Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-05 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.'-2,2-LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 51 1857

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—YzsTERDAY.

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE ME MINSFIELD

WRETCHES PROPIRLY rUNISIIID.—Three children,
ranging from four to seven years old, were le-ought before
this Worship, by an officer who said be fund them in
Paradise-street, at eleven o'clock the previous night,
begging and in a wretched state, On taking them to the
station, they told the officer that their mothers' had s:nt
them oat to bee, and if they did net bring home money
they would be beaten by their parents. This story bore
such an air of truth, that the officer made enquiry and
found the mothe- cf two of the children, whose name is
Mary Anne Johnston, living in Baeistre-street, and the
other named Anne 'Lenechan, in Eaten-street. The
mothers' were in come, and the children repeated the
story that they-weie sent out to beg, and beaten if they
did not bring home money. His Worship ordered the
children to be discharged, and sent the moth.. to gtol
for one month each with hard labour.
Tea BAROWS AND TIM HICKEYS. —A well dressed young
female, of interesting appearance, named Anne Jane
Barrow, charged aeo her respectable-lecking fern tlee relined
Catherine Hickey, with having assaulted her. Mr. Bluck
was for the complainant, and Mr. Cobb for the defense.
It appeared that on Friday last the mother of the defendant
met complainant, and asked her to go into the public-house
of Mr. Thorn, rf Denison-street, to settle some di pute
about certain matters of fact, touching certain gentlemen,
whose names are at present unknown. The complainant
said she had just entered the public-house, but before she
had time to speak with the defendant's m Aher, or to have
any ref-eshment, the defendant entered the house, and,
without any provocation, she struck her several blows in
the face, cut her, and tore a quantity of her (harelsome)
hair from her head. Two witnesses were called to bu4tain
the statement, but they did not appear, and then a young
lady came forward, and on being sworn, she was asked,
" What do you know about this affair?" and her reply
was, " I don't know a ha'porth at all about it." (Laughter )
Mr. Cobb ense Examined the c:.mplainant. Are you a
married woman ? Yes. Where is your husband? In
America. What are you ? A dressmaker. Do you
know George Hall ? Yes. Is he a blind man ? He is.
Have you ever lived with him? Never. D d you ever
go by his name ? Never. Well, hecv are you liked by
the people in the neighbourhood? (Laughter) Mr.
Mansfield—That does not come within her own knowledge
(Great laughter). Witness —Well, I never gave them any
cause to dislike me. Mrs. Thorn was examined, and said,
one of (he parties was fes bad as the other—they used most
" ridiculous" language to each other, but she did not see
any blows struck by either of the " ladies " The charge
was dismissed.

IMPORTANT TO SPECULATORS—HOW T) GAIN Six SIM,
Lugas !—A lookirg ruffian, named Louis
Wilson, was cha-ged with having stolen 64. from James
Hutchinson. The coniplainent said, on Monday evening
he was in Holden's public house, Earl street, where he
saw the prisoner; a convent-Con took place about pigeon-
shooting, when he took out six sh,llings to bet on
that question ; laid the money on the counter, when
the prisoner took it up, and ran away with it
(Laughter) The pritmer, in reply to the charge,
said he went into Holden's pubLc.houe, after the
election was over, as there was a crop of beer going about.
The complain nt came in, and bFgan to talk about pigeon
shooting, and offered to shoot any man in England.
(Laughter) He put down two half-crowns and a
shilling to bet ho would shoot any man in England
(more laughter)—and asked him (the prisoner) to cover
it, which he did with a penny, and then be took it up and
ran off with it. (Loud laughter.) Mr. Mansfield : And
what did you do with it? Prisoner : Spent it, of course
(Great Laughter.) Complainant : I don't will to pre a
the charge. The piioner was discharged.
Henry Battley, a po ter, was sent to jail fir three
months, for stealing sugar from a store.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.

