The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-07-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DOINGS IN FORT ADAMS.—According to a letter received by a gentleman of this city, the following notable events have taken place in Fort Adams :—On Sunday evening last one man shot another's dog. During the same evening the report of two guns was heard—the dog-killer and the owner of the dog had shot at each other ; and the dog-killer had received a dose of small shot, and was supposed to be killed. The murderer was arrested, tried, and sentenced to gaol in Woodville. He escaped from the officers, and refused to be retaken—swore the judgment of the court was unjust—that he would kill the justice, and would then finally deliver himself pp. The justice, on hearins this, went to the house of the culprit with a double-barrelled gun and shdt him dead on the spot. He then went to Woodville, submitted to judicial examination on his own confession, and was acquitted. He then returned to Fort Adams, and to his great astonishment, found that the murdered men (as was supposed) were not dead, but were getting well, and that no great harm had been done.—New Orleans Bulletin.  SHOPLIFTING FXTRAORDINARy.—On Tuesday morning, a respectable-looking female, calling herself Mary. Davies, wearing a black silk bonnet, and black silk cloak, with velvet cape (over a print dress), was brought up at the borough court, charged with shoplifting, under the following circumstances :—Mr. Joseph Burgess, a shopman, in the employ of Messrs. White and Jones, haberdashers, silk mercers, &c., Exchange-street, stated, that on Monday afternoon, about five o'clock, the prisoner came into the shop, and asked to see some lutestrings. Witness showed her six or eight short lengths, and subsequently a roll of drab silk, upwards of 70 yards in length, and of considerable bulk and weight. She then asked for a blue, and witness showed her a sky blue, which, she said, was too light; and he then brought her a piece of dark blue silk, of which she took a very small quantity, and paid for i . t. While doing so, witness missed the large roll of dra 41k from the counter, and charged her with having taken it.' e denied it, on which he drew aside her cloak, but still t not see it. He then took her to another part of the shoo, and sent a young man to stand by the counter where she had been standing. He turned from her to follow the young man, but, on looking round at the prisoner, saw her placing the roll on the floor at her feet. He then sent for a policeman, and she was conveyed to the police office. Mr. Superintendant Sawley interrogated her as to her name, and place of residence ; but she obstinately refused to tell either. On Tuesday morning, however, she. told Mr. Sawley that her name was Mary Davies ; that her husband and herself lodged at the house of a Mr. Powell, a lodging. house keeper, in Holford-street, Liverpool ; that her husband was by trade a stonemason, but, for the last 13 years, he had laid down that craft for the more lucrative one of travelling in England with silks, lutestrings, shawls, scarves, &c., and that, having quarrelled with her husband on Monday' morning, she left him, and came to Manchester. She had a smart purse ; but its contents were only 2s. 4d. The landlord of the Hare and Hounds public-house in the parsonage, who was in court in another matter, here stated, that, as he believed, the prisoner and a man came into his house the day before, and had two glasses of ale ; and the female, who was dressed exactly like the prisoner, pulled from her cloak a roll of silk, and the man produced a sheet'of brown paper in which they wrapped it. The court stopped this statement as not sufficiently identifying the prisoner and directed that the examination should be taken against her for stealing the roll of silk at Messrs. White and Jones's shop.—Manchester Guardian.