Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-26 00:00:00

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and Bartel Cook were brought up on remand,
ebarged with assaulting one HaniMil, a tailor, resident
in Dablinlstreet. The particulars of thiS case appeared
in Saturday's .2170y-tliern Daily Times. ..On inquiry it
was found that the prisoners were not so much to blame
as wag' stated on Friday-, and Cook was discharged
Williams was ordered f-

?ay a flue of 20s.

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ASSAULts.
pt.,a ship, sum-
moned *Michael a_seaman_belonging to a ship
lying alongside— of that of_ the , complainant, in the
King's Dock, for an assault. It appeared that some
altercation took place about hauling the vessels into
their berths, when the -defendant struck the , carpenter
belonging to the coMplainant's ship, and then turned
round and struck the complainant on the mouth. A
fine of 20S. and costs was imposed,—.--- Catherine Morton
summoned Thomas Taylor for committing a violent
assault on her in. Nash-street, on Friday week last. It
appeared to be a family quarrel, and the case was dis•
missed.

A GOOD LANDLORD.—LLord Castlemsle With
generosity and consideration ever truly chaeac4ristic of
the noble ..hous,e of Xenmare, has- this-Week 'raised the
wages of the woodmen in his employment from 63. to
---4rds his garden

acted to

mut rum labourers.- His lordship also contemplates
building several commodious and well-ventilated' slated
cottaps, to Which gardwis are to `6e attached, and

. , ~...,...,....ueu.evinpieren, ins lordship purposel giving to
~, dziteu toe witness whether it was the mon in his employment rent free —Tralee Chronicle,
in consequence of h - saying that the girl who brought .
A CHILD 'ROBBING THE PoSi-orricE -LOn Wednes-
Tie basket was like the girl who brought the
,books,,
day, at the C nt al Ciiminal Court, Thomas. Goodfellow;
that Mr. Knight proposed to go to Mr. M'Donald's ?
stated' in the.e calendar to be only ten years • old, was
Witness—Yes ;it was so. - '
charged with stealing two letters. the property of the
Mr. James Knight- was then examined.' He said that
Postmaster-General. It apikhret: that the prisoner was
he was. a foreign correspondent in a merchant's office
in- the service of a. 3.ft.lrillis, a grocer in 'Bow-road,
in Liverpool, and resided at 62; Falkner-street. He
w
recollected-the evening- of Wednesday last. When the who also kept a receiving-house for post letters, as
errand boy, and that, contrary* to the poSt-ofticeregula-
basket was first brOught to him,.he thought it contained
tions, theprisonerwas constantly permitted to take -the
soine animal ; the cry did not sound like the cry of a
child ;it was a kind of lisping sound. He had not the letters out of the letter-box. The prisoner was discharged
Slightest notion it was a child until it was uncovered, by his.master on the 19th of August, 'and upon his going
.The. note produced was in the basket. It was as home his mother found in his pocket a bill of exchange
follows :
that had been posted in a letter at Mr. -Willis', s on
-
the 12th of August, and' sonic papers that . were . DEAR MR. KNIGHT,--I find it out of my power to support tamed in another letter that was posted on the 18th, and
con-
yourave eshuiflredraet.p-solorlizi3, Is
ciaentrtzwzr foonro..J.sev,
i;,,,:oit ,
the envelope of one of the letters was' else found in his
christened yet ; I wfsit you to call her Ellen Ann. ' I hope you possession. When the prisoner was questioned
as to
will take good care of you dear child.' how he became possessed of those articles, he at first
"To 3lr. Knight."
said that he picked up the letters,liit afterwards he told
. The words "Dear Mr. Knight," were written in a : a story of his having been told to pick out the' heavy
different and superior hank to the other part of the letters, when he removed them from the letter-box ;.
note ; the latter part apßeared to have been written by ; but there was no doubt that he en aidvan6ge of
a rather illiterate, person: ' Mr. .Ifni lit proceeded to the opportunity that was hamafforded- Nirhen Ice took the
state that he remained- outside of r. M'Donald's I letters from the box to xhilst the officers' went in to make inquiry: 'to 117.1`"' "- . the letters-in questior
whether -any nornol 1-..,1 1.-- __ . .

him. On returning,
knew nothing about it,
The child was,taken to tin

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taut louse to value. The jury found the prisoner,, guilty, but strong]
:s. 3PDonald recommended, him' to " nretcy on account of his yowl
her .aervants were in' bed. The learned, judge said the sentence he should. 11A.qq w'
3 wiirklinli.n ..;71,.,... 1,,, 1...:‘,1 .L_., ,

the officers said Mr

seen it deal

By the Coroner—Mrs. M‘Donald never charged me
with having taken improper liberties with any female
in the 110;15e. I have not the least idea from whom
the basket has ,come ;. this is the solemn answer I have
to make. The volumes of the Illustrated News referred
to, had been left by mistake by :the binder at Mrs.
?'Donald's for me.
By the,,luror—l swear positively I do net know from
whom 'the basket has come.—Did you look at the child's
face ? No, sir ; I was too thunderstruck.
BY the. Coroner—Do you believe there are different
handwritings .in, that letter ? I do.
By the juror,--Did ever any woman tell you she was
enciente within the last nine months ? Never.—No
woman never told you_she.woukl look after you for the
support
_of a child. .Never. I swear I never heard
anything of this-until the very night the child was
brought to the house.

I3y fir..
Well--Have you any suspicion or beliel'
as to who is the writer of that letter ? Not the slightest
and no female has any iqnim 7mm,