The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-25 00:00:00

conclusion that the plaintiffs. are entitled to a verdict, and I I
think the proprietors of. the Liver are perfectly right in insti-
tuting this inquiry, and conducting it with all the care in theft
power. They were bound to do so—if for one purpose only
—to do justice to the porter. So far as we know here, lam
very glad to say, on the testimony of the gentlemen who very
properly conducted Mrs. MacDenald's case, that there is nothing
known against h7e charades; and the situation ho has lost
through a mistake is a situation he is entitled to fill either there
or elsewhere, so far as anything is concerned which appears in
this matter. no and his family have been now, since last
November, out of employment. y He and his wife and children
have been suffering ; and if it he indeed true that Mrs. Mac-
Danald's ve'ckedness has led to that catastrophe, the has far
more to answer for than her debt to the Liver establishment.
She has to answer for the misery and all but starvation this
man has told us has been entailed upon himself and his ,
family by her conduct. I am bound to say that this is
one of the most p dant cases I ever tried. lam
satisfied, having carefully considered it, that the proprietors
of the Liver are correct—that the parcel was wrongly delivered,
and that a dishonest advantage was taken of that circumstance
to appropriate its contents. I give a verdict for the plaintiffs,
1 with immediate execution, allowing the costs of all the wit-
\
Ones. I think it right to say, that if the case should come
before me in another form, I shall deal with a severity pro-
portioned to the magnitude of the offence committed, and I
I shall hold myself at perfect liberty to consider that in case after
case, time after time, have this family emSse before me, endea-
i vowing to (1,. fraud their coeditors, by the most ingenious triclo3
and cluviees—reeresenting at ono time the son to he the owner,
at another time the father—representing at one time one
member of the family to be absent, and at another time another
member to be absent ; and even that the unfortunate children
have been brought before me to give testimony to what, if they
believed to bo nue, they must have believed' only from those
feelings of affection for their parents, which I should be sorry
utterly to destroy. Tho proceedings which have gone on, .in
connection with these people in -Grove street, have been of a
Most wicked character, and it is my ditty, as far as I can, to
see that a stop is put to them,

P °LICE INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.

