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Northern Times. — 1857-08-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DUBLIN, MONDAY NIGHT. 'This day, at the Capel-street Police-office, James -Spolien, the railway employee, who was accused of the Murder of Mr. Little by his wife, and for which he lately stooll his trial, but was found -‘ Not guilty,' was placed At the bar before the sitting magistrates. The particulars of the trial, the atrocious deed, and the behaviour of the prisoner have now become so familiar to the public that no recapitulation of the affair is here 'necessary. • On the present occasion the prisoner was charged with •-having robbed his employers, the Midland Great Western -Railway Company, of various sums of money, but the specific charge was that of havihg stolen upwards of .e 5 on the .13th of November, 1856. The prisoner presented much the same calm, cool, and collected appearance as upon former occasions, though to many there was not the same amount of apparent unconcern which he had previously exhibited ; indeed, by some, it was thought he was rather nervous on first appearing in the court. A. marked change, however, was visible in his personal appearance, and was of such a nature as to justify the belief that the accused made great efforts to disguise himself by a change of dress, and by denuding himself of a large portion of the full beard which previously covered the whole fore part of the face, to a line with the corners of his mouth. The face has by this means lost its fulness of contour—the cheeks have slightly collapsed, and the -whole face has become so changed, that recognition from `the portraits which were exhibited would now be imposeble.  ilarsst-s. Fitzgibbon, Q.O , and Corballis, Q.C., with Refurni3, cro;vn solicitor, appeared for the crown. The prisoner:was undefended.  t Mr. Corbllis, is a lengthened address, stated that he appeared there to sustain a charge against the prisoner at the lam That charge was one of robbery, or to speak more Etrictly, for stealing from a certain dwelling £5 or more; and to support that charge he would examine witneses.  Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Bennett, and Surgeon Meyers were then examined, but nothing new was elicited. After a short interlocutory conversation between the magistrate and the Council for the Crown, Mr. Porter said, James Spollen, you stand committed by me for having, on the 13th of November, felonously stolen from a dwelling on the property of the Midland Great Western Railway Company, certain monies of the value of £5 8s or upwards, against the peace of our 'Lady the Queen, do you wish to say anything ,on the. subject. You are at liberty to make any:statement you please, but I think I ought to caution you that 'what you say will be taken down and given as evidence on your trial.  Spollen : I decline at present to say anything till I have .had an opportunity of consulting council•  On -,he application from the prisoner, his watch and chain, and other matters found on him when apprehended, were delivered to him by directijn of the magistrate. Mr. Fitzgibbon: I suppose, sir, you will return the information to the Commission. Mr. Porter : Yes. 'L. The prisoner was then removed.
Northern Times. — 1857-09-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TIME-PIECE.—As botanists have constructed a flower clock, so (we read in the fork ign journas) a Germai wcodsrnan has tecon-ly invented an ornithologicl clock, by making the hours of the waking and the first Loies of the little singers. The si;nal is given by rho chaffinch, the earlit st riser among all the feathery tribes. Its song precede s the dawn, trnd is heard in summer fr)ra half past oae to tiro o'cl ck a.m. rexi:, from two to half-past th ee o'clock, comes the black-cap atricapill.), whose warblings wou'd equal those of the nightirgale if they were not so very short. From halfpast tv.o to three o'rloek the quail is heard. From three to half-Fast three the he Then from hale-past three to four o'clock we have the blackb;ro, the zu cki ngbird of our (Alma es, which imitates all tunes so well, Ciat M. D sreau de La Melle made all the hlickbirds of a Fre sch canton sing the Marsr.il:eise hymn, by letting lootie a blackbird which had been taught that tine. From four to h df-past four o'ul..ck the laik pours forth Lis melodies; from half-past fruit to five o'c'oek the blackheaded titmouse is heard. Lastly, fro:n five to h elf--past five o'clock, the soarrow, the gamin of the skies, awakes and tegins to _  LIR LATE MURDER NEAR Raterot.—The clue which was suppose I to have been discovered to the ilentity of 'he murdered woman, turrs out to be of no avail for that purpose. The head Cre,s in which the card referrel to was 'our.d, prlve3 not to hive heloige I tu the dec•ased, but to a ne ce of George Dutis, the man wh)se naae appear. don the card, an who was apprehended in ems-Tot:ca. '1 lfs young w min, it vems, w.ie among the crowd who v;ewed the bodf cn Sunday, an'l while she was  there she lost her hea I dres.t. It became much trampled about, and -vas found among the hair cut from the dezelsed before the pose mortem eximilation was made, and being so ditcuvered, scat thought t have belonged to the d ceased. These facts being satisfactorily proved, Dlv:s was or curse liberated ; and the idea that the deceased had been so fir identified as to render it almost certain that she h‘l.inged to Bristol is abandoned. An exatnination of the stays w by the deceisel has shown  that they be r the tract! mark " R," an that they have only rece ,tly purehtsed. Irqui iet instituted among all the stay manufacturers of Bristol have sto.vn that none of them use the-e initFals in making th,ir gods so that the police are of opihion that the v.o:nan doss not belong to Bristol or the neighbour:lo.A Information of the mrrler has been forwarded to the Home-office, and it is expected ti at a reward will be uffered for the appreherEdon of the murder,e, and that the poll( e will be assisted and guided by the experience and intelligence of a metro poliran eeteet.ve offi3er in endeavouring to trace the perpetrator of this mysterious murder. A minute deperirion of the dress and appearance of the murdered woman has been extensively circulated.  At LEWIR & COMPANY'S, Rene Ugh-street, BOYS eta LOI MID from the Ages of Six to Twenty Years.
