The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-10 00:00:00

AN EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER

gAt one of the London Police Courts, on Wednesday,
annah Hanson, a singular looking little person, about
three feet high, and nearly 70 years of age, was brought
be, the Hon. G. C. Norton, for final examination on a
TtlaTirge of stealing a cloak, the property of Master George
or. The prisoner has been known for many years in
"e Pariah of Lambeth, as a hawker of trifling articles,
!but her stock in trade was so small and insignificant,
vivlat it merely formed a pretext for begging. On Tuesy eek the prisoner, in passing through a part daof 44rixton where there were some schoolboys at play,
!vas seen to pick up the cloak of one of the lads, and
ruck it into her basket. She escaped detection
at the time, and managed to get rid of the
pro
; hut one or two intelligent youths
clo wore positively to the fact of seeing her take the
` off the hedge where it had been' place', tuck
it her basket and wwk away. On this evidence the
prig: no.r was remanded, and taken to Horsmonger lane
e 4 :• When strapped, seventy sovereigns were found
-aPealeil on her person. It was also found that the room
lived in vv.is well furnished, and had every appearance
Of
Comfort about it. A solicitor attended for the p
enraeavoured, by cross examination, to shake therisoner, testi-
t,„
",113r of the youthful witnesses, but in this he completely
;.ad. The prisoner, whose volubility was such that it
4,.aa Most difficult to control her, in the most shrill and
:ree tones declared her innocence, and said she had
111ade her money while a servant and a wife, and should
et part with a shilling of it. Mr. Norton : Is your
ellsband living?—Prisoner : No, Sir, he is dead.
„ (tbe gaoler): But I understand you married a
40.cand husband two years since ?—Prisoner : Well, so I
t, but that was no marriage like, for the chap got £2O
, money, and bolt, d without ever bedding—(much
4116lirer)—and I don't know what has become of him.
tj: Norton : There can be no doubt whatever of your
char this cloak, and I might send you for trial on the
Wyoarge ; but I shall take the milder course, on account of
tjalage, and order yon to pay L. 5 out of this hoarded
th of yours, and in default of payment, you will be sent
Bkllrison for a month. Prisoner : Then I'll go to prison.
" £5 will pay the rent of my -oom while I am absent,
44d all I want is to be allowed to overhaul my basket,
iMake some arrangements with my landlady before I
ru to prison. Cook, the gaoler : I have saved you the
at. of of overhauling your basket, as you call
for I was obliged to do so, and a more
hmtaordinary collection I never saw, and the
i4't and other eatables in it I was obliged to throw
stn
ttle dust heap, as they were in a putrid and stinking
'tl Prisoner : Well, I will go to prison. It's a cruel ease
lia;etbsy should come against me and swear to, and they sha'n't
ot,'t a Penny of my money. Mr. Norton : I see what your
th,;let is. It is to savo the e money and live at the expense of
the '"unty ; but the law gives me power to order payment of
el,,irezialty out of the money found in your possession, and I
bot so, T.'s a fortunate thing for yourself that you had
ielii°ed a hundred years ago, when you would have been
g41:(1 for a witch. The prisoner, in a loud and shrill voice,
advise eclared that she should not pay a copper, though strongly
forthe by b.er attorney to do so, and was ultimately remanded
production of the money founclon her.

0.'„°,1 Brougham is expected to leave his chateau at
aisi!es, in the South of France, about the 20th instant,
1,41,",a re.urn to London, for the meeting of Parliament.
noble and learned' lord will remain a few days in
All on his way to this country.
tap" &?RICAN. EXODUS.—The Petersburg (Va.) Express
11111,L‘'' Our citizens are beginning to observe the unusual
slaves that are constantly passing through
111,'Ishurg, on their way south, and to the minds of many
ofl'ett:Crul of
t)af appears inevitable that it will need but the work
Nrt- or twenty years to clear Virginia completely of that
ilt, of her population. A company of one hundred passed
Oh on Saturday.
ltd ~~ENQERIN(i, DEATH, AND PERFUMERY.—The • indi-
flr4l,' who gained the prize of £4,000 at the March
1t)44 fing of the shares issued by the city of Paris, for the
alwa c'r improvements, was a scavenger. His wife had
tle,:s-desired that he should possess a higher and more
4'llll Y calling. When she beard of his unlocked for
les, she fell dead of extreme joy. Her husband was
Pro,i44.ected by his luck, and be has bought the stock and
(Itin ''',lll of a perfumer. Thus extremes meet. From the
nPans of Montmartre he has jumped to a shop filled
01. Patchouli, esprit des fieurs, and a thousand other
torigtf eul scents. Another strange instance of death from
1143, s and joy occurred this week. A
l. . poor non.com-
°Meer was charged with the duty of reading out
adB„4 I. Promotions in his regiment to his comrades. He
hgQbthe least idea that his own name was among the
41e
,her, and, when he came to it, he pronounced it
and then suddenly grew pale and expired.
Nre-.entioning the scavenger, we forgot to say that M.
lite Ole, Rothschild's cook, who gets £2,000 a year from
tra,Lanker, invests all his large sayings in the scavengering
""`"*--rather a curious fact.