Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-08 00:00:00

POLICE I NTE LL I GEN CE. —YrnSTfIRD A.Y

LIVERPOOL.
enrol/ a Ma. MANSF:BLD.
ZeMOUS STABBING CASE.—Duncan M Intire wee charged
havimg stabbed three females in a house fffame in
Itatwasark-etreet. Mr. i3luck prosecuted and Mr. Cobb de-
Itaeisted :he prisoner. The facts were these : —On Saturday
sigeit zhe prisoner, wits come other persons, went into the
limas kept by a woman named Ana Bradbury, where they
/be some drink, and then a quarrel took place, when the
der took out a knife and stabbed two women in the
&as laid neck, and cut another in the hard. The details
spied the court some time, and Mr. Cobb called some
pumas for the defence, when his Worship decided on
stir the prisoner f,r trial, but said he would teke bail
sureties in f..'20 each—for him.
Satanns."—Robert Man‘l,ld, James Clarke and Wm.
Wiatieseas, three great " swells," well known to the police
aviioeratie mombstnett, were brought np by detective
SV!' Scott, who arrested them on board the Isle of Man
Uwe, .where he saw them trying to pick the pockets of
end persons. Mr. Bluck appeared for Mansfield and
'riaerke, and Mr. Dodd for Williams. The officer said he
2/frilr parties trying to pick pockets, and saw their
kirszeb pat into the pockets of men and women. This
mere. 2-ierra was corroborated by a Mr.. Whittaker, who
finial he was an amateur detective for eighteen years,
Brat kris real business was a timber merchant. This witness
I.lll,lnes examined at some length, and caused vast merri-
lawar in court, He said he could tell by the fac! of
AlbreaS.vtd, (the prisoner) that he was a tkief; he (witness)
was a bit of a phisiagnami-t, and took great delight in -
ssiiikinfa pick-pockets. Mr. Black : Then yon glory in sin
wad wiekedaess, do you? Sometimes I do, when catching
*a-pockets. He was subject to a they cross-examina-
tiksz, both by Mr. Buck and Mr. Dodd, but the facts
ware not altered in the main. Mr. Bluck ascertained
dot The prisoners were arrested at twelve o'clock on
llEaulay, and he contended that it was unlawful and
isettentaitntional to keep them locked up during the
/sax-mi. They ehould have been be 'tight up at once,
sing to law. and he appealed to his Worship if the
hew was not sc, ? His Worship replied it was the law as
skated 'ay Mr. Black. Inspector Kehoe said inquiry-had
Is made about the prisoners, and that caused the delay.
S&L hack said it was quite illegal for the police to have
scaad so.. He addressed the court, as did also Mr. Dodd
lbw his elient. Hie Worship complimented both the
)tamed gentlemen on their able addresses, bat sent Mans-
Sala xed Williams to gaol for three months Clarke was
itstrtaimied as there was another charge against him.
Veacsarr Assaunr.—Anne Griffith the keeper of an
fettveper house in Copperas-hill, was charged with having
Wistisztly assaulted a female named Jane Smith. The
pan,i2s had a drunken quarrel, when the prisoner took up
& rig and gave Smith a violent blow on the forehead,
iiminesting a serious wound, Bent to gaol fir three months.
'.is BIRD THAT WOULD 14 OT SING —William Thoma.,
se ztrinig fellow dressed as a sailor, was charged
Path Laving stolen a very beautiful psra-quet and
ova, the property of a sailor named Jo-n M'Clel-
bow& The " bird" was at the Sa-lor's Home, and
woe taken by the prisoner, who was stopped offering
law sale. The prisoner said very cooly that the
laikawould not sing, and was of no use whatever to him.
-wee sent to gaol for three months.

Calderbauk, a resident of Albion-
atnve, w4s charged with having violently assaulted his
aiistar Jane. From the evidence it appeared that the
Wines, -without any apparent cause, furiously attacked
reßs lister,:icLocked her down and kicked her, brea.,ing two
sac tmse of her ribs. He was sent to gaol for six months,
saittals. expiration of which he .fte ordered to find bail, or,
uteri:Aran% to be imprisoned for six months additi ,nal.
razenart Rai ♦ PORTE't.—J,,hri Pratchet, and Maria his
vae-a,-,. were brought up, on remand, by officers Scaife and
-narsapson, charged with having stolen a consid-erable
wwwwity of drapery goods, the proper. ty of Messrs. Wilding,
,litatthew-street. The ma'e prisoner was porter at Messrs.
Ilirildiag'Et, and in that, capacity he had an opportunity of
as a considerable quantity of property, consisting of
taalia exvers, ticking, shirts, blankets, and the like, and it
wee., 2ro7ed that the woman had pledged the property at
swam) pawnshops. The prisoner. we-e scut for trial.
.11 lixutiLaa, TFIUMPRIt. Mary Harper, a resident of
4110 tend-street, was charged with having assaulted police
latter 210. The prisoner and another woman were
saaprged at the agreeable recreation of scratching each
ititlirS' faces, and pulling the "thatch" off each others'
, when the officer came up, and most impertinently
Weirr?ered to prevent the " sport," whereon the prisoner
Avnete round gave him a regular polthogue on the jaw,
atelaocked him flat as a flounder, and when down she
tiatectld ~,u his " carcase," for which Mr. Mansfield lined
ktr or in default three months imprisonment.