The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-03-04 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MURDERER— Tie county magistrates at Boston, on Thursday, con. mitted William Harrod, eleven years of age, for trial for the wilful murder of Hoary Hebblewhite, aged tea years, at Fishtoft, on February D.—At the conclusion of this case the prisoner was further charged with haring caused the death of Arthur Shockley, aged ire years, by pushing him iuto a pond at Vishtoft, October lad. Oa this charge he was remanded foes week.  ALLEGED WHOLESALE FRAUDS BY AN EXECUTOR —On Wednesday, at the Liverpool Police Court, a merchant and insurance agent, named Henry Todd Maybe, of Liverpool and Birkenhead, was brought to charged with fraudulently misappropriating £38,600, the profserty of the widow and family of the late Mr. Outs. P. Dodson, of Rosebill, Prestbury, Gloncester. shire. From the statement of Mr. Cheshire of Chelte. ham, who proeecuteil, it appeared that Mr. Dodson died in 1832, and left a very large personal estate, consisting of railway and other shares. The prisoner, who was s brother of Mrs. Dodson, was appointed one of the executors. The estate was proved to be about £40,000 personalty. Immediately after the probate the prisoner appeared to have proceeded to systematically convert the shares to his own use, anti, as a result of his eppro. priations, Mrs. Dodson was reduced to a state of comparative poverty, whilst the six children were rendered almost penniless. In June, 1870, Mrs. Dodson received a letter from the prisoner, in which he confessed to having lost all her money, and also that of other per. sons; and this was followed by another letter to the same effect in October. He became a bankrupt, and his accounts showed that he owed his creditors abut £97,000, that he had misapproprheted £32,000 belonp lug too mercantile firm, and that he owed the Dodson family £47,000. His assets were £6OO, and in June, 1874, Mrs. Dodson received £l2O, or three nothings iu the pound upon her debt. The delay in the prosecution was owing to Mrs. Dodson's unwillingness to proceed against her brother. Evidence was taken, and the pri. soner was committed to the Assizes for tried. JOHN ESLEY AND THE GREEK Cuteness—The following letter appears in the Guardia., seconding the motion of the Bishop of Winchester in Convocation concerning the Bonn Conferenoe, I stated that John Wesley had gone so far as to communicate with the Greek Church in the year 1763, when he was • about sixty years of age, by requesting a Greek prelate, Erasmus, Bishop of Arcadia, in Crete, to ordain Wesleyan preachers to the priesthood. As this assertion was controverted on the followiug day (when I was not present) by a very learned person, for whom I entertain great respect and regard, it seems to be a duty to him i and to the Convocation to state the anhority for my I assertion. In the interesting vend instructive work. entitled " Life and Times of Wesly," written by Mr. Luke Tyerman, who is, I believe, or was s Wesleyan minister, and superintendent in the London district, and who writes in the interest of Methodism, and whose volumes are enriched with full and authentic documents concerning Wesley and Wesleyanism, are the following words (Vol. 11., p. 486. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1870) One of John Wesley's principal helpers was John Jones, a man of considerable learning, ot goof abilities, and of deep piety, and who for seventeen year had acted the part of an itiperaut preacher. Just at this juncture (Art. 1763) Erasmus, a Bishop of the Greek Church, visited London, and as it was impossible to oh. tam ordination for the Methodist preachers from the Bishops of the English Church, it occurred to Wesley th it it might be expedient to apply to Erasmus to ordain Jones. By Wesley's directions Jones wrote to the Patriarch (Archbishop) of Smyrna on the subject, and received an answer stating that Erasmus was Bishop of Arcadia in Crete. Wesley says that 'he had abundant unexceptionable credentials as to his Episcopal chars, ter' ('Wesley's Works,' Vol. X., p. 322). Being fully satisfied of this, Wesley requested him to get apart Mr. Jones to assist him in administering the Sacrament to his societies. Erasmus did so . . . Certaimt is that John Jones, Samson Staniforth, Thomas Bryant were ordained."—C.