The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-03 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-YESTERDAY.

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MIL MANSFIELD.
POKERS AND POLICE.—Police officer No. 601, charged
a man named Patrick M'Loughlin, with having assaulted
him with a poker. The prisoner had a very delapidated
face, and it looked most sanguinary. The officer said he
heard a great noise in No. 2 court, Milton-street, and on
going' to ascertain the cause, he saw the prisoner beating
and kicking his wife in the most brutal manner; she was
on the ground and screaming loudly. He caught him,
when the wife ran away, saying she would go to a neigh-
bours house, and the prisoner got into his own, and
witness was going away when the prisoner flung a poker
out of the window at him which struck him on the back,
and so violent was the blow that the poker was bent in
a bow, and his back was sore ever since. The prisoner
said he was treated very badly by the officer, who knocked
him dawn, kicked two of his teeth out, and " demolished "
his face. The officer denied this statement, and his
worship sentenced the prisoner to gaol for two months, in
default of paying a £2 fine•
ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A MOTHER.—A wretched, dis-
sipated-looking female, named Ellen M'Gee, was brought
up by police officer No. 741, on a charge of having
attempted to cut her daughter's (Jane M'Ciee) throat. The
constable said he heard that a woman had cut another
womans throat in Mann-street, and on going to a cellar in
that street, he found the girl there with three or four cuts
about her face and chest, and one serious wound in her
throat. She said the wounds were inflicted by her
mother with a knife. He arrested the prisoner, and then
took the wounded girl to the hospital. Ile then went back
and found a knife with blood on it. The bridewell-
keeper said, when the prisoner had been locked
up, she appeared to be labouring severely under
ercineas. She said, "is it I would cut my
daughter's throat, but if I did, I had a right to do it."
The officer said that the girl had left the hospital, and some
of the mother's friends had taken her away. He handed
in a medical certificate of the injuries. The prisoner was
remanded for a week.
A BRICK " BAT."—Martin and Ellen O'Brien, man and

wife, Were charged with having assaulted officer 345, in
Simpson-street. The parties were quarrelling, when the
officer interfered, and the man got into a house, out of the
window of which he flung a brick, which gave him (the
officer) a " bat" (a blow) on the cheek, which cut him
severely, and knocked him insensible. He got him out of
the house, and then the female made a furious attempt to
rescue him. The man said he was as "innocent as the
child unborn," in fact, he knew nothing of the case until
he was taken out of bed, where he was fast asleep and
snoring. This story was, however, negatived by another
officer, who saw him "do the deed." The prisoner was
fined £5, or in default of payment, three months' im-
prisonment ; and the woman was sentenced to one month's
imprisonment, in default of paying £1 fine.
DISHONEST PORTER.—John Owens, a porter in the em-
ployment of Mr. Frazer, iron-monger, St. Anne-street,
was brought up by Eaton, a detective, charged with having
stolen two coffee pots and a water-jug, value £1 Os, the
property of his employer. For the last three months Mr.
Frazer has been missing property, and on Saturday night,
about nine o'clock, the prisoner called at the beer house of
Mrs. Shaw, in Clare-street, and had a glass of ale ; he then
asked Mrs. Shaw if he could leave a parcel there ? and she
replied yes. After he went away, she suspected all was
not right, and she communicated with the police, and this
led to the arrest of the prisoner. The articles were iden-
tified by Mr. Frazer as his property. The prisoner was
sent for trial.
POCKET PICKING —James Bolland, a well-known pick-
pocket, was brought up by detectives Povey and M'Culloch,
chargA with having picked the pocket of a Mrs, Sparks,
on the landing-stage, at nine o'clock the previous night.
The officers caught the prisoner in the act, and he was sent
for trial.

JACIi SHEPPARD OUTDONE.—A good-looking boy, named
George Owens Crowe, twelve years of age, was brought up
by detective officer Laycock, on the following extraordinary
charge of house breaking and robbery. The officer said,
on Tuesday morning last he was informed that the office
of Messrs. Evans, corner of Seel-street, had been broken

into, and about 17s taken out of it. On going to the place
he found it had been entered from the yard inside, by a
square of glass having been broken. He observed some
blood about the window, and traced it from that to the
desk in the office that was broken and the silver taken out
of it. He traced the blood back again into the yard, and
to the end of a spout that went up a warehouse nearly
fifty feat high. He saw the blood on the spout, and he
got a ladder and went up and found blood on the slates.
He followed the track across several warehouses, and at
last into a skylight down into the room where the prisoner
was. This was in the house of the prisoner's father, who
was employed at Messrs. Evans'. The boy at first denied
all knowledge of the affair, but on examining he lad's foot he
found a cut in it, made by the glass broken in the window.
the boy confessed that he had gone over the warehouse,
down the spout, and into the office, by the window. He
thought this quite impossible, when the chap said, " Oh,
I will show you how it was done," and he darted across
the warehouse roofs, and down the spout with the
greatest agility, and up again in the twinkling of an eye,
and said, " That's the way it's done." The officer, al-
though used to rather strange things, never saw anything
like it before. (His own sagacity and cleverness in finding
out the prisoner could not be surpassed.) The boy was
remanded for a week.

THE OFFICE CLEANING DODGE.—William Grayson, who
had been remanded on several charges for having swindled
several poor women, by obtaining their money from them
in consequence of promising to get them the cleaning of
certain offices at Lime-street Station, was brought up o n
remand. On two former occasions we published the details
of this case. Mr. Bluck ably defended the prisoner, but
notwithstanding, his worship committed him for trial at
the sessions ; but, on the application of Mr. Bluck. he
accepted two sureties of £5 each for his appearance.