The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-16 00:00:00

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POLICE COURT. -YESTERDAY, --ESTERDAY

(BEFORE MR. STITT.)
SHOCKING DEPRAVITY.—A well dressed person, named
Thomas Robinson, who appeared about 0 years of age,
and said he was a clerk, charged two girls, apparently
under 14 years of age (as they stated,) with having stolen
£4 from him, in a house of ill fame, in Leigh-street.
The prisoners were mere children in appearance. They
were very well dressed, both in the same style, and
looked like sisters, although it appeared they are not
related. They gave their names as Mary Kelly alias
Roberts (her real name), and Margaret Donald. The
details of the case were most revolting, and of course
cannot meet the public eye in the pages of a news-
paper. The disparity between the ages of the wretched
little prisoners and the prosecutor, caused the utmost
disgust in the minds of all who heard the case. It ap-
peared that the prosecutor met the two children in
Church-street, on Friday night, and went with them to
the house in Leigh-street, and whilst there, he alleged,
that out of a large sum lie had about him, the prisoners
abstracted the money stated. He admitted having
given them 2s 6d each. The money was subsequently
found in the possession of the girls, but they loudly
asserted that he had given it to them to induce them to
go into the house. After hearing the whole case,
Mr. Stitt asked the prosecutor where he re-
sided 1 and after some hesitation, he replied,
in Cheshire: Mr. Stitt said, in case the prisoners were
sent for trial, it would be necessary to have his correct
address ; now, Cheshire was a large place. The man said
he would prefer not giving any other address. Mr. Stitt
said, the conduct on the part of a man like the prosecu-
tor, to have acted as he had acted, was most shameful
and disgusting. The prosecutor said, he was ready to
admit the justice of the observation. Mr. Stitt: It is
most disgusting conduct on your part. To the policeman :
Was he sober? Policeman: He was quite sober. Mr.
Stitt said, that made the case perhaps worse; if he were
not so, there might be some palliation for his having acted
as described, even by himself. No doubt he was in some
respectable situation, as he had so much money on his
person. He would, for the present, remand the prisoners
to Monday. The girl Roberts said her father and mother
were living in Wales ; the other girl said her parents
were dead. They were then remanded.

STEALING COTTON.—TWO persons, named John Barlow
and William Bradbury, were charged with being con-
cerned in the robbery of six bags of cotton, the property
of Mr. Byrne, Cooper's-row. Mr. Bluck appeared for
the prisoner Barlow. It appeared that already some
persons have been arrested on this charge, and are at
present under remand. The details of the case have
already been published. In addition to the evidence
already given, detective officer Carlyle now stated that
Barlow removed the cotton from the warehouse and
sold it to Bradbury, who resides in Frederick-street.
Mr. Almond appeared for Bradbury, and asked the
bench to accept of bail for his appearance, as he was a
respectable man. If the police u ere ready to go into
the whole case, he (Mr. Almond) was quite prepared to
meet them. The prisoner was admitted to bail in two
sureties of .£5O each. Mr. Bluck then applied to have
his client (Barlow) admitted to bail, but the application
was reused, and the prisoner was remanded.

(BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD,)
DESPERATE ASSAULT ON A WOMAN.-0B Saturday
week, a woman named Fanny Jennings, was remanded
on a charge of having violently assaulted a woman
named Joyce, who was at the time pregnant. The
prisoner was brought up on Saturday, and Mr. Sayers,
the surgeon who had attended her, stated that the
woman was now suffering from inflammation of the
bowels. Mr. Mansfield said the conduct of the prisoner
was outrageous, and he would send her to gaol for one
month.

THE NEW LARGE IRON BUILDING, JAMAICA STREET, IN
GLASGOW.--This stupendous and magnificent iron erection,
at the corner of Ann Street in Jamaica Street, a drawing
of which formed lately one of the pictures in the Illustrated
London News, is rapidly progressing towards completion.
We observe that workmen are now busily engaged in coat-
ing the entire framework of the building with a substance
which will have the effect of protecting the iron from rust
or anything calculated to induce corrosion. The coating
which has been selected as that best fitted to attain this
desirable end is Cook's patent composition, which has been
found, after severe tests, to be capable of effectually resist-
ing the action of both alkalies and acids. We understand
that another iron building is about to be erected a little
farther down Jamaica Street. —North British Mail.
AN ENGLISH FEMALE PICKPOCKET IN PARIS.—A young
Englishwoman, aged not more then 20, and who gave
her name Mary Ann Cowel, has lately been tried by the
Tribunal of Correctional Police for picking pockets.
Numerous offences of that nature having been recently
committed on the Orleans Railway, two police officers
were sent to Choisy le-Roi ; and on arriving there they
saw the accused walking about by the side of the river
with an Englishman. They at once recognised her as a
professional pickpocket, who had been suspected of hav-
ing exercised her calling in the church of St. Ruch,
in Paris. They kept a close watch on her and her
companion, and after about an hour's promenade, saw
them go to the station. There the man took two tickets
for the approaching train to Paris, and he gave the
female one of them. After that they ceased to speak to
each other, and even separated as strangers. They, how-
ever, both got into the same carriage, but the man
followed the woman as if by chance, and they said nothing
to each other. On arriving in Paris, although they
had no luggage, they went into the room where the
trunks and parcels were to be distributed, and the female
immediately went into the thickest of the throng, whilst
the man stood a little apart, evidently on the watch.
" Never," said one of the officers with a certain
degree of admiration, " did I see such a skilful
operator as this young lady—and I don't believe
that her equal exists. She lifted up the pockets
with her left hand, and groped in them with her
right with incredible dexterity and grace." Owing
to the crowd, however, they could not see that she actually
took anything from the pockets she searched. After a while
they seized her; and, at the same moment, the man slipped
away, and ht.a not since been found. The prisoner, who
wept bitterly, and who was unable to speak French, was
sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment, and, on the
expiration of them, to be expelled from France.—
Galignani.