The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-28 00:00:00

comannAL OF A IVAXEFIELD TRADESMAN.

For some time past Messrs. William Taylor and Son,
crachbuilders, of Wakefield, have had the seats of their
carriages cut open, and the curled horsehair with which
they were stuffed abstracted. Information of these depre-
dations having been given to the police, a watch was set,
and on Tuesday last they succeeded in apprehending two
two men, Lamed Patrick M'Donald, alias Wells, and
Richard Doyle They were taken before the magistrates
and committed for trial on the charge. During the time
they were in custody, the chief constable gleaned from
hem information which caused him to go to the shop of
Mr Alexander Brady, furniture dealer. He asked Mr.
Brady whelh.r he had purchased any horse hair from.
M'Donald and Doyle. Mr Brady said "No ; what I buy
came. from Skelmanthorpe " He said he had only about
2lb of horse hair in his warehouse at that 'ime. This he
produced The chief constable told him of the robberies
which had taken place, when he (Brady) promised to let
the police know if any psr,on offered him horse hair for sale.
This was on Taebday morning About one o'clock on the
same day, the chief constable, with Inspector Baton, again
went to Mr Brady's warehouse, when they discovered
a quantity of curled horse hair in a tub. There was
also another quantity made up into a package and ad-
dresled to Mr Benjamin Miller, general dealer, Manchester
street, Hudder,field. The direction Mr. Brady acknow-
ledg d was in hi handwriting, and some tufts of blue cloth
mixed with the hair were recognised by Mr. Taylor, jun.,
as cloth from the seats of his own and his father's carriages.
Mr. Brady has hitherto borne an irrepra.chable character.
He was a candidate at the last municipal election for the
office of town councillor. It was given in evidence by
Mr. Mirklethwaite, barrister, who appeared for Mr.
Brady, that he was frequently absent from his place of
business, and that his wife had then full power to pur-
chase or sell. After hearing the evidence, the bench
considered it was a case for a jury, and committed Mr.
Brady for trial.

TROOPS AND STORES FOR CHINA.—On Stturclay last two
companies of the Royal Sappers and Miners arrived at
Woolwich front Chath on, and embarked on board the
Neleus, transport vessel, whi&a left the hart:l9lllr
,for her
destination at 4 p.m. Upwards of tvvelty ammuniti
w iggons, laden with war stores from the tawer, arrived at
Woolwich Arsenal on Saturday afterneoe. for shipment, on
board transport vessels lying off the Arsenal pier.
MR. J. M. COBBETT M P. —At a recent me ting of the
magistnees for the western divi4an of the county of Sussex,
this gentleman was elected their chairman, in the r out of
Mr. R. Prime, one of the late rn- mbErs for West Sussex,
who bad resigned in coesequentio of his advanced age.
The Duke of It chinood proposed Mr. Cobbett ,sirnuly on
the ground of his high character and 1:111 attainments,
and his grace remarked that though opposed to Mr.
Cebbett's political principles, be would not allew such
considerations to influence him on the matter then in
question. Mr. Cobbett was elected by a large majority.
ESCAPE FROM Feistier BY A WOMAN.—AII the attempts
at modern " J.,ek Sheppardistn" have been outstripaed at
York, by a woman of the name. of Armstrong, who has
escaped from the House of Correction there. She was
tried at the list July assizes in the above city, along with
two men, for a burglary, and am was ordered by Mr.
Justice .Willes to be imprisoned for eighteen months. She
bad been placed in the hospital along with another female
convict, and having, before the dawn of earls morn, made
a rope, by tearing in pieces a rug and the bed ticking in
her room, she walked out of the hospital, the door not
having been fastened, into one of the yards. She next
climbed over some hi. paisad.s into the yard adjoining
the outer wall, which must be about fourteen yards high,
ard then on to the roof of a building used for washing
purposes, where she fixed her rope, and safely descended
on the outside of the wall, making good her retreat some
two or three hours before the slumbering guardians of the
prison had even dreamt, or been made at are, that so bold
an attempt by a female had proved successful.