Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-20 00:00:00

RAPE AT WIGAN

Thomas France, aged about 40, was indicted for hav-
ing, at Wigan, on the 20th of May last, committed a
rape on the person of Ann Shuttleworth. The prosecu-
tor Was a cripple, and, in giving her evidence had to sit
a chair 'which was lifted OR to the table by the officers
of the „,;,.t.
The jury
retired to consider their verdict, and had not
agreed
Villen the eourt rose.

WOUNDING WITH A SICKLE.
Michael Joyce, aged about 25, was indicted for having,
at Cherie!, on the 9th inst., feloniously wounded Thos.
Bibby. Tile prosecuter was a police constable, stationed
at Cherley. At midnight, on the 9th instant,
called to the Fox and Geese public-house there, to take
he was
into custody the father of the prisoner on a charge of
obtaining liquor under false pretenses. The father had
Poe
what appeared to be half a sovereign, and had
got liquor for it. The prosecutor was questioning the
father, when the prisoner came into the room, and. after
~ Have you found the half-sovereign ?" took
trosecutor, put out the gas, and indicted

saying,

hald

a severe blow with a sickle on the head of the prose-
cutor. The force of the blow caused the sickle to break.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of striking ablowt

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Before MR. F

Q.C.

AT NEWCILURCH

James Riley, aged 24, was found guilty of having,
Newehurch, on the 9th March, 1857, forged the name
a person as -guarantee for £l5, with intent to defraud
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p Loan Sc

:ed 36, wc

ROBBERY WITH VIOLEN
John Riley, aged 30, and John E
indicted for having, on the 23rd July last, assaulted and
robbed Thomas Allen, in Elliot-street, Liverpool. The
jury found the prisoners guilty. Sentences—Riley,
twelve months' imprisonment ; Evans, an old offender,
four years' penal servitude.
A MOTHER CAUSING THE DEATH OF HER, CHILD

BY' STARVATION

Margaret Shuffiebottom was indicted for having, at
Liverpool, on the 25th July last, caused the death of
her infant child, named Emma, by neglect and starva-
tion. The prisoner was an habitual drunkard. The
surgeon said that the cause of death was the want of
proper nourishment, but he admitted that it might have
been caused by the depraved state of the mother's milk,
arising from drunkenness. Verdict—not guilty.

NISI PRIUS COURT.

-YESTERDAY

[Before Mr. Justice HILL.]
His lordship entered the court at nine o'clock, when
the special jury issues in the Salford list were proceeded
with.

DISPUTED PATENT RIGHT

-ERMEN V. LIDDLI

The action in this case was brought against the de-
fendant for an alleged infringement of a patent granted
to the plaintiff, and dated the 17th of June, 1851. The
defendant put in pleas of use by various parties, and
that the invention was an old one, and not the invention
of the plaintiff. Mr. Wilde, Q.C., Mr. Webster, and
Mr. Aston, were counsel for the plaintiff ; and Mr.
James, Q.C., and Mr. Aspland for the defendant.
The learned counsel for the plaintiff said, the action
was brought for an infringement of the plaintiff's patent,
which was of very considerable value, and one that was
now for the first time, under peculiar circumstances,
brought into question. It was a patent which was ob-
tained by the plaintiff, Mr. Ermen, in June, 1857, and
the machinery in question was for the purpose of im-
parting. to cotton threads a gloss and lustre which made
them, in truth, a totally different article of commerce.
The plaintiff had carried on business for many years in
Manchester, in partnorship with another gentleman, and
the defendant was a manufacturer residing at Middleton,
near Manchester. The defendant was found to be in-

fringing the right of the plaintiff in March, 1859.
Before the year 1851 Mr. Ermen had turned his atten-
tion to the great importance of getting a lustre put
upon cotton thread, and after repeated experiments he
at length produced the machine in dispute. It was an
apparatus by means of which, through the medium of
friction, the cotton thread was brushed very frequently,
over and over again, in the hank, whilst in a state of
tension and motion, and was similar to those patented by
the plaintiff. The defendant admitted that he had used
the machines, but now contended that the invention had
been long in use, and was not the invention of the

plaintiff

A great number of scientific and other witnesses
were examined in support of the plaintiff's case, but
their evidence was entirely devoid of interest, except to

the parties concerned.
Mr. James, Q.C., addressed the jury on behalf of the
defendant, urging that that invention was not new, but
that it was founded on a principle known and acted
upon several years before 1851. Before that period Mr.
Hunt, whom the defendant had succeeded, had made a
precisely similar model, and it was his, and not the
plaintiff's machine, that was used in the defendant's
mill.

Witnesses having been called in order to prove that
the invention attributed to the plaintiff had been in use
so far back as 1830, his lordship summed up, after which
the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages
L5O.

