Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-26 00:00:00

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E MURDER AT LEDBURT

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--The greatest excitement

money has been found near

the spot, and some of it is identified. Some circumstances,
which have caused a suspicion to attach to a certain person,
are being folloived up with circumspection and diligence;

might probably be frustrated by the publication of wliat has
been ascertained. Williamson, of the London detective
force, has arrived at Ledbury, and is prosecuting his
inquiries, with the assistance of the local police.

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.

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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 Gd 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.

EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY OF A PURSE FROM A THIEF.
—The following is about the most extraordinary instance
of the recovery of stolen nronerty from a thief that w.

remember to have bear

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o'clock two respectable women were walking in Corporation--
street towards Market-street. One of them had in her right
hand a small velvet purse and also parasol. The purse con-
tained £9 lOs in gold, I.os in silver, and a £5 note ; the
money being partly saved, and partly borrowed, and all
intended as a means of entering upon a small business. In
Corporation-street, the women were met by three rough
fellows wearing caps, who boggled in passing, as if they
were not certain whether." to keep to the right would be
right." While this was going on, the purse-bearer.(whom
we may call Mrs. A-,) heard a sharp snap, as did also
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her friend; but Mrs. A--- looking &N.-I,n, A3erved that
her shawl brooch. was unfastened, and to its slipping
she attributed the noise. After walking on for a few
yards, she discovered that the handle of her parasol wasr
missing, having been snapped off; but, incomprehensible as
it may appear, she had forgotten that she had been carrying
her purse in her hand, and she still had no suspicion of her
loss. Not until two hours had passed did she ascertain that
the purse, and the £l5 is contained, were no longer in her
keeping. Then she was almost distracted; for not to have
recovered the money, would have been ruin to- all her
prospects. But, in the best sense of the words, Mrs. A.
seems to be really a " strong-minded woman ;" and,
rejecting the advice of a friend to go at once to the
police and describe, as well as she could, the fellows
whom she now supposed to have robbed her, she started
rapidly for the residence of the lender of the £5 note, with
a view to ascertain its number. In this she succeeded, and
hurriedly she retraced her steps to the centro of the city,
intending now to go to the detective office, and gain the
aid of the police. In Deansgate, when near the Parsonage,
she saw standing seven or eight men, looking very much
of the same class as the three she had such stronr,
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reasons to remember having encountered in Corporation-
street. She neared them ; and with a comprehensive and
most keen glance in passim, she saw that one of the group
was in the act of showing something to his comrades, that
that something was of the colour of her purse, and that' the
fellow had hastily turned so as to hide from her his act and
its object. At the same instant, she recognised this man as
having been the nearest to her of the three in Corporation-
street and, dashing through the group, she seized what
the thief held. lie and they were all but paralysed by the
suddenness of the meeting and the pounce ; he strove to fling
her off, and they began to hustle hustle her, but she maintained her
grasp, and with a last wrench, when all but exhansted, she
carried off—her purse, with note, gold, and silver, as it left her
hand some four hours previously. During the scuffle twenty
or thirty persons gathered round, but they may well be
excused for not comprehending the real nature of what was
going on; and Mrs. A--, in her excitement, was not
likely to give them much information.. There happened,,_ar
not to be a policeman near, and so the thief has escasp d f
the present. A "moral " may be aypendei.A
circumstances,
ladies
generally are not likely to be under similarr
all should avoid
so lucky or so daring as Mrs.
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walking in the streets with purse in .
f "uncontrollable
hand,lest its exhibition
pursue his
should create in the breast of a
impulse " (as doctors in lunacy thief
it) to
vocation.—.Afanchester Guardian.