The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-09 00:00:00

PUBLICANS AND BEERHOUSE CASES.

Hiram Henderson, publican, RPgent street, was
charged for selling whiskey at illegal hours. Adjourned
for witnesses.

Henry Barigan, beerhouse keeper, Harding street,
Windsor, was summoned for allowing drunken persons
in the house. Mr. Black, for the defence, called wit-
nesses to disprove the allegation. Fined 10s and costs.

Thomas Fox, publican-, Simpson street, was charged
with doing business on Sunday night last, at a quarter
past eleven o'clock. Mr. Bremner was for the defendant,
and said there was no drink supplied after the legal
hour. On proof of this, the charge was dismissed.

Andrew Morison, beerhouse keeper, Stewart street,
was summoned for doing business on unday morning,
and for daving a drunken man in the house. Dismissed.
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John Kennedy, beerhouse keeper, Browniow
charged with doing business at illegal hours. Dismissed.
Peter Eckersly. beerhouse keeper, Vauxhall road, was
charged with doing business at illegal hours on Sunday
morning. Mr. Block defended, and stated that the
persons in the house were lodgers. There was a second
information against the defendant for permitting
drunken persons in the house. Fined on one case lOs
and costs; the other withdrawn, on the application of
Mr. Bluck.

Andrew Fryar, publican, Scotland road, was charged
with Sunday trading. The fault was laid on the clock,
in this case. Dismissed.

Andrew Morison, beerhouse keeper, Stewart street,
was charged with Sunday trading. Fined 2s 6d.
William Nicholson, beerhouse keeper, Circus street,
was chargeil with Sunday trading. Mr. Bluck, for the
defence, raised a question whether'ale given as a gift by
defendant to the person land in the house constituted
a selling. His worship considered it did. not, and
dismissed the Complaint.
(BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.)
THB WAY IT HAPPENED.—A tall wicked-looking
fellow, named James Murphy, was charged by police
officer2l4, for having assaulted him. He said he saw
the prisoner at the King's Pierhead, he was drunk, and
made attempts to assault several persons who were pas-
sing. The
_witness wanted him to go away, but he
refused, and asked liberty to go down .the steps to
bathe his feet, and the constable permitted him to do so,
but it appeared that laveing process had a wonderful
effect on him, for he commenced beating every one he
could lay hands on, and when the officer interfered, he
made a promise which lie nearly performed, of flinging
him over the pierhead, and. making food for fishes of
him. Being prevented of putting his charitable inten-
tions into practice, he seized the policeman by the neck,
and nearly disjointed that important portion of the body,
at the same time he commenced a musical operation on
the shins of complainant, with a pair of heavy shoes,
the nails of which made considerable dints in the fleshy
parts of the legs In reply to the charge, the prisoner
said, "I'll tell you how it all happened. I went down
the steps at the pierhead to wash my feet, and the
moment the aides got a taste of the alt water, they
capered about like the-very 'ould boy' himself, and
that was exactly how it happened. The feet had .played:
him a trick of the same sort before, but if his worship
let him off now, he would take care that they should
not trick him any more." He was fined 10s and costs, or
to be imprisoned for one month. 1

(istFoltE MR. MAXWELL)
THE ROBBERY OF MR. PHELAN.—William Barlow,
who was remanded on the above charge, a report of
which appeared in our paper of yesterday, was brought
up. Inspector Murphy said the police were not able to
find the woman, as it appeared that the mother of the
prisoner had go,, her away, supposed to the Isle of Man,
and, therefore, no further evidence could be produced
against the prisoner. Mr. Dodd for the prisoner, urged
that he must he discharged, and his worship discharged
him accordingly.

FRIGHTFUL

MURDER AT PARIS.

