The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-17 00:00:00

THE FATAL DUEL AT BERLIN

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The cause of the duel is stated to be that M. de Hinckel-
dey, president of police, having, a few days ago, presented
himself in uniform at a place where a carousal, organised by
the princes of the blood and by some members of the highest
nobility, was taking place, M. de Rochow, one of the com-
missaries, went up to him and told him no police agents
were wanted there. This led to words, and subsequently to
a challenge. The duel took place in the Grunewald forest.
M. de Hinckeldey's second was M. de Munhausen, a head
clerk in the Ministry of the Interior. M. de Rochow's
second was his own brother. The duel was with
pistols. The distance was fifteen paces, and each of the
adversaries could advance five paces, It was agreed that
if one pistol mimed fire the duel was to recommence. M.
de Hinckeldey fired first, but the pistol did not go off; his
adversary, who had his finger on the trigger, had just
time to raise his weapon. On the second attempt both
pistols went off. M. de Rochow was not hit, but M.
de Hinckeldey fell dead, the ball having pierced his heart.
It is said that the second of the latter at once went to
Charlottenburg, to acquaint the King of the fatal event. M.
de Rochow immediately after placed himself at the disposal
of the minister of the interior and of the military com-
mandment, Major General Von SAlichting ; at the same
time requesting them to allawhim to remain at large for a
few days. People are surprised that M. de Hinckeldey
should have consented to fight with pistols, labouring as be
did under excessive shortsightedness. The body was
brought back to Berlin from Witzleben, near Charlotten-
burg. During the whole night before the duel, M. de
Hinckeldey had been busy putting his affairs in order. M.
de Rochow, it is stated, has been set at liberty, and there is
no doubt that his trial will result in an acquittal. On
Thursday the King and royal princes, and most of the
in'nisters, together with some generals, attended the funeral
of the late president of police. All the civil authorities of
the town, and great multitudes, attended him to the grave.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE
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POLICE COURT.-SATURDAY

(BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.)
A SOVEREIGN LARK.--A young gentleman, who gave his
name as John Scott, and whose position in society is highly
respectable, was charged by officer 545 wish having
assaulted him, and also with having ran off with his water
key. The prisoner appeared very much ashamed of his
position, held down his head, and did not offer any observe-
Von during the hearing of the case. The officer said be
was on duty in Dale-street, when the prisoner, with another
gentleman, came out of an hotel. The prisoner walked up
to him and snapped the key out of his belt, asking what
that " pick" was for ? Seeing the prisoner was " quite the
gentleman," and rather " fresh," really did not wish to
prevent him having a lark, but he did not wish to indulge
that propensity to the extent of the loss of the key. He
asked the prisoner for it, but, instead of returning it, he
ran away into William-street, and witness followed him.
On turning into the street, the prisoner met, and struck
him a blow on the side of the head. Thinking this was
too much of a joke, he took him into custody. Officer 613
fully carroborsted the evidence as to the assault. The
prisoner was fined £l, and, laying a sovereign down, he was
allowed to depart.
Sessions CHARGE.—Patrick Gilligan and Robert Murray,
marinestore dealer, and John Lock, a clerk in the employ-
ment of Messrs. Hor OA, Mersey Iron Works, were brought
up by detective Scott and constable 211, on a charge of
conspiracy to defraud the saws.
Me Horgan. The prisoner
Lock is hardly 20 years of , and appeared to be a
respectable person. Mr. Black :defended the other two
prisoners. It appeared that the two marinestore dealers
were in the habit of selling scrap iron at the Mersey works,
and that Lock's duty was to take it in, and passing the
weights in the absence (at dinner time) of the regular gate
clerk. It further appeared that a conspiracy bad been
formed between the parties that Lock should enter larger
weights than he received, and divide the money obtained
thus between him and the others. The history of the case
will be collected from the evidence given by Mr. William
Clay, the manager of the works, who stated as follows-1
received information that a system of robbery was going on
at the works between the prisoners, and I at once took
measures to detect it. The system was this —I caused
certain loads o' scrap iron, brought by Gilligan and Murray
to be re-weighed, and I found seven cart loads to be falsified in
the weights—each cart load was entered in the ticket book
by Lock, whose duty it was to enter it—the first load was
entered 1 ton 12 hundred more than the actual weight.
Lock received the iron between 12 and 1 o'clock, while the
other man was at his dinner. The weights of the seven
loads are entered in Lock's handwriting. The iron was
purchased from the other prisoners by me for the works—
five loads from the prisoner Gilligan, and two from the
prisoner Murray. It was to be paid for according to weight.
The iron came together, but I only saw Gilligan and Lock.
Murray was not present then, but I saw him within five
minutes of the time at the works--at least I think so.
Gilligan came with the iron. Application was made by
Gilligan for payment. The ticket is made out from the
book in the weighing house, which was kept by
Lock. The witness detailed the weights of the
different cart loads of the iron. I caused
Lock to re-weigh them in my presence. The total over-
weight charged amounted to 4 tons 19 cwt. ; the price of
the iron was £4 15s. a ton, and the over charge would be
about £24 in the seven loads. Gilligan was present wheu
the weights were retaken. I then charged Lock with the
fraud, and he said he had wilfully done it, and had been
tempted to do so by the prisoner Gilligan about five weeks
before ; he said Gilligan threw down half-a-crown on
the first occasion, five weeks ago, and said " you may as
well put a hundred weight more ou that load, and have
this 2s. 63. for yourself." Gilligan was not present when
he said that, but was just outside. The prisoner Lock said
that on the following Monday after that, Gilligan said to
him, " You were successful in the hundred weight, and it
is easy for you to add half a ton," and added that if he did
so he would give him a pound for each load of the iron.
He said he acted on that, and received several sovereigns
from Gilligan for doing so. I then questioned him about
Murray, and at first he denied, but after some time he said
he had received money from Murray also. The prisoner
said he was the first to propose it to Murray. The whole
extended to upwards of 44 loads of iron, amounting to£3oo.
I told Lock to tell the whole truth about it. Lock has
been in the office from one and a half to two years. Mr.
Bluck cross-examined the witness, the chief point being that
his clients were not present when Lock made the state-
ments, and that the seven loads were not paid for. After
a short conversation, the prisoners were remanded to this
day to produce further evidence.
(BEFORE MR. ALDERMAN ROLME.)
ROBBERY By WAREHOUSEMEN.—Three men namedYran-
cis Ray, John Metcalf, and Noah Rodwell (Ray and the
latter were persons of respectable appearance), were
brought up by officers Gristhenwaite and Laycock on a
charge of having stolen three sacks of wheat the
property of Messrs. J• H, Hayes and Co, of 21, Bruns-
wick-street. From the evidence of the officers, a carter
named John Dempsey, Mr. Hayes, of the above named firm,
and Mr. Taylor, of the firm of Green and Taylor, it appeared
that the prisoner Ray was head warehouseman to the latter
firm, and Metcalf was his deputy. Rodwell was head
warehouseman to Messrs. Hayes, and it was proved that the
latter had wheat stored at Messrs. Green any Taylor's ware-
houses, in Fulton-street. It seemed that the prisoners
conspired together, and took three sacks of wheat from the
heap, sod sent Dempsey with it in a cart, directing him to a
certain mill, but he was to wait until they came to him. He
waited some time, but as they did not come, he suspected all
was not, right, and drove to the central police office, in Dale-
street, gave up the wheat there, and from his information
the prisoners were arrested. In reply to the charge, Rod-
well admitted the fact, but said he was induced to commit
the offence by the solicitations of Ray ; but Ray vehemently
denied the statement. Medcalf said he was acting under
the orders of Ray,- and did not know anything of the
matter. The prisoners were fully committed for trial.
THE SUPPOSED WATCH ROBBERY.—John
William
French, John William Dyer, and Margaret Marsden, who
had been remanded on a charge of having in their possession
a large number of watches, supposed to have been stolen,
were brought up again. It appearei that Dyer had gone,
s he had stated, to look for a job from French, and that he
,o other way implicated in the matter than having been
ound in the house with French when the police went there.
He was therefore discharged. It was clearly proved that
several of the watches had been stolen at Manchester, and
the other two prisoners were transmitted to that city to
abide their trial.

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On Thursday an inquest was held by the county coroner
of Lancashire, on the body of Mr. John nobler, aged 21, a
young gentleman of highly respectable connections in
London, who had been studying the profession of a ma-
chinist and tool maker at Manchester. The deceased
absented himself in the month of January, leaving letters
behind him stating his intention to destroy himself. On
Wednesday his dead body was discovered in a copse
or plantation called Cheetham's Close, in Tarton, near
Bolton. In one of the deceased's pocket was found:a letter,
with this address outside :—" The finder of this body,
particularly addressed to the police, inquisitiveness being
their misfortune." The letter was as follows :—" If they
make it a case of temporary insanity, it will be so on
the part of the jury. Dearly beloved Cove or Coves,—
Now that you have found this body do not be an idiot
or idiots and get up an inquest, to talk about what
they know nothing about, but somewhere in my pockets
yon will find 6d, with which get a gill. After that,
stick my body in a hole somewhere. You need not read
over it any service, as I read it myself before starting,
and by selling my clothes you will be able to pay your-
self for your trouble. After which go away, and above
all things do not try to find out who I am, &e., as you
will not be able, but do as I say, and the Lord reward
you accordingly.—Yours truly.—The verdict must be
that in great consideration for some person or persons he
destroyed himself to save t` em the trouble." Dr. Clay
stated that before leaving Manchester lllr. nobler was
in a low and desponding state of mind, brought on by
over study. Verdict, " Temporary insanity.'

