Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-17 00:00:00

denied by the

.oung man
offered to bring witnesses to prove what he said. A
youth, about 16 -years of age, was called to proVe the
complainant's case, but instead of doing so, he proved
that the girl went" wild, stark staring mad," after the
prisoner, who had, merely to oblige her, offered to marry
her,in order to get rid of the annoyance ! Complainant
Oh, but that was three years ago. I. have altogether

changed. my mind since that time. His Worship at this
just
stage of the proceedings, which were becoming in-
teresting, cautioned the young man not to go near the.
girl any more, and discharged him. The young Man
said he would not go near her, and hoped she would
keep away froth him in future, as he had no wish to be
done into a-consumption, after the fashion she had cooked
his brother. Miss Edwards smiled, and exhibited her
fine white teeth, and left' the court laughing considerably.

THE SAILOIeS WiFE.—His Worship received ss. from
"A. Z.," and 10s.. from Mr. George Howarth, for
Martha Liunsden, the poor sailor's wife, who applied.to
him a few days .ago, as she was in a fearful state of

I destitution

THE GAMBOLS OF THREE HULL Yourns.—Detective
officer Eaton brought up three well dressed and
respectable looking youths, named Thomas Holden Cowl,
Alexander .411‘Cleland Fowler, and William Henry Pape,
on the following charge : He said he got a telegraphic
message the previous day, that the prisoners had
absconded from Hull, Cowl taking with him £lOO, the
money of his .master, a merchant named Cook. The
three prisoners were all clerks to merchants at Hull, and
were respectably connected. He (Eaton) went in search
of the prisoners, and at six o'clock, he arrested them on
board the steamer City of Baltimore, in the river,
bound for New York. He told Cowl the charge, when
he replied there was £147, but some of it was in cheques.
They had purchased three rifles, three revolver pistols,
and three daggers, and had paid eight guineas each for
their passage. They had about £6O in, money on them,
and they told him the robbery_had been concocted for a
long time past, and that they had for some months past
made such arrangements as they imagined would enable
them to escape. His Worship said it was fortunate that
they were arrested, for, had they got to America, no
doubt they would have ended their career worSe than they
began it. He sent them back to Hull, in custody of the

THE COTION 'CASE.—George Riley, Mary O'Neill, and
Edward TA.iner, who were remanded on a charge of
having stolen cotton, were brought up for final examina-
tion. Mr. Pemberton appeared for the prisoners. It
may be remembered that last weer Riley and O'Neill
y of

rid that

naying stolen
Mr. Trainer

whose

warehouse

was charged with having received

the cotton, knowing it to have been stolen. The case
was fully reported in our paper last week, and the evi-

dence was

gone into de- novo yesterday. -Parry; the
twine manufacturer, of St, Domingo-road, who had
purchased the .-cotton- and sold it to Mr. Trainer,
was again examined, and subjected to a long and
very searchin

cross-examination b
and from this it appeared that Mr.

• Mr. Pemberton,
Trainer had taken

the cotton in a ,legitimate manner, and; therefore, he
bought it from. him. Mr. Pemberton also produced
witnesses who swore that Mr. Trainer had sent to Parry's
place to ascertain if his statement—before he purchased
the cotton—was correct, and finding it to be so
he purchased the cotton. On these grounds, Mr. Pem-
berton added that there was not a shadow_ of evidence

man in business. His Worship, however, decided on CO,lll-
- Mr. Trainer for two months, for not having satis-
factorily accounted for the'possession of the cotton, and
also committed Riley for a like period. The woman
O'Neill he discharged, as having acted under the direc-
tion of Mr. Trainer, without knowing the consequences.
Mr. Pemberton stated that he would apply, to a superior
court on behalf of Mr. Trainer, to have him discharged,
as -it was clearly, in his opinion, illegal to
commit him, inasmuch as Mr. Trainer had
properly, substantially, and correctly accounted for
the possession of the cotton, which he had received in
the usual and ordinary course of, business, after making
every enquiry as to its correctness. [ln reference to this
case, we understand that Mr. Pemberton intends appeal-
ing, to the Court of Queen's Bench, and that the neces-
sary steps for that purpose were taken last night.—
ED. N. T.]

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.--A very nice looking girl,
named Mary Clairdroy, the daughter of a shop-
keeper, who was also a pensioner from the
army, was charged with having stolen £5 from
her father. Mr. muck appeared for the prisoner.
When the case was called on, the officer who had charge
of the prisoner said : The prosecutor in this case does not
appear. Mr. Blitek :Is he not her own father ? Officer :
I understand he is, sir. Mr. Mansfield : I think it
is a great cruelty for persons to give other persons
in charge, on frivolous cases, and then not come forward
even to sustain such cases. It is a great hardship to
have parties brought up here, because--no matter how
innocent they the accused may be—there is something
always attached to a person :.who is put into that
dock. I wish persons giling other persons •in
charge would be more cautious what they do.
Discharge the prisoner.

11013BERY •OF EMPTY lore s.—Last week, John
Baines and John Walker were charged for having stolen
a large quantity of bell pulls and .other articles from
empty horses in the locality of Pea-Bement-street, and
Rose Fitzpatrick, a marine store dealer, • was
charged with having received the property,
knowing it to be stolen. The parties were brought up
yesterday on remand, when Mr. Aspinall (the deputy-
recorder), instructed by Mr. Black, appeared for them.
The details of *lie case have already appeared, and Mr.
Aspinall showed that, Mrs. Fitzpatrick had acted
in quite a ler,itinzate manner. She was discharged,
and admitted as a witness against the two other
prisoner, and His Worship sent them for trial at the next