Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-18 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-YESTERDAY.

LIVERPOOL.

/WORE 31 R. MANSFIELD.

A DODGER CauGHT.—Joseph Price, described as a
" dodger about the Lime-street station," was charged with
having swindled an emig,ant, named Joseph 31..m5, out of
7e. The prosecutor came by rail to Lime-street, where
he met the prisoner, who engaged to take hue luggage on
board his ship for 7s. He sent his wife with the luggage
along with the prisoner, and, on arriving at the dock, the
ptisoner left the luggage there, and demanded the 7s from
his (Moss's) wife, which she pail him. He met the wit-
ness at the dock gate, and told him he had put the things
on board, and deman ei the 7i., which he paid him. Sub-
sequently he found out the cheat, and gave information to
the p Aim The prisoner was fined £2, or, in default of
payment, two months' imprisonment.

STABBING.—A youth named Edward Neill, belonging to
a ship called the Dreadnought, was charged with having
stabbed a boy named Alexander Murphy,in Westmoreland•
street. The story of the prosecutor and some lads who
accompanie I him, was, that there was a quarrel in the
street between the prisoner and some others, and that the
prosecutor went to look on, when the prisoner stabbed
him under the left shoulder, inflicting a wound of an inch
and-a-half deep, and half an inch long, but accordeag to
the evidence of Mr. Lyster, a surgeon of the Northern
Hospital the wound had net penetrated to the lungs—there
was much hermorrhege from the wound Mr. Bluek for
for the prisoner, produa-d three witnesses, who proved that
the prisoner acted in self defence, as he was attacked by
the prosecutor and his party. The prisoner was remanded
for seven days.
THE. COCKFIGHT OF THUaLOW-STREET —John Reddy. a
bootmaker, residing at 6, Thurlow-street, was charged
with stabbing a woman named Elizabeth Pellett, who
resides next door to him. Mr. Cobb was for the prosecu-
tion, and Mr Bluck for the pris net. This affair arose
about a cockfight, in this wise :—The prisoner was de-
scribed as a "cock fancier," and it was said that he had a
cock in the street, 'in first-rare trim," and ready fit any
work. Teem was another " bird" in the street, and the
prisoner hallooed his c.:tck at the opposite one, but the
latter was not " trimmed." M:ts. Pellett, who was de-
scribed as a kind, humane woman, objected to the fight, on
the ground of the long odds being ie favour of Mr. Reddy's
."rooster " the went into the street to separate the
"game chickens," when she was knocked down, and, as
she stated, stabbed by him in the lower part of the right
jaw. In reply to Mr. Bluck, Mrs. Pellett said the affair
took place between ten and eleven o'clock on Sunday
morning. She was sober at the time, but she can take a
drop now and then ; called the wife of the prisoner a bad
name, and said she was not married to the man she lived
with ; her husband and the prisoner are boot makers.
She denied having fallen on broken glass or oyster shells.
A boy, the son of the prosecutrix, p oved that he saw the,
blade of a knife in the prisoner's hand when he struele his
mother. Mr. Thomas, surg ion of the St. Anne's Dis-
pensary, said the wound was half an inch deep, and a
quarter of an inch long; it was an incised wound. To
Mr. Muck he sa=d he did n a apprehend any fa:al conse-
quences. Mr. Bluck called two witnesses. who, according
to their story, showed that the peosecut-ix was in fault,
and that she was drunk at the time. His Worship said
he would send the case to a jury, but he would take bail
for the prisoner's appearance.
DIMON/CST SCRVAW.—EiIen Day, a cook, in the seev7ce
of Mr. M'Kivett of Bedford-street, was charged for break-
ing into the cellar and stealing five bottles of wine. The
prosecutor said he found the prisoner lying drunk 3n the
kitchen floor, and it appeared that the keys of the cellar
were taken from the chilli mnier by the p-isoner, who wilt
the wine, and gave two bottles of it to Margaret Badly,
the housemaid, who took it to her mother's at 63, Oliver-
street, where it was found by the police. The prosecutor
said he could not tell how much wine had been taken, but it
seemed the plunder had been going on for the last m.inth.
The prisoner said the girl Badly and. her mother were
worse than she was. This WAS the general impression in
court. The prisoner was remanded for a week.

PLUNDERING A SRlP.—Wdliam Grimes, Alex. Sweeney,
Michael Grimes, Thoma 3 Sweeney, and William Mitchell
(a stevedore), ware charged for having stolen 21 bottles of
ale from a cask on board the ship Moly°lia, in the Salt.
house dock. Mr. Bluck defended Alex Sweeney and
Mitchell. Several witnesses were examined, but the chief
evidence was given by a man named M'Oorma-k, who
said he was at work with the prisoners on board the ship,
when they broke the cask and took the ale. On cross-exa-
mination by Mr. Bluck, the witness admitted that he was
in jail for four months "for no.hing at all at all, bar'n
stabbin' a man." Mr. Duck endeavoured to show that
this mart was actuated by vintlietiva feelings towards the
prisoners, but he admitted that the ale was gone, yet not
taken by his clients, but by other men who worked at the
ship before them. The p isoners were remanded to this
d.y.

