The Press. — London, England, 1856-04-05 00:00:00

APRIL 5, 1856. 1N the examination of Messrs. Kennedy and Mur in the Tipperary Bank case, the following rough, disclosures were made with reference to estates pur chased by Mr. James Sadleir : Mr. Kennedy (to Mr. Lawless) : I think there were three purchases of property in the Encumbered Estates Court made by Mr. James Sadleir; two of these were in his own name, and one was in the name of a third party ; the first was the house quarter of Coolnamuck, about Aug., piN, for 8,5001.; that was made by himself and in his own name, and the purchase-deed was executed. He has since been in possession of it. I could not state the rental. The greater part of that property is in his own hands. He has a steward named Rafferty. The next of these properties that he purchased was a small portion of White's estate. don't know the name of the lands in the county of Tip perary. The sale was made "In re Matilda White." The purchase money was 8001. He is now in possession of this property, the conveyance of which was executed to himself. The other property is called Kilconnell, near Cashel, and the purchase money was 5,3001. The convey. ance of it was executed to a Mr. Farmery J. Law, of London. ido not know how it happened that the con veyance was executed to Mr. Law. Mr. Lawless : Have you the means of ascertaining from what source Mr. James Sadleir procured the purchase money of those three estates? Witness : I have not the slightest idea. Examination continued : At present it would be hard to tell the rental of the Kilconnell estate; I think it is over 8001. a year, subject to a sort of rentcharge of 1841. We have a rental of it; I think we have printed rentals of the other two estates, and we can furnish all. In the last mentioned property the tenancies have been changed since the sale. Mr. James Sadleir has been in the receipt of the rents of the Kilconuell estate. Mr. Law never went into possession of it. A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT happened at Cork on last Saturday night. During a wake in the top room of a house in Coleman street, the floor gave way, and the whole house fell in, burying some forty per sons, of whom twenty-one were killed and the rest most seriously injured. gatn anti gelitt. A VERY BOLD BUT A VERY FOOLISH CASH ROBBERY was effected and detected lastweek at Portsmouth. It is the custom of the Ordnance Storekeeper's Depart ment to draw a cheque on the Bank of England for the weekly wages and quarterly salaries of the officers and artificers employed. On Friday week a cheque, under these circumstances, for 1,1301., was given at 12.30 p.m. to Mr. Charlier, the confidential clerk, who, accompanied by a messenger, at once proceeded to the Portsmouth Bank to get the cheque cashed. On reaching the bank, Mr. Charlier said to the mes senger, " Oh, Sheppard, run down to Nance's office, and tell them to send in their quarterly account to day if possible ;" to which the messenger replied, " Shall I come back to you at the bank ?" " No," said Charlier, "you needn't come all the way back : you go round by the walls, and meet me ; if I'm there before you I'll wait for you, and if you are there first you can wait for me." The messenger Sheppard started off on his errand, and Mr. Charlier went into the bank, where he obtained for the cheque 600/. in sovereigns, 301. in half-sovereigns, 201. in silver, and 4801. in notes. The messenger having done as Mr. Charlier had desired, made the best of his way to the Gun-wharf gates, and—waited, but no Mr. Charlier, with the money-bags, came. Mean while, the storekeeper, feeling anxious, despatched a second clerk to the bank to ascertain the cause of delay. The clerk returned with the information that Mr. Charlier had been to the bank, cashed the cheque, and left. Some time elapsed ; no Mr. Char her arrived—fear gave way to suspicion—a train had Just started for London—a hurried note was sent to the head police-station—the intelligence VMS tele graphed up the line—the police were alert on every station—but nothing of Mr. Charlier could be seen. He was off, and, as Hood once said in a similar case, " well of"—for he was off with all his master's cash. The pursuit was hot: the police were all over the neighbouring country in a very short time, and by Saturday a trace was got at Petersfield of an elderly widow, accompanied by a young lady, having arrived the previous evening at the Dolphin Inn, and from thence posted on to Farnham. The widow and young lady were considered suspicious, as it was believed Mr. Charlier had really absconded with a Young woman of the town. Superintendent Leggatt followed up the trace from Farnham to Guildford, Esher, and into Piccadilly, but there he lost all clue. However, from some i n f orma ti on h e r eceived, he went on Sunday afternoon to the Leopard Coffee-house in Fenchurch-street, and said, " A widow and a young lady slept here last night?" The landladyreplied they had, but that the widow lady was unwell," apparently troubled in mind." Superintendent Leggett ex• pressed his sorrow, and said lie would call again to see them. He went into the