Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-30 00:00:00

"Wilful murder a

very brief consultation, the jury returned. a verdict of If 0 w
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_gainst some person or persons unknown."
In custody Jones seems perfectly indifferent to the serious-

ition which he occupies

Tlie Secret

Home Department defers offering any reward until thi
investigation has proved abortive.

•
LEDBURY, Saturday.—Jones, who stands charged on sus-
picion of being the mi-rderer in this shocking tragedy, was
brought up last night for examination before the magistrates
in special session. The evidence gone into was that of
Bowket, at whose house Jones lodged, and of another
lodger in the same house, and was directed to the point as
to what hour on the night preceding the discovery of the
murder Jones came home. Nothing very certain, however,
was elicited, and the examination was adjourned.

EXTRAORDINARY BILL DISCOUNTING.
At the Bail Court, London, on Friday, a criminal pro-
secution was tried against Thomas Huggins and George A.
Davis, for conspiring to cheat and defraud one Charles
Gruueberg of certain bills of exchange and chattels. The
defendant pleaded not guilty. The indictment had been
removed by certiorari into this court for trial from the
Central Criminal Court. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., Mr.
Sleigh, and Mr. F. H. Lewis were counsel for the prosecu-
tion. Mr. Edwin Jame; Q.C., Mr. Doyle, and Mr.
M‘Donnell were counsel for the defendant Higgins; Mr.
Serjeant Petersdorff and Mr. Serjeant Ballantine, and Mr.
Metcalfe defended Davis. The plaintiff stated that he was
a native of Frankfort-on-the-Maine, where his father
possessed some property. He had been some years in this
country ; and in August, 1858, having a sum of £3OO left
him by his father, he took the Ashburnham Park grounds,
situate at Chelsea, of Mr. Simpson, at a rental of £lOO per
annum, for the purpose of establishing a nursery, &c., there.
In the course of the alterations, &c., that he found it
necessary to make on the grounds, his cash ran short, and
he informed Mr. Simpson that he was desirous of
raising some money to enable him to proceed with the
undertaking. Shortly after, Higgins called upon the
prosecutor, with one of Mr. Sim son's cards, and said
he understood that he (Gruneberg) was in want of some
money, and that he (Higgins) could procure him a sum
of about £5OO or £600,, representing himself to be a
person of position and means and acquainted with
various members of the aristocracy. The prosecutor
said he did not then want the money, and
would postpone it for a few weeks; however, in September,
he found that he really required some with which to conti-
nue the alterations he had commenced, when he again saw
Higgins, who said there would be no difficulty in obtaining
the required sum, and as the prosecutor was in immediate
want of cash, be suggested that the prosecutor should draw
a bill for £3O, which he (Higgins) would get cashed, so as
to carry the prosecutor over till the gentleman from whom
he was to get the larger sum had returned to town. Of that
bill the prosecutor received £lO, and when it became due he
was induced by the defendants to renew it, and also to give
them a bill for £9 odd with which to pay the interest of the
bill. Some other transactions of a minor character took
place between the parties, and it appeared that the
prosecutor had contracted a debt for £lOO with Mr.
Goddard, a builder, for which he had given a bill, and
which Mr. Goddard had paid over to a person named Dennis,
who, on its being dishonoured, obtained a judgment against
the prosecutor, and put an execution upon his premises.
Negotiations then took place between the parties, when the
defendants saw the execution creditor, and arranged for him
to withdraw on being paid a portion of his debt and the
costs, and accordingly three bills for £2l odd were drawn,
accepted, and endorsed by the parties. The defendants still
represented to the prosecutor that they could get him £3OO
or £4OO, and induced him to give a bill of sale upon the
understanding that the money would be forthcoming.
They subsequently got him to give a- second bill
of sale, on the ground that the first bill was informal, and
promised him he should have the money by six o'clock the
same evening, but failed to do so. The prosecutor subse-
quently complained to them, and demanded the documents
back, but they refused to give them up, Davis abusing him
and saving, this being on a Saturday night

