Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-21 00:00:00

BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD

THE Edw, t le was charged with having
stabbed E award Offey. The facts were thel.e : About six
weeks ago, the complainant was stabbed by a man named
Donegan, who is in jail at present awaiting his trial. On
Saturday night tha prisoner met the complainant in
Limekilo-lane, and asked him if ho was going against
Donegan? and he said ho was, when the prisoner said, you
will have to ga against me too, at the same time stabbing
him in two places in the hand. The prisoner was sent
for trial.

Margaret Tate, a very floe looking and elegantly dressed
female, was charged with having stabbed a black man
named John Peters. Mr. Muck defended. The man
said he lodged one night some timo ago at the prisoner's
house, and offered 33., but she refused to take it. On
Sunday, about two o'clock, he was passing the house of the
prisoner at No. I, Westmoreland-street, when she called
him in, and used some abusive language to him, after
which he t•aid she took up a knife and made a blow at his
face. when he put up his arm, and the knife struck and
cut him in the arm. Mr. Mu& cross-examined the wit-
ness at some length, but he denied having insulted the
prisoner, or that he owed her any money. Surgeon Brown
said the wound was very trifling and would be well in a
few days. The prisoner was sent for trial at sessions.
THE MURDEiDUS ASSAULT IN FREDERICK-STREET.—
John Fri-hrneae the Frenchman, who was remanded on a
charge of having stabbai John Rowan. was again br,ught
up. The additional evidence was produce.l, and surgeon
Pope, of the Southern Hospital, said the wounded man
was not yet out of danger, although, perhaps, he was
better. Tae prisoner was fully committed for trial.
Trig SWELL MOESMEN —Thomas Davis, and John
Edwards, the " mobsmen" who were remanded on a charge
of trying to pick-pockets in the gardens on Sunday week,
were brought up by detectives Scaife and Thompson. Mr.
Black defended. The evidence was the same as on the
last occasion, whereon Mr. Bluck contended the prisoners
ought to be discharged. Mr. Mansfield said, the attempt
to pick pockets was clearly proved. He sent the prisoners
to gaol for three months with hard labour.
CURIOUS CASE ABOUT A INIURDRR.—A tall, gaunt, wild-
looking man, with hardly any clothes on him, whose name
was given as Thomas Mahoney, was charged for having
attempted to kill two persons, named Patrick Kelly,
and Hugh Mathews, in Fairhurst-street, off
Cheapside. The policeman who had charge of the
case, produced an old rusty sword, and said
the prisoner was given to him in charge for wounding
Mathews with that weapon, and for stabbing Kelly. The
old sword had a quantity of blood on it, and the bead of
Mathews was bound up wlth blood stained bandages, and
Kelly's left 11,nd was bandaged up in like manner. Kelly
sail the prisoner lodged at his house, and on Sunday night
he went into Marybone, and brought in his so t, and some
other persone, and attacked him. He put up his hand to
save his heal, when the prisoner struck- him with a knife
in the hand, and wounded him severely. Mathews then
interfered, when the prisoner strnek him a violent blow on
I the head with the old sword. Prisoner (to Kelly) : Did
you call me an old informer, and say that I hung thou
sands of people in the country I came from? Witness : No,
I did not. He put the same question also to Mathews,
who replied in the negative. Prisoner : Did you hear
your wife say so to me : Witness: I did. The prisoner
then made the following statement. About fourteen yeas
ago, there was a clergyman, named the Rev. Charles
Dawson, murdered in the county of Limerick. and as he
knew something of it, his own clergymen called on him to
give evidence in the case, and Kelly and others knew that,
and brought a lot of fellows to murder him. It was a hard
case that in a town like Liverpool a man could not
bs protected, without getting the name of being mad.
[Here he exhibited himself in a very wild manner.]
Mr. Mansfield : Is the man mad ? Kelly : I think he is,
sir ; I deny all he says about me..as it is not true. Mr.
Mansfield Let him be remanded him till to-morrow, (this
day), and let a doctor examine him..
A PAPER AND FRUIT MERCIIANT.AIiCO Rothwell, who
keeps a fruit shop, and vends newspapers in Cheapside,
charged a female named Sarah Fell, w: th having damaged
her merchandise to the extent of 10s., and for constant
