The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-21 00:00:00

TRIAL TRIP OF THE CONNAUGHT.

The Atlantic Royal Mail Steamship Connaught sailed
from Galway on Wednesday, on her trial trip, and
having made a successful rim of about three hundred
miles, returned again to that port yesterday evening.
The wind was strong from the north-west, with a
heavy sea. The ship and machinery performed most
satisfactorily, and it is expected she will reach St. John's
in five days. Mr. John Palmer, Mr. Weir, and Captain
Thompson were on board. The Connaught leaves
Galway for America, with the mails, on Tuesday next,
the 25th. Passengers by her can startirom Liverpool
as late as Monday night, the 24th instant.

LOVE, SEDUCTION, AND ROBBERY :

ALIAS,

" LOVE, LAW, AND PHYSIC.".

When that truthful delineator of nature, William
• Shakspeare, wrote those few emphatic words, " The,
path of true love ne'er ran smooth," there is no doubt
' but that, in those days, he spoke the truth, but in those
days—the "golden age of good Queen Bess"—the
electric telegraph had not.been discovered, and instead
of, having drowsy parochial constables, each town in
Ensiand, at least one of any note, has its detective
force. This national establishment, if it do not prevent
the committal of fearful offences, has bad such an effect,
when properly organised, as to bring, by the ever zealous
and watchful eyes of. those engaged in the calling, a very
great number of offenders to "the seat of justice," some
Of whom get their proper deserts, whilst others,' through
legal technicalities raised at the eleventh hour, escape.
To whom is the blame to be attached? The real
offenders—those who endeavour to bring their offence
• home—or to the red-tapeism of the tribunals before
which they are tried ? But be that as it may, it is
our duty to record a little instance of " Life as it
is," and, as " Truth is stranger than fiction,"
we will just give our readers a brief history .of how Miss
Emma Perkins made love to a youthful swain whose
name was Gould—not gold—because she found that a
necessary commodity ; and although she took it from
her father's house, in which she was domesticated. On the
night of the 18th of September Miss Emma Perkins was
standing behind her own father's bar, vending the best
of spirits, her bright sparkling eyes and flaxen
locks, creating some little sensation amongst those whom
she had to serve, whether it was "a glass of bitter"
or " two pennyworth of blue ruin ;" but there she was,
doing her duty. Behind the counter, that is to say, the
"space which 13 devoted to the public, sat a young man,
"sipping his necnts ;" his hair was dark, and minus
whiskers, but he had. a small tuft of hair growing under
the chin. He was silent ; but the glance of his eye,
and his Birmingham accent attracted the attention of
Ali•;e Emma Perkins. It was not his first visit to the
Bricklayers' Arms, on the Commercial-road, kept by
James Perkins, the father of Emma Perkins. In that
public house, besides the two living beings we have
described, were other persons, and, in addition-to them,
secreted in a drawer, was £B5 in gold, and £25
in silver. The silver was made up in small
parcels, each of which Tontained twenty shillings. At
a certain hour the house closed, and early on the follow-
ing morning it was also discovered that Miss Emma
Perkins had not been to her bed. The faher was sur-
prised, and by some accidental eh cumstanee he went to
look for his money, when—lo ! and behold !—it was
gone; and he was almost fit to exclaim; "I have lost
my ducats, and I have lost my daughter." The
wardrobe was searched, and it was discovered that a
lavender dress and a black bonnet were gone, as was
alSo the useful geniis wbo spoke in a strong Brum-
magem accent. The tatber's suspicions were aroused,
and he at once applied to the pity p9lipe-pfriee,. and
'telegrams were forwarded to every port in England,
giving a description of Miss Emma Perkins' the money,
and her supposed paramonr. At an early hour on
the 20th instant the wires of the electric telegraph
gave the information at. the Pollee-office,' Dale-street,
.Liverpool. A consultation was then held amongst
the detectives, and Detective-officer Scott, the same
individual who has frustrated so many of these delins
quents, was on the alert. By- some peculiar ability
which he possesses he went down to the Wellington
Dock, knowing- well that the steamer North American,
bound for Quebec and Montreal, was about to take her
departure. Whey ea,* on board the vessel he scanned
each Passenger, and BOA succeeded in finding the fair-
mnrheyrerskiurpnt.:Ltylsebetiruktihgla.nirgedd,
hßarairmedmlaagmenilytiosusthE.
but cannot be described. Miss Perkins fainted ; the
Brummagein youth, who gave his name as Gould,—
looked and acted daggers. They were at once taken
into custody by. Scott. Upon searching Gould .475111:
'sovereigns was found upon his. person ; and instead of
taking their departure for Quebec they were conveyed
from Ibis town to London by the earliest train.
When Detective-officer Scott will detail the particu-
lar, of this apprehension no doubt the bench before
which they' are taken vfsl,l deal to them even handed
justice. Will not_ our readers .pay after this that
"truth is stranger- than fiction,'? aud 4,44 the real
Offender will get duly physieked.