street, and procured the aid of a London policeman, in the event of assistance being needed, and then again went to the THE PRESS. coffee-house, and said he wished to see the ladies. The landlady said he could not see them unless he sent up his card and name. He told the landlady who he was, and went upstairs with the London con • stable, where he found Mr. Charlier in a widow's garb, with a female companion. They pretended not to know Inspector Leggatt, but he soon put the matter to rights by asking Mr. Charlier if a black-leather bag in the room contained the 1,1301. he had stolen. He hesitated, but at length said the principal parts of the gold and silver were there, and drew the notes out of a pocket of the dress he had on. After count ing the money (upwards of 1,1001.), the inexorable superintendent invited Mr. Charlier and friend to accompany him back to Portsmouth, and by ten p.m. had lodged them both safely in Portsmouth Gaol. The next morning the prisoner, dressed in his full widow's weeds, was put at the bar, and, after the evidence cf Mr. Stewart the storekeeper, the mes senger Sheppard, the cashier at the bank, and Superintendent Leggatt had been heard, was fully committed for trial. The girl who accompanied him was discharged. Mr. Charlier enjoyed a good salary, was considered highly " respectable," is married, and has four children. Mn. Wit.soN, the cashier to the great Liverpool firm of Messrs. Brockelbank, charged with the em bezzlement of a large sum of money belonging to his employers, was tried on Monday at Liverpool before Mr. Baron Martin, pleaded guilty, and sen tenced to fourteen years' transportation. A CASE OF BRUTAL ASSAULT UPON A WOMAN was brought before the Lo►d Mayor on Monday at the Mansion-house. John Felix, a dock labourer, was charged with having committed, some weeks since, the assault in question. Mary An❑ Brooks, the prosecutrix, a sickly, emaciated-looking woman, was carried into court in a chair, and remained seated during her examination. She appeared to be still suffering intense agony from the injuries she bad re ceived. In her evidence she said:— On Saturday night, the Bth instant, the prisoner came home rather tipsy, and complained that his supper was not ready. He then struck me and knocked me down, and on my telling him that, if lie repeated the blow, I would put him where he could not come out, he lifted me up in his arms and threw me upon the ground, with the left side of my face downwards, and then struck me several blows on the right side of my face. He then kicked me on the back of my head ; he had his shoes on at the time. The blood gushed from my mouth. I screamed " murder," upon which he returned and gave me another kick on my right side. I was at the time an out door patient of the London Hospital, in consequence of the ribs on my right side being fractured by a blow from him six or seven weeks before. k lodger in the house corroborated the complain ant's evidence, and added that the prisoner, who constantly beat the complainant, had threatened to " stick the hooks into her" (a pair of double hooks used for lifting bales of wool) if ever she complained to the police. Mr. Allen, the surgeon at Bartho lomew's Hospital, detailed the nature of the seveie injuries the poor woman was suffering from, when the Lord Mayor said the case was of so serious an aspect that he should commit the prisoner for trial at the Central Criminal Court. A DESPERATE AFFRAY WITH POACHERS took place last Saturday in Botanybay Wood, on Lord Elles mere's Worsley estates, near Manchester, between five keepers and eight poachers. The keepers were hidden overnight in the wood, and about one in the morning the poachers, armed with bludgeons, came right across the keepers' hiding-place. The moment they saw them, the leader cried out, "There are only five on 'em, lay into 'em, boys," and a most desperate fight ensued. The keepers were knocked down like ninepins by blows from the poachers' heavy bludgeons ; but, being armed with cutlasses, they at length got them into play, and, inflicting some terri ble wounds in return, succeeded in eventually cap turing four out of the eight poachers. The prisoners were brought up before Mr. Trafford, a county magistrate, the same morning, and fully committed for trial. Both parties are reported to have pre sented terrible marks of the desperate contest over night—frightful bruises, heads and hands cut open, clotted and bloody bandages, all proved that the fight had been earnest on both sides. The four prisoners are well-known bad characters, and one has been already three times convicted of felony. JAMES HOWELL, committed for the wilful murder of his wife on the 21st of January last, at Bath, was tried at Taunton on Monday before Mr. Justice Crowder, found guilty of "Manslaughter," and sen tenced to six years' penal servitude. THE EXECUTION OF THE PRISONER BOUSFIELD took place on Monday morning in front of Newgate. The prisoner for some time previous had exhibited so perfect a prostration of mind and body as to re quire to be bodily carried on a chair to the scaffold. The hangman, Calcraft, had been threatened by an Anonymous writer