Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-22 00:00:00

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throat. His manner was " very peculiar" and at present defies
description, except that his seriousness of face and solemnity
of expression caused much laughter. Mr. Black Pray,
sir, what is your name ? Brown. Might it be Tom
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up the celebrated trio—" Brown, Jones, and Robinson."
The witness went on to detail how he lost his watch and
chain, and amused the people in the court very much by the
way he told his story, expressing almost all the Words he
used quite wrong—such, for instance, as clandisticallii, and
the like. Mr. Black " bothered" him so much, that the
witness could not make head, tail, begginning, middle, or
end, of the affair, and his Worship said there was no case,
ppraiersteicuelraer.ly as regarded the man, anal discharged all the

BrFORE MESSRS. GRAN'T AND ROUGRTON.

'CHAitGE AGAINST ,A : BOARDING-ROUSE' KEEPER,— Mr.
Thorne, a boarding-house keeper and publican in Denison-
street; was summoned .at the instance of Angus M'Donald,
late carpenter on board the Thornhill, for.retainin,g a con-
siderable amount of money entrusted to him to keep. • Mr.
Tyndall appeared to. support the complaint; and Mr.
M'Oubrey, instructed by Mr. Dawson, was for the defendant.
Mr. Tyndall said the case was brought under the • 236th
section of the Merchant Shipping .Act. The section
declared that any p:A.son guilty of detaining ally money,
clothes, or effeet.i of any scainan, was subject to .a
penalty- of £lO for the deteatioa —that the restitution
of the money or clothes might . be ordered, and if not
delivered up, that a panishuaent by imprisonment might
be imposed. He said that, if the case stated to him were
true, the present was a case of most heartless robbery. In
March last the complainant had returned from a long yoyame,
and received wages amounting to £Bl 2s 4d. lie: went to
lodge at defendaut's house, and of his wages tie committed to
his hands a sum of .£BO. Upon this account he had received
in cash on an order £3l 2s 6d, leaving due £43 178 6d. The
account furnished by the defendant's solicitor, stated that a
sum of £7l 2s 6:1 had been paid t.' a person named Hannan,
for complainant's anouut ; bilt Hannan, who was an out-
fitter, denied rec:!i ving. any such amount. There was a receipt
drawn up at Hannan's for some money passed between the
parties, but this the defendant .refused to receive. Sub
sequently M‘Danald had made oat 'another receipt for
£7l 2s. 6d., but, as the account was not rendered, he
refused to pass it, put it iu , his pocket, from which he
lOst it in a day or two, having left his clothes about;
and, when he next asked the defendant for money, he
produced the receipt so lost, said he owed him nothing,
and that. he was, on the contrary, in defendant's debt.
The defendant had lodged and hoarded • the complainant
for twelve " days only. Since then complainant had made
his demand. Thorne liad given up his clothes, a proof that
M‘Donald was not in his debt. Mr. Tyndall called on the
bench to do justice to his client, and called Au us
M'Donald, who supported• the statement made on his
behalf. On cross-examination by Mr. M'Oubrey, he said
defendant had given him a watch. He denied. that he
had bought it. lie had had a chain also, but it was not
gold. For the defence, a number of witnesses, more or
less connected with. defendant, were produced, who de-
posed that the settlement of account was perfectly
regular. The receipt spoken of by Mr. Tyndall having
been produced, that gentleman asked that it should be
impounded, M'Douald having positiveiy sworn that the
" witness" had not signed it in his presence, but that the
name was affixed after 'the receipt had been lost. After a
very loudhearing,
the magistrates made an order for pay-
ment of £4B. is 6d, and, allowing £6 for the watch, of
£42 is 6d, at the same time inflicting a penalty of 40s and
costs. The money was paid. Mr. Dawson applied for the
receipt, but the magistrates directed that it should be re-
tained. Defendant stated, , through his legal adviser, that
he should appeal.

• 1

PUBLICANS' AND BEERSELLERS' CASES.
James Grant, publican, Waterloo-road, was summoned
for selling spirits at illegal hours.on Sunday. The officer
stated that he saw a woman come out of the house after
eleven o'clock at night, and she had a bottle of whisky in
her pocket. The defence was that if the woman had whisky
she must have had it elsewhers, as she was refused at Mr.
Grant's. Acquitted.
Benjamin Trew, publican, 'Rose-place, was charged
with permitting drunkenness. The evidence was that the
officers visited the house at one o'clock in the morning
of the lath, and found four melt inside, one of whom was
drunk and unable to stand. Mr. :Snowball appeared
for the defence, and said the officers (529 and 827) had
been telling a downright falsehood. They were untrue in
every particular. Evidence was produced to show that the
hour was not so late as stated, and that none of the men in
the house were drunk. The magistrates had a doubt, and
would give defendant the benefit of the doubt. As there
was a previous conviction against the house, they recom-
mended defendant to be cautious.
Margaret Edwards, Fazakerley-street, publican, was
charged with Sunday trading. Fined Is. and Is. costs.
Joseph Bewsher, The Queen, 55, Great Homer-street,
was charged with Sunday trading Mr. Rymer, for the
defendant, admitted that a woman had been supplied with
beer before one o'clock, but she had paid for it the previous
night. and wanted it 'a little before the hoar intended.
Acquitted.

