The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-19 00:00:00

A PLAUSIBLE THIEF.

On Wednesday Sir Robert W. Carden received some
information, which caused him the greatest surprise'
It will be recollected that on Friday last, a young mall
of gentlemanly appearance was placed at the hat
at Guildhall police-court, charged with beieic
in possession of a large number of silk handkerchiefs,
supposed to be the proceeds of a burglary committed at
Ball's Pond. The prisoner had gone into Mr. OW
borough's to pledge three pieces of black silk necker•
chief, but the young man suspecting they were not coal
honestly by, questioned him, when he said his n Albas
Thomas Baker, and that he lived at No. 10, St. o
road, near Horseraonger lane gaol. A policeman ei,,
called in, and he was given into custody. At first
said they were bis own property, but then said they oe's
given to him to pledge by a friend, and gave the nan3,l!
but said he could not give the address of his frien,
The address he gave was false. When brought to
police court he told a most extraordinary tale, but
such apparent simplicity that, admitting him to belehr)o
indiscreet, it bore the stamp of possibility. He sal and
had been to Jullien's concerts two nights before, :0
that while there a lel!, fainted, and he took her euldij
his arms, and placed her in a cab. A gentleman hen
her friend into the same cab, and it drove 4
He then returned to the concert with this Pese°ot
and finding him very agreeable and familiar, ha 611;,oe
the reineind,r of the evening with him. Before
parted they exchanged names and addresses, and
pressed him to call and see him on the following
but he said that be could not, and declined. Thea
arranged to meet on the Friday, at Charing cross,
age
go to Richmond, to have a row on the water. He ;co
his name as Thomas Baker and said he had co butriot
Australia, where he had been with merchandise,! 0,
rot been able to dispose of it, and had brought it P 2 of
They met on Friday, and the man who gave the Opt fibs
Baker, said he was short of money, and asked bin;
eyed,
prisoner) to pledge them for him. He at first re' 0
and they walked towards Temple bar, but he toe
plausible, that by the time they came to Somerset ijo,
he consented to go to Attenborough's and pledge t' ere
He had three parcels, and was to get 503 for the ttithe"
mfeces of black, and 30s for each of the others. and eet
eet this man at Somerset house, or if he did t„nhe
him there, he was to go on to Charing cross. Wbe:are
was given into custody he was so confused that he ebbe'
Baker's name and address as his own, and an s°
which he meant as his own, as Baker's. He n.(O
confused, having never been placed in such a Peg-eat
before, that he did not know what he did. 1:10 did
give his right name and address because his friends.7o,
so very respectable that he would not let then ;foe
where he was. He was well known to Alderman _es t;
and lived opposite him in the Lewisham road, and w'f; of.
next door neighbour of Mr. Thwaites, the chain° ice•
the board of works, to whom he was also well kneeel
He had no objection to tell the magistrate his naineso;
address, but he did not want it published in the 11000
papers, on account of the disgrace it would brin bed
his friends. Sir Robert W. Carden had him Nen; tee
sonwith
fa
jpoehnn and
Carrinc,Easnqd, he f wArsohtclodwonwnytitillaat,..bLeev:isibA
road. Sir Robert W. Carded asked him. if bfaing
Mr. Thwaites to be sent for, as he was ii..Pne-ed tits!'
Guildhall ? The prisoner replied that he did, t,
Mr. Thwaites would speak as to his respectabilio
message was sent up to the board of works, 611401
short time Mr. Thwaites attended, and on being inh,,`" pa'
of the nature of the circumstances under which wr Os
been called, he expressed the greatest surprise' bit
said the prisoner was the son of a gentian:o's)4
next door neighbour, who bore an unble°3l,loo
shoimtwruistthwaonrytlttyhlngt.hatlfh
reputation, and as to the prisoner, he bad lijoin
him to be a sober, steady, industrious idegif
tandrus tquanihreedaltbasoloool
tehe Courtwnuld re
him, he was willing to be surety for him to any aljoi graf
_,,
so convinced was be of his integrity. Sir R. of
said it was possible that he had been made the 71100
some designing burglar, but that a young man ?,„'" pod
and twenty, accustomed to London, should be s_l' advised'''
upon by an artful scoundrel astonished him. He en
the prisoner to do his utmost to find out this Inan'Vver
and give him into custody, and cautioned him pee'
again to pick up with plausible people that he „cog.
nothing of, He then held him to bail in his own
nizances in £2O to appear at this court on Friday ne""ge
sooner if he could get hold of the man Baker' t that
Martin, the chief clerk, now informed Sir Beeer"doe,
the same young man had been offering other hall,s ifl
chiefs of a similar description at a pawnbrokel:„o
:
Walworth, on last Saturday morning, when the creidsi,
broker, who happened to be at this court nn .10
engaged in a case of stealing rugs, recognised b!bes cl 4
accused him of having been in custody here;sinal
before. As soon as he said so Carr ran ay.ay,so:raea an
chase ensued, which ended in his being caP!");
taken to the Lambeth police court, from lstra
been remanded until Friday next, when thenlaDdaeer.,
intends sending him back to this court. The -wee'
having-charge of the case had discovered that the Prl
aad
had been in the service of Mr. Meeking, of Holbortni,b6
left only a few days before lie was first taken tip.d beet;
whole of the handkerchiefs found upon biln his
identified, as some which had been stolen fill he
(Mr. Meeking's) shop. Sir Robert W. Carden oVores
was astonished to hear it. He certainly did not T,,0011
the prisoner's story when he heard it, but when beef oar
after the
eiS
what a respectable character he bore, and
ner in which Mr. Thwaites spoke of him .bailiite off
connections, it made him feel there was a Pnasl benefit °
the statement being true, and he gave him the rridsi
the doubt. He would, owever, come down en
to hear the evidence in this extraordinary ease'

