The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-15 00:00:00

ALLEGED MURDER IN FENWICK-STREET.

Yesterday, a strong, powerful man *as placed at the bar
before Mr. Mansfield, on a charge of having wilfully
iourdeted a Inaster lumper, in Brunswick-stre3t, on the
afteintion of Saturday last. The murdered man was a
master lumper, and lived at No. 7, Cunliffe.street;
his name was Francis Welsh. The accused is named
Francis Melia, a • dock porter. A detective, officer
stated, that he was on duty in Brunswick street
about two o'clock, whit hb heird that a man
had been knocked ddivn and killed in Fenwickstreet.
He immediately followed the persons who were
running-, and found the prisoner in the charge of
some gentlemen. Police officers 666 and 705, spoke
to taking the prisoner from the custody of two other
officers in the old ropery, at the back of the Corn
Exchange, and conveying him to the bridewell. The
injured man was then picked up and conveyed to the
dispensary, where his head *as dressed, and he was
taken to his own holise, where he expired at eight p m.
Mr. George Penn said he had witnessed the assault, as had
also several other gentlemen, and a more brutal attack was
never witnessed. The prisoner, after making some assertion
relative to what he would do to any man who took his
wages, went deliberately tip to the deceased, struck him
a dreadful blow on the head, and then followed it up with a
blow on the jugular vein, which felled him to the ground.
He (witniss) was sure at the time that the man was killed,
as his head fell upon the parapet. Dr. Browne, of the
Northern Dispensary, said he had examined the deceased,
I vm, the slightest doubt but that he had died from
e had received. This was all the evidence
nd Mr. Mansfield directed that the prisoner should
be committed for trial for the wilful murder. The deposi-
tions were accordingly takeni and the prisoner was com-
mitted.

the blows E

THE INQUEST ON THE BODY
was held at four o'clock, by Francis Venn, Esq , when,
(in addition to the above facts),
The wife of the deceased said, the only words he
spoke after he was brought home was, " oh, my head,"
three times It was also proved that he prisoner struck
the deceased three blows.

Dickson, a poTice-Oicer, who was in plain clothes,
said he arrested the prisoner, who at the time was not
drunk, but had evidently partaken of liquor.
The Deputy-Coroner went through all the evidence,
and then
Mr. Brown, surgeon of the Northern Dispensary,
stated that he had made a post mortem examination of
the body by order of the Coroner. The viseerd were
healthy. There was a clot of blood on the brain, which
he believed caused the death of Welsh. This clot of
blood corresponded with the external wound.
The Jury retired, and at nearly seven o'clock, returned
into court with a verdict of " WILFUL MURDER."

POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY,

(BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.)
ASSAULT ON Ma. Drx.R, OF LORD STREET.--Bernard
WArdel, a rather intelligent person, was charged with
being drunk and with having assaulted Mr. Dyke, of the
firm of Frisby, Dyke and Co., of Lord-street. It
appeared from the evidence of Mr. Dyke, that about
half past nine o'clock on Saturday night, he was in a
passage, which leads by the street from the shop into a
private house belonging to the establishment. He saw
the prisoner in the passage, acting in an indecect man-
ner, and on telling him to go away, he at first refused
to do so. The complainant accordingly laid his hand
upon him to push him out, and when at the end of the
passage, entering into the street, the prisoner struck him
a violent blow in the eye, which closed up that organ
and otherwise injured his face. He had suffered much
pain since, and had hardly slept. In reply to the
prisoner, the prosecutor said be believed he caught him
by the arm to push him out of the passage, but he
denied having struck him. The prisoner made a ramb-
ling statement in his defence; and said he could not help
what happened. In reply to his worship, the police
officer said the prisoner-was drunk. A young man from
the house of Messrs. Frisby and Dyke, proved that he
saw the assault committed by the prisoner. The prisoner
was fined £2 for the assault.
A RUFFIAN.—David Allan, a young man dressed as
an officer of a ship, was charged with having committed
the following outrage on Mrs. Huntingdon, the wife of
a dining room keeper, residing in Canning•place. Mr.
Huntingdon said, on Saturday night the prisoner and
another person entered his house, and asked for some
supper. He supplied them, and after some time the
prisoner wanted to persuade a girl who was in attendance,
that he had paid for what had been served. His comrade
said he had not paid, and a gentlernean who sat at the
table told the witness he had not paid, although he had
had money out on the table. An altercation took place,
and Mrs. Huntingdon, who was not well at the titne,
came out from an adjoining room, and whilst the witness
went to the door to look for an officer, the prisoner con-
ducted himself in an outrageous manner, kicked Mrs.
Huntingdon in the legs, &c., with the utmost brutality.
Mr. Mansfield denounced the conduct of the prisoner in
severe terms, and remanded him to this day, in order to
hear what the medical attendant would report in refer-
ence to the injuries inflicted on Mrs. Huntingdon. The
prisoner was accordingly remanded.
ASSAULTS.—MichaeI Koy was ordered to be committed
for three months', for assaulting a female in Banistre-
street, John Ford, a sailor, was fined 410 or in default
of payment six months' imrisonrnent, for a most brutal
assault upon two females, at a house of ill fame in
Vauxhall road.
STABBING.—Ann Mullens, a street vendor of oysters,
was committed for trial on a charge of having stabbed
another female in the arm. It appeared that the two
parties had some words near the Sailors' Home on the
previous Wednesday, when the prisoner struck the cow.
plainant with her knife, and then endeavoured to escape.
The case being fully proved, the prisoner was sent for
trial.

