Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-14 00:00:00

A SINGULAR FLIGIII%

At the Lambeth Police-court, Thursday, Mary Smith,
a smartly-dressed young woman, 22 years of age, was
brought before Mr. Norton on the following charge:—
Mr. Cook, the proprietor of the Rod Cross Inn, at Keston,
Kent, said that about 15 mouths since the prisoner en-
tered his service, and remained in it until Tuesday morning
last, when in coming down stai-s he missed both her
and his nephew, a boy ten years of age, from his house.
He drove without delay to the Beckenham Railway
Station, in the hope of hearing some tidings of them, but
was disappointed in that hope, and he learned nothing
whatever about them until the Wednesday night, when a
neighbour of his informed him that on the morning he had
accidentally met his nephew in the neighbourhood of
Peckham He, in censequenee, came to town on that
morning, and, having traced the pri'oner and th?t,boy to
the house of a Mrs. Lawrence, he gave the former into
custody. In reply to the questions of the magistrate, the
wituese said the prisoner had behaved herself very well
while is his sorvice, bat had lately given herseif up a good
deal to reading the " trashy" publications of the day,
and also got dresses and other things on credit from the
" tally men" or bakers, who came to his house.
She had not expressed the slightest dissatisfaction with her
situation, nor had she given the slightest notice of her
intention to leave. The prisoner, is reply to the charge,
said that she had lately become unhappy in her mind, and
her mother's nephew becoming unhappy also, they had
agreed on Monday night last to start at an early hour in
the morning for to .sn. 03 the following morning.,
between one and two o'clock, Mister Cooke came into
her room, and said he was dressed and ready to start.
They then made their way out of the bou3e, while
all the other inmates were asleep. They walked to town
to the house of a respeeehle person she knew, and her
intention was to provide the boy with a place and go to
service herself. The led alluded to was sworn, and his
account of the somewhat roneantic affair did rot diffee. in
any important particular from that of the prisoner. Mr.
Cooke here said, that some of tho articles of wearing
apparel taken away by his nephew were missing, and the
prisoner acknowledged she had panned them. The pri-
soner was remanded for a week, and Mr. Cooke kindly
undertook, rather than that she should lose her characer,
to take her back into his service at the end of that time.

BOYS' CLOTHING MADE WITH GREAT TASTE AT LEWIS and
COMPANY'S, Raneiagh-street.

THE FRIEDULENT CREDITOR.—IIe is an oily man, who
has made many bad bcbts during his commercial life, and
who always seems to extract nourishment from them. He
has generally been ♦ery badly treated by the fraudulent
debtor, but while the latter has scarcely a bad to lie down
upon, the fraudulent creditor manages to keep a good
b❑lance at his banker's. He seldom attends, and dill never
take the chair at a meeting of creditors. When an
arrangement is proposed, he always dec:ines, at present, to
come in, He has scruples and objections, and he takes
time to consider. He likes to be treated with individually.
God forbid that he should be the means of carrying the
affair to the Bankruptcy C,,urt, and injuring others; bat be
does not think there has been a fair statement rendered,
and he would rather lose the whole of his debt—ill as he
can afford it—than accept a dividend less tha❑ the estate
ought to pay. Ile holds out firmly, and when others get
ten shillings, he gets fifteen ; when others get fifteen, he
gets twenty. Failing this, he stands over until the debtor
begins trade again, aed then he advances his claim upon
' the new estate to the injury of the new creditors. He is
one of the most olestructive and dishonest men in trade,
and yet who would refuse his accep'ance for £5,000? It
may be that the twenty shillings in the peuud, with which
the hill will be paid, will be very dirty sbillings—shillings
that ought to have been in the pockets of other people, but
they fulfil the commercial requirements as to weight, and
the code of trading, marality exacts no other condition.—
Dickens' .11:9itsehold Words.

Exclasirejy for CL,OTHING BOYS front Six to Twenty Years
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