THE FRIENDS OF POLAND AND
VISCOUNT PikLMERSTON.

On Saturday, a deputation, consisting of the Marquis of
Breadalbane, President ; the Marquis Townshend, Viscount
Raynham M.P., Colonel Pinney, M.P., Edmond Beales,
Esq., William Lloyd Birkbeck, Esq., honorary secretary,
and Captain Charles Szulczewski, resident secretary, had
an interview with Lord Palmerston, for the purpose of pre-
senting to him a memorial from the Literary Association of
the Friends of Poland,
The Marquis of Breadalbane, in introducing the deputa-
tion, observed that he and the gentlemen who accompanied
him had waited upon Lord Palmerston in behalf of
a society which was established soon after the con-
clusion of the Polish war of independence in 1830.31,
and had since been occupied in diffusing information
respecting Poland, with a view to strengthen the interest
felt for the English people, and in alleviating the mis.
fortunes of the Polish exiles who, after that war, were
compelled to seek an asylum on our shores ; a society which
always considered that it was its duty, whenever an op-
portunity offered for effecting any amelioration in the
condition of that unfortunate country, to urge upon the
Parliament and the Government the propriety of not
allowing it to escape. Actuated by these motives, they
ventured to submit to his lordship a memorial, which
after reciting the present position of European affairs, and
referring to the Congress now assembled at Paris, and
dwelling upon Polish wrongs concluded thus :
.4 It is on these many and important accounts that we
humbly submit to your lordship the earnest desire and hope
which we entertain in common. We believe, with the
majority of our countrymen, that, at the Conference at
Paris, some special instruction may be given to her Majesty's
Plenipotentiaries not to let the negotiations conclude without
taking into consideration the situation and claims of Poland,
with a view to the introduction of some positive stipulation
in her favour in any treaty of peace to be signed with
Russia."
Lord Palmerston, who had listened with much attention
to the memorial, and to remarks of the deputation, in the
course of which he made several observations, showing great
acquaintance with, and interest in, the subject, declared that
the question should receive the earnest consideration of the
government, and the deputation withdrew.

POISONING IN THE PRESENCE Of
MEDICAL WITNESSES.

The Leeds strychnine case following so sharply that at
Rugelev, again astonishes us at the worse than uselessness of
those English doctors, who, according to their own confes-
sions, suspect people to be suffering from poison, and
yetv
allow them to die without mentioning their suspicions. It
would seem that the attendance of a medical man is no pro-
tection against domestic murder. Within three months
there have been the three cases—at Darlington, Regeley,
and Leeds—in which medical attendants acknowledge that
they suspected foul play, and yet did nothing to stop the
foul play, and prevent it ending in frightful deaths. As
between the public and the profession, that is a horrible
state of things, and public opinion ought at once to be
expressed in reprobation of the fatal silence, evidently
customary when family poisoning is being committed. The
moment that a medical attendant thinks that a poisoner is
meddling with his patient, he ought to warn all by whom
that patient is surrounded of his suspicion ; for it would be
better that the feelings of friends were sometimes shocked
than this horrid system of conjugal slaughter were per-
mitted to extend itself with the connivance of that class of
men which society looks to for protection. Poisoning by
strychnine is the latest invention of the devil, and it is
awful to see the facility with which strychnine can be used
in the presence of those whose duty it is to defend the
otherwise defenceless from so cruel an agent of death.—
Observer.

DISCOVERY OF MORE FORGERIES BY THE
LATE MR. SADLEIR.

HER MAJESTY THREATENED BY A

On Thursday afternoon Mr. Jardine, solicitor to the
Treasury, accompanied by Sergeant Lockyer, of the
detective police, proceeded to St. Albans for the purpose
of inquiring into the conduct of a Mr. C. Parker, of that
town, who has recently addressed two letters to her
Majesty describing himself as the prophet Elijah, and
asserting his right to the crown, and also requiring her
Majesty to surrender her rights and dignities to him as
the prophet Elijah, at the same time threatening her
Majesty that if she refused he should command it by main
force at the point of the bayonet, and she must take the
consequences when he came to the throne. The man was
found to be quite insane, and was sent to the Bethlehem
Lunatic Asylum.

