The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--SATURDAY.

LIVERPOOL.

A PUBLICAN FINED £s.—Mr. Robert Morass, the keeper
of a public house in Elliott-street, corner of Back Lime.
s rest, was charged by officer 303, with having violently
assaulted him. The constable said, at one o'clock in the
morning, he heard a noise at the corner of Lime-street,
and, on going to see what it was, he found the prisoner
quarrelling with two females of bad character. He advised
him to desist and go home, when the prisoner acted in a
very disorderly manner, atd struck him. A scuffle
followed, when the prisoner knocked him down, and
kicked him most severely, but particularly in the back of
the neck, which prevented him putting on his uniform
coat, and he was also off duty from the effects of the kicks.
This statement was corroborated by another officer, who
came up when the prisoner was kicking the officer on
the ground. In reply to the charge, Mr. Murass
said : I was knocking at my own door when
the females came up and attacked me, and I wanted to
get rid of them, when you came up, and, instead of assist-
ing me, you knocked me down and kicked me in the worst
manner. It was a most rascally piece of business on your
part. You came up, and I knocking at my own door in
Back Lime-street, when you assaulted me. Policeman :
No ; you were at the corner of Lime-street, fighting with
prostitutes, when I advised you to go away. Mr.
Mansfield : I fine you £5, or, in default of payment, two
months imprisonment. The fine was paid at once, Mr.
Murass saying, I will appeal against your decision, Mr.
Mansfield.
" CHARLEY IN TUB OAK !"—A youth, about 15 years old,
named Robert Lee, an apprentice to Mr. Hargraves, watch
case maker, School-lane, was brought up under the follow-
ing circumstances : —A policeman said he was attracted by a
crowd in London-road, and on going to see what it was about,
he saw the prisoner dressed as at present. (A most fantas-
tical Merry Andrew garment it was)—a thing of shreds and
patches that caused much laughter. He had a figure, or
image, or some such thing representing " Charley in the
oak," for which be was soliciting subscriptions, and as he
created a disturbance the constable locked him up. The
figure of the boy caused much laughter. He was cautioned
and given up to his mother amid some laughter. (What
would the Pendrills say ?)
ASSAULTS oN Tam POLICE.—John Hollerton, a wheelright,
living in Bootle-lane, was charged with having assaulted
police officer 377. The constable was on duty in the
above locality the previous night, and observed the pri-
soner " kocking about" for a long time, and on asking him
what he was about, he knocked him down, and kicked him.
The prisoner said he was at his own door when the police-
man accosted him. Mr. Mansfield said that was no reason
he should knock the policeman down. He fined the
prisoner £2, or in default of payment two months impri-
sonment.

Too _ Mum—Thomas Much, a car owner, residing in

Rose-place, was charged with having assaulted policeman
760. Mr. Bina defended the prisoner. It appeared that
the nephew of defendant was drunk, and had assaulted a

