Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-26 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—YestaiIay,

BEFORE MR. MANEFIELD.

Tarn JOLLT CA:I3:dEN. - John Ilimixiington, cab-twner and
driver, and beerhouse-keeper, queen's-square, was charged
with being. drunk and not able to manage his car in
Copperas-hail. The prisoner said the charge was false,
that he was as sober as any judge. The bridewell-keeper
who tool the charge, said the prisoner was quite drunk
when brought to the station. In reply to his Worship, the
biidewell-keeper said the prisoner has been there eighteen
months ago on a similar charge. Mr. Mansfield :He is
fined ss, and let him be reported tt the Watch Committee,
who no doubt will deal properly with his badge. —Richard
Evans, another car driver, was 'charged with being drunk
and furious driving in Berry-street. This fellow was also
fined. ss, and to be reported to the Watch Committee.
Norma TO GENTLEMEN.—MT. J. E. Norwood, an Ameri-
can gentleman, stopping at the Adelphi, charged "a great-
looking" female named Mary Anne Leichin, for having
stolen a bill for 420
,dollars, -and £8 in gold from him. Mr.
Cobb defended. It appeared that the complainant went
out of the hotel the previous evening, between eight and
a wal';, and going up Mount-pleasant,
at the corner of Newington, two men hustled up against
him, when the prisoner rushed at him, put her hand in
his pocket, took out his book with the money and
,-,,,pnting him following her.

nine o'clock, to t

Some time after, along with a policeman, she was sighted,
Ind then she ran away followed by the officer, and after a

he got into a brothel in Hotham-street
ippeared also, that she had in the meantime changed her
clothes and put on a wig, so as to disguise herself. The
veral cross-examination of Mr. C

)bb was as to the identity of
the prisoner, but the gentleman swore positively to her.
There was only ss. found on her. Mr. Cobb contended that
there was no case to go to a jury, but his Worship thought
different, and sent the prisoner for trial. [lt appears that
there is a gang of men and women who lurk about hotels
at dusk, and "don" gentlemen about and rob them, as in

the above instar.

The police

iian, was brought up 'by
) of having committed an
girl, named Anne Doyle, sixteen years

on 1.
qason, 516, on a cha
it assault on a

namel (

of age. The affair took place in Poplar-street, and being
Fully proved, the prisoner was sent to gaol for six

months,

A HORRIBLE AfOUTRFULL.—A sailor, named Robert Bell,
was charged with having bitten the nose of a man, named John
M‘Donnell. Mr. Bluck defended. From the evidence of three
or four witnesses, it appeared that, on the previous evening,
the complainant was in Park-lane, when he was attacked
by the prisoner and another man, and knocked down, when
the prisoner bit the nose off M•Donnell, and flung it on the
street. Mr. Bluck said, after such evidence, he would net
offer any observation. The prisoner was sent for trial.
A FRIGHTFUL KNIFE.—John Cook, an Anglo-Yankee,
was charged with having made a promise to take the head off
one Edward Starkey, a boarding-housekeeper, at 3, Fulton-
street, which promise he was prevented from putting into
execution by several and " divers" men, women, and chil-
dren, who risked their heads, and who now appeared in
court to support the charge. The knife, with which the
prisoner threatened to "do the deed," was exhibited, and
it certainly was a frightful-looking implement ; it was over
two feet long, and about four inches broad. The prisoner
was committed for a month. -

BEFORE MESSR

DIXON AND HUTCHISON,

THE MYSTERIOUS COTTON CASE.—The case of the cotton
alleged to have been stolen from the ship E. W. Sewell, a
full report of which appeared in our paper of Monday
iy, before the above
In addition to the

gistrates, in the
)risoners, Andrew Hart,

Central Court

John T]

was brought up in custody, on a charge of being concerned
in the alleged plunder. Mr. Deighton (barrister), instructed
by Mr. Cobb. appeared for Hart ; Mr. Black was for Davis
(the chief mate), and Mr. Snowball appeared for Tracey.
The case for the prosecution was conducted by Mr.
Inspector liehoe. The evidence given in the case was just
the same as on Saturday, but the case was very much more
clouded than it was on that day. It is said that a hard
case would take a Philadelphia lawyer to unravel. And
although Alexander the Great . cut the gordian knot by a
" wipe" of his sword, it would have taken 150 Philadelphia
lawyers, and two or three dozen of Alexanders to have
unravelled this. case. The only things that were at all
ible in the whole proceedings were, that the ship came
here with cotton. That was fact No. 1 ; fact No. 2
was that the ship was discharged and "jerked." The
third fact was that the captain gave permission to have the
"sweepings" of the ship taken away;. and the next fact
was that Mr. Robert Clough, the chief superintendent of
police, and Mr. Kehoe, the chief inspector, and Mr. Mawds-
ley, an ordinary inspector of police, and several police-
constables, with the help of the legal gentlemen at all sides,
made such a "mess" of the whole case, that the worshipful

Jeedinas from beginUing to
nd. 'Of course, their Worships having got into the mud
knf In.,

;ion that wrx

it in the best way they could, and that was by sending all
the parties for trial, although our reporter adds that, they

iv elson's

fonument

any of the prisoners, no more than tbere was against the

genuity of Mr. Kehoe and his colleagues, the ratepayers of
Liverpool are put to expense in this prosecution, which,
before a jury of men of ordinary intellect, cannot stand a
second. Does not this case call loudly for magistrates who
know the law, and for a public prosecu
even presumed to have read some of . ---
public time was taken up in this case for. about four hours.
Truly Chapel-street law wants reforming—Rather!
CHARGE AGAINST A BROKER.—Thomas Kelly. a broker.

Jr, who might bE

statute

at 16, Greetham-street, was charged, udder the Pawnbrokers
act, with taking some chairs, and a clock, and other things
in pledge, from Sarah Anne Crow, the wife of a painter, of
43, Atherton-street. Mr. Tyndall appeared for the Crown.
Mrs. Crow appeared very reluctant to give evidence, but
subsequently she stated that she pledged chairs with the

defendant in January last, for which
in the shilling. The case had pr
was found that a witn

ly charged her 4d

eeded sOme way when it

s, who had been summoned, wa!

absent, and a warra

na the case w

adjourned to this day

FE SMOKE NUISANa

&P PEAL

AGAINST THE .MAGISTRATES
JUDGM

lIOUGIITON AND PREI

At the Polk

Court ye itera

after the usual routine

u:1-:mess naa oeen disposed of, Mr. M`Gowan, on the part of
the health committee, requested that those cases in which he
was immediately concerned should be heard, which was
consented to on the part of the bench, and likewise by
Mr. Wybergh, the clerk to the magistrates, and they were
nrcirprapd 3v;fl,

•-lane, who

volumes of

In introducin

he was

h with

aza

le of the r

I manufacturers of tl

town. 1

manutael
by the di

he regretted to say, would not take warning
that had 'already been given, and some of
already been fined were • still the offenders,
b, as. he would show, the gross carelessness

them who had

and that thro
of tho T

sons ill their employ, for it would be found that

in all the c

ses, their machinery and their works were in
ld that the inspector had more than once shown

le should, on behalf of the health com-

nuttee, press for a full penalty, and in doir
only acting on the part of the health comraitt(
nail, the inspector of at
the (

Mr. Wi

and he proved that on the
volumes of smoke issuing from the defen
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that they

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