Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-27 00:00:00

LIYERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE

BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD•

-Aiskums. —Police-ofileer Gray, 645, bYl3l.4ht up a
Carter, named Benjamin Edwards, on a Charge of having
assaulted him. The officer was taking a drunken man to
p_ridewell, when the prisoner interfered, and knocked
Aim. down. He was fined and costs.—John Pasago
Was charged with having violently assaulted his wife
Matilda. It appeared that the woman, previous to her
marriage with the prisoner, was what is called an
" unfortunate female," but that he knew the fact. Soon
after the marriage, he began to beat her terribly, an'! has
continued this course for some time past. At -last she
°"ame alarmed for her life, and on the previous night he
attacked her furiously, and inflicted severe wounds on her.
So she was, at last, induced to give him into custody.
s,ite was sent to gaol for six months, with hard labour.
The woman applied for a gold watch that the prisoner
had, and which the police took from him. It was ordered
to be given up to her.
ASSAULT BY A. FsmaL-E.—Mary Griffith, the keeper of
a beer-house in Stanhepe-street, was charged with having
committed a violent assault OR Jane Woods, the wife- of
a travelling hawker. Mr. Cobb defended. It appeared
that, the injured woman is at' present unable to attend,
and a s stated, she is lying in a state of great danger. It
seemed, from the evidence, that the complainant went into
tke house, and some altercation took place betireen her
and a young woman, something about a sixpence, and, as
the allegation was, the prisoner struck her, with
a bottle, on the head, inflicting a serious wound. Surgeon
Bennett said he had examined ° the wound. Superficially
it did not present any serious appearance, but, on ex-
amining it with, a probe, he found it was two inches long,
and that there were indications of a separation of the mem-
brane of the bone ; so that he could not tell, at present,
what the result might be. Mr. Cobb produced some
witnesses, but, after some discussion, it was agreed to let
the prisoner stand out on her own recognizance of £25,
to appear when the injured woman is able to come up.
THREATENING TO SHOOT. —Mr. Crosby, a respectable-
looking person, was charged with being drunk, and with
threatening to shoot a Mr, Scoffield. Mr. Bluck de-
fended. It appeared that the prosecutor is the land-
lord of some houses in Oxford-street, and that
Mr. Crosby lodged in one of these, but was
not Mr. Scoffield's tenant. The latter had to send
bailiffs into the house for a distress for rent, and, as he
Stated, he wanted Mr. Crosby to take away his things,
but he refused to do so, and produced a pistol, telling
him to take away the bailiffs, or else —. Mr. Bluck
'elicited that Mr. Crosby was, excited from drink, that the
pistol was an old rusty one, and was not charged. The
;prisoner was fined 5s for being drunk.
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STEALING PA.LX OlL.—William Walker, an old
'man, a gate-keeper, in the employment of Mr.
Lutwich, Pump-fields, and a young man named
Patrick Cosgrove, were charged for having stolen
five cwt. of palm oil, the property of Mr Griffiths,
soap maker,. Pump-fields. Mr. Black defended.
It appeared that Cosgrove was in Mr. 'Griffiths' employ-
ment, and that some nights ago he left, along with
another man, taking the oil on a hand cart. Walker,
who ,had the keys of the " fields," let them out; the
third man was not forthcoming. Mr. Black, in his
cross-examination of the witnesses, succeeded in getting
off Wa"

he other was sent for trial

TAXING A PLEDGE WITHODT LICENCE.—Joseph
Mathison, a musical instrument seller, 19, Shares-brow,

was summoned under the Pawnbrokers' Act, for taking a
pledge, and charging interest, without being licensed.
Mr. Tyndall appeared to prosecute for the inland revenue,
and Mr. Snowball defended. From the statement of Mr.
Tyndall, and the evidence of. a Mrs. Brooks, it appeared
that the husband of the latter was a musician, and in
July last he was in a dying state (and did die),
and she was in considerable pecuniary embarras-
Inent. She went to the defendant with a double bass
-fiddle and asked him to lend her £4 on it. After some
me, he agreed to lend her the money, but was to have
`.75. 6d. for the loan for thirty-one days. She signed a
'book for £4 7s. 6d. to be paid in thirty-one days. She
.v.fas not able to redeem it in the time, and he told her it
'was sold. Subsequently, after a great deal of trouble,
she got the instrument bank, but was obliged to pay the
defendant six pounds—that was two .pounds for the loan
of the four pounds, for about five months. The de-
fendant was fined £l2 10s., being a mitigation of the
full penalty of £6O.

