The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-29 00:00:00

BIRK EN!-lEAD POLTCE COURT

-YESTERDAY

(BEFORE THE REV. F. FICLDEN, COON, AND BARTON.)
DOMESTIC SQUABBLES this case, Mr. Edward
High ton Hughes, a respectable looking young man, but
who is so deaf that he cannot hear the slightest sound,
was charged with assaulting George Edwards. Mr.
Greatley appeared for the defendant. George Edwards,
a sort of amateur sailor, who resides chiefly with his
parents in Wilbraham Street, charged the defendant,
who also resides with his parents in the same street,
under the following circumstances : On Saturday
evening, according to his statement, the wife, Mary
Hughes, came running into his house, and said that her
husband had been ill-using her, and that she was in
danger of' her life, and dared not stop in the house.
Soon after, Edward Hughes, the husband, came into the
house, and askei if his wife was there. She was there,
and he saw her, and said to her, " you will come out of
here." He repeated it several times. George Edwards
then showed the husband the door, and told him to_ go,
but the husband said he would not go without his wife.
George Edwards then pushed the husband, and a scuttle
ensued between them, and another young man came,
and pushed him out of the house. The husband slid
before he would leave the hotve, he would have the
life's blood of his wife. Soon after, he returned with a
poker, when he male a blow at him• but it missed, and
struck the mother on the arm. He was then secured,
and held until Hodgson took, him into custody. He
admitted that there were several young men in the
house; but he did not know that the husband had
repeatedly forbid his wife from going to the house. Mr.. Greatley addressed the bench on behalf of the defendant,
who decided upon binding him over to keep the peace
for tbree months.—No sooner had the decision been
given in the last case, than Mr. APNearney, the relieving
officer for the district, said he had another complaint to
make against the defendant. Mr. Greatley said he
thought one case was sufficient at a time. The relieving
officer: He is charged with vagrancy, by allowing his
wife to become chargeable to the township. The ease
was then proceeded with, and from the statements that
were made, this charge arose out of the last; for, on
Saturday, the wife being in an extreme state of debility,
applied to be admitted into the Infirmary, but, that
subsequently the husband had refused to permit 1:1.r to
go in, and some words followed, which cause, her to
leave the house. While the defendant was in custody,
the relieving officer went up to him, and, after stating
that it was his opinion (doubtlessly with a view of
cooling the temper of the defendant,) he was more of a
rogue than a fool, admonished him for not maintaining
his wife. Here, there would seem to be a blank in the
case, until the parties appeared in court, when it became
known that, on Tuesday, the wife bad been admitted into
the infirmary, and had thus become chargeable to the
••
township, while the husband was confined in prison.
The wife was called, and she stated that her husband
had not earned a day's wages since -they had been
married, and they had to live with his parents. The
defendant's father said he had maintained both his
son and his wife, in consequence of their ill-health, and
that they had lived the same as the rest of the family.
In consequence of the feeling displayed by tle relieving
sifficer, in conducing this case, •Mr; ,Greatley had
repeatedly to call him to order, tell him that he was
exceeding. his duty, upbn wbiA:ll some" Sparring " took
which the bench decided, by telling their over-
zealotia official,toquiet.ln addressing the bench for
the defende....t, *Mr. Greatley contended that this was one
of tho 'most complete trumped up case that had: ever
oeen brought before the court, and argued `that the act
"did not apply. In this, the bench coincided, for they
dismissed it. The relieving officer expressed his thanks
to Mr. Greatley, for the observations he had made on the
occasion, with regard to his conduct on the subject, and
admitted that he had a feeling in it, because he knew the
case. Greatley said he had spared asking the
official some few questions as to what had taken. place
in the house on Saturday night ; if he had, he would not
have shone very brilliantly.

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13F:EttuousE.—James Norris, a beerhouse keeper, was
fined 40s, for keeping his house open for the sale of
beer, on Sunday last. The case was proved by, police
constable Hodgson. _ . .

of Some
the court ad other-cases
ourned of minor importance Were disposed
, and j.

LANDING-STAGE ACCOMMODATION

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTRERN TIME'S.
attention has just been direeteed to Et letter
Sir,—My
signed "A Scrubber,' which appears in your pa,,er of to'
day. Permit me, in reply, to state that, bo far as the
peculiar construction of the waiting-rwms make them
" close ill-ventilated (?) places," I am not the ".responsible
party." Th it, as respects any " pertness" from the
second
assis-
tants, such becoming known to me would n
offence, ensure instant dismissal ; and' that,
as condition
to " Scrub's " further remark respectinge
of
those ladies
of the floors, &c., I appeal to the experience cwith' reference
ferenee
theirea establishment,
who have frequented the foams since
.anaer.—Yours, &c.,
six years ago, to refute the dirty 81
Landing-stage Rooms, TuomAs CHAPMAN,.
August 28. 1856.

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