The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1890-11-22 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

MONDAY.  (Before Hr. Preston.) A Daurterx Fasse.—Peter White, a young man living at 5, Mesooek-street, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the Alfred Dock.—The prisoner was observed coming from the direction of tileacombe late on Saturday night. He was drank, and on coming on the bridge, shouted out that he could dive or swim with any man. He then laid his coat on the bridge and jumped into the dock. Three of the doekgatemen at ones threw:a heaving line to him, and in • short time with the asaistanee of • life belt he was hauled out. Prisoner denied that he jumped into the water, and said he bad more sense. He had slipped over the chains and had fallen in.—Pined 10s. and costa, in default seven days imprisonment with hard labour. PRIVIRRING Pnisen TO LITLITO WITH • BRUTAL HIIBB/iND.—Elizabeth Kelly, a woman living at 113, St. Anne-street, was charged with being drank and disorderly and breaking two panes of glass in the. windows of the weighing machine office, Clevelandstreet—lt appeared from the evidence that shortly after half-past nine on Saturday night the prisoner went in • terribly excited state to the North End Bridewell, and asked to be locked up, as her husband was beating her. She WAS sent away, but on going round the corner she broke two penes of glue in the machine office, and then returned and gave herself into custody, upon which she was locked up. Prisoner said she had only wanted to get into prison because she had a bad husband who was constantly beating her. He had knocked her stupid, and her head was quite soft, just hie a jelly. :,he would sooner be in prison all her life than live with her husband again. On _Saturday he dragged her about the house by the hair of her head, and thumped her until she was almost senseless. As soon as he loosened his hold, he had gone to the bridewell, and eventually bad smashed the window, that she might be imprisoned for she had nowhere to go.—ln answer to the magistrate Superintendent Clarke stated that the woman's husband was a drunken blackguard and frequently behaved brutally to his wife. She had summoned him occasionally, but she had been persuaded by him, and withdrawn the sammonsee.—Prisoner was allowed to go on promising to attend on Tuesday to give evidence against her husband for assaulting her, the husband meanwhile to be summoned.  %mom Vows. —Catherine Hill, 8, Shotwiok-street, was charged with being drunk and disorderly on Saturday night. From the evidence of prisoner's husband it appeared that she came out of Knuteford gaol in June last, and had then promised to abstain from drink. On tie very next Sunday, however, she got drunk, and ever since had been behaving similarly. The childreu's clothes, furniture, everything was pawned by her to boy drink. The children had been fearfully neglected, and be had been constantly annoyed by his wife.—The magistrate remarked that there were a panther of men rough enough to beat their wives, but there were almost as many wives who behaved dreadfully to their husbands and family.—Prisoner was sent to gaol for a month. Fontrx Tnese BIJOU TEI Cocar. —Mary King, 2, Byrom•street, was charged with being drunk and disorderly, and breaking 12 panes of glass, the property of Rose Murphy, 18, Byrom.atreet, and five panes in the house of Catherine Drew, 5, Byromstreet.—Prisoner, it appeared, was very drunk on Saturday night, shouting and curling all over the street. She got a bottle from somewhere and with It smashed the windows of the two houses. She had been forty times before the Court, and was now sent to prison for a term of six weeks with hard labour for each charge.  SATURDAY NIGHT IN lIIIRTIT•