The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. YESTERDAY.

LIVERPOOL.

BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.
ATTEMPTS AT Poisoma.—A rather nice looking and
well-dressed person, named Sarah Sinclair, eighteen years
of age, the wife of a mate of a ship, was brought up by police
officer 495, who said he saw her running down Park-lane
in a furious manner, and be was informed that she
had taken poison. He took her into custody, and found a
bottle clntaining a quantity of laudanum on her..s She had
swallowed a considerable quantity of the liquid. He also
gat an open case knife on her, and it was supposed that
she intended to cat her throat with it, He took her to the
hospital, where a doctor used the necessary means, and had
the poison extracted from her stomach. The husband of
the prisoner, who said he was the mate of a ship, seemed
much distressed. He appeared to be a respectable person,
and the story he told was this. He married the girl about
twelve'months ago, and on going to sea he left her with
her father and mother. He was away over six months,
and it appeared that while he was away she fell in love
with another man, and it seemed she went off with him.
r'he left her father and mother in his absence, and went to
live at 4. North street, Park, where he found her on his
return. He received a letter written by her, in which she
confessed all to him, and admitted that she had made
a previous attempt to poison herself.: After some time,
his Worship directed the prisoner to be remanded for
seven days, when the prisoner took an hysteric fit, and was
carried from the dock.
William Cowap, alias Graham, was brought up on a
charge of having attempted to poison himself. On Sunday
night the prisoner had a quarrel with a woman who lived
with him in Chaelea street, and it seemed that he took a
quantity of rat poison. Surgeon Brown was called in, and
administered such relief that the man's life was saved.
He was remanded for the present.
AMU:LT.—Alexander Devine, a big hulking-looking
fellow, was charged with having assaulted officer 615.
sometime in March last. The prisoner was committing
some depredation in the street, when he was arrested by
the constable, but after assaulting him he got away, and
was not heard of until the previous day. He was fined
£1 and costs, or one month's imprisonment.
CURIOUS BUT UNFOUNDED CHARGE OF WIFE DESERTION.
—A respectable-looking person, named Charles East, an
assistant in Mr. Davis'.., drapers shop, Berry street, was
brought up by Inspector Chew, at the instance of Mr.
Hughes, out door relieving officer, on a charge of having
deserted his wife and three children, and leaving them
chargeable to the parish. From the statement of Mr.
Hughes, it appeared that the prisoner deserted his wife
and three children in December 1855. These were charge-
able to the .parish, and received out door relief up to
about January i 856, when two of the children died. The
wife and the other child remained up to the present time
receiving relief, and the whole amount was £2O 3s- 6d.
He (Irlr. Hughes,) found that the prisoner had bean at
Newcastle, where he lived with another woman, and
then traced him to Liverpool, to his present place,
where he had £5O a-year, beside board and lodging'. In
reply to the charge the prisoner made a long statement,
the amount of which was that he really never deserted his
wife. He sail it was very hard for -a draper to get a
situation if he were a married man, and he was obliged to
go from Delaey and Co.'s, 'of Sackville J., Dublin, to New.
castle as a singie man. Ile sent his wife money every week,
and when he came down here he also sent her money every
week, and even en last Saturday as usual. The woman
wits gilled, and, in answer to leveled questions, she fully
admitted the statement, and also that he had-written to
her to go and live with him, but she refused. She also
admitted that all this time she was getting the money from
the parish. Mr. Mansfield said the case was not one of
desertion, nor had the pr:smer left his wife chargeable on
the parish. He discharged the prisoner.
VE'AY STRANGE.—John Mi'chell and his wife, rather
decent looking persons, were placed at the bar, bat the
police officer who had them in custody said the person who
charged them dil not appear, so they were set at liberty.
They then entered the witness box, and chargad a very
well dressed and gentlemanly man, named Richard Smith-
son, with having assaulted them. The case was a very
confused one, but, as well as could be collected, the history
of it was as follows. Mitchell alleged th t a person
named Michael Delamere, who lived next door to Smith-
son, and was his (Smithson's) tenant in Erskine street, had
enticed away his daughter. She was away for some time,
when he discovered where she was. He went to rescue
her, and on the previens night he called at Delamere's
house and enquired for his daughter ; he was told she was
in bed, and he went up stairs and demanded her ; she ran
out of a room up stairs ; there was a man in the bedroom out
of which the girl ran, and he, with the prisoner
assaulted witness, and turned himself and wife oat, the
prisoner assaulting them with a stick. He said the person
named Delatnere, who had Riven him and his wife in charge,
was.afraid to come forward, because they would expose his
conduct. The defendant repudiated the story, and said the
gentleman alluded to was his tenant, and one of the most
respectable merchants in Liverpool, and had his office at
16, Chapel street; he had taken in the girl in question as a
servant, as she had been turned out by her father and
mother, and she was taken in out of pore benevelene and
The Fether: That's a lie. Police officer 224: I
have been informed that the party is is the habit of
enticing away girls in this manner. The complainants
and the defendant then got into a discussion, out of which
rib one could " make either bead or tail," and Mr. Mansfield
said he could not comprehend it. If the parties felt hurt,
they could go to the County Court for compensation. He
dismissed the complaint.
Fatoneree CASE.--A rather nice looking girl, named
Margaret Jane Gorman, was brought up by offrcer 401.
who said, in the course of the previous night he got
her on the Union Dock quay in a state of great distress.
On questioning her, she told him that her mother, who
lived at 14, Mare at., off Wolfe st., in the Park, had
forced her out in the streets for the most vile purposes,
but that she would sooner die or commit suicide. He
then took her to the station. The poor creature, who
seemed much affected, said her father died when she was
a year old, and she is now twenty years old. She used to
earn some 2s or 3s a week by making slop shirts, but this
hid failed her, and she was quite destitute, and her mother
actually turned her out in the streets, telling her to go
aed earn a livieg in that way. She was willing to do
anything in honesty to support herself. She had never
been at service. His worship, with that kind and cha-
racteristic benevolence fel- which he is remarkable, gave
her a letter to Miss Long of Smithdown lane, telling her she
would be taught the duties of a servant there by that very
good and excellent lady, and if she conducted herself well,
she would, no doubt, soon get a situation. The poor girl
seemed overwhelmed with gratitude , and joy, and left, in-
yoking blessings on the worthy magistrate.
House ROBBERY.—Robert Berry was charged with
having stolen a watch, a coat, some silk handkerchiefs,
and other things from the house of Elizabeth Richardson,
of Williamson street, where he lodged, On Monday week
the prisoner took the articles and sold them to a Mr.
Cohen in Paradise street. Mr, Bluck appeared for Cohen,
but Mr. Mansfield did not see any reason why Cohen, who
had purchased the things in a regular way, should' blow
a trumpet in his own praise. Mr. Bluck said if persons
employed him, and paid his fee, of course he could not
help it. Mr. Mansfield said his remark did not at all
apply to Mr. Bluck, but to his client. The prisoner was
sent for trial.