Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-YESTERDAY.

LIVERPOOL..
MEMO MR MANSFIELD.
A RUFFIANLY SON James Cunliff, a ship. carpenter,
residing with his father, at 13, Mary-Anne-street, was
charged with having assaulted his father, mother, brother,
and sister. The conduct of the prisoner, as desc-ibed by
the witnesFes, was abomirab'e anl unnatural. Ho was in
the habit of getting drunk and beating his family, at the
same time using most filthy largusge to his parents.
The previous night, he beat his father *ith a pricer, cut
his brothers'. head and punched his sistsra' face. His
Worship censured the abominable condaot of the prisoner,
and cent him to jail for two months.
A LUCES NATUREA Patrick Carty, a carter, who
lives at 51, Cheapeide, was charged by Mr. G. White, the
out-door officer of the pariah, with deserting his wife and
child, and leaving them chargeable to the parish, to the
amount of Z 1 103. The wife of the prisoner, a very fair
complexioned young woman, entered the witness-box,
having a .child, of apparently twelve months' old, in her
arms. Instead of being white, however, the little
baby was as black as the raven's wing. She said the
prisoner turned herself and child into the streets,
and she was obl;ged to retort to the workhouse. The
prisoner said befo‘e he was six months married, the "lady
in the box " addei to the increase of the Dr pulation, by
presenting him with the " lit le blackey " which she now
held in her arms. He did not much like the affair, but
his neighbours persuaded him that as the child was "only
a tawney," it wcull gradually grow white, and would of
course grow np the " very dead image of its father.'
(langhter). Instead of that, however, the "little brat"
began to grow darker atd darker, and positively began to
get black curley hair—(laughter)—and he was strongly of
opinion that h;s wife was not a bit better than she ought
to be in her conduct. He lava of opinion that as he was
"taken in." he had a right to " turn her out." The woman,
in violent language, abused the prisoner, and said be knew
all about it before they ware married. His Worship
censured the conduct of the woman, and ordered the
prisoner to be )(amended to this day, in order to try and
get out of the scrape into which the woman had evidently
got him.

SMUGGLING BY A DOCK-GATE MAN.—Morris Griffiths, a
a dock gate man, was charged with smuggling some silk
hanekerebiefi and muslin, that v ere liab;e to duty. The
value was £2l2s , and the penalty under the act, is three
times the amount. Mr. Tyndall was fn. the crown, and
Mr. Bluck for the defendant. • On the 18th instant, the
defend nt was met by an officer of customs leaving the
ship Chaldes, arrived front Akyab, with the goods under
his arm tied up in a handkerchief. Mr. Bluck cross
examined the witness, who said he did not know if the duty
was paid on the articles. Mr. Richie from Messrs. Frisby
and Dike's, proved the value of the goods to be 12125.,
and in reply to Mr. Bluck, he said frequently articles of
the sort could be purchased cheaper here than imp •rted.
The defence set up by Mr Black, was that t e mate of the
ship gave the ar ides to the defendant to take ashore, and
that the duty was paid. He would prove this by the
mate, if the case wane postponed for his attendance, as he
was at present ill in bed. Failitg, however, to procure an
ad;ournment, the defendant was lined the fall penalty.
ROBBIIRY BY A &VIVANT —A well d.essed young w•man
named Catherine Price, who was a servant to Mr. Edward
Thomas, Old Swan,was charged with having stolin a silver
spoon belonging to her maser. The girl was stopped
cffering the spoon for pawn As the offence was
committed in the county, the prisoner was sent before the
county magistrates.

BEFORE J. S JACKSON AND R. BRYANS, ENRS.

ROBBERY BY RAILWAY Porter,
Samuel Evans, and William R. berts, three plate layers in
the employ of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Junction Railway Company, were brought up charged with
stealing four cwt. of iron, the proper y of that company,
their masters. Detective officer Hodgson stated that in
consequence of information he had received, he watched a
marine store kept by a man named Whelligan, in Egerton.
street, Birkenhead, and on Monday evening last, about six
o'clock, be saw the prisoners in the cellar under the store,
and Whelligan wi h them. Thty were in the act of
weighing a large quantity of plata and bar iron, upon which
he went down into the cellar and asked who had brought
the iron. Whelligan replied " the three men hera ;''
upon which Evans said he had not fetched any there this
week. Whelligan Said that was true, because the last he
brought was on the Saturday previous. The other two
said nothing. Whelligan confirmed .he officers statement,
and said that the iron had been brought to his store et
three eifferent occasions, but as on each occasion it was
rather late in the evening he had int them off till Mon-
day, when the officer came and took them into custody.
On one occasion Evans gave him the name of Davies, but
the other two had not given•any name. Thomas Winter,
in the employ of the company as foreman of the Locomo-
tive Dep4rim-nt identified the iron,and the prisoners, who
did not deny the charga, were committed to the Sessions
for trial

