The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-21 00:00:00

THE GRAND lIIRY

John Lockett, merchant, King street, foreman.
James Ackers, broker, Vauxhall road.
James Henry Butler. merchant, Dale street.
Henry Cox, broker, Old Hail street.
George Corner, broker, Titheharn street.
Peter Bourne Drinkwater, sharebroker, Exchange street East,
Hugh Nixon, merchant, Haekin's hey.
John Peter Duff, merchant, Rumford place.
Christopher James Corbally, merchant, Water street.
Allared Gibson, merchant, Church lane.
Charlton Robert Hall, winebroker, India buildings.
George Kendal, merchant, Tower gardens.
Charles Moore, merchant, Rumford street. ,1
Hugh Perkins, merchant, Brunswick street. -•fif,„.
John Ravenscroft, merchant, Hackin's hey. 1":'
Charles Robertson, merchant. Rumford place. "nl)i'
George Latham, merchant, Fenwick street.
John Smith. wine merchant, South Chapel street.
Frederick Tamplin, ahipbroker, Brunswick street.
Fdward Tennant, merchant, Fenwick street.
Henry Wood, iron merchant, Coree Piazzas,
The Recorder said : Gentlemen of the grand jury, after an
interval of eight weeks, the calendar contains the names of
seventy-ono persons charged with fe,u y, and twenty-nine
charged with misdemeanour. Of :hat number, altogether on
hundred, forty•one are women, showing what i
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iou to remark, that the female sex of this town unhappily
contribute, in a very large proportion, to the crimes committed
among the community. Some of the most serious offences in
the calendar are charges against women. For example, a
prostitute is charged with having picked a corn dealer's pocket
of 1174 ; another with stealing £65 from an army worksman,
on his return from the Crimea ; another with snatching from
an Irishman, on his return from America, twenty-four
sovereigns in a purse. Two women are also alleged to have
been plying together, very actively, as pickpockets in the
omnibuses about the town. Nor are their offences confined to
cases of stealing, because, even where violence has been com-
mitted and knives used, a large proportion of the offenders
again are women. It is quite true that almost all of
these women belong to that dissolute and unhappy class who
are so numerous here, and really, in their connection with
crime, are so dangerous, that I am disposed to think that the
legislature would do right in taking, to some extent, a model
from other countries, and authorise those who administer
justice here, or preside over the police, to be more stringent
in their regulations respecting them. If their number could
be diminished it would be a good thing for the public, and
still more for that unhappy class of people. There is, how-
ever, a satisfactory feature in the calendar, in the absence of
any offence very seriously affecting the commerce of the
town. The magistrates and this court have done something
to put down schemes for the plunder of timber, plans for the
robbery of merchandise on the quays, and for breaking open
warehouses and stealing cotton. I hope these offences are
kept, to some degree, in check, because I do not find any of
them in the printed calendar likely to come before us. One
of the most serious offences remaining to bo noticed is the
theft of a cash-box from the office of an accountant ; £4O were
taken away in the box, from a room left for a few moments
unguarded. Gentlemen, there is one case new in its charac-
ter locre, and important, in which four persons are charged
with misdemeanour, the charge arising from their conduct
in an auction-room. Now, on the one hand, sale
by auction is a most convenient and useful mode of
disposing of property, provided it he fairly conducted ;
but, on the other hand, sham sales fraudulently conducted are
very mischievous. If, under colour of sale, two or more persons
agree together to act parts fraudulently, pretending to bid and
to buy, and making false representations to induce persons
to part with their money for goods of value very inferior to the
price given, it is manifest that unwary and inexperienced
persons may he plundered, cheated, and swindled out of their
money to any extent. It has been said that it is extremely
difficult to suppress such practices—that it is almost impossible
to bring the agents within the reach of the criminal law. It
appears to me, gentlemen, that this difficulty has bee❑ greatly
exaggerated. If, on consideration of the case submitted to
you, you should be of opinion that the conduct of the parties
charged has been of that fraudulent description which I have
described, I have no hesitation in directing you to find the
bill and put the case in course of investigation before a jury in
this court. The circumstances of -these cases you will find to
be different, but you may consider all of them with reference
to the principle which I have laid down to you as the undoubted
and indisputable law of the realm—that is, that if two or more
persons agree and confe lerate together fraudulently and wrong-
folly to prejudice a third person, parties so agreeing aro guilty
of misdemeanour and conspiracy, for which they may be indicted,
convicted, fined, and imprisoned. Gentlemen, with regard to
the agreement it is not to be expected, and it is not requisite,
that you should have evidence of these parties laying their
scheme and making the agreement. It is quite enough if
circumstances are laid before you from which you may fairly
infer the existence of such an agreement. Gentlemen, with
this general direction I have no doubt your own intelligence
will guide you to a right conclusion in the cases when brought
before you. Yon will quite understand that in giving this
direction, I do not mean to prejudge the case. It is for you to
say what the true character of the conduct of the parties
charged is, that is to say, whether they were acting honestly, or
fraudulently and criminally, within the principle which I have
endeavoured to state.

