The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-28 00:00:00

COUNTY MAGISTRA.TES COURT

(BEFORE MESSRS. CAMPBELL, PRESTON, AND T. RATHBONE.,
On Saturday, several parties attended in th4s court for
the purpose of hearing a case of assault, which had created
some interest in the locality of Marsh-lane, Bootle,
where the parties engaged in it moved in a respectable
sphere of society. It was a case of cross summonses. In
the first instance, Mr. Thomas Otlay was the plaintiff, and
Catherine Jones, a servant to Mr. Alexander M'Cullock,
was the defendant, for whom Mr. Bretherton
appeared. Mr. Otlay, on being called said, I live in Marsh
Lane, Bootle, and am a tea and hop merchant, the defen-
dant is a servant and lived next door to me. On Sun?ay
.t ten o'clock, I saw the defendant talking
my brAher at the holoin of the garden. I cent
down and looked into Mr. M'Culloch's garden. I did not
see any person, but immediately after she threw some water
on me. We at that time had neither of us spoken. I could
not see what she had in her hand, but could see her hand,
swinging, and a deluge of water was thrown over the wall
at me. I stepped on one side, and none of it came on me.
At the time she threw the water, she said, in a loud voice,
there, ha,t thou got that ?" I replied, "i ou hussey, I
will have yen tefore the magistrates for it."
In answer to Mr. Bretherton, the plaintiff "el enied that
he had ever spoken to the defendant more than once, and
that was at the railway st,-,t'on, when he ercpil el after her
master's health, although he was not on sin aki;ig terms with
that gentleman. He also denied that he had ever stood
on the wall that separated the two gardons, nor did he
know that the defendant had complained to her master and
mstress, but admitted that Mrs. M'Cullock had cautioned

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in not to annoy her servant.
As no assault had been proved she magistrates ordered
the case to be dismissed.
Catherine Jones then appeared to compl-in of an assault
committed upon her by J homas Otlay and his brother
Robert. In opening the case Mr. Bretberton expre-sed
Lis opinion, atter the result of the last case, it would
be bitter for the summons to be. withdrawn,
but as Mr. Cullock declined to comply with
the suggestion, the case was proceeded with. The com-
plainant then stated, that about ten o'clock on Saturday
night she went into her mater's garden, when she saw
Thomas in his garden, and Robert standing on the wall,
they were talking together, and afterwards Thomas threw
some soil which hit her in the face. The defendant,
Thomas, asked a number of questions totally irrelevant to
the matter in dispute, and concluded by denying the
cherge. The comtAainant then said, that the defendant
Thomas bad repeatedly annoyed her, by asking her to go
for a walk with him, and hid on one occasion got out of a
first-class and entered into a third-class carriage in which
she was riding, and, when at Liverpool, had walked from
the station with her. Of these annoyances she. had com-
plained to her master and mistress. the defendant denied
all that the girl had said, and the magistrates ordered this
case also to be dismissed ; at the same time, intimating it
as their opinion that Mr. Otlay would best consult his
respectability by not interfering with his neighbour's
servants.

ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAR INSTITU-
TION, 9, ROSE•HILL.—Week ending April 26,—New
patients entered on the books last week, viz—Relieved at
the institution, 184 ; relieved at their own dwellings, 61 ;
cases of prevailing epidemic, 0 ; total, 245. Visitors, Mr.
E. Watts' Mr. T. Kirk. lion. Sec. and treasurer, Joseph.
Kitchen, El.
COURTESIF.S TO FRENCH OFFICERS, —A. banquet was
given at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth Dockyard,
on Thursday evening, to the officers of the Imperial French.
Navy, who attended the naval review in his Imperial
Majesty's corvette Da Chayla, commanded by Captain
Longueville, whose officers are Lieutenants Dewatre
and Tire:d, Ensigns C4rrey and A. Hamelin. The
deputation on board consists of the following officers : Rear-
Admiral Jurien de la Graviere ; C tptains Belvez-, Piron-
neau, Didelot Pothuan, Benic. Le Jenne, and Chaperon ;
Lieutenants E. Hamelin, Zede, Dubarqeois, Boelle,
Touboulic, de Jouquieres, de Baaulieu, Hoeqnert, and.
Lafont; Ensigns Le Roux de Villier4, de Barbuin,
Fleuriais, and Boquet, Commissaire de la Marine. The
banquet was given by the admirals and captains of the fleet
at Spithead. The College was suitably " appointed" for
the occasion, and the dinner was furnished from the Crown.
and Scep're, Greenwich.
SnocKnio MURDER.—A murder of a fearful character
was committed on Thursday morning at Ardfordmoor, a
village in Staffordshire, in the parish of Alstonefield, on
the borders of Derbyshire. The crime was perpetrated by
Betsy Edge. a woman of fifty-five, upon her sister Ann
Edge, who is seventy-six. The two women lived iu the
houso of a farmer named Berrisford. They went to bed
tog: titer on Wednesday night in Derfk-et amity, but about
five-o'clock on Thursday morning 'Betsy Edge got up. and,
having procured an axe, beat out the brains of her sleeping
sister with it. Berrisford, heating a noise, went to the

room and

secured the infuriated '.man it:

as she was

about to inflic

upon her sister

The roor

old woman die

d in about an hour

from the

ds which

she had previously received. There does not appear to have
been any ground of enmity between the sisters, and it is
supposed that the murderess is insane.