Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-17 00:00:00

better flay, the better

supposed, of

" difliculiy and .collisior!," ou Sunday morning

Michul

Barlow, z: tinker, was the.general commander-in-eh,

tribe of young tinkers, andold ,tinkers, and tinkers' wires,
and tinkers' sons, and tinkers' daughters, and many other
tinkers' relations. 34argaret .Green, and her son Eat,

4‘ allies,'

opp?sit

," the

Murrays, .aud the

Burkes,

and sev

'ethers, too numerous to rueution. Now, it might
-b3 thought that .the .conflicting parties were from
`" sister island" of 1'.014 Erin., thci Green," in consequence
of the approximatien of their .names to the Celts of that
serpentless island; but it appeared that tile only thing the
conflicting armies et' Oriel-strea, knew about that verdant
country of shainroclss.an4 potatoes (not bad thin

in. tilair

way) was, that they.had heard .of 'such a place from an
itinerant geographer, wko .vended stockings from Conne-
mara, and real goat's milk from Wicklow. General Tinker,
ALickey Barlow—Knight of .the Soflorin.. Iron and Jug as
will appear immediately, was put into the dock, on a charge
of laying "murdered" Mr. gePtrailisso Margaret Green
and Brigadier Patrick Green, ,son of the lady above
named, was placed beside Mr. Barlow, on a charge of
having kilt Mrs. Barl6w, and also for robbing her of:
168 3d of current eain .of our
.Snrereign lady Queen

Victoria. The " head dresses" OAP_ the parties, were
not only interesting to look upon, but quaint and unique
to contemplate. Turbans were no where when compared
with theca, and as fur the bead gear of Parsee

merchants, such could by no means be likened to them.
The variegated hues of the skull coverings of these cele-
brateduwarriors would have delighted Sir Joshua Reynolds
the ground appeared to he slun-,duck.ed-dy mud colour,
with here and there exquisite sanguinary spots —locks of

hair peeped out at conveaieut
,places, that gave quite a
romantic air to the foregrou.ml, whilst the contemplation at
the dexter and sinister hands showed such. tip.ts towards the
optics, that made the whole a Plmptasmap;oria.of great won
der. Mr... Black appeared on behalf. of. the
,younz Lieutenant-
Colonel Qreen, and Mr. Cobb was in the same position as
—;eld-Marshal Barlow Mrs. Commander-in-Chief

regal. a...
Green t6hl her story in the following words.: —On last
Saturday night last, may it be pleasing to your .li.xcelleney,
the prisuaa:s sun's mother's brothex was (.Irunk as an owe.
So, thereur4the same, his brother's soli vent to the lure ; and

then his brother-in-law went to strik. r,s, brc4hcr'a evil;
tlitat I 440" nun in, and his brother's son said hi made
a blow at him. My brother then said he would go _home,
and his little 4ether's son was struck on °the spot, and .shut the
door. So, I opgned the door, and says I, "..Tem, you thief run
now for yer life, as yer all safe," and then I went down to
the end of the nnrt, when I saw Barlow coming out with a
big jug in one of his fists, and a soderiNg iron,m the other
claw. The firs :.thing he did after that was to give me a
crack of the jug on the side of the lug hero, and tumbled
me as dead as a giinea pig, and then he melted me away
with the soderiag sron on the face and forehead. ",Qh,
murder, Mike," s.:(:ys I, "is that the way you treat a
woman ?" and as :Aeon as I said that, the jug flew into.a
thousand pieces over my head, and so I was kilt, and that's
all. Mr. Cobb: Q,Aite enough, I should think; but how
did it all happen, for ,I can't understand it ? Mrs. Green :
You'd have understood it, if you got what I did. It all
came about his brother's son, and the rest of them. Mr.
Cobb : But I could not have understood it, if I were kilt
like you. Mrs. Green That's exactly it ; but if you had
been murdered as I was, you'd know more about it.
Mr. obb : Then you mere murdered ? Mrs. Green :
I was, and kilt into the bargain. Mr. Cobb : You're an
Irish.w_oman, I suppose? Mrs. Green (with a degree of
indignation that was truly krrific) : Do you suppose so ?
No, I'te4tot, no more than you ; thank goodness I never
belonged, ito anything so bad is that. Mr. Cobb : It was a
zeal Irish. row, was not it ? rs. Green looked at the
learned adr,ccate, in a manner gat spoke as plain as look
could speak,---if I were over there with you, I'd let you
know whether it was or not, and _then screeched out —No
it wasn't, boy,- could it be wheu ill was murdered, and my
son there at the bar kilt ? Mr. 1,-,e4:13 : Then they don't
kill or murder .each other in Irish rows.? No, they don't,
they fight fakly and bravely --$l-ley don't murder
one another in this way, with jnys and sodering
irons. Mr. Cobb-:
_Did you not knock sene of their brains
out with a tongs? No, I hadn't a tongs:; but if I had,
and that.l could kasz got at them, I'd iiivre opened their
skulls like an oyster. Then followed the,exidence of th
Xurray's, the Connolly'}, the Burke's, the 11,1'.?.ilamara's, an
the Kelly's —curious enc,pgh all of whom stated that the
were English. Such a .coplused mass of eviderkee was neve
giver in a court before.. The Burke's and API'

;wore that " black was ; " whilst the Mur

y's anc

red anc

Kelly's swore that " green"(het Mrs. Green) wa
blue. 3f rs. Barlow swore 4.?..4 Master Greeu assgsivatc.
her, and gobbed her of 16s. 0d.,; and several other pexon
swore that Mrs. Barlow was not o& the field of battle at all
but "scruching" drunk in a public,house all the time of
11r..Bluck showed, by equally reliable evidnec.

" murder."

that Master Green was at 1(
when Mrs. Barlow alleged that lie was doing the extract-
ing business Eros her pocket. This decided the fate
of the juvenile general, and His Worship said,
whatever he believed-of the whole case, he did not credit a
word about the robbery by Patrick Green, Est„ and there-
. ...

tsio and a-half miles off

- •
fore set him at everlasting liberty (for the present) ; but he
fined General Barlow and costs, for having "141 t" Mrs.
Green; and so ended the war in Oriel-street (until Sunday
night next only).
ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFY;CER.—William and Eliza
arnell, husband and wife, were charged with assaulting
Police-officer 470. It appeared that, on Sunday morning,
about two o'clock, there was a great crowd of low women
at the bottom of Limekiln-lane. The officer tried to dis-
perse them, but they idused to leave, and the officer whistled
for assistance. No assistance corning to hand, he drew his
staff, bat the crowd succeeded in wresting the staff and
whistle from him. They then assaulted him, and the male
prisoner struck him on the face and thigh with the baton.
He had been off duty since, owing to his injuries. The two
prisoners were the only ones arrested. Mr. Mansfield fined
them £5 each, or three months' imprisonment. The
prisoners were removed, in default.
GAMBLING IN ST. MARTIN'S FIELDS.---John James, and
Mary, his wife, were charged with gambling M St. Martins
Fielo. The prisoners had each a table, and were workingaway. One down, who will make two,
4;
" &c. Mr. Ina&
defended. Evidence was given to the effect that, in conse- I
quence of complaints which had been made to the head_ '
cnstahle,_ a superintendent of police had been instructed to
apprehend the
iivit.43,ners on a charge of gambling. Mr.
Black contended that Ale ground on which the alleged
gaiming was going 'on Tiff rivate property, and therefore
could not come under the vqgpx.l4; act. Mr. Mansfield took
this view nf the affair. He had no jurisdiction, and the
prisoners warp .therefpre. discharged.'