The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-23 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

UNMANLY ASSAULT.—On Tuasday, at the Police-office, two
young men, apparently respectable artisans, and who gave their I
names John Walker and Samuel Leigh, of Manchester, were '
brought before thka magistrates, charged with having committed
a most violent assault upon a girl of the town the night before.
The complainant, a mere girl, and who was most elegantly
dressed, stated that the night previous, about eleven o'clock, I
whilst she was walking in Orton-street, the two .prisoners
came up to her and struck her in a violent manner with their
fists, and one of then hit her a•blow across the nose with an uin-
brella. She produced an apron completely soaked in blood
from the effects of the injuriess she had received. Policeman
197 deposed that he witnessed the assault, and the pri-
soners were behaving towards her in the most brutal man-
ner, boxing her with their fists as if she had been a man.
Another witness deposed to seeing one of them strike
her across the nose with au umbrella, and that she bled
very much. The officer said he was obliged, to strike one
of the men with his stick over the arm to make him
desist. On being asked what they had to say, .one of the pri- I
soners who acted as spokesman, said, " We are two young
fellows come front Manchester, and we were coming down Or-
ton-street, and that lass was standicg iu the street, and said
something insulting to us. So, says I, mind -what you are
about or you will get into the wrong shop; and several lasses
as was round her started laughing at us, and we Manchester
chaps doant come to Liverpool to be laughed at ; and then they
all started calling us nick-names, and running after us in a
manner as warnt to be borne, and we did leather 'em a bit, this
ere lass among the number." Mr. Whitty said this girl was
one of the most disorderly girls in the town. She had already
been four . years on the town, and was not 17 years old, Mr.
Hall said, whatever the girl might be their conduct had been
most cowardly and disgraceful to her; they must pay 2Us. and
costs, or in default be committed for 18 days.
THE PUBLIC AND THE CORPORATION SCHOOLS.—On !rues-
day, at the Police-office, the master of the South Corporation
School appeared before the magistrates, Messrs. Hall, Wm.
Rathbone, and Bolton, to complain that the public threw stones
it the children frequenting the South Corporation School. He
had two or three children along with him. [As the pelting of
the boys, frequenting these schools, with stones by the public has
frequently been alluded to in the council-room and elsewhere,
we subjOin a full report to gi:e our readers an idea of the kind
of pelting, and to show how the petty squabbles and fights of
schoolboys have been laid hold of as an argument to prove into-
lerance and oppression on the part of those who disapprove of
the system now pursued in them.l On addressing the bench,
the schoolmaster said, "The whole of the boys of the South
Corporation School have been much annoyed by other boys
throwing stones at them, I don't come to lay an information,
but to state facts. One of the boys has been seriously injured
by a stone thrown by some other lioys, and I merely wish to, give
information against the party who has injured him. These boys
will state the particulars." Mr. Hall--". How old is the eld-
est ?" Schoolmaster—" He is twelve years of age." Having
been questioned if he knew the meaning of an'oath, to which he
answered in the affirmative, the boy was sworn. The boy then.
in answer to questions from Mr. Hall. stated that " other boys
came to the South Corporation School-room door at seven
o'clock on Saturday morning; they were lads out of Frederick-
street; one was named Duffey, and another Isaac Lally. They
threw stones at the door to try to break it open and force the lucks,
and this lad (pointing to one along with him apparently younger)
would not let them do it, and they then struck him on the mouth."
Mr. Hall—" Did they throw any stones at you ?" Boy:---" No,
air, they did not throw any stones at me. The boys that came
ere smaller than me." Mr. Hall—" Did they beat the boy be-
hind you?" Boy—" Yes, sir:" Tilr."Hall—' Do you live near
the school?" Boy—" Yes, sir, I live below the school." Mr.
Does this occuroften?" Schoolmaster—" We are fre-
quently annoyed by these boys; I don't know any of them'
myself; it is frequently occurring. There has recently been a
SWING erected for the exercise of the boys, and since then we
have been sadly disturbed with them." Mr. Wm. Rathbone,
who was on the bench, then addressed Mr. Hall:—" I should
say that this has been done at my instigation. The interruption
to the school is very. great both by boys, and by men (?) more'
so; and on one occasion the master was very much hurt in
turning some men out of the yard who were speaking:in a very
improper way to the girls. (!) We have admonished and done
the best we could to abate this nuisance, and now we find there
is nothing but appealing to you, sir, to protect the SCHOO LS," (!)
