The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1903-09-19 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

POLICE COURTS  L BOROUGH. 'WPDNEBDAY.—BeIore Misiera E. A. ley and Joseph Heap, Drunk and Dieowierly.—For having been drunk and discosterty, fighting and dancing. In Argyleatreet,about half-past tweivo(midsight) on Wednesday morning, as proved by P.C. 2A (ilealam), Alias &liana of Cireuest ret, Liverpool, having a very bed record, was sent to gaol for a month.—Peter Joyce •war charged with 'having been drunk and diaordo4y in Livingstone-street P.C. 17.13 (Dixon) deponed to having found priamer in the condition complained of alicrutaquarterpast ten on Tuasday evening, and primmer. who was putting in his fourth appearance, this year, wee fined 20e end costa (or one month). . run in) ta 4lrePliL4,  Circuo-4  th-e4itr-et,  Drink...-For having beer found drunk Beckwith-street by P.C. 1.113 (Rushton) at a =to oneon Tuesday afternoon, Jeeeph.. e, of X, Back St. Annestreet, was fined Ss and oosM (or seven day.). An Inebriate—Annie McCarty, of no abode, was charged witli.heving been -AL in Grange-read, and with having been -BO found after three previous convictions ] in the same year for eimilaroffences. Hetet.- • tiveSergt. Mountfield said that shortly before eight &slack on Monday evening lestile found prisoner in a very drunken state in Orange-road. Sergt. Johnson said as bridewell keeper he had known prisoner for four .or five years, and she had been convicted of drunkenness five times previously, and had served several terms of imprieonment „Prisoner was very violent when in drink. •She had been convicted of drmikerrnees in April, June, and July of this year. —Prisoner said A. friend of hers .hada..largebottleand went and got it filled with beer two or-three 'times, and that set her agata—Sergt. Johnson said he had had a oninversidion -vrith prisoner's husband. He said they had been married for fourteen 'years, and had lived very comfortably for two or three yenta, I but after that prisoner had taken to drinktag and mixed-with bad company. She had , broken up five or six homes in Birkenhead,' and while he was at sea had put the chil-1 dren in the Workhouse and fallen in. with bad companions—Prisoner wee sent , to .the. Brentry Inebriates Home for three years.  1-settled  I.47a!ik  eon  •THU'llSDAY.—Before Moms. P. McMahon and J. W. P. Laird. Drunk and Window Smashing.—James McCarty, of Hawthorne-grove, Seacombe, and Michael (Jaffrey, of St. Anneetreet, Birkenhead, were charged with having been drunk in St. Anne-street, on the licensed premises of James Clancy, 34, Watson-street, and wilfully broken a pane of plate-glaze, valued at .81 is—The licensee stated that on Wednesday night the two prisoners, who were drank, came into his beer's:mere and asked for drink. He refused to serve them, and they went out, one of them breaking the glass in some way as they went —P.C. Welburn gave oorroborative evideuce of drunkenness.--Gaffrey was fined ' ss. and costa, and McCarty 7s. 6d. and coats. Attempted Suicide—An elderly man named William Glendinning was charged on remand at the Borough Police Court on Thursday, before Moors. P. McMahon and J. W. P. Laird, with having attempted to , commit suicide by jumping from the ferryboat Lancashire on the Bth inst.; also with being a lunatic not under proper control. A seaman named Frank Fernandez stated that on the Bth inst. his attention was attracted to defendant, who was a passenger on the boat from Liverpool about three in the afternoon ,and was acting peculiarly. He jumped on to the bulwarks and appeared to be trying to get into the water until prevented. He struggled violently, and had to be given in charge of the poliee.—Prisoner's daughter now stated that her father had had considerable trouble during the pact three years. Only recently her mother had died, and this affected him very much. He took to drink, and this wee probably responsible for his present actions.—Prisoner expressed regret, and said he had signed the pledge.—He was -discharged with a caution. Birkenhead Education Committee's Prosecutions.—The following parents were fined lin consequence of their children's irregular attendance at school. The figures at end domotes the number of times summoned John Jones, 25, Upper Beckwith-street, 6; James Radley, 185, St. Anne-street. 12. William Ellis, 869, Brook-street, 4; Joseph Edwards, 17, Craveu-place, 2; Emmanuel ParIker, 23, Paysanetreet, 14; Edwin Bates, 37, Back St. Anne-street,2; Luke Boothroyd, 197, Market-street,B; William Bowden, 159, Brook-street. 9; Thomas Taylor, 3, Milton. street, 4; Charles William Parsley, 5, Orderly Home, 12. James Hollywood, 3 Camden-streef, 8; Margaret Hedrick. 17, Meteorstreet, 10; John McCarthy, 79, Egertonstreet, 5; Joseph Fitzgerald, 8, Wilkinsonstreet, 14; John James Barker, 257, Brookstreet, 21. An order was obtained compelling Stephen Kelly, of 2. Albert-terrace, to attend school until fourteen years of age.