Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-18 00:00:00

MURDER OF A FENALE AT CASIBERWELL.

At the Lambeth police-court, on Thursday, Alice
Williams, 33, of No. 3, Wibrow'e-cottages, Camberwell,
was, just as the Hon. G. C. Norton was abut to leave the
bench, brought up in the custody of police-officer Mangey,
of the P division. charged with killing teed shying Henry
Rix, of No. 1, Cobourg-cottages, Neat-street Camberwell.
Samuel P. Mungay, police-constable 41 P, said that that
morning, at eleven o'clock, Mr. Rix (the deceased), came
to the station-house and cowl lined of the treatment of
the prisoner towards him. He proceeded with him to his
house, No. 1, Cobonrg-cottages, Neat-street, Camberwell.
where he remained some time without seeing the prisoner,
and, after the lapse of au hour, he left ; but upon reaching
the Albany-roads some boys called him, back again, and
upon reaching the house the second time- he found Mr.
Rix dead. The Magistrate: Where was- the prisoner at
that time? Witness : She had gone to her' own house,
and I found her lying on her bed. The Magistrate: Was
she asleep ? Witness: No sir; but she pretended to be.
The Magistrate : Did you say anything to her ? Witness :
Yes; I charged her with having murdered Mr. Rix, and I
told her that I must take her into custody, when she
laughed and said, " Well, it is a' good job too."
The Magistrate : Did she say anything else?
Witness : Yes ; on the way to the station she said if
she could only have five minutes with Mrs. Rix she would
not mind going to Horsemonger-lane, and be hanged. The
Magistrate : In what stare did she appear? Witness :
Slightly under the influence of liver ; but she appeared
to know perfectly well what she was doing. The Magis-
trate :In what state is she now, Jok ? Mr,. Cook : Oh,
she. is quite sober, oir ; she has been, however. frequently
charged here for being drunk. Mary Ann' ,Tenninga, 4:e
Burnham-place, Camberwell, said, that inertniag, about
one o'clock, whilst in her garden, her little boy came to
her and said that there was a great disturbance in the
stress. She went out atra saw the prieoner on the ground,
and Mr. Rix holding her by each wrist,. and Mrs. Rix was
leaning over a paling nearly fainting. The prisoner, at
the same time, was trying' to throw a s'one at the deceased,
who went inside his shop; as she thought, to get sense
vinegar, when she heard a fall, and she went to see what
was the mat ter, and she toned the deoensed' lying on the
floor. The Magistrate : Where Ives the prisoner at that
time ? Witness:: I don't know where she then was. I
had prevenusly heard her making a great nrese, and using
eery bad language. The Maeietaate : Did she say any-
thing particular? Witness :' I heard her say that
she would do. for Mr. Rix, but nothing else. Eliza-
beth Brewer, of ti, Neat-street, said that at half-past
eight that morning she beard the prisoner go into Mr.
Rifi3 shop, and she- heard the prisoner say that she
would do for him. She then bad genes in her hand which
she wanted to throw at him. Th. Magistrate: Die she
say anything ? Witness : Yes, she said, " Come out and
I will do for yen. I don't mind being hanged for you,"
and after threatening him for some time said, " I will have
your life." The Magistrat a : What next neeurred ?
Witness : She remained there ,half an hour and tried to
incite some boys to call after his 1, and Mr. Rix went to the
police station, and while he was gone she struck Mrs. Rix.
The deceased returned with a policeman, who remained
some time, and when he left, she r etarned, and f ;reel open
the door, when he ran and laid hol d of her hand, but she
flaw ale him. The Magistrate :. Do you know whether she
threw a stone at him ? Witness : I do not. The Magis-
trate: Did you notice any inj4lry on his penal ? Witness:
I assisted to lay him out, and I foun 1 a deep cut which
was bleeding on the right side of the cheek just below the
eye. The Magistrate: What sort 0, f a wound was it?
Witness A very deep one, this under I etrt of the eye being
cut open. The Magistrate : Did eel t notice any other
injury ? Witness : Only a' few sligh t scratches ? Mr.
Inspector Worrell, who has the case in I land, informed the
magistrate that that was ail the evidence he had been able
o get at present, so the prisoner was rem ended.