The case occupied the court during the whole of the
day.

HOUSEKEEPEII.§.—The Coffee sold by Thompson
Brothers, 5, Elliott-street, at ls. 4d., is better than you
pay ls. Bd. for at any other establishment.

GOLDSMITH THE BANKRUPT.-At the Third Central
Criminal Court, on Thursday, Lyon Goldsmith, 38,
(late of Liverpool,) tobacconist, was indicted for obtain-
ing within three months of being adjudged a bankrupt,
goods amounting in value to above £2,000. The case,
which lasted until late in the evening, did not reveal
any circumstances of a novel character, excepting the
amount involved. The prisoner was a bankrupt tobac-
conist in January last, and then getting references,
obtained from different City houses upholstery an I dra-
pery goods, watches, and other valuable articles, amount-
ing in all to nearly £7,000, nearly all of which he
pawned and sold at much below their cost value. He
was found, c,uilty,_ and sentenced to twelve months' im-
prisonment.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT BACTIP.—On Tues-
day, an inquest was held at Newchurch, by Mr. Har-
greaves, coroner, on the body of James Heyworth, a
labourer in the employ of Mr. Thomas Ashworth,
currier, of Newchurch. On the 6th inst. the deceased
was engaged in shunting some empty waggons at the
Bacup Station, on the Fast Lancashire Railway, on to
an adjoining line. A goods train being in the station,
he got the driver to remove four laden waggons a little
further up the line, and then coupled the empty ones to
them. As soon as they had been removed far enough,
he signalled the driver to shut off the steam ; and
while the train was still in motion, he attempted to get
betwixt the full and empty waggons to uncouple them ;
but in doing so one of his feet slipped on the metals,
and he was severely crushed between the buffers. He
died on Saturday. Verdict, " Accidentally killed."
J. Gorsuch, Hair-Cutter and Perfumer, No. 7,
Parker-street, begs most respectfully to thank his
friends and the public for the liberal patronage be-
stowed upon him during the fourteen years he has
been in business in Liverpool, and, furthermore
solicits a continuance of their favour, which it shall
ever be his study to deserve. He takes the present
opportunity to announce that the late partnership ex-
isting between himself and James Wynes is dissolved
and for the future the business will be carried on,
at No. 7, Parker-street, under J. Gorsuch's sole
superintendence. Boarding Schools attended by the
month. Private families waited on as usual at
their residences. An experienced assistant will
be sent round once a month to the following
places :—Bootle, Seaforth, Waterloo, Crosby Huyton,
Bainhill, Runcorn, St. Helen's, Seacombe, Egre-
monti New Brighton, Birkenhead Park, Claugh-
ton, (Won, and Rock Ferry. J. G. may be consulted
personally in all cases of disease in the hair. lie calls
especial attention to the stimulative properties of his
" Circassian Balm," (where the hair is falling off,) of
which, and the Milk of Almonds, he is the sole in-
ventor ; and no other is genuine unless made by J.
Gorsuch. s 2

CIRCITLAIL—Exchange Hair-cutting and Sham-
pooing-rooms, (over the shop of Mr. Turmeau, cigar
inerchant,) No. 11, Castle-street, Liverpool, August 5,
1859.—5ir,--In handing you the inclosed card, permit
me to inform you that the partnership hitherto sub-
sisting between myself and Mr. Gorsuch has terminated
by mutual consent. I shall for the future carry on the
rooms situate as above, where I trust I may be favoured
with your patronage. Nothing shall be wanting on
my part to deserve your confidence.—l have the honour
to lac, sir, year obedient servant, James Wynes.
IMPROVEMENT IN GENTLEMEN'S HATS.—
Manyappeared in the "Post" and " Journal,"
letters from time to time have, on this subject,
tn9e obigAthl-s
of which are to be seen at our silo
STREET, and 6, CRESCENT. a JOHN A.
SIMPSON, the active
_partner of the firm of
KINNEAR and SIMPSON, begs to state that this
improvement in Gentlemen's Hats is his own inven-
t don, and registered by him in his owti name, and is
his own private property. In bringing this invention
so prominently before the public, he has avoided say-
ing one word about it himself. All that has been
done has just been to print, in the " Daily Post"
and the "Liverpool Journal," some three or four
letters at a time. The principle upon which the
advertisement is inserted is the one so well expressed in
Proverbs--" Let another man praise thee, and not
thine own mouth • a stranger, and not thine own lips."
The whole of those letters are written by persons
altogether uninfluenced by any other motive than this
—that they really felt the benefit of Mr. SimPsopes
invention, and in such a degree, that they thought it
only just to him to state their opinions, not in words
merely, but also in writing.