The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-05 00:00:00

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were thrown up, and the"pdopte calico ou,,
terror to the police. Immediately after the prisoner
vaa stopped, two g:ntlemen came up and ct►arged him
,s the person who had.created the distnrbance; whereon
ked one of the gentlemen,

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the prisoner .strtiu• --
The police took him into enstody, when the• prisoner
kicked and assaulted the officer, and he was then locked
up. Mi.
.CrostliWaite: What have y2u t) say to the
charge?
.Prisoner: I deny it in toto. itiltr. Crosthwaite :
Why it if theist distinctly sworn to by three policemen,
and I believe them: Prisoner: BLit I don't, and that
makes a difference. I den,'
Have you any Witnesses?

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Prknner

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i to Monday

in order to gyre you an opportunity of producing
Prisoner: I would preferthat yori would dfspoiq of
If I had assaulted the 4c:et., do you not think he

iresent a different app-arance to what I-
)resent moment ? I mayhivelinshed him

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fora person (

I Prisoner; I

want to justify to

your appearance
conduct at all.

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Henry

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sent to the police,oflicer in Dal ,tr
to quell it. The eon,tabics wet an
--4al of the combatants ran away, but the ,
.at their ", work," and they were takeOn this, the prisoner,, Henry seized, officer
611 by.the hand, pdt nue of fingers into his mouth,
and tore the flesh completely off it, leaving the bone
bare. The prisoners salt they. were drunk, and did not
remember what had talten ,The prisoner Henry
was sentenced to two moths' imprisonment, in default
ether to one month, or to a

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Curetot;3' SPEcurAttos.—Henry lies!un, described as
a Imaster tailor, residing in Park-road, was charged with
haVing.ittetripted'to set`: fire to his furni•ure, Police
officer-Southwell, 705, stated- that he took tho prisoner
into custody, and at the time he,had 4 bed awl several
chairs piled up in the kitchen, and. some of the things
were actually on fire. The' prisoner said the furniture
Was his olVn, but he didqint intend to burn it; He put
the bed on the chait for the pttrpoie of sleeting there
and that the fire was accidental; His Worship said,
such might have been the case, but the.house might
also have' takcn fire, and some insurance' compapy
might have suffered.' The prisoner was remanded for a

week. ,
ATTEMPTED Su'mi.—A woman, named Grace Ward,
who said her husband was in Australia, was charged
with attempting to drown herself in George's Dock.
In answer to the charge, the prisoner alleged that a
brother-in-law of hers, .a Mr. Ward, who keeps a public-
hotve in Mersey-street, had opened a letter sent by her
husband from Australia, which Contained money, and
this was the cause. She was remanded for a week, in
order to have her state of mind enquired into. (It is
)right to say that Mr. Ward was not present to explain
or contradict the statement made by the prisoner, which
was of course ex parte)
• (EEFORE MR. LAWRENCE ) •
SIGNIEICANT.—John Jones, a porter, late in the em-
ployment of Messrs. Huth and Co., of Chapel-street, was
charged with having obtained twine, to the value of 385;
by false pretences, froni Messrs. Roland and Jackson,
James-street. From' information received by officers
Carlyle and Scott, they „went to the shop of the latter
and waited for some time, when titi prisoner came anti
asked for a bundle of twine for Messrs. Huth ; he had
already obtained three other bundles which he had sold
to two pers ms, named Owen Rice and Patrick Gateby,
who deal In oysters in the market.. He got 5s a bundle
for the twine. It was shown that the prisoner had not
been sent for the twine; he was committed for trial at

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the sessions.
BASE COIN.—A nondescript sort of fellow, named
Frank BlTarthy, who resides in 19 court, Chisenhale-
street, was brought up by detective ()facer Astie, on the
following charge. The constable stated that he watched
the movements of the prisoner for a considerable time
the previous day, and
_at last took him into custody,
when he found fifteen base shillings on him. At his
lodging. there were materials for coining found by the
officers. The prisoner was sent for trial.