THE EXPENSE 07 LORD GRANVILLI MISSION TO
RUSSIA.—The expense of Lord Granvi lie's mission to
Russia for the Coronation, as paid, was A 12 773 Ss. 10d.
BERANO3E.—The dying poet is mue h worse. The
bulletin of Tuesday morning is :—" Xi. 132 ranger has
passed a worse night than ever. He is extr ernAy agitated
and altogether very ill." At a late hour t hat afternoon
the answer to inquiries was that M. Bera: nger was in a
very alarming state.

ErTRAORDINARY Brit7ll.—A-f B!ackhorse, lane, Phonix
Park, on Saturday last, the wife of a lab curer named
Lynch gave birth to three daughters, all o f whom are.
doing well, the mother being also in a satin; 'aetory state
On three former occasions Mrs. Lynch gave b; irth to twins►
and the three now introduced into this work I of vicissi-
tudes make the total number of twelve children born to
those happy parents in the course of a fe w years, all
of whom are living except one.—Sawnder's .21 :ewe Letter.
TEE MOORS.—Reports of the present al )pearanee of
some of the principal moors in the counties of Aberdeen,.
Banff,' Moray, Inverness, and Ross, are u nan;mous• in
representing the old birds left on the Moor s at the end
of last season as necessarily much smaller in number than
usual ; but agree in stating that the favour able hatching
time this year has covered the moors with, c 3rmideritr, tha
small number of breeders, a fair stock or grouse, which
are as yet healthy, and will be strong by the 12th of
August. The reports from the Scotch deer forests are
even more favourable than the accounts as) to the =oars.

" STRAINING AT A GNAT," &c —Ogle 0 f the worthiestof
our nothern cotemporarics refuses to pulJlish, Without an
incredulous protest, a story told by the Z iumfries Seanclarct
of the discovery of a horse-bean in an egg ; ye t reprints
without remark a romance-from the If 'ashinglan Union of
a Central African tribe whose tallest 'men are 'but a yard.
high. They are cunning workmen in iron, ani live in;
towns with iron walls. They have reig'abotirs who are:
human unicorns ; others. who have four eyes ; a third.
community living subterraneously ; arol r:,..fovirth, the Al a-
biru, who have a caudal appendage, the stiffness of wit; Loh
is unfriendly too taking a seat ;" so " eiery man carrif 3S a
sharp-pointed stick, with which hr; drilk; a hole in the
earth to receive his tail while sitting." ' A greater eh 3ker
than a horse-bean !

A FRAUDULENT BANERUM—In Re Gtzcow y.—lt
having been ascertained that no clue has, been ohtai ned to
the place of concealment of John G:egee y, wholev le and
retail oil and pickle merchants, of No. 1,85 and.l94 t, High-
street, Borough, and , Beckford-row, Walworth, who
absconded from his creditors on ttee 23rd• to st May,
carrying with him a large amount of money,. including
£2,000 in gold, and a number of d ocumenta 7 'elating. to
his accounts, the assignees have. dcicided forth, sith to sell
by auction the immense stock-in-trade, some id ea of which
may be formed, that it, amongst of her artieler comprises
no less than 500 half hogsheads of pickles, (200 gallons of
ditto, and 100- dozen of ditto in jars al d bottles, for
supplying the vegetables used in
.the T manufacture of
which, a market-gardener has pmt IA. a claim for nearly
£7OO. The bankrupt's effects are not xpeCted to cover
one-tenth part of the debts, which are 'Y ,timated at nearly
£17,000. Messrs. Linklater, the oißr ial assignees, have
employed the na7st active and efficient detective officers in
the case; and Mr. Johnstone, Om esseeiger to the Court
of Bankruptcy, is most persevering; is his exertions to
bring the defaulter to.justice.

