Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-31 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BEFORE MR.. MANSFIELD. •
A BLACIC MUTIMY.-officers Laycock and Carlyle, of
the detective force, brought up five blackmen, part of a
crew of 23 belonging to the American ship Enoch Train,
charged with mutiny and an attempt to kill the com-
mander, Captain Rish. The prisoners were very large
and powel-ful fellows, and much wickeder looking
than blackmen generally are. Laycock said, on Thuraday
the American consul's secretary, hir. Wilding, sent him,
with his brother officer and five policemen . along With
the captain, on board the Enoch Train, as the captain
informed them that the men had refused to do-their work.
When they got on board (the ship is in the river, ready
for sea) the captain asked the crew what com-
plaint they had to make ? They had no reason to
offer, but one of them .. said the mate .wanted
them to do something at the sails on Sunday. The
captain then " told " them over, and asked
them if they were ready to go to work, and they replied
they were not. He said he must put them in irons, when
the whole crew of 23 men made a rush -on the captain,
and, from their fierceness, there was no doubt that they
would have seriously injured, if not killed him, had not
the officers interfered. However, there not being enough
of o:ficers- to grapple with the fellows, Laycock went on
shore and got 14 other officers, and then they put the
men in irons, but, during the night, 18 made their
escape. In addition to the above, Carlyle said one
of the prisoner's, whom he pointed out, was the
chief ringleader, and he drew a knife,• and swore
furiously that he would put it into the
first man who came near him, and that he would kill some
one th it night, and called on the rest to follow his exam-
ple. Some of the men complained of the provisions, but
they (the officers) examined them, and found that nothing
could be better th in the provisions. Captain Rich was
examined, and proved the facts as above stated, and-
added that each of the men had received £5 advance, and
no doubt they wanted to get away from the ship after
getting the 'money. He had no doubt that the police
would be able to arrest the others, as they were in town.
His Worship sent Cie ringleader to gaol for two months,
and remanded the others until this day.
STREET ROBBERY OF £76o.—Detective officer Scaife,
brought up Mary Gallaher, " a pick-up woman," who
lives in Sawney Pope-street, and William Lynch,
" a bludgete:' " living iu Ben Johnson-street, on a
charge of having robbed an Italian gentleman,
a • merchant, from Central America, named Beltham
Save, of £763, on Thursday night, in Queen's-square.
Scaife said, from information he received, that
the pr isecutor had been robbed of two three hundred
pound n }tes, and £l6O in other notes, he went in search
of the prisoners. The robbery took place in Queen-
square, about eleven o'clock, and about four o'clock he
went to Sawney Pope-street, where he arrested the
female in bet with a man, who got away. He then went
to Ben Johnson-street, and arrested the man in bed there.
It would be proved that a few minutes after the robbery,
the female prisoner went into the public-house of
Mr. Fisher, in Great Crosshall-street, and exhibited
a three hundred pound note, a fifty and a
ten. Mr. Bluck appeared for the prisoners, and cross-
examined tae officer, bat did not elicit any thing impor-
tant. The prosecutor, through an interpreter, said, he
lodged at the Victoria Hotel, and on Thursday night he
met the female prisoner, who stopped him to speak with
her in Qacea-square, and whilst she was asking him for
money, a MAR seized him from behind, whilst the woman
put her hand in his pocket, took out his pocket-book
containing £760 in Bank of England notes, and ran
away ; and when she turned the corner - the man ran
away also. On cross-examination by Mr. Bluck, the
prosecutor said, he would not like to swear posi-
tively to the identity of the woman. He could
not swear to the man at all, a; he did not see
him. The. boots at the Victoria Hotel said, he
saw the female prisoner, as it were, waiting for some one,
about the Hotel door, and soon after he saw the prosecutor
and the woman walking towards Queen-Square; he had
previously seen the woman, and swore positively to her.
Officer Coe, 533, said he was on duty in - Queen-square
on Thursday night, and saw the woman and prosecutor
pass by the Stork Hotel, into great Charlotte-street,
towards Whitechapel. • He had previously seen her
talking to the prisoner,- in the same locality. Mrs..
Fisher, the wife of a publican; at the corner of-Standish-
street, G.-eat Crosshall-street, said, both the prisoners,
with another man, entered the house on Thursday night,
at half-past eleven, o'clock, and had three glasses of ale;
in about ten minutes after the female came again, in a great
hurry, without shawl or bonnet, and passed into a snug at
the end of the shop, and called her in. She asked her . to.
read some bank-notes for her, and then handed her one,
saying, "Is not this a£s note ?" Witness looked, and
saw it was a £5O. - She then produced- a second- note,
saying, "Is not this a ten ?" It was so. She then pro-
duced a third note, saying, "Is not this a hundred-
pound note ?" Witness saw it was a £3OO note, and she
became excited at seeing so much money with the woman,
and of course thought she did not get it rightly. A man
then came in, and the prisoner went hurriedly out, and
then witness ran up-stairs to her husband, who was
asleep on the sofa, and told him, and he
at once went to the Police-office, and gave
information. - ,In reply to Mr. Block, the witness
said the woman was alone on the occasion of showing
her the notes. The prisoners were then remanded for

