The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-03 00:00:00

SUICIDE OF A LADY IN THE PARK.

On Wednesday evening, at nearly seven o'clock, a
lady, named Maria Phillips, who resided at 39, South
Hill-road, Park, cut her throat with a razor. It appears
that for the last threP months the unfortunate deceased
had been occasionally deranged, and about a fortnight
ago she was confined, and it is supposed she was quite
deranged when. she deprived herself of life, in her sister's
bedroom, where she was found with her throat cut; and
a razor with blood on it was found tinder the body. An
inquest will be held this day in the ease.

MYSTERIOUS CASE OF DEATH IN A
HOUSE OF ILL FAME IN HOTHAM-
STREET.

A case of death, which at present is involved in some
mystery, is now undergoing an investigation at the
Coronei's Court, by the beadle, Arr. Blake, Inspector
Carlisle, and Detective-officer Rigby. We do not give
any of the particulars for obvious reasons. Whether
there has been foul play or not, can only be determined
by a searching enquiry into the whole affair. The
deceased died in a house of ill-fame in Hotham-street,
on Wednesday night, and there is suspicion of foul play.
An inquest will be held to-day, and the whole facts will,
no doubt, be fully developed.

THE OPENING OF THE IRON PIER AT
SOUTHPORT, YESTERDAY.

The iron pier which we accurately described in our
impression of Wednesday, was formally opened yester-
day with great eclat. The town was gaily decorated
with the flags of all nations. There arrived a large
number of visitors by the railway, and by the Storm
King, from Liverpool. The baud of the 3rd Royal
Lancashire Militia, and the fife band of the istb, Lanca-
shire Rifles, attended in uniform. At ten o'clock a
procession was formed at the Town-hall, in the following
order :

• POLICE OFFICER:A.
Flo/W.
LAW CLERK, CONTRACTORS, AND ENGINEER.

BAND OF THE 3RD ROYAL LANCASHIRE MILITIA. IN

'FULL UNIFORM.
DIRECTORS AND SHAREHOLDERS.
CRA.fRMAN OF COMMISSIONERS, CLERGY AND
MAGISTRATES.
IMPROVEMENT COMMISSIONERS.
RESIDENTS 4 VISITORS.
MESSRS, GALLOWAY'S WORKMEN.
FLAG.

FIFE AND DRUM BAND, 13FH LANCASHIRE RIFLES.

PUBLIC, THREE ABREAST,

The procession proceeded from the Town-hall, up
Lord-street, along Selbank-road 'and the Promenade,
up Coronation-walk and Lord-street, and down Nevill
street to the pier. 'Pa arriving at the platform end, au
address was delivered, and an altered version of the
National Anthem sung. The company then embarked
on the Storm Bing steamer, for a cruise. On the
return of the vessel, the procession proceeded along
Nevill-street to the Town-hall, to luncheon. In the
evening a full dress ball took place at the Town-hall,
where the elite of the neighbourhood " enjoyed the
merry dance till morn."

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.—YEsIEEDAX•

(Before Mr. RAFFLEs.)
STRANGE CONDUCT.