Thal WEATHER. IN PARIS.---A. 'Correspondent writes :
The heat here is really tropical. The sun pours down a
volume of fire on. the boielevar ds and open places, and
tieneforms the pavements into smoking ovens. The few
foot passengers trip along with that nervous jump peculiar
to young bears. that are. being t night to duce on heated
iron plates. The consremption of ices at the cafes is fear-
ful • but the- restraera nts are deserted, for it is too hot
either to cook or to ee,t. The thousands of workmen em-
ployed in embellish Ag Paris sneak into shady corners and
i
lie down to sleep. 'ffben the lazy Englishman slumbers on
the ground, he r /clines on his back, throws his legs into
curious shapes, rind covers his face with his cap. The
Frenchman, on the other hand, lies flat on his nose, and
always appears., suffering from incipient stomach-ache.
Even the drivers of the water carts, who have the supreme
happiness of /tieing partially deluged by every jerk of their
vehicles. are disgusted with the sun,_ which defies all
their efforts to lay the dust. But the morality of the
capital has ga'ined by the heat. Murders are rare, for it
is too hot, to get into a passion. The very rogues and
pickpockets are too lazy to dash, at the heaps of bank
notes contained in the windows ef the money changers ;
yet I. am sure they might do so with impunity, for the
owners would not give thems.lves the trouble to cry "stop
thief," even if the police would dream of giving chase in
such matters. Suicides also ate unheard of ; who could
stand the heat of charcoal brazier, while it is too great a
bore to leg the parapets of the bridges in order to roach
the tepid Seine. The fleas, the intrepid Hebrews who
brave sunstrokes at the Berirse in order to turn a dishonest
penny, and the flocks of 'roving Englishmen and English-
women alone display sie,ns of activity. Our dear country-
men are this year more ridiculously dressed than ever, and
they appear utterly insensible to the fact that their stupid
want of taste and goad breeding is a reproach to England.
With costumes more calculated for Bartholomew Fair,
if that veaereble institution still existi, than for the
capital of Freace, they rush about with perspiring
faces from 'eight to sight ; and it might be imagined
that the safety of the British empire, and their own
persone2i existence, depended on " doing " the Louvre,
the Invalides, and the " Boys of Bulong " in one hour
wed thew-quarters. I could continue for hours to ex-
par;,ato on the terrible heat that overwhelms us, but it
'would be labour thrown away. This letter will never
reach you—it can never reach you; the postman will
drop down with the bags from fatigue, or he will sell
the letters for waste paper, and rush off to the econoe
mical baths; or invest the proceeds ill cheap icetle

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-YESTIRDAY.

LIVERPOOL.

BEFORZ M. MANSFIELD.

A BLIND TOUTER MORE or THE SYSTEM."—SOOII
after his Worship had taken his seat, Mr. Goodere
addressed him, and said :—" I have again, sir, to complain
to you of the abominable, system of touting, which has been
so frequently before you of late, and which has grown to
an intolerable nuisance, so much, that it is the public talk
of the town. Some blackguards (he continued) had been
recently before the courts, and it now appeared that they
had got hold of a blind man, who really smelt out eases.
This man had ss. a week from the parish, and he used to
come about the court, and smelt out where persons were
charged for being drunk and disorderly, or some small
offence or other of that sort, and then he would proceed to
the wives, or other persons belonging to the prisoners, and
represent that the offence was a serious one, and gene-
rally extracted 10s. in order to procure the assistance of
an attorney. Now, it was well known that his Wor-
ship, in cases of being _ dunk and disorderly,
only fined prisoners 5.4. What I, therefore, complain
of is that such c:nduct should ba allowed in and about
the prescincts of the court. I would suggest that an officer
be directed to walk through the coact and its prescincts to
prevent such blackguards from interfering with, or speak-
ing to, or have any communication with, prisoners. If an
attorney belonging to the court was not able, by his own
merits and abilities, without the aid and assistance of such
vagabonds, the sooner such attornies left the court the
better. Mr. Msnsfleld : If any one, taken up for being
drunk and disorderly, comes forward here and states that
any one represented the case to be otherwise than drunk
and disorderly, and thereby obtain money, I will at once
send ouch vaglbond for trial. Inspector Chew said : I
saw four of the ruffians outside the court jest now, and
when they saw me approaching they ran into a public
house op?osite, in Chspsl-street, where they make a
regular office for their villainy. His Worship
said if any' one of these fellows were brought be-
fore him, on a proved charge, he would deal with them
in a proper way. At present he did not
see how he could act. Mr. Garnett (chief clerk) said the
affair was one for the attendee themselves to proceed in.
Goodere said he would consult with Mr. Black, and
devise what was best to be done to put a stop to such dis-
graceful and bleckguard practices.
ASSLULTS.—John Henegan was charged with having
assaulted a man named Charles Darr. The parties were
in a house in Spading street, when some dispute took
place, and the prisoner struck complainant with a stone on
the head, which, according to the evidence of Mr. J. J.
Pope, surgeon f the Southern Hospital, had "stared"
his head, and inflicted two serious scalp wounds.
The prisoner was sent to jail for three months.—
John O'Brien was charged by officer 432, who said the
prisoner keeps a bad home in Spitalfields, and that he saw
him knock his wife down with a blow on the head. He
told him he had no right to act in that way, when he

