Summary Of News Foe November

being a dense one on the 17 th ult ., in the darkness of which three poor people walked into Sir John Duckett ' s canal , and were drowned . On the 26 th of October , Dover was again the scene of a frightful tragedy , a woman , named Frances Wallace , having there barbarously murdered her daughter , a child of 5 years of age . On the 29 th , another fearful murder was committed in the streets of Shrewsbury , by a ruffian named Hollis , in a fit of jealousy . The victim of his rage was a poor man who endeavoured to shield a girl , with whom Hollis cohabited , from the effects of his violence .

On the 11 th ult ., a man was found hanging in a state of decomposition on a tree in Hornsey Wood . It is considered that his death was the result of suicide . The same day the murdered body of a respectable young man , named George Carter , was found close by Eritfi ; but who was the assassin or the assassins , is still involved in mystery . On the 14 th , Mr . Little , the cashier of the Irish Great Western Railway , was most mysteriously murdered in his office , at the Broadstone station , and as yet the police are completely at fault in their pursuit of the murderer . On the 15 th the body of a woman was found in the Regent ' s

Canal . The general impression is that she was murdered by her husband , who was discovered at their residence , Cambridge-street , Hackney Bead , with his throat cut by his own hand . To this fearful catalogue of assassinations must be added the murder of a child near Wokingham , on the 16 th ult ., by its father , a Dissenting minister , while in a state of religious melancholy . On the same day , too , there was taken out of the canal at Worcester the body of a young girl , who had eviden tly been murdered . The unfortunate man Cope , who was so barbarously

attacked in a jeweller ' s shop in Parliament-street , by the ticket-ofdeave man Jenkins , or Marley , on the 20 th October , lingered until the 9 th nit ,, when he died . On the 28 th October , however , he was sufficiently strong to permit of his identifying his assailant , who was , on the 13 th ult ., fully committed for the murder . On the 17 th an inquest was held at one of the metropolitan hospitals , on a young woman named Caroline Hobbs , a victim of seduction , who poisoned herself with the hope of hiding her shame .

At the last sitting of the Central Criminal Court , Eossey and Neary were charged with a conspiracy to defraud Mr . Walker , the patentee of the Corrugated-Iron works at Mill wall . William Taylor was found guilty of manslaughter , he having purchased a drug which his wife took to procure abortion , and from the effects of which she died . Hardwick and Atwell , the forgers , were also convicted and sentenced to be transported for life ; and William Robson , the author of the frauds on the Crystal Palace Company , was likewise found guilty of forgery , and sentenced to twenty years' transportation .

Scarcely had the public heard with satisfaction the conviction of the swindlers above mentioned , when they were astonished by the disclosure of frauds still more gigantic than those with which they had been charged . On the 13 th two men , named Pearce and Burgess , formerly in the employment of the South-eastern Railway Company , were brought before the Lord Mayor , charged , on the evidence of an approver , at present a convict at Portland , with being concerned , in May , 1855 , in the robbery of i 15 , 000 worth of gold , which was being carried on that line from

London to Dover . The circumstances of this robbery constitute a romance of crime ; and on the next day Leopold Redpath , the registrar of shares in the Great Northern Railway Company , was brought up in the Clerkenwell Police Court , charged with having , in collusion with a clerk in the same office , defrauded that company of several sums of money to tho amount of upwards of £ 100 , 000 . He was the personal friend , and at one time the fellow clerk of Robson . Several examinations have since taken place , in each of these cases , developing circumstances of the most astounding audacity on the one side , and carelessness on the other .

On the 1 st a man was killed in a trial of strength at the goods station of the North-western Railway . On the 8 th , Harrison , the Leeds wizard , was committed on two charges of bigamy . —The same day a farmer , named Shelley , and his female servant , were fined by the Staffordshire magistrates for cruelty of conduct towards the wife of the former . Sloano and his wife were sentenced to two years' imprisonment for similarly treating their servant Jane Wilbrcd . YOb . II . 5 X