Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-23 00:00:00

was about
He

Two or three times

,ontinued striking me for fifteen minutes or half an hour.
He told me to get up, but I could not. He stopped for
times between each blow. When I let go I fell on the
deck, but, don't know where, as I lost my senses. I don't
know if I fell on anything in the descent. Was hurt im
the hip, back, and sides, and am not able to stand since.
I have felt hurt inside ever since. Cross-examined by Mr.
Snowball : It is fourteen feet from where I was to the
and he was on the royal yard. I fell
soon as he struck me the las; time. He
climbed up to me. My hands were very greasy.
I did not refuse to go up. I had been up before dinner for
half an hour, but the mast was not finished. He told me fir
go up and finish it, but I could not get up as high as he
wanted me. To Mr. Mansfield : I am a native of New
York. He beat me because I could not get up higher. I
could not do so, because my hands and feet were greasy-.
To Mr. Snowball : The masts are greased once a fort—
night or three weeks. Francis 'Weldon, a black seaman,
stated about the same sort of evidence as the complainant,
and said he saw the prisoner flog him with the rope until
he fell. He struck against the braces in his fall. To Mr.
Snowball : I told the same to the magistrate before now.
The prisoner struck. him on the left hand. The strik—
ing

royal yard,

lasted about three quarters of an hour before the
man fell. I. was looking at him all the time.
To Mr. Clough The man was bleeding out of his nose
Ind mouth after the fall. He was carried into the forecastle
five,. and remained there till ten, wherz
)olice came and took him to the hospital
31in thc mean time. • To Mr. Mansfield
board at the time. Mr. Snowball said the
ship had gone to sea that morning, and the prisoner was

No doeto

IT anct

_refore deprived of his witnesses. We are
not done yet with witnesses. William Henry, a black
-man on board, was examined, and he proved generally-
4soner. beat the complainant until he fell. This
witness said the beating lasted three-quarters of an hour,
anu ne Mow him.
him beat on the• legs and shoulders, antilnenSlN
the hands. The man asked the prisoner not to beat
him any more, as he could not get up higher, and
the prisoner said he must get up higher. Saw him fall, and
saw him speechless after that, and saw him bleed, and blood
on the deck. This witness said the man was removed about
seven or eight o'clock, but he could not speak or move.
Co Mr. Snowball : The witness said he was lookinc, on for
three quarters of an hour, and the prisoner climbed up
after the man. John Warren, a rigger, who was on board
a ship near the Samaritan, was examined. His evidence
we published already in full. It was a general corroboration
of the evidence above given. Officer 262, was examined
-go brought the injured man from the ship to the hospital.
iced him what caused him to fall ? lie said • the second.
vyqs all he said, but moaned•very much.

Mr. Cloligh

that the p:

Northern Hospital said there was con-
and the man would probably recover
. There was no dislocation of the hip.
It might be. several weeks, perhaps months,. before he re—
covered. Mr. Snowball then addressed the Court, and.
contended that all the witnesses varied in their state—
ments, and therefore were not entitled to credit. He
denied that the prisoner had . hit the man at all..
He went up after the man, and it was probable he
fell from the greasy state of his hands and boots,
and not from a blow-. He was sorry to say the ship was
that he• was deprived of his witnesses. He
a that there was not a power in the British law to
Americans to attend as witnesses ; but, as there

mission of the

in the course of time

mer was deprived of his defence

1, and contended that there was no intention,
- -
on the part of the prisoner, to injure the man. Mr.
nsfield, after reviewing the evidence, sent the prisoner
kill the

