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London, England, 1841-06-21 00:00:00

on in the station-house immediately opposite, in apart- it
ments which have been fitted up for that purpose. The i
new. building is expected to be completed in about four
months. Within the .1.25 t five years there has been a I
complete change of the Magistrates of the above office. I
Sir F. Roe, Mr. Halls, and Mr. Minshull having been
succeeded by Mr. H. Hall, Mr. Twyford, and Mr. Jar- I
dine. All the old Bow-street -police have been dis-
charged on pensions. The worktdeti,will commence their
labours on Monday.

MARYLEBONE. . •
John Fleming was charged with havi.N. robbed his
employer, Mr. Benjamin Howland, linen-drai'r9 259 Ox-
ford-street, of goods to a large amount. It acneared
that in consequence of observations made by the prS'e7
cutor, he accused the prisoner on Friday night of having
robbed him ; the prisoner said he had never even har-
boured a dishonest thought, and appeared to feel acutely
the severity of the imputation. A policeman was how-
ever called in, and after some hesitation the prisoner
drew from his pocket a silk handkerchief and a pair of
black silk gloves. Full of expressions of penitence and
sorrow at his inadvertent deviation from honesty, the
prisoner was locked up. The prosecetor and the consta-
ble then searched the prisoner's lodgings at Brompton,
and there found a quantity of ribbon, a white silk bon-
net trimmed with elegant lace, prints, gloves, handker-
chiefs, scarfs, &c., and 36 duplicates for articles of va-
rious descriptions. The property was produced, and the
prosecutor identified the greater portion of it. The
prisoner, who is a married man, was then .remanded.
He acknowledged that some of the things belonged to
Mr. Howland.

GREENWICH- POLICE.
KITCYTUN ETIQUETTE.—On Saturday. Mr.Quartermain,
one of the proprietors of the Crown and Sceptre Tavern,
Greenwich, and also of the York Hotel, Bridge-street,
Blaekfriars, appeared before Mr. Groves in answer to
a summons for assault. James Bassel stated that he was
a waiter, and had occasion to go into the kitchen of the
Crown and Sceptre with some fish. The defendant was
present, and immediately the complainant entered he
knocked his cap off and afterwards struck him on the
head: He had given no provocation for the assault.
Mr. Grove inquired what the defendant had to say to
the charge. Mr. Quartermain admitted that upon the
complainant coming into the kitchen with his cap on he
knocked it off, and upon complainant replacing it, he
knocked it off again, and might have struck him on the
head. The defendant added that in such an establish-
ment as his it was necessary to have the strictest disci-
pllne, and one of the rules was not to allow any 13erson
to come into the kitchen with his head covered. He
would not thick of going in himself with his hat on ;
and added, that the complainant had been told the day
before that such a rule existed. Mr. Grove said, there
was a great diiierence between the kitchen of an hotel
und a Court of Justice. There was no doubt but that
art assault had been committed; but not being of a serious
ulture he should only inflict a fine of ls., and the costs,
whteL,' the defendant paid, and left the Court.

FitENC:-1 ASSIZES.
40 a woman named
INFANTICIDE.—in August, ' brought before
Josephine Leger, living at Brenod, concealed
the Assizes of the Ain, on the charge of having
the birth of her child, and of having destroyed it. The
indictment averred that the said child was born in the
month of April, 1840. This crime was attributed to the
following eauS2' :—Josephine Leger has been separated
from her husband, who lives in another village, for some
years past, and resides with her father and mother. In
1839 she had been suspected of having given birth to a
child which had disappeared, and her husband had corn
plained of his wife's behaviour, and had declared to the
curate and mayor of Brenod that he was for nothing in
the pregnancy of his wife, and at the same time forbade
their registering the birth and baptising the child till he
had been informed of its birth. It was supposed that
the fear that Leger inspired his wife with, and the neces-
sity of removing all traces' of a second fault, had induced
her to commit, in 1840, the crime laid to her charge.
Josephine Leger was no sooner arrested than she ae-
knowledgedlaving been confined of a child on the 26th
of April, 1840, adding that as it was still-born she
thought that there was no harm in her burying it. She
was then summoned to mention the place where she had
interred the child, but, although she mentioned divers
places, no remains of the child were found, in spite of the
Judicial searches made on the occasion.
While in prison, it appears, Josephine Leger informed
a fellow-prisoner hat her motive for not discovering the
place where she had buried her child proceeded from the
fear of certain marks being found on the child's neck.
The trial was commenced last August, but certain de-
tails of importance having transpired, it was judged ex-
pedient to adjourn the,trCal for a session. A woman of
the name of Carrier, belonging to an adjoining village,
that of Maeonod; had crime forward and stated that a
young lad of eleven years old, called Lascoine, who had
been shepherd-boy to the father of Josephine Leger,
since her arrest had told her something which seemed to
throw a new light on the charge brought against Jose-
phine Leger. This lad, when examined, deposed that
he one day asked Josephine Leger 's little boy, who lived
at his grandfather's, why his mother was in prison?
And the child answered, " It is for having killed my
little brother." He added, " She put him first into a
cradle, and then carried him into an upper room, where
my grandmother was. They both placed him on a table;
and, while grandmother held him, mother plunged a
knife into his belly. My little brother squalled Hein,
heist.' They then carried him into the stable, and after-
wards to the -dung-hill. Grandmother told me not to
say a word of what I had seen, and that my little bro-
ther would have beaten me if he had grown bigger. She
afterwards gave me some nuts to make me hold my
tongue."
In consequence of this Mme. Minet, the mother of
Josephine Leger, was arrested as an accomplice of her
daughter.
The trial of the mother and daughter commenced on
Monday. Josephine Leger persisted in having been
confined of a still-born.child, and that her mother knew
nothing of her pregnancy or of her confinement.
Mme. Minet affirmedthat she was not at all acquainted
with her daughter's pregnancy, and that she caused her
to be examined by a medical man as soon as she heard
the reports in circulation. She attributed to malevo7
lence the depositions of the lad Lascoine.
Several witnesses deposed that they believed that
Josephine Leger was., pregnant in 1837, but that they
had never heard what had been done with the child she
had had, and that as they entertained a similar idea in
1840 respecting the pregnancy of Josephine Leger, they
had intimated their suspicions to the proper authorities,
in order that measures might be taken to prevent a crime
heir g committed.
The judicial authorities of Brenord deposed that they
had questioned Josephine on her pregnancy, stating the
report in circulation on the subject, and requesting her
to submit to medical examination, which she had always
strenuously refused.
Lascoine related with great simplicity the details he
had received from Josephine's child, and his testimony
was strengthened by that of M. Carrier, who deposed
that on hearing, the above details from Lascoine, she
had questioned young Leger, and that he had said, "Yes,
if I had been bigger, I would have prevented my little
brother's being killed."
This closed the evidence against the prisoners.
After a talented defence by their Counsel, Madame
Minet was acquitted, and Josephine I eger was sentenced
to twenty years hard labour and the pillory, mitigating
circumstances having been found by the Jury. •