CAPTURE OF THE PERPETRATOR&

On Sunday morning Head-Constable Roe effected one
of the most clever captures which have ever taken place
in this city, by which he has entitled himself to a reward
of £5O, which was offered for the apprehension and con-
viction of the offenders. It appears that intelligence had
been communicated some weeks ago to the pslice authori-
ties that a very exieusive robbery had been perpetrated
in London to the amount of over £l,OOO. About two
years ego, Mrs. Aitken, of 68, Great Portland-street,
London, having occasion to go abroad for a certain period,
applied to the authorities of the Metropolitan Police to
have one of that force placed in charge of her house,
which contained a very large amount of property in plate
and other articles of value. The application was acceded
to, and one of the most ac ive and, as was generally
believed, most steady ,and respectable members of the
metropolitan force was located in the house, where he
resided altogether with a young person who lived with
him ostensibly as his wife. Their names were James
Sankey, of the D. Division, and Ma`hilde Ross, otherwise
Duvale, for though it was generally understood that she
was his wife, there was reason to believe that no marriage
had taken place between them. For a period of near
two years they continued to reside in the house,
no other pettons living with them, and having the
most complete and unlimited control of the premises and
all th y contained. It is stated that it is by no means an
uncommon practice for parties in London posses,dog large
property to leave their residence for a term, sometimes
extending over several years, and entrusting their property,
plate, and furniture to the care of. one or more of the
members of the Metropolitan force, who a-e generally
very glad of the opportu .ity offered them of living for
such a lenghened period rent free. It is seldom that
any of these caretakers prove unworthy of their trust,
but in the present just ace the temptation which the
amount of property contained in the house presented to
Sankey and his " wife" proved too strong for them, for
on the 20de ultimo they absconded, carrying away with
them an immense quantity of property in gold and bank
notes, plate, watches, valuable wearing apparel, &c. As
might have b. en expected, the detappearance of Sankey
caused no small consternation among the members of the
Metropolitan force as well as in the family of the lady whose
proprry had been carried away, and no time was lost in
inserting full and accurate descriptions of the fugitives, as
well as catalogues of the properly, in the Police Gazette, the
Hue and Cry, and such other means were taken for the
apprehension of the fuebives and the recovery of the property
as the acuteness of the police a etherities could suggest. As
a matter of course, every one was on the alert, a reward of
£5O being offered for the capture of the perpetrators, and
it is not a little creditab'e to the sagacity of the Cork police
force that one of their body has become the successful can-
didate for the reward. The information of the robbery
was communicated to the police authorities in t!,i I city ore
tate 28th ultimo, and although it was not expected that the
fugitives would "tura up" in this locality at all, the mem-
bers of the city constabulary were on the alert to discover
them should they make their appearance. On Saturday
private information was convoyed to Head Constable Roe
that two individuals of suspicious appearance had come
down by the Great Southern and Western Railway train at
3 o'clock that afternoon from London. The party giving
the ieformetie n added that he suspected they were a run-
away pair of lavers ; that the man had all the appearance of
a policeman in plain clothes, that the girl was a beautiful
young creature of about sixteen years of age and that it
looked A 9 if she had ran away with him from some boardiug
school. This intelligence had no sooner been communicated
to the Head-constable than he went to the terminus of the
Railway, and after considerable inquiry he discovered that
the suspicious looking pair had proceeded in a car to the
Wellington Hotel, where, after mak'ng a hasty dinner,
they called a car from one of the et ends and drove off,
without mention'ng their destination to any party in the
hotel. It was no easy matter amongst the three hundred
and odd cars of the city to trace out the particular vehicle
which the runaways had honoured with their patronage but
the opportunity was too .goad a one to be lost, and after a
a great neal of inquiry the Head-constable at length suc-
ceeded in finding the owner of the car. He stated that
a lady and gentleman had got into his car on Saturday
evening and told him to drive to any decent village about
three or four miles from the city, and that he, oeemerg
Glanmire to be as eigible a locality as any he could select,
drove thither. Oa arriving at Glannaire, however, whe-
ther from its being too small a village, or fr -,m being in
too dargerons a proximity to the city, he directed the
carman to drive on. He accordingly proceeded to Carrig-
twohill, which also failed of satisfying the wishes
of the occupants of the cur, and finally they stopped
at Midleton, and he deposited them at the door of
en- bi..rvN eind mime Jeeneetee Telete./ifec dear' Y/44 Snuirett
keeper of the house or its precise locality in Middleton,
and the man stated he con;d nor, but added that there
c ,old be no difficulty about finding out the place, because
it happened that there was a policeman standing near the
door east as the travellers alighted, and that he (the
driver), knowing the policeman, saluted him by name
before driving off. Head-constable Roe accompanied by
constable M'Manus, immediately proceeded to Middleton,
where he arrived early on Sunday morning, and, as the
driver anticipated, he fond no difficulty in tracing
out the house. He yroceedad to the room, which the
travellers had occupied during the previous night, and
on entering it he found they were still in bed. Having
let them know he was a police constable, he t.ld the men
to get up, that he had something of importance to say to
him. After some exclamations of surprise, the man com-
plied with the directien and stated that he was a gentle-
man's servant travelling with hie wife for pleasure On
losing searched £1 7s was foun I on his person, and Head
Constable Roe to'd him that that story would not be
believed, as no one travelling for pleasure would trust him-
self 400 miles away from home with only £1 7s on his person.
He added that he knew ho was not giving a correct account
of himself, and that le's name wee Sankey, and that he was
now arrested for robbery. The prisoners endeavoured
to laugh the matter off, but on being conveyed to
Cork, and lodged in Bride well, the girl admitted that her
name was Manacle Ross, as stated in the Peke Gazet e.
They were brought up at the Police Offi 3e on Monday,
when they refilled to give any account of themselvos.
Their perenal appearance completely at swars the des-
erection given in the Gazette—Sankey being 44 or 45
years of age, and a fine locking man, hiving all the
eppeara cc of a policeman, and the girl being about 17 or
18 years of age, and remarkably pretty. The Magi-trates
(the Mayor ad R. B 'looker, Esq..) directed them to be
conveyed to London forthwith, to which place they will be
accompanied by Road Constable Roe. —Cork Constitution.