The grand jury then retired to their room to consider the
bills. •

MURDER NEAR BRADFORD.-CAPTURE

OF THE SUPPOSED MURDERER

On Friday, from information received, Mr. Ingham, of
Bradford, West Riding superintendent, constable of the dis-
trict, went with some assistance, to Stanningley, four miles
from Bradford, on the road to Leeds, to apprehend a man
named Jno. Gambles, supposed to be the murderer of Jeremiah
Milnes. In this he adroitly succeeded, without raising any
alarm, and bronght him to Bradford, and placed him in the
lockups until Saturday, when at four o'clock in the afternoon, a
special court was opened by Joshua Pollard, Esq., and Captain
Pollard, two of the West Riding magistrates. Before pro-
ceeding with their investigations, however, three or fbue
surgeons examined, undressed, the prisoner's body, and found
his back covered with scratches, the right elbow wounded, and
a cut an inch in length immediately above it. There was also
a wound which might have been caused by a boil, or a stroke
from some instrument, pointed but not sharp, on the side of the
left cheek. The first witness called was J. Jowett, the young man
who accomeanied Milnes when the affray, ending in his
murder, took place, and he not only repeated his former
evidence, but, when looking at the prisoner, said he thought-
him the man, but, as the moon was then covered, ho could
not distinctly see his face. He thus could not swear to his
identity, but declared he was similary dressed. A. witness
named Braithwaite was then called, and deposed that during.
the " feast" or " tide," he had been acting as a waiter at the
Coach and Horses Inn, Bradford Moor, and shortly after
eleven o'clock left the house to go home to Stanningley,
accompanied by a man named Stansfield. When near the
junction of the two roads, the old and the new, to Leeds, and
within a short distance of where the murder was committed,
they saw at the distance of forty yards the prisoner scramble
out from near the hedge bottom, and walk as if tipsy, on before
them. They shortly overtook him, and then found by his talk
that he was quite sober. Stansfleld, who knew him, asked,
" Have you been in a row, Jack ? Jack answered, " No." Stans-
field said, " Why, thy face is all covered with blood;" hut to this
the prisoner gave no answer, and they walked on talking till
near Stanningley, when they parted. The prisoner, in cross-
questioning the witness, proved that he had been at the Coach
and Horses Inn, about eleven o'clock, and tried to prove an
alibi from this, as it was alleged that the murder had been
committed about the same hour, that cannot be clearly deter-
mined. At all events, the Coach and Horses Inn is only
seven minutes walk from the place of the tragedy, and hence
could soon bo reached; and another witness, who had been in
the prisoner's company, said he saw him in the house, for the
last time, a few minutes after eleven. Mr. Terry, surge u,
then examined the prisoner's body a second time, and gave it
as his opinion that the scratched condition of his back, could
not, with his clothes on, have been produced by blows from
steelyards and hooks with which the deceased had struck
his assailant, though at first sight it seemed to be suspi-
cious, as, from the evidence of Jowett, it appeared that
whoever the guilty man may be, ho had been struck upon
the right shoulder, where the prisoner was most deeply
scratched. The prisoner, however, accounted for these
scratches on his back, and the cut and wound on his area, by
calling witnesses to prove that he had been fighting with his
shirt off, the previous night, at the front of the Regent Inn,
Bradford Moor, on a hard ground formed chiefly of ashes, and
that he was frequently thrown upon his hack. A witness from
Stanningley, named Bullock, also proved that the prisoner had
showed him his wounded aim in the course of Tuesday, before
he went to Bradford Moor. The bench, after a single minute's
deliberation, promptly discharged the prisoner, thinking that
though there might be suspicion, that could be no ground for
keeping him in custody. But, strange to say, he was never,previous to being discharged, asked what he was doing at the
hedge bottom, so near the scene of the murder, and about the
time of its being committed, nor how his cheek-hone came to
be covered with clotted blood. The man, who is 30 years
of ago, possesses a forbidding countenance, w.lich, as the
witness Jewett said of that of the murderer, is large. He is
also above the middle height, and rather stoutly made. Re
says he is now working at wool combing, but is a cloth
weaver by trade. We may add, that he has latterly been
associated with prostitutes is Bradford, and been also living
upon their gains,

