The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1890-05-03 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

STRANGE ROAD TO CARDIPT.—A boy, named Frederick Clarke, who said he belonged to Cardiff, was charged with truelling on the Joint Railway 'Companiee lines from Chester to Birkenhead, in a third-class railway carriage, without having paid his fare, and with intent to avoid the payment thereof. —The ticket-collector attached to the Town Station stated that be was on duty there when the 850 train arrived from Chester. Prisoner PM in a third-class' compartment without a ticket. Witness asked him to pay his fare, but he replied that he had no money. —ln answer to questions put by the bench, the prisoner said he bad travelled from Scarborough on the Friday, but with a ticket. When he left Chester it was with the intention of going to Cardiff, his home, and had he reached there his friends would have paid his fare for him.—The witness pointed rent that prisoner was travelling in the wrong direction for Cardiff.—He was fined ss. and cots, or seven days' imprisonment in default. APPLICATION OF THE BIRCH Bon.—Two lads, named Thomas Murphy (12) and Thomas Byrne (11), were charged with stealing four cans of condensed milk.—lt appeared from the evidence that on Saturday the prisoners, with other lads, were playing about the cabstand at the Ferry when P.C. 33 (Rogers) chased them away. He caught the prisoner, I slid finding something bulky in his pocket, made him produce it. It proved to be a tin of condensed I milk. The lad admitted having stolen the tin, and said another lad, Byrne, had stolen three others. Subsequently, the officer arrested Byrne also. From other enquiries it transpired that the tins had been stolen from the door of Mr. Chas. Timmis' grocery stereo, in Chester-street.—Mr. Preston sentenced each of the lade to receive six strokes with a birch i rod, and warned them that if they again appeared before the court they would probably be sent away for five years. - . -  ASSAATING • Wirg.—John M'Grath, boilermaker, 16, Brae-street, was charged in custody on a contempt warrant with assaulting his wife, Mary Ann, on the nth inst.—Mrs. M'Grath stated that he bad struck her above the eyes with his fist, being drunk at the time.—Prisoner said that be had hurt his forehead while working at Clover's yard, and had stayed away a couple of days till the bruise was better, and had been drinking. He was very sorry for what he had done —He was bound over in his own recognisances in the sum of £lO to keep the peace for six mouths, the wife having shown a reluctance to prosecute SISTERS AT VARlANCE.—Elizabeth Frances Glaze. brook, George-street, was summoned for using violent threats towards her sister, Sarah Jane Glazebrook, 25, Borough-road, whereby she apprehended danger of her life. Complainant stated that on the 19th inst. she received a letter from her •sistor u follows :--•• So you think you  have gone and hid from us, but we have found you oat. You thief, robber, murderess. I will watch for you to-night. I will take your life, and Ted Thomas is not safe. Good-bye to you to-night. Who killed your mother, brother, and sister? " Complainant Mated that she had received other letters of • similar obaraoter.—ln cross-examination by Mr. H. B. Moore, complainant said that she had been to the Convalescent Home, Hoylake, for about three months, owing to an affection of the brain. Mr. Moore, for the defence, denied that the defendant wrote any letters, and said that the complainant wrote the letters herself while labouring under • brain affectiou.-11re. Cubbins, the grandmother of the girls, stated that defendant lived with her, is also bad complainant, until last Christmas.— The magistrate, addressirg the defendant, said there was no proof that she had written the series of letters, but if she had it was a very wicked thing. He trusted there would be no recurrence of the matter, and dismissed the eaae.