• HORRIBLE ACCIDENT AT BOWLING Ai ra.-
014'
WORKS.
0001
Early on 'Wednesday morning, a horrible see" - l
0144
at Bowling Iron Works, near Bradford, by Wheh tztet9l°
man, tewenty-six years of age, namel Williaol
hilierleic, On he upper sie of te works, near Pi!c
kL
too,
a newt rolling mill, the flhoor of which is lr
the Pl"

several of the shafts connecting various parts of
_L —tilt scieb4'
belowapertures covered over to admit the -workmen
ery. and turning the who?: motion, ran underp"oiee '
to oil or repair it. The deceased, or Bogie
with his lamp in his hand, entered one of the 913:r-aot °-
oi a portion of the shafting, but had missed or Jorrwhen 11
oil can, and was, as is supposed, returning fer !IO hitnidrt
manb named Robert Binns, who had been folio Tilling bet
orrow his lamp when he returned, heard a tbribelef frof
dwleigrehtsst
dismal shriek, issuing from the aperture or 173312-„ehirtg $g
Itipeotsesriibelge,rtahiseedenugpi,neens before 'aro t°,
when he rushed to the spot heard a horrible ort 0011.4
the bones of the deceased, but nothing more. 43," the 1";„
carriedo ppe d,
a ed fragments of the body were found; one legiing oej
and protre;e'bood
arm entirely torn off, the entrails torn
the head, the bones, and all the other parts of the
jatollieea
,tiwollti:tteitonc:
reduced to a state of pulp, and yet so drraii; wriloPot
between the shaft and the partition, and Per".l,l ifil"-ito
stillround the shaft, that it c3uld not he extricate-d fool 0
further mutilation, until the shafting was eels clod
position by heavy blocks. Two large cog ich,ce,-not P,ght
to the part where he was crushed, but he Uifi 0 e 5,711
between them. The probability is that be ha toe piesee' d
.pal'
at the couplings, and both crushed and rent d3s
being whirled round the shafting, and dashed
against the partition wall.
• beelpoewr

