The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-09 00:00:00

A YOUNG RUFFIA.N.

At the Mansion House Police Court, London, on
Tuesday, George Hall, an errand boy, 13 years old, was
charged with stabbing Moss Woolf, a lad 10 years of age,
belonging to the Jewish persuasion. Moss Woolf said
On Saturday morning last. I was passing through St.
James's Place, Iloundsditch, accompanied by a friend,
named Moss Lewis, when we observed the prisoner
standing there, minding a van, and just as we got up to
him he spoke to us, saying, " I had a piece of pork, and I
stuck it on a fork, and I gave it to a Jew thief." I took
no notice of that, but when we had got a little further he
said it again, and I then turned round, and slapped
his face. As I was turning round to walk away,
he struck me in the side, just below my ribs, and
when he drew his hand away I felt that I was cut. He
had plunged a knife in my side, but I had not before
noticed a knife in his hand. The wound bled a good deal.
and upon going to the doctor's, he ordered me to go- home
at once and keep in bed. I did so, and have not been out
again till to-day. The knife went through my coat,
waistcoat, shirt, and flannel. Moss Lewis corroborated
the evidence of the preceding witness. Mr. N. J. Camer-
salt, surgeon, 4, Castle-street, Houndsditch, said he
examined the lad Woolf on Saturday, and found him
suffering from an incised wound in the left side, about
a quarter of an inch long, and an inch deep, and at
the same time he was shown the clasp knife now pro.
dueed, the blade of which exactly fitted the wound.
Fortunately it had glanced upon the false ribs, and
which most likely saved the boy, as otherwise it must have
penetrated the abdomen, and cost him his life. Very
great force must have been used to inflict such a wound,
which still gaped very much. The prisoner ( who cried
all the time) said he was very sorry for what he had
done, and humbly begged the lad's pardon. Woolf's
father said he did not wish to carry the case further, but
the Lord Mayor expressed his opinion that tho prisoner
ought to be committed for trial, and remanded him for a
week.

THE DIFFICULTIES WITH MEXICO —The followina; is
is an extract from a private letter, dated Vera Cruz, Dae.
5, received per Africa :—" The difficulties with your
Government have been'settled, and Mr. Letson has resumed
diplomatic relations with our Gavernment. The Spanish
question, after the retirement of O'Donnell at Madrid, is
considered likely to be settled by General Narvaez, on the
basis adopted by the Spanish Charge d'Affaires here, lately
recalle I by O'Donnell."
HoNzszv REWARDED !—On Thund oy night last, a young
woman, named Eliz obi-Ith Bray, of Bowling. near Bradford,
stumbled over a hard substance at the end of Ebor street,
Little Horton lane, Bradford, and stooping, she picked up
a bag, which, on examination, was found to contain a large
sum of money. She was accompanied by a young man,
named Ambler, who took possession of the bag, On inquiry
it was found that Mr. Sutcliffe, a cattle dealer, had lost the
bag and its contents, amounting to £3,000 in gold, notes,
cheques, &c. Ambler waited on Mr. Sutcliffe, with the bag,
and was " rewarded" with £3. An intimation was next
forwarded to the Bradford police office to the effect that if
Elizabeth Bray called upon Mr. Sutcliffe She would also be
rewarded. On Saturday the young woman called, and re-
ceived as her reward the handsome sum of ten shillings
DETERMINED SUICIDE AT WOOLWICH.—A frightful
occurrence took place at Woolwich Dockyard on Monday.
One of the labourers employed in the chain testing
department arrived at his place of labour at seven o'clock
a.n3., and was the first man to whom a ticket war; ellivered.
He proceeded towards the (lain wharf, where, standing
between the posts of the marine sentry and the police
constable on duty, he was seen to draw a clasp knife
deliberately from his pccket, with which be inflicted a deep
wound in the region of the heart. Immediately withdrawing
the weapon and casting it on the ground, he plunged head
foremost into the Thames. It being high water at the
lime, the body was not discovered wet the tide had
receded, when it was found embedded in the soil of the
river, six hours and a half after its immersion. Circum-
stances which have been elicited relative to deceased's state
of mind leave no doubt that he was purely irresponsible for•
the act. His wife had observed for some days past that
his manner was more than ordinarily remarkable, and had
questioned him in the evening on the subject. The fact
of a brother in-law having committed self destruction last
week is supposed to have preyed severely on his mind,
and probably produced a relapse of insanity, for which
disease he had some time back suffered confinement in a
lunatic asylum.