The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-28 00:00:00

STREET ASSAULT AND ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.

A young man, of rather genteel appearance, nettled Edward
Smith, not described as being of any business or trade, was
charged under the following curious circumstances :—Mr. C.
Smith, a publican, Bennett-street, said : About eleven o'clock on
Saturday night he was in Christian-street, at the top of Gerard-
street, when some one came behind him, struck and knocked
him down, and tried to take his watch. He got Up and
grappled with his assailant, who knocked kim down again, and
got away. In reply to Mr. Block (who defended the prisoner),
the proseciitor said, the prisoner is very much like the man
who did it. Mr. Block : Do you swear to him positively ? I
do not, but ho is very much like him. A young woman, named
Margaret Simpson, said : I saw a man come behind Mr. Smith
and knock him down. The prisoner is very like the man. Mr.
Bluck : But will you swear to him? I would not like to swear
to him. Mr. Kehoe : Have you any doubt about him? No,
none ; I have no doubt now about his face. The mother of this
witness gave similar evidence. Sortie further evidefice was
given, and the prisoner was remanded.
VERY GOOD PORK.
A carter, named William Brown, was charged for having
stolen a quantity of pork from a ship belonging to Messrs.
Lockhart, Canning Dock. Mr. Cobb defended. There was a
quantity of barrels containing pork on the quay about being
shipped; the prisoner was carting porter to the ship, from
Mr. Tyrer's, and it seemed that two of the pork barrels were
missed on Saturday, but were found on Monday morning, and
when the prisoner was leaving the dock with his cart, a
quantity of the pork, lapped up in a " brat," was found with
him. Mr. Cobb endeavoured to show that it was some one
else who put the pork in the prisoner's cart, and called a
witness to show that the prisoner could not have taken the
pork without his having seen him. Mr. Rafflescredit the
sent the
prisoner for trial, and said perhaps a jury would
defence.
THE WORCESTERSHIRE "DODGER."
John Hughes, the dodger, whose exploits were published
last week, was brought up on remand. In additirm to the
evidence already given, Mr. Hoff kin, the proprietor of the
Vine Hotel, Pitt-street, was in attendance, to prefer a charge
of swindling against the prisoner, as it appeared that the
prisoner had " done" him out of something. The magistrate,
however, thought there was quite sufficient agai,ist him
already, and committed him finally for trial.

The Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Corn
pany's steamship Prince Albert will sail from Galway
this day, (Tuesday) the 28th instant, for St. John's,
Newfoundland, and. New York, with her Majesty's
mails. Messages for America, via St. John's, received
at Galway by British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph
Company up to 2 p.m.
TRADE OUTRAGE IN SOUTH STAITORDSHIRE.-A
most wanton destruction of property—one of the perni-
cious effects of trades unions—took place on Friday
morning last, at the village of Cradley Heath, near
Dudley. Almost all the inhabitants of the village are
connected with the trade of chain making, and the feuds
which have so long raged between society and non-
society men, have been carried on there with peculiar
bitterness, so much so that the village has an unenviable
notoriety, even in South Staffordshire, for the number
and extent of the outrages that have been committed in
it on property. By the last, eleven pair of bellows have
been cut into shreds, and thus rendered entirely useless.
This will involve a loss in money of about £2o—no
great amount, certainly, but it becomes a serious matter
from the fact that these bellows represented the wealth
of three families, who are, in consequence, reduced to
very great extremity. Unfortunately, there is not the
slightest clue to the cowardly perpetrators. The only
assignable motive for the act is, that the proprietors had
discontinued for some time, through want of work, to
pay into the union,
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HIE DAILY TIMES; TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1860.