STEALING A SHAWL. —Mary Ann Shelley, a7ias Hughes',
Alias Brie; only &teen years of age, but who had se,eral
times before been in custody for theft, was charged with
mesling a valuable shawl, the property of Margaret
Boutledge, who stated that she lived with her mother in
Livingston Street, Bii kenhead,and a family named Martin
also lived in the came h use. The prisoner occasionally
came to nurse Mrs. Martin's baby, and would have to pees
the parlour door where she had left the shawl on the
table She had seen the shawl safe in the room
-on the 20,h instant, and oa the 22nd she missed it. After
she had missed the shawl she found a pawn-ticket for a
shawl concealed in ti e wash-house. The date on the
ticket was the same day that she had lost her shawl;
accordingly she gave information to the police, who bad
since shown her a shawl, which is the one she lost. The
prisoner was proved to have pleelgei the shawl on the
22nd instant, for Bs., at the shop of Mr. Grarie, a pawn-
broker, in Bitkenhead— committed for trial at the sessions.
ASSAULTING THE PoLTCE.—Thlmas Wellspring, a
mechanic, was charged with assaulting Police Constable
Keenan, in the execution of his duty. From Keenen's
statement, it appeared that he was on duty on Monday
night, at about 11 o'clock, in Cm wey-street, when he saw
a woman and two men. The woman left the men and
went up to a do r, upon which he (Keenan) asked he-
what she was doing, to which she replied, "It is not
an unseasonable hour, and I can g where I like ;" he,
however, told her to go home, and pushed her back.
He had no sooner done se, than the prisoner came up and
stru k him. tie then took both the man and woman into
custody. When at the pence-station it turned out that
the woman 'vast the prisoner's wife, and although she had
had had some drink, she was allowsd to go, being well
known. The prisoner was, however, locked up, for as
milting and obstruetirg the officer. Mr. Bretherton
appeared for the prisoner; and at the close of the case, the
worthy magistrate said, he was inclined to believe that
the,officer had gone a little too far—as, by his own ad-
mission, the man was not making any noise, and it was
not, in his opinion, an unseasonable hour ; still the pri-
soner had no right to interfere with the police. No doubt
his feelings were aroused a• seeing hi," wife pushed about,
and, taking that into consideration, and his not having
been up before, he wouli this time discharge him, but
for the future he hoped he would be more careful, The
prisoner, who denied having struck the officer, was then
discharged.
DISORDERLY PRObT:TITTES.—EIIen Sari h, a prostitute,
was brought up, cbargPd with being drunk, and using
obscene largaage. It wns only on the day previous that
the prisoner was discharged for similar condue, upon a
solemn promise to leave the town. It will be seen below,
that her promise was like pie crust, very soon to be broken.
Police const ble Greer said that he was on duty in Price-
street, at half past seven o'clock yesterday morning, when
-a woman came and told him that there was a female lying
in the at eet in a state of drunkenness, and making a great
disturbance Upon getting up to the prisoner, he found
her as had been described. Her langusge was horrible,
and it was with some difficulty that he got her to bride-
well, the whole v. ay to which she continued her filthy
language. The prisoner was not sober when before the
magistrate, and upon heir g asked to account for her con-
duct. after her ormise, she said it was all the constable's
fault, for the blackguard won d not let her go home. Mr.
Gleave, the bridewell keeper, said he could hear her voice
a long time before she got to his place. Committed for
one month, with hard labour

LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT-YE3TE&DAY,

BEPORZ MR COMMISSIONER PERRY

In re ROBIRT JOISE3.—This bankrupt, an hotel keeper.
at liswarden, in Flintshire, applied again, through Mr.
Evans his solicitor, for his certificate. His Honour said
that the bankrupt's estate not having, ye._, realised £l5O,
as recnired by the Statute, he should further adjourn the
eonsideraqon of the certificate for a month.
In re JAMBS Mrratcx.—The bankrupt, a tailor, at
Crewe, came up on his last examination, but his balance-
sheet being unsatisfactory andrinsufactent, His Honour
adjourned he last examination sine die; bat gave him
protection f)r three months.

TEL —Mr. Bes(-t-ncr is busily engaged maturing hTs
purposed improvements in th...=lnrimpf cure of steel. We
are informed that he is fully c); filient of proetteing steel,
equAl in quality to the best Sweedish, at the rate of about
£l2 to £l4 per ton. When that reduction in price is
effected, it is proposed to use the material in constructing
some steel stlips of enormous tonnage.—Mining Journal,

COURT OF PASSAGE.

The Assessor, Mr. Edward Tamer:, Q.O , took his seat
on the bench in this _court, yesterday morning, at nine
o'clock.

