MANCHESTER TIMES 1828 to 1859 1 December 19 1828 New Bailey TUESDAY a Man Named Thomas Glover, the Captain of One of Kenworth
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MANCHESTER TIMES 1828 to 1859 1 December 19 1828 New Bailey TUESDAY A man named Thomas Glover, the captain of one of Kenworthy's boats, was placed at the bar, when Diggles, the beadle, stated that in consequence of some information which he obtained yesterday afternoon, he went on board the boat of which the prisoner was the captain, and searched it. In a cupboard or press he found two kegs, one of rum and the other of gin, which the prisoner denied having any knowledge of, but which he afterwards said he had purchased from a smuggler in Liverpool. He (Diggles) went with the prisoner to his house; prisoner's wife gave them some time before they could gain admittance, and when they got in he saw a woman hurrying out at the back door with a basket containing two pieces of prints; these he seized, and the prisoner's wife denied that they were hers. Mr Coates, who appeared for the prisoner, submitted to the magistrate that there was no case made out. Diggles stated that the prisoner's brother was captain of a boat which sailed last night, and in which, it was supposed, the goods he was in search of had been deposited. The magistrates understanding that two persons had been sent in pursuit of the boat, remanded the prisoner. Edward Leigh and John Hackett, two boatmen, were brought up for an assault upon the watchmen. It appeared that last night a number of boatmen and others were at a public house in Campfield, and two of them having quarrelled, went out of doors to fight. The watchman seeing a row sprung his rattle, and was immediately saluted with a shower of stones; the watchmen who came to his assistance were saluted in a like manner for about an hour. The prisoners were two of the men. They were ordered to find bail, which they immediately did, and were discharged. 2 July 11 1829 FOUR DAYS AT THE NEW BAILEY The drag net of the Vagrant Act was then brought into convenient operation. Three men, sad rogues no doubt, having been found in a yard at midnight, where they could have gone with no other intent than to commit a robbery, were committed to the treadmill for a month. A lad named Beckett was then brought up, charged with taking a horse away from the warehouse of Mr Faulkner. It appeared that Mr Faulkner had let the horse on hire to a boatman, whose servant the prisoner was. Beckett declared that he was only taking care of the horse for his master, and called a witness to prove this, but the manner of the witness giving rise to a suspicion that the two had stolen the horse, they were both ordered to be detained until it should be forthcoming. 3 January 7 1832 OBSTRUCTION OF A ROAD A correspondent at Aston under Lyme says : The road from Ashton to Dukinfield passes over the Manchester and Huddersfield Canal, about three yards below a lock, and every boat passing down the canal stretches a towing line across the road for five minutes or upwards, those going upwards doing the same, but for a shorter time. This serious obstruction may have been but triflingly felt at the time the canal was cut, but the population of Aston and Dukinfield have increased since that time considerably, and such an obstruction is no longer sufferable, particularly when it might so easily and so cheaply be removed, by some such simple contrivance as a light endless chain, passing under and over rollers attached to the underside of the arch of the bridge. Something of this kind the public should insist on being adopted, if the affairs of the company are in so impoverished a state that they cannot afford to build a new and more capacious arch. The simple contrivance recommended would not cost £10, and would be found equally advantageous to the boatmen as to the public, for the great length of time that the rope is stretched across the road is occasioned by the severe pull necessary to overcome the inertia after the boat has fallen down the lock from the higher level to the lower. And in this operation, the lock being so near the road, and there being no road under the bridge for the horse, the rope stretching from the boat, at the bottom of the lock, over the battlements of the bridge (at least seven yards higher) across the road, occasions great loss of power, and unnecessary friction – and of course greater delay to passengers on the road; all of which would be entirely avoided were the rope passed at once under the bridge, on the same level with the boat. Let the canal company remedy the difficulty as they may judge best, but as the public possessed a right of road long prior to such obstruction they, doubtless, have but to assert and maintain that right, in order to rid themselves of such obstruction. 4 September 8 1832 New Bailey Court House CAUTION TO BOATMEN John Gillman, a boatman employed on the Manchester and Bolton and Bury Canal, appeared to answer an information preferred against him by Mr Samuel Kay, Law Clerk to the Canal Company, for passing with his boat through the upper lock at Oldfield Lane, in violation of the 20th bye law of the Company's Act of Parliament, when the water did not run over the weir, instead of waiting for a second boat to come up. The case was fully proved, and the defendant was fined in the mitigated penalty of £5. 5 July 6 1833 A NARROW ESCAPE On Monday night or early on Tuesday morning, some ill disposed person cut about twenty yards of rope which secured a flat lying close to the weir at Throstle Nest, and carried it away. As the river was swollen at the time in consequence of the late heavy rains, the flat would have been swept over the weir had not an accident occurred which in all probability saved the lives of the men on board. The first intimation the flatmen had of their perilous situation was given them by the vessel's coming in contact with a boat which had just entered the lock to come up the river. This practice of cutting away the ropes from the flats on the river Irwell has been very frequent of late, and in several instances the boats so turned adrift have been laden with valuable cargoes. Two men named James Thompson and John Baker were apprehended on suspicion of committing the offence ; but, there being no conclusive evidence against them, they were discharged. 6 July 13 1833 EMBEZZLEMENT A boatman named William Mellor, formerly in the employment of Mr Thompson, carrier, of this town, was on Tuesday placed at the bar of the New Bailey, charged with having by means of forged receipts retained about £14 of his master's money. About six weeks ago, a warrant was obtained for his apprehension, and entrusted to Moss, the beadle, to execute. The latter met the prisoner on the canal bank between Manchester and Halifax, near to the latter place, but as soon as he attempted to take him into custody, the prisoner was joined by three other boatmen, who flung Moss into the water. He was obliged to get out as well as he could, and leave the prisoner where he found him. Mellor was subsequently taken by the constable of the township in which he had been rescued. The prisoner had nothing to say in his defence, and was remanded until yesterday to give time for the attendance of the necessary witnesses. 7 December 21 1833 CAUTION TO CANAL BOATMEN Thomas Heeds, the manager of a boat on the Ashton and Peak Forest Canal, appeared before the magistrates on Wednesday to answer to two charges brought against him by Mr Meadows, agent of the said canal company. The first charge against him was for refusing to deliver to the toll collector a declaration of the quantity of goods he had on board his flat, for which offence he was liable, under the Act, to the penalty of 10s for every ton of goods on board. The second charge was for having, on another occasion, delivered a false declaration, for which also he was liable to a similar penalty of 10s for every ton on board. The penalties altogether would amount to about £10; and the Act left no discretionary power in the Magistrates to mitigate. At the suggestion, however, of Mr Hampson, Mr Meadows consented to receive £4 10s in full mitigation. Thomas Green, a boatman navigating the same canal, was next charged with having delivered a false declaration, and with having thrown a brickbat at the company's agent when he boarded the boat to gauge it. This defendant being a poor man, Mr Meadows consented, on the recommendation of the Bench, to accept as satisfaction a public submission for throwing the brickbat, and the costs of weighing the boat and cargo, court expenses, &c. 8 May 3 1834 Rochdale MAN DROWNED On Tuesday night, which was remarkably dark and stormy, a boatman named John Haslam and several others called at a beer-shop at Blue Pits near Castleton Moor, and drank there a considerable time. Haslam's boat was moored to a quay at the canal, and his boy was in the cabin. Haslam did not return on board that night and nothing was heard of him, but in the morning he was perceived beneath the water, in a standing position, near the stern of the boat, and quite dead.