The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-08

inscription: 81 will instruct thee and
teach thee in the way thou shalt 90. [
will guide thee with Mine eye Here,
apparently, the workers stock ofScrip-
tural quotation failed, for she continues:
"My home is in Heaven" 1t is painful
to have to relate that the good lady
who worked these pious sentiments has
been over three hundred times convicted
of drunkenness and disorderly conduct!
She presented this pin-cushion-in
honor, we presume, of old acquaintance
to Rev. Mr. Horsley, chaplain of
the House of Detention, who in turn
presented it to the Black Museum.
A tall hat on a peg and much covered
with dust next attracts our attention.
This homelv relic was the property of
Rev Mr.. Spoke, the eccentric cler-
gyman who suddenly disappeared.
leaving his headgear-her present-in
the Green Park, and was believed to
have been murdered but was subse-
quentlv discovered in the garb of
laboring man, at Padstow, in Cornwall
He ultimately died, we believe, in a
luuatic asylum. Close beside Mr..
Speke's hat hang a coil of rope, pair
of boots and an old horse-pistOl. These
articles were the property of another
clerical gentleman, Rev. John Selby
Watson, an eminent scholar, of st.
Michael's Road, Stockwell. He was
Sonyicted in January, 1872. of the muir
der of his wife, whose body he had in
closed in a packing. case, corded with
the piece of rope here shown. He was,
however, respited on the ground of in
sanity, and thenceforth kept in contine-
ment. He died quite recently at Park
hurst Prison, in the Isle of Wight falling
out of his bunk in a fit and fracturing
his skull.
Not far distant are mementos of other
well-known murderers. Here is the por-
trait, cut from the Daily Telegraph, of
LEROY, the murderer of Mr.. Gold, on
the Brighton Railway. Here is the cope
used by Marguerite Dixblanc to strangle
her mistress, Madame Riel, in Park
Lane. Here are the boots of the unfor-
tunate girl, Maria Clausen. murdered
at Kidbrook Lane, Ethan, and the plast-
erer's hammer which did the deadly
deed, With another plasterer's ham
mer, also here preserved, Mullins muir
oered Mrs. Emsley at Stepney, in 1860.
Here, too, are sundry memorials of the
| Wainwright case. or Whitechapel muir
der, of 1874. Here are the chopper with
which the unfortunate Harriet Lane was
dismembered and the spade which dug
her grave. Here is one of the buttons
cut from her dress, and a correspond
| ing button found with her body; and
stranger item still-the piece of shin
| bone taken by surgeon from the leo
of the living Harriet Lane, and which
| formed last unmiStakable proof of the
identity of the nameless corpse Even
the cigar which Henry Wainwright was
| smoking when arrested is here preserved.
Turning to offenders of more frivol-
Gus character, we have the pcep-show
apparatus wherein pretended as
| trologer, calling himself Prof Zen
davesta, and residing in Homer Street,
Marylebone Road, London, was wont,
for a consideration, to call up the
| image of an. inquirer's future wife or
! husband. To Illustrate the audactv of
the Professor and the faulty of his
dupes, we may mention that among his
pictorial collection of promised hus-
bands were found Mr., Holman Hunt
and Mr.. Henry Neville. Another branch
of the Professors business was the
casting of nativities; and a number of
his hand-bills, showing the great adj
vantages to be derived from possessing
the straight tip" in this particular are
preserved with the peep-show apparatus.
Next to this latter is Il circular board
with number of shallow cups or de-
pressions, painted of different colors,
but higgledy- like a solitaire
board gone wrong" This is an appli-
ance for publc-houSe gambling A
marble, being dropped into a cylin-
drical arrangement at the side, is
allowed to wander at will over
the board, bets being made as TO
the particular color in which it
will finally settle. Not far distant is a
fbundle of clash notes. used by sharp
ers to simulate unbounded wealth, for
the purpose Of the confidence trick
and similar frauds. Flash differ
from forged" notes, the latter being
intended to be actually passed As money,
and consequently made as like the real
thing as possible. The flash note is a
very rough affair. and only aims at sim
ulating the general appearance of a
genuine note. The specimens before us
are headed Bank of Engraving and
run: Il promise to engrave and print in
letter-press on demand for the sum of
ten pounds. in the first style of the art,
or forfeit the above sum. London %
April, 1910. For Self & Co., Bank OF
Engraving. j. DUCK There is the
customary Ten" in large Gothic letters
in the left-hand corner and the paper
and printing of a genuine note are imi-
tated with sufficient closeness to deceive
an unwary observer who merely sees
-the note in the hands of another person.
Among curiosties of a different kind
| is an Egyptian courbash, or bastinado,
an article having the appearance of an
ordinary walking cane, tapering consid-
erably. 1t is said to be of rhinoceroS
| hide. Whatever the material, it is of
great weight and tlexiblity; and when
applied after the mild Oriental fashion,
to the soles of the victim feet, must be
extremely persuasive. The specimen
before us had the honor of being cXhib-
| tied during recent debate in the House
of Commons Hard by it is an ancient
watchman's rattle, with which an ex-
pert performer, if allowed full oppOrtu-
| n;tv IN moo II noul1 mako a noisa ou1i