The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-09 00:00:00

POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY

(BEFORE MR, ANDERSON.)
AN ARTFUL DODGE.—A middle-aged man, named
Samuel Hughes, was placed in the dock charged with
obtaining money under false pretences. A few days
ago the prisoner was loitering in Dale•street, and he
observed a cotton porter, named William Price, deposit
lOs of his wages in the hands of Mrs. Close, who keeps
a butcher's shop in the same street. Next morning he
went to Mrs. Close, and representing to her that he had
been sent by Price for the money, obtained possession
of the half sovereign from her. Price was " taken
rather a-back" when he heard of the dodge, and
after a close watch, discovered the prisoner drinking
in a public house with three other men, whom he
was g nerously treating out of Price's money. The
prisoner admitted having received the money, but
alleged that he had no intention of defrauding the
complainant. with whom he had often worked. He
was discharged, on paying back the amount to Price.
CHARGE OF ROBBERY AGAINST TWO MATES.—James
Thomas Slaver and William M'Kenzie, first and second
mate of the ship South Carolina, now lying in dock,
were brought up on remand, charged with selling the
ship's pickings and topsail without authority. They
were defended by Mr. Block and Mr. Chilton. When
charged with the theft, the second mate admitted
having sold the pickings, but alleged that be had done
so according to the instructions of the first mate. The
first mate, on his part, did not deny the fact, nor that
he bad also disposed of the topsail ; but as the order
given by the clearing clerk of the consignees was loosely
worded, and as the captain was willing, in the first
instance, to allow the mate to condone for the improper
sale of the topsail by the forfeiture of his wages, the
magistrates were of opinion that the charge could not
be sustained. The prisoners were accordingly dis-
charged.

(BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.)
INDECENT ASSAULT ON A CHILD.--A middle-aged man,
named James Gray, who keeps a sweet shop in
Northumberland street, was charged with an indecent
assault on a little girl, named Caroline Jones, aged
eight years. It appeared that on Friday evening the
wolittlerth girl
sent went Into the prisoner's shop for a halfpenny
of ets. After serving her, he asked the little
child
i to come round the counter, and then committed
'The
indecent assault with which he now stood charged.
The child screamed out, and immediately afterwards
told her mother of what had occurred. He was fined
£5, or in default, two months' imprisonment.
FEARFUL ASSAULT.—Francis Moirison, described u
the keeper of a disreputable house, in Back Parliament-
street, was placed in the dock, charged with having
assaulted a middle aged man, named William Garvey.
The assault was of a most murderous character, the
prosecutor having received no less than six Feel p wounds.
Parliament-street
It appeared that he went to Back with
a sailor, and when they got there, some women wanted
to take the seaman's clothes and pledge them. The
prosecutor interfered, and on doing so, the prisoner
rushed from his house with a poker in his hand, end
felled the prosecutor to the ground. The women also
attacked
to and he was so severely beaten that he was
t
the Southern Hospital in an insensible state.
Tleaecpkeridsothehier pleaded that he was drunk at the time, and
that he had been called out to defend the women from
the violence of the prosecutor. He was fined 40$ or in
default two months' imprisonment.
THE CASE OF STABBING IN DENISON-STREET.—Charles
Adams, the American seaman, remanded on a charge of
stabbing his shipmate, Henry Hinckes, in their boarding
house, in Denison-street. was again brought up, and
committed for trial at the assize. Hinckes was also
present, but he looked very weak and feeble. He gave
the same version of the affair which bas already ap..
peared in this paper. Mr. J. B. Wall, house surgeon
of the Northern Hospital, who was in court, stated that
the wound which Hinckes received was about an inch in
length, and over the region of the heart. The lung was
wounded, and he considered the man to be still in a
danzernin oat.

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