to be shot on this occasion, and became so nervous that he hurried over his prepa rations. He quickly got below the scaffold, and, from either drawing the bolt toe soon, not properly 323 adjusting the rope round the prisoner's neck, or being too frightened to adopt the usual method of rendering death certain, the culprit (sitting on a chair) fell through the trap, his fall not being so effective as usual, and in an instant he made the most desperate efforts at self-release. A frightful scene ensued. The wretched man three times succeeded, despite the turnkeys, in planting his feet on one or other edge of the op, and frantically struggled to free his hands. Calcraft, who had run away after drawing the bolt, was brought back with difficulty, and with the assistance of several turnkeys at length got firm hold the poor wretch's legs, when, in spite of his frightful struggles, they held him down till death ensued. The whole of this dreadful proceeding oc cupied about twenty minutes. There bas not been a more horrible exhibition on the scaffold far some time—the yells of the crowd ware terrible, and the ghastly struggle between the turnkeys and the cul prit contrasted sadly with the loud, merry peals of the church bells, ringing out the announcement of " Peace—and goodwill toward men." THE CONVICT THOROGOOD, guilty of the murder of Hales, gamekeeper to Sir John Tyrrell, has been re prieved by the Queen on condition that he be trans ported for life. THE Two EYRES, charged with an attempt to rob M. Durando, the bullion broker at Liverpool, and with a frightful assault upon the two clerks in the counting house, pleaded guilty on being brought before Mr. Baron Willes, and were sentenced to transportation for life. SEVEN CASES OF CHILD MURDER 111 different parts of the country were reported between the 27th March and the Ist of April at the chief police-office, Great Scotland-yard. A CLEVER CAPTURE was lately made in Liverpool. Nathan Salaman, a man adjudicated a bankrupt, was returning from Australia in the Lightning, having previously intimated his intention of coming by the Emma, !with some goods and gold. Mr. Gaskill, the messenger of the District Court of Bankruptcy, watched with great care for the Emma, but as the Lightning arrived first he thought he might as well look over the list of passengers. One Salaman had come home by her, but he had quickly landed, cleared his baggage, and started off to Leeds. Mr. Gaskill immediately telegraphed to Leeds for a bankruptcy messenger to be on the look-out, and upon Mr. Salaman's arrival, with 1,2001. worth of gold-dust, he was met by the Leeds bankruptcy mes senger, who, on behalf of the creditors, relieved Mr. Salaman of all further care of the precious burden. Two Jewish friends attempted to claim the gold-dust, but their claim was not allowed. Two MEN, CARE AND WALL, were tried before Mr. Baron Martin at Liverpool, on Tuesday, for the murder of James House, a sailor, on the morning of the 20th February last. The murdered man, it will be remembered, was found lying dead from strangu lation in the streets of Liverpool, with a muffler tied very tight and knotted round his throat. The evi dence was purely circumstantial: the prisoners were seen in the company of the deceased over night, articles of the deceased's dress had been found upon their persons, while the muffler round the dead man's neck proved to be one formerly given to the prisoner Carr by a girl of the town. The prisoners were found Guilty, with a recommendation to mercy, and sentenced to death. LIEUTENANT ACKERLY, R.N. ' a gentleman well known about town, was fined by Mr. Jardine, at Bow street, on Wednesday, for baying assaulted Mr. Tonna, Secretary of the United Service Institution, Whitehall, and creating a great disturbance upon the occasion of his being expelled the society on that morning. - - MR. WILD, a solicitor, of Friar's-street, Black friars, was brought before Alderman Lawrence, at Guildhall, on Tuesday, and remanded for a week, on a charge of embezzling 501., the property of the Bankruptcy Court, while officially in possession of a bankrupt's property, at Bagbrook, Northampton. THE REV. J. C. WARD, whose examination as an alleged lunatic had been adjourned last Tuesday for a week, was, after a lengthened appeal on the part of Mr. Ward, in which he announced his intention of refusing to appear any more, adjourned for another week. THE PRIVILEGES OF AMBASSADORS' SERVANTS was allowed in a case brought before Mr. Paynter, on Thursday. William Kilmeister, charged with un lawfully detaining some wearing apparel, the pro perty of a tradesman, pleaded his privilege, and Mr. Paynter said that the inviolability of the ambassa dor's household must not be interfered with. Com plainant inquired whether there was no means of getting back his property from the defendant? Mr. Punter said he knew of none, and persons must be careful in their transactions with ambassadors' servants. The case was then dismissed. A GENTLEMAN, name unknown, deliberately destroyed himself by blowing out his brains, on Tuesday night,in the middle of the Mile-end-road, The body has not yet been identife/t