The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-31 00:00:00

MANCHESTER

NEGLECT OF DUTY BY A RAILWAY POINTSMAN.-011,
Saturday, at the Manchester City Police Court, a person
named Wiliam Wilbriam, a pointsman at the Victoria Rail-
way.station, was brought before the magistrate on a charge
of having been guilty of neglect of duty. It appeared that
on Friday evening, abut half-past seven o'clock, when a
train arrived from Oldham it was his duty to turn the
engine on beingc, detached from the train one way, and the
train another, mt instead of doinr, that, he allowed the
train to run against the engine. A number of the passen-
gers were violently shaken, but no personal injury beyond
that was sustained. The defendant said he was confined at
the time, and as the engine had been permitted to follow the
engine he could not stop it.—The bench remarked upon the
serious nature of the offence by which the lives of the pas-
sengers might have been endangered.—Fined £5, or in
default to be imprisoned one month.
ANOTHER, CASE OF POCKET-PICKING.—On Saturday, at
the City Police Court, Manchester, a young man named
Michael Rylands, was sent to prison for one month with hard
labour for having, on the same morning in the market
picked the pocket of Mrs. Mary Brown of her purse and
ss. 6d. in silver.

LAZY PAUPERS.—Three idle vagabonds were brought up
at the City Police Court, Manchester, on Saturday, on a
charge that, being inmates of the workhouse, they refused
to work. All three admitted the charge to be correct, but
said that the work was too hard for them, and one had the
hardihood to tell the bench, that he had never been accus-
tomed to work. In order to give them an opportunity of
knowing what work was, the bench kindly adjudged them
to 21 days' imprisonment each with hard labour.
POCKET PICKING.—A fellow, well known to the police,
named John Thompson, was placed before the magistrates, at
the City Police Court, Manchester, on Saturday, on a charge
of having, at 7 o'clock the previous evening., attempted to
pick the pocket of a young lady at the London-road station
of the London and North Western Railway.—Miss Ann
Wood stated, that she came from London to Manchester on
the previous evening. She was looking after her luggage
and speaking to the guard, and had just taken her purse
from her pocket, when she felt the hands of the prisoner in
the pocket, but he got nothing out of it. She was sure the
prisoner was the man who put his handinto her pocket. A
'buss man who frequents the station, said he saw the prisoner
at the station on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday even-
ings, and that he saw him put his hand into the pocket of
the prosecutrix. One of the porters on the station said to
the prisoner, "It is a pity you cannot let people alone on
the platform." To be imprisoned and kept at hard labour
for three months.
ROBBERY FROM A SHOP.—On Saturday, at the City
Police Court, Manchester, a boy, 15 years old, named Henry
Tucker, was charged with having stolen a quantity of old iron
and other goods from the shop of Mrs. Jones Demprey,
Miller's Lane, into which he had effected an entrance by
breaking through the sky-light.—To be imprisoned and kept
at hard labour for three months.
CHARGE. OF STEALING "PADDLES."—At the Man-
chester City Police Court, on Saturday, a female named
Hannah Bentley was charged with having stolen a quantity
of "paddles," (used in the game of battledore and shuttle-
cock), the property of an elderly man with whom she was
lodging in Shudehill. It was proved that the prisoner sold
the articles in the town. The prisoner admitted this, but
stated that she had been instructed to do so, by the prose-
cutor, with whom she had cohabited since the previous
Friday, when she left the workhouse, and went to lodge at
his house.—The magistrates dismissed the case.
ROBBERY FROM EMPLOYERS. —On Saturday, at the City
Police Court, Manchester, a young man and a boy, named
respectively Routledge and Hume, were brought up before
the magistrates on a charge of having stolen from their em-
ployers, Messrs. Sharp, Brothers, of the Atlas Works,
Oxford Street, a quantity of files and other articles.—Mr.
Scott, .a foreman in the employ of the Messrs. Sharp, stated
that he went to their premises about 6 o'clock that morning,
when he was told by one of the men that he had found a
bundle containing the articles in question in the yard. The
man was instructed to put the bundle back in the place
where he found it, which he did. Another man subsequently
saw the younger prisoner go to the spot where the bundle was
concealed, and take it away. He was stopped, and then he
stated that the elder prisoner Routledge sent him for the
bundle. Mr. Scott stated that his impression was that the
elder prisoner had led away the younger, who had always
behaved well previously. Routledge admitted that he had
taken the articles with the view of working with them.
The foreman stated that by. the rule of the establishment
that was impossible.—Both prisoners were committed to
take their trial at the sessions,

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