Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-23 00:00:00

of the way of
being a free si
..by a " bpbbv

platwm.
which he
knocked 1
called the assistance of a brother in arms, and they sw
ceeded in—not march

a rap on the nos,

sed iu his ban('
I down

.tli out legs, but Carry-

for the night. The prisoner was invisible, as the
parCtion which separates the prisoners from ie people
was much higher than his head. He was asked what
he had to say fcr his condue,t, and, in order to be heard,
he made a bound, by the assistance of his Imd, and
had he not be,m pulled back by Mr. Magennis, who
was behind him, he would have been alongside of Mr.
Preston in another minute. He made the usual
defence, that all that had been stated was false.
Mr. Preston said as that was not the first
time he had been a prisoner, and as he ought
to be very quiet when he got his living by begging,
he must he punished. He was ordered* to pay a
fine of £5, or go to gaol for three months.—William
Wainwright was brought up charged with assaulting
oalcer 324, who stated that, on Saturday night, he found
the prisoner talking to a female in the street and asked
-him to go away, when he took hold of him by the collar,
wrenched his staff from his band, and gave him several
severe blows. The prisoner called a young woman, who
said she was talking to the prisoner in Redford-street,

between twelve a;:d one o'clock ou Saturday night o;
Sunday morning, when the otileer.came up and ordered the

he knee• Lim to lie a.trwth-endet.

The prisoner stated that Le was within a few yards of
his own door, which was a fact, and that he would not
go. On that being stated, the officer beat him in a
shameful manner with his stick, and it was only in pro-
tecting himself that the stick was taken from com-
plainant. The witness lived beside the prisoner, and
always knew him to be very civil and quiet. Mr.
Preston said the officer was very much to blame. The
man had been speaking to a decent female, and had not
committed any breceb of the law whatever. The officer
did not seem to have taken proper precaution in the
case. The woman waszot a prostitute, and his inter-
ference was simply a trespass. He had no right to lay
his hands on the prisoner, who was to be discharged.—
Officer 223 charged William .IH-aughlin with assault-
ing him, in Cavendish-street. The only cause that the
complainant could assign for the prisoner's conduct was,
that on the 12th of April last, he had brought the
prisoner before the magistrates fOr an offence he had
committed about that time, and he had been committed
for three months. He threatened to have the officer's
'ife. (Mee.- d hr witnessed the assault;—and
e p- to bricilewell. He was
r b soned for three months.
ten Doran, and a man
med With M'Ford, were liTOyglit
--irderous assault on

asNisted ill taking the prit,
ordered to pay £5, or be inn►
blind Stcn►
wantimr

up, charged with
police-officer John Price, 'on Saturday night
lingtou-stecet. The ot&er was unable to apnear, and
it was stated that his life was in tanner. A girl mined
Ellen l'J‘Nab said she was at a shop door, and she had
knocked several times, when the officer came Up to her
and said she was not likely to get in, and it was
better for her to go She replied she Would
take his advice

;, iii IVel-

ld was going home when she
mer sav, if the officer came up tit(

street he would I .
the street, and the man struck him n ith a crutch which
he carried, and he fell. Witness then called out for

The officer then went. no

fer the bottom of Wellington-

treet. "When

man struck him with a

stick. Tile etticer did not speak nfter he fell
was apprehended by officer 167 near the
Doran, the blind man, was taken at his lathe-'s housc,
on Sunday, in Richmond-row. Mr. Preston said, as the
man's life was in danger he would remand the prison(
James I,l‘Canu was charged with assaulting polie
George Holmes (474). The complainant states that

1-'lforcl

-ottleer

on

.d by Athol

and on going

at street he met a woman,

lune Canovan, who accosted him as a polic,mmn in di
The woman knew him, because he had broagl
:p at the police-court some time before. He went
and she follswed him, and seized hi 3 overcoat
He held

ung over hi

lie coat

nd the complainant wa