The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-08-26 00:00:00

LINIII.I

LAW AND CRIME.

IL W. ROITNILL Ex-M.P. POR L tWeirril —Einar
ollartrair Uses —Who has not heard of Mr. Williani.
Respell, so very lately Member of Parliament for The
borough of Ladibsth I Their fame, orrather the notos4ety,el
Roupell filled, two or three years thine, the whore '
metropolis. To the City and to Westminster he mi.
• kind of hero; bat in the dubious region Itaown as
"Over the Water" he was something more tlia•
mortal. He was reported to be worth • million of
of money. He was said to be assomplished and generous
as be was wealthy. It *ascertain that he had a comely
person and agreeable manners. flash was Mr. William
Roupell, of Streatham, the darling of torten., the spoilt
child of overflowing dividends In the fulness of time,
hi Progenitor, Mr. Richard Palmer rtoupell, also of
Streatham, and of Oroesitieet. Blackfriars, had hem
in-gathered to his fathers. The majority of the public
were wider the delusion that the young Lambeth Adonis
inherited the old gentleetan'simmense wealth. At any
rats, he lived as tbeagh he had an income of a hundred
thousand a year. How many of the young ladies of '
Lambeth, Newington, Camberwell, and Brixton became
enamoured of Mr. Roupell--ead the reputed balance at
his banker's—we will not ender iske to say. At all
events, he was the Hon of the locality. He almost
raised a rile *Gyps, and - feasted the privates in his
mammy right royally. !Ile was alw we giving fêtes
ned jenheMsp. He was the pet of public meetings.
Min was seppseed to bow very rich, we need scarcely
My that it osearred to the free and independent
mimbers.of the borough of Lambeth to send this young
mat as one of their representatives to Parliament.
'What more appropriate compliment mold be paid to
isiorwons wealth, the pomessios of which, of mune,
'ash equal amount oft/Wow and virtue. Either.
ha been but • " Surreyside" kind of splendour.
Ilml berited to be ranked amongst the sleet of fashion.
He gewhleid largely, and several of the luminaries ef
thaniSten:dtboussod eondemended to shake hands
tittle on the imiderstandirig that his shaking elbows
to their profit. He become a member
VPall-m•U shah; he had handsome chambers hard
laohese :led his bores and his carriages, his toadies,
doubtless, his mistresses. All at oats agly
began to be Surd coneerning hie'.
"fertaiake yokel?' was decdared to be seriously em.
.- He MAMA his "mat ia Parliament. Be
to fhe Centime. Then it was bused about bower
had never had any mosey of his own
,at all, ash
rOleid
that the wealth, If any, belestattoa toe pastel mother.
Then owe a report that be was a basted coupled silk
1 osinemptions inisendoes that his father, had been
i deehribed as as extensive "leatenneltu In the Clity,"..
! had in reality award his wealth by tranasetisna 18
! rsgs? Imam, imd old inelial—in feet, that he was only •
manse-store dealer nee bap male. AU this was dieted
ellen.% in lids' to &North* splendid,* oughbriel career
offitr. Ronson ; bat 11100111) remained behind. On Monday,
the 18th of August, iras 'emanated at Guildford an
lotions of ejsetesene—Maupell versus Wayte. William
labs flember ef Parliament for Lambeth, and
described as a "gentlemanly-looking man," was
summoned as a witaess. He appeared; he gave
Oldrienos ; and, at the dose of the first day's
imp, William Russell was in awtocly in GrZefOdrd
Gaol as being, by bis own confession, • swindler, •
Lettnef, a fakeer and a thief. This same William
was cm Tilesday afternoon committed to take
, isrnsial at the Central Criminal Court, and, if the
counts against him he established by evietemee, be will,
in all probability, th eenteleed to penal servitude'
for life. The record of this young man's
tilling, as gathered from his own cool and
deliberate statement, almost takes away one's breath.