" this e'en:

tor's wife) without a
bed to lie upon." They, however, did not act on that
night, but on the following Monday Higgins went to the
prosecutor's house, in the absence of himself and wife, and
on the servant's answering the door, he asked to be allowed
to enter to write a letter ; she complied with his request
and admitted him, but instead of his writing any letter he
admitted eight men, who in two hours stripped the house of
everything but her box under the above bill of sale, and the
goods were conveyed to Higgins's residence, where they were
seized for rent, and the greater portion of them afterwards
sold for the rent due and other expenses. Various witnesses
were called in support of the details involved in the above
outline of the case. Mr. Oxhenham deposed that he was a
clerk in the Insolvent Court. He produced two schedules
that had been filed by. Higgins. The first was filed on the
16th April, 1856, and the second on the 26th April, 1858.
He described himself in his schedule as an house and estate
agent, as the proprietor of the Chelsea and Kensington Weekly
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as a rurnisning ironmonger under a partnership,
on Ludgate-hill, and as a general commission agent.
Davis filed his schedule on the 16th April, 1856, and he
was discharged on the 16th June; 1856, having been
arrested on the previous 27th February. Davis described
himself as agent to the Mount Carbon Coal Company, as
ao,ent to the Sacramento Gold and Quicksilver Mining
Company, as the promoter of the Sydney and Melbourne
Railway Company, as the promoter of the Metropolitan
Light Company, as a stock, share, and general dealer, and
lodging-house keeper, sometimes using the name of George
Denham. The defence was that the defendants did not
promise to raise the money as alleged by the prosecution,
but that they had assisted him in raising money upon the
bills, for which they were responsible, and had had to pay
some of them, and the bill of sale was given honestly to
them, to protect Higgins from the liabilities he had incurred
.on bills of exchange for the prosecutor's benefit. The
learned judge in summing up said the bills of exchange
were never the prosecutor's property, the stamp having,
according to the evidence, been purchased by the defen-
dants, consequently the jury would have to confine their
attention to the seizing of the furniture, and say whether
the defendants had conspired together to defraud him of
that, by means of the bill of sale. The jury immediately
returned a verdict of guilty. The defendants, who were in
court the early part of the day, were called to receive judg-
ment, but were not to be four.d. Mr. F. H. Lewis then
prayed the judgment of the court. Mr. Justice Hill then
sentenced the defendants to nine months' imprisonment
each. Bench warrants will be applied for for their appre-
hension.

The death of the Dowager Duchess of Hamilton is
announced.
At Vienna, on Friday, it was reported that Prince
Gortschakoff had withdrawn from his post of foreign
minister in the Russian Cabinet, because the Emperor
Alexander had resolved to abandon the engagements under-
taken with France, and was inclined to save Austria.

• _
ThE NEW IMPORT DUTIES IN INDIA.—A deputation,
representing the exporting interest to India, waited upon

Lord Stanley, on Friday, to explain the hardship caused by
the sudden increase of import duties at Calcutta. Lord
Stanley, in reply, assumed the suddenness to have arisen
from the discovery of the alarming state of the finances.
The measure had also been decided upon here, but Lord

Canning, before the receipt of instructions from this side,
had been obliged to make the change at once on his own
responsibility. His lordship- promised to consider the
proposals of the deputation, but the postponement of the
act he considered as impossible.
ABDUCTION OF VOTERS.—At the Bury petty sessions a
charge was preferred against Zachariah Hardman, agent ;
Joseph Booth, brickmaker ; Phineas Murphy, cal;-driver ;
John Ogden, labourer; and William Sudren, of the firm of
James Sudren and Sons, calico printers, Bolholt, near Bury,
for having unlawfully used force, violence, or restraint, to
compel James Constantine, stonemason, to refrain from
voting in the election of a member of Parliament, and with
having assaulted him without just cause. The proceedings
were taken under the 17th and 18th Victoria, cap. 102, sec.
5. It was stated that on the day before the last election
for Bury, Mr. P. Peel and Mr. Barnes being the
candidates, the defendants took up Constantine in
broad daylight, forced him into a cab, kept himanthere by
main force, conveyed him to a