turned round and knocked him down also. The prisoner
was fined £5 or three months imprisonment.—
Mr. Bruck appa tred for a female, named Mary Anne Jones,
who charged John Jones, her husband, a respectable
looking person, with having assaulted her. This affair
arose out of a family quarrel, and the comp'ainant alleged
that on Sunday last her husband beat her, and cut her on
the cheek wilh a knife. It was, after some discussion,

arranged that tha prisoner should be held to bail to keep
the peace.—John M Quade was charged with having
assaulted a woman, named Eliza Goodall, and the ease
was proved by a police-officer who saw the assault. The
prisoner was tined £5 or three months imprisonment.
STRANGe CIIA.RGO AGAINST A " RS'SPEOTABLE"(?)
WOMAN —An exceedingly pretty, little, and lady-like
dressed woman, named Mary Jennione, who held a fine
and elegantly dressed boy, about 18 months old, in her
arms, was put to the bar, charged with having stolen
a watch and £2 lOs from John Linton, an
inhabitant of Carliale. The prisoner was described
as the wife of a respectable joiner in good
business in Upper Frederick-street, Park. The circum-
stances were not only singular but very strange, and
without entering into matters foreign to the charge
(although stated in evidence) the following is a narrative
of the case. The prisoner was with her husband at the
races on Thur.day, and both came home together. Some-
where in town they parted company, but why or wherefore
did not appear. The nex, plate where the woman was found,
was in a house of ill-repute kept by a person named Basnett,
in Tyrer-street, where she was given into custAy by the
man Linton, on the charge of having stolen his watch and
£2 101. Linton said he came fronuairlisle to the races,

and when he came into town he mat the prisoner. They
had had some drink, and after a conversation, she took
him to the house in question. The next thing known was
the fact of a police office: being called by the complainant,
and he went into the room, where he found him and
the prisoner, the latter of whom was given into his
charge as above. On searching the pisce. the watch
and money were found in an arm bag belonging to the
prisoner. Mr. Parker, an attorney, appeared for the
prisoner, and elicited the fact from the prosecutor that he
had made her a present of a sovereign, but that did not
constitute any part of the ..f2 lOs. Mr. Parker then said
the woman was most respectable and respectably connected.
Mr. Mansfield reviewed her ease'and conduct, and said

both were not by any means " respectabl-." Mr. Parker
said, up to the present moment, her character stood high
and irreproachable, and her respectable friends were
utterly overwhelmed and struck with terror when they
heard the charge. Of course this would utterly ruin her
for the remainder of her life. He thought her degrada-
tion and the punishment which she now underwent,
sufficient to purge her present offence. The complainant
begged to withdraw the charge, and, having received his
property, the wretched woman was set at liberty.
BEFORE MESRRS. SBEIL AND BOLTON.
A PUBLICAN FINED £lO FOR AN ASSAITLT.—Mr. Nicholas

Walsh a publican, carrying on business in
was charged for having violently :malted an unfortunate
• female named Anne O'Brien. About a week since, at an
early hour in the morning, the complainant, with two other
females, entered the house and had some ale. Whilst
they were at the counter, some man (as they alleged) had
a quarrel with Mr. Walsh, and O'Brien interfering, she
said the defendant knocked her down, kicked her on the
temple, and al.o inflicted a wound on her cheek with some
sharp instrument; she was in hospital since. This state-
ment was fully corroborated by two other women, and
although they were all subjected to a long and rigid cross-
examination by Mr. Black, who defended Mr. Walsh,
their evidence was not shaken. For the defence a witness
*was produced, in order to show that the complainant was
the aggressor, and that the wounds were inflicted by a
fall, but the bench did not think the proof sufficient, and
Mr. Shell, of er an elaborate judgment, fined Mr. Walsh
£lO for the assault. The money was at once paid.

