The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL:
BEFORE NO. i. AIKIN.

THE GcPrEL.—EXTRAORDINART CASE.—One of the most
extraordinary looking specimens of a black man imaginable,
who gave the name of Francis Fisher, was brought up by
police officer Mackenzie (620), on a charge of being disorderly
and exciting a crowd to riot id Lecce street, at six o'clock the
previous evening. Blackmen aro not generally Adonises, but
of all the ugly black men that ever stood in the police dock,
Fisher was the ugliest. l'he officer said, at six o'clock on
Thursday evening, his attention was called to A crowd and
noise in Leeco street, and on going to the place he saw the
prisoner, with a considerable crowd about him, and there was
much disorder going on at the time, ctea‘ed by the prisoner.
He requested him to go away, and at first he did go away a
short distance, but again stopped, and as he excited the people
and would not go away, the officer took him into custody.
Mr. Aikin (to the prisoner) : What are you ? The
Prisoner : A preacher of the Gospel l Mr, Aikin : How
do you get your living? The prisoner lam a steward
of a ship, and a preacher of the Gospel. I have a
mission to preach the Gospel to my fellow creatures.
Mr. Aikin; But we cannot allow you to disturb the streets
in this way. Prisoner : (in a fierce loud voice ) What !
Do you call preolliscoiell
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gtolsrpoelsatrseleotring?
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sent by G preach, and be is a greater
power than you all, and I must obey hirn. As long (shouting
very loud) as the spirit moves me, I wii. preach the i,ospel."
Mr. Aikin : You must not disturb the peace ,'f the town, nor
the peace of this court. The prisoner wildly interrup,ing his
worship cried out, " I have nothing to tit: with the eiPut. I
have to preach the gospel." Mr. Aikin ; Your con3tict
altogether appears so extraordinary, that I doubt your sanity.
Remand him for tho present. The prisoner wag :moved,
uttering something that was not heard at the reporter's table.
THE £lOO ROBBERY--Bridget Ryan, John Bennett, add
Margaret Lawler; were brought up on remand, charged with
being concerned in the robbery of £lOO from Solomon
Joel, a London Jew. Mr. Block appeared for the
prisoners. The facts of the case appeared in our paper
of yesterday. In addition to the evidence of detectives
Scott and Smith, Cho showed much sagacity in the manner in
which they arrested the prisoners and recovered £5B of the
money, a sweep, named James Burns, proved that he saw
Bennett and Ryan at Rock Ferry with " fists full of gold."
The sweep's wife also proved the same thing. The two last
witnesses, on cross examination by Mr.. Block, admitted that
the prisoners had acted very liberally to them, and gave them
money, and purchased clothes for them: The prosecutor
was cross examined by Mr. Bluck, who dwelt with some
....!verity on his conduct. As there was no further evidence
against Lawler, she was discharged, and the other two pri-
soners were ';;"1t for trial at the ass'zes.

A NEw WAY TO PAY GOVERNMENT TAXES —Virillkttt
Layfield, a rather powert-G! man, who resides at 34, Thompson.
street, Everton, was charged Witir having assaulted Mr. George
Turner, a collector of government taxes' The complainant
said he had two warrants to seize for government taxes, and
ho went, with a bailiff, on Thursday morning to make a
distress, when the prisoner, with a poker, beat the two
out, and swore he would send them away dead ; and this, the
complainant said, he would have done, if they had not made
their escape. The prisoner told a pitiful story, and said he bad
not .£2O a year, instead of £lOO. Mr. Turner said, personally.
he had no vindictive feelings to'vards the prisoner, and only
wished to be protected in the discharge Of 'his duty, but he did
not wish to press for heavy punishnaet:q. The magistrate
said, in consrquence of the kindness of complainant, they
wonld only inflict a small penalty. Tax colic,tors should,
however, be protected in the discharge of their du:y-, The
prisoner was fined XI and costs.
It ?SORE MR BOLTON.
A DRUNKEN LETTER CARRIER. —John Pover, a letter
carrier, in the employment of the Liverpool Post Office, was
summoned for being chunk on the 28th day of February, while-
having a number of lettere in his custody, whereby the safety
of the same letters were endangered, for which offence he bad
rendered himself liable to a fine of £2O. There was a second
information against the same defendant, for wilfully retarding
the delivery of such letters, for which he was liable to the same
penalty. The defendant admitted his guilt in each summons,
and the magistrate fined him in the mitigated penalty of £5
in each case.