The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-30 00:00:00

CORONER'S COURT.

The following inquests were held yesterday :
On the body of Bridget Parry, who died in the prison
at Walton suddenly. On the investigation it appeared
that death was the result of consumption, from natural
causes. Verdict accordingly.
On the body of a boy that was found in the river as
described in our paper of yesterday. There was no
evidence, except as to the finding of the body: Verdict
found drowned.

THEATRE ROYAL.

THE ZOVAVES.

The Zouares continue to draw capital audiences.
This is the last night but two of their perfoiminces
here. •

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

Miss M. Oliver is one of the most chartni4,itie.Might
say fascinating, young ladies we have ever seen. on the
stage; and Mr. Clarke is the most laughter-provoking
gentleman. We defy any one to resist him.
" Isabelle," "The Bonnie Fishwife,' and the burlesque
of "The Lady of Lyons" are the pieces to-night. ,

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THE COURT.

BALmoRAL, August 27.

The Queen, Prince Consort, and Princess Alice
attended divine service in the parish church of Crathie
yeiterday. The ladies and gentlemen of the household
were in attendance. The Very Rev. Dr. Barclay, Prin-
cipal
9f tbe' University of Glasgow, officiated.
It being Sunday his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort's birthday was celebrated quite privately.
Princess Helena, Sir Chariles and Lady Phipps, Sir
James Clark, and Mr. Helps, were the additions to the
dinner party.

Mr. Helps arrived in the castle yesterday afternoon to
attend a Privy Council to be held this morning.

PROSECUTION OF LOTTERY KEEPERS
AT ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE.

At the Salford hundred intermediate sessions, Tues-
day, James Crawshaw, shopkeeper ; Isaac Armistead,
hair-dresser ; and Joseph Bottomley, John Jones, and
James Whitehead, beerhouse keepers, were charged with
unlawfully keeping lottery offices, at Ashton-under-
Lyne. The case against James Crawshaw was taken
first. Mr. Fernley and Mr. Holker appeared for the
prosecution, and Dr. Wheeler, Q.C. and Mr. Kay for
the defence.—Mr. Fernley stated to the jury that the
prosecution was instituted under the Lottery and Bet-
tin. Acts. An Act of Parliament passed in the 10th
and 11th William 111. chapter 17, cited the mischief
which it was intended to prevent, namely, the unjust
and fraudulent getting of money by evil disposed per-
sons from children and servants, and the unwary, to their
utter ruin ; and it declared such lotteries to be public
nuisances, and contrary to law. It was found, however,
that amendments to this act were necessary, and the
Act 42nd George 111. cap. 119, was passed, to include
such kinds of. lotteries as had been then established,
in order to evade the previous acts. The 16th and
17th Victoria, cap. 119, commonly called the Betting,
Act, was intended to do away with the nuisance car-
ried on by the opening of betting houses or offices for
the purpose of allowing people to carry on the trade of
betting. There could be no doubt that these acts applied
to this particular case. The defendant Crawsha w kept
an eating-house at Ashton-under-Lyne, and for some
time had been in the habit of selling tickets, called by
the names of different clubs. On the 28th July, John
Preston, a police-officer, went in plain clothes, by the
directions of his superintendent, to the shop of the
defendant, and asked for a horse ticket. The defendant
and his wife were both in the shop. The latter served
him with a " Great Eastern Weekly gallot " tic►iet, for
which be paid ls. ; and afterwards he bought a list of
the winning numbers, for which he paid a half-penny.
He found he held a winning number,"and that the prize
was ss. The defendant a day or two afterwards paid
him 4s. 10d. ; and on being told that it should be 6s. he
merely laughed, and no more notice was taken.. of the
circumstance. On the 30th July, Preston again bought
another ticket, but did not win a prize. This was the
evidence for the prosecution ; except that some bills
which were. found in the defendant's shdp were put in,
together with the ticket which Preston bought. One
bill had reference to Ratcliffe races, the others were in
reference to money clubs, the prizes of which varied from
12 10s. to £lo.—Dr. Wheeler, for the defence, submitted
that there was no case to go to the Jury. He argued, at
grea tlength, that under the act of William 111. proceed-
ings could not be taken by indictment; and that there was
no evidence given to show that the defendant ke pt an
illegal house, according to the terms of the Betting Act.
—The Chairman said he would reserve the point raised
as to an indictment under the act of William 111. ; but,
with regard to the point in reference to the Betting
Act, he thought the present case came directly within
the words of the act, that, "no house shall be used for
the pnrpose of money or rug valuable things being re-
ceived by, or on behalf of, the occupier, in consideration
of any assurance, undertaking, promise, or agreement,
expressed or implied, to pay or give any money
or valuable thing in any contingency relating to
any game, &c."—Dr. Wheeler then addressed the jury.
—The Chairman, in summing up, said that a lottery
was a game, according to the act of Parliament ; and he
put the following questions to the jury :—First, whether
there had been a lottery ; and secondly, whether the
defendant had been guilty of setting up, keeping, or
maintaining the lottery. The jury found the prisoner
guilty, but recommended him to mercy because he
might not have known that he was acting contrary to
law. Dr. Wheeler claimed this verdict for the defend-
ant. The chairman said he would reserve that point
with the other for a higher court ; and, in the mean-
time, the defendant would have to enter into his own
reeognisances in 420, and find two other sureties of £lO
each, to appear for judgment when called upon. The
cases against the other defendants were adjourned, their
bail in the meantime being enlarged. The chairman
said that the court strongly wished the points raised to
be decided by a higher court. The defendants under-
took not to carry on the drawings whilst the cases were
under consideration.