J)lr. Hall—" We must protect the schools. If I knew any of
those individuals who used this language, 1 should have them
brought before me! It must be put a stop to. If I find admo-
nishing will not put a stop to it, I must proceed then to punish!
The penalty is a very heavy -one under the act of parliament
FOR throwing stones! It is an assault in law, and sometimes
of a very grievous nature. A boy was brought before me the
other day for intending to throw stones, one of which STRUCK a
woman and hurt her exceedingly. Some terrible mischief will
be done if we don't put a stop to it." Mr. Rathbone—" The
boys shall be punished if they either fight with the boys who
come there, or throw stones.; but it becomes the more important
on that account to protect them." Mr. Hall—" No doubt; you
shall have a summons for the parties you have named !" We
hardly know which most to admire, the grammatical accuracy
and correct English of "the principal speakers," or the bom-
bastic, grandiloquent, much-ado-about-nothing character of both
the subleet and the style. What a wonderful SWING ! Its a-,
fects have been deemed worthy of record in the council-room.
" Swing" has been at work in Liverpool against the corpora-
tion schools ! The boys must be punished for throwing stones,
for on one occasion the master was very much hurt in turning
some men out of the yard who were speaking to the girls! "We
have admonished and done the best we could to abate this nui-
:--since." Which nuisance ?—the "stones" or the " speaking ?"
it is not the boys who want protecting, but " we' find there 'is:
nothing left but appealing to you, sir, to protect the SCHOOLS ,"
"If I knew any of those individuals who used this language."
The language of throwing a stone! "I must proceed then to,
punish under the act of' parliament for throwing stones!" " A
hoy was brought before me the other day for intending to throw
stones, one of which struck a woman." A stone intended to be
thrown striking. " The boys shall be punished if they fight or
throw stones with other boys, and, therefore, the more important
it is to protect them !"
Boesbastes.—" I'll go mad ! 'gainst all Pll vent my rage,
And with this wicked wanton world a woeful war
wage.
(Hanging his boots on a tree.)
Who dares this pair of boots displace
Must meet Bolnbastes face to face.
Thus do I challenge all the human race !"
ASSAULT EXTRAORDINARY.—On Tuesday, at the Police-
office, a young man named James Potts appeared to lay a
grievous complaint before the magistrates against Mrs. Wors-
wick, a young and rather interesting-looking married woman of
irritable temperament, for having on Saturday soundly doused
him with the contents of the slop-pail. The complainant having
with great impatience submitted to the necessary preliminary
of "kissing the book," addressed the magistrates in a tone be-
tokening befitting excitement for so important an occasion.
" Gentlemen, on Saturday last as I was passing the house of
Mrs. Worswick she comes out of her door, and throws right
over me a large pailful, of filthy water. • Faugh ! (exclaimed
the complainant, with a suitable twist of his nose and mouth as
its remembrance flashed -across him.) And, in the hurry of,
trying to escape it, I overset a number of her plates and dishes,
which she had piled up before the door, when she immediately
threw a basin at my head, which fortunately only knocked nay
bat off, and then took off her slipper, ran after me, and hit me
on the face with it; and as I was walking past again, thinking.
the scrimmage was all over, she slipt out, with her slipper in her
hand, and slipt it several times slap across my face. I asked
her to desist, but she said she would not, she would mark me."—
Mr. Hall: " Well, Mrs. Worswick, what have you to say to
this ?"—Mrs. Worswick: "Please your honours, gentlemen,
he's a hinterlopper in our yard, and he never passes our door
but he puts his finger to his nose (laughter) and tosses it up con-
tentiously. I catched him in the fact on Saturday, and so emp-
tied the—the—the chamber po (loud laughter) on him, as he de--
served, and then he kicked and knocked down all my dishes.
I then ran after him, and he knocked me down, and when he
did that I hit him a slap across the face with my slipper. He's'
olers insulting us. I happened to get some bills printed at Mr.
Mitchell's, in Duke-street, where be works, and because -Mr..
