The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-14 00:00:00

BEFORE MR. AIRIN.--MONDAY.

" A PET OF THE PETTICOATS Fleming was
charged with stealing a petticoat from Mary Price, a
dealer in provisions, having a stop at 64, Marybone,
and whose husband is the owner of spring carts. Mr.
Block defended the prisoner, who, it appeared, was
engaged in the potatoe trade in Marybone, in opposition
to the complainant. The facts of the case, as elicited by
Mr. Blink on cross-examination of the complainant
(whom the learned gentleman put into a towering
passion by the questions put to her), Were these. Smne
time ago the prisoner and prosecutrix lived with the
aunt of the latter. Mrs. Price got married, and, as she
alleged, the prisoner paid great attentions to her husband,
an•d he in return spent much of his time and money
on the said Bridget Fleming. This caused a very ill
feeling between them, and it was carried to such a
pitch that on Friday it came to a" crisis" when the
complainant assaulted the prisoner, and for this she
(the complainant) was summoned to appear on Tuesday
(this day.) On Saturday the prisoner was given into
charge by Mrs. Price for having s'olen a" linsey
woolsey" petticoat, ab•-ut three months before, but, as
Mr. Bluck alleged, this was done in order to prevent
the prisoner from appearing to sustain her case. He
repudiated the charge in strong terms, and said the
complainant had sworn what was not trne in order to
get herself out of the scrape. The prisoner was dis•
charted. [The complainant shortly after applied to
Mr. Block to engage him to defend her in the assault
case this day.]

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BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD
NICE MORSELS !—Anne Davis was charged under the
following circumstances. It appeared that the prisoner
and another woman, named Ellen Burke, resided in 19,
Court, Frederick street, and on Saturday night they had
a quarrel, when Davis caught Barke's nose in her
mouth, and nearly hit off theca organ." She is at present
in the Southern Hospital in a serious state. The prisoner
was remanded.

ANOTHER LOVER OF NOSE3.—A. giant of a fellow,
named Peter M'Ardle. was charged wiqt biting the nose
of a sailor named Oaks. It appeared that on Sunday
evening, the complainant was in the house of Mr.
Kendall, Waterloo road, when the prisoner entered, and
without any provocation he rushed at Osks and swore
he would eat the head off him, and proceeding to put his
threat into execution, he caught his nose in his mouth
and nearly amputated it He was sAlt to jail for two
months, wi'h hard labour.

ASSAULTS AND STABBING.—JOIIII Ro3hford, a boy about
thirteen years of age, was brought up ni a charge of
having put the life of another boy, named John Hughes,
of 28, Watkinson street, in great danger. Mr. Black
was for the prisoner. It appeared that on the 30;11
December, the boys, along with others, were playing in
a house, when the prisoner threw Hughes out and
injured his arm. He was taken to the Southern
Hospital, where Surgeon Garnett examined the arm and
said it was nut broken, and, subsequently, two other
surgeons gave a similar opinion. The boy was then
taken to Evan Thomas, who said the arm was broken, and
he had been under treatment since. The officer who had
the prisoner in custody, now produced a medical certifi-
cate, which stated that the injured boy would not live
long. Mr. Block said, the prisoner's father had paid all
the expellees of the injured lad, and it would be a ques-
tion how far the prisoner was the cause of the injuries.
The boy was admitted to bail for the present.—John
Murphy, a stevedore, was charged with having stabbed
Martin Murphy. On the night of the 27th December,
the parties had a quarrel in Simpson street, when the
prisoner drew a knife and inflicted a serious wound on
the complainant's abdomen. He was in considerable
danger for some time, and at present is in a serious
position. The prisoner was sent for trial, but on the
application of Mr. Muck, who defended him,
he was admitted to bail in two sureties of £5O each.
—Mary Williams, was charged with stabbing Jane
Greig. The parties were in Mr. Taylor's public house,
Hotham street, on Saturday night, when the prisoner
asked the complainant for some coppers, which she
refused to give, when the prisoner stabbed her in the
face in two places with a small knife. The wounds were
not very serious. The prisoner was sent to gaol for two
months.
Henry Greenwood, a watchmaker, was charged with
having assaulted Mr. William Benton, watchmaker,
Park road. The prisoner had worked for complainant
some time since, but left in the middle of a hurry of
business. On Saturday night he entered complainant's
house and demanded 45., which complainant said was
not due, and then the prisoner assaulted him. He was
fined £5 or two months' imprisonment.
Tau SCALDING IN MARYBONE. —John Garnett, and
John M'Gowen, who were remanded on a charge of
having thrown a kettle of boiling water on William
Eaton, which scalded him terribly, were brought up.
The facts of this oise have already appeared in our
paper. Mr. Bluck defended the prisoners. The evidence
already given was repeated, and in
,addition, Surgeon
Grimes detailed the injuries received by Eaton, and said
it was one of the worst cases of scalding he had seen,
and the man would not be able to do any work for
and s
another fortnight. Mr. Block made an able defence,
uceeeded in getting off his clients for an assault.
Garnett was fined £2, or in default of payment one
months' imprisonment, and 111‘Gowen £5, or two
the fi
monthnes were s' impripaid.sonment, The complainant to'get £2 if
James Campbell and Henry Chapman, the two Ameri-
cans, cliar.:ed with assaulting the cook and steward of
their ship, (a full report of which appeared in yester-
day's paper), were brought up and committed for trial.

