The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-01-20 00:00:00

LAW AND poLiet

ATTSUPTID DOCBLI AICROSR AND SCICIDL —At
the Stalybridge Borough Court on Monday Mary Ann
James, aged about twenty-eight years, wife of Edwin
James, 'lotion spinner, of Wild's-court, Hollins-street,
Stalyhridge, was cotnniftted for trial charged with
attempting to drown het two ehildren— Hannah. he
years, and John Joseph, three veal old—ln the Hud-
dersfield canal, and at the lame iiine to aimmit suicide.
The prisoner had attempted to onamlt the three-fold
crime In consequence ,of a quarrel with her husband
about the payment of
A LICSNSID VIM:ALLIER
the Birmingham Police.°Mee lett week, a singular ease
was brought 'before the magistrates by Detective.
Inspector Tandy. The officer stated that about two
months ago Mr. Bomalley, the landlord of the Ship Inn,
Fig-street, reported at the Detective Office that some
ron, had been stolen from his house. The case was
inquired Into, bait lions of the money was traced. On
Wednesday the MIMI perron gave infornation to the
police that a cash box, containing about £5O, a silver
cup, several eltessea, a quantity of jeweary, consieting
eta-noel; brooches, he.. some poCketebooks, and various
other articles hid bean etelen from The nremises.
&Mil, of the goods, he raid, belonged trl hint, and
others to his barmaid. Detective-Sergeant Seal took
the case in hand, and upon going to the house, Boiadley
enutneretal to him the goods he had lost, and, after
intiniatitig that he suspected the brewer, said that if
Seal could Ilqd Ie property he would make him a
pieseet of kin. then erfint Upittirs, and found
that the drawer in Boirciley's bedroom, hos* *bleb it
was alleged the cup and money had been stolen, had
been forced open, apparently with • "jemmy." In
consequence of sonic farther information he received,
Seal went on Sunday morning to the house, and told
Boardley that he believed he had got the property he
said had been stolen in his possession, and that be had
committed the robbery himself. Boardley gave him and
Detaitive.Sergeant Clark, who was with him, permit.
'lon to eximilm the promisee; [rid the pMeere at once
went into the brewhotise' Where they found •
dream, alleged to have beeti stolen Dorn the bedroom,
carefully hidden in the chimney. Having found some of
the stolen jeweary in Briardley's poekets,the officers were
about to search the beck part of the premises when the
landlord ran upstairs. Clark, seeing that, at ones
followed with Seal, and on entering • bedroom they
saw Boatdley in the act of putting something through •
hole its the, floor They esamined the place and found
many articles of jewellty *hith the banpaid had lost,
• silver cup, and some pocket books. Anothet dress
was also found concealed in the chimney of a bedroom.
Upon further search, almost all the stolensartieles, were
with Jlue exception pf the cash-box and money, found
in 'different parts of [the preiniaes. Seal then charged
Boardley with having stolen the mesas belonging to his
barmaid, and he replied that he had not taken them
with the intention of stealing them, but simply to alike
her think by returning them he had been at a great
deal of trouble to recover them. Mr. Tandy added
that It wk. no long ago, that • stolen E 5 note was
tread to Boarffle,'s poesettion, and that they could not
put him in the dock now because the barmaid declined
to prosecute. Wordier, who was In wart, *pen being
asked what he had to say in answer to the charge,
stated that he did what he had done in a drunken freak,
and gut he bad no intention of keeping the articles.
Mr. Kynnereley said that the whole affair was the act
of a dishonest man, and that there mint have been
some dishonest object. The Bench &Mid not deal with
him then; but they would remember what bad taken
place next licensing day.
A Bate' .LADY.—A maiden lady, named Labia,
residing et Thiberville (Eure) while sitting alone two
days lack In het own house, was surprised by the
entrance into the room in which she was sitting of an
ill.looking fellow who, brandishing a knife, demanded
her !nosey or her life, without being her presence of
mind, the ledy replied, 'Come in, I will go and fetch
the money" The follow unanspectinglv entered, when
Male. DOM left the room as if to fetch her money, shut
the door, and locked the thief inside, and gave the
alarm. On two gendarmes arriving from the station
which was close by to arrest him, he threatened to stab
them with his knife, hut was soon overcome and taken
to prison. He proved to be • working spinner, named
Gaudier, who had been already condemned eight times
for theft.
EIMISIMPTCIIII3 LAST YILAIL—It appears that the
number of bankruptcies patted hut year in England
and Wales was 9,308. (if these, 4,104 occurred in the
London jurisdiction, as compared with an annual
average of big during the previous ten years ; brld in
the Liverpool district, es compered with • previous
annual average of 79; 662 in the Manchetter district,
as compared with • previous annual ge of 89;
1,:136 in the Birmingham dittrist, as compared with a
previous annual average of 156; 1,046 in the Leeds
district, an compared with a previous annual average
of 106; 898 in the Bristol district, an compared with •
previous annual average of 68; 3t3) in the Exeter dia.
trict, as compared with a previous annual average of
42; and 313 in the Neweastlo district, as compared
with • previous annual average of 36. It is scarcely
necessary to recall the fact that the prodigious Juneau,
observable is almoat entirely attributable to the opera-
tion of the new Bankruptcy Acta.
CONVIOTION OF • FORTUNI.TELLIII.—A young
woman, named Selina liobson, man on Wednesday
ienteneed to one month's hard labour in Wakefield
House of Correction for professing to tell fortunes with
intent to deceive and imams upon Emma Eabsrger, a
domestic servant. Emtna Eaberger, living in South-
field-square, Manninaham, gave evidence to the effect
that on the Med nlt,, another servant girl invited her
to go irto Mr. Rhodes's house, which was next door to
whore she lived. She went there, and found an old
woman in the house who pretended to be deaf and
dumb, and who was telling Mr. Rhodes's servants their
fortunes. The prisoner was with the old woman, and
talked for her. The latter wrote the " fortune." with
chalk on an old tea tray, 'and the prisoner read or
interpreted what was so written. She told the witness
that the old woman wanted to tell her fortune, and
through persuasion the witnaseontented to have it told.
There was a conversation about the charge, and it was
agreed that the witness should pay one shilling, the
same as the other servant, had paid, but it was said
the usual charge was eighteenpence. Something was
then told to the witness about what, was to happen to
her, and the old woman was to come again on a future
day, and tell her more. Some days afterwards, the
witness, saw the prisoner and the old woman again, and
having neither gold nor silver to give them, she was
told that elutLes would do as welL She gave them
seven articles of wearing apparel, and the old women
let her • little more into the secrets of futurity, the pa.
loner again acting as feeder or interpreter of certain
chalk marks which were uninalligble to everybody el*.
The articles of dress so given to the prisoner and the
old woman were to be returned on • day mentioned,
now past, but the witness saw no more of any of them
uctil Tuesday night, when the prisoner less found
wearing a shawl aad a petticoat, which were two of
these agleam