The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-YZSTERDAY. _

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.
DESPERATE ASSADLT.—A voting man, named Peter
Scott, was charged with having committed a desperate
assault on Bernard Wilson. The complainant is a dis-
tributer of bills in the Old Haymarket, and the prisoner
was discribed as a cooper, or hawker. The complainant's
herd and face presented a frightful appearance, and was a
shapeless mass of blood, bruses, and plaster. His features
were not recognisable, his eyes were closed np, and one
side of his face was so swollen that it gave the appearance
of the mouth being placed ander the ear, at the opposite
side ; altogether, he was one of the most horrible
spectacles imaginable. The facts of the case appeared,
from the evidence, to be as follows :—The parties lodged
in the house of a Mrs. Martha Sutton, 64, Addison-street.
The prisoner's father died on Wednesday night,
and his wife was very tired, having been up
two or three nights before. In the room where the
complainent slept there were three beds, and the prisoner's
mother having fallen asleep, she was takenl up stairs to the
room, and Lid on one of the beds. sometime after the
complainant went to bed, and, as he said, he was not aware
that the woman was in the room. Soon after the prisoner
entered the apartment, and allege I that complainant had
acted improperly towards his mother, and at once com-
menced a furious attack on him, kicking him about the
head and face, which caused the appearance he now pre-
sented. The prisoner was sent for trial.
"WIFE BEATING.—Thomas Grubbs, who resides in
Norbury-atreet, was charged for having violentiy assaulted
his wife. The case was proved by the wife, and a woman
who saw the assault, and in reply to the charge the
prisoner said his wife wanted to bring females of bad
character into the house, and he would not allow her, and
this caused a disturbance. In reply to his worship, the
police officer said the house was one of ill-repute. The
prisoner was fined £2, or in default of payment, one
month's imprisonment.
THE. TRAVELS OF A POKER.—Mrs. Ashton, who keeps
a publichouse in Brick-street, charged a powerful looking
female, named Jane Brandon, with having assaulted her,
and also for having stolen her poker. Mr. Campbell
appealed for the prosecution, and Mr. Bluck for the
prisot er. The head of the latter was bandaged up, and
she seemed to have suffered from some injury. Mr. Camp-
bell, in opening the case, said there was a fight in Brick-
street, and two of the parties engaged in it, ran into the
house ; she ordered them out, when the prisoner came in,
caught her by the hair, and pulled a great quantity of it
off her head, seized a poker, with which she struck her over
the shoulders several times, and then ran off with the
poker. Mr. Bluck submitted, that the charge of felony
for stealing the poker fell to the ground, and that as for
the assault, let the comp'ainant take out a summons
against the prisoner, and she would take out a cross-sum-
mons against her, and he was, so far as his instructions
went, pi epared to show that the prisoner was the person
who ought to be the complainant. The prisoner was
discharged, and his worship said the parties could, as
stated by Mr. Black, bring cross-summonses for the alleged
assault.

BEFORE MR. J. C, TURNER.

A PAWNI3ROKEIeS CASE.—In this case the defendant, Mr.
Meadow, was a pawnbroker living in St. James's-street,
and the defendant was a female named Susan Murray.
She stated that in the year 1856 she pledged a shawl and a
pair of stockings for 9J, and after they had been so pledged
for twelve months, she went to have it backed for one
month, when she understood the parcel was lost, she after-
wards tendered the money and the interest, and was
offered a shawl, but as it was not so good a one as her
own, she refused to accept it. The defendant's repre-
sentative—The parcel has been lost in stock, it was an old
shawl pledged for 9d, and we have offered her one worth
3s. The complainant—lt was a new shawl, and was worth
ss. 6d. I had no. had it long, an; my husband brought
it home from Scotland just before I pledged it. Mr.
Wybergh—(lronically)—The things are always new when
they are lost, and have never been worn. The complainant—
We have endeavoured to do all we could to avoid coming
into this court. The Magistrate decided that the defen-
dant should pay the complainant 3s. 61. as the value of
the lost goods.

BEFORE MR. TURNER AND MR. SHEII,

THE KANGAROO.-'.lr. Tyndale, of the Customs, op.
peered for the purpose of instituting proceedings against
the owners of the screw.steamer Kangaroo, for leaving the
port without having first obtained her clearance papers
from the Custom-house. Mr. Bardsley, on behalf of the
owners asked, according to the 264th section of the act, to
have the case adjourned for the purpose of taking the case
before a higher court. Mr. Tyndale objected. bnt the
objection was overruled by the bench, and the case was
consequently adjou-ned for one week.