boy when the policeman went to arrest him. The prisoner
interfered, and was at last taken into custody. Mr.
Bluck, for the defence, submitted that his client had got
too much of the affair, and hoped that his worship would
consider the punishment that he had already received,
sufficient for the offence. His worship did so, and dis-
charged him.
John Canning was charged with assaulting policeman
654, in Park-lane. The policeman heard some noise in a
passage, and on going to ascertain what it was, the
prisoner rushed out and gave him a violent blow on the
forehead, which knocked him down, and left him insensible
for some time. Mr. Bluck defended the prisoner, and
called some witnesses for the defence. The prisoner was
fined 108 and costs.
THRIAT/OING SUICID E.—A respectably dressed young
man, of rather aristocratic appearance, whose name was
given as Richard Pool, and stated to be a native of 3lerion-
thshire, was charged by officer 654, for threatening to
destroy his life. The prisoner met the policeman at the
south bridge of George's dock, and asked him if he had
heard of an awful crime being committed ? He said no,
when the prisoner said he had. Seeing he was excited,
he asked him where he stopped, and he replied at an hotel
in Clayton square. Witness passed him to the next man
on duty, and so he was passed to the hotel, where he was
ordered to be taken care of. About half past eight he
again came to the witness, with a white coat over his arm,
and said the whole town was after him, and that his
character was destroyed ; and that he could not stand it
any longer, and he would therefore put an end to his life,
and it was all the fault of the white coat. He then locked
him up as a dangerous person He was clearly labouring
under some great excitement. He was remanded for
seven days.
STREET ROBB BBL —OLIVER CAPTURE.--William Sin-
gleton, aticket-of-leave man, James Kerwan, and Catherine
Doherty alias Kerwan, were charged by detective offi,ere
Povey, Thompson, and M'Culloch, with having robbed a
German named Julius Hartz, of a purse and £B. The
officers said about half past eleven on Friday night, they
saw the prisoners, whom they knew to be bad characters,
loitering about the top of Dale street. They watched them
into the entry at the Royal Bank. whore they stood for a
short time, and then the female crossed the street and spoke
to the German, who was passing at the time. One of the
officers watched the female, and the other two remained
near the men, and almost as soon as the woman had spoken
to the German, he (the German) seized her, and called for
assistance, saying she had robbed him of his purse and £B.
The woman cried out, " Bill, Bill, come to me," when one of
the officers rushed towards her, and she, thinking it was
one of her accomplices, cried out, "Here, Bill, knock down,
this ruffian who has insulted me." She was very
quickly shown that it was not her "Bill," but
one of the officers, who had clawed her
in his clutch, and she made most terrible efforts to get
away, but all to no use. As soon as she cried out "Bill,"
the two ruffians who were at the other side of the street
rushed out of the Bank:entrance, when they were grasped
by the other two officers, and all three marched to the
central station in Dale-street, and as they got inside the
door, the woman dropped the purse of the German, which
was picked up by an officer who saw her dop it The
police said the prisoners were three of the most desperate
characters in Liverpool. The ticket.of-leave man had
been transported for seven years in 1853, but a-A out on
his ticket, The prisoners were sent for trial. (When will
this ticket-of-leave system, which is a positive disgrace to
the English laws, be done away with ? In every outrage
of more than ordinary atrocity committed in the three
kingdoms, there is always found a " ticket-of-leave" man )
SERIOUS STABBING CASE. well MOW:Mille, a tall
powerfal young fellow, dressed as a sailor, was charged
with having stabbed William Allison in Hill-street, Park.
Policeman No. 610, said, about one o'clock in the morning
the prisoner called him in Hill-street, and said I have been
stabbed, will you take me to an hospital. He saw the
man was bleeding, and he took him to the - Southern
Hospital. On the way he endeavourd to get some infor-
mation from him as to who had inflicted the wounds, or
how the affair took place, but he could obtain nothing from
him. When they entered the hospital Surgeon Garnett
was found dressing some wounds on another man, and that
man on turning round and seeing the prisoner, at once
exclaimed, " that's the man who stabbed ms ;" and after
the surgeon had dressed both the wounded men, the pri-
soner was locked up on the charge. The complainant
said he was parting with a friend the previous night, and
in Hill-street they went into a public-house to have a glass
of ale. The prisoner came in and asked him for
some ale, which he refused as he had never seen
him before. When he left the house the prisoner was
outside the door, and without saying a word he
stabbed him in several places with a small sha-p
knife. Mr. Garnett, the surgeon, who dressed the
wounds of complainant, said there was one on the right
cheek seven inches long, one on the left side of the face
five inches long, and one under the right ear two inches
long. These were very serious wounds, but yet he did
not anticipate any fatal results from them. The prisoner
had two incised wounds on his cheek. The prisoner was
asked if he wished to say anything, but he did not reply,
and all the time observed rigid silence. He was sent to
the assizes for trial.

ALLEGED SMUGGLING.-Mr. Tyndall, solicitor to the
Customs, appeared to prosocate a Chinese, named Mon
Von, for having attempted to smuggle twelve pounds of
foreign made tobacco. The prisoner was connected with
the ship Carlisle, and the Custom officers found the tobacco
in his room. He was remanded.
" SWEEPING" IMPUDENCE.—CACTION TO " GENTLEMEN IN
BLACK"—& master sweep, named Bennett, who lives
in Skilhorn-street, was charged under the following cir-
cumstances :—A policeman said he saw the prisoner
leaving the Adelphi Hotel about five in the morning, with
a large bag full of something, and on examining him, he
found it contained bread, beef, cheese, butter, and a variety
of other good things ; and as the prisoner refused to give
any account of it, he locked him up. Mr. Radley said the
prisoner had an arrangement for the sweeping of the hotel
chimneys, and, from some cause or other, he came to the
conclusion that, under the arrangement. he was entitled to
enter the hotel at any hour (day or night) and sweep any
chimney he pleased. He (Mr. R.) understood that he was
in the habit of calling at all hours of the night, telling the
night porter that he had arranged to sweep this and that
chimney. He also understood that he was in the habit of
going into the kitchen and other pieces in the absence of
servants at unreasonable hours, and carrying off every sort
of meat and other provisions that he could lay hands on.
Coats, hats, spons, and other things had been missed now
and then. He wished to teach the prisoner a lesson, and to
show him he had no right to enter the hotel whenever he
liked to do so. It was not for the value of the provisions that
was found on the prisoner that he cared about, or wished