(BEFORE MR. ALDERMAN TURNER.)
BURGLARY.—Charles Rogers and Charles Nelson, two
sailors, were charged by Mrs. Catherine Burns, the
keeper of a sailors' boarding-house, in Denison-street,
with having broken into a store room, and for stealing
wearing apparel to the value of £2 10s. It appeared
that the prisoners were lodgers in Mrs. Burns house,
and that a sailor had left her a chest of clothes to keep
until his return from sea. The chest was put into the
room, and it would seem that the prisoners broke into
the place and stole the clothes, a portion of which was
found upon them. They were remanded in order to
search for the rest of the articles.
Two BLACK CROW3.—William Games, a black man,
was charged by another sable person, named Emanuel
Saundeison, with having stolen £6 from him. The
parties lodged in a house of a third black man, in Lich-
field-street, and it appeared that the prisoner broke
open his comrade's box and took the money, which was
made up of American and English money. He having
got the cash, went on the "spree," and fulfilled the old
adage of "ill got, ill gone," for he lost all that he had
stolen. He was remanded for seven days.
SUSPICIOUS PERSONS.—John Sinclair, and John Lucas,
two very well dressed and good looking young men,
were charged by Detective Povey, who said he saw them
on the landing stage on Sunday evening, trying to pick
ladies pockets, at the time of the arrival of the American
mail steamer. Sinclair said he was formerly a tailor,
but as that " profession" did not agree with his chest,
he turned to the hawking of jewellery. This he unfor-
tunately changed for bad company and drink, and
although he was a bad character, he assured his Worship
that in the present instance he was not guilty. The
other prisoner said he was a sailor, and that his ship was
ready to go to sea, he was formerly a bad boy, but had
reformed. Mr. Clough asked for a remand, as perhaps
there would be something else forthcoming against them.
They were remanded to this day.
THE BOY THAT CRIED " WOLF."—John Taylor, was
charged with stealing an iron grate. It appeared that
there were some repairs going on at the Roebuck Inn,
Queen's•square, and that the watchman was re-
ported by the prisoner to be asleep several times
at night, instead of looking after the property.
The contractor did not believe the story, and
the prisoner, to prove the assertion, took the grate
to show that the watchman was not doing his duty.
When going away with the grate, he WdS caught by the
police. The story of the prisoner was found to be cor-
rect, and he was at once discharged.
(BEFORE MR. HAYWOOD )
CHARGE OF FoacintF.—Riehard Bibby, who stood
remanded on a charge of forgery, was brought up for
final examination. The details of this case have already
appeared in our paper. Mr. Roby was for the prosecu-
tion, end said an arrangement had been entered into, as
it was a family matter. The prisoner was discharged.
POCKET PICKING.—A well dressed young man, named
John Smith, was sent to gaol for two months, for picking
pockets in St. John's Market.
A BAD LODGER.—A well dressed female, named Mary
Gorney, was charged with having stolen a watch, the
property of Eliza Massaro, of Birkit•street. It appeared
that the prisoner went to the house of the prosecutrix,
y for
and took a lodging there, and after staying one night,
same da
she left, taking the watch with her. She pledged it the
th
taken
£l. The prisoner, who admitted havine watch, was sent to gaol for three months. g
THE I

IrE BOAT liisTiruTioN.—His Majesty the King
of Prussia has forwarded a munificent donation of £5O to
the Royal National Life-boat Institution, on the re .
pre-
sEntation of Majesty's Consul-general, Chevalier He-
beler. The objects of the institution extend to all persons
without distinc ion of country, in war and in peace, who
my be in imminent peril of shipwreck on any part of the
coasts of the United Kingdom or of the British ides.
Many are the crews of foreign vessels who, during the last
thirty-two years, have been rescued from a watery grave
m
through the instrumentality of the soety'slife-boats, or
who have been saved by shore-boats, for rescuing whom the
institution has voted rewards.

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.