Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-19 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT-YESTERDAIt

BEFORE MR: MANSFIELD. • ' '
A BROKEN ARM.—John Walker was charged by Elizabeth
Sharp with beating her in such a manner as to almost render
I:._ - 1 • 1 -....dyed her left arm

uer useless for iue, prom a Kum( sou -
was broken. It appeared that the prisoner and the com-
plainant lived together as :man and• wife without having
observed the legal ceremony, and - that they qUarrelled
between themselves. The case was remanded till to-day, in
order that the surgeon might be present.who had dre,scd

oseph Airey charged Joseph Jones
—4 aim with a poker; Mr. Parker was engaged
prisoner. From the evidence of the complainant it
Axed that a number of moulders, himself and the
Jner being two of them, went to a public-house:in
nekiln•dane, belonging to Mr. ,Bird, where they *had
ne drink, and in fact spent the whole of the day there; a S
was holiday with them. After .drinking for some time
Ley began to think that they' ought to vary the amusement,
zd forthis purpose_they,Ot some soot affd began to blacken

ANOTHER POKER.

and On going down into the cellar:- to wash he saw the
prisoner standing with his face clean, and not liking to see
him clean and the others dirty, he took his hand te.blacken

iinant on the head. A .witness as*xamined, whil swore
' • saw the assault committed. The _surgeon. who
ed the wound- said the. complainant came to. the dispen-

on the 13t1i.oflune Last,

g received a•very severe
from the effects of which he
confined fora fortnight or three weeks. James MiGuire
examined, and_ stated that he was an ironmoulder, and
R both the prisoner and complainant.. On the date in
stion they 'went with some others to drink in. Mr. Bird's,
drank from about eleven till four o'clock. When theygot
-ated with drink they ber,an to blackemeach others'faces.

s commenced ai first with dry soot ;. but the C(

toned. 'Jones said for them not to blacker
,hild was afraid, and would go. into fits. He

then went down stairs, and the Complainant, foll Owed him,
and rubbed the blacking over his face... The prisoner said if he
would do so again he would. knock him down v4th the poker.
The complainant did do so, again, and the prisoner lifted'the
poker and struck him on the head.---Mr. Mansfield observed
that he thought the prisoner had done what he Was sorry
Ebr after his passion was-cooled. ' He appeared to be much
mare sensible than the others who were more the worse for

He was taking cave of the child, and did. not .strike

the complainvnt before ,ha repeated the blacking process
. Under the circumstances, 'he thought there were no
grounds for punishing the prisoner. He was conse-
ntly discharged.

EMBEZZLEMENT.—Richard Turner was charged: with em-
)ezzling the sum of £8 liOs- from Mr. Wainiop, Ren-
&aw-street, in whose empjoyment he was as. collector.
Che money Was received from Mr. Lloyd, draper; Berry-
treet. When the prisoner was apprehended he acknow-

%1. to having received the money, but said h& had al

William M‘Dermott, a collector in the employ-
dent of Mr. John Dear, groeery Islington, was charged with
embezzling the sum of £20,, the propeyty of hiss employer. _

ingmry

WORKHOUSE PROPERTY.--A poor woman nampd Cathe-
rine Connell was charged with pawning a blanket,l3elong-
ing to the Liverpool Workhouse, with Mrs. Brightson,
pawnbroker. The blanket was with difficulty recognised

as the property of the workhouse, as the -ma

is— were

3SCMC

he work-

CORONER'S. COURT

-YESTERDAY

Yesterday John Wyburgh, Esq., deputy-coroner, held
the following inquests :—On the body of Robert Hughes, *
labourer, who fell into the hold of a ship on Thursday last.
It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was subject
to fits, and whilst in one of those fits fell into the hold and

died from-the effects of the fall. The jury retttrned a 'ver-
dict of "Died from a . fall whilst in a fit from natural
causes."—On the body of Robert Henderson, 45. years of
age, who was employed as 'a labourer' in a store ite,Back
Leeds-Street ; and on Saturday last fell froth a. bale of
cotton, by which his skull was fractured, .and died in con-
sequence. Verdict : "Accidental death."-On the body of
a new born Child found in the canal. It was proved by
Dr. Ayrton that death was caused by neglect after birth.
Verdict! "Wilful murder against some 'person 'or persons
unknoWn:"—On. the body of a new horn child found in an
ashpit on the premiSes of Dr. ToN4inSein, 'Devon-street.
From the evidence it appeared that a boy playing 'in the
entry Saii a bundle in the' pit and the h

sticking out of it. He then told a police officer, who had
the body removed to the dead-house. Dr. Ay-rton' stated
that the child. was born alive, ainidied for want of scientific
attention after birth. The jury found a verdict of "Mau.
slaughter aOinst some 'person or persons unknown."---Onl
the. body of James, Jeffers, who .visas drowned. in a pit in

Parliaraent-delds. Catherine Jeffers deposed that she was
the mother of the lies- and wife of Michael Jeffers, a .
shoe-
maker. The deceased, who was eleven years of age, went
out ou Saturday threnoon about half-past one o'clock, and
she heard no ' more of him till a boy came to her, and told
her he was drowned. in a pit in Parliament-fields. John
Heywood,. a boy of twelve' years of age, deponed
that . he resided ins the same court with the de-
ceased, who 'with him and some other boys went play-
ing around one of the pits in Parliament-fields. While
they were playing-James, XefferS fell into the pit, and was
drowned., They hM ri6 quarrel whatever. Another boy,
of 'about the same age, said they. were running along by the
side of the •pit when> the-deceasec . fell into it. Two men came

hour fromthe time in. He ran and told depeased's
mother. The had. no 40arrel whatever.—John Foreshow

the scene of the accident. I did not see the accident, and
the evidence I have to give is in reference to the dangerous
nature .of the plaee. 'I am in the habit of passing the
scene of the accident dilly-. The field, of which the pit
forms a portion, is owned, y I believe, by Mr. Adam Lodge,
of Brick-court, Temple, London, and is not fenced off from
the approaches by Lodge-lane or Stanhope-street; and is

permittec

to 56 use

iv the ptiblier all over itssurfate in

frequented footpath, which is laid past
the pit hi question, to my knowledg,e for upwards of 20 years.
The pit in question is apparently a harmless overflow of
some 11' yardsby 15, but is in fact an old stone quarry,
with about 18 feet of water; and with two or three feet of
soft mud below, and before.the Making of Lodge-lane sewer
some three years ago, was the cesspool of several adjoining
houses. The bank from which the deceased fell overhangs
1)9 to 12 feet on the north side of the pit ; and children and
others, froth the unrestrained pOnnission given tattle public
use of the grottudt are in daily danger of fallino;': hi; the

,o a muc

top of the bank shelving towards the water, a:ad being
slippery ; and ailyone falling, in, without beingan expert
swimmer, has very little chance of being saved by an expert
swimmer or diwri owing to) the depth and foul state o:
the wat(

place, at rfresent, is, in fact, a rarro,7erons-

ace, lw

expense, mig

3e. entirely

abated
Major Greig entirely concurred in the reinarks:made by
Mr.: Forshaw, an& hoped that measures would betaken to
have such an evil removed; it was only A fortnight ago a