IVERPOOL POLICE COURT.--YEsTERDAY.

(Before Mr. RAFFLES.)

CURIOUS cARGE AGAINST A KILKENNY GIRL.
.The old song sage, fae "Boys of Kilkenny are stout roving
blades," and the girls of Kilkenny are famous for darkly,
brightly, beautifully blue eyes. Sarah Kelly is one of the
latter class, and it seems shnlitaitates the other se., in their
.4 roving's-7 propensities. It eppre that she was on a " tramp",
somewhere., from #e ." city without smoke," perhaps on
her way to join Garibaldi, 'after the fashion of noience
Nightingale, or to comfort the Irish briga4e in their troubles.
Some nights since, she Was coming from Dublin, by she good
ship Princess, and a companion du voyage, vas one FAizabetle
Aekers, a young Yorkshire lady, Who bad a parse, and £4;s.
in it. The latter lady got sea sick, and the prisoner ecaing.eS
a good Samaritanees, begged her to take " a drop of comfort "
Out of a bottle, the said " comfort" being composed of a sole,
Lion of tobacco, water, and whiskey ; and after taking this, she
fell dead asleep, but when she awoke, her purse and money
were gone. Her purse, minus the money, was found in the
prisoner's basket. Dr. Edward's, who analysed the contents
°I.. PO bottle, found the whiskey to contain a quantity of
tobacco crater in it,. and he described the effects it would have
on a person whentakenitrteenally. Mr. Pluck, for the prisoner,
cross-examined the Octal' at sage lenettb. in a scientific man-
ner, and then Made an able appeal me lechelf Q his cp.en4 ocar
tending that if the prisoner had committed the robbery,
would have fiung the purse oyerboayd. and not !ts.ye, put it
into her basket. He argtted tbat the purse west have been
put into the prisoner's basket by some one else, or even by the
prosecutrix herself, to conceal the fact of her heeeing ne money,
The prisoner was sent for trial.
THE SHOOTING CASE IN MIIRRAT-SiTtEET,
Daniel M`Lorinan was brought up on remand, charged with
ha, big shot William Gittins, in Murray-street, on Sunday
P-19114.743'. Mr. Cobb appeared for the prisoner. The details of
this case were published twice this week. Mr. Cobb eon-
tended ;44 it Ty* ,
an unfortunate accident, arising cut of the
incautious use of fire arm;,
pee parties we're engaged for
some time in snapping capped p‘ktcai 9Paer, and that
the prisoner did not, nor could not, know that the r4.stel he
used was loaded. There could. not have been any malice
the case. He called a gentleman named Alan Murray, from
Glasgow, who nearly corroborated the statement he had made,
and Mr. Rallies treated the affair as au assault, without malice,
and tined the prisoner £5, or two months' imprisonment.