Before theWILLIAM
ecwoaasoaar
to t
ttolta the
aPmprpirtn.)
icne t o fa
whomagwain broughtM
atMaster
o up. PALMERt
e 1 l A
on
A I N .
insurance
Palmer, deceased,p
company,
life. , 06
m a
policy Oki, 0
Walesers In n stl.uoir aresenpcbrei
bill
Cis
eon::
aPset• 03;113fieril:ee eare
errt; palm
I:fiebt
al:
Mr. Roundel' 1-q ior •-„/
Hfaosrtinthgse, moved inoftbhiSor:ostaotre:s
froof purpose .
Palmer'
to i dog
Walter Pat?' 80 oleo
sum of £13,000, for • which a large premitlre' oar b,t
£1,700, was •
paid. Within days aftersthe , ted ;
a few
was effected an absolute assignment of it via 4. ,„00
Walter Palmer to his brother Wiliam Pallii'd 'ti0"•• a •
Palmer
died some short 1 A. an
Heider
ta,
time afterwartt•-• oneio%f•tilet
Palmer has since
been bung for murder. The c-froll' "not
for the ac- •
signment was a debt alleged to be due ;01810°,el
Palmer rto William Palmer, and which was les' ptett ~11
than the sums paid for the'p e • A gri• in the i'74
phoastsession of the li
po--ey, andritniwulastnss.uggesteu .7. he (I.•it
claimed
he claimed a lien upon it, but by his
eared
to at
illthe
any such interest,and he apPear. bat
the •
u hole case made b
y the bill, had iveo nroe
policy was obtained by fraud. He ba" g t
cour ' etti
policy, which was now in the hands of tbe otoP ;,,g
other defendant al all ' be'—
was the A ttorney-gener- i
_too,. _ to
of William Palmer's, at the time of his exec". tin° A
OW IP
vested in her Majesty. He was not in 3 -he CO r
7 ~,,Ite
say whom they 1
s iould• desire to appetiPt*_ of inlii
might, if it thought fit, appoint the wicßT,4eet• )11/
Palmer. By her answer she disclaimed any' lei' &igen
bet
Honour. : She ought to attend here, but the ify to
is with regard to her costs. Will 'yoll iinclertinrtaV f
iagdainst the coits ? Mr. Palmer : We wili u jet° if
her. Mr, G. Hastings : An applicawbo ig,,.
maden e m tnoi flyl brOtber! %ft. P
Ir.
George Palmer, another t p.- ~t
solicitor,_ but•he will have to do with lodth f
Palmer :It nothing till vresiptieto of
was supposed when the I
the •
wife of Walter Palm n• had taken nut it
ai
administration to her husband's effects • but
iyoti 113
she has not done it. His Honour • ',Welk
•
appoint her, indemnifying her against COst&

• THE SMOKE NUISANCE.

Q: TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
for
clr"*". rho public are certainly indebted to you
havea none
g their attention, in the way which you
one from time to time, in reference to the
vcres •
13. sion of the smoke nuisanc.l.
tiortit' while I give you every credit for purity of
publ.ves, knowing, as I do, full well, that on a
w0,,1e question -of F 0 much moment as this, you
to bu'ildneither permit selfiz-h nor sinister influence
sot ii,813"(311 in your Editorial capacity ; yet I can-
cuminv, to the conclusion, which I have
la, after a carerul perusal of your leader
have,lll„(.iling, that the object is to puff a pretended
cienl,"un of a certain party, whom you 'have sufpi
me t-„'Y (ridoate.l, without naming him, to enable
the " 'eoognise the object. The handwriting on
wall is too transparent.
ibt )14,81)10h° is a nuisance in a large town can•
is tioe„,""i-'d—that its suppression is practicablel
ffitt).,- sufficiently notorious—not by any of t
triatiJ Pat(nat nostrums palmed off on the unhappy
al tuners, as infallible specifics, and which,
d
Therill.ost every instance, prove a dead swi ►
of•,1 bat one simple remedy for the prevention
qiianri?4e, and that is the admission of the requisite
of e litY of air to the furnace during the process
to te.()4ll)ustion. Here no quackery is require
in th-xon the already overburthened furnace ownert
vs111,11;3 of a Royalty, for a so-called paten
a e-r,il-4,l'u Patent is neithm more nor less thanh
thor'4,-,/ ooe, by the only man in England w o
erlrehlighlY understands the theory an practice of
Who ii,18t,,1)11 That man is Charles Wye Williams,
ita; re, had a legitimate patent, but which has
1)1'.1'111,"8 expired. All the shoots which havedi
11(!ati-„'„ 'IP so plentifully of late are merely mod(
R9tith,-,,a's of I\lr. Williams' really good plans. T
l'enh:,"l4l has long since declined to receive ally
li4l,'"rition for his advice or assistance. The
itil4lle'sion of the smoke nuisance is with himi at
ehee,-.itt ?„f love. and I feel convinced he will ass's
ierte every furnace owner who may exper
hi eie 411 Y diffienlty in complying' with the act, with
Ar,‘"aluable advice, free of charge. The Smokeb
,IS,tenti°ll Act must not be taken advantage of y
filling
°,F blarneying jobbers, for the purposteof
fae. tair own purses. have always se
I'erh I"*lnst anything of the sort, and that is,y
iNpea,,ll..s, one reason why I am not now your smoke
am, sir, yours, &e.,
[%-‘'reellaber IS. 1856. JAMES ITDONA.LD.
to this
g,ettlqmilltil have a word or two to say
(40.-....ertlEa2.l._touching.his insinuations, in a day or
" IN. T.]

