The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-28 00:00:00

POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY.

DEFORM MR. DIXON.)
A LrrrLx SING CHARLIS.—A flashily dressed female,
named-Jane Campbell, was charged with being drunk and
disordrly, in London-road, at six in the morning. The
excuse' given' by, the .prisoner was as. follows; —She had
been promenading - about the streets all night with a
"first-class", -gentleman," who had'a first-class little King
Chailes dog with hfin. Having perambulaied the thorou gh°-
fares and admired the public bnildings up to • six in the
morning, they went to refresh themselves with a glass' of
sherry and bitters. There were tiree persons in the house,
and-they *anted to take the King Charles, and Ale inter-
fered to prevent them, and then followed the disturbance,
when the policemen came up and arrested her. She was
fined ss. • • _ _

CAUTION TQ PAWNBROKERS.—Mary Powell, the keeper
of a bad house in Spitalfields, was charged with having
pledged a Watch and gold - chain, belonging to • a -young
Scotchman, named William Walker. The prosecutor was
robbed in a house of ill-repute in Peter-street, and • the
woman who kept that house gave the watch to the prisoner,
who pledged it at Haymen's pawnshop, Whitechapel, for
£2. Mr. Haymen said the prisoner pledged the watch
and chain for £2. He knew her for a long time, but did
not know anything bad of her. Mr. Clough said, I have
great reason to complain of the conduct of this pawnbroker,
and have had to complain of him before. Bat, for one cir-
cumstance, I would have him in custody. Here he admits
that he knows this woman for some time to be the keeper
of a brothel, and he must very well know that she could
not get this watch and chain properly. I had a notion to
order him into custody, and I will do so very shortly, if he
does not alter his course of conduct. Mr. Haymen said the
watch was a common Geneva and the chain a common gold
one. Mr, Bluck, for the prisoner, said pawnbrokers should
not take in things after this fashion. He argued, however,
that the prisoner was not guilty in the present case, as she
got the' watch from another person in order to pledge it.
Mr. Clough trusted that in consequence of the conduct of
the pkwnbroker, his worship would order him to restore
,the•property.without payment. His worship fined the
prisoner £5 for illegally pledging the property, and ordered
Mr: 'Hayman to give up the watch and chain without any
Payment.
DESPERATE OUTRAGE AND STREET ROBBERY IN THE
OPEN DAY.—A young ruffian named Andrew Jones, alias
Ormond, alias Wilkinson, was brought up by detective
officer Patrick, charged with having been concerned in the
following gross outrage,committed on a lady named Jannette
Owyne, who resides at Northumberland buildings, Park.
The lady said about five o'clock the previous
evening she was passing down Scotland road, in
company with her sister, when she saw the prisoner, along
with another man, pass near them. The prisoner pointed
to her watch, and the man ran at, and made a " grab" at
her watch, but did not get it then. • She turned round and
shook her parasol at them, s " You, vlllians, you.
want to steal my watch." They then went away, and
complainant, with her sister, went on to the corner of
Dale-street, where the prisoner and the other man again
came up, and pushed violently between them, both the
men at the same time seizing her by the chest, and
Wrenched the watch off the chain, and ran away with it.
She ga,A3 information at the Central Office, Dale. street,
and in some time after Patrick arrested the prisoner, from
description, in Scotland-road, amongst a lot of thieves,
The prisoners were fully committed for trial. [How such
an Outrage could be perpetrated at five o'clock, in such a
Pokulous neighbourhood, without any one coming to the
assistance of the lady, is at present inexplicable.]
_Cooi.--John Davis and Robert Renshaw, were charged
with stealing a calf, belonging to George Wardell. The
animal was in the yard of the Red Lion public-house,
London-road, from whence the prisoners drove it out, and
sold 'it for £l. They were sent to gaol for three
months each.

Thomas Johnston was sent to gaol for three months as
a rogue, vagabond, and impostor, and for obtaining a
shilling from Mr. Tate, watchmaker, 51,Christian street, by
representing that his wife was dead, and that he was col-
lecting money to bury her. He had formerly been con-
victed of a like offence.

At LEWIS & COMPANY'S, Ranelagh street,
BOYS are CLOTHED from the bees of 6 to 20 Years.

SOUTHAMPTON, May 25.—The S.B. Petropolis left here
to-day for Portugal and the Brazils. She took out a
rather heavy ship mail, 60 passengers, and about 600 tons
of cargo. On leaving the dock she damaged her screw and
put back.
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TURIN, Monday.—The King, the Empress of Russia, and
the King of Saxony, were present, on Sunday, at a grand
concert in the theatre of Turin. The Empress of Russia
set out this morning, at nine o'clock, for Switzerland,
taking the route by Mount Cones.