TbilicidaberHri.BB6ltos.
posee....apell, thea"rmenuesigeltewwea:h.diedmiain,
, ears before he had married his wire she bad lived with
int as his mistress. From their illicit counestion
heat ma; among other children, a son William, the
les-Member ; from their lawhd maim,' another son,
RoupeU, junior, the plaintiff in the present
' and who slam hislother died was • boy. at easel
' e latter eland old Kr; Roupell's life, divers of his
krti
tea were sold orsoeveyed away to different persons;
Ingskon,oth: sold saints
Eltelkaaedooo toN:rbit*apntlem7aniru4namnaelfl
.a Whet .Ite: Rospell died, worth between
000 sod R30%000, it was supposed that he had dia.
tp:
posed of hit prePerey'venerag hie obildren by • will
exerted inlll6o,lst lidemei in August, 1856, and •
ipy of whisk mis deposited with his proctors in
14111111165 m To the -astonishment, however, of
bees Ceram Mao! the holly, another will was set
P I, and Mersa by him in the Court of
, hisli=iig Use executor; This devised the
Is seal ineepeirassal estate of old Roupell to his wife
' kr her irdie be and beset ; purported to be
17. s'lß..fft Rospell,•and to be witnessed by his
Wilbrefnit_ 'fin", me Jellia Muggeridge, an aged
431 P AO feillly - The einsgil and most Nur
trust tell sites
tebrbilfaudwelis it prolbiiiird.to
tississjh es the MA August. only two days Werth!
oNI had, been added to the will of 1860. Thedel
4sbesed
no reason few questioning the authenticity of tbe,
!estatnr'. signature; the will wu duly propounded,:
qnd Mrs. Rowell same into aneentrolled politassibis of
am anemone property. Her son, William, setters to '
hue bun able to wind his mother round his Anger.
He extracted from her -all the ready mosey he could;
be Winced her to part with estate alter eptete, promis-
ing to allow her rtf,oo4) a year; said finally came •
financial calutrophe, end his flight abroad, over head
Eripje
uars !in debt. Before he absconded he burnt •
' ! entity of papers and deeds The lad Richard
, the younger, was flow come to manhood, and
be as heir-M.lllw, and with his legitimate brothers and
aisiess, brought an action of ejectment to recover
posseasion of the Nerbiten seta* on the ground that
Use deed oonvi:St, and the entire will propounded
by William and by which t Ito he widow upell
hall Inherited, had forged by tited;" Fortunate
Youth r At the trial at Guilford he same forward as
i witness. Moved by remorse be said that be hail
returned from Spaiwhere he was safe, to make a clean
breast of the mattes and thus secure to his frilfir
mine portion of the property he had by fraud recklessly
squandered. He detailed to the judge and jury that in
the very bedroom where his father died—en the yen
Might orbit death—in, the very presence of his c
a—he had abstracted the genuine will in favour o=
legitimate children, lemeted it, and retired te forge a
fresh one. He told 'bow he had gone to a law ,
Stationer's shop In Graoschniech-street, sunbeam'
4 "will form," filled it up, . making his
Mother heiress 4.. ,' his father'i treasures, and
touliterfalted the allibittire of the dead man. But
there was a witmes Minted. He described how he
sent to Muggeridge, • dotard of eighty-five years of
age, gave him five pounds, which ha pretended had
been mat to him by Mrs. Roupell for mourning, and so
outlived to get Ms 'signature to a remipt. The signa-
ture he copied into the will. The receipt he burnt.
e even described the instruments ' with which the
rgery had been effected. There was a " abort quill
.4 ' " for old Roupell—the dela man's Own pee—there
Was "say gold pen" for his owe false, fleeting name,
which he wrote on purpose In WI alight manner as
possible, in order to contrast with the forged signature
el , his father and letwridge. But them were not
tooth* crimes to which the whiloen member for
teeth hae contemned with the greatest sang /rad
the world. ife had converted cheques given to him
by his father to his own use, having forged endorse-
ments of other parties upon them. He bad shown him
I deed purporting to be executed by
.the Unity Fire
Innuranoe Company, which deed he had destroyed, mad
which deed he forged. He had sworn to the forged
will before the surrogate, and so eommitted wilful and i
drhbersie perjury._lie had slandered his moth's.
