Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-04 00:00:00

NEW ?O ST PILLARS.

On the application of the Posttnas•er, leave was granted
to erect p liars for receipt of letters in Great Homer street,
the front of St. Thomas's Church, Breekaeld-road, and
Upper Parliament-street.
The usual routine business was then transacted, and the
committee adjourned.

TIMES, LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4) 1857,

POLICE INTELL'AnCE-YESTERDAY.

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eFORIC 1111 MAIISFELD.
IND7CENT Assetra.—A young man, named Matthew
Gaffney, who lodges at M:. Godley's, in Moorfields, was
fined a for an indecent assault on a little girl, the child
of his landlord.

&WILTING THE POLlCE.—Michael Brennan-, a well-
dressed young man, described as a butcher on board the
steam ship Circassian, and John M'Donald, were charged
with having assaulted police officers 286, and 115, in
Lower Frederick-s reet. M. Black defended. It seemed---
officer 286 said, before twelve o'clock the previous night,
he was taking a woman to the station. who had assaulted
and bit him, when a mob collected and he was struck a
violent blow from behind, which knocked him senseless.
Officer 115, said he saw Brennan strike the blow. The
prisoner M‘Denald excited the mob to rescue the
prisoner, he was drunk. Mr. Bluck (to officer
286) : Did you not • knock Brennan down with
a violent blow of your staff on the head ? No, sir. Did
you handcuff him ? No, but we put a twitcher on him.
Mr. Mansfield : What is that ? I have heard of
" twitchers" for horses noses. Officer: It is a leather
thong, fastened to a piece of wood, and we find it more
convenient than the handcuffs. Mr. Stuck contended that
Mr Brennan was taken in mistake, and that the assault
was committed by a person who got away is the melee.
He produced two young women, who stated that a man in
a blue smock knocked the officer down, and that when he
got up, he ran at Mr. Brennan, and knocked him down
with a blow of his staff. Both the witnesses said the
prisoner was not doing anything when he was knocked
down ; they said they were quite strangers to Mr. Brennan,
never having seen htnaloefore Officer Boyd, 403, said he
had seen both females, several times at the docks looking
for Mc. Brennan, the bu cher of the Circassian. The
females d nied this statement, and Brennan said it was
utterly false. I don't know them at all, and I never was
on board the Circassian in my life. I hava been a
butcher on board other steamers, bat never on board that
ship. Mr. Mansfield said, if he had any doubt about the
ease he would send it before a jury ; but he had none, and
therefore would fine Mr. Brennan £5 for the Asault, and
the other prisoner sa. for being drunk. The five pound
five was at once paid. ,
THE KNIFE AND THE TOE.—Lnne Kelly, a resident of
Perry-streer, was charged with having stabbed Julia
Copley of the same street. The parties had a falling out
about a child, when the prisoner struck the complainant a
blow with a knife in the hand, which inflicted a serious
wound. Surgeon Pope, of the Southern Hospital, said the
wound was an inch and a half long and deep, and although
the complainant would not lose her hand, she would lose
one of her fingers. The prisoner was sent for trial, but
on the application of her
.advocate, Mr. Barker, she was
admitted to bail.

The next case put forward was that of William Crone,
the third mate of the American ship Independence, who
was charged with having violently assaultei James
Millar, the second mate of the same ship, in the Bramley-
Moore dock. Tne complainant seemed to have received
some severe injuries He said about six o'clock in the
morning the prisoner came on board, and met me as I was
coming out of one of the closets. He at once, and without
any provocation on my part, or my speaking a word to
him, ern& me a violent blow, and knocked me down. He
then kicked me desperately about the head and face, and
I lost my senses for some time, and when I came to, he
swore if 1 did not leave the ship he would fling me over-
bo ird. The policeman who ha•l charge of the case said he
heard the prisoner say he would certainly murder the
complainant, and that was after he had him in custody.
In reply to Mr. Mansfield, the complainant said he never
gave the p:isonsz the least cause for such an attack, nor
did he know what it was for. The doctor who dressed the
complainant said there ware several severe contused and
lacerated wounds on his head and face, and at least three
weeks must el ipso before he could do any business. The
prisoner refused to say anything in reply to the charge, and
he was sent for trial.'

THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD DO IT, BUT THEY COULDN'T !
Two fellows, named Thomas Banford and Richard Reeves,
were charged with having stolen a beautiful greyhound,
value £5O, belonging to Mr. Jones, of Chalk Farm. The
dog was missed on Sunday last, and every exertion was
made to recover it, but in vain The owner, however,
heard that the animal, or something like it, was in pos-
session of the prisoners, who were working in a quarry in
the locality. He weltt there, and the prisoners actually
had the audacity to make him pay 23. 6(1. to look at the
most beautiful dog in the world. He paid the money, and
at once recognised his hound aid demanded it. Tne de-
mand was rejected 'with contempt, as the fellows said they
intended to make a trifle by the exhibition of the dog at
2i. 63. each visitor. The next visitor they had was a
policeman, and they looked rather "sheepish" when in the
clutches of that gentleman. It was clearly proved that
they stole the dog, and they were sent to gaol for two
months each, so that perhaps they won't try to "do it
again" when they " come oat."
TAKING IN A STES.&GEE.—Sophia Renshaw, a poor girl
from the West of England,-charged a woman, named Eliza
Jones, with having stolen her dress. The girl came from
Belfast in a bad state of heal h, and not meeting some
friends, whom she expected, she wandered about the
streets, having no money. The prisoner met her, and
asked if she wanted anything ? Being informed of her
position, she took her into a house in Peter:street, and
promised to "do for her," which she did by stealing her
frock, and pledging it. The prisoner was sent to gaol for
three months.