The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-30 00:00:00

prisoners produced as witness, a woman, who
bought the "quadruped" about the time it was stolen
but she could not Zell from whom or where. Thi

cond " valu

complainant said, the present was the
able" dog stolen from him during the past six weeks
He did not, however, wish to punish the prisoners. w
all he wanted was the restoration of the " beautiful
animal." This was ordered, and the prisoners were
discharged.
, Snor LlFTlNG.—Johanna Lyons, and Jane Townsend,
alias Williams, the former a" ticket of leave" woman,
*ere brought up by Thompson and Scaife, on a charge
of having stolen a pair of boots from Mr. Syred's shop,
Saint James-street. The prisoners were sent to jail for
a montb.

_ .
A CAS2 OF " BRASS."—The two officers in the last case
brought tip a man named Thomas Griffiths, who keeps
an unlicensed marine store, in Gore-street

for having

and other metal,
Black, for the

in his possession a quantity of bra
for which he could not account.
prisoner contended, that he was not obliged to accou
for the possession of the property, which he purchased
in small quantities from time to time. Mr. Clough
said he could not tell if there was not a connection
between the prisoner and some persons already in cus-
tody, on a charge of being concerned in a robbery or
property of the same description, and he thi -
for a remand. The prisoner was remanded
ROBBERY AND A SSA ULT.—A Yankee-looking fellow
nam.td John Breman, was brought up on the following
charge. From the evidence of a Mrs Bradshaw and a
youth, together with a man, it appeared that on,Montlay
evening the prisoner, with six other persons, entered
the public-house of Mr. Thomas Earle, Old Hall-street,
where they called for same ale. When asked for pay.
ment, they had not any money, and they created a row
with the bar boy, and struck him. Mrs. Bradshaw, who
is sister of the landlord of the house, happened to be
present, and had a small basket on her arm, which con-
tained about £2 10s. in money, and in the row, the
blackguards knocked her down and stole the money ;
they also assaulted the man who gave evidence. The
Men, with the exception of the prisoner got away. The
police, however, had a notion that they should capture
some more of them, and the prisoner was remanded

are asked

(BEFORE MESSRS. SANDS AND REYWOOD.)
FAMILY JARS.-Mr. John Davis, a publican, residing
at the "Royal Oak," Greenwood-street, was summoned
by Mrs. Maria Davis, his wife, for having committed an
assault on her. Mr. Black was for the complainant,
and Mr. Campbell for the defendant. Both persons were
respectable hi appearance. Mr. Black in opening the
case stated, that on the morning of the 18th April, at
breakfast time, the plaintiff and defendant were seated
together partaking of that meal. Some dispute arose,
and in the course of the quarrel, the defendant flung a
saucer full of tea at his wife's head, but the saucer mis-
sed her, and the tea went on her person. He then took

up the sugar basin and threw it at her, but
she stooped her head and thus avoided that missile.
He then rushed at, and struck her two blows—one in
the eye and the other on the cheek, which cut her very
much; and hurt her considerably. This was the corn
plaint, and all she wanted was protection and support.
as he (Mr. B.) was informed that she had been turned
out of the house since that period. The complainant
was then sworn, and stated exactly the same story as
Mr. Bluck. _ In reply to Mr. Campbell, the,lady said

there was a lodger in the house, flaw- ed Mr. Hatipson,
and she had given him notice to leave. Mr. Bluck :
Now, this is what I want to prevent ; it has nothing to
do with the assault, and I want to keep to that alone.
Mr. Campbell : I want to know if she gave him any
provocation. Did you, Mrs. Davis, give your husband
any provocation for the assault ? Mrs. Davis : He called
for his stockings, and as I had not them ready on the
instant, he abused me and said if any one else wanted
things they could be got at once, and that was all the
provocation I gave him. Mr. Heywood suggested that
the case should be settled out of court and not proceed
further ; he would, therefore, advise an adjournment for
that purpose. The, suggestion was adopted, and the
parties retired.

(BEFORE MR. :tIANSFIRLD

A WINDOW SMASHER.—Catherine It I'lkfally was charged
with having broken a square of glass, value 6s 6d, in the
window of Mr. Jones's public house, Uheapsidc, and

also with attempting to stab her husband with a knife.
Mr. Jones said the prisoner's husband was in his house
with some other people, when she rushed in with an

open knife iu herhand and made a furious attack on
him. She was seized when in the act of plunging the
knife into her husband's body. The weapon was taken
from her, and she was put out into the street, when she
took up a stone and broke the glass. In reply to Mr.

