Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-04 00:00:00

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he hit her a

who was the mother of h

,on the head, inflicting a
severe woui.,— ixamination by Mr. Bluck (for
the prisoner), the. girl admitted that she struck the
prisoner, and abused him, and on this Mr. Gluck founded
an argument that the girl brought it all on herself.
His Worship agreed in that, but still did not understand
a man striking a woman. He fined the prisoner £1 and
costs.

dow with a stich

On cross-

kssauth. BY A BOY.—A boy named James Nixon, the
,:tter carrier; was charged with having assaulted
a woman named Hynes. Mr. Bliick prosecuted, and.
Mr. Cobb defended. The facts elicited on the inquiry
were these : —The complainant and the boy's mother
had a quarrel, and, whilst the row was coming to a close,
the lad hit the woman on the forehead with a heavy
knobbed stick, inflicting- a serious wound. Mr. Cobb
argued that he did so in defence of his mother, whom
the other woman was " wallopping"

son of a 1

with a sw

His Worship fined the boy £2 and costs for the

assault

CILA.itGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.-Joseph Hough, the
master of a flat plying. between this port and Winsford,
was charged with having embezzled 414 145., belonging
to his employer, Mr. Heushaw, the owner of the flat.
Mr. Wilson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Cobb
'sour. The prisoner bad been in the employ-
the prosecutor for over five years, and
it seemed his present was " to.. have been his last
trip. He received £l4 14s. on •.account of some
business matter, and it was alleged that he should have
paid that over to the agent in Liverpool, who is a nephew

ment of

of Mr. 11

his, he went back on Flic

id arrived on Saturday nig

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into his place before morning, and .on Sunday he was
arrested on the charge. Mr. Cobb' contended that the
prisoner had the power to retaid•wirat was due to him,
and after the examination and cross-examination of wit-
Mr. Cobb elicited something

course of whit

about'a

society of " black sheep," or some such Oilier
and then contended that there was no case

made out

;, as it was a disputed matter

in this view of the eas,

. His Worship
discharged the

prison(

THE NEW BUILDINGS IN DALE-STREET.—Mr. Wells,
who is erecting the uew buildings on.the site of the Old
George in Dale-street, was summoned at the suite of the
Health Committee, for allowing projections two feet six
inches in front in Dale-street, and one foot three inches
in Hackin's-hey, on the footway, contrary to the Act of
Parliament, which prohibited such projections in any
building, save shop fronts and doors. Mr. M.‘Gowan
appeare for the Health Committee, and Mr..Aspinall
(deputy Recorder) for the defence. The case lasted

about three hours, when, in all probability, 'about three
times as many minutes would have disposed of it, and
thus have saved the entire public business of the Court,
which was kept at a complete stand still all the

time. Forensic displays of eloquence (for it is a fact
that people who are paid for talking are extremely
fond of hearing themselves "give value for the money")
are excellent in their way, but when they impede all
public business—that's quite another affair. If, as Burns
says, "some power the gift would give us, to see ourselves
as others see us." The sequel is known. We make these
observations in consequeice of the public indignation
expressed by a large. number of persons who were kept

there vesteiclay (wli-o had business to do both there and
elsewhere), listening to very dry details about "-

architectiiral beaittie .and decorations
many other things too numerous to mention

projec-
NN-ith

After the

examination of some witnesses who swore there were
projections on the building, and some others who stated
that they did not consider there were projections on it,
and after learned speeches here and there, his Worship
said he would consider the case, and give judgment on
Saturday.

DIXON AND CASTELLA IN

Paddy -Muldoon, a- scion of the ancient house of the
Muldoon dynasty, charged Mr. John Mullins, a master
lumper, li‘ing at 17, Clarence-grove,Eveiton, with having

The defendant was supported against this catalogue of
offences by Mr. Cobb. The prince of the Muldoon
family, who certainly appeared to inherit all the pugna-
cious blood of all the other Muldoons that went before
him, and possibly some of that wbich may run in the veins of
those who may come'after him, stated that he had con-
descended to work for the defendant on board a ship,
although it was much against his inrlinatinn 4,

_ _ • AA Le L num.. Will to
work if he could avoid it—for he was related
to the Brady's who never did any work, only
smoking "backey and coorting ladies " On the
22nd of February, he stated that the defendant " kilt "
him " intirely," and after that ho " murdhered him as
- On cross-examination by Mr. Cobb,
Mr. Muldoon admitted that the defen-
f from the atta

dant only prot(

)t the said
snlisSed.

d of course the case was d

ILLEGAL WEIGhTS AND MEASURES
ston and Jones, of the weizhts and measures department,

Inspectors John-

trill

or havir

1 ' milssurE

been very active is pro.,

Mem]]

, and we trust that they will redouble their
) put a complete stop to this wholesale plunder
. Thu magistrates complimented the officers

Id trusted they would bring up all offender