The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-04 00:00:00

MYSTERENTS DEATH

Yesterday morninc, shortly atter the sitting magistrate,
Mr. Elliott, had taken his seat at the Lambeth Police
Court, Dixon, one of the summoning officers, informed him
that on Saturday evening last a warrant obtained on the
application of Mr. Ballantine, the barrister, by the South
Western Railway Company, against Mr. William Dunn, a
gentleman residing at Shortwood house, Staines, for
defrauding them by means of an exhausted ticket, was
placed in his (Dixon's) han is; and on going to the
Waterloo terminus on that morning for the pur-
pose of proceeding to Staines to execute it, he
learned from Inspector Bent that information had
been received at the 'different police stations on
the - day before, that a man answering in every
particular the description of Mr. Dunn, was drowned at
the Old Royal Baths, in Newgate-street, and recommended
him in the first instance to proceed there and see the man.
He did so, and on seeing the body he at once recognised
the deceased as the person on whom he had served the
summons. On making inquiries, Mr. Poole, the keeper of
the bath, informed him that about 9 o'clock on Saturday
night the deceased came there and Ordered a private Is.
bath, and a bath room was prepared for him, which he
entered ; and at the time nothing was obsorvedin his ap-
pearance to excite suspicion. Nothing more was heard of
him until eleven o'clock, when the place was
about to he locked up ; and at that time the deceased
was found lying in a reclining position, with his head
and chest out of the water, and life quite extinct.
His gold watch, gold spectacles, two rings, and a small
sum of money were found on the table, and from docu-
ments found in his pockets it would appear that the
was very much involved. Amongst the documents was
found a letter from a respectable legal firm, threatening
immediate proceedings against him unless £.t,000 and odd
was paid. Dixon added that he had learned that the
deceased, who was, he believed, a commission agent, had
left eight children to lament his loss, and that
_ones.of
them was at the B:ue Coat School. •

TOWN DUES.
To THE ED:TQR of THE NoUTFIERN TIMES

Sir,—Publ'c attention has been pre-eminently drawn to
This subj.-ct for some weeks past, and has brought to my
mind a letter which appeared in yoer columns on the 2&h
July last, showing the very unsatisfactory manner in which
the du'ies of the principal receiver were performed, for his
very liberal salary of £6OO per annum—but which letter, as
far as I can ascertain, has never been further noticed, or
any of the evils therein complained of redressed. The time
ha-, however, now arrived, when such inopportune appoint,
ments will be tested by the searching ingairy of a Select
Committee of the House of Commons, when ttie corporation
Of Liverpool will have to answer 't the reason why." And
it is high time, for, trom the notice in the paper for Wed-
resday next, I observe another 'id)" of the same stamp is
abriut to be rierpt crated, viz., the raising of the salary of the
auditor in the Town Dues office £3O per year, and who now
eej,siiyirely
stlso per annum, for doing that which any sober
matt, with a &ear head, and a steady hand, might very
easily accomplish in two hours a day.
allow
their eyes to be opened by our jealous Manchester
(:iPesPi;nnes.otp,,a_nd thus lend themselves o strengthen. the
of a
goverun;l47b" for centralising everything in the.hands
even the eller, whe,
t to attain their purpose, hesitate. not
tempt of entire t• oliation.—l am, sir,
.A Virktamieurat To THE GOOD OLD TOWN
Liverpool. 3,d ItAaNrit 7:46TAADE =sago".

INDIA AND CHINA.
♦

By the Marseilles route, we have received our
files of papers by the Indian Thai', of the' arrival of
which, we published a telegraphic notification a
few, days since.