The Northern Daily Times. — 1856-05-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

POLIO.  MOST IMPORTANT TO LABOURERS.—Henry M'Gratb, a brick-maker, working at the north end of the town,  charged a man named Stephen O'Hara, and a female named Anne M'Cune, with having assaulted him. The prisoners were defended by Mr. Block. It appeared that the husband of the female prisoner and some other men, together with O'Hara, had been employed at brickmaking by Mr. Cubbin, who had discharged them, and in their place employed the complainant and other persons. On Wednesday, the two prisoners and a man named Murphy, went to where the complainant was at work, and after threatening him, the woman struck him and cut his head with a spade, and the man heat hiM with his fist, at the same time threatening to t +ke his life if he remained at work there any longer. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Bluek, and he answered as follows : I did not see the woman coming With a can of tea to her husband. Mr. Bluck : Is she not within a few days of her confinement ? Mr. Mansfield : He need not answer that as he is not a medical man. (Laughter.) Witness : If she is, she had no right to knock my skull off, with a " lick of a spade," (laughter); her confinement has nothing to do with that. (Renewed laughter.) Mr. Bluck : Did you tell her to go to - after hei• husband ? Witness: No, for he was there present (Laughter.) Mr. Mansfield: Then she had no need to go so far for her husband? (Mote laughter) Several witnesses were then produced for the complainant, and amongst them was a man who said he was at work in the fields, and when he saw the danger coming he ran away like a brick. (Great laughter.) Mr. Black : On the principle that  " He who fights and runs away Will live to fight another day  (Renewed Laughter.) Mr. Mansfield : And very proper too, on this occasion. This is one of those combination cases, that unfortunately come before me too frequently. It is an attempt to prevent men from using their labour— a commodity that every one possesses—to the best advantage. It is a most abominable and atrocious system, and, as I have hertofore done, and will always continue to do, in such cases. I will now inflict the heaviest punishment that the law permits. I trust this will be a warning to other people not to interfere with the labour of any one. Let the prisoners. be committed to gaol for three months each, and kept to hard labour. The complainant then applied for a warrant against a person named Murphy, who had threatened to take his lila if he remained at work. The warrant was at once granted.  MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A Wire,—William Eves, a carpenter, residing at No. 17, Margate-street, was brought up by officer Whitston, 779, on a charge of having committed a deadly assault on his wife. It appeared that on Monday evening the assault took place, but the police were not informed of the transaction until Wednesday evening, when the prisoner was arrested, and a surgeon called in to see the injured woman. Surgeon Wark stated that the woman was dreadfully injured. She had been beaten in a frightful manner all over the body; he never had seen so bad a case, and the woman was in very great danger front erysipelas, superinduced by the injuries. The officer said Mr. Wark was entitled to great credit for his conduct on the occasion. The prisoner was remanded for seven days, in order to see how the woman would get on in the meantime.