The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-19 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURTYESTERDAY

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THE BATTI.F. OF LIMEKILN

~ A tall and poYerfUl looking feinale, named Bridget Melia,
;!'as charged, for having assaulted another female named Ellen
Branigan. The complainant said there was a little cosiierin
party is Limekiln Line, and it consisted of a family party
of the Branigans, Lanagharis, and several- others of that ilk,
. •
i:Arhen the piisoner,
.I'7itholit may invitation or provocation,
intruded on the.plemnities of the relations. She was ordered
to 'Withdraw from thc hallowed precincts of Mr. Duggan's pub-
lict•honse, but she insisted that she had as good a right there
s any Branagan in the Lane or out of it, and in order to prove
thr assertion she procured a brick bat, Mod began to try whe-
ther it or Complainant's head could bear the most poanding.
The latter proved too soft, and decording to the evidence
of a surgeon, a very severe wound cutting down to the
bone was' the result. He did not think lifh in danger, but
the wound was very severe and hs could not yet tell the
result of it. The prisoner said she went into the public-
house to enjoy herself, the same as any one else, when
ishe was set upon *by the other party, who broke her leg.
(Here she invi'ed Mr. McGuinness, the bridewell-keeper, to
lasp:et the limb, and having done so, he pronounced it as
Round as a bell.) As she failed to convince the magistrates
that her leg was fractured, she begged the tritl4ell-keeper to
see if her arm was not disloeathd. Mr. McGuinness having
thanipulated the hOne, With a degree of professional ability
that wouhi have astonished a professor of anatomy, said the
Arra was fit for anything, fro n pitch-and-toss to manslaughter.
'YIPS settled 'the question, and the prisoner way remanded for
teveri days, until the result of the wound could be known.
A LOYAL SUBJECT.
Patrick Waters, a :very. tall and powerful man, was broUght
up charged for being drunk and disorderly in the streets.
In reply to the charge he made the following statement :---
Yesterday,- Sir, I got paid some money that was due to me,
and it being the birthday of her Majesty the Queen, God bless
her, I could not do less than drink her health ; so one glass
brought on another. The first wax enough, the second glass
to) much, but the third was not half enough, so I drank away
bumpers to the health of Queen Victoria and the rest of the
Royal Family, and the honour of the nation, until I did not
know what I was doing no more than the child unborn. Of
course, his warship could not resist such an appeal, and
ordered Mr. Waters to be discharged, and advised him to
drink nothing stronger than his namesake for the future.
THE L ADY WHO SPENT £7OO.

A most wretched looking woman, named Catherine Corrigan,
was charged by her blether, John M'Olone, with
,annoying
Aim. The complainant said, he keeps a shop in Fontenoy-
street, and that he had been formerly in the army, and pur2
chased hie commission out of it (?), and then he sot up a shop.
The prisoner ;‘,A,4 hie sister ; and some time ago she got
married, and his father gave her £709, but from the moment

the got it herself and her husband never we-e sober until they
%rent the whole of the monev, and nearly killed his father.
The latter now lives with him; and the prisoner comes to
annoy him, and when he sees or hears her, he gets into fits.

he went to the hoarse yesterday, and nearly frightened the
Oa man to death. Shei was in jail two or three times for
similar annoyances. The prisoner was sent to jail for a month
111 default of tintling securities to keep the peace.