The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-16 00:00:00

acts of fraud and violence. Gentlemen, I take this oppor-
tunity of stating that I have received and examined an
enlarged and revised edition of the police regulations, which
have lately been pu'alished by the watch committee. It is
❑ot only a complete manual of the policeman's duty, but it
is extremely interesting to any person who wishes to become
acquainted with the working of the constabulary in this
own, and with the general provisions of the local acts. The
I►w has been brought down here to the most recent period,
for I fled, among other things, that the enactments of a
statute passed in the present year, are annexed, by which a
policeman is prohibited from voting or interfering in any
way in a municipal or parliamentary election. It is impos-
sible to read any of the recent regulations without being
struck by the great zeal and care of the watch committee
and the gallant officer at the head of the pike for the
security and protection of the public; and, I may also add,
for the character and efficiency of the police force,
They are also not inattentive to the due encouragement and
welfare of the force, for I find, among other things, that by
the recent edition, every well conducted policeman will
be entitled to three days leave of absence in the course of the
year, and every person who considers how fatiguing the
incessant routine of a policeman's duties must be, will, I think,
hardly grudge to any well conducted man snch a degree of
indulence. With these observations, gentlemen, I shall
dismiss you to commence your business. the grand jury
then retired and proceeded.to consider the bills.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

LIVERPOOL.

BEFME MR. MANSFIELD.
A DESPERATE RIIFFIAN.—A ruffian, named William
Cunningham, a carter, who resides in Peter street, was
charged with having violently assaulted his step-
daughter, a child about ten years of age, named Anne
Rose Boyd. The fac's of the case appeared in our paper
of yesterday. The following are the details. It appeared
that early in the morning of Sunday the police were
called to the house where the prisoner resided, and on
officer 467 approaching he heard geeat screaming ; he
rushed into the room, where he found the prisoner with
a large whip (whip produced), and he beating the little
girl most furiously. She was bruised all over in a
frightful manner, and he took her to the Northern
Hospital. The little girl was brought from the hospital
in charge of a nurse. She said the prisoner beat her
with a.vvhip without any provocation. She was greatly
hurt. Mr. Mansfield : Did he ever beat you before ?
Yes, sir, when he gets drunk he beats me. A surgeon
from the Northern Hospital gave evidence of the inju ies
sustained by the little girl, which were of a most
serious description. In reply to his Worship the
prisoner said, the reason he beat the girl was that she
was out all night, and was in the habit of stopping out
at night. Mr. Mansfield : She was not out that night.
she was in bed. To the girl, Were you out that night ?
Girl No, sir, nor any other night. The mother of the
child (the wife of the prisoner) said the prisoner was in
the habit of beating her and the child when he got
drunk, and that was as often as he could. The girl did
not go out at night, except she ran out to avoid the
violence of the prisoner. Mr. Mansfield said nothing
could justify such shocking and wicked cruelty as the
prisoner had been guilty of, and as described by the
surgeon, The child was delicate and mild looking, and
such ruffianism should not be tolerated. He sentenced
him to three months imprisonment, with hard labour.
The child was taken back to the hospital, where every
attention will be paid to her serious case.
EIGHTY TIMES !—A woman named Pritchard, was
brought up, charged with having committed an im-
moral offence in the street. In reply to his worship,
Mr. Hepworth, the clerk of the Bridewell, said the
woman had been eighty times in gaol. She was com-
INi ;or one month.

CURIOUS ThAI*POSITION NAMES.—George Robinson
was charged with having stolen a quantity of wearing
apparel. The most curious portion of the affair was,
that the prosecutor's name is Richard Cook, and he is
cook on board the ship Richard, and this strange trans-
position of names caused some merriment. The property
was stolen from on board the vessel, and a portion
having been found on the prisoner he was sent for
trial.

