Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-YESTERDAY.

LIVERPOOL.

BEFORE MR. J. AIKEN.

CIIARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLFRIC.--ThOMM Joseph
Connor, a well dressed youth, apparently about eighteen
years of age, was brought up by officer Laycock, on a
charge of having embezzled over £7O, belonging to Messrs.
Grimshaw, his employers. Mr. Squarey was for the pro-
secution. and Mr. Scott (barrister). instructed by Mr.
Campbell, appeared for the prisoner. Laycock said he
followed the prisoner to Wexford, where he arrested him,
and told him that he was charged with embezzling various
sums of money, when he said he knew nothing of it. He
found over £8 in mon y on him, and a goodly quantity of
new clothes. Mr. Charlesworth, one of the firm of the
house, was examined, and, in reply to Mr. Scott, he said
the prisoner was in the it employment about four years, and
he was paid 12s. per week. He was taken in as an office boy
first, at five shillings per week, and was advanced
from time to time. The witness was cross-examined
at some lenglo, but the only thing of import was
that he would not say that the prisoner had pointed out to
him some irregularities that he had made in some entries,
but he could not call to mind anything of the sort. Mr.
George Lingham, cash keeper at Messrs. Grimshaw's, said
on the 3rd of this month he went to dinner at two and
returned at four ; he left a bag with £5O in i in charge
of the prisoner, for the purpose of paying drafts. or any-
thing that woul 1 come in during his absence. When he
came back the prisoner handed him a receipt for £2O,
cultagml to nave noon pats to vaptana Jordan of the Lady
Franklin, and some other receipts that he had paid, and
gave him some ten or fifteen pounds in gold, as the balance
of ihe cash, and that would be quite correct provided that
the sums hid been paid. The body of the receipt was
filled up in the hand-writing of the prisoner. Cross-
examined by Mr. Scott : The receipt is signed by
Captain Jordan and in his hind-writing. The prisoner
borrowed £2 from me the night before he went away. Capt..
Jordan, of the Lady Franklin, proved that although the
receipt was in his handwriting —that is, the sigaature—he
did not receive money, nor any money at all from the
prisoner, on the day, nor at any other time. Mr. Squarey,
put in two rece.pt books, and the following is a narrative
of the prisoners proceedings : On the 6th May, 1856,
Captain Jordon received a sum of £2O from the prosecutors,
and on the 3rd and sth of the same month in the same

year he had also received sums, all of which he signed for
in the receipt b)ok. It appeared that the receipt so given
by him on the 6th May, 1856, was cut out of the old re-
ceipt book—the receipt stamp bearing da'e 25, 6, 55—that
is, the 25th of the sixth month, 1855 This was most
ingeniously posted into the receipt book of the present
time, and the date altered. The other receipts of Captain
Jordon of the 3rd and sth May, 1856 remained in the
old bolk, but the receipt of the 6th was rile, and pasted
into the new book as described. A. like process
was resorted to by the prisoner in regard to
Captain Blake, who was charged £3O on the 27th July,
under a similar process as that adopted towards Captain
Jordan. The captain was examined, and proved that he
did not get the mDney. Mr. Squarey called on hid Wor-
ship to commit the prisoner for trial at the present assizes.
He had several similar cases against the prisoner, but the
captains were absent just now. Mr. Scott said he would

not offer any remark'in the present stags of the proceed-
ings. He would ad; his Worship to take bail for the pri-
soner. The prisoner was committed, and his Worship
refused to accept of bail for his appesaanoe.

BEFORE MR ALDERMAN HOLME AND MM. E HEATH.

UNwnoLEsomE FlSH.—Catherine Siddall, the owner of
a fish-stall in Bt. John's M trket, was summoned by
Inspector Tyrrell, for having exposed sixty-two pounds of
salmon that was not fit for human food. The case was
proved, and a floe of 9s. 6 I. was inflicted on her..

