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

MURDEROUS A77ACK AND _ROBBERY

BY A TICKET--OF-LEAVE MAN.

On Tuesday a ticket-of lekve man, named john
Rogers, was brought up before the Wolverhampton
magistrates, charged with a daring highway rob-
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 Wad 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, resisted 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 woi.nan
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 bettur 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.

For the convenience of the police, he was re-
manded for a week.

211 E TYNE SIIIPOWNERS.

SHIELDS, TUESDAY.
To-day a joint meeting of the shipovvners' 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 occup'.ed
the chair. The various clauses were gone through
and very amply discussed. The meeting agreed with
the Government on the impropriety of the menage-
ment of local pilotage remaining in the hatids of self-
elected todies, and it considered that the slaipowners
should have the management of the 'meal pilotage
entirely in their own hands. They,, Lowever, con-
sidered compulsory pilotage, unae'r 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-
vage 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 exceed the
value of the ship and freight, except in cases of loss•
of life, when it should not be more than £l5 a tein
and that, with regard to salvage proposed Va be
levied on the owner of a wrecked vessel for the
rescue of her crew, the charge, instead. of being
thus levied, ehould be made on the Xle'rchant 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 main'iained 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 rut:king any due efforts to bring theta
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 were 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 111URDER .1X LEICES2ER.

On Sunday afternoon a most diabolical attempt
to commit a murder was made by a man named El-
lington, a framework knitter, en his paramour,
named Jane Bonsor, who lived at No. 6, 'Raiford-
square, Halford-street, Leicetter, it appears that
the parties had been livir,Fr together as man and
wife for the last tea mouths,e and in consequence of
some quarrels Mrs. Bousor 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 ne 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 coat. He ultimately made a rush at his
paramour, who jumped up and succeeded in war-
ing off with her hand the blows made by the pri-
soner at her throat. Her knuckles were very much
cut in endeavouring thus to prevent the prisoner
sticking her with the point of the knife. Mrs.
Bonsor, however, after a violent struggle, got away
from the prisoner, and ran into the street; but she
was followed by the prisoner, who caught her, and
again dragged her into the entry, where another
struggle took place, prisoner all the 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 knife, which he did, and she
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 on 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-
eonetel eziaend
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
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. The
possessedp erson lt yt
hwea
Deceased was the author of a
by Mr. Rattle, bookseller.
work, called " Prince's Parallel History," in three volumes,
fsresewhoolrdnhuounsdeersifulfinanßdaththneowg
and also author of other books. This gentleman had
nothing whatever to do with the Agapemone. Brother
Prince is still alive, and the "Abode of Love," near Bridg-
water, is still in existence, though not so prosperous since
the unfavourable result of Chancery suits brought by for-
mer inmates for the recovery of money they had deludedly
handed over to the strange personage who claims the title
of " The Beloved." Mr.P.A.P.Prince's will was curiously
dated " The festival of St. Peter, Prince of Apostles," and
this may have led to the notion that it was that of the Aga..
pemone originator.—Bath Chronicle.
A WORD ON BEHALF F THE SEWING MACHINE.
—We make an enormous waste of time and effort every
day of our lives in
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-.
lug it, in pushing it through and pulling it out by
an effort which engaged most of the muscles of the
frame, and which is peculiarly wearing to certain set of
nerves. A few years sim.:e a portion of this labour Was
saved by machinery whioh shaped some of our garments,
and which finished them at the edges. This was a boon,
as far as it went; but now we hive the sewing machine, by
which the human use of the needle is superseded, and all
the injuriousness of the employment abolished. An easy
treadle does it all, with the help of such ingenuity and care
as all useful employment requires.—Onee a Week.
CIIARING-CROSS RAILWAY,--Yesterday the can.
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 ITungerford-bridge and a considerable distance
on towards Southwark and Idondon-bridge being now
nearly completed.