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Yv The Week/
sentence on Thursday , and condemned to twenty years' penal servitude . —The two foreigners , Hugon and Beverde , were tried for having attempted to make coins resembling the Turkish piastre for unlawful purposes ; the Court sentenced the first-named prisoner to six , and the latter to twelve mouths * imprisonment . —— - Lewis , a draper , was tried for feloiiiously omitting to surrender after having been declared ! a bankrupt , and also for having concealed and removed his . books . The prisoner fled to New York ) where he was captured by a detective officer . Zucker , a jeweller of Oxford Street , also was tried for having made false entries in his books ; Both prisoners wore convicted , and sentenced to six years' penal servitude .
— - ~ Thurgood , a surgeon , and Rikey , a commission agent , were tried on a charge of conspiring to defraud Mr . Christie , a Liverpool merchant , of a large quantity of whisky . The circumstances of the case were recently detailed . Both prisoners were found guilty , and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment . ——The Lord Mayor has adopted , in regard to costermongers , a different course to his predecessor Five were brought before him on Monday , and in dismissing the charge he said , that in all such cases he should require the police to bring an inhabitant of the
district as a witness to the offence . — -On Saturday , Mr . Jardine was engaged a considerable time in hearing a charge relative to the felonious abstraction of certain Ionian despatches from the Foreign Office , which were published in the Daily Neivs of the 12 th instant . The person , charged with the theft is Wellington Grenville , Guernsey , represented as having held a commission in the T urkish Contingent . The evidence showed that the prisoner frequently called upon Mr . Miller , sub * librarian at the Colonial office , and that he had been left there alone on one
occasion when printed copies of the despatches were tying on the library table . It was further proved that the prisoner was the person who supplied the Daily IVewswith the copies from which the despatches Were published . The prisoner was committed for trial . ——On Tuesday a commercial traveller , named Toomes , went into a house in Gloucester Street , w hich he was accustomed to visit , and having walked down stairs jinto the kitchen , he there deliberately cut the throat of a printer named Cantley , nearly severing the head from the body . The deceased being a man in very weak health , was unable to resist , and death was instantaneous . The prisoner
and deceased were on intimate terms , but never had any quarrel . The prisoner was examined before the Clerkenwell police magistrate , and remanded to this day ; there is little doubt that he . is insane . A mysterious murder was committed at Andover on the 22 ud instant . Mr . William Parsons , a linen-draper , left his home at ten at night and did not return home all night . His body was found the next morning by one of his men in a field near the town ; the skull was battered in , and it was evident that he had been assassinated . His watch and money were untouched , so that the gratification of some terrible revenge is supposed to have been the motive . An inhabitant of Andover , named Thomas Alexander Benks , has been arrested
on suspicion , and his wife is under the strict surveillance of the police . The case of Marchmont v . Marchmont was resumed yesterday for the seventh day in the Divorce Court , and is not yetj concluded . After the speech of Mr . Macaulay for the respondent , and Mr . Sergeant Pigott for Mrs . Marchmont , the learned Judge Ordinary intimated that he would not commence his summing up till the
sitting of the court this morning . Daniel Brown was charged at Clerkenwell police court with being guilty of the revolting practice of skinning cats alive . The officer who took the prisoner into custody found , on entering his room , the bodies of twenty cats all skinned , besides a number of skins newly taken off . The prisoner , being asked for his defence , denied that the animals wore alive when
no treated , but said , that ho had found them dead in the streets . The magistrate did not think there was any evidence to warrant him in detaining the prisoner . ~— -A prixe fight took place at Frith , on , Sunday , which resulted in the death of George Macdonald , one of the combatants . A lad , named Samuel Asguith , employed as a skinner , and residing at Borhiondsoy , was brought up in custody at Woolwich police court , charged with causing the death of Macdonald . Tlio prisoner said they had boon backed for 51 . a side to fight , and that about sixty persons had left by ... tlio first train to witness the combat ; after fighting some bounds , deceased had got hiu head under hU ( prisoner ' s ) arm , when they foil together ; and the fatal injuries wore inflicted , Mr , Trail remanded tlio prltaoucv
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Yv The Week/
sentence on Thursday , and condemned to twenty years' penal servitude . —The two foreigners , Hugon and Beverde , were tried for having attempted to make coins resembling the Turkish piastre for unlawful purposes ; the Court sentenced the first-named prisoner to six , and the latter to twelve mouths * imprisonment . —— - Lewis , a draper , was tried for feloiiiously omitting to surrender after having been declared ! a bankrupt , and also for having concealed and removed his . books . The prisoner fled to New York ) where he was captured by a detective officer . Zucker , a jeweller of Oxford Street , also was tried for having made false entries in his books ; Both prisoners wore convicted , and sentenced to six years' penal servitude .