BIRKE ti HEAD.
BEFORE R BRYANS,
A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY.—Jane Evans, a servant girl,
was brought up for stealing £4 10s, and about £2 in silver,
the money of James M'Watty, of 34, Lord-street, Birken-
head. The prisoner, and a man whom the represented to
be her husband, took lodgings at the prosecutor's house
early in the month. of May last, and after staying there
about a week, they suddenly left. Three or four days after
they had gone, prosecutor had occasion to go to his clothes.
box, in which he kept his money, in his bed-room,
and then be missed his money. The prisoner must have
opened the box with the key, which was usually left on
the mantlepiece in the bed-room, and then have taken the
money. The prisoner, while in cust.ldy at Liverpool, and
at the Police-court and lockup at Birkenhead, admitted
having taken the key, opened the box, and taken out the
money, but she did not think there was more than three
soveretgas in gold. She also said that the prosecutor
might take all she got. Committed for trial. Information
has been received that the prisoner has already been con-
victed of felony, for which she was imprisoned. The
prisoner was brought up through the activity of detective-
officer Povey, of the Liverpool police, who ha& taken her
into custody on a charge of having stolen a bunch of keys
and a necklace from No. 3, Belgium-street. Liverpool,
where she had been in service only an hour before a bunch
of keys, amongst which was one belonging to a cash-box,
containing upwards of £2OO, were missing. Povey
being sent for, searched her box, and found
the keys and necklace, for which she was taken
before a magistrate, but as the case was not pressed
she was discharged. Povey, during the time
he was making inquiries as to her character, heard that she
was wanted for a robbery at Birkenhead, and brought her
over; he afterwards again searched her box, and found a
half-sovereign, four half-crowns, and a shilling, and also a
quantity of new wearing apparel, consisting of a parasol,
goloshes, aprons, boa, four shawls, and four mantles, one
of the latter being trimmed with deep black lace.
ANOTHER GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY. Joseph Cousins,
described in the charge sheet as a gardener, was next
brought up charged with having. stolen a sovereign, the
property of Mr. Thomas Rae, of 33, Chureh-street, Birken-
head. It appeared that some time last week the prisoner
had been working, doing up the gardens both frost and
back of Mr. Rae's house, for which he made a charge of
118. 91d He was paid lla. od. by Me. Rae's daughter,
but as she had not any coppers he was told to call another
time- Accordingly, he called on Wednesday evening last,
when Miss Rae told him she had no coppers, but went and
fetched a sovereign, and asked him if he had change ; he
said he had not, but would g. and gat it for her. The sove-
reign was given him for that purpose, and he left the house,
but never returned with the change. Information having
been given to the police, he was apprehended yesterday
aiming in Chester-street, by detective officer Hodgson,

who asked the prisoner what he had done with the
sovereign he had from Mr. Rae, when he replied, " I have
spent it." Prisoner admitted the charge, and said he
would :return the money to Mr. Rae ; that gentleman,
however, very properly refused to do so, as he thought
the prisoner should be made an example of. Committed
for trial.

STRAY CATTLE.-31r. John Miller, a builder, residing in
Birkenhead, was snmmoned, under the Birkenhead Act,
for permitting his horse to go at large in the public streets.
A great many complaints have of late been made of cattle
straying on 4he footpaths of the street. The consequence
of which was that ladies could not pass along, not only
without danger, but also from the nuisance they
created. Fined 5s and costs, with an nitimation that
the next time the fine will be much heavier.
[The police will do well to lock after those cases of cattle
straying, and we would call their attention to Grange-laue,
Oxton-road, and other thoroughfares, which have
vacant pieces of land on each side, as it has now
tecome a common practice for persons to turn out cows,
horses, and pigs without any, person to attend to
them, and prevent their going off the land.]
ROBBERY AT THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL, BIRKENHEAD.
—Yesterday morning it was discovered that the charity-
box of this chapel had been broken open, and its contents
abstracted, apd alyo a private box in one of the pews, from
which some books had been taken. Shortly after, a
coloured man, who gave the name of John Suse, was
apprehended, and upon being brought to the police-station
and searched, money was found upon him, principally in
coppers, for which he could give no account. Prisoner
will be brought up this day.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

LIVERPOOL JULY MELTING, 1837.

STEWARDS—The Honourable Adtnira Rons, His Grace the
Duke of Beaufort, a:A the Earl of Wilton.
CLERK or THE COURSE—Mr. W. E. Topham.
STARTER—Mr. Hibbard.
JUDGE—Mr. J. F. Cl irk.
CLERK OF THE SCALES—Mr. Horsley.