The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

LIVERPOOL
BEFORE MR ALDERMAN HOLME.

NINETY PER CENT —A woman, named Catherine
Mulvey, who carries a basket in St. John's Market, was
charged with being drunk and disorderly. It appeared
that with prisoner had been no less than ninety times in
jail. Mr. White, one of the relieving officers of the
parish, said, the prisoner was a great nuisance, in conse-
ipence of her applications for relief. She was sent to

jail for tso months.
ROBBERY IN A BRIDEWELL.—A young woman, named
Ellen Fcrd, was charged with being drunk and disorderly.
She was an old offender, and whilst in Bridewell, she
stole a shawl from another female who was loc':ed up.

She was Fent for trial at sessions.
THE BURGLARIES BY TICKET OF LEAVE
Taylor, Daniel M'Cann, Mary Tierney, and Catherine
Maysten, who were remanded on charges of having
broken into a china shop in Dean street, and a public
house In Rose hill, and for stealing property therefrom,
were brought up. It • may be remembered, that the
houses alltided to were broken into seine time towards
the end of February, and robbed of property, a portion
of which was fund in the prisoners lodgings in Paul
street. The evidence being perfect, the prisoners were
fully committed for trial.
A MIRACLE PERFORMED BY " GENERAL" KENNEDY
THE POLICE OFFICER.—Rose Hammond, a stout, robust
female, of thirty years
:of age, who had a child in her
arms, was charged by detective officer Kennedy under
the following strange circumstances:—He was going up
Pitt street on Saturday evening, when his attention was
attracted by one of the most pitable obj- ets he had ever
beheld. miserable and most wretched of all
apparent human beings, was supporting herself (for it
was a female) on two crutch's, an I seemed o have lost the
use of her legs and arms, and she had the tchild strapped
upon her chest in a most ingenious manner. She was
dressed in widow's weeds, and he really never saw such
an object in the course of his professional experience.
After a few scrutinising glances he imagined that there
was something wrong, and he watched her from Pitt
street to Park lane. From her movements he considered
that she belonged to a gang of begging imposters from
Ben Jonson street, and after watching her for some time
he took her into custody. The story told about Robin
Hood, who
Nipped the dumb and made them roar,
The blind he made to see,
And cripples also, that on orutches did go,
He made them run hastily !
This last operation was performed to great perfection by
Kennedy, for no sooner had his magic hand touched the
shoulder of the prisoner. (for it was her) th in 'she flung
away the crutches and darted-off at a speed that nearly
defied the nimble legs of 'Kennedy to overtake her, and
from the wretched being which she presented a few
seconds before, she was soddenly changed into a brave
bouncing widow ? In consequence of K-nnerly's miracue
lons touch, it was considered by his worship that she
would be enabled to bear a month's hard labeur on the
mill, and she was sent to prison for that period.
GLARING OUTRAGE—ROBBERY OF A CASH BOX AND
£72.—Detective officer M'Culloch, brought up a well
dressed young fellow, named James Johnston, charged
with beir.g concerned in the following gross outrage and
robbery. It appeared that on Wednesday afternoon, two
persons went into the public house of Mr. Coombes,
Grenfield street, Edge Hill, and called for some bitter
ale, and, whilst the neice of Mr. Coombes was getting it,
one of them leaped over the counter, took the cash box
out of a drawer, and ran off with it. The box contained
£72 in cash, with some papers and a lease. The prisoner
was arrested by the officer on suspicion of being one of
the persons. He was found in a lodging with others who
are now in custody, on a charge of having robbed the
Edge lane hotel of a cash box and about £5O. The facts
of the case connected with the latter robbery, we have
published a day or two since. It appears that the gang
consisted of four ruffians (swellmobsmen from Manchester),
who came down to patronise the races. A Mrs. Hackett,
whs wao at the corner of Q' teen street, near Mr. Coombes'
public house when the cash box was stolen, stated that
about half past five she heard a noise behind her, and
turning round, she saw two fellows running, one of whom
had the cash box in his band; and whilst running, he
handed it to the other, and she was almost cure the per--
son who received it was the prisoner. Mr. Clough asked
for a remand, which was granted, es he said he might be
able to procure more evidence in the case.
Sranetero llndsen was charred with having
stabbed Richard Webster in Ormond street. The prisoner
was drunk on Saturday night, and had some dispute
with a y Jung woman in the street, whom he handled very
ronehly. She called on the complainant for protection,
and he got her away from the prisoner ; the latter then
followed the complainant, and stabbed him in the hand
with a large pen knife.' The wound was rather serious.
The prisoner, who pleaded drunkeness, was sent for
trial.

