The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. YESTERDAY.

LIVERPOOL.
(BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.)
TIDO HOTIIAM STREET " CHIPS/ITS !"—A.rather decent
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king and tidy young woman, named Elizabeth Blackie,
the daughter of a lamplighter, residing in Horatio street,
!large& a bull-headed, wicked-looking fellow, named
Patrick White, with having assaulted - her. Mr. Chilton
43peared for the prisoner, who was brought upon on
warrant. From the evidence of the girl, it appeared that
!ono ten or twelve evenings back, she went to a dance
house at the corner of Hotham street and Loid Nelson
street, which the police call the " Chipseys," and allege
it is the greatest nuisance and curse in Liverpool,
and that the prisoner was there, and danced
with her. Some one put out the gas, and most
ab)minable scenes followed. The prisoner acted in
a scandalous manner towards the girl, and for this he
was charred. The girl was cross examined at some length
by Mr. Chilton. but the only thing important elicited was
some frightful details about the scenes that took place at
the "•chipse)'s." The prisoner was fined £2, or, in
default of payment, two months' imprisonment.
JOINING THE PaocEssiori.—John Winters, a rather
respectable looking man, who lives in Smithdown lane, was
chargei by Inspec'or Wilson, who stated that on Wednes-
day, daring the "great procession," the prisoner had a
horse and shandry: he was drunk, and was rushing the
horse in.all directions through the crowd, and he would
have'killed some one, or perhaps some one would have
killed him, bad he not been taken into custody. The
prisoner was fired ss. and costs.
ESCAPING FROM A REFORMATORY —A well-looking young
girl, named Sarah IVl'Donnell, was brought up by detective
'Aycock, on a charge of having absconded from the
Wellington road reformatory, but as there was not time to
communicate with that establishment, the girl was re-
lauded.

A LINK WANTING IN THE CHAIN.—A very flashily-dressed
remelt named Lucy Griffith, was charged by a person
of respectable exterior, and a fine-looking, athletic
Person, named John More, with having stolen
a gold chain, a'dimond pin, a silk handkerchief, and fifteen
shillings from" him. The case presented some peculiar
Features. The prosecutor had been charged on Wednes-
day, by a woman, who keeps a bad house in Hotham-
street, with having stolen a gold chain and a pair of
bracelets from her. A report of that case appeared in our
paper' of yesterday On that occasion the man was dis-
charged, and from his evidence now, it appeared that when
he left the cotyt he went to Lime-street, where he met the
prisoner, and went with her to Hothame,treet, where she
stole the articles from him. On cross-examination
by Mr. Goodere, the witness said he was an
engineer belonging to the Himalaya steamer, and that
a short time since by the death of his father he got £370,
and that the greater portion of that, along with a sum that
he had earned out in the Crimea, on board the ship, he had
spent in houses of ill repute in Hotliam street. He paid
women there £3 and .C 5 a week; bat the prisoner was not
One of them. The chain, pin, &es were all his own. Mr.
Goodere, contended that there was a link wanting in the
chain, and told the prisoner that he was a disgrace to all
civilised humanity. Mr. Clough said the prosecutor was
a great annoyance to the officers, charging women, and
women charging him with stealing chains, and rings and
the like. Thsy were all a lot of blackguards together. The
prisoner was discharged.
OPERATIONS AT THE PROCESSIaN —Four well dressed
p,rcon named Charles JAns'on, William Tudor,
Richard Calrey, and James Williams, all well known
celebrated " hands''—the latter extremities of the arms
being very prone to run into the pockets of other people,
Were brought up in charge of some half dozen police
officers who were supported by several civilians. The
charges preferred against the prisoners were for steeling
watches from two gentlemen, named Wilson and Quaile,
on Wednesday, during the great " procession." One of
the principal witnesses in the case syss Mr. Bentley, a
bookseller, carrying on business in Shaw's brow, who
watched the p isoners for nearly two hours—':nowing
them to be thieves—through the crowds about London
road, Prescot, and other streets, and at last Calrey actually
got cff with a watch, which he took from Mr. Wilson's
Pocket. He was chased by Superintendent Boyd, Lynch
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into a passage in Stafford street, Where he flung the watch
over a wall, and it was found there. The prisoner
Williams made a desperate attack on Mr. Qnaile's watch,
but that gentleman grappled manfully with the ruffian,
and held him, despite the assaults of several of his confe-
derates, who endeavoured to fling the gentleman down.
The prisoners, Johnston and Tudor, were described as
"covering" the operations of the other prisoners. Mr.
331nek defended all the prisoners in an able manner, and, so
f" as Tudor and Johnston were concerned, he succeeded
in getting them discharged ; but the other two prisoners
Were fully committed for trial at the Sessions.
THE PAROCHIAL RATE.—Last week we gave a report of
the case preferred by the churchwardens against Mr.
Carne, late churchwarden, for £7 lOs parochial rate due
by him. The case stood over for judgment, which
Manbfleld briefly delivered yesterday. He
reviewed the arguinents adduced on both sides of the
and referred to the Act of 2nd George 111.,
chap. 68 ; and, after giving his interpretation cf
the statutes, he said if he issued a warrant
of' distress for levying the rates, the defendant
mighty bring an action against him for trespass, but inde-
Peedent of that, he had a doubt about the levying of the
rate according to the acts, and therefore he would decline
to issue a warrant for its collection. Mr. Bremner, for
the defendant, said the only object he had in view was to
have the question properly settled—it was not the payment
of 47 las that he cared about. The summons was then
dismissed.
IMPORTANT TO SHIPMASTERS.—John Bonfellow, the
plaster of the screw steamer lonian, was summoned under
the 212th section of the Merchant Shipping Act, for having
refused to take home from Constantinople nine ship-
wrecked British seamen, who were in diseress. The
penalty under the act is 4100 in each case. The clause is
well known. Mr. Tyndall was for the prosecution
by the Board of Trade, and Mr. Aspinall (barrister)
for the defence. The substance of the com
plaint was that the defendant was at Constantinople, and
about to return to Liverpool, that the wrecked seamen
were there, and were put on board by the British consul,
in accordance with the provisions of the act, but that the
defendant refused to take them. Joseph Richardson, a
seaman, who belonged to the ship Garland, that was
wrecked in the Black Sea; proved the case. The defence
set up by Mr. Aspinall was, that the steamer was not
Tetnrning direct to England from Constantinople. She
Went to the latter place first, and then to Smyrna, where
:she was to receive orders, and was then bound to any port
in the Mediterranean, not to exceed six months out. He
itquell !hat the question was this under such circumstan-
eali__,4o ts;s4 vessel bound direct to any port in the
United Kin 'font ? and if net, she could not come within
the, meaning of the aci. In this case, when the vessel
went to Smyrna for ztrders and to discharge cargo, she
subsequently was ordered to Alexandria and Malta
before her return to England, HO that had she
taken the sailors on board, she wont: have had them
all that time, which the law did not contempia:,- at. it said
a vessel on direct return to England. If a vessel boi:"dt°
Australia put into Lisbon, she might as well be expected to
take shipwrecked sailors out to that colony and back to
England as to expect the defendant to take them under the
circumstances. He called Mr. Barker, belonging to the
office of Messrs. Massabini, and Mr. George Clare, the
mate of the vessel, who fully established the proposition
laid down-by him, and hig Worship dismissed the case, and
said he had the opinion of Mr. Rathbone in his ,favour,
who was well versed in these matters. The law did not
anticipate such a ease as
the present. Case dismissed
accordingly.

