Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BEFORE MR. ALDERMAN HOLM&

NEWS FOR MAJJR GREW —Several policemen who had
night charges, spoke so low, that his Worship had over and
over again to ask them to speak loud enough to be heard
by himself, the prisoners, reporters, and all in court. This
intimation, in several cases, had the very opposite effect,
for the gentlemen with the hieroglyphic signs on their
collars spoke lower and lo ,:er. At last his Worship spoke
in strong terms a this " nuisance," (for although he did not
Die that word, it is a positive nuisanc ,), and said Major
Greig should not allow any man on the force, who could
not speak loud enough to be he i.rd and understood. It
was ridiculous to see big able fellows like the officers,
who, when called on to" speak up," seemed more like
babies than men. Inspector Chew said the men were
actually trained and taught to speak loud. His Worship
sail the training seemed to have very little effect on the
men, for he never presided in that court that he had not
the same complaint to make. He would advise Mtjor
Greig to look to this.

" .Jusrica's JUSTICE."—A fellow named David Fiddler
was fined 54 for being drunk, There was nothing very
remarkable in the ca3e, ex.:ept that the prisoner, after pay-
ing his fine, complained that the bridewell keeper had
robbed him of some money. Mr. Epworn, one of the
bridewell clerks, said the fellow was fined 5s on Tuesday
morning for being drunk. Oa the occasion of his being
locked up, he had somewhere about a pound's worth of
silver on his person, and that was returned to him after he
was di'charged, and the fine deducted. He went away,
and the next thing they heard of him was his again
being locked up for being drunk. Ad the money
he had was carefully preserved and returned to
him. Bis Worship said he did not credit the story
of the fellow at all. The bridewell keepers were
known, tried, and respectable men, and the
court had every day proof of their honesty and respecti-
bility, so he did not credit a word the man said. The fellow,
on leaving the court, turned round and said in a very loud
voice, " Oh, that's justices' justice." He then made a
rapid rush out, as his Worship said, Bring that follow back
here, and I will teach him justices' justice." A police-
officer darted after the man, but failed to catch him, so that
for the present he has escaped ' justices' justice."
True ROBBRRY OF Ma. AD St 110DOON'S STABLES.—
Detec ive-officer Thompson brought up William O'Neill, a
broker, livin.• in Lower North street, Newry, and Michael
Carver, another broker, living in Bisi ham-street, in this
town, on charges of being concerned in the robbery of Mr.
Adam Hoigson's stables. The details of this case appeared
two or three days sg) in our paper. There was a consi-
derable quantity of property stolen, and a livery top-coat
belonging to the coachman, was traced to the prisoner
Carnes, who sold it to O'Neill, and the officer having pro-
ceeded to Newry, he found the coat in the shop of the
latter. The coat was identified by Mr. Hodson's coach-
man. There are other persons charged with the robbery
at present under reman I to Saturday, and the prisoners
were remanded to that day, when all will be brought up
togethen. . . _

A COUNTRY COMEN.—Mary Farrick, a bright-eyed,
black-haired collheert, very much resembling (in face only)
a certain royal princess (not the Princess Royal) of the
Hanoverian dynasty, was cha gad with having stolen
seventeen " go'den sovereigns;' from her cousin, one
Paddy O'Shaughnessey, a " quiet, decent boy," who lives
with his maternal parent and a handsome dark-eyed
sister, in a house in No. 8 court, Collingwool-street. The
money was, according to poor Pat and his sister's doleful
account, in a double locked box, and the prisoner was a
lodger, partly for love, and no v and then for money (when
she had that very each Inge Ible commodity). For the last
three weeks, however, she did not appear to be particularly
troubled with the "needful " and one fine morning she
rose with the sun, saying she was going off by railway to
a fine situation. After this the money was missed. The
prisoner, had she been in Madeline Smith's position, would
have attracted more sympathy, for (with due respect to
Miss Smith) she is a. least twenty times handsomer than
that celebra'ed girl. She w:s remanded, in order to have
inquiry made about the " gold," as it was not forthcoming.
ANNOYANCE.—John A. Moore, a resident of Seacombe-
street, was ordered to find bail in two surities of £2O each,
t.:, keep the peace for annoying the officers at Cornwallis-
street, in regard to some nuisance which the officers said
did not exist.

STREET ROBBERY AND ASSAULT.— Joseph James, Thomas
Oxley, William Mathews. and Martin Gavan, were
brought up on remand, charged with having violently as-
saulted Mr. Joseph Purcell. and robbed him of his watch, in
Hood-street, on the night of Wednesday week. The details
of this case haul already appeared. The prisoners were de-
fended by Mr. Muck. The facts were these : —About ten
o'clock on the night in question, the prosecutor and another
person, were passing by the corner of Hood-street, when
they were attacked by James and Oxley,and the prosecutor
swore most positively to the two prisoners, as did also some
other witnesses. The evidence against them being con-
clusive, they were fully committed on the chars of
assault and robbery, at the present assizes. The other two
prisoners were discharpd, the evidence being considered
insufficient.

TILE WRONG MAN.—Charles Holme, was charged with
having stolen some shirts from the shop of Mr. Lallow,
Scotland-place. On Saturday last, two persons were sent
for trial for this robbery, but it turned
out that both were innocent, and that the
prisoner alone was guilty. His Worship said he would
take immediate steps to have the innocent men liberated.
He committed the prisoner for trial, and censured the
conduct of the persons who had sent two innocent persons
to gaol, in consequence of wrong identity.
CAUTION TO SAILORS -The cook of a shit), named the
floe, from Demerara, was charged under the Merchant
Shipping Act, for broaching some casks of rum, part of
the cargo, Mr. Bluck defended. The case was ci arly
proved, and the prisoner, nude, the Act, was seat to gaol
for twelve weeks.