_ comes out every morning at five o'clock,
to say that we could not, in less than a shilling's worth of
cheap literature, give the same adventures - although our
paper furnishes more, in one clay, than all the cheap .
literature " that ever existed, past, present, and to come,— ,
yet we cannot tell the tale of Mr. Tommy Kinsella. It °
appeared that Mr. Collins, who had, according to his own rin
account (that is, to his friend Mr. Kinsella), sailed round '1
the world ten times oftener than the tide, and had seen, in Vaca.:steres, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN TIM
these voyages, every place from the corner, of the Prince's Civil, Senvicz.—The Board of Trade : Lord Lovaine,
dock to the centre of Whiteehapel (and all willadmit that there Vice-President of the Board of Trade, has appointed Mr_
were fearful seas to encounter) did induce the County W. Emerson Tennant, to be his private secretary. General.
Wicklow gentleman to give him all iha-money he had,. to Post-office :- Mr. George Lupton has resigned his appoint-
wit -4s - for a chain that once belonged to the favourite ment in. the Money Order Office, St. Martin's-le-Grand.
wife of the Kim, of the Island of PARLEY VOO PRONG SEE, Committee of Council on Education: An inspectorship of
but at last I‘l7. Kinsella found Out that it was worth, schools for Scotland has become vacant by the death. of Mr.
vice con-
according to Mr. Cloughs estimation of the lady who had
worn the chain, and the chain its-elf, about a souilkeen, sulship at Caen, in France,. has become vacant by the pro-
Daniel Scrymgeour. Foreign Department : The
which is au imaginary coin, between a farthing and a motion a Mr. .P. Hodgson to the consulship of Hakodadi,
halfpenny. It is utterly needless to add, that during the ItiPßOZpall.
PERITT IN LANCAsiURE,
,- For some months past we
time this case occupied the court,. that the people were in a
continued roar of laughter, and at the end Mr. Duffer hive had an amount of activity in the staple manufacture
bj of our district quite unprecedented in our commercial annals.
Collins was put bye until he can be tried by aury of his
In consequence of the unusually good demand for our local
countrymen.all the viciaal mills are at present running. Build-
TILE ADVENTURES or TWO: " MUFFS."—Eirerybody has produce,
i
heard of a " muff," but nobody seems to understand rightly ng, rebuilding, or enlarging, seems the order of the day.
what at means. The most interesting story we know of that Carts loaded with timber, with stone, and other requisites
o
sort of an article is told by Fielding in " Tom Jones"—ex.f the architectural art ; lumbering drags, freighted with
consequent upon some
respect- i every description of cotton machinery, are almost daily
cept that which now is presented to the public. A
to be seen traversing the highway. The steam engines are
able looking man, 'named. Richard Roberts, about 30- years
kept to work at some of the neighbouring villages some two
of age, who was described as the captain and half owner of
a ship, the name of which did not transpire, was brought hours longer than usual, and nothing seems so much to be
hapless s,mash aemohnegsttheel gearing, as such contingencies
at. a premium in fact, and in some
ptehreamti.v es
Thereare at
is
up on a charge of having stolen a lady's muff, value dreaded as an unwelcometh stoppage,
£2 10s, the property of a Mrs. Mary Dwyer. The
pr 6 genthe faeries machinery ::dtlewfao
freuent
in goodcorn dwemannd,
case was very curious, as will be seen by the following report.
Ir-1 t)evaa.n t ofO
Mr. appeared for the prisoner. Mrs. Mary Dn-yer, ft
a respectable looking person about 27 years of age, nicely
a feeline• of satisfaction throu
dressed, and altogether a fady in appearance, stated that ghout the district at the aspect
ros ect of trade, the
she lived at Birkenhead. Mr. Bluck : Where at Birken- and fi p
the, threateningprospect being slightly marred by
head, mam- ? At Ilif;her Tranmere. She went on
Ito state is also as appearance of European diplomacy. There
that, on Monday nirht, she called at Mrs. Roberts'sb uccrer- _. _ _
_. pint of contentment pervading our busy villages.—
ht hoc so
Observer.
house, in Key-skeet, to see Miss Roberts ; shie rlof ~ .
Su
her muff with b er, and on entering the house, temE OP A LA,DT or prtopEßTy.—An inquest wrs hela
on the kitchen table. The prisoner and some other. persons
_before Mr. Raines, coroner, at Warwick on Friday, touching-
were there, :find after remaining some time, she missed Ler the lamentable death of a lady possessed of considerable
muff; she inquired for it, and several persons who were property, and residing at Sow Fields, near Coventry. It
in the &Ace said it was all right, anhd some__ P!'rs9l:l Pointed appears that certain -family matters latterly affected
to the 'prisoner, and she observed t 0 muff
.in his breast, mental disposition, and for a time she visited Ithyl, in.
She 'went over to him and put her hand on it, and saw it North Wales ; but that visit proving ineffective, she Joined.
wfas there. About half-past ten
Roberts,'Clock she went to the I Miss Hines, at Oaken Cottage„near Warwick. On Wednes-
lauding-stage, along with Miss R Mr. Owens, and day afternoon last she left the cottage, stating she was
tha prisoner, but, missing her snuff, she asked the I going for a walk, but leaving a few letters trinkets
i,:oner for it. He denied all knowledge of 'tand & ' bl Ong did ' Mr. Bens.
1 , she c.,,0n the dressing-table. e. Lhe not return.
Pr - Awent back to
immeaiately use, but not Cashel, a commercial traveller, stying at the 'Royal Lea-
finding it, and knowing that he . had it, she subsequently mington Spat happened to pass the Lyton bride.e. near thcr
gave him in charge for stealing it. In reply to 31r Clough- river Avon, half a mile from the Spa, the sani day, when.
she said that she never saw the prisoner before. . ,1•
i he noticed a cloak lying on the surface of the water, and w
into the house after she was there. sh He came ,
, lace collar the bank. These articles of dress proved to
She understood. that
he was the captain of a ship, and that himself and his belong to the deceased. The juq . •
returned a verdict,
brothers were the owners. She didnot think " That the deceased committed suicide whilst in a state of
He raid afterwards that hewould
,'and Mr. Isaac Smith, brother of Miss
make it good, and he , temporary insanity; Congratulated by she coroner
offered her a sovereign 'when at the she i Sarah Smith, deceased, was _ this
. station-house, but
refused to take it. She ' •the fact, h r propertp ey verdict, will not be
swore distinctly that he stole her upon
muff, worth £2 10- confiscated.
--e.ond year the •

was not, the
argued at ler

,r trial for

The pri

assault, with inten

all 4 that this was tli

Ler was, therefore, fully committe,