. " Jo, " if it be desired, will furnish full par ticulars of the whole affair from the lips of the mail agent himself. farmer Fruiters Jones, Hackney, timber merchant Nicnotts, Thornhill•Otoodent, Islingtob, merchant WILLIAM PORTER, Nottingham, balkier MOUNT HENRY ADAKRON, JOhD•RYTeet, Berkeley-sottlare, wine merehant —HOBERT PRUDHOE, Durham, grocer HENRY TAYLOR and HENRY Hone, Manchester, cotton spinners -- Otontre Joan- sow, Billi u gham. county of Durham, cora merchant. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—Jsmita Fismtirini,Munto's- buildings, Edinburgh,dentlst—ALrunnee WIETWOOD, Charing- Crags, Glasgow, plumber Jaime Murrill, and CO., Glasgow, wholesale !posers—JOU' TIMM, Partick, draper.