• Ames Trafford, Tenderden-street, beerhouse-keeper,
was charged with having sold beer on Sunday foieuoon.
Fined 40s. and costs.

• Joseph Manly, Bond-street, beerhouse-keeper, was
charged with permitting drunkenness. Fined 2s 6d, and
2s 6d costs.

Elizabeth Corlett, beerlionse-keeper, High-street,
Edge-hill, was charged with delaying to admit the police,
and also with permitting drunkenness, Mr. Black de-
fended in the case. Officer 41 stated that he saw four
men enter the house about one o'clock on Saturday
morning. He and his brother officer heard cries of
" police" and " murder." He knocked, and it ivas a
quarter of an hour before they got admission. When.
they , got in they found the men up stairs. They were
drunk. The men were drunk when they saw them go in.
Mr. Black said there was -no proof that the men got an
drink at all, 'and it had been shown that they were• drunk
on entering. The charge of permitting drunkenness„there-
fore, was not sustained. Fined 40s. and costs. [The
defendant was fined in the like amount the week previously.]
Joseph Dimmer, beerhouse-keeper, Mile-end, was sum-
moned for Sunday trading. The defence was, that the
parties were members of the family. Fined 6.5. and costs.
Martha Morgan, beerhouse-keeper; Great Howard-
street, was summoned for Sunday trading.—Fined tos and

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of the officers in this case had be-n given, Mr. Lightfoot
stood up as if to cross-examine, but immediately sat down
again. Mr. Wybergh : Why don't you defend your client;
I suppose you have had his money ? Mr. Lightfoot made
some unintelligible reply. Mr. Grant looked towards the
defendant, and said, "I pity you." You must be fined 20s
and costs. Defendant asked to speak, but was told that he
could not be heard, as he had engaged an attorney to defend
him.

Daniel Kelly, beerhouse-keeper, Collingwood-street, was
summoned for Sunday trading. Mr. Bluck, acting for Mr_
Cobb, for the defence, called the woman who was alleged
to have bought the ale, who said she did not get the ale
at Kelly's, but at another house in the same court. Ac-
quitted.
John Lloyd, beerhouse-keeper, Wellington-road, w
traveller.waa
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summoned for Sunday trading. The sale was
it was stated in excuse that the ale was fora' andAcp,ruainttceids.
summoned for Sunday trading. Ac •
quitted.
Thomas Mason, beerhouse-kee
teth Tark, was summoned for Sunday Per, Hampton-street, Tok-
was, that the ale was bestowed trading. The defence
John Bailey, beorh • __ ouse_ke
, not sold. Acquitted.
eper, Gore-street, Park, was
summoned for Sunday
ttrading. Inspector Nuttall said he
entered the house half-past one on Sunday morning,
and found person adrinking there. The defence was that
the parties were s lodgers. There was a second information
for a sale ' in the forenoon of Sunday. Fined 5s and costa
in one case, and in the other acquitted.
John
s Jackson, beerhouse-keeper, Falkland-street, was
ummonded for Sundaftrading. The officer stated that he
found ten persons in the house on the forenoon of
Fined 5s and costs.
Thomas Evans, beerhouse-keeper, St. Domingo-road,
Everton, was summoned for selling at half-past eleven o'clock
at night. Acquitted. vaed-instirteteetd
Patrick Greary, beer retailer, South John-street, was
summoned for selling ale at hours not permitted by law. It
was stated for the defence that the place was a small
refresh-
ment room, and that the parties present were defendant's
shoptnates. Fined 5s and costs.

It is a well known maxim that "time is money"—the
terms are relative '•so to save one is to save the other. We
save both time, and economise patience, and present good
tempers, when we have a good PEN-a bad on© upsets pati-
ence and temper. Preserve all, then, by purchasing your
steel pens and other stationery, at E. T. Hall's whole-
sale steel pen warehouse. 23, South John-street. John.
Gillott's, Thomas Lowe's, G. W. Hughes, and other mak.eis
pens at is per gross. Good Pen Holders 2d per dozen.