MINOR MISERIES.-Amongst the multitude of minor
miseries there are few that so painfully annoy as the injuries
inflicted on the feet by tight or ill-fitting boots and shoes,
and not unfrequently by the neglect of the toe nails or of
incipient corns and bunions. The attention of residents or
visitors suffering from these causes is directed to the
announcement of Mr. Simms in our advertising columns.
He is the author of a practical exposition on the feet, and
his testimonials from the nobility, also Physician to Her
Majesty, medical and other gentlemen, and residents in this
neighbeurhood, speak for themselves. Consulting Rooms,
36 Slater-street.-4d,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

LIVERPOOL

BEFORE' MR. CR-03TRFJAITE

STREET Ronntay.l.—A well dressed, good looking young
man, very well - known to the police, who gave his
name as John Gilligan, was charged by Mr. Julius
Harman; ta, mcrehatit,- belongirg to New York, for
having robbed him in Lime street of 'his gold watch
and chain; value £25. The complainant said, at seven
o'cock on
,Saturday evening, he was pas,ing along
Linie:street, on his way to the concert, when be stopped at
an auction shop' aoor,.where there was a crowd of persons,
and the 'prisoner was there also ; he passed close to the
witness and snatchrd his watch and chlin, with which he
made off. 'Witness followed and called " stop thief ;?' a
gentleman joined in the chase, when the prisoner flung away
the, watch :and'chain, which Mr. H man picked up, but the
other gentleman continued thechase and captured the prisoner,
who w.as then handed over to Detectiie Scott. The prisoner
cross-examined the witnesses with some tact, in order to
shovi that any one else might have done it, but he failed to
convirce his Worship of his innocence, and he was committed
for trial.

THE Two DROMIOS, oa THE DIFFERENCE OF Two
INlTlALS.—Catherine Moore, a well dressed, good.looking,
young woman, was brenght rp on remand, charged with
stealing a quantity of *earth.; a ,parel, belonging to Mr, Thos.
Thoronson, of Bo ';.;:rave terrace. • Mr. Goodere aoneared
for Oe.prisoner. Thr-hett. of this cane (already published)
were these. The grandinothdr 'Of* the prisoner, resided as
Servant, at Mr. l'nompson's, and during a .Yis4 which the
priimier naid,to her relation, it would appear that she took
the property. A Portion of this was found pledged at the.
shop of Mr, Walters, London road, and some articles were
also feund in the prisoner's box, at her lodging. These
articles were identified 'by Mr. Thompson; and had his
initials, "T. T.," on them. The defence' set up by Mr.
Goodere was, that the articles had been given to the pri:
goner by one " Thomas,Thurlow," who was at Whitehaven,
and the initials "T. T." stood for Thomas Thuile*, as
well as for Thomas Thompson.. .flis Worship had no faith'
in this doctrine, and he sent the prisoner to gaol for. two
months.

