Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTE CE-LLIGE_!,.7 SAT URD A Y

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MR. R GLADETONE.

A FlGllT.—Joseph Anton, Patrick Carley, and Mary
and Elizabeth Acton, were charged by officer 420 for a
riot and assault. About three o'clock on Christmas
morning there W 4,9 a "jolly good fight" in Nc'rth•street,
when the officer interfered, and was assaulted by Joseph
Acton in a severe manner. He was knockeu down and beaten
with a poker. The females tried to rescue the risoner.
The evidence against Curley was not sr,ffic;ent. and he was,
dische.rged. The two women were fined 24. 61 each, and
seph Acton was fined £2, or, in default, two months'
imprisonment

THE FORCE OF CUSTOM !—Amongst a large number of
persons vitio were charged for being drunk and fighting.
and riotous conduct, on Christmas eve, were two young
men, who were charged with assaulting the police, for
being drunk, and so on. Mr. Black appeared for the
prisoners, and said he was instructed to say that it was
$ regular custom for penile to g-et drunk on Christmas
eve Mr. Cr•adstone: Ye', the custom mikes brutes of
them. I am very i.ifr6n much influenced by the able
argam,:nta of Mr. Black, hut iu tbis he has not sucta:ecled
in convincing me. The prisoners were fined 104 each.
SeNAGEs!—John Ravel,' a mason. charged two bro7hers.
named William and john Foley, with having committed a
desperate outrage on him. It appeared that some time
Ego the complainant was a witness against some friends of
the prisoners, and thy vowed vengeance against him. 0 a
Thursday night they met him in Wi kinsomstreet, when
John Foley kniNeked h;rn down, an• William felt down on
him, and c-ifehing his n-ee in his moui.h, bit nearly the
whole of that otg:in off his face. Surgeon Pope, of the
Southern Hospital, ,aid the nose was bitten quit. through.
and only held together by a small portion of skin—there
was scarcely a doubt but the man would lose his nose.
The prisoners were remanded ftr a week

SANDING TAa C aTli is —Mr. Murdock, a pawnbroker,
carrying on baminesa in Mrrybone, charged two pert one,
named Anne MG:man and J-mei Riley. under the follow-
ing circuniFtantte :—He said he went from his private
residence on Christmas :ay, to his house of bui.iness. to see
all right, and on his arrival, he was. vary muc't astonished
to find the shop doer open, and on entering, ho found both
the prisoners in the place very drunk The woman was a
servant in the shop, and the police recrgni,;ed the man
as a well-known " garotter " The complainant said there
Was nothing taken from the shop, and he did not wish to
pres.g the case, but as a warning the prisoners were cau-
tioned and discharged.

BXFORIC MR. J, ATKiN.

THE CORN ROBBERY —Joseph Maley, and George
Bebbington, were brought up by cfficers Laycock and
Eaton of the detective police, on a remand:el charge of
having stolen seven bag 4 of wheat belenging to Messrs.
Allan and Gillespie, and John Farrell, a marine store
dealer, in Newport-street, was chatged with receiving it
with a guilty knowledge. Mr. Duck was for Farrell, and
Mr. Goodere for the other two prisoners. In cur paper of
Thursday the full details of this case were
published. The evidence was gone into de novo. Officer
Layeock, was cross-examined by Mr. Blur.k, and said he
did not know aeThit g wr!.,ng against Farrell, and that he
at once admitted that he had purehased the corn ; he di i
not conceal anything, and so far as he knew he was a
respectable man. Oae of Messrs. Allan and Gillespie's
clerks, in reply to Mr Goodere, raid Bebbington, as the
inferior officer of Braley, would bi exonseated by obeying
his orders. In reply to the bench, the witness said the
prisoner must know there was somethirg dishonest in the
ease, Mr. Goodere here interfered. when His Worehip
seid his interference inclined him very much to conclude
that he must seed the prisoner to another cou-t. The
witness, in reply to Mr. Bluek, sail en ref rents to the
books in the office he found th,t Braley had sold some
sweepings to Farrell previously. He was not aware that
any sweepings had gone to Mr. Gill,epie's farm on the
day the seven bags was taker. Some of the clerks from
the office of Messrs. Allen stated that Braley had no
authority to sell any corn or sweepings. Mr. Black then
addressed the court oe beh ,lf of Farrell. and said he was
a man of high character and had told the truth all th, ough.
The prisoners were sent for trial, but His Worship
admitted Far-ell to bail in two sureties of £5O each, and
Bebbington was admitted to bail in two sureties in I 25 each.
[ln the course of the above case, Mr. Goodere a-k-d to
have the depositions tai en down, as the witnesses were
examined, according to the opinion of Mr Just ea Weight-
man. Mr. Garnett said if such a cantle were adopted, it
would require twelve stipendiary magistrates for the court.
Mr. Aikin said he was astonished at the accuracy with
which the clerks took down the evidence, If Mr. Goodere
'wished he would have an opportunity of having his cross-
exemination taken down afterwards. Mr. Goodere then
made a loud c :mplaint that a second magistrate could net
be had in the County Magistrate-,' Court, in Basnett street,
and that, in consequence, the twenty-seven sailors who
were charged with a mutiny on board a ship in the river
had to be remanded until Monday, Mr. Aikin said ho
had nothing to do with such an affair

BIRKENHEAD,
BEFORE E. BRYANS, ESQ.

