The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-04 00:00:00

POLICE COURT.-SATURRDAY.

(BEFORE MR. HENN.)
CAUGHT AT LAST.— George Brown, Edward Connor
Smith, and Mary Anne Walker, persons dressed in first..
rate style, were brought up by detectives Thompson, Povey,
and Pa'Cullocb, under the following circumstances :
Thompson said, in consequence of the number of garotte
robberies committed in the streets recently, he and the other
officers went out to look for the suspected persons. They
saw the pr7s3ners, whom they knew to be very bad charac-
ters, in Lord street, and, after some time, they separated at
the clrner of Whitechapel. They then watched the woman,
who is commonly called " Hookey Walker," in reference to
her trade of hooking in gentlemen at night, who might
have imbibed too much " beer." She met a gentleman in
Castle.street, and, after some time, she induced him to go
into the "yellow house" in Dale-street, where she remained
far some time '

ld then came to the door and waved a hand-
kerchief, when the two tll2ll immediately appeared from the
other side of the stret. The gentleman then came out of
the house and went up a passage with the female, when the
other prisoners went up afyr them, and then the officers

d the whole of them. Inspector
isoners were well-known thieves, and
ied in a den in Belt Jonson street, where all the thieves in
Liverpool were educated. Several other officers gave the
prisoners a character, that could not be
.mistaken, and from
a report of Bridewell-keePer Campbell, it appeared that the
prisoners had been several times in custody and convicted.
The men used to go out as bludgetters" after women who
The woman was cautioned and discharged;
men were sent to mite' for three months.
R Thert M'F'arlan alias Thompson, was charged as a sus-
- Mr. Goodier was for the prisoner, who
be a person of very tad character, but as
was proved in the present case, he was

ent ran men

ipie.nus person
wal proved to

nothing part

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antioned and discharged.
William Tudor, Thomas Bowes, and Mary Gordon were
srged by the same Ofacers with a like offence. These
re proved to be " bludgt;tters," and Bowes and the woman
the man Tudor was can=

tioned and discharged. The police at,ted, that four garotte
robberies had been committed with vit;'.lence, during the
week, and they had no doubt the prisoners an others were
concerned in them, al'hough they had no direct prOof of It.:
Several other " suspicious" persons were sent to g2,-,91 also,
so that the town will be rid of them for some time at 1..?a8t,

A FORTUNE . _ n AND A FOOL.—CURIOUS CASE.—'
Anne Jones, alias Sarah Harris (an ominous name), who
was described as " a fortune teller," residing in Porter-
s.ed by Mr. William Wood, the owner of the
-ent road, with having obtained 2s 61 by
4ations, fronthis wife, by pretending
re r his fortune. He said the
big not e, and told his wife she was a
other pieces of information which
as, that he (Mr. Wood), had fornied
an improper ith a lady in the neighbourhood,
and that Nlrs. Wood would soon have an addition to her
domestic circle by the unit of a child. She told a paCk of
lies of this sort to Mrs. Wood, which caused anything but
pleasantness between him and his wife, although, of course,
it was all untrue. She obtained 2s Gd from his-wife. Tor "the
vile story, and when he heard it, he gave her in _charge.
Mrs. Wood stated, that some time g!nce she lost a brooch,
and she su3peoted that her servant had it. This the servant
denied, and said the prisoner would tell her who had it. She'
then sent for the priconer. - Mr. Wvbergh : you sent'
for her, did you ? Yes, sir. Mrs. Wood then told long'
story, but it: was hardly audible. From what could be
heard, it seemed she told the story about the child, and
rainy other things in that way, and wanted a good deal lof
money, but she only gave her the 23 6d.- In reply to Mr.
Goodier, who defended the prisoner, the witness said she
went to the house of the prisoner twice; she admitted
hating Oren her some drink, but did not drink with her;
the girl told her to go to the prisoner. Mr. Benn : Then
go away now, for you are a fool. The prisoner was dis-
charged.

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(BEFORE ME. MANSFIELD

STABBING ary Jane Beck was charged with stabbing
a girl, named CoHoney, in Pump•street, The complainant
stated that she was standing at the corner of the street
when the defendant came up to her, and, without the
slightest provocation, struck her several times, and then
Etabbei her in the head. The surgeon from the Northern
Hospital spoke to dressing the wounds, one of which was
of a dangerous character. The prisoner was committed to
take her trial.

THE LATE RAILWAY STRIKE.—Thomas Fitzpatrick,
late a porter in the employ of the London and North Westera
Railway Company, appeared to answer a summons for
having, with others, assaulted Thomas Vince, one of the
now hands. Mr. Berry, appeared for the complainant. From
the evidence adduced, it appeared that the new hands were
much annoyed by those who had been discharged, and on the
pre(

ding S Aunt ay night complainant was going h9me when
by a number of men and assaulted; The attack
that before he could recover himself;
soaped, and he was only enabled td
For the tlefence it was alleged thA
during the previous week, the complainant had insulted
the defendant's mother. The defendant was committed for
two months.

he was easel

was so we

r3l the parties had

identify the defendant

SUSPICIOUS CASE.—James Rossity, alias Burns, was
brought up by detectives Eiton and Markes, on suspicion
of being concerned in a robbery. It appeared, that a few
days ago a person named Berry got some money, and that
he got drunk and was robbed of some five pound notes,
two of which the prisoner attempted to change. He was
remanded.

