The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-03 00:00:00

drew a pistol from his breastiiii

" I'm shot, I'm si

The can

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would he heave the anchor up, he r

presented a pistol at him. —The der
Pattisson, the surveyor of the British Hos
described such a wound upon Wake, as ma
doubtful; the ball had traversed the muse.—
and lodged in the man's breast ; it was then uncertain
whether he would lose his arm, but it was
limb was injured for life. M
were clearly enough proved,

Mansfield said that ti

d send the

case for trial to the assizes. Mr. Simon applied to
his client admitted to bail, but Mr. Mansfield refused
to comply with this, as it was not in his power to do so
when the evidence was of such a kind as admitted of ni
reasonable doubt. The counsel then said that he would r(
serve the defence of captain Natrass for another place
and that he should then advar "
stances

strong justifying

STEALING A PURSE. —Officer 592, charged Elizabeth Am-
brose with stealing a purse from a man in Dal- --'
witness believes to have been an emigrant
woman take the purse, and arrested her. I.
attention being drawn to his loss, said the purse
five shillings and a medal, but the five shilhngs were not in
the purse though the medal was. Prisoner had been twice
before convicted. She wad now sentenced to two months'
imprisonment.

street, whom

he man, on his
tained

SHOP-LIFTING—Mr. Rogers, draper, of St. Ja
charged Mary Fury and Sarah Thomas wi.
four yards of dress pieces from his shop door.
the goods on the person of Fury when both prisoners wt
in company. Sentenced two month imprisonment each.
OLD IN CRIME THOUGU YOUNG IN TnAns.—Cornelius
Molloy, Thos. Hart, and John Price, three little boys, were
charged by an officer with attempting to pick the pockets of
several ladies in Dale-street, at noon on Saturday. Moller
had been previously committed nine times. 1T
and Price six times. They were severally ,
imprisoned for three months, and kept to ha
.An. UNGRATEFUL THlEF.—Sarah Booth, an old feeble-
looking woman, was charged by a female named Evans,
with robbing her house of several small articles on Friday
night. She had given her lodging on that night, and madf
her up a temporary bed on a sofa.
opened her drawers and took some boob
small quantity of flour, which Iv,—

oi stealing forty-
He found

irt thre(
to b

ltenced

Whilst the
id n

But the mos
jured and destroyed several articles oi
books, which she did not carry off With h

gratuitous act of ingratitude IN

witted for 21 days,

pISPUTE BETWEEN A CAPTAIN AND HIS MEN
Nelson, James Parsons, George Reid, Augustus
Archibald Leitch, Donald Mac Farlane, John Smith, 00
Carlosis, Ephraim Kersey, Charles Benson, Peter Rose,
Patrick Cummins and Peter Poison, respectable looking
seamen, were put forward, charged under the Mercantile

Marine Act with r
prise," Thomas Morton, master, th
having had two months' wages in ads
attributed by the men to the alleged fact that th
not seaworthy, either as to hull or rig

The dispute was
thin was

nd that she
1 had

made too much water. The master saillthit the ve,
been surveyed in the graving docks lately, by an ageh,
Lloyd's, that she had got an extension of time, and was re
classed A. 1. She was a Canada-built, white oak ship, (
856 tons burthen, Robert Mackay,
proved to examining her, and said she made about,
of water by the hour. The men again asserted her

private inspector

condition, and said t
hatches or hold, tho

was no

lation in the main

said sh

riter desired

The men complained of
case was adjourned to 1 o'clock t
let at large on their own recog
object of the adjournment was to brin
for Lloyd's.

ill treatment. Finally. th
the sea

mauces to appear. TEC
)rward the Surveyor

Bridget Kelly and Catharine Kelly were each
for three months on a charge of stealing cotton.
SUSPECTED ROBBERY.—Sarah Menliff was brought up on

,nt to gaol

suspicion of stealing a brush and two dressingfcase;.r It
appeared the prisoner sent a little girl into a pawnshop to
pledge the things, and the pawnbroker suspecting them to
have been stolen, gave the prisoner in charge to a polio(
officer. Remanded till Monday.
PICKING POCKETS.—Mary Ann D

las was charged with

picking a gentleman's pocket in P.
money was found in her right hand, after she Is
charge. She was sent to gaol for one month.
ROBBERY wrrn VIOLENCE.—Richard Gun was charged
with stealing a pot of pickles. The prosecutor: in this case,
keeps a beer-house, and the prisoner, accompanied by two
more, went into his house, and had two glasses of ale each ;
the prosecutor's wife noticed a pot of pickles (which she af-
terwards identified as her property) in the prisoner's pocket ;
and upon her charging him with stealing it, he jumped up
and knocked her down. He was ordered to pay 55., or be
imprisoned for three days.

given in

ASSAULT.—WiIIiam Pletcher, a painter, 1
having committed an assault on Thomas Go:

an. The pro-

secutor stated that on the previous event
waste ground opposite St. George's Hall, listening to th_
quack doctors who visit that locality, when the prisoner came
up to him and struck him; a squabble ensued, in which prc-
secutor had a part of his ear bit off by the prisoner. The
police-officer produced the bit of the prosecutor's car. The
prisoner was sent for trial.
Thomas Fraser, for furious driving in Great Howard-
street, was fined 255. and costs.

he was on-. th