The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

circus, wearing a crimson skin dress. He placed his great
coat at the bottom of the basket, then got in himself,
taking with him a bottle of brandy and a few oranges.
The basket was closed, and in this state was Mr. Baker
conveyed to Bradford, and deposited at the Bermondsey
Hotel. Here he remained for a considerable time, when
he was re-conveyed to the railway station. and despatched
to Leeds, where he arrived a little before half-past six,
thus winning his singular wager. He was brought from the
railway on a coach, and, in the presence of a great crowd,
was liberated from his confinement in front of the circus.
MURDER AT OTLEY.—George Towleson, Robert Far-
rar, Nathaniel Sell°ley, and William Jacques have been
committed to York Castle, for the murder of John Daw-
son. The prisoners are navvies, and have been employed
with others in making a reservoir. Having partaken
largely of drink, on Saturday, they left the Red Lion,
Otley, at twelve o'clock, and immediately began to smash
the windows of the houses in the street, and to behave
otherwise in a riotous and disorderly manner. They
struck several persons who were attracted by their noise,
and at length attacked Robert Dawson, whom they vio-
lently abused. John Dawson, his brother, who went to
his assistance, was stabbed in the thigh by one of the men,
and almost immediately bled to death. The fellows then
ran about like madmen, threatening to stab all who ap-
peared. Six or seven persons, male and female, were
stabbed and cut by them, one or two dangerously. They
made off on the road to Bradford, and were overtaken by
the constables, who, in capturing them, received several
wounds from the knives which they used in resistance.—
A verdict of wilful murder was returned, on Monday,
against all five prisoners.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—An interesting young woman
came before the magistrates at Brighton, yesterday week,
to affiliate a child upon Charles Theobald, a servant in
livery, not more than seventeen years of age. A letter
was read from the young villain as follows Hope-
place, Oct. 17. ' Absence makes the heart grow fonder.'
(Laughter.) Dear Mary—dearest Mary,—l hope I shall
hear better news from you when you write. I received
your third letter last Saturday, and am sorry to find you
in such a bad state. Generally people don't feel so faint
when they are so far gone as you are.—(Laughter.) ff,
Dear Mary, I hope you wont forget to tell the nurse
not to bring the child into the world—(great sensation in
the court)—for you know what a burden it will be to us.
We shall never be able to enjoy ourselves, for every shil-
ling we have to spare must go for the child."—The magis-
trate told him to be upon his guard, for they should have
an eye upon him, and if lie offered anything like evil to
the poor girl or her offspring, he would suffer for it. The
defendant was then bound over to keep the peace, and an
order was made upon him for 2s. 6d. a week for the sup-
port of the child.
A CLEVER IMPOSTOR.—On Friday last an Irishwoman
was brought before the magistrates at the Mansion House,
charged with raising money by fictitious representations
of distress. In the course of the hearing, a magistrate
of the county of Essex, Mr. Fry, gave the following
curious account of the prisoner's past history :—" The
prisoner is well known to me and my brother magistrates.
Of all the impostors 1 have ever seen, she is certainly be-
yond all comparison the most accomplished. Several
families, and particularly the ladies, who are most likely
to be imposed upon, have been her victims for the last
six or seven years. She has one son in a London prison,
and another son confined for felony elsewhere, and she
is no doubt bringing up her family to the practices by
which she has been supporting herself. I shall give one
instance of her tact and skill as a professional :—She
called upon a lady at Stratford of the name of Soames,
and pathetically represented that she had a child lying
dead, and that she was without the means of laying it in
the ground. She sought assistance to defray the funeral
charges, and the lady expressed her willingness to give
the aid required, but said that before she would render
it she must ascertain the truth of the statement. The
prisoner thereupon conducted her home and pointed to
the bed, on which there appeared to be a corpse with a
sheet over it. That evidence was quite satisfactory, and
the lady contributed half a sovereign to the charitable
purpose and retired. Upon leaving the house, however,
it occurred to her that she might have been imposed up-
on, and she listened for a short time under the window.
She was not long in that situation when she heard a voice
cry out in a querulous tone, " Mother, how long am I
to remain dead ?" (Great laughter.)
PREMATURE BALDNESS.—Mr. J. Sergeant, bookseller,
of Linton, Cambridge, has made public a curious case of
a young man, named Haylock, of Ashdon, whose hair
came off entire from some very unaccountable cause, and
left him in a state of premature baldness. He purchased
from Mr. Sergeant several popular preparations, which he
applied, but without any effect whatever. At last, how-
ever, he made trial of the Macassar Oil of Messrs. Row-
lands, of London, and exhibited to the most incredulous
the proof of its efficacy in a thick crop of hair. Mr.
Sergeant permits a direct reference to him on this very
interesting fact.—The Observer.
FINE FLOWING RINGLETS.—The care of the hair in
infants and young children is, by experienced mothers
and nurses, too little regarded. No mistake can be more
injurious than the supposition that neglect in this par-
ticular can continue with impunity. The seeds of
strength or weakness are laid in the nursery; and the
majority of the fine flowing ringlets or bald heads, of
after years, are traceable to this early period.—OLD-
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