The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-19 00:00:00

POLICE COURT V ESTE RDAY.

(BEFORE MR. R. V. YATES.)
STEALING RoPES.—James Marsh, Thomas Hallron,
Mary Anne Campbell, and Maria Morris, were brought
up on a charge of having stolen a quantity of rope,
value £B, from a ship in the Harrington dock. The
prisoners were found by the police in the neighbourhood
of the Mersey Iron Works with the rope in their posses-
sion. The only evidence against the women was that
they were in company with the men, but this was not
deemed sufficient, and they were discharged. The men
were sent to gaol for three months.
SHOP LIFTING.—Three young men, named James
Row, Thomas Downey, and Jas. Cassidy, were charged
with stealing a quantity of cloth from a shop kept by
Mr. W. H. Cole, in Hanover-street. Some time in the
middle of Thursday the cloth was taken by two of the
prisoners, who were joined by the third, and all ran off
with it. They were followed by the police officers who,
after a chase, arrested them with the cloth in their
possession. They were committed for trial.
" DOING JACK."—John Harwood, a sailor, charged
Mary Parry, John Smith, and James Burns, with having
robbed him of a gold ring, 10s in money, and his vest.
The female prisoner keeps a house in York-street, and
having met the prosecutor, she asked him for some
drink, which he gave her. He ultimately left his ring
in the place, but returned next day to redeem it; the
other two prisoners were in the house, and they attacked
him, took off his vest, and robbed him of 10s also. The
prisoners were remanded.

PUBLICANS' CASES

Thomas Bold, publican, Dancy street, was fined £2
4s 6d for permitting drunkenness in his house.
Robert Neil, publican, Commutation Row, was fined
lOs and costs for the same offence, but under extenua-
ting circumstances, the " jollification" having been in
honour of a Crimean hero.
RIGHT OF THE POLICE TO ENTER BEDROOMS.—Anne
Stewart, publican, Denison-street, was summoned
for selling liquor after eleven o'clock on Sunday
night last. Mr. Bluck appeared for the defendant.
The officers Nos. 657 and 261, stated that when they
visited the house, they saw nine women and two
men there, and found on the counter a tumbler
half filled with brandy. Mr. Bluck : Did you go
up stairs into the bedrooms ? Officer : We went up
stairs. Mr. Bluck : Did you not enter the bedrooms ?
Officer : We did not go beyond the doors. Mr.
Wybergh : Are you instructed to do so—to inspect the
bedrooms of such houses? The officer did not answer.
Mr. Bolton : This case, at all events, did not justify such
a proceeding. The summons was dismissed.
Mary Lunt, publican, Vauxhall-road, was fined lOs
and costs for refusing to admit the police.

DEERE OUSE CASES.

Samuel Meghan, beerhouse keeper, Williamson street,
was fined 4s 6d for Sunday trading.
Thomas Taylor, beerhouse keeper, Kew-street, was
fined 5s and costs for a like offence.
Margaret Rowlands, beer housekeeper, Horatio street,
was fined 10s and costs for refusing to admit the police,
and for Sunday trading.
Margaret Threwell, beerhouse keeper, Dryden-street,
was fined 5s and costs for a like offence.

CLAIM Pon. SEAMEN'S WAGES.—Two seamen, named
William Barton and William Yates, summoned Captain
William Bold, of the. John Miller, for four months'
wages. The claim arose out of circumstances which
occurred during the voyage of the John Miller, and
which have been tried in another form before Mr. Mans-
field, and fully reported. The complainant said that
whan the ship was off Apalachicola, they were unable to
work from illness, and on their refusal to turn to with
the other hands, the captain came forward with a pistol
and shot them both. They were completely disabled
by their wounds, and were laid up for the time for
which they now claimed wages. The defence was that
they had mutinied, and that the captain had been forced
to extreme measures to suppress it. The men were,
however, tried before Mr. Mansfield on the charge of
mutiny, and acquitted. Mr. Snowball appeared for the
complainants, and Mr. Almond for the defeudant. The
magistrates decided in favour of the complainants, and
ordered the defendant to pay £lO 10s, in addition to the
month's pay which they had received in advance.