Northern Times. — 1857-09-18 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE MUTINY AT GWALIOR.  A letter from the neighbourhood of Gwalior, dated June 19, says : The rumour of mutiny at Gwalior, of which I wrote to you the day before, has proved but too true. Several officers and men have been killed, but such as could escape Morar, towards the teejates cantonment. were saved, and have come into Agra. There is an on dit that the raj th has been murdered for siding with us, and Beja Baie raised to the musnud. The mi-chief began on the parade ground Same officers were here shot at, and others escaped, but this did not satisfy the mutineers ; they made towards the Bungalow of the' Brigadier, called him out vociferously. and sent in shots after him on his non-appearance. He was miraculeusly, however, saved, for as he attempted to escape out of his closet. a Sepoy is said to have laid hold of his hands; and to have quietly cut out of the compound in the dark towards the ravines. Here is one instance of the.fidelity of some of the Sepoys, and goes much in defence of the Lieutenant-Governor's proclamation; for it is not wise to destroy the grateful with the ungrateful. The insurgents, however, on not finding Brigadier Ramsey, ransacked the whole of his property, and then set fire to his bungalow. And this is not the only instance of a Sepov's filelity. There was another officer who was roused by his guard at 10 p.m., and out of the nine that were in his compound, one is said quietly to have gone up to him and said, i•Khatnin, bhago, sub bigurgaya." The Sepy had jest moved off when the rest came up in a body, saying, Houses on fire, shall we load? Tne officer observed that it was folly to load muskets to put out a fire. On this they retired, and the officer went into his bungalow, whence, through a window of his closet, he descried the whole of the guard quietly hooding. He roused his servants at once, and escaped behind his house. Two shots were fired at him, but did not tell. . He then made towards the bed of the river, and escaped among the ravines, four shots again whizzing over his head and that of his khausamah. Happily nono told. Consternation became general at this time, and 'has Christian portion of the place—man, woman, and child—were flying in all directions towards the Raj th's. Another rumour has reached us that the Maharajah is not killed. -Ho was bent upon going down upon the insurgents, but the Baie, would not allow hie), saying that he was sure to be killed and, as he has no legitimate issue,' the estate would be confiscated, and he, his wife, and her daughter ruined. She advised him, therefore, to send the minister, Dhunker. Rae. who ie said to have been killed. The mutineers are crane towards Jhansie, some say towards (Men. We have no official report, but, are glad they have not visited us."