d swindled and ball reeled ha brothers and sLste.l
4 finally, il .oetlicited by Sealesalie;iee: for t i
plaintiff that he. tam Hempen, bad the ,
at ;importing to have been made by is father , .
lin, and in virtue of - which the liorbition Fern was
veyed to the defendant, Mr. Waite. In the co •
hisplne-emfalliatixit by *v. Boyill. be owned
renown of tlai torgeries allectiog Ida tins+ 4
brother's inheritimite, and he had raised folly Ail
[
fraudulent deeds, besides dealing *bout £lO,lll lif
fatberlimoney in herd mash. Whit his fate will*
st ths next gaol delivery at the °enrol briminal Conn
hi. mitlifilcult to guess. lathe meantime the extbM4
udiaary confusion resulted in the igreemest helm
*Me to by which the psrehmer ci Mr. Itialses4
houpell'a snits is to pay him half the swam/ maser
end stay all farther promemliap.
1 _Tait pu, Ben.re.—.At the Costal Criminal Comb es
Wedseedef, Cotier, the man who stands easusd of tha
murder of • women, named Carly, bad Ma trial pork
poised till the September seasiona.—Mx. Illarringtan,'s
gentleman, who his charged with firiiisloaded pistols
at • eabinan and • policeman. was found to be in Mal
mi essited state of mind that hie trial alms was post-
poned for the present, —We May mention, in imentoetion
Pith this wart, that Lawn/one, who was found guilty.
at lest scissions, of sheeting his sweetheart, hashed the
Eital sentries commuted to penal servitede for life.
women Nolen, who wee ebarged with killing s man
whom she cohabited, pleaded guilty to the sot, but
Said In i piteous tone that she never meant to kill him.
On the suggestion of Mr. Justice 131aekburs this was
taken as • of not. guilty, and the trial *mode&
The ' jury her =bat her to
rmser—essisassine

If we may tkust statements that hive appealed In the
Cork papers, Walsh, cOurietled of tht ititirder of Mr.
, Fitzgerald, Is Irkiey to 13t pbrdoned, or to have his sen-
tenco bottinintod, in consequence of 116 having made
:sedation' regarding the parties who employed him to
commit the crime, which leave no doubt that they can
he reached by the hand of justice. It is stated that he
and Beckham were not the persons originally hired to
,do tho deed. Another person had been employed for
I the sum of £3. Having dogged Mr. Fitzgerald formes
time, he was about to Bre at him when the pistol
dropped out of his hand into a ditch of sestet. This be
took to be an qvii °meth 14nd lit declined to MAO the
attempt Minna!, fldt hq +ought /leathern and Walsh,
who agreed to do It Tot width the employers Reid—
£3 to Beckham for firing the fetal shot,ind £1 to Walsh
Po t assisting to prevent a espial*. Aoeolding he this
meoint, Mra.. Fitzgldrald had a mintinlons escape.
When the gentleman and hit *de appeared walking
forwards towerdil the leiaasins it was determined to
=War both, As, however, the shot of 13eckhans did
not seem to prove fatal, the second pistol was fired at
him, and to the life of the lady was saved. It is further
stated that Walsh, while evading the pursuit of the
police, was accompanied by the person who paid the
money for the assassination, and that they became
mutually distrustful of one another, in consequenee of
which Walah surrendered, in order that his companion
in guilt should gain nothing by betraying libu. The
correspondent who mentions those things observes that
Hayes and his companion are always sufficiently in-
formed of the movements of the police to avoid surprise,
as the constabulary more through the mountains in
large bodies, heavily accoutred, and search the cabins as
they pass along. This 'system," he adds, " certainly
appear@ the most complete for preventing success, as it
gives ample time to the pursued to elude capture." It
is said that the police are irritated at being so long
baffled by Hayes, and that they are determined that he
shall not escape.