The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-24 00:00:00

MURDEROUS A77ACK AND _ROBBERY

BY A TICKET-OF-LEA VE MAN

Or) Tuesday a ticket-of-leave man, named John
Rogers, was brought up before the Wolverhampton
magistrates, charged with a daring highway rub-
bery, with violence, upon a tradesman of that town.
It appeared that shortly before midnight on Satur-
day, Mr. John Norris, grocer, of the Old Church-
yard, in Wolverhampton, but whose place of busi-
ness is in the adjoining street (Lichfield-street),
was passing along the 30 yards which separates his
shop from his residence, carrying in his hand a
basket, containing a cash •box, having in it between
£7O and £BO, and also a bag with £2O in gold and
silver, when he was attacked by the prisoner, who
beat him unmercifully with a weapon which had
formed the leg of a bench. Mr. Norris, who is up-
wards of 50 years of age, re,isted for a length of
time, but the prisoner ultimately secured possession
of the bag and its contents, and then absconded,
leaving Mr. Norris on the ground, bleeding pro-
fusely from wounds on the head and face. So severe
are those injuries, that he lies in a precarious con-
dition, and was not able to give evidence yesterday.
The prisoner is clearly identified by a woman
who saw him beating his victim, who was lying on
the ground. The witness's attention was called to
the circumstance by the repeated cries of murder.
On passing her the fellow said, " You had better go
to that gentleman, for five or six fellows are about
him, and they will murder him." Witness replied,
" It is only you."

The weapon was found, with blood upon it, at
daybreak on Sunday, near the spot where the offence
was committed. It had been taken from a bench
in a beerhouse in which he was drinking the same
night. _ _

When he was arrested and charged, he said, " It's
all right."

His ticket of leave was dated only three weeks
back, and about nine months of his sentence of four
years had been remitted. He was sentenced to that
period at Stafford, in January, 1859, for a similar
offence in Wolverhampton, in which three other
persons, all of whom were similarly punished, were
associated with him.

Icor the convenience of the police, ho was re-
manded for a week.

2HE TYNE SHIPOWNERS.

SHIELDS, TUESDAY.
Today a joint meeting of the shipowners' societies
of North Shields and Newcastle was held in the
Examination-offices, Shipping-office, North Shields,
to consider the clauses of the Merchant Shipping
Acts Amendment Bill, brought into Parliament by
the Board of Trade. Mr. George Stretton occupied
the chair. The various clauses were gone through
and very amply discussed. The meeting agreed with
the Government on the impropriety of the manage-
ment of local pilotage remaining in the hands of sel f-
elected Lodies, and it considered that the shipowners
should have the management of the local pilotage
entirely in their own hands. They, however, con-
sidered compulsory pilotage, under any circum-
stances, objectionable, and that it ought to be
abolished. The Board of Trade proposes in their
bill to give the local magistrates control over sal-
vege cases when the value of the vessel and cargo
was not worth more than £l,OOO, but the meeting
was of opinion that they should be in a position to
determine any salvage case, whatever the value of
the ship, The meeting further resolved that, in re-
ference to clause 44 in the bill, the liability of the
shipowners in cases of collision shall not exceerithe
value of the ship and freight, except in cases of loss
of life, when it should not be more than .£1,5 a ton ;
and that, with regard to salvage proposied to be
levied on the owner of a wrecked vessel for the
rescue of her crew, the charge, instedad of bein
thus levied, chould be made on the lltlerchant Ship
ping Fund. An objection was taken to the Mer-
chant Shipping Act now in force, which gives the
master or seamen the power of recovering their
wages down to the time that a vessel is lost or
abandoned. It was maintained that as freight was
the " mother of wages," and, in the opinion of the
meeting, from their experience as shipowners, very
serious losses were constantly occurring through
masters and seamen abandoning vessels at sea.
without making any due efforts to bring the'.*
into port, the time had come to revert back to
the old law, which laid down the principle that
if no freight were carried no wages were due if a
vessel wire lost. Those resolutions were ordered
to be embodied in a petition, and a deputation
was appointed to lay the views of the shipowners
before the President of the Board of Trade.

