Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-10 00:00:00

POLICE I NTELL LIGENCE.—YzaTaIwAy.

BEFORE SIR ROBERTSON GLADSTONE
CAUTION TO FAInIiZRS' SERVANTS. —The inspector of the
Haymarket- charged three men in the employment of Mr.
Hitchman, farmer, of Halewood, Mr. Sagare, farmer, of
Barton, and Mr. Graves, farmer, of Halewood, with refusing
to leave the market when deaired to do so, with their
hors=e, &c , contrary to the local law.g. The defendants
were fined 2s 6d and costs each.

BIRKENHEAD.
BEFORE B. BRYAN% ESQ.
Dour. THE RESPECTABLE Thomas Porter, a
young man of very respectable appeaaranc), with his left
arm in a sling, and who described himself as the son of
the Rev. John Porter, of Addingly rectory, near Droit-
wich. Worcestor, was brought up by Sergeant Stanley, of
the Cheshire county police, stationed at Tranmere, charged
with having obtained money and goods by means of false
pretences. The prisoner's ingeeuity has far out-
done many of the "fake pretenders" who have
visited the Cheshire side of the Mersey, as
the following will show. It appeared from the
statement of Stanley, that a short time since the prisoner,
under the pretence that he had come to Cheshire to
recruit his health, previous to his hand being amputated,
located himself at Fernihough's Hotel, at Tranmere,
where he commenced his career by taking up his abode as
a genlema,n, and ordering 'he god things necessary to
sustain life until he had run up a bill of .E 5 18s. ld., which
he was politely zLsked to pay —pay was the word but the
funds were inasgivary, for none had he got. Upon
inquiry, that turned out to be the fact, whereupon he was
told that his room would be better thn his company, and
accordingly he made himself scarce by leaving the Hotel.
During his stay at the hotel, he hired a car of a poor
man, named Williams, desiring to be driven to Sutton, for
the purpose of visiting his (the prisoner's) brother. He
was accordingly driven there, and, after pretending to
make various calls, contrived to borrow 2i from the driver;
of er which he w s driven back to Tranmere, when the
fare, amounting to 14s, was demanded, and an answer
received, "no effects." The driver was not, however, to
be done, and insisted upon security being given, and the
prisoner accordingly gave him his coat, which he said
would be quite sufficient to meet the demand ; but
it ultimately turned out to be not worth more
than 5% Having got rid of the car-driver,
his wits were again called into requisition, and
he made his way to the Angel Hotel at Birkenhead, the
worthy host of which is a most hum ne man, and after
telling a pitiful tale of his having, been garrotted and
robbed of his coat he was kindly furnished wide one, the
same that he now had on. He had also got two valuable
books from a bookseller at Birkenhead which he had offered
to the landlady upon his being permitted to stay at the
hotel, which was refused. He also visited Mr. Williams,
junr., of Chester-street, Birkenhead, hatter, and desired to
be shown a loose coat, and having selected one was about
to take care of it, but as Mr. Williams
was not to be so easily " napoed" the
prisoner was asked to pay ; not being able to do so, he left
the shop, 'saving 14 -And him a ragged dirty pocket
haekerchief and a pair of gloves, both of which were
produced in court to-clay. It was also given in evidence,
that the prisoner had obtained several sums of money
from other tradesmen, The prisoner made a long ram-
bling statement about his respectability, and intention of
paying all that he owed, but as no money whatever was
found in his possession at the time of his apprehension,
he was ordered to be remanded until Friday next, that
some inquiry might to be made about him, and in the
meantime he was to have every opportunity offorded him
of writing to his friends.

BiliTS' CLOTHING MADE WITH GREAT TASTE
At LEWIS & COMPANY'S. Ranelavh street.

CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST A LIVERPOOL
ATTORNEY.

Yesterday, at the morning sittings in the Police-court,
John Bhatrock, an attorney, having offices at Croft's-
buildings, Preeson's-row, was brought up before Mr.
Mansfield, on charges of having committed forgery on
several bills of exchange. Mr. Hughes appeared to pro-
secute, on the par, of Messrs. Little and Murray, builders
and contractors, West Derby ; and the conducting clerk of
Mr. Da Medena, of 21, King-street, Finsbury-square,
London, appeared for that gentleman. Mr. Muck ap-
peared for the prisoner, and said he must ask for a remand,
as the case was not ready to be proceeded with. He
believed the parties for the prosecution were not ready,
and, as all agreed on the point, a remand was necessary,
so that no more need be said about the case at present. Mr.
Hughes said he had no objection to a remand, on the part
of his clients. Mr. De Medena's clerk said the holder of one
of the bills was a Mr. Jaques, at Bristol, and it would be
necessary to issue a summons to compel him to attend.
Mr. Mansfield said the gentleman must be written to first,
and if he did not come, then a summons would be issued
to compel his attendance. Mr. Bluck asked Mr. De
Medena's clerk if his employer would be present on the
next occasion, and he replied he could not tell. Mr. Bluck
said : I hope he will, u I have something to say to him.
The prisoner was then remanded for NMI days