WHAT THE BIRTH OF A CHILD GAVE BIRTII TO !—A
person of respectable appearance, named Mrs. Ellis, who
resides in Vauxhall road, and a genteel-looking young
matt named John Ellis, her son, were charged by officer
M'Donnell, 112, with being drunk and disorderly, and
also with having assaulted him. Mr. Godfrey appeared
for the defendants, who were ont on bail. The cow-
complainant said, at twenty minutes to one on Saturday
night, or Sunday morning, he heard a great noise in
Vauxhall road at a public house door, and on going to
ascertain the cause, he saw the female kicking at it
Curiously. He told her to go away, but she refused,
saying she wanted a glass of brandy for a sick woman
He said it was too late to get anything, without the
certificate of a doctor, but she kicked the more furiously
at the door. He advised her to go away, which she did
for about a hundred yards or so, when she came back
and began abusing him furiously. He again advised
her to go home, and she went away, hut returned a third
time with her son. She caught hold of him by the coat,
and used bad language, and at the same time the son
and three women, caught, knocked him down, and
kicked him. This was the amount of the charge, which
was partly corroborated by two officers, Nos. 457,
and 608, and the bridewell keeper stated that the defen-
dants were drunk when brought to the station. Mr.
Godfrey cross examined the officer at some length, in
order to elicit that the officer had taken the woman by
the arm, and nearly twisted it out of the socket ; but. of
course, the officer denied that he had so acted. The
young man gut a black eye, and had his arm in a sling,
but the officers denied that they had inflicted the inju.
ries on him, but said he might have got them when
they were all down in the scuffle. Mr. Godfrey said he
would not disguise the facts of the case, which were
these. The female was ill for a long time past, and on
Saturday night her son called on her to bring the glad
tidings that his wife had given birth to their first child.
Now he (Mr. G.) would contend that it was excusable
in any man, under such circumstances, to indulge in a
glass of grog—he had done it, and he would like to see
any man in Liverpool who had not done the same, under
such glad tidings. He denied that the female was
drunk, but said she went out to get the brandy for a
sick woman who was in the house, and as she was
roughly handled by the policeman, she told her son,
who was excited, and he went to take his number, when
the scuffle ensued. He contended that the defendants
had been sufficiently punished. He called a daughter
of Mrs. Ellis, who gave the same version of the affair as
he did. Mr. Mansfield said whatever ',treatment the
parties had received they had brought on themselves,
but he imagined they had been punished enough, and
he, therefore, discharged them.
SOPHIA OR SOFA—WHICH ?—A fellow, named Chas.
M'Entyre, was charged with having assaulted a Mrs.
Margaret Spellman, who keeps a broker's shop in Great
Homer Street. It appeared that on Saturday evening
the prisoner entered the shop, and asked a servant girl,
who was there at the time, if they had got any
sofies in the house ? (A. laugh). She replied no,
hut that there were a couple of Mary's.
(Renewed laughter.) Whereon he gave her a welt
across the shoulder, that tumbled her over. She
screamed, and the mistress came and told her to go
for a policeman. She went, and whilst away, the
fellow caught hold of complainant, and dragged her
into the street. Some women came to her assistance,
when the prisoner cried out she was his wife, and
that he. had a right to beat her if he liked. She
never saw him before. At this time the police came
up, and took him into custody. In reply to the charge,
the ruffian said he was drunk, and merely thaught he
was " licking" his own wife, who, he
,said, deserved
it. He was sent to gaol for two months.
DESERTING A WIFE.-111r. \Villiams, one of the reliev-
ing officers, brought up a person named John Nesdale
on a charge of having deserted his wife, who was
made chargeable to the parish for £2 12s fid. It
appeared that in April he went away, and his wife got
relief to the above extent, and on Saturday Mr. Wil-
liams found the prisonet, whom he understood to have
money. The prisoner said he had in the Crimea, and
got his hand hurt ; he had to come home through
France, and was not able to do any thing since he
returned, and what money he had was spent in his
support. The parish had relieved his wife once before,
during his absence in Australia, and he paid when he
came home, and he would do so in this instance when
he got work. He was remanded, as he said he ima-
gined he could get the money.
GAROTTING A WOMAN. —A nice looking, but unfortu-
nate young woman, named Elizabeth Peggin, charged
a young fellow, named Thomas Butler, with having
stolen a purse, 7s 6d, and fifteen pawnbrokers' dupli-
cates from her. Mr. Blink. defended. It appeared,
from the statement of the girl, that on Saturday night
four weeks past she was going home along Everton
roan, when the prisoner stopped her, and, after
a moment's conversation, he put his arms
round her neck, and nearly choked her, at
the same time taking from her breast a purse containing
the money and tickets, with other documents. He got
off, and she did not see him until Saturday night, when
he was given into custody, and on his person the purse
and some documents that it contained, were found.
After an able defence by Mr. B luck, the girl agreed to
withdraw the charge, if she got back the tickets, and this
being agreed to, the prisoner was remanded until she got
her property back.
ASSAULT ON THE POLlCE.—Edward Ormshaw, a large