The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-11 00:00:00

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take in stolen goods. Magistrate: You have done so in this
case, most assuredly, and you could not help knowing it.
Was this property taken in by you or some other person ?
The Assistant : I have seen the child's mother with
her at the shop. Magistrate : Was the mother with her on
any of the occasions when she pledged these things'? Assis-
tant: No, sir, not on any. Magistrate : So much the worse

of any quantity of stolen property, and at any time, if pawn-
brokers were allowed, or permitted their assistants, to take
pledges from children like the girl at the bar. He asked the
young man where Mr. Kewley was ? and he replied at home
in the shop. Mr. Wybergh : Who writes the tickets in these
cases ? The young man : Sometimes one and sometimes
another—the general practice is, however, for one to take in
the goods and a second to write the ticket, asking for the name
and address of the person pledging, but sometimes the person
taking in the pledge writes the ticket also. In reply to Mr.
Wybergh, police officer 304, who had charge of the case, said
be could not find the tickets at all. The mother of the child,
who appeared to be a decent person, was called. She said she
did not know anything of the affair until Monday last, when
for the first time she heard of the clothes having been stolen.
She was very sorry indeed that her child should have done so,
as the ladies were extremely good and kind to her family.
The child had no occasion to do such a thing. Magistrate :
Did you ever see any money with her, or did you get any of
it ? Witness : Never, sir. The child said : I pledged them
all myself, sir. Sister Mary Jane said the property now
identified was worth about £3, but she could not tell the value
of the rest of it. Mr. Clough said it wes right he should men-
tion something good of Mr. Kewley as well as the bad ; he
had on some former occasions stopped property, and made some
detections. Mr. Maxwell : But his conduct on this occasion
is more than reprehensible, I assure you. Mr. Clough • I
must say it is highly improper, indeed. The child again said :
I pledged them all myself. Magistrate : And what did you
do with money ? The child : I spent it—bought toffee for
some of it. Mr. Clough : Did you give any of it to your
mother ? The child : No, sir, Mr. Maxwell (to the young
man) : You have taken in these different things at different
times, have you, from this child ? The assistant :I do not
know if we took them from the child. In reply to Mr.
Wybergh, the young man said the first of the articles was
plf Ciged on the 9'h, and the last article on the 31st January.
Mr. Clough : All in the Course of the month, which looks
very cusp-cious. The young man was then sworn, and Mr.
Wybergh proceeded to examine him at some length. lie said
he saw the prisoner with her mother at the shop in Brownlow-
hill, but the mother was no► present when any one of the
articles now produced were pledged. lie produced
a variety of shawls, jackets, and mantles that
were pledged, and in answer to additional ques-
tions put to Mr. Wybergh, he said he could give every
information about those things except as to the person who
pledged them; he could not tell whether it was a man,
woman, or child that pledged them. Magistrate : Ido not
think this a satisfactory account of the transaction by any
means—how many assistants have you in the shop? Young
man : We have three beside the master. Magistrate :Do you
ask the name and address of every one pledging articles at
your shop? Young man : No, not of every one. Magistrate :
You ought, and are bound to do so. Mr. Maxwell then said :
This is an important case, and one that must he thoroughly
and minutely investigated; I will adjourn the further hearini
to Tuesday, and then let the whole of your assistants con
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n strong terms of the conduct of pawnbrokers whotake in such
sods, as he said they must well know, from the nature of the
,roperty and the party pledging, that it could not be bad
ionestly. The prisoner was sent to jail for one month.

(BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.)

