The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-28 00:00:00

POLICE COURT.-YESTEIMAY,

(BEFORE MR MAN.FIELD.)
STABBING BY WOMEN.—There were no less than three
cases of stabbing. two of which were by women, brought
before the court yesterday. In every instance, the knife
was used wantonly, and with premeditation. Jame
Williams, a woman of the town, was charged with stab-.
bing a married woman, named Charlotte Lewis, on the
night of Thursday. In the early part of the eight they
were drinking amicably together with another woman in
a publichouse in Peter-street. Suddenly the prisoner
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and the third woman attacked the complainant. who wag
quite unprepared for the assault, and in the course of the
fight which ensued, the prisoner ran into her cellar,
and returned with a• Pnife, with which she stabbed the
complainant, She was committed for trial.
Ellen Baptist, another woman of the town, was
charged with stabbing Ann Crawford, one of her asso-
ciates, on Thursday night, in a casino in Blundell.
street. Two foreign seamen were also charge,' with her
for aiding in the assault. Mr. Campbell appeared for
the prisoners, and requested that the case might be post.
poned till this day, to enable him to produce Witnesses
for the defence. Adjourned accordingly.
John James, a young man, was committed for trial mil
a charge of stabbing another young man named Edward
Molyneux, in Bauastre•street. Thy complainant was at
the time speaking to the prisoner's sister, and was wholly
unprepared for the assault.
SAVAGE ASSAULT BY A WomAN.--A young woman,
named Ann Wilson, was charged with savagely assault-
ing an acquaintance, named Sarah Barnes, in Gascovne-
street, by striking har on the head with a pAter. They
had a quarrel about a "black Lothario ; " from words
they soon came to blows, and in the course of the fight,
the prisoner seized the poker, and " floored" her antago-
nist with it. She was sentenced to three months;
imprisonment with hard labour.

(BEFORE MR. AIKEN.)

James Perry, a, was charged with breaking
open the box of Sarah Macdonald, and stealing £3 17s 6d
from thence, on the 20th of last May. The prisoner was

a negro, keeper of a boarding-ho:lse% in Leeds-street.
received money
The prosecutrix stated that she hart .
:g
from her friends, to enable her to take a passage to
America, and the prisoner had borrowed money' front
her at different tunes, which, however, he hid r

A girl named Sir.th Wilson, also a servant in the
house, deposed that she saw the prisoner Lreak open the
box, and take out the money, but she added, that he
threatened to take her life, if, she divulged the circunl:
stance. The p•isoner was remanded for seven days.

ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.—A man named Robert
Carter, was placed in the dock, charged with having
been one.of a patty of three, who attacked Air. `V: I 7:
Farley, of Rehshaw.street, on the morning of the
and robbed him of £4O, a. watchf and other property.

The prisoner was defended by Mr. Black. The
prosecutor stated. that on the morning of the 17th, he
was going home at one oclock, from his premises in
Renshaw-street, to his house in Park-road. When
nearly opposite Combermere-street, he heard some foot-
steps behind him, but at first took no notiee
of them. In a moment, he heard the steps
approach him closely, awl he felt an arni
tlirown round his neck, while another arm grasped his
throat. lie supposed, at first, that it was some friend
playing off a practical joke, and he said, " are you going
to murder a fel'ow ?" awl just made a slight blow over
his shoulder with a stick. On this, whether by a signal
of the man who grasped him or by other pce-arrange-
ment, two other men came forward and seized him. He
tried to beat them off with his stick, and to keep his
feet. They held him fast, while one of the number

searched his pockets, and carried off £4O in gold and
notes, some silver, and an old watch and some keys.
They snapped off the chain of a second watch which
he had in his waistcoat pocket, which they supposed to
be gold, but which was only gilt. Detective officer
covey stated, that in consequence of information he had
received lie arrested the prisoner, and placed him along
with six or seven other men, among whom Mr. Farley
identified him as being one of the men who had robbed
him. The prosecutor was cross-examined by Mr. Bin&
with regard to the identity of the prisoner. He admitted,
that although he had a moral conviction that the
prisoner was one of the men, he felt some difficulty in
swearing positively to his identity. The magistrate had
therefore no alternative, under the circumstances, but
to discharge the prisoner.