A. RUNAWAY JUROR

A very curious case, that

xeited some merriment, and

not a little surp:ise et the time, took place a day
or two ago at the coroner's court. 'A gentleman, a member
of that respectable society coiled Quakers, had been sum-
moned on a jury, and, in obedience to the mandate, he came
to the court. He entered the jury box with his hat on, as
it is not customary for members of the religious body to
to which he belongs to remove the head covering in such
cases. Ele was told, in rather a peremptory tone, to " take
off his hat," but he took tio notice Of the order, sitting down
very crtietly. Mr. Cooper, the summoning officer, then, as
is usual for officers in such cases, removed the gentleman's

bat, and all was right so far. The deputy coroner, ror it
was that gentleman who happened to preside, having sworn
the jury, the members were ordered to proceed to view the
bodies upon which the inquests were to ba held. Mr.
Cooper (the summoning officer) had ears provided, which
were standing at the court door, and he told the jury to
" take their places" to proceed to view the bodies. On his
looking into the cars to try if he had his men "all right,"
he missed his " friend" the Quaker, who was not to be
found " high or low." He sought him, but in vain ; and,
at last, he rushed into the court in a fearful state of excite-
ment, and addressing the worthy beadle of the court, cried
out " Mr. Blake! Mr. Blake the Q iaker has cut—gone—
absconded—mizzled 1" The beadle, who was just then
drawing on his gloves, in order to accompany the deputy.:
coroner, said very cooly to Mr, Cooper, "Then go and fled
him again!" This piece of advice only seemed to increase
Cooper's excitement, for he shouted as loud as he could (and
that is tolerable enough), " lie's gone—ran away, sir !"
This caused a shout of laughter, which was much increased
when the worthy clerk observed, " lie has given
you the slip, Cooper, for the indignity you ocfdred in
pulling off his hat." It was now too late to procure another
juror and so the place of the " friend ," had to be filled up
by the summoning officer himself, who, from his experience
and intelligence, made an excellent substitute for the miss-
ing juror. The beadle, in due course, reported the fact to
the deputy-coroner, and that gentleman ordered a fine of £1
to be recorded against our " friend." A communication to
that effect was made to the gentleman, and he subsequently
called on the deputy coroner, and explained the matter,
which showed that he had not " run away" (although at
first it seemed so) nor did he intend the least slight on the
coroner or his office. It seemed that the gentleman is quite
inexperienced in such matters, and is young in the world
also ; and, he imagined, having been sworn on the jury, was
all the duty required of .him, and, therefore, he went home,
thinking it was all over ! The explanation was deemed
satisfactory, and the fine was remitted, so he thanked the
deputy-coroner, and said he would know better whea sum-
moned on a jury again.

MR. SCOTT RUSSELL'S GREAT SHIP.—The launch of
the leviathan steamship, to be called the Great Eastern.—
now building at Millwall, is fixed to take place on Saturday,
the 91 of Auirust. _ . .

COLOSSAL BUST OF THE QUEEN.—After repeated s:ttings
with which her Majesty has been graciously pleased to
honour the artist, Mr. Noble of Bruton-street, has
succeeded in modelling the colossal bust of her Majesty
which is about to be placed in the Town Hall, at Alan-

Chester.
COLMT-MARTIAL ON THr. ENGINEER OF THE TRANSIT
—The Lords of the Admiralty have directed that an
engineer of H.M. steamer Transit shOuld.be brought to trial
by conrt•martial for alleged neglect of duty in allowing the
fires to go down, on the occasion of that vessel conveying
the members of the House of Lords to see the recent Naval
Review at Spithea'l.
WRECK Or A STEAMER.—The Dutch mail of F
brought intelligence of the wreck of the English screw
steamer Vulcan, Captain Dodds, belonging to Lancaster, on
the Braugen ground, a few miles to the northward of
Thisted. The passengers and crew were saved, but there
were strong fears as to the fate of the vessel, as the last
accounts state that she was full of water. She was on a
coasting voyage from Stettin to Rotterdim.
HavnE.—Accounts from Havre state that business has