BOY.' CLOTHIWO MADF, WITH GREAT TASTE AT LEWIS sad
COMPANI'S, Ssulelqiek-street

In the Du'lin Na'ion, of Saturday, we find the follaw:ng
shainelva peragratila :—" The following armed ,te, vetiabel
for by a correspond:nt as literally true, is iadicative of the
feeling that animates the people of Ireland during the
present Indian crisis--A R omen Catholic el rgysnin, well
known for hi- national sentiments and anti-S ,up 4r exertions,
was latel; called in to attend and old patr'ot of 'llB, who
was about leaving this sublunary world. When the clergr-
man was leaving his anxiety b came great, and eventualiy
manifested itself in the apparently irrelev int questien, A 4,
sir, dear, tell me is there any n :ws from India ?' -town;
what weuld please him, the clergymen repel, ' Yes, the
English are catching it.' Thank Gad,' rejoined the old
man, I die happy P"
ALLEGBD II" CUSSING AND It BBERT ' r .C 76 10s.--A
worn flawed Ann S:eal, was bought be!ore the She- eld
msgi,trates, on Tuesday, elnrged with ste ding £76. 103.
The pens rn who has lost !he money is a men about seven•y
years of ag-, named Itelgsrn, belonging to Noti-gharn, who
has come to Sheffield for the purpose cf buci g cutlery.
with which object ha brought £76 103, in gold and notes.
He want to lodge with the woman Steal, who keeps a small
pie shop in !he Infirmary-road. I: seems that they had
been drinking together, and there are seine symptoms of
the liquor partaken of by the min having been dragged.
At all events, he fell into a state of stupefaction, and whet
he recovere.', found th :t the wh•de of his money was gone.
He gave information to the police, and Stead was gi,en
into custody. aidg,:oa soft rs so from the cff eta of what
he has drunk, that to is unable to rise from his bed, and
his account of the affair is very ircoherent. The prim ner
was remanded to filo v time for the recovery of Hodgson.
AN UNPLEASANT Postrrow.—The men in &large of a
Sat-bottomed boat in which a quantity of timber had been
pilel in one of the decks at Marseilles,• were greatly
surprised to hear on Widaesday morning what appeared to
be a human voice in the bottom of tte hold. The cries
were repeated again and again, and at length the men
proceeded to remove the timber; they then discovered to
their astonishment a man in the hold, who • neared is the
last stage of starvation. He beggsd of them to give him
a glass of rum, and when they had done se he related that
three days before lie had got quite drunk by drinking wine
from the casks-zwlich had be n piled up on the gush that
he had then staggered to the hold of the vessel to sleep
himself sober, and while he was there the timber had,
unpereeiv'd by him, been piled above him. He says th it
he slept several hours, and that on awaken ing be was
horror-struck at find;ng himself in a hole, without means
of escape. He showed and made all the noise he could,
but in vale. His sufferings from hunger wore, he states,
terrible.

Enlndira), for CLOTHING j BOYS in,ra Six to Twenty xearl
LEWIS & COMPANY, Ranelagli-itatet•

TER RECENT CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED

MURDER.

At the Marlborough-street Police-court, London, Floey
Clarendon, a pr)stitute, was brought before Mr. Beadon,
charged with being drunk and disorderly on Saturday
night. It will be recollected that some weeks ago a young
man named Lanning was chvged with attempting to cut
the throat of a woman of the town in a house of ill-fame in
Shepard- street, that the wore in was out of the way, and
that Vie accused was remanded from time to time until the
police could trace her out. The case against the prisoner
Clarendon having b en stated, Mr. Beadon, considering
that she had been punished sufficiently in being locked tip
since Saturday night ordered her to be discharged. In-
spector Park then ieformed the magistrate that this was
the woman who had charged Lanning with attempting to cut
her throat M. Beadon (addressing the woman) said she
had charged a person withhaving cut her throat across with
a knife ; why had she not attended to support the charge
on the days appointed for the re-examination ? The
woman said it was not her intention to press the charge.
She had n given the man into csistody. Inspector Park
said the woman signed the charge book at the station-
house. The woman, after some hesitation, showed her
throat. There was the scar of a wound about five inches
in length still visible. Lanning, the man charged, who
had surrended to his bail, was present, and Mr. Edward
Lewis who appeared for him professionally said he was
ready to meet the charge As the woman had declined to
make any complaint, he hoped the magistrate would order
his client to be at once liberated. The accused said he
w..-s not sober at the time, and wan totally at a loss to
account for his conduct Mr. Beadon asked the woman if
she went to go on with the charge ? The woman said
certainly not. Mr Beadon then discharged the accused.

EXTENSIVE E BEZZLEMENT BY A