CHARGE OF A,sAtur.—Two decent looliing persons, named
James Cadmore and William Ackrovd, said to be employed
about the Albert dock, were charged by a man named John
Patton under the following circumstances. The complainant
said he went into a beerhouse, kept by a man named Jones, in
Shannon-street, and in a room there ho saw some fifteen
persons. In a conversation that took place, the defendants
called him a spy, and said he had been turned out of the
Albert dock for improper conduct. An altercation took place,
and, as the prosecutor alleged, they tore his coat, and took 3s.
out of his pocket. For the defence it was shown that the room
in the house was a private one, and that the complainant
intruded himself into it. He was desired to leave the
place, but he refused. The defendants did not
wish to have him in the apartment, as they knew something
not creditable to him in reference to the Albert dock. They
totally denied the statement made about the boat and money.
Mr. Mansfield said it was not at all likely that two re-
spectable men, holding position, would act as described. There
was every doubt about the case, and therefore he would die-
miss the complaint. The defendants intimated that they
would bring actions against Patton for having given them in
charge.

At the meeting of the Westminster Improvement Bond-
holders, a resolution was passed, authorising a committee
to use such means as in their judgment would be best to
obtain redress for the treatment they had received from the
commissioners.

THE SOHO MTJRDERS:—Saturday last being appointed for
the interment of Mrs. Boasfield and her three murdered
children, the vicinity of the St. James's workhouse, Poland-
street, was thronged by the public, and many hundreds fol-
lowed the bodies to the Brompton cemetery, where the
whole of the bodies were interred in one grave.
MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFR.—OH Tuesday last the mar
riage ceremony was celebrated at the village church of
Angerstone, between Lady Emily Curzon, third daughter of
Earl Howe, and Lient-colonel liingscote, C.B, M.P. The
marriage of Captain the Hon. J. B. Drummond, C. 8.,
It. N. Commander of H.M.S. Retribution, with Miss
Catherine Elliott, third daughter of Admiral the Hon. G.
Elliott, was celebrated on Tuesday last, at St. Peter's church,
Pimlico. It is stated that a matrimonial alliance will
shortly take place between Lady Jane Hay, daughter of the
Marquis of Tweeddale, and sister to the Duchess of Wel-
lington, and Sir Frederick Arthur, Bart, We are also
enabled to announce the approaching marriage of Lady
Rachael Russell, youngest daughter of the Duke of Bedford,
and half sister of Lord John Russell, with Lord James
Wansford Butler, son of the first Marquis of Ormonde. Sir
T. Whichcote, Bart, is also about to lead to the altar Miss
Montgomery, sister of Mr. Alfred Montgomery.

DEATH OF A MISER.—An inquest was held on Saturday
night before Mr. Bedford, the 'Westminster coroner, on the
body of Frederick Hoffman, aged 41. The deceased, who
was well-known about the neighbourhood for his penurious
habits, was, it appears, engaged as a waiter and to take the
hats of the company at a party given by M. Rothschild, a
diamond merchant of 10, Argyll-street, on Friday evening.
He arrived about eight o'clock, and performed the duties of
his office, and at supper time ate very greedily. About
three o'clock yesterday morning he was seized with a kind
of fit in the supper room. and although medical assistance
was immediately procured, he died in a few minutes. On
the body being searched, the first thing which presented
itself was some portions of poultry he had secreted during
supper in hia pockets, and £36 in gold and twenty-one
shil ings in silver. A Bank of Eneland note for
£lOO. A deposit book of the Royal British Bank for
£1,225. A deposit receipt of the London and Westminster
Bank for £5OO, a bill of exchange for £l5 155., another for
£25, a bank deposit receipt fur £l5O, three parcels of
pearls, three of rubies, three of diamonds, one of rough
diamonds, one of emeralds, and one of garnets. Forty-one
sovereigns were subsequently found in the fob of the
deceased's trowsers. Mr. Chappel,surgeon, said he had
opened the body, and in his opinion death had resulted
from serous apoplexy. Mr. Rothschild said deceased had
the precious stones from various parties to sell on commis-
sion. The money he knew nothing about. He was
supposed to be so poor a man that, some time since, a
subscription was raised to send him into the country for the
benefit of his health. A verdict of natural death from
serous apoplexy was returned.