Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-06 00:00:00

UNSUITABLE, AFTER ;TRIAL,

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A lab ouring maun arned Walten„WitspriCed. it the Gnildhali
bar, on.Tassday, before Sir H. Muggiridge;*clinrged with
the following assault upon his wife':—Alice Walton said':` •
I have been-married to the prisoner abOut yeArk'ind
we have had.a great deal of quarro'ling • 'but, on Monday
night, he came home, and I ask'sd him ior mons), to buy
food with, upon which he struck me a blow on the side of
the face. I held him,•and he then kicked me. We, both
fell down together . Prisoner : We have only been mar-
ried eighteen,mouths,.and I wish for a separation, as wa
cannot Jive happily together. Complainant : We have
been married ,two . year, and I lived with you
for four years previou!, You had me for four
years on . trial before you, married me. (Laughter.)
Sir Henry. Muggsridge.: Are you sure he had -money
when you asked him for.it ? Complaitihnt t Yes, sir, for
he earned 2s on Sunday, and would not give me'a farthing
of it. Sir Henry Muggeridge : What' did you do with
the 24, prisoner ? Prisoner I spent if.' I own I did
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- wrong ; but I,dit4 not strike her 4uhtil'aftef she took up
the poker against me and 'scratchad-my face'. Complain-
ant : ,I did not tough the p4kSr Until you iatrtick me: • Sir
Henry Muggeridge; , 'adjourn this ei'se` unit
Thursday; and let ruei tell ypti,' imigolket,' you' Oti chargedwith a very serious assault, for whieliyoU'lnay be sent to
prison for six m.onths, with hard lahour•