A LITTLE STRANGER.--LA boy, named William Lamb,
a shall), good to ,king lad, about eleven years of
age, was brought up under the following dream-
stances. It appeared that the poor 1 tie feFow,
who was very dirty and wretchedly clad, c tile' at the
main Bridetvell and asked for a night's shelter, eating
that his captain had sent him ashore without a penny o-
anything on his feet. Mr. Campbell, the bride vell
keeper, was struck by the boy's importunities and tears,
and allowed him to remain. He sail he was brought
from Malta by the captain of the ship Creswell, and
that he (the boy) took his watch regularly, and did duty
on board. When the vessel arrived here, ,he blt said
he was sent ashore by Cap.ain George John Kelly, who
said he could not do anything for him. The captain
was sent for, when the boy said his father was in the
Royal Artillery, and at present- stationed at Malta. He
(the lad) was horn at Quebec, and had five brothers
and sisters. He was at sea three months, but now
wished to get back to Malta. The captain denied
having turned the bey away, but said that he de-
serted the vessel. He took him on board the ship a'
the request of his father, who wanted to get rid of
him ; he was no use on board. In reply to Mr. Garnett,
the captain said the lad was on the ship's articles, and
he was to get a shilling a month. He would take the boy
as an apprentice, but he did not like the sea. The bay,
in reply to Mr. Mansfield, said he_ wanted to get back to
Malta. He could read and write. Mr. Mansfield ordered
the lad to be sent to the Soho street ragged school,
where he would be taken care of, until an opportunity
should occur of sending him back. The captain said he
would give him the money that was due to him.
VIOLENT Assauvr.—Anthony MtParland, a tall power-
ful looking man, was charged with having ecmmitted a
violent assault on police officer 573. The officer said he
was on duty the previous night in Williams street,
Waterloo road, when tie saw the prisoner and another
man passing along. The other man took up a stone and
broke a lamp. He took the man into custody, and
brought him as far as the City of Dublin stores, when
the prisoner came behind him, and struck him
a violent blow with a stone in the back of the
head, which split his hat, and inflicted a severe
wound on his head, A eurgeon, who dressed the
wound, said it was a serious one, and the man would
not ba sufficiently recovered for three weeks. The
prisoner denied that he struck the blew, but from the
evidence of the officer and another constable, there was
no doubt about it, and he was sent for trial.
STABBING BY A WOMAN.—Anne Connor, a woman of
bad repute, was charged for having stabbed another
female, named Maria Marlin. Mr. Bluck defended.
The facts were these :—lt appeared, that a night or two
since, the parties met with souse sailors, with whom they
went to a place kept by the prisoner's mother. A dis-
pute arose about one of the men who had money, when
the prisoner stabbed the compleinant in the forehead.
Surgeon Brown, of the Northern Dispensary, gave evi-
dence as to the wound, and his worship sent the prisoner
for trial, hut on the application of Mr. Bieck, bail to the
extent of two sureties in £lO each were accepted for her
appearance.
Ass ,ULTING A Boy.—Two persons, named David
P[iteliard, and William Williams, were brought up by
officer 308, who said he was on duty in Lime street,
between s ven and citeht o'clock in the morning, when
be saw Pritchard run after a lad, knock him down, and
kick him most savagely, He took him ieto custody,
when the other prisoner interfered, and endeavoured to
rescue the prisoner, but another officer coining up -he
took the prisoners into custody. Robert Layton, the lad
who was beaten, stated, that he never saw the prisoner
before; nor did he speak a word, nor give him any provo-
cation for the assault. The prisoner (Pritchard) said,
the boy called him bad names, but this was negatived
by another boy. who was with the. complainant. The
policeman said, he never saw a more savage assault on
any one. Pritchard was fined £5, or in default of pay-
ment two months imprisonment ; and Williams lOs and

costs, or twenty-one Gays imprisonment.
CAI7TION TO HOUSEKEEPERS.—Detectives Scaife and
Thompson, brought up a female, named Ellen M(Quig-
gan, alias Otiinn, the wife of a foreman stevedore, in
receipt of £2 lOs a we,:k., on the following charges :
From the statement of the officers, and the evidence
given on the enquiry, it appeared, that on the 6.h Oct
last, the house of James Coultherd, of Albert
street, Everton, was entered about ten o'clock, in
the morning by means of false keys, and a quantity of
wearing apparel and other preperty stolen, and it was
found that the articles were pledged in pawn shops be-
longing to Mr. Shaw and Mr. Spencer. Some time in
November, the grouse of Mr. Robertson, 28, Salisbury
street, was entered in like manner, and wearing apparel,
jewellery, and other things, to the value of over £3O
stolen. Every exertion was made to recover the latter,
but only a small quantity of wearing apparel was found
pawned. It further appeared that the prisoner was
committed in November for three months, on a charge

of felony, arni that on her hzing libettteti, the offieets
arrested her on the two present charges. Two persons
from the pawnbrokers sta'ed the property stolen from
the two houses mentioned was pledged by the prisoner
on the day the property was stolen. The prisoner was
sent for trial.
CHARGE CF ROBBERY ON TB It HIGH SEAS.—William

Jones was brought up on a charge of having stolen three
sovereigns and three half dollars from Angelo Alligree,
on board the ship Tyrrell (American), from New Orleans
to Liverpool. A boy proved that he saw the prisoner cut
off the prosecutor's pocket and take the money. Mr.
7.llansfield said the offence not being within the jurisdic-
tion of the British Crown, having been committed on
board an American vessel,-" I have not power to deal with
it. For aught I know, it may be lawful to come it rob-
beries on board American ships ; the practice appearing
to be so commonly allowed that we must rather assume
that it is according to the American law." He discharged
the prisoner.