The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-08 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.--SATURDAT.

(Before Messrs. BOOTH and CasTELLAnc.)
AN AWFUL RUFFIAN.

William Shone, a labourer, residing in Pall Mall, was charged
with having committed a murderous assault upon a boy named
William Sappo, aged about ten years. The lad had his head
bound up. and was all besmeared with blood, and appeared to
be much injured. He stated that he was in Sir Thomas's-
buildings, going of a message for his mother, when the pri-
soner came up to him, and without any provocation, caught
him by the legs and dashed his head against the flags, flung
him down, and kicked him in the side. Another boy stated
that he.saw the outrage committed. Surgeon Sheppard said
the boy was dangerously injured; he h d a contused wound
on the :forehead, 4 inches long down to the bone, and taco
nation of the membranes; it was about the worst contusion he
had seen. The prisoner, in reply to the court, said that the
boy was throwing stones at him, but this was denied, and the
prisoner was remanded until the result of the wound could be
ascertained,

PLUNDER OF LARD.
William Unsworth, a person employed in the lard refining
establishment of Messrs. Irving and Sons, Duke-street, was
lfriiiiilit—iiTbrfietective- officers Laycock and Patrick on is
charge of having stolen a quantity of lard belonging to the
firm; and Daniel Duffey, described as a "waste-dealer," in
Stockdale-street, was charged with having received the same,
knowing it to have been stolen. The officers received infor-
mation that Unsworth was in the habit of taking out lard, and
selling It to Duffy. They kept an eye on the place ; and on
Friday, at dinner time, they watched Unsworth from the stores
into a passage in Seel-street, where they saw Duffy waiting
for him with a bag. Unsworth took a quantity of bladdered
lard from about his person, and put it into a bag that Duffy
held, and then they went into the passage and arrested both
prisoners. Unsworth then said that Duffy induced him to
steal the lard from his employers, and that he had been receiv-
The lard is orth 9d. a pound, and Daffy
ing lard from him in this way twice a week for the last
five months Past.
bought it for 2d. a pound from Unsworth ; there were 231bs. in
the present instance, and, besides what was put into Duffy's
bag, five bladders were found on Unsworth, inside his stop. In
Duffes house, in Stockdale-street, the officers got a quantity-
of lard, sugar, bacon, cheese, and coffee, for which he could
not account. It was stated that he used to send things or this
sort to Ireland. A gentleman from Messrs. Irvings' said Uns-
worth was in their employment nearly twelve years, off and
on, and 'they had never any suspicion of hie honesty until
lately, waen they had received private information. The pri-
soners were sent for trial at the sessions. Mr. Parker, for
Duffy, asked would bail be taken for him, but it was declined.

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