ATTEMPTED MURDER 1.2 V LEICES7 F, P.
On Sunday afternoon a most diabolical attlmpt
to commit a murder was made by a man named El-
lington, a framework knitter, on his paramour,
named Jane Bonsor, who lived at No. 6, Halford-
square, Halford-street, Leicester. it appears that
the parties had been living together as man and.
wife for the last ten months, and in consequence of
some quarrels Mrs. Bonsor had told the prisoner he
would get turned out on Monday if he did not go
of his own accord. Prisoner had some drink on
Saturday night, and he threatened to kill Mrs. Bon.
sor before he left her, and that he would die on the
gallows like a man. On Sunday morning the pri-
soner, after having been again told that be would
have to leave on the following day, went out for a
walk, in company with a neighbour named Nor-
than, and to him the prisoner declared he would
murder this woman, and swing in the boots hestood.
in. Prisoner returned to Mrs. Bonsor's house and.
repeated his threat, and Mrs. Bonsor ran into a
neighbour's house, the prisoner following her with
a table-knife in his hand, which he kept concealed
under his cost. He ultimately made a rush at his
paramour, who jumped up and succeeded in ward-
ing off with her hand the blows made by the pfi-
soner at her throat. Her knuckles were very mrich
cut in endeavouring thus to prevent the prlsener
sticking her with the point of the knife. Mrs.
Bonsor, however, after a violent struggle, got away
from the prisoner, and ran into the stref,t ; but she
was followed by the prisoner, who eaurght her, and
again dragged her into the entry, 'where another
struggle took place, prisoner all thy.; while attempt-
ing to stab her, and accompanying the blow with
the threat that he intended to do for her. Mrs.
Bonsor, however, promised to return to her home if
he would give her the knilie, which he did, and ihe
threw it to a girl who lived with her. Prisoner
then released his hold, and she made her escape into
a neighbour's house. Prisoner then took the knife
from the girl, went into his (or Mrs, Bonsor's)
house, and kept repeating his threats until taken in
charge by police-constable Haines. On Monday
morning prisoner was brought up at the Town-hall,
Leicester, and committed to take his trial at the
next assizes en the charge.

THE RUMOURED DEATH OF THE FOUNDER OF
THE AGAPEMONE.—A paragraph, copied from the Illus-
trated London News, is going the round of the press, stat-
ing that the notorious Mr. Prince, of the Agapemone, died
on the 24th of February, and that his will has been lately
proved. The Mr. Philip Alexander Parker Prince, whose
oawutZenl.ll.:>f a
will is referred to, for many years conducted a school at
Mitcham, in Surrey, and ex' ired at Lansdowne-circus,
Stockwell, Surrey, as truly stated in the paragraph. True
personalty was sworn under £l,OOO, and the gentlero.an
occupied
b by
possessedlu r.
Rattle,t he
bookseller. freehold
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History,"
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hrei
work, called " Prince's Parallel 17,. three volumes,
near Bridg-
eth"oAllgbhodneootfBl,oove,,,
and also author of other books. This gentleman. had
nothing whatever to do with the Agapetrione.
personage Brother
prosperous since
favourable result of Chancery suits brought by t\liareitneuCria:3
is
ss
ssttiilll l
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teanndc toh,
for-
mer inmates for the recovery of „s_ y
uue they had deludedly
strange.A.P.Prince's will was curiously
who claims the title
d "The festival of St. Peter,p •
A WORD ON BEHALF ii prince of Apostles," and
this may have led to the notion that it was that of the Aga-
doaf handedt,e,T li 0 oßveelrotvoed the., ,
i‘ ir.p
pemone originator.—Baila Citrontele.
day of our lives in
—We make an enormous waste of time end effort every
F TILE SEWING MACHINE..
going through details, if indeed it is
the business of Nature's forces to do that kind of business
for us. It is not long since nearly all the women of every
nation, and a great number of the men, spent hours
of every day in plying the needle;
in thread .
is peculiarly wearing to certain set of
ing it, in pushing it through and pulling it out by
an effort which engaged most of the muscles of the
frame, and which
nerves. A few years since a portion of this labour was
saved by machinery which shaped some of our garments,
and which finished them at the edges. This was a boon,
as far as it went; but now we have the sewing machine, by
which the human use of the needle is superseded, and all
treadle does it all, employment. abolished. An easy
the injuriousness owf
with
ethee
help of such ingenuity and care
i as all useful employment requires.—Once a Week.
(;HARING-CROSS RAILWAY.---Yesterday the con-
tractors commenced fixing the massive iron work and
girders intended to carry this railway over Blackfriars.
road, between Stamford .street and Surrey Chapel, the via-
duct from Bungerford-bridge and a considerable distance
on towards Southwark and London-bridge behag now
neulY completed.