•
CURIOUS CASE OF A WATCEI.--MT., John Whitney,
stitioner,_of Chapel street, charged a young female, named
Catherine Johnston, with having stolen his watch. E.
said about half-past ten O'clOck on 'Saturday night be was
proceeding up Leigh street, when he was accosted by the
prisoner, whom be told to go away. She persisted to force
herself on him, and; on:a sudden, he felt a pull at his watch
(worth and •he at once caught hold of her. She
struggled, hut he held her until the police came up. Sub-
sequent to the prisoner being taken, an officer (225)
searched the place where the transaction happened, and, he
found the lug or ring of the watch on the flags, but the
watch was gone. Mr. Black proceeded to cross-examine
the prosecutor' who said he was not drunk, although he
had some drink. Mr. Block: Were you. sober? No, but
I was not drunk : Mr. Bluck : I suppose yo.o call a man
drunk only when he cannot see;-or speak, or hear, or walk
or feel. (A laugh.) Were you in Jones' or Wood's public:
house that night with a' female,_ or two ? Not that I re-
member. What public-house were you in ? In Mr.
Pugh's, in Williamson street. Do you swear , the
prisoner was the person who stole your watch ?
Yes, there was no one else to do it. Were
there any men near her at the time None. Any
women ? ' None. Then how could she have got rid of the'
watch, if she took it, as you swear you he'd her all the
time ? I held her; but Ido not know how she got rid of
it. There were two other witnesses who nearly corroborated
the evidence of Mr. Whitney, and one of them said he saw'
a man run away from about the place where the prosecutor
held the prisoner: Mr. Bluck contended that his client did
pot, and, according to the prosecutors' story, could not have
taken his watch. He would leave the " case" in the " hands"
of his Worship. The girl said she would wish to make a
statement, although she was advised by her attorney to say
nothing. Her Story was this :—She went into Jones' public
house to get a glass of rasberry on her return home, and,
whilst standing at the counter, the prosecutor, along with a
woman, came in. He called fir some drink, but the land-
lady refused to serve him, as he was drunk and had an.
improper person with him. They then went out, and in
some time after, she was passing by the corner, of Leigh-
street, when she was accostel by the prosecutor, but she
refused to speak to him, when he said " Oh, you have, stolen
my watch, at the same time catching hold of her and
calling the police. She declared this was all she knew
about it. The prosecutor strongly denied the truth of this
tale. The'girl said she could bring the landlady of the
public house and the waiter to prove its truth. Mr.
I.irosthwaite said she could bring them on her trial, as he
was resolved to commit her, She was sent for trial
accordingly.

PLUNDERING A SHIP.--John Duck, Cook; William
Stephenson, seaman ; William Frazer and Henry Southwell,
apprentices, all belonging to the ship Ceres, were brought
up by officer Barrow, No 7, on a charge of having stolen
four bottles of brandy, 21 lbs. of soap, some biscuit, and
other things belonging to the vessel. It appears that
Messrs. Sinter and Marier were loading the vessels with
such articles, and the two bsys broke open the brandy cases,
the soap cases, and biscuit boxes, and plundered them. The
officer got one of the prisoners leaving the dock with some
brandy, soap, and biscuit, and this led to the discovery of
four bottles of brandy, the soap, &c., all of which they had
taken from the ship. The prisoners admittsd the fact, hut
thought it was no harm. They were committed for two
months.

