The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MR. CROPPER.

AN AFFECTION Fats COPPER.—Ann G itnes was charged with
having stolen some eopper from the stores of ALssrs: Chas. Moss
and Co, Bonn's gardens. It appeared that some men belonging
to Messrs Moss were delivering copper, and the woman managed
to get a quantity of the metal, with which sho was escaping,
when the policeman arrested her. It was stated that she had
been convicted of stealing copper previously, and she was now
sent for two months to prison.
Thomas Wignall, a coal heaver, was sent for trial for steal-
ing a shawl from Mary Dwyer.
THEFT IIY A SERVANT.—Elizabeth Deakins, was charged
with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel belonging to her
mistress, Mrs. Sarah Arnold, Great Orford street, Detective
lll`Culloch brought up the prisoner, upon whom ho found some
of the stolen articles, and others were pawned. The prisoner
was sent to gaol for two months.
THE SUBSTANCE AND THE SITAD.)W !—A boll-headed
fellow, named Thomas Bird, a native of Lincoln, was charged
under the following circumstances. Police constable 679 said
about ono o'clock the previous morning he was in Edge lane,
when he was attracted, near the end of his walk, by a shadow,
and he thought it was a female. (Loud laughter.) I then
drew back, and saw:it was a man—(that's the shadow was the
man) —and on further investigation I found it was the prisoner,
and on minute inspection I found he had a smock on him (so
he had), and that made him look like a woman. (A Voice :
And of course a shadow.) " What aro you, sir ?" says I.
•' What's that to you, sir," says ho. " Oh, hut a great deal to
me, sir," says I. " Who are you pray, sir ?" says he. " I'm
an officer under Qv...en Victoria and Major Grcig," says I,
" and a guardian of life and property, and of the peace and well
being of all society," says I. " You'r a wonderful
genius," says he. " I am," says I, " and therefore you
accompany me to one of her Majesty's station houses, for I
shall try what metal you are made of." Seeing I was very
pressing on the point, he yielded to my compulsion, and as he
walked along I found a very firm foot under him, and " Oh,
ho," says I, "your a soldier, ain't you ?" "And you're a
prophet," says he, " for I was in the Royal Artillery."
" You're a deserter," says I—l hold a crown." " I bet you
two I'm not," says he. "Are you aischarged ?" says I. "Go,
look and find out," says he. " You're a notoriously bad cha-
racter," says I, and so, sir, I took him to the station house,
and on searching him I found a discharge from the
_Royal
Artillery, and all my strong and well founded suspicions wore
correct, for I never saw such a bad character in the course of
my professional experience. He was a year and nine months
in the army, and his discharge only gives him 48 days, and he
was turned out of the regiment as a disgrace to all military
institutions. Mr. Wybergh : Was that your reason for taking
him up an a shadow ? Policeman 679: Oh dear no, sir; I
took him up on my own well founded and strong convictions
that ho was a suspicious character, and my sagacity was re-
warded with success. Here is his discharge, as strong corro-
borative evidence. Mr. Cropper at once discharged the
prisoner. The manner in which the officer gave his evidence
and his self sufficiency caused much laughter.
(BEFORE MR MANSFIELD )
THE CONFLICT ON BOABD THE ELIZA ANN BRIGHT.—
James Beattie, the mato of tho above vessel, was brought up
ou a second warrant. The full details of this case appeared in
our paper of yesterday: Mr. Block was for the prisoner, and
stated that his client had gone away, purely in mistake, after
paying the fine for the assault on Wybar. The defendant did
not wish to evade justice, and he (slr. Block) wished to state
now that he had given £lO to Flannagan, for compensation for
the injuries sustained by bins. Flannagan expressed his satis-
faction with the compensation, and the prisoner was discharged.

COUNTY COURT.-YESTERDAY.

BEFORE JOSEPH P ALOCK, ESQ., JUDGE.

AN INDEPENDENT YANKEE —DAVIS V. WURRAY.—In
this action the plaintiff, a tailor and draper, of Canning place,
sought to recover from the defendant, who is mate of the
American ship Australia, the sum of a lls for clothing
supplied to him. Mr. Hime appeared for the plaintiff.
The defendant seemed disposed to show the Britishers
present how an American citizen could maintain his
independence, and his scorn for the British institutions of law
and order. His Honour had repeatedly to check the defendant
for the levity, if not the impertinence, of his conduct, and
asked him if he was an Englishman ? The defendant replied,
" No. lam an American citizen, and a native of the State of
Maine." His Honour then reminded him that ho should
remember the country and place in which he was, and that
there were sharp means in England for enforcing obedience to
its laws, and ensuring respect to its courts. If he again forgot
what was due to the court, he (his Honour) would commit him
to prison. Whatever he would say would receive proper con-
sideration from the court, and he would be listened to with
courtesy it conducting himself in a respectful manner. The
defendant then admitted that he had received the clothes, but
objected to the price, in regard to which no bargain had bee❑
made. his Honour decided that £1 should be deducted, and
gave a verdict for the plaintiff for £7 Hs, with costs, the order
for commitment to issue in a quarter of an hour. The defendant,
who was " taken aback" by the promptitude of the decision,
said : " I will give you security for the debt, and appeal to a
higher court." His Ifonour informed him that there could be no
appeal in such cases. The money, with £2 4s costs, was paid,
and the defendant left the court.

