Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-SATURDAY.

'ERPOOL.
FFORE MR. MANSFIELD.
ASSAULTING THE POLICE.—On the night of the 11th
inst., in Byrom-street police officers 374 and 534 were
violently assaulted by three men, one of whom got away,
another is at present in jail on the charge, and the third is
in the hospital, having broken his leg in a fall in the
affray. The missing man was brought up on Saturday
morning. He gave hia name as John Flynn, and soil he
was clerk to a fishmonger in St. John's Market. Mr. Black
defended him. The tilicers proved the case, the details of
which were the same as appeared a few days ago in our
paper. Mr. Bluck said he c )uld prove that the prisoner
was in bed at twelve o'clock ou the night in question, and
could not have been at the place where the assault took
place. His Worship said the case was too serious for his
disposal, and he would send it for trial, and let a jury
decide the evidence. The prisoner was sent for trial, but
he would be admitted to proper bail.
" Tint Way THE MONLY GOES."—In a case where a
man named Johnston was brought up en a warrant for
not supporting his illegitimate child, in reply to a question
by the bench, Mr. Cozens, the w rrant officer of the court
said, this man was summoned to appear here on Wednes-
day, and he employed an attorney Mr. Parker, to defend
him, and gave him (Hr. Parker) half-a-erown, and the
advice he gave him was to disoby the order for the summons
and not to appear, and he did not appear, so that he had to
be brought up on a warrant. His Warship directed Mr.
Parker to be sent for, and in a few moments he
appeared, when his Worship as'ied him " Well, Mr.
Parker, what have you to say to this case ?" Mr. Parker
—when this case came on before—(lie then stopped short,
and asked the complainant, who was in the box, will you
take half the money now, and the remainder in a fort-
night ? The complainant said "he (the prisoner) has not
offered me anythirg yet. The prisoner (to Mr. Parker)
you took half-a-crown from me, and is that the sort of
advice you give me now ? The matter was then arranged
between the parties.
Gross OITTRAGN.—fIugh Smith, a porter in the estab-
lishment of Messrs. Sillitoe and Glover, grccers, Lime-
street, was brought up on remand, by detective efficer
Horn, en a charge of having committed an outrogo of a
diabolical description, on a respectable married woman,
named Elizabeth Naill, the wife of a baker living ire
Pellew-street. Mr. Black was for the prisoner. It was
proved by several witnesses that on the evening of the .9-th
inst., the eomplainant, with another female,. was standing
on the gird at the shop window of the house named, and
that whilst there, the outragecomplained of was committed.
A surgeon proved the exeent of the injury inflicted on the
woman, who seemed very weak, and had been in the
is hospital ever educe the affair. Tee prisoner was sent for
trial, but on the application of Mr. Block he was admitted
to bail in two sureties of £2-0 each.
MOLEST Aseaver.—William Clacton was charged with
heaving committed a desp rate assault on a labourer,
Michael Malley. Mr. Csbb was r the prisoner. It
appeared that, on the 10:h fast.,. the complainant was
engaged breaking stones in a field in the Park, and a man
left an instrument calleA a " pick " iu his keeping ; the
prisoner came into the laid with a plank of wood on his
shoulder, and took up the " pick"' in order to split the
wood, when the complainant told him to desist, as he had
no right to the pick. The prisonesernehed at witness, where
he was on a "ruck" of stones breaking them, and the
latter pushed him down,whea the prisoner snapped up a stone
hammer with a handle nearly six feet long, and gave the
complainant a blow ou the head which nearly finished him.
In reply to Mr. Cobb,. the prosecutor said he did not know
but the prisoner had a right to be in the field, but he
did know that he had no right to _nearly knock his brains
out, for when he got the blow he did not remember any-
thing for a long time after. Surgeon Pope, of the Southern
Hospital,.deposed to the it jury iirtlicted on the man, which
was considerable, and dangerous. Mr. Cobb urged in defence
that the prisoner snatched up the stickein the heat of the
moment, notthinking there was a hammer on the other end
end of it, and unfortunately it was that end that lit on the
man's head, although the prisoner had no notion of doing the
man any injury. His Worship sail if the prisoner cotel d
make ajory believe that story, it might have some weight,
but he did not credit it. He sant the prisoner for trial,
TR.'S HARDEST or Two EARTHS.--Mary Anne Pritchard,
an athletic young woman, was charged with having split
open the head of another fem de, named Winefred Burns.
It appeared that the parties reside in Greethaamstreet, aed
although the complainant said there was no cause of
quarrel between therm yet soma cause was shown to exist,
and in consequence, the prisoner, feeling insulted, took
an earthenware dish and struck the complainant a desperate
blow,, that not only broke the dish in pieces, but acted in
like manner to the head of the unfortunate woman.
Surgeon Pope, of the Southern Hospital, proved that the
in cry was very serious, and what made it worse was that
the complainant was near her confinement. The prisoner
was nemandec until the result on the injured woman could
be determined.
.L Veiny BAD- "Aerteze."—A_ tall, wicked-looking
Prussian, who answered to the Anglacised name of Robert
Angel, was brought up by Detective-officer Patrick, who
said :he prisoner was given into custody for having swin-
dled a German, named Lenker Sterfor, a native of Meek-
lenburgh, out of over £B. Mr. J. Hartman, the secretary
of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress, acted
53 interpreter. The parties did not speak English. The
story, as collected from the statement made by the prosecu-
tor, was that he lived in Hull, and had a comfortatde
house there. The prisoner, unluckily, became acquainted
wile him there,, and represented that he was a very wealthy
man, and that he had several thousand dollars lodged with
the Prussian Consul at Liverpool; that he was going out
to America, and, as he had taken a liking to the complain-
ant, he would take him out to America, and pay his and
hia wife's passage, and make a man of him. The
unfortunate dupe believed the prisoner,. and sold his house,
for the furniture of which he got £5,0. The parties then
came to Liverpool, where the visits of Mr. An eel to his
victim were like anything but "angel's visits," and on
each of these interesting occasions, he borrowed money,
amounting to £3 altogether. The story about the dollars
and the Prussian Consul was, of course, a "corker," The
prisoner was remanded in order to have some one from the
office of the Prussian Consul present; and, when he heard
this, he got into a savage rage, roared like a lion, then
cried like a crocodile, slapped his breast with hit fist hand,
ihe sound of which resembled the clischerge of a pieta', and
then ma le several gestures with outstretched arm aed
clenched hand, then pointed up to Heaven, and finally
made an effort to jump out of the dock at the prosecutor,
whom he would have " pounded," lead he caus;ht. him ; but
he was seized by two officers who fouled quite enough to
do to remove him.
A pea Sen, named John Tomilsora a waiter, in the
employ of Mr. Fernihough, publican, Juihe-street, was
se at to gaol for three months, for stealing some uneasy
from his master.