BEFORE MR. MANSFiELD,

STABBING AND ASSAULTS.—John Jones, described as the
commander of a schooner, was charged with having com-
mitted assaults on police constables 49 and 191, near one of
the dock gates. The squabble arose out of drink, when the
officers were severely handled by the defendant Mr.
Mansfield said he had a notion to send the case f,,,r trial, but
be ,
prisoner would£s an dispodse
costsof it in a summary ways, and fine the
Archibald M‘Glacken was chary ad with having stabbed a
young woman, named Mary 9nne Dodd. in a severe manner,
with a penknife. The D',;:rties reside in the same court in
Blenheim street, an:). on Saturday night the prisoner had a
row with his wl_;:e and some other person, when the com-
plainant and others went to see what the row was
about, and also 'to prevent it. The prisoner rushed down
St'',.irs with a penknife in his hand, and stabbed the young
woman in several places. The prisoner was sent for
trial.
Anne Ellen Maenny, a respectable-looking person, was
charged with having assaulted Catherine Oakes. Mr.
Bluck was for the prisoner. It appeared tha there was a
fearful row in Curry street, in which a number of wonv-n
were engaged in deadly strife. The complainant and
1 prisoner seemed to have acted as generals, and met in
conflict—" When Greek meets Greek, then came the tug of
war," and the result was the worsting of the complainant,
who then sought refuge in the arms of the law. On her
behalf, however, Mr. Bluck produced an overwhelming
amount of evidence, and this turned the scale in her favour,
and she was honourably acquitted.
CHARGE OP CRIMINAL ASSAULT ON A YOUNG WOMAN.--
James Bethel, described as a surgeon, was charged with
having committed a felonious assault on a young woman,
named Mary Anne Foster, in Parliarnent-street, on
Saturday evening. The complainant said she was passing
up Parliament-street on Saturday night, when the prisoner,
whom she did not know addressed her, and wanted her to
drink ale with hire. She refused, and he then followed her
several places, and at last, in a lonely place, he dragged her
into a passage, and, as she allezerl, comtnitt d the off nee.
The prisoner was remanded to troduce medical evidence.
A BEGGING LETTER WRITER.—Robert Anderson was
charged as a begging letter-writer, and for having at-
tempted to obtain money by means of false pretences. He
presen'ed a letter at the Earl of Derby's office, in Leeds
street, and said it was signed by Mr. Leicester, a baker,
and recommending him as a person worthy of assistance.
The letter had the names of several respectable persons
attached, all of which were forgeries. He was remanded.

BIRKENHEAD.

BEFORE MR. J. JACKSON AND MR. A. BRYANS

EiSAM:T ON A POLICE-OFFICER.-Three young men.
named William Williams, George Dodd, and James Fer-
guson, well-known disreputable chanicters, were brought
up on remand, charged with a,saulting William Everton,
one of the Holt hilt and Clifton park constables, on Friday
night last. ffi
Th e
when he ocer was
u standing near 'Waterloo place,
Birkenhead, wassuddenly attacked by four men,
and was beaten until he became insensible. His cries for
hanedl p
oant tsreaeci tne: thoe
steh et
hse ruffians ins ranpot a female and a night watchman,
away. The prisoners
were fully identified as being three of the assailants, and
were each fined £5 ; or, in default, two months imprison-
ment.
A DANGEROUS CHARACTER,—John Stewart, a slight,
but well-built young man, was committed for trial on a
charge of highway robbery, he, with six or seven other men,
having attacked and robbed a man, named Thomas Leonard,
while on his way to Rock Ferry, on Saturday night. The
prisoner was hardly locked up in the cell when he brutally
attacked a young lad who was also confined there, and
would have done him serious injury were it not for the
prompt interference of the officers. It appeared that he
assaulted another fellow.prisoner immediately after his
arrest on Sunday morning. The bench expressed the
strongest indignation
of such conduct, and ordered infor-
mations to be also returned against him for these assaults.

Mr. Edwards, we observe, has retired from the secretary-
ship of the Liverpool Waiters' Association. The reasons
for this sten will be found in an advertisement in another
column. We understand Mr. Edwards does not intend to
abandon the project. He purpo,fs opening a Registry-
office for female servants, to which ho will attach a library,
and other advantages of a social and moral character. Mr.
Edwards will be glad of any assistance which the ladies of
Liverpool can render him, in perfecting his scheme of a
Servant's Registry, free of all the defects and abuses of the
present existing system,