The Daily Times. — 1860-08-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE TWO PORTERS. JcsePh Forshew, iS porter, was charged with stealing -t, 50 gallons of liquid perter from one of the dock quays. It appeared that the prisoner wasaia the employment of Messrs. r•ckford & Co. for the last five years, as a carter. On Wed:eBday he was engaged in carting casks of porter from the Traf "••••r to the Waterloo Dock, and that, in consequence of fio 445`• happened, a watch was set on him, and he was tnething Ma. °baerved to draw two s--.-111ons of porter from a cask, put it into -`zing it in his cart, when he was jar, and was in the act of pu... "-.lm Messrs. Pickford's Ig‘ver, 4._into custody. A gentleman 1,- • rn was very co`4ted that pilfering porter and ale from cask 1404 -- could to , and although they did everything they posiiblj, - • P:revent it, yet they suffered, and had frequent claims blade barge, when Mr. Raffles said the case was one of the clearest h oad ever seen. The prisoner then said, " Well, then, I only rk two quarts of it." Mr. Raffles : You had no business to ontke two drops of it. I hope this will be a warning to you and in the employment, for I shall punish all persons who t: of such thefts severely. You must go to gaol for Months, with hard labour. The gentleman from Pickford's ;bankedtc his worship, and trusted his decision would have the "'led effect on the carters.  " THE LIQUOR," AND ITS CONSEQUENWCESYoung William Smith, a coach-maker, was charged by m. Ivitn having stolen a suit of black clothes, his property. It appeared that the parties lodged together in a house in Wiltonit4st, and that the prisoner.was on a "batter" of drink for ire days past. Having spent all his money, he cried loudly, hamlet's mother, " The drink, the drink ; " but no ;:hl34its" coming, either, from the vasty deep or the publiclee bag, he had recourse to a stratagem, and, having laid dishonest hands on the " sables" of Mr. Young, be coined '"eni into silver by a process only known to benevolent people, eolledl'uneles." The prisoner entered one of these "mints " VIII a bundle, which contained the goods and chattels of Mr. '344, and, by a magical operation, which was conducted by .tnith left the emporium in a 7 Young man behind the counter, who used a pen as a wand, Mr. feW minutes, with some ten shili,Ln_ gs in silver, the cloth having produced that metal by the ,_i:aensmutation already alluded to. This silver very soon underWent another process, for it was " melted " in a space called orss:ate the° time," and spirituous liquors procured instead. This was 7a,ouim sent the of the case as proved before Mr. Rages, and his prisoner to gaol for three months, with hard ° THE ATTEMPTED MURDER ON BOARD AN AMERICAN SHlPtaliTiliry Lawson, the sailor who stood remanded on a charge of The (IF! attempted to murder Charles Wallace, was brought up. ails of this case were published a fell' days ago. The leaveetui,tan was still in the Northern Hospital, and not able to agsna re ut he is More easy than he was. The prisoner was ruandesa.
The Daily Times. — 1860-12-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CHINA:  THE PEACE OF PFKIN.  The following most interesting and important letters froni hedd-tparters have arrivved  THE 15RISONItS A:Wr) idEiR tRkS.T3I.MXT, Camp before 14eicin, dei, , •  I . , 1 • • ,•• • t - • The Chinese atithoritiee had giver} notice thet on the 12th sokzio incite cif the piisoneri atilt remaining in their hands would be given up, and adaditic;ly hi the Boursee, s ' • 4. " I of the day eight Sikhs were brought into camp, bit he Downy .or Brabaz9n, ,as had almost been hoped for ! , against hoPe; tic&ompanied them,...nor ,were the Sikhs , , • able to give us any tidings of therm' We hod nob hcyever, long to wait for these. On the .hod tylio mare, Sikhs, who turned out to be the last of the survivors, were released, and from them we learnt that Bowlby and Phipps, the private of the King's Dragoon Guards, had, like ale Dorman, Anderson, and the two Sowars, whose fate I was enabled to communicate to you by last mail, been Unatle' id ettiffite the brutal treatment to which they had been subjected airing the earlier period of their, •inkrisqnment: On the Same day &elf tile' Atteinentioned tsyc; Sililia came in, the bodies of tie Norma,, Anderson, and two Sikhs; arrived, in carti, and on the 16th those of BowihY, PhipPs; ,arid .tvit4 other, Sikhs; those ,of four more Sikhs which were bieedght in on! the ,17t4 comp! gted„ with ,the survivors' the, entire party that had, been talSen on the 18th of September, with one exception, 'that of peor!BrahazOn„ whose fate for some time f ti6aTned en eloped .. ,in, mystery. Twenty-six, in all, were captnred---ieven Englishmen, 19 Sikhs; of these two Englishmen (Parkes and Loch) and 11 Sikhs were released, and four Englishmen (De Norman, Bowlby, Anderson, and Phipps) with eight Sikhs, died of their sufferings. krabOon alone continued missing. Accounts subsequently,reeeived left us in na doubt, however, either as Co' the fact, of his death or: of the 'way 111 which it happened. Thodgh the earliest of Mein alli in point of time, it was perhaps the' liappieEit death, for Ile *as- wed much 9f the sufferings the other's undefitent. 1' attempt was made by the Mandarin's to produce his body, and when they vide asked whit had Won* of him, they said two Etliopeans had teen beheaded by order of the General commanding at Pah,li-choli;vdied . that ,position was attacked by the allied armies 9ii the morning of the 21st 'of September, and their bodies thrown into the Canal. .  This statement agreed so ac'eUraiely with that given' by the Chinese Christians who visited Baron Gsos,and also with the information derived through the Russians; that no doubt remained that poor Brabazon was one of those Europeans. When the An-ting Gate was surrendered to the allied Commanders-in-Chief, they- were ignorant of the sad particulars attending the deaths of these poor fellows ; the details were grachially obtained through the released prisoners ; and; as the bodies of our murdered countrymen were Ifrought id, the treatment they bad endured burst upon its with appalling distinctness.
