Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-14 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER 14, 1839•

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CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD.—Thomas
Mottershead, late a clerk in the employ of the Select
Vestry, was charged with having conspired, with: some
person or persona unknown, to defraud the Select Vestry
of Liverpool of the sum of £29 15s.
from the_ office in Brownlow7hill, appearec

Mr. Conway

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details

it appeared that the prisoner -was in th
Vestry as a book-keeper

employment Of the Selc
and that his principal d

workhouse with goods. In this journal the accounts
which had been passed by the Workhouse Committee,
-or ought to be—regularly entered. Before such

Vestry-clerk, and had also to be initiated by the chair-
man. The book was submitted to the Finance Com-
mittee on the Friday. The chairman had the original
accounts before him, and one .of the members had the
book. As each account was read, the chairman initiated it,
andthe member having the book, ticked it off. These were
submitted to the general meeting of the Select Vestry, and
they passed a resolution that such accounts should at once
be paid. It was the duty of the prisoner to make out re-.
ceipts for the whole of these accounts, omitting, of
course, the signature. Once a month the accounts that
were passed were paid. The tradesmen came to the
prisoner. He saw that the individual applying was the
proper party, and the receipt was signed. The holder
of 'this receipt took it to the vestry clerk, and -en
handing it to him he received a cheque for the
amount. On the 14th of July last, a cheque
for £29 155.; purporting. to be in liquidation of an
account to that amount in favour of Mr. Hope, tea
dealer, Stanley-street, was paid by the vestry clerk.
Some time after this the prisoner was suspended, and
afterwards dismissed from the employment. A week or
two ago, Mr. Hope applied for payment of £8 103.,
which hi 4 said was due to him. On looking at the
receipt, it was iu-ar..,.1 that this £8 10s. was included in
the cheque for £29 1.55. Mr. Hope denied
receiving it, and said he only watitel. £8 10s., and
not £29 15s. He had, two months previously, been
paid £2l 55., and did not want it again. An examina-
tion was made, and it was discovered that the prisoner had,
-after the book was scrutinised by the committee, erased
some name, and inserted that of Mr. Hope for the sum of
£2l ss. The inference was, that he had conspired with
some party for the purpose of defrauding the Vestry, as
the cheque had been delivered and had been cashed.
The prisoner ought to have seen that the receipt was in
the hands of the proper party. Mr. Haggart proved
the delivery of the chelue to some party ;• and the clerk
of Mr. Hope said that it had never reached them. Mr.
Greenal, from Heywoods' Bank, proved the payment
of the cheque on the 15th of July, one day after its
delivery. The prisoner was committed for trial.

[Before Messrs. STEWART and CASTELLAIN.I

ASSAULT ON THE POLICE BY A BEERSELTERT--jThOS.
Aston, a beerseller, in Marybone, was summoned for
assaulting Police-officer 82. It appeared from the
evidence that the complainant went, in company with
officer 276, to visit the house of the defendant on Sunday,
the 4th inst., at half-past twelve o'clock. They were
both dressed in plain clothes, and when they knocked at
the door, and were answered by Mrs. Aston, they stated
that they were police-officers. They were kept standing
outside for a longtime, where there were twenty or thirty
men. When they got inside, they found a large pool. of
water, and jugs and glasses thrown down, some of which
were broken. They tried to search the house, and the com-
plainant was going down into the ale-cellar when the
defendant took hold of him by the collar, and shook him
violently. A fine of 40s. and costs was inflicted.

SABBATH DESECRATION.—A bill-poster, named
Henry Burchell, residing at 43, Prince's-street, was
summoned by officer 53, for posting bills on Sunday
mornini,o. last, at half-past eight o'clock, in Shaw's-brow.
The bills.related to the Warwick races, and consequently
their posting was not a work of necessity. He was
fined ss.

Thomas Dockwray, beerseller, Dalrymple-street, was
fined 10s. and costs for using obscene language in the
presence of a police-officer who visited his house.
SEAMAN'S WAGES CASE.—Mr. Cobb appeared on
behalf of Samuel Howell, who claimed £6 13s. Bd.
from Captain Munro, of the ship Maria, on account of
services rendered as an ordinary seaman on board that
vessel, on her voyage from Calcutta to Liverpool. The
captain said the man had been incapable of performing
his duties, and in consequence he refused to pay him
more than los. per month, instead of £1 15s. which he
had shipped for. An able seaman who had been on the
watch withtie plaintiff, said Howell had done his duty,
except when he was sick. The magistrates ordered the
captain to pay the full amount claimed, with costs.

IRISH MOORS.—Amongst the many changes which
have taken place in Ireland, none is more remarkable
than in the increasing quantity of game on some of its
mountains and bogs. A few years since, the sportsman
who bagged half-a-dozen brace of grouse on the 20th
August was deemed very successful. We have heard of
very large bags being made on the last 20th ; and the
numbers of this fine bird killed in some parts of Ireland,
where attention has been given to its preservation from
vermin, dogs, and poachers, can scarcely be exceeded by
Scotland itself. On one moor, Cappabawn, in the county
of Clare, Mr. Charles Wallnut and party shot 236 brace
of grouse in five days ; and, on an ad'oining mountain,
belonging to Mr. Reade, of the Wood Parks, 90 brace
were killed by a small party, only going out in the after-
noonoffour days. On Mr. Malony's, of Biltanore, also,
considerable bags were made. These results of a few
-Years' preservation should induce other proprietors to
adopt some steps for the preservation of their moors, and
thus another source of pleasure or of profit would be
obtained, the Scottish moors bringing a large rental for
their g„r-ae alone, utterly unknown and neglected in
Ireland.