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BErORIC TIM "morn. W. COXON AND CAPT. dLECG.
CACEL.BOBBaRY.•-•James Baiter and Ellen Baxter, the
former a laticiuring man, and lately in the employ. of
Messrs. Thompson, the contractors for excavating the
Great Float,- and the latter said to be his wife, were
charged with stealing ,some articles of Wearing Apparel
and tis. in Money belonging to John Thompson, Thompson
said that he was a labourer and on the look-out for work,
and when the 'robbery was committed he was wending his
,way for Crew:', having with him a small bundle and about
103. in money. That he had got about two miles out of
Birkenhead when the prisoners ove took him, and he
asked them we e they were going. the male prisoner
replied that he was. for Gewe to look for work, and he
(Thotopson) saying • he was. for the same place they
walked on together until they 'collie to a public-house
where they hada qbart: of; ale, which. he (Thompson) paid
for. That they aga;n went on, and when they got to
Bromboi,ough, they all three went into a public. house there
and Iliad two; quarts more ale between them, and the
Woman something (t,o eat, for ,the whole of which he
; (Tlinitipgan) t aid'. Whileeiitiog there the male prisoner
Mr. George Peabody; the American ha- ker, of Loridon, left, the room; and Thompsop then missed his bundle, con
taining a cap and pair of stocking, a ihirt and pocket-
made a visit to this city on the. lfith.• An incident whieh
he related of irasif, vthile here; will show to what'll r.- hAndkeachief, upon which he- went out to look fbr him,
Peabody is indebtel -
ye his- s iccess. = ' Fifty years
ago, at . the,. age . sif tlyelive, be had oceasien to followed by t th 33 : woman,, who said she did not
pass. know where , he_., had vie to, or whether he would
through ryoneord, on., hie wav to Vermdat. Ile' reopped overtake them,: bat as she., was not married to
all night at, the
y 9 jckr ey tiorel;'wher6'. he, naid lars lodgtng
and br.oo.olot 171ysiwitig wool. —wicOect Denaivrat. , him, she would goon with, him (Thompson,) and
~ accordiugly they proceeded feward3 Chester. They had,
Makssestors‘, UtelDni3Y A CiItaCIVAIAN.--.--"N1 Tae9day:,
morning last tho Rai, GA.'S'. Trynii, 'who has been re-' however, got but ta short distance, when he found the_
woroareoo. hand in his.,pseket in wh.ch his money was.
cently indtactedp the liosina; ot. Old.
tn, ninon : 'filing seized it he' said, '' de; you meant o rob me," to
an,l)3ythorn,mear,lluntingdou, was found fying tilion his which sliq
,feilled:,'" I was only in fun." lie still held
bed, with his throat but in- a most' frieltful. manner,. •au d b:ei hatid and mpaged to take 23 from it,. and ha,ving
s,tyarciasd his ppckAtold her she had got fie more, which he
quite dead ; he vsas_in pis nightdiess, and One tcand grasp-.
ins therapr, which had inflicted the dehdly liionnd.. mi.• wputd.haye or • give. her in custody. She, however, did
and he made the best a his way to
Tryon did not iisl`e at his "'Ault time, and the servants,, ric't-,Alke* it 'IIP,
gLittoV, where he found a constable, and told him what
actable to ohtein . admittance, became alarmed, and,
hari happened, The constable and himself then went in
acquainled. ;Nth. liing_ the. ieburchwardeti.'" The atora
search of the psis tern, whorn•they .found, on tho high road
hsv is g ispep forcillfy enteied, be was berrifi,_ d on be
with _the burlap. Sergeant Williamson, one of the
the peetarl-s jast'Sleseribed. Mr. Tryon was a ,Senior-
- Clid,hitb pol.ca, proved apprehending the prisoners, the
Fellow of Clare-hall, Cainbridge." L'ast'S ',itchy he offici-
woman carryiAgsabundle, and that ho asked them what it
nted fps the firstaimes P evious to his retiring to his room
on Monday iiiglit no'bne had obSeried anything 'peetilia- containedittshea both of Ahem replied, "Nothin g but wh.a.•tri
, .. : oitroewnl' .:114shOwever.opened it, and found the shirt
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in.his mroner.-§tamford Mercury.
iLL-CONSTIAUCTED Liw Gouars..,--The, legal ;profession an&stoakings in it ; in the woman's pocket he found the
has toe stiffer+. continuously from the, injutiona.consequenoes 'Pocket-bandkerehiefuand.in.th,3 jacket pocket of the man
of ill.dustinoted courts '; and lawyers, at least, should 114 fousUlthe cap,. all of which were identified by Thomp-
nterestthemsel;tes in seeing. that the boilding3 hi, whiell ,son, 3 10.1 in money was also. found on the woman.
The prisoners, who.-did not deny the charge, were bath
theyhave"t'e Spend so much of their lives, should be ade-
quately adapted to-the required purposes: Atnongs: other • committed for trial. ~
annoyances of the Class we are alluding to, and: which b,s.se • ASSAAJLTING- WlFE.—Patrick Whaling, . a sawyer by
to be encountered by .the practitiorer, We. play pate the trader hvisg in Birkenhead, was ChNegea . with having
absurd relative positidns altotteil resaectively to the jade, ,erdely las§aulted , his wife, Frances, on Tuesday night.
juty, counsel, and wi!nesses. Mont' a circuit tOVIII presents Tiolice officer. Murray said he was on duty about twelve
in its court-house an instance of most ingenious folly in n'dOck that night, when he saw a crowd of persons round
P
Muse in the, Claughtox-road, and when he got
the arrangeniOnt of the above necessarrparties, We.have •
often seen learned sitting in a we'll ind.he.mildle of there, he heard a female cry out "murder, warder," very
the court, preclnded from' all meains of ..c.)natriunicating pitifully,upoh which .he went into the house and found
lAth their clients or with each • other;i:the- witnesF.,box the prisoner, wh6 was the worse for drink, having hold of
being so tlispespd, that if he w,htf-is being:examined looks` his wifeby.the hair of the heads who begged of the police
owes Iftis, questioner when anssifering the counsel, as is officer to take him. into custody, as she was afraid he would
ler vitably, th 3 case, he "then Aunts' big
hark ,on the jury, -kilt her, upon which he looked him up. _Prisoner's wife
who O'se his reply. -On being told by everybody at once, said it was not the arst time he had ill-used her, although
to, 0 speak Up, and leek the: other way," the nerveas wit. fin, the last two years she had kept him by her own in-
ness immediately alters his position, se that the„ judge,. can dustry, 'he not having done any work during that time,
only hear an indistinct mutter ;
:whereupon he receives a Fined 10i and costa, or twenty-one dmprisonment.
dignified rebuke from his lordship, and endeavours to meet' 5' YattiT argikr-Ocis—john. Milligan, ass's ardener, and who
this new want, in which, if he succeeds, he inevitably has been in eastody It';r theft on other gooses
offends the
then
di on the other side, who is hearl cow= • chirged With stialir'g some apples, onions,. and
plaining to the diseencerted.witness, "Can't bear a word berries, the ptom..ty of Mr.- Hugh Craig, a genilernan
you sly, sir! Why don't.you give out your evidence i residing 413 ie. wood, near Leighton ,in this county,in whose
like an 1194C4t t4lttn ?"---Loto Magezine; for August,el employ h 0 )",,ad been as gardener bttween four aid fa