Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,-YZSTERDAT .

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORN MR. MAN,FIELD.

A MONSTER.—Patrick Coyne, apparently a mechanic,
was charged by a female named Era ibeth Bromley, with
having committed a murderous attack on her. The
evidence showed that the prisoner met the woman in Mr.
Weston's public-house, in Scotland-place, and asked her
to treat him. She replied she had no money, when the
fellow struck her a desperate blow on the lower part
of the face. Surgeon Davis, of the Northern Dispensary,
said there were two very bad fractures of the lower jaw ;
she was not able to speak, and would not for a consider-
able time. The prisoner was sent for trial.
SAILING UNDER FALSE COL')URS.—A young woman, with
a handsome face, who gave the name of Margaret Thomp-
son, was charged by officer 656, who said he got
her in Whitechapel. Mr. Mansfield : What was she
doing ? She was walking in the street dressed as
she is now in sailor's clothes. The girl was
dressed in a neat j icket, and looked (only for the face)
much like a sat or lad. Mr. Mansfield : Has she trousers
? Yes sir. Mr. Mansfi ld why do you act thus ?
Prisoner I did it for a lark,—l have my own clothes under
them. Mr. Mansfield : Your pack and all ? No, but my
petticoat and unaer clothin7. Mr. Mansfield : Strange
fancy this in such weather. Go now, and don't come here
again. She was discharged.

-FURIOUS Dutvigo.—John Anderson, a person with a
prefusien of red hair about his face, was charged by
officer 687, who said he was driving a shandy in London
Road; he was drunk and driving in a very furious manner
and knocked down a girl, but fortunately she was not hurt.
The prisoner was fined 203 and costs.
RATHER Suspicious.-1 woman named Mary Anne
Lyons, who sells apples in the street, was brought up by
officer Reilly, 91, who said he got her offering a chamber
candlestick (silver), a shell, a silver-mounted cigar-case, a
copy of Tennyson's, and another of Longfellow's, poems,
and a work called the " Flower Garden" (all beautifully
bound) for pawn, and as she could not account for how
she get them, he took her into custody. She said she got
the articles from some children in Londod-road, in
exchanu for same apples and halfpence. She was re-
manded.

CHARGE AGAINST TWO POLICEMEN —Mr. John Hutchin-
son, a perambu'ator maker, residing' in Brownlow hill,
charged police ( fficers 482 and 112. He said, on Tuesday
at one o'clock he saw Cie policeme❑ dragging a woman in
Castle-street ; they had her nearly choked, and when he
spoke to them not to drag her s), they at once seized him
by the neck, and nearly choked him. They dragged him
to the Bridewell, and treated him in the most barbarous
manner, and all for telling them that they ought not to
treat the woman so. He said officer 482 acted more like
a wild tiger than a human being. This statement was
corroborated by Mr. George Wagstaff and Mr. Wm. Ebey.
The police maintained, in reply to the charge, that they
had acted very forbearingly towards the complainant, whom
they accuzed of exciting the mob to rescue the woman.
They read an apology that was entered in the charge-book
at the station, and signed by the complainant, expressing
his regret at having interfered wi h the police and promis-
ing never to do so any mere. Officers 369 and 159 were
called for the defence, and said the complainant acted ont-
raE,reously and excited the mob. The complainant said 369
was a wicked man, and wondered God did not strike him
dead on the spot for telling such wicked lies. There was
a great deal of difference between the stories told at either
aide, and the police brought a carter named Fishwick who
sustained their version of the affair. Mr. Alansfield dis-
missed the case, remarking that the complainant had
brought the case on himself by his gross conduct.

BIRKENHEAD.
BEFORE THE HON. SIR EDWARD DUST, RUM, AND TEE
REVDS. MESSRS. FIELDER AND COXON.