CUNVICTICN OF A iTIGHWAY SURVEYOR FOR THREIVEN-
NAO SnooT.—At the Wakefield Petty Sessions nn Mon-
day, Mr.
_John Jackson, corn-miller, of Wakefield, and
proprietor of the Fleet Mills, Oulton-cum-Woodlesford,
and one of the highway sarvesors, was charged with
hosing threatened to shoot Mr. John Whittaker, builder,
of Oalton, on the 6th cf A ages'. For some months
past there has been considerable ill feeling existing in
the village, owing to an attempt made by the highway
surveyors to supersede the use of an ancient welt by the
erection of a pomp. The inhabitants had rissn against
this pump, and demolished it. Lost Monday about thirty
defendants were summoned for the damage by the highway
surveyors, when the magistrates found that the defendants
had only used the neces'ary farce to remove the pump.
After returning from Wakefield to Oulton, the defen-
dants, ettc :waged by the decision of the magistrates,
threatened to remove a "mistle" erected by Mr. Hartlsy,
one of the highway surveyors, on a piece of land con-
tiguous to the well, sad wh:ch land had hitherto been
consHered public psoperty. A number of the inhabitants
assembled in front of Mr. Hertley's house on Thursday
night last, during his absence. His wife, being terrified
by the appearance of the men, sent one of her daughters
to Mr. Jackson, at Fiest Mills. The latter, on hearing
what was taking place, arm:d himself with a brace of
pistols, mounted hi; horse, and 'proceAed to Harley's.
On his way to the latter place he stopped at Whittaker's
house. Whittaker, hearing the horse stop, came to the
door. As soon as he come out, Mr. Jackson pulled the
pistols nit of his pocket, and s rid, " Whittaker, I'll
shoot you. If you speak to me or come near me to-
night I will blsw your brains out. I've got two of them.
and they are both loaded with ball." Mr. Jackson, who
was described as being in a very excited state, then rode off.
Ile subsruently got the ass'stanee of the police, and
everything passed efl quietly in the village, the " mistie"
not being interfered with. Mr. Jackson now said that
he only produced the pistols for the purpose of striking
terror into the rie'ers, and that he had no intentiJn of
using them. Whittaker had been a ringleader in the
destruction of the pump. The magistrates ordered Mr.
Jackson to be bound over in £5O to keep the peace
towards Whittaker for six months, and to pay the
expenses, sCI 6s 61. The bench, at the same time, in-
timated that if the "mistle" had been destroyed, they
would have dealt very differently with the case than they
had done,

MuNsvna Versus C( NNAUGHT.—Mary Reddington, a
native of that portion of Ireland, which in former times
was chosen only in preference to certain lower regions,
was charged for having " p:nked ' the forehead, with a
round stone, of a native of an adjoining province, called
Munster, said nativa giving her name as Sabina Weelan.
It appeared that in the "classic" locality of New Bird-
street, seplace that affords more "amusement" to the police
than any other street in the northern metropolis, there
was "a taste of a siiimmage," between the " Widgeons"
and the " Magpies." The prisoner belonged to the
" Conndught Rangers," and in the pride of her
fagabolloughzsm, she rushed, through the street clearing
all before her. One of her weapons was a "lump" of a
stone, very minu'ely described as double the dimen-
sions of a "mealy potato," and with this she, like
another David, hit the Goliath forehead of Mrs. Weelan
with the missile, and fir the time laid her low enough.
surgeon Pope, of the Southern Hospital, laid the wound
was a serious one, and caused an indentation in the
skull, and when she was brought to the hospital, she was
in a very bad state. The prisoner was remanded.
NOVEL PAYMENT.—A sailor, named William Middleton,
was charged with having assaulted a Mrs Eliza Pendle-
bury, who keeps an eating-honse in Kent-street. It
appeared that on Monday afternoon, the prisoner went to
the complainant's shop, and had six penny worth of bread
and " bloatere," and when she hinted that payment would
be desirable, he seized her by the neck, and nearly choked
her. He was sent to gaol in default of paying a fine of
10s. and costs.

PLUNDER or C itSFES.—John Jones, a youth about
eighteen years of age, was charged with hating stolen five
barrel, and two half-barrel, casks', belonging to Mr. Sidney
Sherlock, Agent for Ind, Cooper and Co , brewers, near
London, and also at Burton on-Trent; and Thomas Bryan,
a cooper, in business in Fontenoy-street, was charged with
having received the same, knowing them to have been
stolen. Mr. Bluck defended Bryan. The facts of the case
were these—Jones was in the employment of Mr. Sherlock,
bat left about a month since, On Saturday he went to a
beer-house in Bolt 'n-street, kept by a Mrs. Roberts, and
said he had been sent for some empty casks that were
there. She gave the casks in question, getting a printed
receipt from him. It seemed that the boy had kept some
of the blank printel receipts femn the time he was in Mr.
Sherlock's employment. He hired a cart, and took the
casks from Mrs. Roberts to the yard of the prisoner
Bryan, in Fontenoy-street, where they were susequently
found by the police, and identified by Mr. Sherlock,
although the marks and names wera clefs:ed. The above
facts were clearly proved by Mr. Sherlock, Mrs. Roberts,
and the carter who carried the casks. Mr. Bluck en-
deavoured to show that his client gave a fair price for the
casks, and that he had acted openly. H.s Worship said
the case was very char, and he censured the conduct of
the cooper, saying that, in many cases, the conduct of
receivers of stolen property was worse than the actual
thief. He sent both prisoners for trial, but agreed to take
bail for Bryan, two sureties in £5O each.
John Hughes, who had obtained 104. from the Rev.
Mr. Hull, of the Blind Asylum, was brought up on remand
The details appeared a few days ago, and the case being
fully proved, the prisoner was sent to jail for two months