. CAUTION TO PERSONS LETTING LODG-
lNGs.:—Anpther of those specious robberies which have
become so numerous of late was perpetrated by two
females in the garb of ladies on Thursday last. It ap-
pears that at about two o'clock in the afternoon of that
day the ladies called at the residence of Mrs. Rumpling,
of Elm7cottage, Kennington-lane, Lambeth, and re-
quested permission to see the furnished lodgings which
she (Mrs. Rumpling) had to let. They were imme-
diately shown up stairs, and after viewing the apart-
ments expressed their satisfaction with them, and having
stated that they were mother and daughter, desired to
be furnished with nen, ink, and paper. Mrs. Rumpling
immediately went down stairs for that purpose, leaving
them in the • drawing-room. On her return, the elder
female hastily wrote what she stated to be her name and
address, and withdrew. The parties had not, however,
left the house many minutes, when Mrs. Rumpling dis-
covered that they had taken with them a pair of silver
sugar tongs, value 21. Ws. The elder female appears to
be about forty, and the younger sixteen years of age.
The address which they gave was, of course, a ficti-
tious one.
MURDER AND RETRIBUTION.-.—A soldier of
the army in Algiers, named Jugla, having in one of last
year's expeditions received a wound which rendered am-
putation of his left arm unavoidable, was, when re-
covered, discharged from service with a pension of 360
francs. He returned to Paris, his native city, and was
received by a maiden aunt, named Guery, living on the
Quai de Bethune, who, though her earnings were not
more than enough for her subsistence, gave him board
and lodging. Jugla, instead of endeavouring to con-
tjt,iute towards their joint support, became dissolute, and
.L1-is hostess repeated cause of complaint by coming
Lavine e intim:JAW. On Monday night he was in a worse
state than ow, Si used coarse language towards his be-
.- late, was still working for his
nefactiess, who, th(mg... - him
maititenitidth She ream-mum.—
to to bed, but as he
she was provoked to
persevered in his U 1004411 condut,. 'runkard. This
the
,
say she would no longer'dolitierse With aa knife,
reproach so exasperated jugitt that be dr.,. t
stabbed her in. the side, and was prepayto repel..
stroke, when she escaped, ran down into the porte, s
lodge, and there fainted. A surgeon was called, 17ho
dressed her wound, and she is likely to recover. Thc
nephew, brought partially to his senses by the struggle. ,
and the outcry raised against him, and struck with r#,
morse, threw himself from the window of the fourth
story, and would have come headlong to the pavement,
had not his fall been shortened by a balcony on thd first
floor, the rails of which he broke, but as he rolled inwards
he lay between them and the window. The inhabitants
of the apartment were out of town, and had .-not left the
key. Jugla, therefore, remained on the.. balcony till a
ladder was brought, when he was taken down and carried
to the Hotel Dieu, where 'he expired in a fow minutes.—
Gulignani's Messenger.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER.--A man of the name.
of Goodman, employed as a labourer on the Eastern
Counties Railway, has this week been apprehended and
committed for trial to the county gaol, for violently as-
saultine• and attempting to cut the throat of a girl of the
name a Sarah Jones, at Brentwood, on Monday evening
last. Particulars of the azFault having been given at the
police station, Superintendent Davis proceeded to the
spot, a back lane, where she was fa:n(l lying in a ditch,
p7r,rusf2ly f.rodi 11er rno.nh. and
conveyed to a place of safety, ankh description of the
• man being given, lie was tracedlb his lodgings, where
he was apprehended,—Cheintsford Chronicle.