CAUTION- TO THE PUBLIC, (E IMPORTANT
TO THE GETTERS-UP OF LOTTERIES.

After the usual routine cases had, yesterday morning,
been disposed of at the police office, by Mr. Mans-
field, a subject of very great importance to the
public—and particularly to those who have in-
vested money in the purchase of tickets in th-
many " Christmas Prize Lotteries" which have
been announced to be drawn for during the Christe
mas Holidays, as it will appear, from an order received
from Government, such practices are illegal, and the con
cactors of them are liable to be imprisoned as rogues and
vagabonds. The attention of Mr. Clough having been
requested, and that officer having entered the court, the
following important announcement was made from the
bench, a hope being expressed that it would not be too
late to prevent the public from further investing their
money in such schemes. In addressing Mr. Clough,
Mr. Mansfield said : My attention has been called to a
subject which may be of great importance to theinhabi.
tants of this town. For some time past it has been the
practice for persons having goods to dispose of to offer
prizes of various descriptions, which are drawn by a sort
of lottery, and which at best is only a species of robbery.
This has been going on for some time, and my attention
has been called to it by Her Majesty's Treasury. It is
quite clear that it is only a plan for parties to get rid of
their wares, and musr BE PUT A STOP TO. The particular
one to which my attention has been directed, is that of
Mr. David Peake, of 73, Richmond row. There are
prizes offered, of various descriptions, under the head of
" Christmas Festivities," such as bottles of gin, bottles
of rum, &c., and I am instructed to interfere, and
PREVENT SUCEI TAKING PLACE. because they are not only
manifestly UNFAIR but are strictly ILLEGAL. And I
am desired by the Government to put a stop t o them.
I have to inform you that, if David Peake, or any other
parties, go on with such lowriss, they will be brought before
me, and committed, as rogues and vagabonds—that is the
wording of the Act of George lll—for three months. Now,
I hope that you will report what I have said
to you, to Major Greig, in order that he may
give directions to the police immediately to put
a: stop to such matters. The worthy stipendiary
magistrate the❑ handed Mr. Clough the two bills
issued by Mr. Peake, " Christmas Festivities,' with
strict injunctions that steps were to be taken against him
should the drawing take place.

LIBELLING A LORD.

At the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday, before the
Common Sergeant, Charles Clement Brooke, late a cap.
taro in the Osmanli Irregular Cavalry Turkish Contin-
gent, surrendered to take his trial upon an indictment
charging him with having published a false and malici-
ous libel on Edward Mostyn, Baron Mostyn. The
attacks of the defendant had been so systematic that his
lordship, without wishing to act revengefully against
him, was compelled to seek protection from the court.
At his death the late Lord Mostyn left £20,000 to his
natural daughter, and for this purpose agreed to
mortgage his estate fur the amount. The present lord
found that the estate was already so heavily mortgaged
that there was no possibility of meeting this intended
provision, and the estates were thrown into Chancery
nineeen years ago. There they had remained, and
Lord Mostyn had done what he could to carry out the
trust. The defendant (Captain Brooke) had married
the lady in question ; she was now dead but one child
was alive. The defendant had been insolvent. He had
from time to time been relieved by Lord Mos'yn, through
his solicitors; since then the defendant had sent a great
number of letters and placards of a most offensive
character. The letter which had led to this prosecution
was dated'2oth November; in it he threatened to kick
his lordship in the public streets, and to appeal to the
House of Peers whether such a man should have a seat
among them. The letter further charged Lord Mostyn
with villainy of the grossest kind. Lord Mostyn was
examined as a witness. At the conclusion of the
evidence, Mr. Sergeant Parry, for the defendant, con-
tended that the letters and placards did not amount to a
publication. The Common Serjeant stated that they did,
and the serjeant having made an eloquent speech for
the defendant, the jury found him guilty, but recom-
mended him to mercy, on the ground that he had acted
under great provocation. The defendant was ordered to
enter into his own recognizances to keep the pewee, and
to come up for judgment when called upon.