BEFORE MR MANSFIELD.
ATTRMFT AT MURDER.—Michael Parker a resident of
Cavendish-street, was charged with having committed a
murderous assault on a married woman named Anne
Hand, or Lavin. The facts of the case appeared to be as
follows : —The wife of the prisoner and Mrs. Hand had
soma dispute, when the prisoner entered the house,
knocked her down, and kicked her most brutally, although
it seemed she was near her confinement. Surgeon Thomas,
of the St. Anne's dispensary, sail he was in attendance on
the woman, and that she was in a very dangerous state.
His Worship -aid if the woman died, the prisoner would
he tried for murder. He would remand him for seven
days.
ANcarTER MURDEROUS AFFAIR.—A powerful black man,
named James Cleadon. was charge! with having stabbed
a sailor named Joseph Smith, and a girl named Mary
Bibby. The complainants' heads were bandaged up, and
they seemed to have suffered severely. It appeared that
there was a fight between a lot of black sailors who were
lodging in Mason-wreet and Shaw's-alley, and that about
twenty of the party were engaged in the conflict,
armed with knives. They hacked away at each
other for a long time (and, of course, no police
were present for, to the credit of the efficacy and vigilance
of the force, and the excellent arrangemews of the " head
constable " one-half the inhabitants of Liverpool might be
slain by ruffians before a police-officer could be procured,)
and the party to which the prisoner belonged having
driven their opp,nents into a house, the prisoner, in the
flush of victory, rushed into the street, with a knife in his
hand, and commenced stabbing at every one he met. The
complainants happening to come in his way, he inflicted
serious wounds on their heads and foreheads, anal after all
the damage was done, (wonderful some one or more persons
did not meet dearh at the hands of the ruffian,) a police-
man walked leisurely up, and the prisoner was arrested.
The statement of the complainants was confirmed by
three witnesses, who saw the prisoner stab them, and
they d,clared it was awful to see the fellow with the knife
in his hand, striking at every one he met ; they also said
the complainants did not give the least provocation to
him, or any one else. The prisoner was sent for trial.
FEROCIOUS STREET RUFFIANS.—TWO desperate-looking
rnfti4ns named John Lyons, and Robert Folks, were
charged with having knocked down and nearly murde-ed a
sailor named William Atkin. The complainant said he
was at the Adelphi Theatre, on Monday night, and when
leaving, he was accosted by the prisoners. They wanted
him to give them ale, but he refused. They followed him
through several streets, and at last, when in a very dark
place, they seized on him, knocked him down and abused
him shockingly. One of them held him by the throat,
and knelt on his chest, whilst the other searched his
pockets. They did not get any money, as he had taken
the precaution to leave all his cash at the Sailors' Home,
before he went out. The prisoner, as the complainant
could not remain to prosecute at the assizes, were sent to
jail for three months each, with hard labour.
ROBBERY OF LETTERS BY AN OFFICE BOY.—A
dressed, good-looting youth, named Hugh Carney, an
office bv, engaged at Mr. Thomas Brough's office,
30, South Castle-street, was brought np by detective
officer Cozens, of the post-office department, charged under
the following circumstances:—From the evidence of Cozens,
the cash-keeper at Mr. Brough's, and a clerk in the money
order office, General Post-office, it appeared that the
prisoner was in the office of Mr. Brough, as a sort of
ccnfidendtial office boy. He used to open the office in the
morning. There was a deep letter-box in the office door,
and the letters were usually put into it by the carrier in
the morning. Several letters, which con ained money,
were missed from time to time, alth ,ugh the box was
locked and the cash keeper kept the key of it. On
the let of April a lever with two five pound notes was
abstracted ; on the '2Bth of Mey a letter with .E 5 Os 6d was
taken ; and on several other occasions letters with money ere
stolen. The supposition was that the prisoner had a key
that opened the letter-box. Cozens went to work, and put
some letters into the box, and after some efforts he found
the prisoner abstracting some letters. When he saw he
was discovered he ran to the ashpit, and flung something
into it, which the officer discovered to be portion of a let-
ter that was sent to the house nom Wales, and containing
a post office order for £l, a portion of which order he also
found in the ashpit. The prisoner was remanded for seven
days, his Worship ordering the depositions to be taken in
the meantime.