Munnees v. BaaaaTr.—This was an action brought to
recover the velae of a pony, of which the plaintiff had
been deprived tte nee of.. Mr. Brett appeared for the
plaintiff and Mr. Conway for the defendant. In this case,
Mr. James Mullens, a grocer, of Mtn-street, was the
plaintiff, end the eenn lent was William Barrett, a milk
seller, living in the same locality. By the opening address of
Mr. Brett, it appeared that the plaintiff hid a Nary good
locking pony, which he had a with to dirpese of, and it
really turned out that throughout t' as whole transaction it
was the worse used "individual." (Laughter.) aughter ) lie wished
to sell the pony, and it was offered to the defendant for
the sum of £9. At that time the defendant had some
pigs, which he had a wish to dispose of, having the fear
of the sanitary commissioners before his eyes, and he
offered n worth of pigs for the pony. !lhe plaintiff, not
wishing to aid that of " pig j debar" te his other avoca-
tions, declined to take the pigs, and subsequently agreed
to let the defendant have the pony for £7. The pen; was
sent down by a lad named Kelly, and another lad,
named Craw`ord, was sent to take the money, as he could
not trust Kelly, having been twice taken in by strange
boys, but the defendant then refused to take the pony
Af er that, from chat the plaintiff had heard, he went to
k into his stable and found that the pony tvas g one, and
then he went to the def. ndant's house and asked him for
the pony, a hen he was told that he had got it, and that
he had paid the boy Key £5 15s for it. The helot:if
demanded the pony—the defendant refused to give it up--
and the result was, th.t the aidof a police constable was
celled in, and the pony was g7yen into custody, and, with
the whet parties was takea to the bridewelt, before the
" Gentrel Referee" of:he toes, Mr. Superintendent C ore,
and the pony was Pent to the pound, and they had come to
that Court, in order to get the value of the pony. Mr.
Mullins and a lad were called as witnesFee to prove
the above facts, after which Mr. Conway addressed the
jay for the defendant, contending that, the plaintifrhed
given full authori'y to the Itri Kelly to sell the pony, and
therefore the defendant was not liable. This authori yto
sell was resitibely denied by the plaintiff several
witnesses were called to prove-this state' of things, one of
whom, when before the magistrate, stated that he heard
the plaintiff say that the devir hi itself should not have
the pony for less than £B, but why that invisible
personage so often called upon, and described in so many
ways, but never yet appeared, sh uid' have had a
preference given him to some true► bona Ale biped 'on
this earth, was a mystery unexplained' by either the jury or
the assessor, or even the plaintiff himself. each of the
Counsel addressed the jury for their resp'ective clients,
after which, the aesesor summed up the evidence, and
the jury resumed a verdict for the plaintiff; damages
£7 and cost , to be reduced to nominsrdamaees and costs,
os the pony being given up to the plaintff in a sound
state.

M•Kartzte v. Hueirre —This was another action,
brought to recover the value of a c-2aantity of furni-
ture, which it was alleged the defendant held poi
se sion of, to• the detriment of the plaireiff Mr. Brett
was for the plain iff, and Mr. Conway was for the de-
fendant. In this actien Miss Caroline M'Kenzie
was the plaintiff. and Mr. Tireo‘by Hughes; farnieure
broker, of Bold street, was the defendant.
Mr. Brett, in opening the ewe, slid that this was one of a
most painful character, and one in whick.he felt deeply
interested, because the plaintiff was one of'-those unfor-
tunate women whose position in life must be looked upon
with pity by all men cf feeling; for the mode in which she
had to get her living. Tice defendant was a furniture
broker, who did a very large business in Dild-street, in
this town, but it wee not the first time his namehad Been
mixed up with transactions of such a nature as the present.
In the month of November, 1855; the pleintiff,T6r purposes
that all might judge, took a house in Harper street, and
then she applied to the defendant to fit up the apartments.
The defendant gave his content and the goods were sup-
plied, but, at the time, by got her to sign azteagreement
to the effect that he, Timothy Hughes, agreed to -supply
Miss Caroline Maet zie with furniture to the amount of
£56, on the understanding that she should pay 403 per
week until the sum was paid, but if any default in the
payment was made before the £56 was paid, then the
goods were to be delivered up. Thi. he designat d'a grind-
ing agreement, because the plaintiff had no power of re-
sisting it, and so, if she only made a default of -one pay-
ment after paying £54, then he would have beezentithel
to keep all the money that was paid, and also to take the
furniture as well However these instalments were paid,
and after that the plaintiff wished to remove to other
premises, at d she engaged a house in Olireestreee
This house was larger and requited more furniture)..p hich
she obtained horn +he defendant,who went and SSW the pre-
mises, to see what was necessary. This lot of furniture was
also supplied to her, and the instalments were regularly
paid. In May, 1857, from so ne steps that hid been taken.
by the authorities, she had to leave that house and she
then went to the defendant and asked him to hike furniture
until such a time, as she cou'd gat another residence He
asset ted to this, and the goods were taken to hispremises,
and after g ttirg another more private resi 'enee, she
applied for the goods, when he refused to give any of them
un—either those she bad purchased on the fist instance, or
those she bad got the second time—or, even. those she had
purchased from other persons, although she- had paid
upwards of £6O f r the goods supplied. He conclud d
by hoping that the la v would be with hm in each point,
as he was quite sure that he should have tha sympathy of
all men. He then called the plaintiff who stated that
she formerly kept a public house, and had known
the defendant for several years, and that when
she went for the furniture, in both cases, she
understood that she had purchased thine, and was to pay
for them by weekly instalments of 40e. until- the amount
was paid. She did not understand that she had taken
them on hire. The property had not been given up to
her. Mr. Conway addressed the Court, arguing that the
defendant had supplied the goods on hire, and that at the
time he had done so be was not aware of her mode of
life ; and, therefore, as she had made a default in the
payments, the property was his own, and he kept posses.
sion of them all. The plaintiff was called, and proved the
above facts, and also that the first goods supp.ied were
worth £56, on which she had paid £22, and the second
were worth £4B, on which £36 had 13,,sen paid. in cross,
examination he admitted that he had had some other deal-
ings with females of a similar character, particularly one
Fanny Wilson, wider the same circumstances. William
Taylor, formerly the m inagsr of the defendant's; establielt-
ment, was also called. The learned gentleman having
addressed the Court, the jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff for £6B.

