The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-04 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIME S.---LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

LIVERPOOL.

(BEFORE MR. SANDS

Is MARY ANNE AT HOME ?—Darby Shelly, described as
a master stevedore, residing at Birkenhead, charged the
keeper of a " house" in Peter street, who gave her name
as Elizabeth Herfernan, with having robbed him of eight
sovereigns. The details of the case, particularly on cross-
examination by Mr. Bluck, who was for the prisoner,
caused considerable laughter. It appeared that the com-
plainant had had a " difficulty" with his wife at Birken-
head, and that he came to Liverpool, and went to the
prisoner's hence to enquire for a young lady, named " Mary
Anne," with whom he had a former acquaintance. He
then went on to give a very laughable account of his
" travels through Peter street, Spitalfields, and Preston
street" with the lady, the result of Which was that, in the
middle of the night, he awoke and found his money gone.
He then applied to the prisoner for the " tin," when she
pulled out the little white bag with the money ; " and,"
says she, ff Darby Shelly, I'd scorn to take a dirty ad-
vantage of yourself or your money, and there it is. And
do you think," says she, " its eight pounds trusting to ?
Not all," says she, " no, nor eighty pounds either," says
she • "your money is safe as Ben Barton's bank." " Well,
sir, I being a rolicking, roving, sort of a comical devil—
particularly when I'm on a battering spree, and
that's pretty often—l; did not mind it till morning, and
then she had skirted away, and we could not find her for a
long time after." Mr. Black : The prisoner is a fine-looking
woman ? Witness : Well, bedad she is ; but that's a
matter of taste. Mr. Bluck : And did you not want her to
elope with you to Dublin. telling her you would leave your
wife in Birkenhead? Witness: Arrah, don't be joking,
sir. Mr. Bluck said, according to the evidence of the
witness, there was no case of felony made out against the
woman. The rrisener was remanded.
ROBBERY OF Soar.—John Griffith, late in the employ-
ment of Messrs. Lund & Ca., soapnakers, Key street. was
charged with stealing; a quantity of sio, and Anne Harison,
alias Carroll, who keeps a shop cellar in Union street, was
charged for receiving it with a guilty knowledge. Detective
Wilson sai I he went to the cellar of the female prisoner,
and asked if she had received any soap that morning and
she replied she had not several times. Ifs searced the
cellar, and found a box containing about 48 lbs of soap,
bearing the mark of Lund & Co., and then the prisoner
said it must have come in of itself! She afterwards said
that she received the soap from the man, but considered he
got it properly, as he was in the soapery. She paid him ss.
on account, and was to give him 53. next day. Detective
Gristhwaite said lie got six empty boxes, all with
the marks of Messrs. Lund & Co. on them, in the
cellar. Mr. Lund proved the soap to he his ;
and proved that the prisoner Griffiths was in his employment
at one guinea a week. A person in Mr. Lund's employment
identified the boxes. Mr. Lund, in reply to Mr. Bluck, who
defended the female prisoner, said he could not say if the
soap had been sold, but he could say it had not been sold to
the woman. The defence set up by Mr. Muck for the
female was, that her aunt kept the cellar for some years,
and she died about a month since, leaving her business to
the prisoner. The aunt was in the habit of dealing with
the male prisoner, and Mrs. Harrison thought it was all
right, and did purchase a small quantity of soap from the
man. He said his client was highly respectable in her
position. The prisoners were sent to trial, but, on the
application of Mr. Black, the woman was admitted out on
bail.