BEFORE MESSRS. 3. E. SMITH AND HOUGHTON.
c CASE.--A sailor, named Holmes, summoned
aPtaia Garrick, of the ship Elizabeth,' for L 2 165., a
rr.mth,s
Ti Murphy Mr Cobb was for complainant, and
'• (of the out-door staff of the Local
,wine Board) appeared for the defendant. Mr.
Tv an
said he could not permit Mr. Murphy to act
as an advocate, unless he produced .his certificate as an
attorney. Mr. atteMurphysaid w it as his business to
n— th such cases. Mr. 117ybergh said it
laight be his business to attend to captains and ships, but
he was not,yet qualified to act as an advocate, and there-
fore he could not be heard as such. The complainant's
?-se, as stated by Mr. Cobb, was that he shipped as cook,
•, in the skip, and was on board from last Thursday to
Saturday, in the Birkenhead dock, bat came to Liverpool
an Saturday:evening, and-stopped until Monday morning,
”d when he went back the captain had a man shipped in
his Place. It was contended that he absented himself
'without leave and the case was referred to Mr. Mansfield,
"who, on hearing the whole of it, sent Holmes to gaol for
-seven days for absenting himself from the ship without
leave, and dismissed his claim for wages.

WEST DERBY BOARD OF . GUARDIANS.
The usual weekly meeting of this board was held
.yes-
Y, Mr. Mr. Wkitby in the chair. The other guardians
Present were—Messrs. Roberts, Shaw, Kirkus, Abrahams,
stone, Roscoe, Kawdsley, Morris, Parkin, J. Edwards,
and French.
The following .cheques were granted for out-door
relief Potts, £l3O ; Mr. Olney, £36 ; Mr. Lyth,
Tie Governor, Mr. Gough, reported that the number
of Paupers in the workhouse last week was 717 ; admitted
since, .10 ; born, 3 ; discharged 4,; dead, 2. The number
this week, 687, of whom 379 belonged to Toxteth-park ;
number in the corresponding week of last year, 722.
The proceedings of the Visiting Committee were read.
They contained a recommendation to grant Mr. Cutts,
schoolmaster, a gratuity of £3O.
Mr. Kirkus gave a notice of motien for this purpose.
The Committee resolved to give the following reply
to a communication from the Poor Law Board, in
reference to a new scheme of medical relief : " That
this board laving experienced the .effects of paying
extra fees to medical officers, cannot give their sanction
to any principle Which would re-introduce the system
which has been found to entail disagreement between the
:officers, and other inconveniences "
Mr. Kirkus moved that Mr. Cleaver be instructed to
;send this reply.
Mr. Stone seconded the motion, which was then carried.
The other portion of the proceedings were then con-
Armed.

Mr. Stone drew the attention of the board to the fact
that, he had been informed that Mr. Hall, the young
mau who had been appointed a short time since as clerk
at the hospital, had got married a few days after his
appointment. His wife, however, did not live with him,
but as.there was a motion on the books to appoint him
master of the hospital, it was for the board to say whether,
under these circumstances, they would promote him,
and, if they did promote him, whether his wife would be
allowed to live with him, as Hall was willing to pay the
board for her rations.

r On the motion of Mr. Shaw, the matter was referred to
the hospital committee.
Mr. Abrahams moved that the salary of Mr. Olney,
relieving officer, be advanced from £lOO to £l2O.
Mr French seconded the motion.

Mr. Kirkus said he did not like to see these applica-
tions coming, one after another, in so quick succession.
The advance given to Mr. Muskar had made a laughing-
stock of them. He had no doubt that Mr. Olney was a
good officer.
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After some discussion, the matter was put to the vote,
and the result was—three for, and four against the motion,
which was accordingly lost.
This concluded the business.

The Princess of Naples is at Vienna,
dukes have left Trieste.
GRosTs.—A certain young man who lately appeared
here as a military swell, had been paying his addresses
to a young nymph of the kitchen in a neighbouring
castle. "Whilst returning home one evening after having
paid his devours, and while passing through a small
plantation, he suddenly became conscious of a large white
object directly in his way, and which on his approach
began to dance and caper to the sound of unearthly
.music. To stop the whistling of the Rogue's March, to
spring over a hedge, and to scour across the fields like
a startled deer, was but the work of a moment. John
Gilpin would have had no chance. Over hedges and
ditches, fail dykes, and stone walls, the affrighted lover
ran, till reaching the cottage of peasant he rushed in
with breathless haste. After the uzual restoratives an
Investigation was made, but ndthing
%in the terrified sodger but that he iio.4 seen "a lang,
13euld be elicited
woman dancing and flying like a weaV't,,T'O
theonromecoach-road and keeping time to an unearthly !ler.
.say his hair flew off with the fright, and that his
penal has shuttle
are since turned to grey, but these statements
are, fully convinced, extravagant exaggerations.
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