THE SEE OF LONDON.—On Dit in official quarters that
Dr. Jackson, the excellent and justly respected Bishop of
the diocese of Lincoln, is to be translated to the see of
London, rendered vacant by the resignation of Dr. Blomfield,
who retires on an annual pension of £6,000. —Nottingham
Journal.

THE GREAT ROBBERY AT FOLKESTONE.--A special see
sions was held on Friday at the Guildhall, Folkestone,
before the Recorder. A young man, named Auguste Hastier
(late manager of the Lord Warden Hotel at Dover, and of
the Pavilion Hovel here), was indicted for stealing bank
notes and moneys to the amount of £1,600. It formed part
of the £50,000 which had been placed in the custody of Mr.
Breach, the proprietor of the Pavilion. The facts of the
case have been before published. The jury found the- prie
soner guilty, with a recommendation to mercy, which Mr.
Breach joined in. The prisoner was sentenced to three
year's penal servitude.

TAE MURDER OF IPICNIGHT, AT hxmx.--_Oat
readers will remember that the detective officer sent down
by the Home Secretary to investigate this mysterious case,
which appears to become more mysterious the more it is
enquired into, stated in open court that he had very little
doubt as to who was the guilty party. We understand
that this statement referred to the man, George Holmes,
examined on suspicion, but against whom no tangible evi-
dence was produced, and who was last week sentenced to
imprisonment for two 3 ears, having been found guilty of
robbing and nearly killing by strangulation a young girl
in themeighbourhood of the scene of the Ilkley murder..—
.Dumfries Courier.

MAJOR-GENERAL WINDU AM IN NORFOLK.— Major..
General Windhain returned to his native county on Friday,
and was received with suitable demonstrations of ent.husi
asm and rejoicing from all classes of the public:- Tho
gallant officer arrived in Norwich at two o'clock, Iv the
Eastern Union Railway, and was received at the-station
by a guard of honour derived from the artillery corps, at
present stationed in the city ; the Earl of Albemarle, Lord
Hastings, Lord Suffield, the Mayor (Mr. J. G. Johnson),
several members of the town council, and the tenantry
on the estate of the family—the "reception committee,*
constituted to
.give eclat to the occasion. Several Cri-
mean officers,lVho shared with the hero of the day the
dangers and glories of the Sebastopol campaign, were also
present.

A WEALTHY BEGGATL-While one of the rural police,
on a beat in the upper part of the county of Aberdeen, west
goin r, his rounds a few days ego, he came upon a travelling
man about 60 years of age, who, he foand, bad been giving
himself out as John Graham, a crof,er on the hill of Kin-
tore. He was going about from house td house with a tale
of distress, to the effect that he had lost his onlyeow a short
time ago, and was endeavouring to raise a little money
wherewith to :purchase another. With this story, he had
succeeded in imposing on several persons. When taken
before a magistrate, be gave another name. On being
searehed, there was band in his breast pocket, a bau
deposit receipt for £420, £l9 in bank notes, and between
43 and £4,in silver.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—A suicide, most determined
and deliberate, took place on Saturday morning on the
premises of Mr. Rose. hairdresser, of 32, St. Andrew's--
hill, Blackfriars, London. It appears that between seven
and eightho o'clock, while Mrs. Rose was
the,only person
ihe sp, a man of foreign appearance entered, saying
that ho wanted to be shaved., Mrs. Rose went: to the
back of the shop and called for her husband, but before_
he came, the unfortunate man, after having takenoff hit
on a
hat, removed his neckerchief, and seated--himself chair, leant across to a table hard
his throat.
to
a iaz,r, with which he so severely lacerated;ii
body;
and
that his head was nearly severed oktherefrom
fro.nion the floor. Dr.
after having shrieked, he fell .senseless
by, and
promptly in attendance, who
Hardy, of Earl-street, was Pr?.,Tr-', '
pronounced life to be extinct-

TRIAL OF THE TURKISH PAoriA.--The fourth sitting of
the .court took Placbtie°:itthfeal:kthoffo.vferjtylirnY:
attached to such a trial gave some degree of interest to the
t:iah:ynoaysetlhtye
ot the day was. opened by
aotrpeaniringgoepsroocne.edTinhgea,,
business,
the re-examination of Mehemmed Aga, aide-de-camp of
asgon the previous occasions,
wStiriehdaPotinga' bmuotrheis sw
tlaiannaersst;in
ledge of the affair. When pressoefddbellyiaqlsueoscitf ig
kwnhoiwch-
appeared difficult for him to answer without'imOcating
himself; he persisted in his former plan of keeping silent.
Hussein Vacil and :Nloustala were also again, examined,
but the questions put to thorn and their replies were
merely a repetition of their former interrogatory, and
threw scarcely any fresh light on the subject. It came
out from the interrogatory of Vacil that the 'murdered
girl, when at Thifitcha, did not:bear a very high character
for morality.; I The proceedings were adjouraed to tho
22nd.