a week.
MARY FEGAN'S DANCING MASTER. —Mary Fegan, a
well dressed girl, about 25 years of; age, was brought up
on remand, charged for having stolen some table cloths,
and other things, the property of her master, Mr.
Hoffin in, the owner of the Vine Hotel, Pitt-street, Mr.
Cobb defended the prisoner. The chief features in this
case of felony arose out of the dancing propensities of
Miss Fegan, which happened thus : The lady in question
had an irresistible feeling about her feet, for tripping on
the light fantastic in fact, .she could cl.allenge all
" Sprites; of the Woods or the Water, to dance- a good
jig with her father's fair daughter." She had gone stark-
staring mad about dancing. She danced up the stairs,
and down the stairs, into the kitchen, through the bar
into the sang, and goodness knows when she might
have stopped. If suffered to go on, possibly she might
have , found herself in the s t no awkward predicament
that an Hibernian brother did at one period, when he'said,
if he had lived in a certain place up to the present time,
he would have found himself dead long ago. So with
Fegan's dancing. There was a pretty bar-maid at the
Hotel, and she had a pretty brooch, and in the centre of
it was a pretty likeness of a pretty captain of a ship, who
had presented the pretty barmaid with his head at least
that is, a likeness of that important apex to his, physical
proportions—no matter where his heart might have been
deposited, for they tell us sailors, when away, iu every
port a sweetheart find. It was, however, by no ~means
insinuated that the aforesaid captain, whose likeness the
pretty barmaid had in the pretty brooch, did anything so
ungallant. Now, Miss Fegan was sent out to the Old
Swan, along with other domestics from the Hotel, to
wash the house linen and other materials belonging to
the establishment. This was a fine opportunity. for her
to show off d la. Lola Montes, or Fanny Eisler ; and, in
order to adorn herself to the best advaritage, she borrowed
(withoutleave) the pretty barmaid's pretty brooch, with the
likeness of the pretty captain. Every one knows the very
devilment of " a washing-day," and the girls at the Old
Swan, wanting something stronger than hot water to
keep up the steam, induced Miss Fegan (so it was stated)
to pledge a certain ring, and by the magic of a pawn-
broker's shop, and a small bit of paper, the metal was
transmuted into gin, an operation that the philosopher's
stone could never have accomplished. In due time the ring
was missed, and then the pretty barmaid began looking
amongst her " trinkem trankums" for the pretty brooch
with the likeness of the pietty captain, but it was no
where to be found.. She sought it that night, and she
sought it next day, and she might be seeking the like-
ness until the day of; judgment, . hut could never
look upon its like (except . she happened to
meet the original) again. Why? Because Miss
Fegan, in one of her dancing fits, at the Old Swan, or
somewhere else, had danced the brooch out of her dress,
and her foot coming on it, destroyed—delapidatei
ruined —annihilated the likeness of the handsome captain.
The pretty barmaid wept and wailed over her loss, ,for her
Johnny was' at sea, ploughing the raging main, and she
did not know whether she would ever see his like again.
Miss Fegan having procured everlasting liberty from the
hotel—that is to say, being. turned away by the owner, a
variety of things were missed, such as blankets, table
cloths, &c., and on searching her box, at her lodging, off
Scotland-road, the brooch, with the delapidated head of
the captain, a table cloth, belonging to Mr. Hoffman, and
other things were found. Mr. Cobb caused a great deal
of merriment by his cross-examination of the pretty bar-
maid, but at length Miss Fegan was sent, for one month
to a rural retreat at. Walton, where she will have an
opportunity of indulging in her favourite passion for
dancing—on the mill—for the above named period.

M ARRIAGES.
On the 27th inst., at Hope-street Church, by the Rev. James
Martineau, George B. Windeler, Esq., of London, son of the late
Charles Henry Windeler, Esq., to Marianne, second daughter of
Charles T. Bowring, Esq., of Prince's Park, Liverpool.
On the 27th inst.; at St. John's Church, Keswick, by the Rev.
Thomas Hornby, vicar of Walton-on-the-hill, assisted by the
Rev. T. D. H. Battersby, Hugh Frederick, eldest son, pf Hugh
Hornby, Esq., of Sandown, -near Liverpool, to Mary Christina,
second daughter of S. L. Langton, Esq., of BarroW House,
Keswick.
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elJboohonru .Toa,ms,
On the 29th inst., at St. Mary's Church, Birkenhead, by the
Australia, so aof thtoe Rev. W. Coarmteorry, rector of.
eldest daughter of the late Joseph Garner, Esq., ert _ant,
Liverpool.

DEATH.
On the 30th inst., at 16, wentwotth-street, EVedon, Charles
cw.,,b,l4.l*Act MI Of Mr. c:harleS'ward,