The Advertiser says :—We are enabled to state that,
within the last few days, discoveries of forgeries have
been made in the city, of which the slightest suspicion
did not exist before. Mr. Sadleir had forged the names
of three directors of a well-known company, to the
extent of £lOO,OOO. Up to the present time the number
of names forged, for one purpose or other, is not much
short of 100, and these, as a matter of course, embracing
every variety of handwriting. We ourselves, last night,
saw one of the forged transactions of the late member
for Sligo, for a very large amount. The forged name
was that of a gentleman, far advanced in life, and any-
thing more in keeping with the usual character of the
handwriting of an old gentleman, we have never seen.
As to the question of what could have become of all the
money we can state that, in one day, some six or seven
months since, Mr. Sadleir lost no less than £120,000 in
sugar speculation ; on another occasion his loss on a
hemp transaction was £33,000 ; while by an iron pur-
chase he suffered to the extent of close on £50,000.
We can now announce that, including his liabilities,
Mr. Sadleir left the world with obligations to the
enormous extent of £1,500,000, and these were all
incurred, as all his fraud and forgeries were committed,
in the short space of from four to five years•

The Afoxiteur states, that accounts received direct from
General Williams, speak of his health being almost
completely re-established.
For the first time, on Thursday, the prices of the
Russian funds were quoted in the official list issued by
the authorised brokers at the Paris Bourse.
BERLIN, March 15.—The King, in a letter to the
minister of justice, bas denounced the duel of M.
liinekeldy and Rochow. Count Canitz's death, yester-
At the Leeds Ciurt 'louse last week, Mr. Matthewman, a day, was the consequence of a duel. The club, known
grocer in that town, was charged under the 59th of George as the Jockey Club, is threatened with suppression.
111., c. 43, s. 2'e, with having in his possession some black It is stated in correspondence from Paris, that the
pepper adulterated with ground rice ; he was fined £25. A firA renewal of diplomatic intercourse with St. Peters-
similar charge was then preferred against Mr. Spencer, burg, will be the despatch of Count de Mornay, President
grocer, of Coburg-street, Leeds. In this case the adultera_ of the legislative body, as Ambassador Extraordinary,
adultera-
tion was only to the assent of 10 per cent. A penalty of on the occasion of the coronation of the Czar at Moscow.
£25 was inflicted. The receipts of the Duchy of Lancaster from Michaelmas,
THB FMB AT Ditinty.LANE THEATRE.--to official 1854, to the 21st of December last, amounted to £38,091,
investigation held on Thursday at Drury-lane Theatre into le vine a balance on the revenue account of the Receiver-
the cause of the recent fire in that building showed that it General of £4,844 after paying expenses. Among the
arose from some wadding projected from a gun fired off in disbursements are £7,370 for salaries of the principal officers
the closing scene of the pantomime. The Earl of Glen all of the Duchy, and payments made to her Majesty's privy
presided. At the inquiry, Gerard and Webster, two of the purse, £20,000.
firemen on duty when the outbreak occurred, were highly We believe that the labours of the conferences at Paris
complimented for their vigilance and activity in tracing. out are drawing rapidly to a close, and that we shall shortly
and extinguishing the fire. They were also presentee-with have to record the signature of a definite treaty of piece,
a handsome donation. The five points have been proceeded with, as we believe,
SUICIDE IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—On Friday at noon in inverse order, and have been duly weighed and
a respectably dressed man put a period to his existence by debated in detail. Difficulties have naturally arisen,
precipitatine• himself from the whispering gallery of St. but none that have not been susceptible of any satisfac-
Paul's Cathedral into the nave, a distance of nearly 150 tory adjustment.—.3forntng pose.
feet. The unfortunate gentleman, whose name was Alex.
The Austrian Gazette contains an account of the fear-
ander Smart, was once an extensive clock and watchmaker, ful ravages of typhus fever at
Odessa. Twentyd
thousand
but of lac beg been residing with his wife at No. 4, South- troops are in the hospitals, and thousands ha
street, Berkeley.squa.re. After be had waited in the gallery died. In one week sixteen medical men had died,
until the great clock of the cathedral struck the hour of among whom were two Americans about to return home.
twelve, he mounted the hand-rail of the gallery, gave three The typhus has ravaged nearly the whole of Southern
hysterical laughs, and cried out each time 46 Ala 1, ah ! ali ! " Russia, particularly places near the seat of war. It is
Two vergers, who were in the gallery, rushed forward, estimated that 100,000 men had been carried off. The
anticipating what the deceased intended, but before they account says, that Bakschiserai, Simpheropol, Kherson,
could get to the spot the unfortunate man had succeeded in and Nicolaieff, were nearly empty
jumping The Vienna corres-
jumping from the hand-rail When the deceased was 4
are ondent of the Times believes that the above accounts
piciced up life was extinct. somewhat exaggerated.