Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-12 00:00:00

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Mr. Preston

here's the b-
corning tip." . The prisoner said he did not
care a d-, and that he would stick him
'with a knife, at the same time drawing one, and
coming towards him. Witness drew his staff, and knocked
the knife out of his hand. The prisoner then grasped him,

One of them

h

1, when he received several kic

s of bricks thr

.1 held

by the prisoner, who struck him with a
the back of the head, and inflicted a desperate
wound on him. He was very much injured over the body
and head. He knew one of the people who struck him
with a brick. Officer Connor, 661, corroborated the state-
ment, as did also an amateur detective, who carries a
crutch. Carroll asked for a remand of the prisoner, and

Dr a warrant to arrest the other man who struck him,

loth applications were

retuattdea to Saturday

.......
granted, and the prisoner stands

CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT AGAINST MESSRS. CARVER
4113 M CO.'S CASH-KEEPER.—James Ferguson, an aristo-
looking person, (with very black moustache),
twenty-eight years of age, late cash-keeper and
Gger of Messrs. Carver and Co.'s business in Liverpool,
was brought up by detective officer Scott, on a charge of
embezzling large sums of money belonging to that
rm.
Mr. Almond appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Brether-

)r the prisoner

The case appeared to create some in-

as there were a large number of mercantile persons
eat. Mr. Almond said he appeared on behalf of the
..[essrs. Carver, to prosecute the prisoner for having em-
bezzled large sums of money. The prisoner had been cash-
keeper and manager of the firm in Liverpool, up to the 21st
January last. The day before he left he, collected several
brrge sums of money, but in the present state of the case he
would not proceed further, than to ask for a remand until
Friday. Mr. Preston : How long was he in the employ-
ment ? Mr. Almond : From four to five years. His duty
w to receive the money here, and then, when he had a
surplus, to transmit it to Manchester, to the head office
and his duty was always to keep a
account, and account at all times for
gams he received. Mr.. Bretherton said, perhaps i
would be for the convenience of parties to have a remand.
Will you admit the prisoner to bail ? Mr. Preston : How
asticla is he charged with taking ? Mr. Almund : At present
we have discovered from two to three hundred pounds ;
but we do not know the real extent. Mr. Bretherton said
be. would procure bail for £2OO. It was then arranged to
remand the prisoner to Friday. [lt appeared that the
prisoner had gone to America, and it was stated that he had
onne back to meet the charge.]
“Noruuslo LIRE LEATIIER."-Wm. Knowles, described
m a bookbinder, was charged by Mr. Scragg, of Renshaw-
street, with stealing a piece of leather, value two
shillings, from him. It appeared that the pro-
arcutor saw the prisoner leaving his workshop, and observed
a small piece of leather sticking out of his breast, and he
pulled it out, and found it was a piece of leather that was
used for binding books. In reply to Mr. Black, for the
wisoner, he said the prisoner worked with him on and off
a to 10 years, and he did not think the prisoner would
done it if he were sober. The prisoner pleaded
guilty, and was sent to jail for 14 days.
LADY " CoNvErAxcEns."---Anne Whiteling, and Mary
Jane Coleman, two " superiorly" dressed young persons, said
Manchester " conveyancers," were charged for
.aul picked the pocket of a lady named Sweeny, in a
shop in Berry-street, on Saturday. Mr. Cobb was for the
It appeared that the lady was in a shop in Berryr
street, on Saturday, making some purchases, when the
prisoners entered, and leaned over and up against her, and
then went out quietly, when the lady missed her
.purse,
containing over £5. She gave an alarm, and the prisoners
-were followed into a public house, where they were arrested,
and the purse, with its contents, found on one of them.
The only defence that Mr. Cobb said he could make was,
that the prisoners were strangers in Liverpool, and not
known to the police. He suggested that the lady might
have dropped the purse in the shop. lie pressed for
seminary punishment, but His Worship refused to
grant that boon (?), and sent the prisoners for trial, as the
ease was too clear for him to deal with it.
ROBBERY BY A SERVAXT.—Mr. W. Itingland, a whole-
sale provision dealer, carrying on business in Whitechapel,
ebari,Ped Mary Anderson, one of his servants, with having
1010/en £7. It appeared that, for some time past, the pro-
secutor had frequently missed money out of a drawer, at his
private residence, and at last he consulted detective-officer
Layeock, who advised him to mark some money. He did
an,, and on the officer searching the prisoner he found a
sovereign so marked on her, and also a key that could open
the drawer. The prisoner pleaded guilty to taking £7, and
Mr. Bingland begged she might be dealt with as leniently
as possible. She was sent to gaol for three months with
bard labour.
"Tuns Oux."—Michael Dalton, described as a notorious
tbiet, was charged with having assaulted Margaret Wilson,
and with having robbed her of eighteenpence. Mr. Bluck
defended. The complainant said, at half-past one on Satin--
stay night, she was going up Liver-court, Maguire-street,
where she lived. The prisoner came to her, and, says he,
"Turn out." " What's that ?" she asked. "'Turn out
-4- " says he, "as I want the rowdy.' " " For