Mitchell told the shop-lad to show me out the front way, he's
alers a tenting me as he passes, with `show the lady through the
front door." ( Laughter. )—The recital of her troubles appeared
to leave the insulted fair in doubt whether rage or grief should
prevail, and her evident tribulation caused considerable merri-
ment.—Mr. Hall: " You must be a very weak woman to be
put out of the way by such silly trifles."—Complainant : "The
fact is, place your worship, I never can pass her door without
her making slighting remarks on my legs." (Loud laughter.)—
Mrs. Worswick : " It's because he turns his nose up at me when
lee passes."—Mr. Hall (to defendant:) " He says you laugh at
'his legs why do you do this? (Great laughter.) If he does
pat his finger to his nose it is no excuse why you should laugh
at his legs."—Mrs. Worswick : " No, sir, I never made ariv re-
marks on his legs till last Saturday, and I think as,he's only a
'prentice lad it is not his place to insuit me in my own house.c'—
Mr. Hall: "Well, you must not annoy him and laugh at, his
legs." (Laughter)—Mrs. Worswick (greatly excited :) " I
did not, here is my witnesses."—Mr. Hall: "You had no
Tight to make observations on him as he passed your door."—
Complainant : " I was a witness against her husband some
time ago, and that's the cause of it."—Mr. Hall (to the
defendant.)—" Will von undertake to let his legs alone,
and not , make remarks upon him." Mrs. Worswick.—
" Certainly, sir, with pleasure, if he wont put his finger to his
nose." (Continued laughter.) Mr. Hall (tn complainant)—
" Don't annoy her by making signs, she is a foolish woman and
takesoffence at it, (I o defenuant.) you are discharged
on condition that you let him alone." The parties then left the
court, each well satisfied that the belligerent propensities of the
other were to be restrained.
ASSAULT AT SEA.—On Tuesday, at the police-office, Win.
Walker, the mate of the galley Ceslrian, was summoned before
,
the magistrates to-answer to the charge of having severely
beaten the black cook, John Augusta, with a rope's end when
off the island of St. Helena. The particulars of the case were
fully entered into in our Saturday's police report, when it was
postponed in order to give time for the attendance of witnesses.
-Several witnesses were examined who deposed to the assault
having been committed under very aaravating circumstances.
The magistrates fined the defendant £4 and costs, or in de-
fault to be committed to the borough gaol for six weeks. The
finelvras immediately paid. Mr. Yates, on the part of the
-complainant, applied to have a part of the fine appropriated to
his use. Mr. Hall said he had no power to grant that.
IMPORTANT TO PAWNBROKERS.—Catherine Worthy appeared
--to substantiate a charge against Mr. Jones, a pawnbroker. The
former stated that, twelve months prior to the '2Bth of January
last, she had pawned a number of articles at the shop of Mr.
Jones. A few days previous to the date last mentioned, she
went to the shop and agreed to redeem the goods by instalments,
to which Mr. Jones assented. On Monday week she paid up
the-last of the instalments, and went for tho goods, the whole of
which were delivered to her in good condition, except a table,
which was broken. This Mr. Jones refused to make good,
though she had paid him warehouse rent during the whole time.
Mr, Hall said any such charge was altogether illegal—pawn-
brokers were bound to provide room for the goods which they
received in pledge, an had no right whatever to make any
charge for warehouse-room. It was ordered that the table
should be repaired and then given up to the complainant.
Tex CORPORATION SCHOOLS.—Yesterday, one of the boys, '
Duffey, against whom a summons was granted on Tuesday,
"neared, the other was absent. The parents of both boys
appeared, and said the children had not come, but the School-
master
'aid notwithstanding the positive assertion of Duffey's
father ti
who
bout for
contrary, that he was outside, and an officer
who had be: hirn and brought hint in. Malley, the lad
had kicked hit with a stone, then deposed that Duffey
The other Ida, ,Lhut that he (Duffey)' lead thropm no stones.
not appear, had ati7rles, who had been summoned but did
open:' Mr. Hall ,eonwn. stones at the door "to break it
with the boys -f he 'l=d La the person who had come
that he attended as master k," schoolmaster ? He replied
did not know anything about titiev":B not appointed, and that he
matter particularly, as
Mr. liathhone had taken the
erected lately in the yard. and sine.. re' A SWING had been
saidn that he should
here
two boys
annoyed with lads. Duffey, the defendant had been much
not have meddled with the 'lads but
wthhaetnhiey
Mon the arm,
were carrying milk past the school,
Pelted whit
st,m,i. by the lads of the school, one of which hit hi
and that was the reason he had struck him. The lads of the