CHINES P. IN CALIFORNIA.— Tae Chinese immigration has
again set in for California now that same of the heavy ins
posts to which they were male liable h aye been removed ;
700 arrived early in July, and ten vessels were then on the
way, bringing several thousands more.
SUCCESS OF FRENCH Ptcruies EaonstrloNs.—lt is
stated that the sum realised for admission to the exhi-
bition of the works of living artists will amount, after all
the expen3es have been paid, to upwards of 80.0001 r.
which will be laid out in the purchwe of pic'urea and
sculptures. It also said that this succeas will induce the
administration to keep the exhilitioe open for some time
longer than was at first intended.—Paris Paper.
FEARFUL FALL FROM A RCA FFOLD.O.I Welnesd ar
morning an accident eecarred to Banj wain Collins, aged 35
years, bricklayer. The unfortunate-raen was employed on
a new building at Bexley, when same persons called to
hire. On turning round suddenly the plank tilted up,
when be fell the depth of 80 feet. He was conveyed by
railway t) St. Thomas's Hospital. weere lee remains, alight
hopes being entertained of his recovery.
The college authorities, our scientific societies, our
public ho aids and institu:ions, and our local savans are a I
busy in preparing for the caning visit of the British
Ass ideat:l. Greet hopes are entertained that the meeting
will be a most brilliaut and successfal one ; and I hear that
several papers of the highest scientific interest wi:l be read.
The association and the visitors will be entertained at a
erani banquet by the Board of Trieit) College, who will
he honoured also by the presence of his Excellency the
Lord Lieutenant.—Dublin Correspondent,
THE LATZ COLLIERY EXPL .SION AT ASHTON.-2 d ward
Elliott, the engineer, who was found lying at the back of
the drum at the top of the incline of the Heys Pit, solid after
the explosion, severely buret, died on Thursday morning,
a:cer being delirious for a considerable the, and suffering
inten,e agony. He was 33 years of age, a. d leaves a
widow and three small children, the eldest of which is only
eight years of age. The number of deaths caused by this
exelosem is the-efer:i for.y; leaving seventeen widows and
fifty-three children destitute, and one of the widows is near
her confinement.
A MERCHANT COWIIIDED BY A LADY--HE START
Hen.—Durieg yesterday, George Patten, storelteep:r,
Main-street, applied opprobrious epithets to a young lady,
at his house on the corner of Seventh-street aid Fraokli.e
avenue. She is a seamstress minted Rebecca M'Cord, arid
lives in ano her part of the double house in which Pate,
resides. On his return home last evening she was p•e-
pored with a choice cowhide, and proceeded with invieci-
b'e spirit and with sabjurgeting energy to warm with that
caustic the superficial area of Mr. Patten. His solid con-
tents were shattered, and when he was able to escape from
his assailant, he retorted is other discoerteone terms, and
shortly re-appeared, challenging her to renew the conflict
Nothing loth, shs'was actively eompleing, when he drew a
knife and stabbed her near the heart. it is thought fata'ly
She also received a cut on the arm. Ha was instantly ar-
rested.—St Louis Deinocrat, July 15.
HORRIBLE POISONING IS CINCINN ATt TI —OR the 23rd of
July, Cincinnati was the Scene of a neve horror. Twenty
children in Buckey-itreef, a densely-populated German
neighbourhood were poisoned by eating lozenges which
bad been scattered along the street by a man and two boys,
whose names were unknown. Two of the children were
dead, Rad many of the others not expected to live. Tile
man was seen to offer small packages of lczenges to persons
in the street, but they, having a suspicion that all was not
right, refused to take them. The lozenges, on exemisa-
tion,were found to contain equal parts of ateenie, sugar,
wad flow'. The cause of perpetrating this horrible outrage
wai not known, and up to the last dates the wholesale
murderer bal not b.-en arrested

A STOKES KILLED ON THE SOrTN WALES RAILWAY.
A. fatal accident occured on Monday at the Ownfowrli
tunnel on the South Wales Railway. The Irish exprtas
wai passing about 11 o'c ock, on the down journey, and,
as usual, a pilot engine was attached at Landhore to assist
the train through the tuntle% At the end of the tunnel
the pilot engine was disconnected, and should haY3 been
turned on to the other line of rail., in ord r to run bick
to Landhore, but by some means it returned on the same
line of rails and cline into collision with the engine of
the passenger train, causing the stoker of the latter,
George DonablPton, to he thrown beneath the wheels and
dreadfully mu ilated. Both legs were frightfully lacera-
ted, t,gether with a portion of the pelvis. Oae thigh bone
was broken, and a large portion laid bare. About two
o'clock on Tuesday afternoon the unfortunate men ex-
pired: He was unmarried, and resided in High-street, in
this town, but was • native )f 01 ordshire,--Stoansea
Herald.