The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-21 00:00:00

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purely an accidental case, and the jury found accordinztv•—
On the body of Edward Jones, 45 years of _
the Northern Hospital, from the effects of wounds suL..
on his throat by himself, with a knife, whilst labouring
under the effects of drink, as stated in our paper of yester-

day The jury found a verdict accordingly.-0a the body
of a sailor named Frederick Rosenberg, who died in the
Southern Hospital. The deceased had been working on
board a ship, and it appeared that he fell into the hold, and
to the hospital, where he died of the injuries.

was take

Verdict, accidental death.
" DOING THE GREEN ONES." —Four boys, amongst whom
was one named Austin Baker, were charged, yesterday,
before Mr. Mansfield, with stealing some hens. The most
remarkable feature in the case was this. Baker, who
seemed to be about twelve years of age, was a smart intelli-
eent lad. In the first place, he stole a nice faney " chucky,"
which he sold for a fancy price to a woman who took a
fancy to it. Same time after the lad returned, stole the
hen again, and actually resold it to the same woman, as a
beautiful match for the one he had already disposed of to
her ! Thinking a good trade might be done on the capital
of this fancy hen, he purloined it a third time, and was in
the act of disposing of it again to the same woman, when
the original owner claimed the "bird." The boy was given
into custody, while the woman whom he bad duped
con-
soled herself with the idea that she had got two real prizes,
but regretted that she had not a third, and then she could
have shown off in " good style " at the next exhibition.
Thus pleasing herself, she went to feed her s• bargains,"
when, to her utter consternation and unspeakable horror,
she found the birds had flown. It was some time before she
could be made sensible of the real state of the case, and
when she was convinced of how the affair stood, she
exclaimed" that boy is a genius, or ought to be one." He
was ordered to be twice whipped, to be imprisoned three
months, and then to be sent to a reformatory. This sort of
discipline will probably cure him of his foul propensities.
DEATH Or AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER.—On Friday week
were consigned to their final resting place, in the church-
yard of Beightley, the mortal remains of one of the most
eccentric persons that ever lived, a man who volun-
tarily went to bed in good health, and remained there
fur a period of 49 years. Ile went by the cognomen of
" Old Threeclaps " in the neighbourhood, but his real
name was William Sharp, and he lived at a place called
Worlds, not very far from Braithwaite, in the parish of
Keighley. He was the son of a small farmer, and from an
early age never showed much inclination to steady work.
When 30 years of age he took to his bed and the room
which he never lett till carried thence on the day of his
funeral. The c iuse of this extraordinary conduct it is
difficult to ascertain with any degree of certainty, but
the principal reason seems to have been a matrimonial
disappointment. The wedding day was fixed. This
singular character, then a young and, doubtless, ardent
lover, accompanied by a friend, wended his way down to
the parish church, and there patiently awaited the arrival
of the bride-elect. But the bride never came. The father
of the damsel sternly and steadily refused his consent. This,
combined, it may have been, with other grievances, ima-
ginary or real, preyed heavily upon a mind certainly not
endowed with more than average intellect, and bearing un-
mistakeable traces of hereditary singularity ; and the result
was that the young man consigned himself to a small room,
hi
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resolution remainder
he o f
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measuring about 9ft. in every direction, with the determi-
nthaetinbulannte spending
At the time of his death his
windowm had never been
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ley.
opened for 38 years. During the whole period of this
self-imposed confinement he never had any serious illness,
the only case of indisposition those connected with him can
remember being a slight loss of appetite, caused apparently
by indigestion, for two or three days. He certainly,
physi-
cally at least, did credit to his food ; for, though
arrived at
79, his flesh was firm, fair, and un-
eve with flit, and the estimate of his weight
As a matter of c)urse, the
this eccentric being, and
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became partially benumbed, so that he could not take his
food in his accustomed manner. Fr3m this attack he
seemed to rally, and not until the evening before his
death were any apprehensions entertaind that the
attack would prove ultimately fatal,—Doncaster Gazette.