The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-10 00:00:00

FRIDAY

BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD

PROFESSIONAL PICKPOCKETS. —Two rather smartly attired
females, who gave their names as Jane Gough and Mary
Johnson, with a swellish looking youth, who gave his name as
Charles Gough, and said he was the husband of the first priso-
ner, were charged with picking the packets of several persons
in railway carriages, and also in omnibuses. Mr. Goodere
appeared for the defendants. He said his clients were charged
with an offence out of the jurisdiction of that court, and were
about to be taken to the county. Mr. Snowball and himself
were in the case. Detective officer Carlisle said he hoped
his worship would hear a little of the evidence, because he was
about to apply to have the male prisoner reinanded. Mr.
Goodere said he should oppose that application, and ask to have
him diseharged if there was no case against him. Carlisle :
The day before yesterday the prisoners came down from Man.
cheater by train, and in the same carriage was a Mrs. Wil-
liams, who was robbed ofa purse containing £1 75., and an
" 1.0. U." Yesterday, he met the three prisoners with
another person, who had since absconded. The two women
got into the Aighurth omnibus, and then into the Wavertree
omnibus. He, with detective officer Scott, got outside of the
'bus, and watched their proceedings, an,i, when a lady left,
they sent the guard after her, and found that she had
lost a sovereign. They then took them into custody,
and on Gough they found the sum of £2
10s. Mr. Goodere : That is only against the two females,
There is nothing against the male prisoner. Carlisle : But we
have another charge against him. The prisoner, with another
person, went into a bullion offi 'e in Lime-street, and got a 20
dollar piece changed. We have since understood that Mrs.
Newman, of Rock Ferry, had lost such a piece on the 4th inst.
Whi n he was tasen this morning, he said " I suppoe you wont
see about the 20 dollar piece, the other man had eight more
besides the one he changed." Mr. Goodere : Yes, but that
was after you had let him go yesterday. I think it a very
natural question to put under the circumstances. I should
have done the same. Mr. Mansfield: What is the prisoner
charged with ? Mr. Garnett: With robbery in Bo'd street
The two females were then ordered to be sent before the
county magistia'es an I the male prisoner was remanded
A SOLICITOR CIIARQED WITH Isi INC; DRUNK Iv THE
STREETS.-Mr. Goo.lere : Well, sir, I do not know now what I
am to do. There is a charge against me for being drunk. Now
it is quite clear that I cannot be here and at the other magis-
trates court at the same hill, So lamin a regular fix ; if lam
not here, I may be fined 53. I have not been summoned for
being disorderly, but merely for being drunk. Can you take
my case now. Mr. Mansfield (smiling)—You had better pay
the ss, at once, and not let us hear any more Omit it. Mr.
Goodere—No, no ; I shall not put up with it. 1 have wit-
nesses, and no expense shall prevent my going on. Perhaps
you would let it stand over until to-morrow, Mr. Mansfield
—Very well, The advocate then left the court.

THREATENING TO SHOOT A POLICEMAN.—Henry Ward,
a youth of rather unprepossessing personal appearances, was
charged with having threatened to discharge a pistol at the head
of police constable No. 707. The constable stated that on the
previous evening he was taking a man, named Maguire, through
Castle street, when the prisoner came up to him and constable
387, and said : " What has he been doing " He replied :
"Do you know him ?" The lad then said : "If you do not
let him go ; I will blow both your brains ont," and then
presented a pistol, and attempted twice to discharge it, but it
mis-fired. He then took another pistol from his pocket and
fired it off, but it did not do any damage. One of the pistols
was loaded. It having been suggested that the prisoner was
not exactly right in his mind, he was remanded for a week.

BEFORE MR, BOLTON AND MR, HOLT.
INFRINGEMENT OF THE PASSENGERS' ACT.—The master
of the ship Admiral Boxer, John Jones, appeared to answer a
summons obtained against him by the Government Emigration
Officer, Captain Scliomberg, for having, contrary to the pro-
visions of the act, sent a boat nn shore, after the certificate
had been signed that it was equipped in accordance with the
requirements. The prosecutor said, if the case was not admitted,
he should be able to prove that when the ship left Liverpool
in June last, that it had the proper number of boats on board,
but after she had got out of the river, one of the boats were
sent ashore, lie would also remind the bench that the
offence was one of a very grave nature, and, if it was permitted,
the loss of life might be tremendous. The defendant ad-
mitted the offence, and the bench fined him in the mitigated
penalty of £2O and costs, there being no circumstances to
palliate the offence.

PUBLICANS AND BEER HOUSE CASES.—A rather larger
number of these cases than usual came before the magistrates
for adjudication. They were all for trading after the hours
prescribed by the act of Parliament, and possessed not the
slightest public interest. Where the offence was proved, the
parties were fined in a trifling penalty, but most of them were
dismissed, the evidence not being sufficient.