The Daily Times. — 1860-07-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CHARGE OF MVRDER BY POISON IN VAUXHALL-ROAD.  Thomas Winslow, who stand's chi:tied with the murder of Anne James, by poison,. in Vatlihall-road, was brought before, Mr. Raffles, at., the Police-court, yesterday, on i6milnd: Mr. lisphiall appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Cobb for the prisoner: ,  Mr. Aspinall, addressing the magistrate, said, I have again to ask for a remand of the prisoner for seven dayti, and I do so on the statement contained in this letter, which I will hand up to you.. Mr. Cobb has seen it, but I will not read it now, as I do not think it desirable at present to have the contents made public. I understand that Mr. Cobb has been insiftietecl by the friends of the prisoner, to oppose, the application for a remand, and if he does so, it will' be 'of more injustice •to the • prisoner than otherwise, for we are anxious that the prisoner should be fully aware of the extent of the depositions and the charge preferred against him. If the remand was refused, the prisoner could be sent for trial on the Cordner's depositions, which were.very imperfect; and it is our wish, for the ends of justice, to give the prisoner is mdch information as Possible of the charge against him. Under any circumstance he must remain is gaol until the assizes, and it would be an injustice to him and to the public to send bim before a jury, without all parties being properly prepared. Mr. Cobb said he was instructed by the prisoner to oppose the application. The assizes here would commence on the Bth of August, and it would be a great hardship to the prisoner, if he were innocent, to be kept over till the -December assizes. If the prosecution went oh asking for a remand front Week to week, it would be impossible for hint to be ready to meet the charge at the August assizes; and then the prisoner must stand over -to December, and that was the hardship he -complained of. Mr. Raffies---:-In a case of Such importance as this, I am justified in granting a remand, and I hope you will be ready before the assizes. Cobb—if Mr. Aspinall will say, that he will be ready to proceed on the next day of hearing, I will not object.  Mr. Aspinall—l will not pledge myself to anything Id way.  Mr. Cobb—The prisoner is quite ready now, to meet any cliaige.that may be preferred against him. It will be a great injustice to keep him any longer. They may go on this way, from week to week, and then send the prisoner to the assizes, on the Coroner's inquisition, and then bring whatever supplemental- evidence they may collect, so that I may know nothing about that, and therefore cannot meet it then.  Mr. Rallies—All I can say, is that, I will remand the prisoner for seven days. The prisoner was then removed, and a crowd of people who had come into court to see hint rctiiea. the prisoner looked quite cool and colleCied, hut seemed very anxious, and looked at the people with apparent interest.
