The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-04 00:00:00

BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD,

AN AMA zON.—William and Winifred Clarke, husband and
wife, the latter a smart well-looking young woman, were
charged by two police constables with having assaulted them.
There was a fight i❑ Great Homer. street on Saturday night, in
which the prisoners were engaged, and when the police went to
quell the row, they were attacked by the prisoners, but par-
ticularly by the female, who "made short work" of a couple of
officers, and subsequently four men were little enough to
capture her. The prisoners were fined £2 each, or, in default
of payment, three months' imprisonment.
ASSAULTING THE POLICE.—A. man, named Samuel Reyes"
was charged with assaulting Police Constable 645, in Paradise
street, on Saturday night. The constable stated that about
half past twelve o'clock on that night ho heard a great disturb.
ance, and, on going there, be saw four or five young me❑
kicking up a row. The prisoner caught him a blow on the
head with something he held in his hand, from the effects of
which he fell, and, while on the ground, ho was kicked ou
various parts of his body. Police constable 614 came to his
assistance, and they succeeded in taking the prisoner into cus—
tody. A tradesman, living in the locality, who was shutting
up his shop at the time, fully corroborated the constable's
statement, and the prisoner was fined £5, and in default of
payment, was committed for three months.
4 William Morton was fined 40s for a similar offence, on cot
stable 504, in Kent street.
STABBING CASE.--john Henry Wilson, a respectable
looking person, was charged with stabbing a young man, named
Thomas Harrison, on the .4:h of September last. Since
the occurrence the wounded man has been in the Northern
Hospital, where for some time he was in great danger. From
the evidence of the policeman and other witnesses, the prose-
cutor being in such a state of intoxication at the time of the
occurrence as not to be able to know anything about the affair,
it appeared that the two parties were quarrelling and fighting
in Leeds-street. The prisoner was seen to take his knife from
his pocket, and stab the complainant in the bowels. When
taken to the hospital no less than twelve inches of the bowel
was protruding. The prisoner was committed for trial at the

assizes.
4 DISORDERLY SOLDIERS.—Two of the Connaught Rangers
were charged with disorderly conduct and assaulting t
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in Leeds- wreet, The case being clearly proved,
each committed for two months.
MORE STABBING.—A foreign sailor was brought up on
remand, with having, in September last, stabbed a youth, named
Smith, in Frederick-street. The particulars of this case have
already appeared. The evidence of the complainant and of
the witnesses clearly proved the guilt of the prisoner, but, in
the
consequence of the absence of an interpreter to explain
nature of the charge, the taking of the depositions, prior to
committal to the assizes, was postponed.

DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN lERVIS.—WO
announce with regret the death of the Right Hon. Sir John
Jervis, Chief Justice of the Court of
althou Common Pleas. The
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event, which took place on Sunday, gh itd b
expected for some time, was somewhat sudden in its manner.
The late judge was fifty-four years of age. For a while he
served in the army, but was subsequently, in the year 1824,
called to the b r at the middle templed Chef came Justice Attorney
General in 1846, and was appointed Chi of
Common Pieas in July, 1850. It is expected that, as is
customary in such a case, the vacant judgeship will be
offered to Sir Alexander Cockburn, her Majesty's attorney
general.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY NEAR HALIFAX.—Shortly after six
by three men,
o'clock on Thursday night, Mr. Norcross Burrows, printer,
Halifax, was attacked and robbed towne highway near
Bradshaw, a short distance from the ,
having their faces blackened. Mr. Burrows is a share-
holder in a new mill recently built at Bradshaw lane, and it
has been his practice to go to the mill every Thursday,
sometimes taking with him considerable sums of money,
with which to pay the contractors. He was proceeding to
the mill on Thursday night on horseback, and had arrived
as far a 3 the junction formed by the road leading to
Illing worth Moor and Bradshaw lane, when he encoun-
tered the three men. One of them knocked him
backward over his horse, and he alighted upon his head
in the road. The other two then held him by the arms,
and attempted to strangle him with his scarf whilst
the man who knocked him down held his hand over his
eyes, and rifled his pockets of their contents, which,
fortunately, consisted only of a few shillings, some keys,
and a knife. Disappointed at finding their booty so
small, the ruffians brutally kicked him in the side. The
blood flowed from his mouth, nose, and ears, and he
called out for assistance. His assailants were about to
give him another kick, when they heard the sound of
approaching footsteps, and ran off. Mr. Burrows then
endeavoured to remount his horse, which was quietly
grazing at 'a little distance, but the paddle girths had
been cut, and on putting his foot into the stirrup, be
fell to the ground. He is very badly injured, but, it is
hoped, not fatally.