The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-19 00:00:00

POLICE COURT.

YESTERDAY,

Docx ROBBERIES.— Thomas Joyce, and John Denning,
two of the juvenile plunderers who infest the docks, were
brought up charged with having in their possession a num-
ber of articles of wearing apparel, for which they could not
account. Their mothers came forward, and the magistrates
gave them into the charge of the women, begging that they
would keep them out of the streets.—William Harrison, hav-
ing the appearance of adecentlabourer, was charged withhav-
ing, on Monday, in the Bromley Moor dock, 21 lb. of rope
concealed in a bag of hay. He was charged in June last with a
similar offence, but not convicted. He was now sentenced to
fourteen days imprisonment —.Mary Harrison was charged
by officer 777, with selling to a broker named Luke Regan,
of Chissenhale-street, a quantity of wearing apparel, which
had been stolen from a sailor belonging to the Hadscott, in
Stanley dock; she was not known to the police, and got the
benefit of the doubt.—Bridget Kerr, an old Irishwoman,,
was, on Monday, caught under the keel of a vessel, in.
Clarence dock, with copper in her possession. She was'
very drunk. The magistrates discharged her, as she was
not known to the police ; but cautioned her against tippling
and pilfering.

1011EireSrBuT SERVANT GIRLS—EIIen Backe was charged
no. 111.1.1 -
niture brokers, 5 Stanley-street. Mrs. Stretch said that she
had put twelve sovereigns in a bag into a wardrobe on Mon-
day. She went out on that evening, leaving the prisoner in

the house. On her return she fouid four of the sovereigns
gone. The master proved that no person had entered the
house daring his wife's absence, but that the prisoner went
out ostensibly to go to the bakehouse with bread, though
witness told her she was an hour too early. The money was
not found, and Roche was remanded to this day.—Ellen
Blaekledge was charged by her master, Mr. Richard. Shaw,
of Elsmere-terrace, with having,. yesterday, stolen 2s. 6d.,
his money. He deposed that having suspicion of her, he had
marked one pound m silver, which he put into his cash box,
and soon afterwards missed half a crown. He then called
an officer, and the prisoner dropped two of the marked shil-
lings, and afterwards gave a marked sixpence to the officer.
The prisoner in her defence said that her mistress had given
her this money on Saturday, but prosecutor swore he did not
mark it till Monday. The prisoner was committed for trial
at the Quarter Sessions.
THE HISTORY OF AN OYSTER BED CURIOUS CASE:
Officer 589 charged Hugh Thomas with having in his
possession on Monday last, in Liverpool, thirteen pecks
of oysters, stolen from the beds of Messrs. D. and J. Russell,
of Bangor. One of these gentlemen appeared, and said
that he had received a telegraphic message from his brother,
intimating to him the loss of these oysters. He found the
prisoner in the act of unloading them here, and identified
the oysters .by a private mark upon some of them. The
oyster beds owned by himself and brother were artificial
beds, supplied by oysters bought in Ireland. They drilled
a certain private mark into one oyster, in about every
hundred, which they laid down. Their beds were in the
Menai Straits. The value of the oysters stolen, was £6
He further stated that there existed a conspiracy to put
down their beds, which were supposed to injure the old
system of drudgery--that riots had taken place on the
subject, and thirty men charged with conspiracy were to be
brought this day 'before the magistrates at Bangor. The
magistrates said they had no jurisdiction in the matter,
but as they thought the prisoner seemed a decent man,
they would advise him to appear before the magistrates at
Bangor, and clear himself of the charge of conspiracy and
receiving stolen property. The prisoner expressed his
perfect willingness to do so. The prosecutor offering to
pay the exp6nces of an officer, Mr. Clough directed one to
go with the parties to Wales, yesterday.
SHOP LIFTING,—EIIen Dagnall and Margaret Mansfield,
were charged with having, on Monday night, stolen and
secreted a victorine in the shop of Messrs. Steward and Raw-
thorne, Ranelagh-strect. The magistrates, in consideration
of their former unblemished character, gave them the bene-
fit of the doubt that they did not take the article from the
shop, and discharged them. _

CHARGE OF Su BREAKING—Hugh McGrady and John
McGrady were remanded, charged with being of the party
who, on Sunday night broke into the shop of Mr, Henry
Mainwaring, in Harding-street.

MONTAGES AND CAPULETS.--ASSAELT CASE.—Mary Ann
Mc Knight, a pretty soft-looking girl, charged Mr. Edward
Ellis with an assault. There was a cross case in which
Margaret Ryan charged Maria Cooke with a similar impro-
priety. Me Knight was servant to Mr. Bettely, who keeps
a public house in Paddington, and Ryan was ths retainer of
a rival house kept by Mr. ElHi which raised its defiant front
in that often dangerous neighbourhood, " the other side of
the way." Miss Cooke, the defendant in the cross case, was a
relative and Bar-maid to Mr. Bettely. On the Bth of Octo-
ber, unfriendly diplomatic relations had taken place between
the contending parties. The ostensible cams belli was a
volume of " The Family Friend," which in this case
proved to be but a bad friend to either of the families, who
for some time past had entertained very unfriendly feelings
towards each other, one of them absolutely announcing by
placard that it had no connection with " the house over the
way." On the day in question,_ Margaret Ryan was accredit-
ed authority to go to M. Battely's house, and ask, on
the part 'of Mr. Ellis, for the "Family Friend; she was
answered by Miss Cooke' who not only said that they had no
such " friend" in their family, but also evinced a most un-
friendly spirit by saying they wished to have nothing what-
ever to say to the messenger—her master, or his family.
Mr. Ellis then proceeded in his proper person, and accom-
panied by "Maggie," to demand the cause of this alleged
piece of impertinence, and finally a general melee took place
in Mr. Battely's establisment, during which Mr. Ellis broke
a picture, and drew blood from the nasal organ of Miss Mc.
Knight, whilst Miss Cooke gave Miss Ryan such severe
contusions in the side as brought on what a medical man
described, on oath as severe Bronchitis. The Magistrates
seemed to attach the principal blame to Mr. Ellis, and
accordingly fined hint 10s. and costs for the assault on Miss
Mc Knight, and dismissed the other case.
STEALING GlN.—lffichael Degmum was remanded, charged
with helping himself to a tumbler of gin in the vaults of
Mr. Fryer, in Nova Scotia. He had come in with another
boy, and called for two glasses of ale, and was detected by
Mrs. Fryer in the act of helping himself from the tap. She
arrested him and held him until an officer could be pro-
cured;

CHEAP PRAYER Booxs !—Patrick Curran, an-'-Trish boy,
was convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment
for stealing three prayer books from the shop of 111 r, Hey