The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-17 00:00:00

POLICE COURT. -YESTERDAY --ESTERDAY

(BEFORE MR, R, V. YATES.)
" Is THE PEA SOUP HOT )"----An artful dodger, named
John Hill, was charged with stealing eighteen bottles,
and a dozen of knives and forks, from the cook shop of
Patrick Hickman, Chapel-street. It appeared that the
prisoner went to the shop of the complainant at an early
hour in the morning, and enquired if the pea soup was
hot? A
_girl told him it was not. when he replied "nn
matter, give me a basin, it will do cold." It seemed
that during his visit, he contrived to steal some bottles
and knives and forks, which he concealed in a smock
frock. He made several visits during the day, and at each
he repeated the question " is the soup hot ?" The people
missed the bottles and the cutlery, and told a policeman.
who watched the prisoner on one of his visits, and found
some bottles and knives on his person. The prisoner was
committed for a month.

THE BOOTS THAT WALKED AWAY.—J. F. Thompson
was brought up by police-officer Thompson (detect
ive), on a charge of haring stolen fifteen pair of boots
from the shop of Mr. Gannon, Scotland-road, in January,
1855. It appeared that the prisoner had worked for the
complainant, and that early one morning in Jan., he got
up and walked off with the boots. He was followed to St.
Helens, and thence to Wigan, where he had been
arrested on another charge, and sent for trial. He was
convicted of that offence, and had now just come out of
prison, when he was taken intp custody on the above
charge. lie (prisoner) was remanded for further
examination.

PLUNDER IN THE ALEERT DOM.—Dixon Moody, a
well-dressed person, who had been employed at the
Albert Dock warehouses, was charged by Mr. Cowan,
superintendant of that establishment, with stealing 51
ounces of tea. An excise officer stated, that he searched
all the men when leaving the dock in the evening, and
on the prisoner he found the tea, although he had
previously denied having any thing. Mr. Cowan said
he had selected the prisoner for his honesty, as he had
been ten years in the employment of Messrs. Little
dale, and bore a good character. He had the greatest
possible confidence in the man, and had placed him in a
position over other men, in order to prevent any thefts
being committed, and such was his confidence in the
prisoner, that that very morning he had given orders to
have his salary raised from a guinea to thirty shillings a
week. The only observation made by the prisoner was,
that he was known to Mr. Clough for the last 17 years.
He was convicted muler the summary jurisdiction act,
and fined £2 for not being able 'to account for the pos-
session of the tea, or to he imprisoned for a month.
A COlNER.—Martha Goodwin, was charged by detec-
five Astic and inspector Skermer, with being a fabricator
of base coin. It appeared that the constables watched
the lodgings of the prisoner in Smithfield-street, and on
making a sudden entrance into the house, they found
her in the act of making base money, and one of the
shillings (being so made) was red hot, and burned the
inspector's hand. The usual materials used in the manu-
facture of base coin, were found in the room. The
prisoner said it was another woman who was making
the coin in the room, but who went out for a pint of ale,
and sent in the police on her out of spite. The prisoner
was committed for trial.

(BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.)
ATTEMPTED SMUGGLING.— William Benson, described
as the mate of the ship Actian, was charged with having
attempted to smuggle four and a-half lbs of tea, and
ten lbs of coffee. Mr. Tyndall appeared for the prose-
cution, and produced witnesses who proved that the
defendant endeavoured to get the articles on
shore ; these were such things as would be used for the
ship's stores, and had no right to be taken from the
vessel without paving duty. The prisoner was liable to
a penalty of £lOO, but the crown authorities went on
another section of the act, and sued for a penalty of
treble the value of the goods, which was awarded against
the defendant, namely, £2 18s 9d.
ALLEGED ASSAPLT ON THE HIGH SEAR.—James Fowler,
late a sailor on board the ship Lincluden Castle, was
brought up on a charge of having committed a violent
assault on another sailor, named John Trowl, on board
the ship, on her voyage from Mobile to Liverpool. It
was stated that the injured man was in hospital, and not
able to attend. The prisoner was remanded,