S
ir, To THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Pearea ;Prnln articles that have occasionally ap-.
`leq 4.,"1 Y'o'u' widely spread journal on this sub
ilitere"e Public must presume you take sorn...
1311' tlBll ill this matter. If so, perhaps you wmat
zaitee! following questions to the Smoke Co
, Why ..";
t,,',,t'leY allow this nuisance to go on from
sentuav within the borough ?• and at the pre-
Actti
411.1,,e it is as bad, if nc.,t worse, than before.t the
At! I•llatnent was obtained to suppress
ill' 0 earl lieY do not put their power or authoritye
eatiiriB,—cliticol. when other towns in England btamv.
11,4 tile nuisance to be abated, and by confi
4et, tise requirements of the Smoke preventionn'
factli inhabitaqts of densely populated .ma
nu-
districts have breAhecl an atmosphere
ThilaPl''gnated with unconsumed carbon .
botirie town Mersey are
of Liverpool and the River _
fro% darkened with the dense matter emitted
1/44 and marine furnaces.—Yours, Stc.,
SooT.

-4°RD I NARY CASE-THE PUSEYITES.

Sir TUE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
_eee
of
l'ewr":l Your publication of Friday appeared atpi
AieeA "ot Under the head "Police Intelligence, p
apart—
"Nei' where
of fun for fools, and to serve the bar parlour,
of Rill meet to deride the Word of God, and to speemikevil
e°,:tblenla and nil people • and the more a man or w
ra'o.rto manifest the p'ower of Divine grace in an is
theirthe lives
4triele e are they hited, persecuted, and despised. That
!ape,: was snort for madmen. Having allowed it to
PAiie.,,:" Your columns, I bold you responsible for
"`)11. Now, sir, for facts. a had been _ tohaLvoieno,-
h4tl t'tcll 13" Y an aged' widowed mother ; d
'tool ie concerns to wind up, I was detainedan there a
tilicii'itmger time than I could spare from my business,
°'(.:lo,l,leti me to travel by night. I left London at eight
.tlirer‘ nil the Monday night, and reached Liverpool at
toss clock in the morning, coming to the Lime street
inn -one thing to save expense—having just e.apee-,
aetoc)ed (the circumstances of which you are well acquainted
mend that the tender mercies of the wicked are cruehl
at
*rot v4lO show the same animus as your correspondent _
that article, who did
ruin me for principle. 1
AI °f going to the Commercial, which I always did,
tilt 403" broke me by villany, stopped in the waiting-room
ZlAectile., o'clock, then went and sat where I neve,,
' • ,„6`, to and an agent of the " English Inquisition ,
thhaelree:o;ttlie
4,)0(i" it Was. I had bought nothing on the road from
hhafd some biscuits in my pocket, and some sailorsd
brandy which they generously banded round
little; 80 that the brandy was divided into twenty-four
Ding, eight of us in the carriage. About six
e knereowing it would be past eight before I got
_e
s rit, I thought I would have a cup of coffee ;
orth
this I
-*este,„to night policeman of the London and N _
got a:" -(Ltilway Company ; he took me to a house whereeult
'4 thithe 011 P, he himself having part of one poured t
tv,latne toffee-pot; I asked for no bread and bat er,
oefore"4lo Was brought me on a plate ; I had been twice
bread at
h° alas house with the same man, and had had
hisohand butter %rid two e s—little did I thint there was
bm. utt it, I
;IreetlAreea.d.4Aoa the bread and butter—but so it was,
/ the?
il:eing an charged him with putting something on
Irishman, and generally greedy of gain,
a largerg tit was low Irish butter he had bought to make
for ,Profit; to ibis he replied, I gave is 4d per lb.
• °l3th of them
Alot
