The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-20 00:00:00

A NEW DODGE TO RAISE THE WIND.

CURIOUS CASE.—Yesterday morning, at the police court, a
person named J. W. Fairclough was brought up by detective
Scott, charged with having obtained money under false pre-
tences, and also for having attempted to obtain 7e from Messrs.
Jacot, Taylor, and Tipper by false representations. Mr. Rao,
of the Guardian Society, was in attendance to watch the case.
From the evidence adduced by the several witnesses it appeared
that the prisoner had formerly occupied offices at No. 6, and
then at No. 15, South Castle street, and that ho had been in
the habit of forwarding parcels to London, Paris, Glasgow,
Edinburgh, and the principal towns in the kingdom, and that
latterly he had been in the habit of making claims at the dif-
ferent railway companies' for, as he stated, parcels that had
been lost or mis-sent. On the present occasion it was proved
that the prisoner had taken a box to the office of Messrs, Jacot,
Taylor, and Tipper, stating it came from Paris, and was to be
fOrwarded to Philadelphia, and that he had paid 7s 6d upon it.
The person in the office to whom it was delivered had some
suspicions about the transaction, and handed it to the cash
kseper, who, upon opening it, found it to contain nothing but
old books and newspapers. This money, consequently, ho did
not obtain, but it was proved that he had taken a parcel, to be
forwarded to Wrexham, which contained nothing but whiten-
ing, on which ho had obtained 2s 3d ; that he had also obtained
7s 6d on a parcel he had taken to Pilkington Brothers, which
only contained some old books. He had likewise received
lOs 6d of Mr. James Browne, of Tower buildinp, on a parcel
which was directed to Mr. James Cunningham, Philadelphia ;
and that ho had obtained 5s of Messrs. Busby and Co., who
are agents for the Isle of Man carriers, for a parcel he had
taken to their office directed to Lieut. Petre, R.N., Dover.
Detective officer Scott said there were a great number of other
charges of a similar nature against the prisoner, for obtaining
and attempting to obtain money, and requested to have him
remanded, for the purpose of obtaining the necessary evidence.
The Bench asked what the prisoner had to say in answer to
the charge, when he replied, " lam sorry to bo placed in this
position." He was then remanded.

STRANGE CONDUCT IN A CHAPEL.-011 Sunday last,
rather a strange scene took place at the Wesleyan chapel,
at Woodside, Dudley. A short time since one of the local
preachers, while doing duty here, knowing that some of
the hearers were abstainers, took the liberty of praying
for the poor deluded teetotallers. He afterwards received
a note protesting against such conduct. On Sunday last,
this local preacher took for his text the turning of water
into wine. He went on for sonic time with a violent tirade
against the deluded teetotallers, until some one in the
chapel interrupted him, saying a sermon would be more
in character. This shook his composure for a time, but
ho rallied, and went on to prove that members of the
church were the best parties to be publicans, inasmuch as
they could hold prayer meetings in their houses while the
customers were there, and thus stand a chance of con-
verting them. He was here called upon to name some
instance in which this had been or was likely to be done,
and a hubbub ensued. At length he brought his sermon
to a close by declaring that towards the end of the world
—in the good time coming—all publicans would be good
men, and sell real good liquor.—Worcester Chronicle.