The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-21 00:00:00

POLICE COURTS.-V- F,STERDAY.

ROBBERIES FROM THE PF.RamsT:=-11.1.ry Ann Wise was
charged with stealing an entire suit of clothes, the property
of a sailor. The evidence not being sufficiently conclusive,
the complainant being very much intoxicated at the time of
the occurrence, and the ship to which he belonged being
about to go to sea, the prisoner was discharged.
Sarah McDonald, was charged with stealing a purse and
a sovereign from John Johnson, 51, Norfolk Street, at a
public house kept by Mrs. Wainwright, St. James'-street.
It appeared; that the complainant was drinking in that
house, when the prisoner went and sat by his side, and asked
him for a penny, at the same time putting her hand into his
pocket and taking therefrom his purse. She replaced it, but
subsequently took it in a similar manner, and the complain-
ant had not seen it since.

The Magistrates convicted the prisoner for 21 days, she
having been before in custody.
platy Ann Driscol, was charged with stealing a watch
from the person of a labouring man, the previous night, in
a yard near the church in Sackville-street, Great Homer-
street. The case having been clearly proven, but as the
watch had not been found, the prisoner, was remanded for
seven days.
Ellen Steward, was charged with robbing a butcher of
30s. in a court in Fraser-street. The prosecutor was in
company with the woman about one o'clock that morning,
when the woman stole his purse. He caught her hand and
took a sovereign from it. The facts of the robbery having
been clearly proven, the magistrate committed the prisoner
for one month.

Ellen lll‘Carthy,was charged with stealing a pair of trousers
and £5 18s., the property of a person lodging in the same
house as herself. She was seen in the bed-room wborc the
lodger was asleep; and was apprehendeaby police officer 86,
as she was about to leave Li.vrpool, with upwards of £3
in her possession. Remanded for seven days.
Rom—John E'annagan was committed to
prison for 21 days on a charge of stealing a piece of rope
from a ship lying in the Clarence dock. The rope was
found in the possession of the prisoner at the dock gate.
Laurence Seallon was committed for one month, on a
charge_of_stealing a rope from the fore-castle of the ship
Phcenix.• The rope was identified by the second mate, and
was found coiled around the prisoner's person, when he was
leaving the dock.
ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—Thomas Lacy, a lad formerly
in the employ of Messrs. Smith, Hanover-street, and John
Hagerty, a marine store dealer, were again placed before the
bench. The details of this case appeared in the columns of
this journal when the prisoners were first apprehended.
As there was no evidence beyond the statement made by
Lacey, that Hagerty had induced the boy to steal the block
of tin, he was discharged, and Lacey was committed to take
his trial for stealing the tin, and also a hand-cart, which
was found near Hagerty's:house. The prosecutor informed
the court that he had lost upwards of £6O worth of tin,
but had had no suspicion of Lacey, although he had dis-
charged him for irregular conduct.
Hannah Taylor, a workwoman, was committed for one
month, 'having been the previous evening detected in stealing
some small pieces of soap, and other articles, from the person
who had employed her for that day.