The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-12 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF CONSPIRAC'

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At Guildhall, Ellen Griffin and Eliza Field, two -h deefore
looking middle-aged women, were brought uP f_tesrge
Alderman Lawrence, Sir It. W. Carden, and Sir The
Carroll, charged under the following circumstances oyse
facts of this case were of a somewhat extraordinaritoi
meter. It appeared that a short time ago Mr. All'l4ooo
a surgeon, of Newgate-street, received an anonY _ed
letter, requesting him to send a sovereign by post, addereisevi,
to Mrs. Griffin, hatter, Little Cheapside, to Mrs- Clog
Black Lion-yard, Whitechapel, or to a third person el re
name and address were given different to the others• oat
writer of the letter also threatened that unless the reocid
of
were complied with, Mr. Allingham would be acetoief
offences of the most abominable description-
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taken legal advice upon the receipt of that lotte for
communicated with the police on the subject, Mr kpred•
ham enclosed a farthing in a letter, which .he regret the
and put a small cross in one corner, as requested On,
applicant. Thain, a detective officer, then watehetoen
delivery of the letter to the prisoner Griffin, who e„epef
she expected the letter, and that the cross in the co e 1!
was a private mark, used by her and her friend inf.rfit;
correspondence. Upon this the officers Thain and
took her into custody. She, however, denied all
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ledge of the letter received by Mr. Allingham,4 bef
evidence was adduced to show that the letter was lOd In
handwriting. She was remanded for a few days, rock
the interim, the prisoner Field, who, from the gre,a'a 01/
tability she evinced, was considered of unsound Inith'es
apprehended at Black Lion-yard, one of the address 4 sod
which the money was to be sent. She was remands et
brought up yesterday with the prisoner Griffin!Aocst
Thain said he was not prepared with any further o:iu case
and he did not think he should be' able to carry tne factoany further even if the prisoners were remanded; in eat
he had every reason to believe that the prisoners vretif Is 4
accomplices. J rvis, in answer to questions from, ,
W. Carden, said he believed Field got her Word?,
fortune telling, as he found a pack of cards at her help
and had ascertained that she made as much as frelligrs•
to per day by that means at one place alone. ~11$10
Harrow, a blooming young damsel, here came for"bout
and said she had had her fortune told by Mrs. Field slid De
twelve months ago, when she predicted she vten told
married, and would lose her child. Most of what shy{,
her had proved true, for her little girl did die. Sir yerf
Carden said the writing of the letter produced wand 001
similar to one he had received, but the threats het brae
were not so severe. In his case the writer gave „all;
addresses, and desired that £5 should be sent to Utter
but being rather impatient, the writer sent another
on the same clay to his private residence, containine'ooo
same threatening demands. Of course he did 11°Vhillb
the money; and if the writer had known anything ;1% WI
that party must have known his (Sir R. W. Carden iele
the wrong house to apply to. It was quite clear 17-eta
was not right in her mind, and he thought the b
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course would be to send her to the union to he takelif -her,
of. Field said she had no relatives to take care on
and when she left this court she would go to he'to
be
home. If the magistrate sent her again to prisolltothil
locked up, when he came out she would go straieht,,,-01n,
Queen and make her complaint against him. She -son
speak what she meant if she were before fifty thou,his
kings, and if the alderman should be no more out %old
mind when dying than she was at that moment, he " the
do. All she wished for was the name and address
person who had talsely accused her that she might Prug
him, as she had been persecuted for the last five fe.ed the'
one scoundrel or another. The officers having sellthei
knew where to find the prisoner Griffin at any timetia
got further evidence, she was discharged, and Field
sent to the union.

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY --T regghe
meeting was held obt Tuesday, Viscount Ranelagh
chair . The report, of which the followin is an iTuo'
was read and adopted :—Tne sa!e of the Kentiash
Estates was commenced on the 22nd of January :tol be
satisfactory allotment. Some of the best sites maY 'earl!
selected on this valuable property, although TO
.elo,ooo in amount was realised on the first tia7;',
next allotment has been fixed for the 2nd of APr'' WI"
when the estate in Taunton, in West Somersetshice2 pro•
be offered. On the 7th of March, 1857. the shares Tareg,
gross were 10,975; shares completed, 2.118 ; to
13,093; receipts, 4'284 970. Total for land As"; 016,
March 7, 1857, £203,046 8s 83. Total wi'h,"' 0571
from the formation of the society to March coal
total °,_';(ll
£39,783 14s 7d. The anticipations of the Evecutiled. at a
politically, mittee in their report of 1853 have been fully realise„i: the
Conservative Land Society has been amply testa opt
as well as commercially the success ua and
established, and for the continuance of wbich the
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exertions will be cheerfully made. The other bu°
being disposed of, the meeting separated.