The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-05 00:00:00

fuitire, and after a seven'
parties were discharged.

ROBBER'
was charg

OVER A GAME OF DOMINOI

I. with st

If):: 71 Grantham,
~e Wright
keeps a beer

1 Geor

Gregory, who is the brother of a pers
house m Medlock-street. It appeared that the
another per Son were drinking and playing at dominoes
the afternoon on Monday, at the house in question,
in the evening they were joined by the prosecutor
played for some ale, the prosecutor lost, and on taking out of
his pocket a quantity of money to pay for the ale, the pri-
soner, as alleged by the prosecutor, snatched from him the
sum of £3 Bs. On being apprehended, £3 7s. was found
upon the prisoner. Committed to the Sessions.

ROBBERY FROM A HOUSE. —An elderly mai
Hamilton, was committed to take his trial at the sess
for stealing four shillings and sixpence from Mrs
flying at Lower Chatham-street, Chorlton-upon-
The money was laid on a table, in a room, and the
who fisiteil the house under the pretence of inauirino• about
lodgings, picked it up during the tempo/
mistress of the how(

amed John

.OUND MEAT.--The Town Clerk
iinst James Greenwood, Thomas MI:

. Carley
Medlock-

f)sence of the

erred a charge

possession, unsound meat. Neither of the persons Char& edap-
pearcd ; but the cases having been proved, they were fined
as follows :—Greenwood, 20s. and costs ; Martin, 40s. and
costs, and Barker, 20s. and costs.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.-Y

LIVERPOOI

ACCIDENT. —An inquest was held yester( _
Borough Coroner, on the body of Edward Downes, late of
Liverpool.—Thcmias Cooke deposed that he is a si
residing at 12 Court, Penrhyn-street, and was acqi
with the deceased for the last three years. lie res:
the same court. Deceased was a sawyer by trade, and 56
Witness, on Satt---1
him, at Samuel Dork(

ainted
led in

years of a,

m company With

beer-house,in the same street. He
saw deceased go out to the bar and return there to light his
pipe, and in coming out he appeared to miss the step at the
door, and fell backward through the opening to the cellar
stairs. Witness said he then called for a light, and found
deceased lying with his head on the cellar steps, and his
feet on the stairs. He lifted him up,_and carried him home;

and, whilst doing so, perceived that 'blood was flowing from
a cut in the back of his head.—Dr. Arnold's Assistant de-
posed that, when called in, he bathed

sed's temple:
wed to bed,

with whiskey and water. He was tl
where be died in about fifteen minutes.—Mary Downes
wife to deceased, was also examined. She said that Downes,
her husband, had been out on Saturday night, and she
went to look for him, and found him in Mr. Dorke's beer-
house, in Penrhyn-strcet. Ile shortly rose up to come
away with her, and did not appear at the time to be very
tipsy, yet she could perceive signs of drink upon him. She
saw him fall down the cellar stairs, as described by the

other witnesses, and issuit(

to throw him down. 11e was taken up, carried to his own
house, a surgeon brought, every attention paid to him, but
he died about 11 o'clock the same evening. Deponent was
so frightened, that she was not exactly able to tell the time
deceased died. Verdict—" Accidental death."
DEATH or A CHILD.—An inquest was held on the body
of a male child, unknown, brought to the Seacombe slip, in
a steam tug, and landed at the slip. James Roberts, an
officer, deposed that the child appeared about two years old,
and deponent had it removed to the dead house. Mr. Geo.
Kemp, surgeon, deposed that he had made a post mortent
examination of the body, and found that the child had died
from congestion of the lungs, but how produced, there was
no evidence to show.

DISCOVERY Or THE BODY OP A NEWLY-BORN CHILD.—
An inquest was held on the body of a new-born female child,
John King, a boy, deposed that he lives in Duckinfield-
street ; when . going to his work on Monday morning, he
found the body of a child, wrapped up in a piece of white
cloth, at the back door of Mr. Gibbons, confectioner, corner
of Pomona-street. He called a policeman who took it
away to the dead house. The constable denos

surgeon, swore to the child

same facts, and Mr. Kemp,
being still-born. Verdict accordh..,
SUDDEN DEATH IN DALE-STREET.-
on the body of a man unknown. Geoff .uicer 075,
said, that while on duty yesterday morning, at a quarter-past
nine o'clock, he saw a man, with whose person he was
not acquainted, leaning against a parapet in Dale-street.
Upon going up to him, he found he could not speak. He
removed him on a stretcher to the Police-Office in High-
street, but he was dead when deponent got there. He was five
feet four inches in height, dressed in an old black cotton-velvet
coat, and vest of the same material. Nothing, it appearst
was found on him to lead Ur his identity. A verdict of'
" Died fropi natural causes " was returned.

in inquest was -held
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