Mansfield, the prisoner said Mr. Jones kept abad house

:or married men to meet married women (not their

wives) there (laughter), and that her husband spent all

s time and money there with other women, and she

only went to talie bin] out. Mr. Mansfield (to Mr.
Jones) : You hear what she says Witness : I do, sir,
but there is not a particle of truth in it—it is a gross
falsehood and calumny—my house is respectable, as is
well known. The prisoner was ordered to pay the
amount of the damages to the glass, or be committed.
DANDFLtol.r.—Two well-dressed girls, servants at the
Atlantic Hotel, Regent-road, were charged with having
assaulted an old woman, named Catherile Curley. The
woman's head had been bandaged up; and from the
evidence of W. Wall, surgeon, of the Northern Hospital, it

appeared that she had a- slight contused wound on the
forehead. The case, as told by the complainant, was
somewhat incoherent, but as far as could be collected she
said she gathered "dandelion" for the use of ladies of
delicate and "interesting positions" (laughter). She
was on her way that morning to a beautiful young
girl with an apron full of the medicinal herb, when she
went into the hotel to get a glass of ale, and to ask the
young lady in the bar if she would like a quantity of the

stuff " (laughter). The prisoners, she said, were
sweeping at the door, when, without any provocation,
they struck her on the head with a brush, and cut
her " poor old skull" in a bad way. For the defence, two
men were produced, who swore that the complainant
entered the house and acted very improperly towards the
lady in the bar, and that complainant flung two glasses of
ale that were on the counter before them into their faces,
and afterwards hurled a glass at the lady in the bar, to
whom she used all sorts of foul language. She was put
out, and then seeing the girls sweeping outside, she
attacked them both with her tongue and hands, and
one of them put up the brush to save herself, and in
this way the wound was inflicted. Mr. Carr, the
governor of the workhouse, who happened to be present,
informed his worship that, the poor woman was, no

doubt, a lunatic, as he had knoawn her to be in the
asylum some time ago. A policeman said he knew her
to be wandering about Bootle, and had no doubt what-
ever she was out of her mind. Mr. Mansfield .ordered
her to be taken care of, and directed the young woman
to be discharged.

FEARFUL CASE or WattNratio.—A most dissipated and
abandoned looking female, who gave her name as Alice
Hughes, was charged with wounding another female, in
a brothel, in Pall-mall, on the previous night. The
complainant, whose face was much lacerated, having
had, as the surgeon at the Northern Dispensary, Mr.
Soyer, stated, three incised wounds, one an inch and
the others two inches in length, inflicted on her face,
while a slice was cut off her nose, when called upon to
state the case, said, " I was in drink at the time, and I
do not know anything about the case. I know we had
some words at tea, and she went to the drawer to get
something, but Ido not know what it was. A girl, who
lived in the same locality, stated that she went into the
house at the time, when she saw the two women
struggling together on the floor. She picked the com-
plainant up, and finding that she was bleeding from the
face, took her to the Northern Dispensary. She could
not tell how it was done. The surgeon stated that he
had no doubt but that the complainant would be for
ever disfigured, as one of the temporal arteries Was rut.
Mr. Mansfield said in this case there was no doubt but
that a knife had been used, and that the woman had
received a permanent injury. It is too serious a case
for him to deal with summarily, therefore lie should send
the case for trial. The prisoner was accordingly sent
for trial.

ANOTHER CASE OF STABBING.—TWO ruffianly looking
characters, named Hunt and Flynn, were charged,
together with a man named Devine, not in custody, with
having stabbed and violently assaulted two young men,
named Patrick and John Kenny. Police officer 63 stated
that lie was on duty about half-past ten o'clock on the
previous night in Collingwood-street, off Scotland-road,
when he heard that there was a row in a cellar, and on
going to the place he found that the complainant and
his brother had been stabbed in the face with a knife.
Patrick Kenny was so much injured that be was not
able to attend. John Kenny said lie was in the house
when he heard Flynn amil his brother arguing rather
violently, when he went out, and immediately received
a blow in the cheek from a stick, which knocked him
down. The stick was produced, and was rather a
formidable instrument, being about two feet long,
elastic, and one end loaded with lead. He got up, when
Jemmy Devine (the man not in custody), gave him a
tip with a poker. He caught hold of Devine, who
stabbed him in the face, and again knocked him down,
kicking him in the mouth and loosening all his teeth.
The prisoners were remanded for the attendance of
Patrick Kenny, the other man injured, and to give the
officers time to apprehend the other offender, Devine.