annoyance. The evidence left no doubt of both charges,
and the prieoaer was fined 103. for the damage, or one
months' imprisonment, and then to be bound over to keep
the peace for six months.
THE MYSTERIES OF DANCE-STREET. A well dressed
athletic young man, named John Wiltia,ms, was charged
with having violently assaulted a fragile looking girl,
named Elizabeth Best, in a house ofill-tame in Dance-
street, kept by a Miss Johnston. Mr. Campbell appeared
for the prosecution, and stated the case, which was
not so remarkable for the facts of the assault, as for the
strange indirect circumstances that transpired. The fact of
the assault was this :—On Saturday night the prisoner
went to the house of Miss Johnston, where Miss Best
resided, and the allegation was that he turned the owner
and some other females out, and when complainant wanted
to get in again, she was struck a violent blow in the eye,
which added considerably to its already sable hue. The
prisoner made a statement, the substance of which was
that he had been imprisoned for " six months for having
assaulted this Miss Johnston. Miss Johnston: Yes, and
you broke about £l2 worth of property on me, on that
occasion, and on Saturday you broke about £5O worth of
property. The prisoner said that whilst he was in Walton
gaol, Miss Johnston came to see him—in fact, she had
ruined him. His friends, who were highly respectable,
when he came out of gaol, took a place for him at Walton,
but Miss Johnston came drunk in a cab, and created such
a row that he was obliged to leave the village. She had
absolutely ruined him. She followed him to Manchester,
and exposed him to his respectable sister. She
was celled the " devil of all devils," and the very devil she
proved to him certainly. She followed him to every place
he went. She sent for him on Saturday, and said that she
wanted a couple of pounds, and he went and pledged some
things and came with the money to her. She asked him
had he got his dinner ? and he replied he had not. She
then ordered the table to be laid for dinner, and went up
stairs and brought down a valuable dress, saying she must
pledge it to raise money. He said, don't mind doing that,
as I have the money f r you ; whereon she kicked down
the table, broke everything that was on it, and smashed
all in the room. When he came out of gaol, his friends
paid his passage to Australia, thinking to get him away
from her; but she followed him every place, and induced
him to sell his ticket. He had a bank draught (exhibited
it) on Australia, given to him by his friends. Mr. Camp-
bell : Yea, they wanted to send you away to make you
earn your bread, as you never did anything here.
Prisoner: No ; but they wanted me to get away from the
fangs of this devil, but she has baffled them all. My
friends promised to send me more money if I did not
succeed in Australia. She induced me to spend £3OO on
her, that I got by my father's death ; and £54 of that
was spent in nine days, and these two cats on my forehead
were inflicted by champeere bottles, after she drank the
contents, paid for by my money. On Saturday the whole
of them were drunk, for they were drinking champagne,
port, and sherry. and were all mad, and ran out. I knew
the temper of that devil, and was getting out through the
back-door, when they all rushed on me, and we all fell,
and that was how Miss Best got the black eye. A gentle-
man, a friend of mine, who took an interest in Miss Best,
commissioned me to take a respectable place in West
Derby, and have her educated, and I did so, but this devil
Johnston induced her to leave, and she is now destroyed.
He was then discharged.
CHARGE OF ESIBEZZLE3fENT.—Robert Heggins, late a
a collector belonging to the St. Patrick's Burial and
Insurance Society, was brought up on remand. Mr. Muck
defended. Mr. Tracy, the secretary of the society, said he
did not wish to press the charge (the details have already
appeared in our paper) as the prisoner had a large family
to support, and besides, the money was offered to the
society, and he therefore begged to withdraw the charge.
The prisoner was discharged.
CounITTALS.—A very well dressed young woman, named
Anne Burns, was sent to jail for three months, for at-
tempting to pick pockets on the New Brighton Boat.
George Washington and John Flynn, were sent to jail for
three months, for breaking into Mr. Southerbery's ship
yard, Neptune street, and stealing some copper nails