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Wainwright, of Chorlton, near Chester, cattle salesman. it
that time the police had. only succeeded in tracing the two
calves and two sides of beef. For the former Jones was tried
and convicted at Cheater sessions hit week, but being strongly
recommended to mercy by his master, on account of hie (the
prisoner's) wife and Iwo children, he was sentence] to three
calender months imprisonment only. Jones gave information
to his master that he had left the cowhide, a sack, and a
quantity of offal with one- Hugh Parry (a most dissipated
character, continually hanging about the Birkenhead market
and slaughter houses), in conscquence of which enquiries were
made, and it was discovered that Parry had on the.2ad inst.
sold the hide to Messrs. Banks, of Gill street, Liverpool,
butchers, for .C 1 3s Id ; and although the hide could not be
_produced, the evidence of Edward Barker, in their employ,
and also a witness named James Benyon, who had been
employed by Parry to take the skin there, was sufficiently clear
to not only establish the identity, but that it had been taken
from the very place where Jones, the first named prisoner, said
he had left it. The prisoner, • who declined saying anything,
was then committed for trial.
A LUCKY DESURTFR —John Dickenson, who surrendered
himself as a deserter on the 30th ult., and on the following day
was remanded until the au,horities at the War Mee could be
communicated with, was again brought up, and the worthy
magistrate, addressing him, said he had received kletter from
the War department, stating that as he (the prisoner) was
inelligible for the military service, the Secretary of State for
War had requested him (the magistrate) to set him at
liberty, and at the same time to deliver him a certificate,
enclosed Wilt the letter, to prevent his being molested in
future as a deserter. The prisoner, who seemed quite taken
by surprise, then made a bow, and left the dock with a light
and easy step.
DISORDERLY PRosTrrurß.—Jane Jones, who has been
repeatedly before the Magistrates at this court, and but a few
days out of prison, was brought up charged with being drunk
and disorderly,-and soliciting prostitution. The offence being
proved, she was sent for the full term of three calendar months
with hard labour. Elizabeth Price, another of the same class
was also charged with a similar offence, and she, like her pre., decessor, being an old offender, but not quite so bad, was
sentenced to one calendar one with hard labour. They were
both Liverpool girls, a great number of whom come over nightly
and hang about the ferries, to pick up such as may happen to have
imbibed too much on the other side of the water. Many cases
of robbery of respectable parsons have been reported to the
police, and in some instances the parties committing the rob-
bery have been given into custody, when, however, they are
brought up before the magistrates on the following morning,
no person appears to support the charge, owing, no doubt, to
the shame it would lazing upon him if he did so, and the conse-
quence is that they are again let loose upon society, to fall
back upon their old haunts, and again commit similar offences.
The police loudly, and very justly, too, complain of the non
appearance of parties who give these unfortunate creatures in
custody, on account of their (the police officers) being required
at the court•on the following morning, after being on duty all
the previous night, thus depriving them of the few hours rest
to which they are entitled.