Yesterday Henry Watson, Absalom Walthew, and Wil-
liam Roberts, the engine-drivers and stokers of the Great
Western Raileva.v, were brought up before the above ma-
gistrates according to remand, under the following circum-
stances:—Mr. J. B. Lloyd appeared on behalf of the
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway
Company, and Mr. Bretherton on the part of the Great
Western. Mr. J. B. Lloyd, in opening the case of the
plaintiffs, said that the precedings were instituted under
the 56 sect, of the sth and 6th of Victoria, which enacts,
any engine-driver or servant of a railway company should
be subject to a fine penalty f,r not paving attention to the
signals of the company. Mr. Lloyd then referred to another
section of the act, which showed that the magistrates
had jurisdiction in the case, and proceeded to detail
the facts with regard to the collision as follows :
A collision took place on this line of railway, near the
entrance to the tunnel at Birkenhead, which destroyed
four carriages, and it is almost miraculous that the pas-
sengers escaped without any materiel injury. It appears
that an express train belonging to the Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junctio❑ Railway Company left
Chester at 9.15, and was due at Birkenhead at ten o'clock.
Near the entrance of the tunnel at Birkenhead there is a
junction of three lines—one leading to Monk's Ferry
station, another to the railway offices and works in
Grange-lane, and the third to the docks. Outside the
tunnel, at the point of the junction, there is a semaphore
signal, which directs the working of the three lines.
Immediately before the accident, an engine belonging to
the Great Western Railway C )mpany left the docks, and
proceeded to the works in Grange-lane, for the purpose of
procuring a couple of waggons. At this time the express
train from Chester approached the tunnel, and the
pointsman hoisted the usual danger signal to p-event
trains coming up ; but, notwithstanding this signal, it is
alleged that the driver and fireman of the engine belonging
to the Great Western Company, on their return from
Grange-lane with the waggons, continued their
course. The driver of the express train saw the impending
danger, and instantly backed his engine, but he was too
late to prevent a collision. The engine sad waggons grazed
the express train, the result being that the carriages, four
in number, had their sides completely tor❑ away, but for-
tunate'y none of the passengers,who were greatly alarmed,
sustained any injury beyond a few slight contusions. The
damage sustained by the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction Railway Company is estimated at about
£4OO. Immediately after the accident occurred, Henry
Watson, the driver of the Great Western Company's
engine, and two of the firemen, were taken into custody,
and in the course of the forenoon were brought before the
magistrates,who were sitting in the Town-hall. Mr. Neville
appeared for the p"osecution, and gtouded his charge
on the 17th section of the sth and 6th Victoria, cap. 55,
which makes it lawful for any railway company to detain
any driver, fireman, &c., who may be guilty of wilfully
or negligently doing, or omitting to do, anything on a
line whereby the life of any person may be endangered.
A number of witnesses were called to prove the case
for the prosecution, after which Mr. Brotherton, in an
able and argumentative speech, contendel that his client
was not at all responsible for the injuries that had
been received, but that the disaster arose from the
Birkenhead Railway Company not having open signals
Mr. J. B. Lloyd, replied on the case, after which
the magistrates retired, and consulted for about 20
minutes, returned into court and directed the
discharge of the prisoners, at the same time
intimating that they considered that the Birkenhead
C >mpany had not provided proper signals, by which
accidents could be avoided, but hoped that this
case would lead to a remedying of the evils complained.
The hearing of the case occupied from 11 to half- past 6
o'c'ock, although it did not present a single feature of
interest to the public

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Horuce VERNBT. —Horace Vernet, the celebrated
painter, has purchased a house at flyeres. where be
purposes to pass the winter. M. Yron, who painted " The
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HEALTH OF LONDON DIIRTNI THT WERK.--[From the
Regithar General's Returns ]—Tlia deaths registered in
London, which in the last week of July rose to 1,238, and
in the first and second weeks of August were respectively
1,224 and 1,187, exhibit a very decided decreaze in the
week that ended last Saturday (August 22nd), the num-
ber being 1,091. Eight deaths from diarrhcel (including
cholera) occurred last week in tLe sub-district of St. John
Westminster, 7 in that of S'. Margaret Westminster, 5 in
Brompton, 5 in the Hackney sub-district, 6 in Goodman's
fields, .5 in Bow, 5 in Trinity Newington, 5 in Lambeth
Church sub-district (2nd part), asv 5 in Plumstead.
Scarlatina exhibits an increase; tor the deaths from it,
which were in the two pviious weeks 32 and 16, rose
last week to 40, Thro:e, persons died of disease the effect
of intemperance. Ihe deaths of five nonagenasians are
returned, on'e at tha age of 90 years, two at 93, one at 94
in Wii'.l-street, St. Giles, and one at 98 at Putney. With
one exception (a man who was the youngest of the five)
these old persons were all widows. Last week the births
of 860 boys and 832 girls, in all 1,692 children, were
registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of
the years 1847-56 the average number was 1,460.

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