A female, named Anne Rutherford, of respectable exterior,
who was described as a essh owner in Back Roscommon-etreet,
was charged by a police officer, who said : Yesterday evening,
this woman was in Burlington-street, end she gave three
persons in charge to me for stealing a sovereign from her.
She was drunk at the time, and on the way to the station:
house she became outrageous, and assaulted the other people
by tearing their facet. On reaching the station she took off
all her clothes and ran into the street in the most shameless
manner. We got her clothes on again, but she tore them off
and got into the street once more. She was quite like a mad
woman, and we had to lock her up at last. The bridewell-
keeper said, on investigating the case, there were no gresinels
of complaint whatever against the persons whotie she had
charged, but her own conduct was most disgraceful. He
never saw even a drunken woman act so disgrace-
fully. The prisoner appeared to be thoroughly ashamed
of her position and the re-le-tie; of her conduct. She was fined
ss. and costs, which she paid.
BARNEYIWGINTY, AND BARNEY IWGINTre FIDDLE.
Barney M'Ginty is a fiddle player, but it wank', require
sixty-four photographers to take one likeness of Master
Barney. The following is a sort of what in the art is called
" a negative" portrait of the renowned fiddler. Elevation
from the ground, 4 fee;; inches ; round the middle about the
the same measure ; head mach resembling a bewitched barley
stack, going to "old scratch" for-the want of a raking. On
_the front of the head, that portion called the fgce, there was a
fleshy protuberance, th,.t by a wild stretch of the imagination,
might be called a nose, which appeared to be =aims to get
into en aperture beneath it, which no doubt served Barney
M`Ginty in Place of a mouth. His forehead and cheekbones
approximated so eWeiy, that they were only separated by a
couple of places that whiican had been occupied by something
like eyes, one of which at present, is only ti thing that has
been, and tbe other, according to Barney's eteteinient, which
will be found below, is very likely, after the operation of a
policeman, to follow its comrade. On the sides of the face there
grew Xwo tufts of hair, that did not belong to any of the
original colonrs, nor yet to any of the artificial hues, produced
therefrom. TVS garnsents were as original as his face. His
corduroy inexpressibles ;night have been worn by Nimrod,
when rushing through a bunch of Atom bushes after a hart, so
many rents were in them. His coat wee the greatest curiosity
that ever was seen, or ever will be seen again; and nothing
short of spirit-rapping could have ever got him encased into
it, The poor fellow might have had a shirt ; but when the flax
grew of which it was composed, would puzzle all the antiqua-
rians that lived since the building of Jericho, or even the phi-
losophers (?) who went on a wild-goose chase to Spain the
other day, to see the is going to bed under the moon's
blanket. And so Barney M:Cintr„ the fiddler, stood in the
dock before Mr. Raffles, on the charge of pollee-Constable 20*.
The man who fills the office of guardian to the peace Paid Mr.
M‘Ginty was in Park-lane, as he bad a right to be, the pre-
vious night; but in being there, he had no right to create a
runspus or a rioting, against the peace of the Queen, her
crown, end dignity. The policeman detailed the ill conduct of
the prisoner, svhieh consisted of his having imbibed (a word
which the "learned eenetable" said was Syro-Chaldaic, and
meant gin !) ardent spirits, which excited his organs of com-
bativeness to such an extent, that he began to " leather" (an-
other word which the officer said was Creek, and meant
thrashing !) every one 119 met ; and SO at lfeet policereonstable
202 came to the conclusion, in his own mind---for he does
everything in his own mind—that Mr. 149inty had no right to
go on with his "tantrums" after this fashion, for It Yfas " MOst
tolerable, and not to be endured." In the name of the sop.-
reign, therefore, he laid hands on the culprit, and lodged bins
111 the body of the bridewell. Mr. Raffles : What is the pr so-
fter ? A fiddler, sir. Here the prisoner intimated that he
edfol-
lowed the profession of one Paganini, and then begg to
inform his wership how it all happened. I was in a public-
house playing ehe primin dhu Dhee!ish, which means the
",tune the old cow died eV which the " Irish Brigade" have
chosen as their favourite giott e when lu couple of ragamuffins
nine in, "And what's that you're playing
says they. Its
the rim,' thing, says I, that I'd raise the cockles of your 4e4rt ;
but, in place of admiring my performance, what do you think
they did? Mr. Rafffes ; What did they do? Why, sir, they ;
made smash of my fiddle (laughter), end split it into sreither-
reens—it was the finest tool that ever lay under horse hair and
rosin. Mr. Raffles : Was his fiddle broken? Offlcer : I believe it
was, and then he ran into a drug shop, and broke seven or
eight shillings worth of bottles, swearing they would poison all
creation, including a portion of Marybone ! Mr. M‘Ginly
NP wonder flook here, and see that I am blind of
one eye, sad the p oak villains k-noeked the other out of me,
so that I can't see e. hole in a ladder, and what am I to do for
my beautiful fiddle, the of my heart---that was to me my
baker, Mud my butcher, and lidliMan'
told theand my teapot, and
—goodness teowe in how many ether capacities he might have
fiddle bed eted, but he was interrupted by Mr. Raffles,
who no doubt considered his loss so great that he thonght
punished enough, and ordered his clisc)sarge.
THE KNIFE BY A WOMAN.
Sarah Jane Burke, the keeper of an improper "house" in
Presten-street, was charged for having cut and wounded Mary
Benison, the keeper of a like " den" in the same street. Mr. -
Block defended. It appeared that some time ago the prisoner
gave evidenc,e in a case against some friend of the complainant,
who was sentenced t 9 imprisonment, and this created a had
feeling between the partfes. on Wednesday night there was
all got intoxicate A row followed, and, according to the
aasetabled in the houses of both parties,
a number of persons
and
evidence, the prisoner, who
had previously been lying drunk
on a sofa, jumped up, seized h knife, and ran at the complainant,
cut in the forearm, inflicting a smart wound that
Mr. Raffles it strong language denounced
the ices a the knif e m this way, and sent the prisoner to jail
RATHBO NI and HOUGHTON.)
for six months
Awher:sghreeat deal.
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labour.
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. _
Market Inspector Tyrrell suragumel George Bland, of St.
James's Market, for haying exposed a ',MaWay. of akes, that
were not fit for human food, for sale in the market; flied 51.
forThaesismamilaerlnoffspeenccteo,racnhdarsg:llScrfihnAedlbps, of the same market,
also.

FIRE IN LORD-STREET --About eight o'clock yester-
day morning an alarm was given that a fire had broken
out in the shop of Mr. Gibson,
his brigade,
Lord-street. The
prompt arrival of Mr. Hewitt, and brigade, subdued
had resulted.
magistrates' Court
the fire before any material injury
STEALING FOWLS.—At the Coui'James Bannon were
yesterday, Thomas Lilcock and Jain
ni• f3ean
on a
brought before Messrs. Brocklebank a
Xeses Dicken-
charge of breaking into the hen pen of
son, at the Old Swan, and stealing therefrom
nine fowls.
trial.
The prisoners were committed to the sessions for
Acemtm.--George Adams, a sailor on board the
steamship Laconia, fe;!). off the topmast at sea and frac-
tured his arm, and received severe contusions of the
body.—Andrew Blair, a labourer, residing grri,n.
street, fell off the stage of s ship in Waterloo Dock, and
fractured his thigh.
Tox.'rErn Gruknpass.---Yesterday morning the usual
weekly meeting of the Toxteth-park Board of Guardians
was held in the parish-ores; Mr. H. S Alpass pre-
siding. The other members present were—Messrs. J.
Wilson, H. Layland, J. D. Carter, J. B. Hughes, G. Yi•
Hunter, W. Baynes, W. H. Ogden, and M. A. Johns.
The number of la mates in the house last week was
reported to be 332 ; admitted since, 10 ; discharged,
27 ; this week, 315. Several recommendations of the
o; and the resignations of Mr.
n
agreedta to
ster and matron of the house, were
tendered, There was Ito other business of importance.
caeEMietrtds.:es
Holmes, were