BEFORE MESSRS BOLTON AND STITT.
ABSURD PROSECUTIONS UNDER TUB BUILDING ACT.—Mr.
Joseph Kirkham, builder, of Mount pleasant, appeared on
summons to answer the complaint of Inspectors Jones and
Johnstone of the building surveyor's department, for a
violation Of the building act, in making an opening of a
certain extent between two houses in Scotland road, and
by which he had subjected himself to a penalty of £2O.
.lldr. Bolton asked if the opening endangered the houses?
Inspector Jones replied that it did not. Mr. Bolton then
asked if any one had complained of the circumstance ?
Inspector Jones replied that there had been no complaint
in referee ea to it, but that he was bound by the act to lay the
information. Mr. Bolton thought it was a very absurd
provision of the act,,,and regretted that the building in-
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gpntors had not something better to do than to lay such
inforrd,itions. Mr. Kirkham was fined in the nominal
penalty of farthing and a farthing costs. Mr. Robert
Esdaile, of ByrOM street, and
p_addington,
Mr. Joseph Al‘Dougall, of
Cranbourne strrei, appeared to answer a
like complaint, and a like fine was imposed in each case.
SUPPORT OF CHILDREN IN REPoRMA.ToRIEs.—A number
of persons were this day summoned befere the magistrates,
in order that an order night he made on them for the
maintenance of such of their children as have been com-
mitted to reformatories. '3 he Rev. Sidney Turner, one
of the gentlemen buthorised for the purpose by the
Secretary of State, appeared to supi'ort the orders. fff
briefly dwelt on the justice and importance of parents
being made to contribute towards the suppprt of
their children, when committed to reformatories,
where they would be trained to habits of
morality and industry, and observed that few parents were
so poor as not to be able to contribute something towards
that end. It was their duty to do so, and that duty they
would be compelled to perform. Nearly all the persons
munnioned, a few of whom were mechanics pleaded

poverty, but they were unable to support their statement.
An order was accordingly made in each case as follows :
Patrick Melvin, 49, Sawney Pope-street, to pay is a week
for the maintenance of his son at Mount St. Bernard ;
John Mooney, 37, court, Ford-street, 24 a week for the
support of his son at the same place ; James Bird, 2 court,
Fisher-street, 2s a week for the maintenance of his
daughter at the Birmingham Reformatory ; Henry B
39, Prince-street, to pay arrears for two months and 21 a
wa-k for the support of his daughter at the same place;
Job eph Hvehard, 20, Gray son-street, whitesmith, 24a week
for the support of his son on board the Akbar; Daniel
Ll yd, 77, Birkett-street, bricklayer, agr:ed to pay 24 a
week for the support of his son in the Akbar; Julia
Kilshaw, 94, Gardner-lane, 24 a week for the maintenance
of her son at Mount St. Bernard; Edward Melia, 5
Court, Ford-street, dock labourer, is a week for the sup-
port of his step-son, at Mount St. Bernard; Andrew
Rourke, 40, Sawneypope- street, 6d a week for the support
of his son at the same place The Rev. Mr. Carter, and
J. B. Aspinall, were present, and assisted Mr. Turner in
his conduct of the cases.