The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-21 00:00:00

CHARGE AGAINST A CAPTAIN.

Robinson, the master of the ship Empress, belong-
ing to Messrs. Tobin, and bound for Africa, was summoned on
two informations, under the 14C, 147 and 148 sec. of the Mer-
chants' Shipping Act, for having employed one Robert Clarke,
of Capel-street, to procure sailors for him and for having
received such sailors on board, the penalty in each case being
£2O. Mr. Tyndall appeared for the prosecution. A black man
named Saunders was examined and said the man Ctarke got
him into a house and put down his name, and then the defen-
,dant came and asked Clarke huw many men he had, sod subse-
quently the man signed articles at the Home, and went on
board, when the captain received him. Another black man
named Brown pro.yed the same thing. William Thompson, of.
the Sailors Home proved milkt the two last men were brought
up and shipped at the Hnme, Mr. Raffles : Is that unusual t
Not unusual, but they are pot brought up by unlicensed per-
sons. Mr. Raffles said it mug be shown that
captain
employed Clarke. Mr. Tyndall said he thought the evidenee
proved that. The captain denied that he ever eMPIoYe4
Clarke, but that he got the men himself,
which he was entitled
to do. In reply to Mr. Tyndall, the captain said he did not
give Clarke cipy,thing. and the evidence of the two men, so far
as Clarke was concerned, was quite false. He utterly denied
that Clarke ever got Win a crew or any part of a crew, either
said he saw the men run after the captail, hut
for payment or foe nothing. A. witness Tits produced, who
c nied that
Clarke was employed in any way by the captain. Mr. Raffles
said he thought the case made out. Mr. Murphy. of the
le
'Local Marine Board, said African captains alone acted as
described. Mr. Mansfield had punished parties for such acts;
that it was nearly snppre=sed, but he found within the past
few weeks the practise hid grown up again, although Messrs.
Tobin had warned the captains not to do so. Mr. Raffles
fined the defendant £lO in each ease. Tke captain warmly
denied that he ever employed Clarke,
and stropK4Y pr?"tPd
his entire innocence in the case.

STONE versus SKULLS.
444,e Walker, a resident of Gordon-street, charged Ellen
Leckey, the wife of a warehouse-keeper, in the same street, for
having broken her head with a stone. Mr. Black defended. On
Tuesday last some dispute arose between some friends of the.
Prisoner and complainant, u-hen the former struck the latter
onsu the foreluod with a stone, and, aceordjw to the evidence of.
bona tri 0
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eurgxeon Pope, of Great Homer-street, the skliii cf the prose"
lvaeoryeratesevfewreo,a4nodd,
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some sin great danger for two or three days. It Must
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TI; blow, as it was too high up ou the head for a
imprisonnaPentnaer
She wes insensible, but did not smell of drink. Mr.
show that ,the injury was the result of a fall.
[Before Messrs
tertasses, but the complexion of the case was
months' was tined 0 snit costs, or three
drunkenne
SHELL and AIKEN )
heard ness
PUBLICANS,
William Holt, of joheaA,,,S.EI?„,—THE 12rn OF JULY.
1
, was summoned by Inspector 1
Dodd, for permitting
on the night of the 12th
instant. The inspector
went in, when he found a
number
noise in the house, and
man was Alrviii;; he wakened hinteur of persons there, and one
the ()facer said tlile,re Yas a ball thereP tln reply tl Mr. Bluek,
of July. Mr. Bluck.,: The ,I2tb of Jul_only
olcomemorate the 12th
Witness : 1 never'; heard of two Y
12ths yofcn" once. a year ?
(Laughter.) Did you go UP stairs? 1r July in one year.
• eP, and found from
eighty to a hundred persons there. 'Who were ;ley ? Men
and women. Mr. Bluek : Were they stink ? No gni "oily.
(Laughter.) Mr. Bluek : Was there a great noise , V ball? y.
Yes, a rood deal of noise, more than usual.
Mr.Biantakthe
N Wi
tness:
Yes, more noise than usual at a ball? :r Thereitneg
Yes, if people bar; :,.4t a ball, there will be more
noise than
:
usual. (Laughter.) ]*r. iihiek contended that there
was no harm in being jolly 911 the 12th of July
in a public-house; if people Were "jolly'' in a Private house
it would be no harm at all—in fact it was a prow co, the
fold
adage—" What's in the captain but a choleric word is
mn the
soldier downright ;;ipphemy." Ile argued that there was no
one drunk ; and he called Robert Bell, the man who was said
to be drunk in the house, and that person swore he was not
drunk, and that he never saw the ....I;ePector at all there.
(Laughter.) He was waiting for his two daunlSTs, who were
at the ball, and he .dozed asleep. He did not see any one drunk
in the house. The barmau of the house was called, and swore
he did not see any one drunk in the plale, although he was up
and through the house all night. 11ir. pluck aigued that as
there was a doubt about the matter, the magistrates should
give the benefit of it to the defetaant, as the house was a most
respectable one, and never fined. The Magistrates dismi.ssed
the case.

BEERHOUSE CASES. ,
Benjamin Evans, of Jubilee-street, was charged with selling
ale at illegal hours. The defence was, that the ale was made
a present of. Fined 5s and costa.—Patrick J. Gilbride, renew-
street, was charged with Swiday trading; fined £3 and costs.
—Edvard Bradly Baker, Dalton-street, was summoned for
selling ale at illegal hours on Sunday. Mr. Cobb, for the
defence, admitted the fact, but said the beer was paid for on
Saturday night, and kept until Sunday morning ; dismissed.—
Mathew Martin, Chisenhale:4reet, vas summoned for Sunday
trading; fined 20s and costs.—Eli Farrel% Gordon-street,
was charged with doing bu3iness on Sunday ;. fined fil's and
costs.m-Richard Naylor, Johnston-street, Evertan, was-sum-
moned for 4(44 business at illegal house; diemisseci.—Mar"
garet Forrester, Prince e Ejwin-street, was charged by Inspector
Henderson with doing busines2 at tTo e'clock on Sunday morn-
ing. The defence was, that the pe4leinund in the house were
riflemen, who came from the review ; dismi,s4;