The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-24 00:00:00

A MODERN JACK SHEPPARD.

A LOADED PISTOL FIRED AT THE BURGLAR.
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assistant judge, Thomas Andrews
fully attempting burrlariously tobreak
Tuesday,nan beforeenter
tthh
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(22), described in the
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was indicted for unlaw-
prosecuted. This
goods. &c. Mr. Metcalfe, instructed by Mr. Beard,
dwelling-house of William Graves, with intent to steal
Gaol prisord, ner was known as a kind of mo-
dernjtv,a-cikce,Shit was stated ; and he had boasted in the
he would be out in three having broken out of Newcastle
Pawnbroker at 19, ]Mile-fendeyßO'aodu;ld
o'clock
House of Detention ganirde habimouat nail,four
hours. The prosecutor was a
on 'ti morning of the 20th December the
prisoner was detected by a young man, named Whitlock,
an assistant to the prosecutor, boring holes through the
panel of the door. Forty-two holes had been bored
clean through, and the prisoner, by means of a key-hole
saw, which was found in his possession, would bare soon
cut out as much of the panel as would allow a man's
body to pass through. The assistant fired a pistol loaded
with ball at him, but missed, and the alarm baring been
given the prisoner was captured, and in his possession
was found a complete set of burglars implements, gimlets,
chisels, jemmies, screw-drivers, matches, keys, wrenches,
key-hole saw, auger, &c.
'I he jury found the prisoner guilty.
The Assistant Judge, after having received a com-
munication from the governor of tLe House of Detention,
Captain Hill, said the Court would pass upon the
prisoner the full sentence the law allowed; and he
understood that at the expiration of that sentence the
prisoner would be taken elsewhere to answer other
charges. The sentence was that he be kept to hard
labour for two years. His lordship cautioned the
witness Whitlock for using firearms loaded with ball so
recklessly as he had in this matter. Had the shot struck
the prisoner fatally the consequences might have been
very serious if not perilous to him. The prisoner, no
doubt, was found doing a daring and criminal act; but
he had not gone to that extent which would justify any
one on the moment in firing a loaded pistol at him—that
was the last extremity; an alarm, no doubt, would have
been sufficient to deter the prisoner.
• The prisoner picked up his hat, and bounced out of
the dock with a jaunty air.

A nit COLLISION
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7-On Tuesday morning, according
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to a brief report inao!. by a guard of a train passing
about the time, a colii,lon occurred near Wigan, early,
from which a number of passengers were more or less
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injured, and a lady and gentleman seriously, the lady ht
particular, as she was dangerously cut about the head
over one eye. In addition to this, it is stated that one
of the trains was very much damaged.
TUE CONVERSION OP ST. PAUL —TO-1110140W (Fzit
day), the Festival of the Conversion of St. Paul will
specially observed in several ecclesiastical quarters.
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addition to ,the performance of the oratorio of.lfi
services in twiny of the London ellurc,heer:',,,iii he an
Messiah, in St. Paul's Cathedral, there will he additionalton
others, St. Paul's Church, Walwvrth,
atsueco- nay one at
early service (choral),
I eleven a.m., the fall evenaiteBg.63:rig•.;ind a sermon:

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