aw at Atley-
bridge, near Bolton, took him r
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into a back
room, beat him severely for making a noise, refused his
liberty, searched his pockets, took three sovereigns from
him, forcibly poured spirits into him, and otherwise grossly
abused him. He effected his escape by dashing a bucket
through the window of the public house, which had the
effect of attracting, the attention of people outside, and he
got to Bury in time to vote for Mr. Barnes. The defen-
dants pleaded not guilty. Mr. Higgin and Mr. Fearnley
made application to the bench for an adjournment of the
case, on the ground that the issuing of the summonses only
bore date of the 24th instant, and that there had not been
time to prepare a defence, as they were not instructed until
Thursday last. It was ultimately arranged that the case
should stand adjourned until Saturday, the 25th of June.
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TO STOP

YELLOW

Eat—or sell—:

W A R-

Put the. Royal Reprobates in the front of the battle, and there
let them do as Norman William proposed to Harold before

GOOD MEDICINE!
C HEAP COFFINS!!

B UTTE R! ! !

A very worthy old Lady has written to the Butterman—protest-
ing against " the mixture as above," which has lately appeared in
the papers.

The meaning is this—
ay yellow Butter and you will not require either of
the other articles.

HAVE THIS DAY

ADVICE TO JOHN DILI

Keep your hands in your pockets.
You *ill find it do you good three ways :
First—'Twill soothe your mind;
Second - 'Twill keep you from fighting;
Third 'Twill prevent the Continental thieves
getting their hands in.

ADVICE °TO THE PUBLIC.
Bring something to put your butter in during this hot weather

Lord Nelson-street, 12th May, 1859

WAR 1111115t111 ClItS.

BEEF, BREAD; BACON, AND PORK, UP,

Several interested parties have been saying that such being the
case, the Butterman ought to advance the price of the yello tv butter.
No, no," said the Butterman,
"No advance,—not a ' Korly cue;'"—that is, the nineteenth part of
a farthing, which is well known.

KELLY, THE BUTTERMAN,

For Twelve Nights onl:

TOP OF WILLIAMSON-SQUARE,
Sells Butter twelve hours daily, from Seven to s'even

The new warrant, by which the rank, pay, and general
position of the medical officers of the royal navy are
henceforth to be regulated, is spoken of with great appro-
bation in several of the papers. The _Daily Hews says it is
a proof of Sir J. Pakington's zeal and honesty of purpose.
LADlES.—Thompson Brothers, 5, Elliot-street, sell the
best four shilling tea in England.
LEWIS AND COMPANY'S NEW ESTABLISHMENT FOR
BOYS' CLOTHING.—Number of boys clothed for the week
ending Saturday, May 28th, 928: corresponding
week last year, 895.—Increase, 33 boys.
HOUSEKEEPERS.--The coffee sold by Thompson
Brothers, 5, Elliot-street, at is. 4d., is better than you
pay ls. Bd. for at any other establishment.