— - ~ Thurgood , a surgeon , and Rikey , a commission agent , were tried on a charge of conspiring to defraud Mr . Christie , a Liverpool merchant , of a large quantity of whisky . The circumstances of the case were recently detailed . Both prisoners were found guilty , and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment . ——The Lord Mayor has adopted , in regard to costermongers , a different course to his predecessor Five were brought before him on Monday , and in dismissing the charge he said , that in all such cases he should require the police to bring an inhabitant of the
district as a witness to the offence . — -On Saturday , Mr . Jardine was engaged a considerable time in hearing a charge relative to the felonious abstraction of certain Ionian despatches from the Foreign Office , which were published in the Daily Neivs of the 12 th instant . The person , charged with the theft is Wellington Grenville , Guernsey , represented as having held a commission in the T urkish Contingent . The evidence showed that the prisoner frequently called upon Mr . Miller , sub * librarian at the Colonial office , and that he had been left there alone on one
occasion when printed copies of the despatches were tying on the library table . It was further proved that the prisoner was the person who supplied the Daily IVewswith the copies from which the despatches Were published . The prisoner was committed for trial . ——On Tuesday a commercial traveller , named Toomes , went into a house in Gloucester Street , w hich he was accustomed to visit , and having walked down stairs jinto the kitchen , he there deliberately cut the throat of a printer named Cantley , nearly severing the head from the body . The deceased being a man in very weak health , was unable to resist , and death was instantaneous . The prisoner
and deceased were on intimate terms , but never had any quarrel . The prisoner was examined before the Clerkenwell police magistrate , and remanded to this day ; there is little doubt that he . is insane . A mysterious murder was committed at Andover on the 22 ud instant . Mr . William Parsons , a linen-draper , left his home at ten at night and did not return home all night . His body was found the next morning by one of his men in a field near the town ; the skull was battered in , and it was evident that he had been assassinated . His watch and money were untouched , so that the gratification of some terrible revenge is supposed to have been the motive . An inhabitant of Andover , named Thomas Alexander Benks , has been arrested
on suspicion , and his wife is under the strict surveillance of the police . The case of Marchmont v . Marchmont was resumed yesterday for the seventh day in the Divorce Court , and is not yetj concluded . After the speech of Mr . Macaulay for the respondent , and Mr . Sergeant Pigott for Mrs . Marchmont , the learned Judge Ordinary intimated that he would not commence his summing up till the
sitting of the court this morning . Daniel Brown was charged at Clerkenwell police court with being guilty of the revolting practice of skinning cats alive . The officer who took the prisoner into custody found , on entering his room , the bodies of twenty cats all skinned , besides a number of skins newly taken off . The prisoner , being asked for his defence , denied that the animals wore alive when
no treated , but said , that ho had found them dead in the streets . The magistrate did not think there was any evidence to warrant him in detaining the prisoner . ~— -A prixe fight took place at Frith , on , Sunday , which resulted in the death of George Macdonald , one of the combatants . A lad , named Samuel Asguith , employed as a skinner , and residing at Borhiondsoy , was brought up in custody at Woolwich police court , charged with causing the death of Macdonald . Tlio prisoner said they had boon backed for 51 . a side to fight , and that about sixty persons had left by ... tlio first train to witness the combat ; after fighting some bounds , deceased had got hiu head under hU ( prisoner ' s ) arm , when they foil together ; and the fatal injuries wore inflicted , Mr , Trail remanded tlio prltaoucv