The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-05 00:00:00

POLICE COURTS. -YESTERDAY --ESTERDAY

[ln our report of the police business on Monday, we men-
tioned, that John McConnell was one of the parties charged
with stealing two empty casks from the warehouse of Mr.
Samuel Hunt, 23, Harrington-street. This was an error,
as John McConnell was really the person who was the
means of detecting the robbers.]
A PICKPOCKET. —A boy named Thomas Jones was charged
by Alice Gibbs, with havmg picked her pocket. It appeared,
that between five and six o'clock on Monday evening, the
prosecutrix was going through Preston-street, and ap-
peared to stop for the purpose of looking at the ruins of the
house which had fallen down. The prisoner pushed against
her several times, and at last she found his hand in her
pocket. She instantly caught him by the hand, and kept
him until Police Constable, No. 174, came up, to whom she
gave him in charge. There were some shillings and copper
in her pocket at the time, of which ten pence was found in
the prisoner's hand when arrested. The prisoner was sent
for trial.

SMUGGLING.—Benneto Safardo and Belthazar Cabriga, two
Spanish seamen belonging to the Isabel!" from Savannah,
who were charged on Saturday, with having each 32 gallons
of foreign rum concealed, were again brought up yesterday.
Both prisoners pleaded guilty, and the penalty of £lOO was
recorded against them, the magistrates having no power of
mitigation vested in themselves.
CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST A CAPTAIN AND MATE.—
James Middebrooke, aged 19, apprentice on board the
vessel Hero, summoned the captain and mate of that vessel
on the charge of having committed several assaults upon
him. The prosecutor deposed that he was bound apprentice
to Mr. Sinclair, the owner of the Hero, which left Liverpool
for China, last year. On the sth of February, the cook
appeared to be ill, and the captain, whose name is James
Finlay, sent him to the galley to prepare breakfast. Witness
asked the mate twice to give him water, but the mate told
him to go to h—l and not bother him, in consequence of
which, witness could not have the breakfast ready when the
bell rang. The captain came out and told the mate to flog
him, and as the mate did not do so, he himself took witness
aft, and flogged him with an 1f inch rope until he was all
over black and blue. James Robinson, the cook, confirmed
the statement of the complainant, and added, that it was
not the only instance of such things occurring during the
voyage. Mr. Mansfield: What was the boy's general
behaviour ? Witness : Ile ivas a very well behaved boy.
Mr. Mansfield : Did you over hear.him saucy to his officers?
Witness : Never, sir. The Captain stated, that the boy had
always been very insolent, and disobedient to the
ship's officers, and . to himself. He was put in the
cabin to assist the steward, merely because it was light
work, and to keep him from annoying the crew, and while
there he would not do what he was told, and was so insolent
that the steward at last turned him out of the cabin, saying
he would rather do all the work himself than keep the boy
there. On one occasion he said before all the passengers,
that he never saw a'greater set of pigs than they and the
eaptain were. The chief mate` was examined, and stated
that he saw the captain take up a rope's end to the boy,
but he did not consider that he hurt him in the least.
Never saw the captain strike the boy upon any other occa-
sion. Witness stated that he had himself sometimes struck
the boy, and given him a push with his foot, but never
actually kicked him. The conduct of the boy was very inso-
lent, and when the captain complained that the breakfast
was not ready, the boy gave him some impudence. Upon
the part of the complainant, it was stated that on one
occasion he was ordered to wait upon the passengers when
all wet and dirty, and he said he was not fit to wait upon
pigs, but he denied having applied any such expression to
the passengers or the captain. The case against the chief
mate was then gone into. The complainant deposed that
upon the 31st of December last, the mate sent him forward
to let go some ropes, which he did. Immediately the mate
came up, called him a brat, and asked him why he
did not let go the ropes as he was ordered. Complainant
told him he had done so, when the mate said he was a liar,
struck him upon the side of the head, flogged him with
several pieces of rope, and kicked him about the deck.
The cook was again examined, and confirmed the evidence
which was altogether denied by the mate. The captain
stated that the cook had himself been fined 20s. for contemp-
tuous language, and that there was au entry in the log that
he had also been fined for striking the boy who was now
the prosecutor, with an iron ladle on the head. Mr. Mans-
field asked if there was any entry
.upon the log regarding
the boy. The Captain replied in the negative. Mr
Mansfield said the boy appeared to have T,— .ducy, as boys
frequently
.werp. -4 ate same time the Court had a very
st,fung feeling that the flogging should not have been done
upon the spur of the moment, and that if given by anybody
it ought to have been by the captain himself. The offence and
the punishment should also have been entered upon the log,
and read over to the boy. There appeared, however, to
have been some difference between the punishment given by
the mate and the captain—the mate appeared to have
kicked the boy, of which the Court would mark its disappro-
bation, by fining him ss. and costs. The case against the
captain was dismissed.
STREET ROBBERY WITH AGGRAVATED VIOLENCE.—An
exceedingly respectable man in appearance, who gave his
name as Sergeant, and who stated also that he was a per-
former at the Amphitheatre, came forward to complain of
dreadful ill usage and plunder which he had experienced on
Monday night, about half-past nine, at the hands of two
desperate looking ruffians. The prosecutor said that he
considered this a garotted robbery, and for these very cogent
reasons, that after those fellows (whose names we did not
catch) had knocked him down. they at once attempted to
strangle him with a 'kerchief, and this occurred immediately
after he had been thrown on his back, and his pockets rifled.
There were four other persons engaged. The occurrence
took place near the locality which had formerly been the
milk market. Various evidences as to this very remarkable
garotted robberyhaving been given, which left no doubt what-
ever on the mind of his worship, the Mayor, that those
ruffians were guilty, although they were defended in a very
ingenous manner by Mr. Bluck, Solicitor ; and, notwith-
standing a statement showing much talent, they were com-
mitted for trial at the next assizes.

BIRKENHEAD.
(Before J. S. JACKSON, Esq.)
-Two- SAVAGES--BRUTAL ASSAULT-ON 'A- FEMALE AND
A. POLICEMAN,—James Boyd, and Anne Boyd, his wife,
were charged with &uniting Mr, and Airs,