Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-23 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE rITELLIGENCE—YEsTERDAT

BEFORE MR, MANSFIELD.

THE DOINGS OF THE " DARHEYS."—Two Diggers, named
William Phillips and Joseph Giddings, were charged—the
first for having threatened, and the second for having
assaulted Mrs. Milner, a publican, in Pitt-street. It appeared
that the prisoners, the previous evening, entered the house
and had some drink. They began to be noisy, when the
landlady told them she must not have any noise there,
Giddings, without more ceremony, struck her a blow on the
nose that cut and hurt her very much, the other prisoner
threatened her very much also, but did not strike lier. A
witness who saw the transaction corroborated the state-
ment of complainant. One of the prisoners said the com-
plainant beat him with a horse whip, but this was denied
and it was shown that there was no such thing i
Giddings was fined, £5, or to be imprisoned for th,
months. The other prisoner was discharged.
A DRUNKEN CAl:cm/ay.—Edward Owens, the driver of his
own cab, No. 688, badge 623, was charged by officers 765
and 533, who stated that at three o'clock in the morning they
were on duty in Williamson-square, when they saw two
women lying on the flags; they thought they were
but on examining them, one was found to be •
knowing her to be the wife of a person in business _
ray-street, they called a cab; and whilst putting her into it
the prisoner came up, created a disturbance, and kicked,'
in the shins

,n the house

in a it, anc

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but the

The prisoner denied the statement,
evidence was too strong against him, and the bric
keeper proved that the prisoner was drunk at the time
Worship fined him 5s and costs, and directed the office

ers to

report him to the car committee.
THE EFFECTS OF DRINK. —Robert Cort, described as an
accordeon maker at 67, Hunter-street, was charged with
having attempted to drown himself. Polio
said he was on duty at one
-

-officer

_ the
docks, at three o'clock in the morning, when he
saw the prisoner running in a wild manner towards the
dock, he stopped and asked him what he wanted? and he
said he was going to drown himself; he caught hold of
him, when a struggle took place, but the prisoner got away
and was just leaping into the dock, when he again caught
hold of him; another struggle followed when a revenue
officer came up, and assisted him, so that at last
secured the prisoner. In reply to Mr. Mansf
prisoner said there was nothing the matter with
him, except that he was drunk. He was sorry for
what had taken place, but he had no intention of drowning
himself. His Worship cautioned him as to his future
conduct and discharged him. _ _

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THE " DUFFER. AND Mn. KINSELLA.-One Tommy
Kinsella, an elegant specimen of a County " Wicklow
boy" (albeit the boy is about 55 years, of age) charged a
country man of his, from somewhere in that poetic valley
of Moore's, where the " wide waters meet," to wit the Vale
of Avoca, for having " cooked his goose," as brown
as a bilberry, that is, for having sold him a
chain of rale pare " goold " for the sum total
of 45., made of another precious metal of a different colour,
namely, silver. The prisoner in this case glories in the
patronomic of Paddy Collins, and probably dra'
an age or two before the flood los

-s upon his

ancestors 14
ability. Whateve

—.yrs of Mr. Paddy Calilts
may have been, it is pretty clear that Mr. Robert Cloud'
of opinion that many a respectable father has had a
hanged, and, indeed, although the superintendent did not
so plainly express himself on this occasion, yet,
by the peculiar nod of his head, as Mr. Paddy Collins
stood in the dock, it said, as plain as head-spake could say
" You ought to catch it.
hanging, you will

and if you got

off, even fOr

fellow.thanl think you all

Perhaps this was not exactly charitable, however true it
might be. " Well," to use the words of the innocent
County Wicklow gom, "sure I was walking down by the
pier head, contemplating the big ships and the great river,
but for the matter o' that, begar, she's (the river) nothing
to be compared to the Slaney or the Shannon, nor,
I'm sure, to the Suir either. So, you know, on I
went, and who do you think came right acrass me, at the
pier-head, only that rapscallion of a blackguard there, had
'cess to him ! "Come here astliore," says he. "And what
do you want, alana baton," says I. " Don't you know I'm
a friend of yours," says he, " and that I'm just after comin'
from Chiney ?" " Well, and," says I, " how's the good
woman that owns you ?" " Faith," says he, " that's the
very thing I want to spake to ye about." "Is it about the
good woman," says I. " Yes," says he, " bekase you see
I havn't got one at all as yet." " I suppose, a cushla,"
says I, " that you won't be always so ?" " That entirely
depends," says he, "on the value of the lady ;" " but look
here," says he, " you see I don't care much about what
value the lady may have, as I have as much chains, and gold,
and silks, and tobackey— mind he said tobackey, sir—as
will do any genteel creature the entire portion of her life
time, and a trifle after, because you see the backer I have
here will be enough—lashings and leavings to wake her
when her sowl 'o gone to glory ; mercy bethune her and all
harm! " " Amen," say I, and then Y was walking away.
" Oh," says he, " come here. Would'nt you like a taste of
the weed yourself ? " says he. "In troth, I have no par-
ticular objection to it," says I ; " because you see, sir, Mr.
Ned Mulligan taught me to smoke." (To Mr. Clough) :
" I suppose you did'nt know N 4 Mulligan the carpenter,
, bi.
said clear enough that Mr. Ned Mulligan was an
entire stranger; a stranger as strange as the child
unborn, to him. The superintendent, however, asked
the witness what countryman.he was? and the witness said
he was an illegant son of one of the Wicklow mountains.
Mr. Clough remarked (very drily, certainty), that the son
of the mountain was a very great ass, and continued :
" How did you let that countryman of yours do you ?"
The witnesss replied, "Do me, is it ? Be gor, he'd have
done you, or done St. Peter, and he was twice as great a
man as ever you'll be, so he was !" Mr. Clough bowed
profoundly as Mr. Kinsella went on : " Well, sure enough,
says he, I can give you as fine a bit of the
weed as ever was smoked by Etna," says he. "Was Etna
a great smoker," says I ? "He was," says he, " the
greatest puffer that ever existed ; he used to smoke a hogs-
head of backey every three quarters of a minute, when he
was making the thunderbolts for Jove, and if Mr. M'Gowan,
the smoke-nuisance man, or any other of ' them,' had come
at him,' they would soon have put out his pipe,' by
fining him £5 and costs, for all the dense volumes'
that he emitted from seven hundred and sixty-five
minutes after 13 o'clock in the mornin, to eighty-nine
minutes after twenty-five o'clock in the evening." This
excellent essay on smoke did not seem to answer Mr.
Clough, although it was very instructive, and he requested
the gentleman from the county of Wicklow to proceed. in
the case. The county of Wicklow gentleman did then
and there proceed to record the adventures that he had
with Mr. Paddy Collins ; but as our publication
we are sorry

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body also,