A -HOUSEBREAKER BESIEGED. —At the Manchester
police court on Monday, George Jones, a young smart-
looking fellow, but who seemed to feel the degradation of
his position, was committed for trial under the following
circumstances : —On Sunday, about four o'clock in the
morning, police constable Finney, Pall Mall, heard a noise
and saw a light in the shop of Messrs. Jones and Co., tea
dealers. By looking in under the ;oar he could see the
lower italfof a man, io was walking. about, with a lighted
candle. • Having communicated with the Town Hell,
officers were stationed at each corner of the block of build-
ings, bounded by King-street, Pell-Mall, Chapside, and
Chapel Walks, and Sergeant Bateman, Inspector Buckley,
and Constable Hodgson were deputed to search the
premises. After the glance which Finney got of a man
inJenes and Co.'s shop, the next that was seen of anything
like a depredator was by Constable Mason, who, about
four a.m., espied the prisoner on the roof. On asking him
what he was doing there, the reply was that he was looking
for a ball ! A ladder was at once procured from the
Town's Yard, but before the constable could get to the
roof, the prisoner was gone ; he had, however, left the
traces of his footsteps sufficiently plain to show that he
had been up and down more than one skylight during the
night. Sergeant Cockroft, one of the officers who unsuc-
cessfully searched the roof, descended by means of a ladder
into a yard behind Jones and Co.'s shop, and there found
a pair of shoes. The search was continued, so far as cold
be without the keys of all the premises, and watch kept all
Sunday and Sunday night, and up till nine o'clock next
morning, when Sergeant Batsmen, accompanied by
Constable Mason, found the pri,oner in a cellar under the
silk warehouse of Messrs Preston and Co., (tate Bindloss
and Preston,) lying at full length under some bags, and
without his shoes. In the cellar was also fonnd 13s Bd,
wrapped in a handkerchief, and in another place 3s and a
quantity of receipt stamps. The shoes picked up by
Clockroft were found to belong to the prisoner. On inquiry
being made, it turned out that the prisoner had been, but
not very recently, in the employment of Messrs. John C
liffe and Co., printers, Bing-street, the back window of
whose premises looks directly into the back window of
Mr. Jones's. The prisoner appears to have secreted him-
self in these premises on Saturday night, and after taking
the receipt stamps, from thence got into the yard, and so
into Mr. Jones's shop, from which between £5 and £6,
mostly in silver, was taken. In the course of the night
he also appears to have visited the shop of Mr. M'Stephens,
clothier, Kent-street, (getting into it from a common stair)
and to have got packed up, ready for lifting, a coat and
pair of trousers. It is some time since the capture of a
thief has caused such excitement as the besieging of this
lad, .• Jones," during the night and an entire day.
EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL OF STRRNGTH.---The Troy Times,
of the 6th ult., recounts a singular trial of strength,
which took place in that city on Saturday evening between
James Madison, " the cast-iron man," and Professor Carl,
? the strongest man in America." The challenge for a trial
of strength, sent by Carl, having been accepted, a large
assembly witnessed the performance. .',e Previous to the trial
Professor Carl gave an exhibition of magic and ventrilo-
quism, performed his celebrated guitar and drum solos,
balanced sixteen chairs upon his chin, and performed
other teats calling for an exercise of strength which must
have wearied him somewhat. Mr. Madison then ap-
peared--held an anvil, weighing 2141b5., upon his breast,
while two men struck upon it with sledges ; held as anvil
upon each knee ; broke a number of stones with his fist ;
bent a bar of iron one-fourth of an inch thick by striking
it over his arm ; and held an anvil, weighing about 2001b5.,
upon each arm, while men struck neon it with sledges.
Professor Carl then appeared, held the anvil upon his
breast • bent the bar of iron almost double upon his arm ;
held the anvils upon his arms, &c,, for a longer period
than Mr. Madison had done. He then took the large
flint stones which had been rejected by his rival, and
hammered them to pieces, signalising his performance by
cracking in two a flag stone about large enough to serve
as a stepping block fur a door. After this he held one of
the heavy anvils over his head for forty-one seconds ;
lifted a sixty-pound weight upon his little finger, and
swung it round his head, and held two men on his hair
while he twirled them about, top fashion, until their feet
struck out an angle of forty-five degress. Mr. Madison
was then called out by the audience, and requested to give
an account of himself. He excused' himself in the matter
of the stones, by saying that his rival was in constant
practice while he had not broken a stone for a year.
Being urged to swing the weight about his head, he
declined to do it, on the score of inability, and as Pro-
fessor Carl had not held the anvils on his knees. In short,
he virtually acknowledged himself a whipped man. The
Times of the 7th says :—" The cast-iron man, Mr. James
Madison, complains that we did not fairly state all that
he Performed in hie contest of feats of strength with
Proiessear Carl. It is true we forgot to mention that a
paving stone was placed upon his breast, and broken with
sledges ; hut thie was no feat of strength—it was a reck-
less hazard of life, e,ehich we hope he will never be so
foolish as to reneat."