The Daily Times. — 1860-06-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE CHARGE :OF. MURDER IN  VAUXHALL-ROAD.  • Mi. Cobb applied yesterday fitday to Mi. qs, aty Police Court, on behalf of' chated Aith the nitithi bt Anne tames, In Vatiihall‘tad, kimitt the following circumstances :—Mr. Cobb Isald, the chargé against the Mali 4114 miirdei, 'the high'est known to the law, and he was that Moini,ng iilstiiiFtgd by the prisoner's 'friend's ta htti. theit *as an inVettirati6A to be opened at the Coroner's Court, isWA a great injustice would be done to the prisoner if he were absent from that investigation. He (Mr. Cobb) had been engaged only a short time, and had not tithe to go properly into it. The prisoner irds A of some means, and as a great deb of the Zaid *atm rest on medical evidenle tligo pVitotitit *mild employ a Surgeon to be Pietetit. On the enquiry, and he wished al-46 to he l'OpYegehted by coinsel, and his (Mr. Cobb's) application was that the niagistiate shcoild !hke Ati brdeitkat the prisoner be iiieseht at the Coioner'S Court dUrint the iiiiestigatioh. lie thought he should show Me *orship that he had the power to make such ah brad.:  Mr. Raffles—lf you convince ;le I havii such power I wilt make the order, belt I dotibt it. Mr. 'Cobb-L.-No doubt the prib'orier ivill be committed for trial; aMi that one or all of the witnessesdied 'before the trial, he would be tried on the depositions, without having an opportunity of cross-examining them. It was a case as important as that of Palmer or Dove, and in the case of the latter he was taken first before the magistrates, and after that he was taken before the coroner at the inquest.' There was another case before Mr. Wakely, the London coroner, and— Mr. Raffles—l know this sort of case is constantly disputed, and I wish It were ptelleily settled.  Mr: Cobb said he had a case some tiThe ago, and he applied to the Secretary of State on the subject, and he got a reply from Mr. Waddington, tO the effect that he might apply to a judge in chamber for a habeas 'eorfitis, and on that he could take the party before the Coroner, and examine him as a Witness) and that time from a lawyer.  Mr. Itafiles--= fear you cannot convince me that I have the power to make the order you require. Mr. Cobb said all that Was required was the safe custody of the prisoner, and all he wanted WAS an order to the governor of the gaol to produce the prisoner at the Coroner's Court, and to have him safely back in his custody again, and it certainly would be a gross injustice to the prisoner to prevent his being present.  Mr. Raffles said there were two bills now before Parliament 'relative to the office and duties of coroner, and it would be a proper time to have the question settled, and he hoped it would be attended to. Mr. Cobb hoped the Law Society wo\tld look after the matter, as it was very important. Mr. Raffles refused to make the order, and the matter then dropped.
The Daily Times. — 1860-04-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FRENCH STORY OF CRIME.—In January, 1856, an old landlady, named Chereau, was murdered in her own house in Rue Jeoffrrry, Saint-Hilaire, Paris. She had been thrown on her bed, gagged, bound hand and foot, and strangled ; and a sum of about 4,000 f., together with several articles of jewellery, were stolen. The crime had been committed in the open day, and evidently by more than one person ; but all attempts of the police to discover the perpetrators were unsuccessful. In December, 1858, one Parang was condemned to death for the murder of his niece. A few days after this condemnation his mother made the strange revelation that two or three days after the murder of Madame Chereau, having called on her son, she had found him feasting with his wife and two men ; that the son bad then stated it was he and the men who had murdered and robbed the old lady, and that his wife bad been privy to the crime; and lastly, that he bad made her (the mother) take a solemn oath on the crucifix not to tell to anyone what he had stated. This oath, she said, she would have respected had not her sen been condemned to death for another crime: Parang, on being questioned, would neither confirm nor contradict what his mother said ; and in due time he was executed. His wife confarmed the statement of the old woman, and declared that the two men who had been with her and her husband at the feast alluded to were named Henot and Delaneau, and bad since been condemned to different periods of hard labour for other crimes. The were both brought. hack to France, and, having been recognised by the woman, were some weeks back brought, to trial for the murder, the woman Parang being accused with them as an accomplice. But Henot alleged that on the day of the murder he was in prison in the town of Blanc, in the department of the Allier. The trial was in consequenct.postpOned to enable an investigation to be made, and his allegation turned outto be true. He was, therefore, left out of the indictment for murder ; but as the discoveky-was made, that he and Delaneau had, in 1855, committed•two burglaries, he was ordered for trial far those offenee. • With regard to Delaneau, as the woman persisted in swearing that he was the man who had been at the feast; and as some: persons had, seen a man reseMini; him near the widow. Cherean' rn s house on the day of the murder, citevrae determined to maintain the accusation of murdeil against hini, and he was also accused of the burglaries with "tenet. The trial has just taken place, the result being that the woman Parang, being declared guilty of receiving teme of the things' stolen froat.blad. Chereau,. knowing of the murder, was condemned,,to five years' imprciosonrimn Dthetlabritieragular' wasi imprisonment t acquitted of the murder, but net ,and_ was -condemned to forty years' hard labour' to be Confounded with a Sentence of twenty already passed on him ; and Henot, being also convicted of the burglaries, was sentenced to thirty years' hard labour.