~,. that T ',reseed me to have some whisky in my
did not 83to
- suppose take the bad taste away. n
but to not succeed. I was in a lions den—yea, worse—
kid 1 Preserved me. I stayed there near an hour, and
d
the Aolipel inY coffee, and I suppose the coffee and the whisky
Net —man drank, both of whom knew me, bat not before
of Wheanond agirl about 16, were introduced, with neithert
reason ta did 1 exchange one word, nor was there the leas
there to
b Judge they were of easy virtue. I went from
got Y the East Lancashire Railway home, but before
e_
waioCitne there were two pits dug for my feet, both
_f
if as preserved from. He that keeps His oays will,
°f aff'.!re In the path of duty, keep and preserve, in skpeietpe
crift‘co.s`To thieves and brothel keepers, who profess to m
Scffae aut°v.Ps, throughout England. After I drank _
ty
,a," ffeie a". "),"I,e, the poison began to act with fearful effect,
`l°ol3' legs, feet, head, and calves of my
wleefesr,
441 tsev"elY, I took large draughts of cold
(10,1 Zairp::,nated soda with tartaric acid, and these means
bad i:essed, s'id the poison was expelled, not vomited. I
'vas s'et ten days and was anxious for business ; to bed
14,1))uttehinPelled to' go and had been and was there
•,°'lle.--bree hours. I went to Dr. Palmer's ; he wasfrom
17ore fit .`;usiness called me into the country, and I went,
"ors "Dr bed than to bel out. I had not been out many,
druggist ' suffering B I went to Oliver Holden s,
a,,
uo severe] y.
• titne
e'xpVreilssred town ;
.told bin what I felt ; at the
p nion that strychnine had been
40t slipshod to me.e mAreolialid I might rest assured it
tell me
hat herYebbine,buteither could not or would not telthat
he
ae
Vial: the
symptoms perhaps it was the knowledgeh
have
e()tnp a ,
1111,1 t:g. 'et vzouldh;ave been liable to penalties to
froma
4 M(,ed,•;',eu medicine for me, though it was two milestwas
eaneed-i7at Matt. He would fain have persuaded me
don't,
uzii,„ '7 over-exertion but this I did not, nor
me• dical and in this I ami confirmed by three of the firstt
Zyu.tbalo4laiinshT-Averpoolt.,
eilnecesontinued out all night a
by one o'clock the next
4e.4 earne ing my u
home, posted my cash, entered my orders,
tivegnat° directions. Ithen went to the detective police in
Apt rillp°l,, and saw 'll hoe by whom I was grossly insulted
kb." e'e...(l but e• gi that I was determined not to be
"Y Irish b; fitndin-nd ridicule, he sent me to Mr.
aith era; alad
be banter
d 8
f listening to my complaint,
44:Rig'11 it was • tviwilittlmnaglanowdesnigtneednlity
eine, sends me to Mr.
t_DeaCe'd, beforel h Thursday, firstt
• ,cts, dl'g to his clerk, Mr. Henr,F, he induced me to. go o.
I'4r' Pse2lgh• I asked him had Nebo° reported the cirFum
oat] e— '0 hi time detailing them. He said he
to not; allot same
g 0 hit
ridiculed and bantered me, and told me
to business for a fool. I told him bow Kehoe
.Leld lohraved to me that way before, and before Mr. Mans-
the ja;culd go— where, when I detailed for the most part
ei2rres,,Qttuation contained in this letter, and which your
‘ue iendent has so distorted, why did he not insert
alwaye-Vrtinent remark of Mr. Henry, " That I was
the e at war with the clergymen,' which is not
01* thaei w ith tyrants, called clergymen, I have been; but
afit •
rf'rea SIX Month's, neither by word pr pfn
_have_ I
-11144 with them, though they, by their hired tools,
ae ; and, as to the remark that I feared my life
~ogrenot
rlstakou away by Jesuits, 'cis airy fiction—l know
~edicOY name. Mr. Mansfield told me to proc9re
al testimony. Why did you and the cunning Popish