"A WIFE'S JUSTIFICATION"—The .LYezt, York Tri-
Lune publishes a long letter purporting to emanate from
Mrs. Gurney, who some time ago eloped with a servant
of her husband, Mr. Gurney, M.P. We shall do no
more at present than merely mark its publication, for
the letter carries with it indubitable evidence of being a
mere Yankee fabrication, and it makes statements of
family matters of a kind that a respectable English
journal usually excludes from its columns, unless they
are made upon oath, in a Court of law.

CRUELTY TO A CAT.—At the Lambeth Police-office,
on Tuesday, Robert Search, the son of a butcher in
King's-place, Walworth-road, attended, for the second
time, to answer to a summons charging him With
grossly and wilfully torturing a cat. The witnesses
called in support of the summons proved a case of bar-
barous cruelty. They swore that on the day mentioned
in the summons, the defendant caught a " stray " kitten,
cut holes in its ears, through which he passed strings,
and hung it up by the latter, so that all its weight was
supported by those parts of the ears through which the
strings had been put. This, however, was not all.
The defendant poured " turps," or turpentine, down
its ears and different parts of the body, so
that
the. poor little brute screamed piteously from torture
and agony. When allowed to run away, it fell into
the hands of a respectable woman, who treated it with
such kindness and humanity that, notwithstanding the
brutal nature of its tortures, the kitten has recovered.
Mr. Dickson, one of the ushers, described the state of
the unfortunate kitten to be such, when the summons
was applied for, that the magistrate recommended its
destruction, to put it out of its misery. Witnesses were
called on the part of the defendant, whose testimony
contradicted some of the stronger portions of the charge,
and Mr. Norton, in passing sentence, observed he was
glad that it had been so, or he should have felt it to be
his duty to send the defendant to prison without a
penalty. There could be no doubt, however, that im-
proper cruelty had been exercised, and for this the
defendant must pay a penalty of 20s. The fine was at
once paid.

SELF-MUTILATION AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE At
the Thames Police-office, on Tuesday, John Dansie, a
short, broad-shouldered Klan of florid complexion, forty-
nine years of age, was charged with attempting to com-
mit suicide, and mutilating himself in a very extra-
ordinary manner. Edward Stewart, a police-constable,
No. 319 K, said that on Sunday, the 29th of last month,
at half-past nine o'clock at night, he saw the prisoner
coming out of a field abutting on the Barking-road,
opposite the north wall of the East India Dock, and
asked him what he had been doing there. The prisoner
said he had been sleeping in the field, and that he was
drenched to the skin. There had been a violent thun-
derstorm, and it had rained heavily the same night. The
prisoner was very wet, and the water was dripping from
his clothes. He told the prisoner he must have been
drinking heavily, and was very foolish to remain in the
field so long. IJe also advised the prisoner to go home,
change his clothes, and go to bed. The prisoner said,
" Yes, J am going," and left him. About an hour
afterwards he met the prisoner again near the same
place, and in a worse plight than he was in before. The
prisoner said, " I have thrown a stone through that
light," and pointed to a broken gas-lamp on the road. ge
asked the prisoner why he had done so, to which he replied,
" Oh, it is a useless lamp—there are too many lights ?
The prisoner as he said this staggered a good deal, and he
observed to him again, " Why, you have been drinking."
The prisoner said, " No, it is a loss of blood." He asked
him how that was caused, and the prisoner, who stared
wildly and was very weak, said, " I went mad on Friday
night, and lay down in the field and cut my throat."
At that time he was passing under a gas-lamp, and he
observed that the prisoner's throat was cut. He asked
the prisoner why he had committed such a rash and
wicked act. The prisoner said, " I hardly know why I
did it ; I went mad ; it was through my wife ; she
promised to meet me and tell me where she had got a
fresh lodging, and she did not come as promised, and
I then went into the field and fell asleep, and when

I awoke I saw people staring about me, and they
made me cut my throat. 4s soon as I had done that
they vanished like shadows." Witness then took the
prisoner to Poplar stationhouse and sent for Mr. Robin-
son, the divisional surgeon of police. lie then noticed
that the prisoner's trousers and shoes were saturated
with blood, and he asked him if he had inflicted auy
other wound on himself. The prisoner said "Yes, I
have," and described how he had wounded himself. The
constable gave further evidence of the horrible manner
in which the prisoner had mutilated himself, and the
hsemorrhage which had taken place ig consequence. Ile
searched the prisoner and found upon him a large clasp
knife. The blade was stained with blood and much worn.
The edge was dull. The prisoner said, " Yes, that's the
knife ; that's it. It is not much of a thing. If I had a
sharp knife I should have cut my head off." Mr. Selfe
having ascertained that the prisoner was now out of
danger, said that, in consideration of his severe sufferings,
and in the hope that he would not act so foolishly again
he would stiffer him to be dilchuyze4,