In reply to Messi.s. Pietroni and Draper, the Foreign
Office states that the Duchy of Tuscany is to be considered
a belligerent country, to which the terms of the recent
neutrality proclamation are to be held applicable.
It is a well known maxim that "time is money"—the
terms are relative ;so to save one is to save the other. We
save both time, and economise patience, and present good
tempers, when we have a good PEN—a bad one upsets pati-
ence and temper. Preserve all, then, by purchasing your
steel pens and other stationery, at E. T. Hall's whole-
sale steel pen warehouse. 23, o.t th John-street. John
Gillott's, Thomas Lowe's, G. W. Hughes, and other maker's
dens at is per gross. Good Pen Holders 2d per dozen. d
CAUTION ! —RIFLEMEN ! !—Don't form without taking
box of Dr. Torren's Herbal Pills! They purify the blood !!
Strengthen the nerves !! I Preserve health !! ! !
No SHIP SHOULD GO TO SEA without one of Saunders
and Co.'s Patent Selt-cleansing Charcoal Filters, cased and
fitted-up expressly for use on board ship. Note the address,
SAUNDERS & CO., 16, Parker-street, Liverpool.
EXTRAORDINARY AND USEFUL INVENTION.—There is
nothing that housewives complain of with greater truthful-
ness, than the breaking of some favourite piece of glass,
valuable china, or earthenware. In hundreds of cases such
things cannot be matched, and of course cannot be mended.
The latter want has been obviated by an extraordinary and
effective invention, by Mr. Adshead, of Derby Pottery, near
Derby. It is a cement that may be said to heal in a per-
fect manner, all cracks and breaks in the articlesspoken of ,
and not only in these, but in marble, alabaster, &c. The
benefit of this article need not be dwelt on. We have seen
some of its effects at Mr. Hall's, our neighbour's, and the
glass that ha's been cemented by it is stronger in that part
than in any other. The article is very cheap, and no house
can be long without it. Mr. Hall is the agent for its sale
in Liverpool, and all interested can judge for themselves by
looking in at his establishment. Agent for Liverpool, E.
T. Hall, 23, South John-street. Sold in bottles, is each,
or sent free on receipt of sixteen postage stamps. N.B.—
None are genuine, except bearing the signature. "E. T.
Hall."
To SHIPPERS AND EXPORTERS.—A most profitable
article of export, to warm climates especially, are the Self-
cleansing Charcoal Filters, patented by Messrs. Saunders
and Co., of 16, Parker-street, Liverpool—in fact they are
invaluable wherever there is bad water. S. and Co. allow
a liberal discount on export and wholesale orders.
AMUSEMENTS IN LIVERPOOL. —Open from ten in the
morning until ten at night. Allsop's Wax-Work exhibition.
All the kings and queens, from and inclnding William the
Conqueror, down to Queen Victoria ; also, princes and
princesses, dukes, duchesses, lords, eminent statesmen,
warriors, poets, divines; also all the most noted personages
of the past and present ages, &c. Allsop's sculpture galleries,
containing upwards of 3,000 statues, selected from all parts
of the world, varying from five to twenty feet in height.
Allsop's dioramic, panoramic' cosmoramic, and stereoscopic
views of intense interest Allsop's musical promenade.
The above attractions are now combined, forming one large
establishment, in the immense and magnificent building
known as the Teutonic-hall, next door but one to the
County Court, Lime-street, Liverpool, and nearly opposite
the Adelphi Hotel, and is open to the public at 6d each ;
children under ten years of age, 3d each. Mr. Allsop's
exhibition has been pronounced by the press of Liverpool,
London, and elsewhere, to be the most perfect, superbly-
magnificent, and largest establishment in the world; a fact
that cannot possibly be contradicted. Be sure to observe
the name, "Allsop," at the entrance. Sole proprietor, Mr.
Wm. Allsop.

THE NORTHERN TIMES, MON- DAY, MAY 30, 1859

REDUCED THEIR PRICE

SHAG TOBACCO

TWOPENCE PER POUND

COBB BROTHERS, AND COD,

rpHEATRE ROYAL, WILLIAMSON-SQUARE.—
Mr. W. R. COPELAND has great pleasure in announcing
that he has succeeded in effecting an engagement with the
PYNE AND HARRISON
ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY,

This justly celebrated Company, whose performance of English
Opera (during the late seasons at the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane,
and Royal English Opera House, Covent-garden, under the immediate
patronage of Her Most Gracious Majesty and H.R.H. the Prince
Consort) have called forth unqualified praise from the whole of the
metropolitan press, and have for twenty-six consecutive weeks
filled the above theatres to overflowing, will appear at the Theatre
Royal On MONDAY next, May 30th. 1859.
The Pyne and Harrison Royal English Opera Company includee,
amongst others, the following, celebrated Artistes:—