WHAT IS FELONY ?—Georgo Petrau, bearing the appear-
ance of a sailor, was brought up on a charge of having
stolen a clock, and for having assisted other persons, not in
custody, to steal some pictures and money from the shop of
Nicholas Werry, Mersey street. The case was a curious
one; and, from the statement of Mr. Campbell, who
appeared for the prosecution, it seemed that the prosecutor
kept a cigar shop in Mersey street. On Thursday he let his
interest in the shop and fixtures to a person named
Patterson, for £25. £2O of the money was paid
down, and the balance was to be paid this
(yesterday) day, when possession was to be given
up. In the course of Thursday evening the prisoner,
along with Patterson and some other persons, entered the
shop and proceeded behind the counter ; they then went on
to act in an extraordinary manner, and exercise ownership
is the place. The complainant remonstrated with them,
when they took the money out of his till, and knocked him
about. Ile then went out to look for a policeman, and on
his return the parties were gone, having taken some pictures,
a clock, and the money out of the drawer. They took about
£3O worth of property altogether. The complainant did not
see them, but as he could not find the others, he gave the
prisoner into canto ly, when he saw him in the street. It
was contended that the prisoner had not committed a
felony, and a.; the evidence was not deemed sufficient, he
was aischarged.

SHOPLIFTERS. —Ann Murray, Jane Edwards, and Ca-
therine Flinn, three well dressed girls, wars charged with
sealing three mufflers from a shop in Vauxhall road. The
p ismers (who are known to the police) went into the shop,
and whilst under pretence of making a purchase, they stole
the property and ran off, but were arrested with it in their
possession. They were committed for three months each.
ROBBERY BY A SHOPMAN.-Gecrge May, who had been
in the employment of Mr. fiutchins, baker, of John's-lane,
as shopman for five or six years, was brought up by Lay-
cock and Scott, detectives, on a charge of having stolen
several sums of money. Mr. Hutchins missed money
from time to time, and suspecting the prisoner, he
marked some and sent for the officers, who watched,
and found the prisoner had taken .5s on Thursday.
The prisoner confessed having taken the money. Mr.
Hutchins said he did not wish to press the charge. The
prisoner was remanded.

mium.wwass, - • - -

DISASTROUS AND FATAL COLLISION
IN THE CHANNEL..

On Wednesday evening a large ship belonging to Dublin,
called the York, laden with timber from Quebec, arrived in
the river, bringing intelligence of a fatal collision which
took place early on last Thursday morning week, between
the ships Yeoman, of Liverpool, and the Helen Hedgers, of
tha same port, at a point between the Tuscar Rock and
Ballycotton Island, and having on board thirty-two persons,
who were the survivors of the crews of these vessels. The
Yeoman, of 1,100 tons, commanded by Captain Colquhoun,
was on her passage from Liverpool to America with a cargo
of salt. The Helen Hedgers, of about the same com-
manded by Captain Harris, with a valuable miscellaneous
cargo, worth upwards of twenty thousand pounds, was
homeward bound from Calcutta. About three o'clock on

the morning above-mentioned, a strong breeze blowing,
and the weather being very thick, the vessels came into
collision with each other. The Yeoman had her star-
board tacks on board, and the Helen Heilgers was
sailing very fast before the wind, and the latter vessel
struck the former violently at her fore-rigging, knock-
ing in her side. \l/4 ithin eight minutes afterwards the Yeoman
went down. Four of her crew succeeded in clinging to the
bowsprit rigging of the Helen Heilgers, but one of them
is missing, and only three have escape I, the names of
whom are John King, Thomas Jason, and Alfred Creigh-
ton. All the rest of the ship's company, including the
captain and officers, and numbering nineteen souls,
perished. The Helen Heilgers was greatly injured by
the shock, and the utmost efforts were made with the
pumps to keep her afloat. At eight o'clock the same
morning the York came to her assistance, and took off
her captain and crew of twenty-nine men, together with
the three sailors belonging to the Yeoman. After
,ernaining for upwards of two hours alongside the Helen
Heilgers, the York left her in a sinking state with
eighteen feet of water in the hold, and the sea washing
her gunwales. From that time until Thursday, the
York contended wilh adverse winds and bad weather in
making her passage up channel, and only gained the
port of Dublin on Wednesday evening, as already stated.
On her arrival the surviving sailors of the two unfortunate
vessels were received into the Sailors' Home, where
every attention w:ls paid to their wants by the chief
of that institution, Mr. Marshall. They spoke in terms
of praise of the manner in which they had been
treated on board the York by Captain Farlane and his
ship's company.