A CANDIDATE volt THE LOCK-UP.—James Rogers, a strong
rough-looking latouring man, who works about the coal-
yards in this town, was charged with breaking the window
of Mr. Bates, who keeps he Golden Lion in Chester-street.
The prisoner entered the vaults on Christmas day, between
10 and 11 at night. Mr. Bates, seeing that he was very
drunk, very properly refused to serve him with anything
more. Prisoner then became very abusive and annoying
to the other costumers, upon which he was desired to
leave the place ; this he refused to do. and Mr. Bates came
round to the front of the bar to put him out, upon which
he seized Mr. Bares, and threw him down, who would have
been roughly handfed, but for the interference of two or
three men, who assisted in ejecting the prisoner. Prisoner
tried to get in again, finding he could not do so, he very
deliberately smashed a window, the cost of which was 10s.
in so doing he cut his hand very severely. He was then
given into custody but, previous to his being locked up, it
was found necessary to have his hand dressed, As it was
blesding very freely Ordered to p,y 103 damage and
costs, or twenty-one days in the House of Correction.
The prisoner is a most dangerous character, having, since
1837, been in custody no less than seventeen times on a
variety of charges from " ssfety” to highway robbery.
ENIMIES TO MIL•NER'S SAM—John Evans and William
Atkins, two kaowing.lookieg elves, who were brought up
on Wednesday last as suspicious characters, under
the following c'rcumstances. were this day again
placed in the dock. Detec ive officer Hodgson
stated that in the course of his usual evening ex-
ercise on Tuesday last he happened to catch sight
of the two prisoners, and a third man going in and out of
shops and public house;. He (Hodson) having an eye to
business, watched them and made inquiries where they
had been, the result of which was he found in four or five
ins'anc?s, that for every twopenneworth of spirits or svne
they invariably changed a sovereign. Hodson knew that
changing of soveregns was no crime, or the ascertaining
where the cash box was kept from which change was
given them, bat he did knew that sometimes during
the busy time of evening cash boxes very efesn
"mizzled " in a most mysterious manner, consequently
he took them into custody as suspicious characters
When before the magistrate on the first occasion
they both protected against being taken into
custody, as they were respectable tradesmen, Atkins stet.
ing that he was a brass-founder, and then staying at 27,
Parliament-street, Liverpool, as al assistant to his brother,
a licensed hawker, before which he was living at Shrews-
bury, and Evans stating that he was a stationery hawker,
and lived a 28, York-street, Glasgow, before which he
resided in a new street, when being formed, in Newcastle •
under-Lyre; but which, ashen be left had not been named.
It ran from one end of the town to the other. The apparent
plausible mauner in which each told his tale, induced the ma-
gistrate to put them down until Saturday last, for inquiry, the
resnl`, of which was, that the two "respectable tradesmen"
were so wall known as to be described, in the book kept at
the main brit!ewell, Liverpool, as "John Evans, alias Frede-
rick Hicks," in custody there four times, and " Wtn. Atkins,
alias Tudor," five times in the same prison. In addition,
one of the Birkenhead police, named Gregory, who was
formerly in the Manchester police, was also in attendance
to identify Atkins, as a well known thief in that town.
To day Mr. Black appeared on their behalf, and having
admitted that they were not respectable men as they
had described themselves to be, said that, in this instance,
he did not think they had committed such an offence as t
bring them within the Vagrant Act, so as to werrant the
worthy a
magistrate in sending them to pritien. Mr Bryans
!aid their conduct was very suspicious, to say the least of
it, but he did not, in this instance, intend sending them to
prison. They must, however, be cautious is their future
conduct oa this side of the water. He then dis Charged
them.

A WARNING TO DATNYMEN.—NearIy all of Ton head
of Cal Twomey ; well, 1 was at his wake ; End.jist es tb,
women were tittle' down after keenin,' the dead man sit up
on his elbow on the table ; every soul of us ran for the bare
life, for we thought 'twits the Ould Boy was emniu, to ea,
U 3 all ; bat Cal, poor soul, told them all to step quite as
thyy wor, " tor," said he, " I'm not goin to hurt any of
you, I'm not, and I'm not goin to atop with you either. but
I'm goin to give you all one advice—never sell water in
milk to any oue, %is the greatest sin in the world, and if
you knew where the water-s tiers go yen would never do
it," and he laid down again, and said no more, and he was
uried dap.—lrish Literary Gazette.