The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-16 00:00:00

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VIOLVNT STREET ROBBERY AND tic7..CAULT'—Th°7lla°
.men about.
22 years of age, were charged with having „mm:.ted
violent garotte assault and robbery on a man named
Edward Jones, in Bedford-street, Park, on Sunday
morning about a quarter before one o'clock. Jones was
so severely injured by the treatment be had received that
he was unable to attenl, and a medical certificate to that
effect was put in. From the evidence of two police
officers, and two young women, it appeared that, at the
time stated, 'Loco was attacked in Bedford-street, near
his own house, and *fa S nearly strangled by his assail-
ants, who robbed him of his Watch and 17s. Two of
the prisoners were identified try the female witnesses,
and the officers said the injured man had identified two
more of them. The officers said they saw the prisoners
in the street running away just at the moment the alarm
was given. Mr. Bluck, who appeared for the vrisoners,,
said, antic the prosecutor was able to attend, he would
reserve his defence to another day, as no doubt his
Worship would remand them. The prisoners were
remanded to Wednesday.

CAPTURE OF A GANG or COlNERS.—Detectives Thomp.
son, Scaife, arid Kennedy, brought up three persons,
named Michael Grogan, 3ohn Griitn, and Mary Griffin,
on a charge with being a gang of base coin makers.

rrorrt the evidence of the officers, it appeared that, on
Saturday, the officers received certain information, and
then proceeded to a house in Bradley's Court, Shawhill.
street, where they saw the female prisoner, who said
there was no other person in the house. They went up
stairs, and in a bed they found the two men, and they
said they occupied the room. On searching the bed,
packages of base coin, containing 35 half-crowns, 33
shillings of George 111.. and 29 shillings of George IV.
They also got materials, composing a galvanic battery,
and stuff for colouring and polishing the coin, moulds,
&c. The prisoners managed the fabrication of the
coin very well—the colour, polish, &c., made them
look very like good ones, so as to deceive
even tolerable judg:s. The Alderman said the case
was one of a very serious description, and he trusted
the Mint would prosecute in it. If the prisoners had
shown as much industry in an honest way, and as much
knowledge of chemistry in another way, they could
have been in a different position. He ordered the pri-
soners to be remanded.

TEILILIHLE OUTRAGE ON A FEMALE.—John Jones, and
William Crowley, two ill-looking fellows, said to be
butchers, were charged with having committed a violent
outrage on the person of a Welsh gill, named Mary
Williams. From the evidence, it appeared that the
girl had been out on Friday with a friend, whom she
was seeing off to Wales. She had some drink, which
she said affected her very much, and she could not find
her way back to her lodgings, which she described
as at a very proper house, in Finch-street. She
met a man, and asked him to tell her where she
could get a decent lodging? and he said he *tuttld
take her to a house where his sister lived. He took
her to an empty house, as she said, in Trafalgar-street,
and into a dark room. She then wanted to get out,
but she said other men entered and held her, whilst the
first man (not in custody) committed an outrage on her.
She was then locked up with another man for the
night, and in the morning she found it was the prisoner
Jones. She was ill-treated during the night. The other
prisoner came in the morning, and assaulted her also,
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who examined the complainant, said she had been very
badly bruised all over the body, and at present required
medical treatment. He had no doubt great violence was
used towards her, from the bruises on her person. She
was already a mother. Mr. Goodier, who appeared for
the prisoners, cross-examined the prosecutrix, but her
direct testimony was not in the least shaken. The pri-
soners were remanded for further evidence, and his
Worship ordered the girl to be taken to the workhouse,
and put under the care of the medical officer there.
THE WATCH THAT WENT! - James Anderson, having
the appearance of a ship's officer, and Bridget Farley,
the keeper of a house of ill repute in Clement-street,
were charged on suspicion of having stolen a watch,
the property of James Cameron. Mr. Bluck defended.
About three weeks ago the prosecutor lost his watch in
the house of the female prisoner, and on Saturday it
was found in possession of the male prisoner, in the
same house. Mr. Bluck showed that although the
watch " went.," the prisoners were not the " hands"
that made it go," but that it was some one else who,
at the " time " stated, had put a "drag chain" on it,
and " wound " it out of the pocket of Mr. Cameron.
The defence was novel and ingenious, and succeeded, as
the prisoners were discharged; but the " ticker " was
restored to its own.r, from whom it had " stopped " so
long away.
Amongst the dock informations there were six charges
against Mr. Doherty, corn merchant. Mr. Ald. Holme
said : I wish to state publicly, that this Mr. Doherty
seems to take up fully half the time of all the dock
police. I never sit here a day that there are not many
informations against him ; and I now publicly state, that
if he continues this sort of conduct, that myself and the
other magistrates will, in every case of conviction
against him, inflict the full penalty of £5. He, it
appears, makes the docks of Liverpool his warehouses.

LIVERPOOL PAWNBROKERS
ASSOCIATION.