The quarter of the Faubourg St. Martin has just been the
scene of a frightful murder. About four o'clock the morn-
ing before last, the attention of the porter of a house in the
Rue de la Fidelite was excited by a noise in one of the
upper stories. Fearing that some of his lodgers were about
to effect a clandestine removal, he got up and went out of
his lodge to see what was going on. S;arcely had he
ascended.a few steps of the staircase, when he met a man,
who is a clerk in a public administration, named K—,
who occupied a room above, bearing on his shoulders the
naked body of a woman with the bead cut off. On seeing
the porter, and alarmed at the cry which that person raised,
the man threw down the body, ascended hastily towards his
room, and jumped out of the window on the second floor
into the street. The upper part of a shep window on the
ground floor broke his fill, and he came on the foot pave.
meat without having received any injury, and ran off as
fast as he could towards the Faubourg, St. Denis. Few
persons were in the street at that hour in the morning, and
no one consequently stopped him. Information having been
sent to the commissary of police, that functionary was slon
on the spot accompanied by a medical man. It appears
from the preliminary investigation that T about two
years ago fell violently in love with a young girl, with whom
he had resided in the house for more than a year, but she
one day disappeared. After searching for her for several
months, he at length discovered the fugitive ' • but, notwith-
standing his earnest entreaties, she refused to renew her
acquaintance with him. It is thought, however, that on
Saturday she had come to IC 's room, anal that during
the night was perpetrated the horrible crime of which the
circumstances are as yet but very imperfectly known. The
room on its being entered was found in the greatest disorder,
and everything covered with blood. The head was found
in a pail. It is supposed that S must have accomplished
the decapitation with a razor while his victim was asleep.
The age of the girl is considered by the medical man to be
about from twenty-three to twenty-five, but nothing has yet
been discovered to prove her identity. The body was con-
sequently removed to the Morgue. It is supposed that
fancying that every one was asleep in the house would
have carried the body into the street and there left it,
thus giving an idea that the murder had been effected
in the public road, bat the waking of the porter-discon-
certed his plans. How he intended to manage with
the head is by no means clear. The police are making
a strict search for him, but no clue to him had been
had. The following are additional details .—The mur-
derer's name is Poirier, his age is thirty-five, and he was
employed as office porter by the Societe d'Emigration
Franco-Americaine, whose offices are at that address. On
Saturday the chief employes of the company, on the termi-
nation of the business of the day, said that they should go
into the country in the evening and stop till Monday, and
they left him in charge of the offices. In the evening he
went out, and after stopping out some time returned with a
young and pretty woman, who went upstairs with him the
concierge making no objection. In the night the concierge,
as already stated, was awakened by a strange !riga on the
staircase. He got up and found Voider dragging down by
the legs the 'body of a woman with the head cut
off. " The chemise of the victim was tied over the
neck, probably to prevent the effusion of blood. The
concierge, whose name is Ferrageau, horrified, cried for his
wife to come to him, and armed himself with an old sword
which he preserved as an old soldier. He then said to
Poirier Wretch ! what have you done ? You shall not
pass !" " What matter," said Poirier, " whether I pass or
not ? lam avenged on a woman who has made me
suffer a
good deal, and I have no wish to escape ! Arrest me if you
like!" lie, however, returned up stairs, and the concierge
and his wife hastened to summon the police. The police at
once proceeded to the man's bed-room on the sixth story,
but did not find him or any trace of the crime. They
accordingly descended to the offices, the door co' which was
open, and found that the murder had' been committed in a
kitchen attached to them, which is fitted up as a bed-room.
The first object that attracted their attention was an iron
balance forming part of a letter (apping press ; and as it
was covered with blood, and had hair adhering to it, it was
evident that the victim had been beaten about the head with
It. On a table was a knife stained with blood ; near the bed,
which was also stained with blood (a fact which shows that
the young woman must hays been struck on the head whilst
lying on it), was a large tin. pail nearly filled with blood ;
and in this pail was the head of the victim. The head,
according to all appearance, had been cut off with the knife,
Out as the knife was old and much iniured by use. tha ama

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ration must have been a long and difficult one_; the fleshy
oar:s of the neat for example, were not cut through, but
hacked. A carpet by the side of the bed was saturated with
blood. On the table were some empty bottles of wine, some
biscuits, and other remains of a
which the murderer effected I
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ame of the murderad fern
seertained, but from her dress and a
upposed to have been a fernme de chan2bre_

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