The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-10 00:00:00

THAMES POLICE COURT, LONDON.

TAKING IN AND DOING FOR A SAILOR.—Henry
sailors' boarding-house keeper, of No. 3, Johnson-street,
Back-road, Shadwell, was charged with having unlawfully
detained four £5 Bank of England notes, the property of
John Hall.

Hall said he was paid off at Green's Sailors' Home in
Poplar, and received a balance of £27 16s. Bd. for his ser-
vices, which included five notes for £5 each. Mrs. Wiggins
was at the Home, and after he was paid off took him to
her house in Johnson-street, and said that sailors were taken
in and done for there in a proper manner. He delivered to
her care the whole of his notes.

Mr. Yardley : Did you count them over to her ?
Hall : I did, sir. I was reluctant to deliver my money to
her at first, but she told me I had better let her have them,
and that she would put them in a drawer and lock it up,
and let me have the key. She went up in to her bed-room
with the money, and gave me a key from a bunch, and said
that was the key of the drawer where my money was. She
would not let me see the place where she had deposited the
money. I was in her bed-room. The same afternoon she
took me out, and I told her to bring one of my £5 notes, as
I wanted to make some purchases. She gave it to me and
took me to a jeweller's shop and selected a brooch, which
she asked me to pay for; I refused to buy it, and she
was very angry with me. I never received the other notes.
On Thursday morning I told Mrs. Wiggins I wanted the
rest of my money, and she looked at me, and said, "What
money ? I have none belonging to you." I said, you know
very well you have ; I have not lost my senses. I showed
her the key, and said that was the key of the drawer in
which the money wag, and she laughed at me and said she
never had such a key. He demanded his money of the de-
fendant and his wife when they were both together, and
they told him he was dreaming, and said they had none of
his money. The complainant then produced the key given
to him, and handed it to the magistrate. '
The defence was a sturdy denial they had ever had the
money.
Mr. Yardley said he had no doubt whatever Mrs. Wiggins
received the five £5 notes, and unlawfully and fraudulently
withheld four of them, and they had been under the defen-
dant's control. He asked the defendant if he would refund
the £2O or take the consequences; but on his still declaring
his wife never had the money, the magistrate made a formal
order upon him to return it,"to pay a fine of £lO in addition,
and in default, to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for
six calendar months.

The wife of Wiggins, from the back of the court, here
called out— I never had the money, it is a shame to rob us.
Mr. Yardley : Oh, you are the wife. -You had better not
be talking there, but go home and get the £2O. If it is not
hereby 5 o'clock I will commit your husband to hard labour
for six months.

The wife took the hint, and in the course of an hour
returned with £2O, which was handed to the sailor, and the
prisoner was liberated, but not before the magistrate had
read him and his wife a severe lecture, and advised thorn to
be very cautious.
. . .

The woman, who impudently
,laughed at the magistrate
while he was talking to her, demanded 128., which she said
was owing to her by the sailor.
Mr. Yardley : Go about your business. You intended to
plunder the sailor of £2O. Leave the court instantly.

BANKRUPTS.
From the London Gazette of Last Night.
EANERUFTCY ANNULLED.

John. James, trunk-maker, Oxford-street and John-street,
London. BANKRUPTS.

John Sadler, tallow chandler, Vere-street, Clare-market,
London.
Thomas Strenton, grocer, Bethnal Green-road, Middlesei.
Philip Oliver, dealer in mining shares, Edward-square,
Brompton, Middlesex, and Llambadarnew, Cardigan.
John Delany, wine merchant, Mark-lane, London.
Francis Salter, 'doctor of medicine and apothecary,
Tredegar-square, Mile-end, Middlesex.
Samuel Bartholomew, licensed victualler, Birmingham. •
Charles Samuel Twigg, brick maker, Cardiff, Glamorgan-
- - -
shire.
John Lowther Ward, cotton spinner, Burnley, Lancaster.
George Aleock, draper, Manchester.

LIVERPOOL MARKETS.—LYESTERDAY.
(Written expressly for the Northern Daily Times.)

SUGAR has only been taken to a moderate extent to-day,
the sales being confined to 60 hhds Antigua, at 34s to
36s 9d; 40 hhds Demerara, at 34s 9d; and 50 hhds Porto
Itico, at 34s 6d 19 cwt, all to the grocers.
Nothing has occurred in MOLASSES.
Of RuM only a small lot of Demerara is reported at about
previous rates.
COFFEE.-50 tierces Jamaica have been sold at former
rates, and by auction, 800 bags Singapore chiefly at 48s to
48s 6d cwt, for sound.
No sales of RICE.

A small lot of Jamaica Fume brought at auction X 7;
and ditto of LoGwooD, with all-faults, £6 2s 6d ten ;
also 80 bags damaged blue GALL, 89s ? cwt ; and 250 bags
PIMENTO, 6d

TEA. —Some few parcels of blackish leaf congou have
been placed at is 6d to is 7d; common has rather a firmer
appearance to-day, and could not be purchased in quantity
under is 3d V lb.