THE

Mercury suppress it ; though to sell your papers, both put
upon your show bills " Charge against the Jesuits for using
strychnine." I never used the word Jesuits; but I tell
you plainly, sir, I believe the men that have attempted
my life, not far short of twenty times, are in the
pay of men who, like some of the bishops of the Established
Church, call themselves Protestants, but are Papists indeed
and in truth. Medical. evidence of the first class—l
immediately procured, and this was the result, and that
medical man's examination it was not strychnine they
gave you, but eantlaarides (French flies) to produce lascivi-
ousness. Had you drank the whisky, you would soon have
felt it; and you, under the influence of that drug,
would have been trapped, robbad, perhaps skinned, or some
other end that they sought to attain, would have been
accomplished. This I am prepared to swear, before
Mr. Mansfiald toonoriow, and I will meet you at Mr Dod's
, office, at one o'clock, to go there. He never came—the
licentiousness of the press hal done its work—your report
and the Mercury report (the avowed Roman Catholic Pest
never reported it) had made me out a madman ; an object
of pity; a subject for Rainhill ; —that medical man refused
to come—these were his own words—after that exhibition,
as reported in this morning's papers, I will have nothing
to do with the case. I then went to three mare first-rate
medical men; they concurred in testimony; and sail
further, that the symptoms I descri' el coul I not be pro-
duced by na ural causes. Oa these statements,
Mr. Doi, for me, applied to Mr. Mansfield for a summons to
compel their attendance, why did your reporter not report
this. Mr. Mansfield refused to grant the summons, and I
could not get into court. I then went to at least fifteen
medical m 'xi, men professing to be Christians of different
parties, and to them, shame be it said, that for gold—paltry
gold—they refused to attend before Mr. Mansfield ; because
if the case was committed for trial they would lose a patient,
for the allowance the Borough gave did not pay them.
These, then, are facts. What is the sum total of the whole ?
That in the discharge of a filial duty I returned from
burying an aged widowed mother; to save expense I abstaitied
from getting refreshments on the road ; for the same reason
I stayed in the ladies' waiting room at the Lime street
station ; for the same reason I sat with the officers in their
waiting room. To prevent me prosecuting a tenant of Sir
Thomas Hesketh's for perjury I am to be poisoned ; because
I had declared I would prefer a bill of indictment for perjury
at these grand assizes—this watchman being acquainted with
him for this was his fist question, " Do you know Raiford ?
—do you know Henry Bridge ? ' I say this was the motive
that appears upon cthe face of it, and then all that
follows appears as though it was a confederacy between
the police authorities of every description, with
the reporter for the cunning Popish Mercury, and
your paper —on which is inscribed, no creed,
no party—the ends of justice are defeated; and though
these medical men declare there was but a step between me
and death, the perpetrators of this atrocious outrage
against the laws of God and man, are allowed to go scot
free. *Do as you please, sir, about inserting this letter
ENTIRE. Either in your columns, or some other. the
p-ople shall have them, and by'the bearer I demand "y es or
no." By inserting this you will rectify an error, if it is an
error, of yours; by refusing it, yon make yourself partis
criminis. Take which course you will, either will oblige,
yours, respectfully, JOSEPH STONER.
Ormskirk, Dee. 16, 1856.
[We give the above letter verbatim et literatim, and are
only sorry that the writer has been so inconsiderate as to
rush into print, as he evidently has not improved his posi-
tion by the foregoing letter.—Ed. N. T.]