to be

lefen' ce.

r pock

" For drink,"

proper

says he. She refused to
rn up," and he immediately knocked her down and
robbed her of eighteenpence. This story was fully cor-
roborated by a person who was with the complainant at
The time. Mr. Bluck cross-examined the complainant, and
she admitted she was "not a bit better character" than the
prisoner. Mr. Bluck called two witnesses, who swore that
rhstEnci of

prisoner, it was a man who lived with the
who knocked her down, and was rifling her pockets,
when the prisoner went to her assistance, and then the other
mart ran away. When the woman got up she called a police-
alt, and gave the prisoner into custody, "for nothing at all, at
iaP," only savinglier. On this state of the evidence his Worship
giseltarged the prisoner, and on leaVing the court the boys of
slnsguire-street met him outside, amid loud hurraws, and
a:arrried him in triumph to—a public-house. The result of
She procecdin7s, there will, in all probability, be ascertained
in the court this morning, as, no doubt, a couple of dozen of
these " gentlemen" willbe making their bow to the bench—
M, the dock—this forenoon.

BEER EVAPORATES.—
Ir. William Cotterell, gin

oW GINGE

Robert Jones

r-beer maker, 10

en dozen of ginger-bees
nd Mr. Block defended,

Mr. Cobb

rued out very laughablE

The details of th

Mr. Cobb said his client si

ful Bever

ner out on Saturday with a certain quantity of the
^,re, the amount of which was £1 45., and
he only paid £1 ls., and

when.- he came back in the eveni

that he was

;even doz

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Mr.

to custody on the charge

at all." Mr. Cobb :•Av
except that be admitted it

No, lie " never said nothi
No, nothii

nothing at all
Loud laughter.) ' Mr. Cobi
Of course it

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;reat laugh

charge
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Ike oft

Mr. Cobb T lie was given yoni

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Mr. Cob

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tell him h

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(Roars of laughter

man (01-e pros(

What did hinpea

MO Cu
Vlaittei

„, nut embezzled iiim. (Great
In reply tt Mr. Clough, this ” brilliant'!otEeer
3 nad been ei,ghteen months in the force. After very
)eeches from Arr. Bina and Mr. Cobb, the prisoner
ischar,ged amid a roar of laughter.

APPLICATION TINDER THE DIVORCE ACT.-Mr. Cobb, on
Ralf of Anne Anderson, of 14, Blackstone-street, applied
an order for protection against Daniel Anderson, her
tband, under the 21st and 22nd Vic., chap. 108, under
following circumstances. The parties had, it appeared,
eleven years, and the allegation was, that six
the marriage the husband deserted the appli-
before he had treated her in a very cruel manner.
time she had not seen or heard from him.
has, since
that period, been enabled to sup-
port herself by her honest exertions, and also her child,
that was born some three months after the desertion. The
applicant and another person were called, and provedted a
then
rase as stated by Mr. Cobb,
any
and his Worship
an
carder to protect the woman from interference
gron the
rt of her husband (should he ever turn up), from what
.$e may have realised by her honest exertions.

No SHIP SHOULD GO TO SEA without one of Saunders
amid Co.'s Patent Self-cleansing Charcoal Filters, cased and
iitted-up expressly for use on board ship. Note the address,
swim. & Co., 16, Parker-street, Liverpool.'