30Y3' CLOTHING MADE wiTi.-T GREAT TASTE, at LEWIS and
COMPANY'S, RaneLigh-btreet.

THa BILFATC CUSTOM ' FitAUD —1 rum )ur has rulchod
us that Moore h s been e tp-ured in one of the Channel
Islands, ar.d that he had taken poison, either at: he moment
of his ()stature or when he f tuna th it escape was imp s •ible.
—Dublin Evening Mail.
Cos-rusts up Tar LATH EARL FITZWILLIAM —The late
Earl Fitzwilliam had one great peculiarity in his at cid
ante at ciu-t. Ha never appeared but in the deepest
mourning. Black at c ,urt is only C'en in the casa of
privve motrain4; the late earl's ape trance, therefore,
always indicated he was sufr_riag under some severe domes-
tic calami y; and to make the con,roat more suiting V e
Ladies Fitz wilain would perlul,3 ex'i'4lt the most brilliant'
eoloura in their costumes at the same time. Lit ily,
after the Qaeeu had uncle him a Knight of the Garter,
the insignia of the order relieve ! the general sombreness of
the earl's appearance ; b 'his special mark of her M. jest
favour did nut in .luce the earl to forego his eheribliet
notions on the subject of cuterne, and, though sparkling
vita the urdcr of the Garter, lord Fi' zwilliam mourned as
much as ever, whenever he anpiared before the Sovereign
at St. Jemps'9.—Court Journal.

TEE BRA MULL RDRR Cesz.-711V MYST •SRIOUS
BRACES.—Six days kite: the murder, a b'oken bt?ce was
picked up close to thf. !rent of the house, with (as sta'ed st
the time, and rot: 6isprova), a mark cr mzrks of blood
upon it. In answer to :his the police renlie that the plane
where the brace was fouad hjri been diligently searched,
for three or four days after the murder, in quasi of wadding
from the dischar4ed gun. and that nothing like the brace
or other property could pe.silly have been there withew
being seen by the polce. The patties who picked it up
were b and ovr by the ru,gistrates to give evidence et
the f ct at the trial-, on the application of M,. R )berti,
's the prison: is aftornfy.. The • my-tery has, how ever,
within the h-,st few days, been thoroughly cleared up—the
brace has been identified by the owner—and, after el', it
does not belong to any burglar, not is it s'aiced with bLod.
It appears that a !,outtg man, ranted Foote, worked upon
th,, fa•m, .and sleet on the premises; and that he was
discharged the week before the murder, leaving behind him
a few wi r bless, apportera ices to his drees—a pair of
tattered breeches, .and this brace,, broken in twain, and
tneeed with thong in one or two places, being amtngst
the legacies he left with the Hen lersoas. The latter
article Foote described very accura,ely before it was shwa
to him, when he instantly identified it. It ha 3 i:incs turned
out that after the dece ,sed's intertmmt. on Saturday, V e
chart:ll)4s' were cleared out. including Foote's rubbish, and
thrown through the Window, in fronr, where they were
found on the Morning of the adjourned inquest.—Stook-
Port Advertiser. . . .

At. L EWI3 84.C0 PANT'S, Ran etigh-atreet.
BOYS are CLOWED from the Ages of Six :o Twenty Yea!

THE NORTHERN TIIVIES.L-LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1857