The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-29 00:00:00

"DOLLY SHOP " KEEPER.

Michael Keating, of Limekiln-lane, was summoned under
the 19th and 20th Vic., chap. 27, for acting as a pawnbroker
without license, the penalty for which is £5O. Mr. Tyndall
appealed fur the Inland Revenue, and Mr. }Ruck for the de-.
fendant. It apppeared from the evidence of a woman named
Mary Owens, that on the 28th of June she left some things at
defendant's house and borrowed some morwy on them, and
purchased bread in the lesae shop for some of the money. She
hina. there, and paid threepence
often ooriowea moue,
in the shilling for the loan. She did not sell the things to the
defendant. Mr. Black cross-examined the woman, in order to
show that the things were absolutely sold. He then addressed
the Court in a pathetic strain for the defendant, whom he
alleged was not present when the transaction took place. (The
defendant had been in gaol before on a similar charge.) He
called witnesses to prove that the affair was either a sale or a
barter. Mr. Raffles thought the case made out, and tined the
defendant £5O and (gists, or in default three months' imprison-
ment.

Mr. Thomas Brereton, stipendiary magistrate, who
died on Thursday last in his 74th year, was one of the
oldest magistrates in the service.
A festival has been held in New York in honour of
Heenan, the American champion. It was attended by
60,000 persons, and Heenan was presented with a purse
containing a cheque for 10,000 dollars.

AN ATTORNEY'S CLERK COMMITTED. FOR THE
MANSLAUGHTER OF HIS WIFE.—On Monday, at the
Leeds Town Hall, Mr. Blackburn, borough coroner,
concluded an investigation into the circumstances attend-
ing the death of Catherine Ann Calvert, the wife of
James Thompson Calvert, solicitor's clerk, Leeds. It
will be remembered that the poor woman died suddenly
on Thursday afternoon last ; that she had previously
complained to the neighbcurs of the ill treatment she
had experienced at the hands of her husband, that her
children were nearly at the point of extreme starvation ;
and that, when on her death bed, her misery and desti-
tution were extreme. On the other hand, it has also
been shown that the husband, formerly in comfortable
circumstances, had reduced himself and family to the
lowest depths of degradation by his drunken and vicious
habits ; that he had cruelly struck and picked her when
she was laid very ill on what proved to he her death-bed;
and that, on the day of her death, her husband was at
York races, on his return from which city he was taken
into custody. It having been proved on Monday that
the prisoner had struck and violently kicked the deceased,
Mr. Ralph Bradshaw, surgeon, Woodhouse Lane, who
conducted the post floctern examination, said there were
no external marks of violence beyond a black mark on
the back, which might have been caused by a
Having heard all the evidence, he hail the impression
that the treatnik:nt the deceased had received, and the
want of the common necessaries of life, especially the
latter, would together have a decided tendency to ac-
celerate death.—The jury returned a verdict of "Man-
slaughter " against James Thompson Calvert, who was
thereupon committed to take his trial at the'neit York
assizes,

SUICIDE -W. A. CLERGYMAN AT _TOTNES.

On Monday last the Rev. G. Martin, Chancellor of the
diocese of Exeter, committed suicide at Harberton, near
Totnes, by: cutting his throat.. The deceased clergy-
man was well known to the majority of persons who
take an interest in clerical affairs, having been an
active member of the Lower House of the Convoca-
tion of the Province of Canterbury since its actual
powers were revived a few.7ears since. He belonged
to the moderate Church party, and was educated
at New College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1813,
and was shortly afterwards ordained by Dr. Cornewall,
Bishop of Worcester. In- 1816 he was appointed a
canon residentiary of Exeter Cathedral, worth £734 a
year, and four years afterwards became chancellor of the
diocese, which is worth £420 a year. Shortly after this
he was nominated to the vicarage of Harberton, near
Totnes, and these appointments he has held up to the
time of his death. Chancellor Martin was a man of
quiet and studious habits, and was much respected
throughout the diocese.