THE EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLF RK. John James
O'Brien, late a clerk in the Dundalk Stearn Packet
Office, was brought up on remand, charged with having
embezz'ed £64 1 Is, the monies of his employers. Mr
Black defended the prisoner. --The prisoner was in the
custody of officer Laycock, who, in addition to what he
stated on Saturday, said the prisoner told him, when he
took him into cus ody, that he did take the money, and
that he was induced to do so by getting into bad com-
pany. In reply to Mr. Bluck, he said he believed the prisoner
had informed the prosecutor that he had taken the
money. Mr. James Meldge, the agent of the company,
said the duly of the prisoner was to receive freight for
Cattle and dead weight goods. His duty in reference to
the cattle freight was to collect it at once, and return it
to witness. In regard to the dead weight freight, he
was to return it every week, after deducting drawbacks.
Over a week since, he received a note frem the prisoner,
staling that he was deficient in his cast to the amount
of £55, and offering to pay it at a pound a week. He
sent for him and got a list of the sums, which amounted
to about £64, so that his statement was nearly correct.
There was no charge against the prisoner for the
cattle freight, but for the freight of dead weight goods.
Mr. Pugh, of the Lancashire Railway Company, proved
having paid several sums of money to Mr. Carroll, the
assistant clerk of the prisoner, and Mr. Carroll proved hav-
ing paid these sums to the prisoner. Mr. Metdge proved
that he did not receive the sums stated. Mr. Block ably
cross-examined Mr: Metdge and Mr. Carroll, in order to
show that there were certain sums to which the prisoner
was entitled to take credit, and that Mr. Carroll was
indebted to the prisoner, an i he (Mr. Carroll) admitted
that he had paid, in mistake, some two or three pounds,
which he believed the prisoner had paid for him. His
worship said these matters might he useful at the trial,
as he was determined, having no other course to adopt,
to send the prisoner for trial. The prisoner was com-
mitted accordingly.
BEFORE MR J. R. JEFFERY.

DESPERATE STREET RoBE E`RT. Taomas May was
bmught up on the following charge. The prisoner
was a fierce-looking Train, and his act was quite
illustrative of his appearance. It appeared from
the evidence given, that on Sunday morning last, a
person named James Field, who resides at 18, Drury
Lane, was in Dale street, returning home after purchas-
ing a pair of boats for 24s and also two pounds of tobacco.
Near the top of Stanley street he was accosted by the pri-
soner, and after a second or so, he (the prisoner) gave
complainant a blow which felled him to the ground.--
and then the prisoner pulled out complainant's watch,
and "tried to get away with ir. The boots and tobacco
were lost in the conflict, and the watch was picked up
by a young man and woman, who were passing, and who
assisted the complainant to arrest the prisoner. His
worship said, the case was a very plain one, and he would
commit the prisoner for trial at the assizes.
COINING.—John Staunton, Pat Lee, and Mary Curtis,

were charged by officer Thompson, with belonging to a
gang of.coiners. The parties were arrested in 6 court,
Dryden street. with a large quantity of base coin ii their
possession. They were taken into custody immediately
aftei' destroying the moulds and other apparatus for the
fabrication of the ipurio.;s coin. The prisoners were
'committed.

A TRAGEDY AT HAMBURG,—A serious crime was perpa,
trated at Hamburg a few days ago. As a young woman
servant to the din ctor of the St. George's theatre in that
city, was at work in her Twister's kitchen, a man suddenly
rushed in, threw her down, and placfn.; a pistol at her
breast pulled the trigger; but at the same moment she
pushed his hand aside, and the ball missed her. He then
sized a long sharp pointed knife which happened to be
lying on the table, and stabbed her t vice in the back,
twice in the breast, and three times in other parts
of her person ; he afterwards cut his own throat.
The cries of the • yeung woman having attracted some
persons to the spot, they were both found lying in a
pool of blood, and immediately conveyed to the hospital.
There it was' ascertained that the female's wounds
witie mortal, and on being questioned she stated the preced-
ing facts. The man, she sail, was a journeyman carriage
mz ker, who bad long paid his addresses to her, and to whom
she had been betrothed. But having learned that his con.
Ouct was not regular, she bad determtued to break off with
hm, and bad that very morning sent hick to him the ring
which she had received on their betrothal. As to the man,
his wound was found rof to be mortal, but after it had been
dressed he attacked his attendant, and became so turioNs
that he had to be placed in a straight waistcoat. He says
that the young woman richly descried what she had got for
the manner in which she • had treated him. The young
woman expired soon after her atrival at the hospital.