The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-13 00:00:00

BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD

&for 1 IrriNG. —Two youths, named William Gilroy and
William Nicholson, the former of whom had been seven, and
the latter six times in custody on various charges of pilfering,
we7e, with Ann Gilroy, the mother of the boy, who is partially
blind, charged with stealing a piece of velvet from the
shop of Miss Cowley, of Brownlow-hill. Detective officer
Povey stated, that on the previous day ho had received infor-
mation of the robbery, and subsequently on going to the pawn-
shop kept by Mr. Webb, of Mount-pleasant, he was informed
that the female had„offered the velvet in pledge. 1./iSoti:
questioning her, she said she had it given to her by a woman
and that she went to pledge it. Upon this ho went .to her
house; at No. 24,iMulberry-street, where be, found the bOys
with the velvet, and they at once said that they had stolen it,
and given it to the woman to pledge. Povey added that the
boys had stolen the velvet from the inside of the shop, and
that ho had known the parents of Gilroy for a number of
years, and the father, who was totally blind, was a decent
man, but the boy they could do nothing with. Mr. Mansfield
said, as the mother of the prisoner had involved herself in the
charge by offering the velvet in pledge, he could not deal
summarily with it, and must therefore send it for trial at the
sessions.

BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A FEMALE..—James Clarke,
a strong powerfully built man, dressed in the garb of a
sailor, was brought up under a warrant, by detective
officer haycock, charged with violently assaulting Mrs.
M'Neil, in Eaton street, on the previous night. The com-
plainant, whose face was much disfigured from the injuries
she had received, stated she and her husband were going II?
the street, when they saw an unfortunate female, only partially
dressed, and bleeding. The woman called out for " God's
sake have mercy," and she and her husband assisted her into
the house. They were engaged in washing the woman's head
when the prisoner came in, and said, " What do you want
here ?" and then commenced trying to kick up a row. lie first
said to her husband, "Do you want to fight ?" He replied,
" No." The prisoner then took up a poker, and made an
attack upon her husband, who succeeded in getting out of the
house, when he struck her a violent blow o❑ the face with the
poker, and hit her in various other parts of the body. She
fell down in a state of insensibility, and what he did to her
afterwards she could not tell. This statement was fully corro-
borated by two witnesses who saw the assault, and who likewise
saw him make several stabs at her with a knife, and one of
them (the husband), in trying to get the knife out of his hand,
was cut in the wrist. The surgeon of the Vauxhall dispensary,
who dressed the wound, stated that the woman had received a
crucifix wound above the nose, but lie could not conceive that
it was dono with a knife. The prisoner was committed for
trial at the sessions.

Mr. Mullens, grocer, of Mill street, and a man named Wil-
liams, were charged with being drunk and disorderly on the pre-
vious night. FrOm the statement of tho policeman, No. 49. it
appeared Ora he was on duty in Warwick street, about half-past
twehe o'clock, when he heard some parties quarrelling in Mill
"4 ". going in that direction he found, two men fighting.