The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1884-04-05 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

BOROUGH POLICE COURT.  SATURDAY. (Before Mr. Preston.) IVA HOPELESS DELNlLARD.—Catherine Hall. a married woman, was brought up for the fourth time within a few days.—P.C. 20 had found her lying helplessly drunk on the parapet.—The Magistrate, speaking of her as a hopeless drunkard, required her to pay a fine of 100. and costs or suffer fourteen days' hard labour. An /NEHRU'S STREET WALlKER.—Elizabeth Malvern, of Liverpool, was brought up as a disorderly prostitute for having been drunk and disorderly and behaving indecently in Hamilton-street, but, under peculiar circumstances, she was discharged with a caution. CHARGE OF ASSAULT ON A WlFE.—Gerald Fay, a dock labourer, residing in Burton-street, was brought up at the instance of his wife Rosanna Fay, who charged him with having assaulted her.—Prosecutrix said that on Tuesday evening, about seven o'clock, the prisoner came into the house drunk while she was attending to her child, and with a blow of his fiat on the ear, knocked her off the chair. He then dragged her upstairs by one arm, struck her on the side, and threw her down with great violence on the floor. She shouted murder and ran down stairs. He followed her and gave her a kick on the forehead and pitched her out of the house. Sho could not see an officer, and sat down on the doorstep afraid to go in. Her brow was cut and bruised and bleeding from the effect of the kick. He had treated her in a similar way many a time.—Cross-examined by Mr. Thompson, witness denied having thrown a, cup at , him and otherwise aggravated him by taking away his belt and threatening to barn it and taking money out of his pocket, with which she had nothing to do.—Partly corroborative evidence was given by a neighbour woman who had heard the disturbance and seen the prisoner on the street endeavouring to pull his wife into the house, but who had not seen him strike her.—Prosecutrix admitted in crossexamination that she had once been convicted of assault on a neighbour and had been locked up for taking some tea things "by mistake," belonging to a woman with whom she had occupied apartments.—Mr. Thompson represented his client to be a sober, industrious, and hard-working man, who had been under one stevedore for eleven years. He had been very much aggravated by his wife in the way indicated in cross-examination, and was very anxious for a separation by which he would make her a suitable allowance.—The Magistrate, thinking it possible there might be faults on both sides, adjourned the case, allowing the prisoner out on bail and approved of the suggested separation, upon which the prisoner was discharged. A WINDOW SMASHElL—Elizabeth Jones was brought up on a charge of having been drunk and disorderly and maliciously breaking a door and fourteen panes of glass the property of Thomas Hanableton, 44, Argyle-street.— Prisoner, it appeared from the evidence, had been in prosecutor's service as housekeeper up to the tune of the disturbance, when she got drunk and became so violent that he locked her up in the cellar, where she deliberately smashed all the panes of glass in the window and damaged the door. He turned her out on to the street where she was taken into cus-,n, tody.—The Magistrate required her to pay a fine of 20s and costs, besides 10s, for the damage, or suffer fourteen days' hard labour.— The prisoner, in leaving the dock, said that prosecutor would have to pay the tine, and "quick," or she would have it in for him when she came out.