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POLICE liiIELLIGENCE.-SAT URDAY.

LIVERPOOL.

BEFORE MR. 3IAN.,FIELD.

IMPORTANT TO TRADE.MIN.—CoMMITTAL OF PM Cant-
r-MARF,RA FOR CoNSPIRACY.—WiIIiam John
Grithths, Boa Wawber, James Brim, and James Harris,
'five cabinet makers, were brought up on warrant charged
with a conspiracy, under the following circumstances.
Mr. Bremner was for the prosecution and Mr. Conway
(barrister), instruated by Mr. Grimmer, was for the
prisoners. Mr. Bostener, in opening the case, said tee
prisoners were charged with a conspiracy, and also with
having used serious threats to one Walter John Stephenson,
to prevent him from earning money at his trade as a
cabinet-maker. It would be necessary for him to show
the deplorable state to which some of the cabineamelters
of Liverpool had reduce 1 the trade of the to wn. Since
the 9th of May there was a regular conspiracy amongst
certain persons belonging to the trade, to prevent men
from working for the master employers, an I thus also
prevent men from earning an hone .t livelihood for their
families. There was in this and ether towns an organised
conepir •cy to l revent men from working for certain
masters—and was this state of things to be endured?
The compleinata in this case, Stephenson, was in the
employment of Mr Bradley, cabinet-nicker, Bold-street;
and it would be necessary to orate that, in consequence of
the ,conduct of the parties alluded to, he (Mr Bradley)
bad, some time ago, to send to Plymouth for a number of
men to carry on his work. Amongst the men so engaged'
at Plymouth was the young man St: phenson. He arrived
here by steamer at the Clarence Ihe k, and was there met
by smne of the men who were out on strike, and they
tole him, and asked several questions, and at length they
induced him ro t to enter the service of Mr. Bradley.
They gore him a sovereign, and paid his pasesge back to
Plymouth. H's father, who was in the employment
of Mr. Bleiley, hear'ng of th;s, was very angry,
and wrote to his son to come back again. He did come
accordingly, end entered the service of Mr. Bradley. He
remained there until Thursday, when he was met by
Griffiths and the others, when Griffith,' threatened his life
if he did not leave the service of Mr. Bradley. Th;rl was
not all, these men had rue even further in their audacity,
and had famed regular picquets for the purpose of watch-
ing and intimidating men who da-ed to work at limes
which this gang of conspirators thought proper to denounce.
On Monday last M•Nlilien went to Bradley's. where
Wawber, Rowe.: and Harris (three of the p-:seners)
worked, and— Mr Conway : I object to this. We are
not now trying a conspiracy, but a ewe under an set of
parliament. and this eta ement cannot be allowed. Mr.
Bremner: I have got the 'ten here as prisoners, and I can
charge them with anything the law allows them to be
chargeable with. We have feeqnently heard of the tyranny
of a majority over a minority, but here we have a tyranny
as gross as ever heard of, by a minority of the trade over
a majority, as I shall prove. Here the minority assemble
in group?, wbieh are termed "picquets," and assail and
threaten the men who do not agree with thorn ;_ and
yet this minority consists of from one fifth to one
tenth of the a ho'e trade in the country. I ask is such
tyranny as this to be to'era.ed in the country—that one set
of men can stand up and declare that anoher set of men,
who may not choose to agree with them, shall be prevented
from workirg, and earning an honest livelihood for their
families? such a sate of things is monstrous, and must
be put a stop to by the law of t!,e lend. I shall prove that
the prisoner M'Millen is an officer of this tyrannical
body, and on Monday last he went to Mr Bradley's work-
shop, and enticed the three prisoners (except Griffiths) to
leave the employment, by paying them a sum of
money, and these men afterwards acted in concert
with the cmispirators. Mr. Bradley had brchrght these
three men from Plymouth some time before ; they brought
their :_tools, and h d received advances to the amount of
£l6 from Mr. Bradley. Oa the day in question M'Millen
entered the shop of Mr. Bradley, and in the presence of
that gentleman inquhed of them what they owed Mr.
Bradley. He (Mr. B) told him, when he paid the amount,
and in presence cf Mr. Bradley, en his counter, he gave to
each of the three prisoners a sum of £5, and thus induced
them to leave their employment, and sLey left aemrdivgly.
That occurred on last Monday, and on Thursday the
prisoners Griffith and M'Millen met S'tephens in the
streets, and by threats of the grossest nature endeavoured
to make him leave his employment. I will prove these
facts to you, and show that there is a deep and disgraceful
conspiracy in Liverpool against honest men, who are pre-
vented from earning their bread. I tenet that this case
will be the means of putting an end to, and breakirg the
neck of, this foul conspiracy, for the men who are threat-
ened are afraid cf their lives, should they attempt to work
except at the dictation of this unlawful body. By the
decision of this case honest men will be protected and let
live from the darger to which they are subject by this
girg ; and I now cad on you, sir, to send them for trial on
an indictment for conspiracy, or to send them for the term
of three months under the act of parliament, whichever
case the evidence may bear out. He then called Walter
John Stephenson, who said—l am a cabinet maker, and came
from Plymouth; came abut three months ago, and arrived
at the Clarence Dock ; met some men, who took me to
Gi l-street, e here I met some men from Plymouth; after
that I went back to Plymouth; my father wrote to
me to come back, and I went to work at Campbell
and Morgan's, for a fortni ht, and then to Mr. Bradley's.
On Thursday hat I was seeing to' dinner when I met the
AT. prisoners, when Griffiths said—are you g ing to work
against y( nr fellow men ? and then he swore he would
k ll me ; the others were present ; they all advised me to
come out of the work, as they wculd not like to see my
throat cut one of these coming dark nights. I have seen
picquets at Mr. Bradley's, watching to prevent men going
into work ; I have seen Griffiths and MeMillen on these
picquets once. Cross-examined by Mr. Conway : I did
not see them offer any 'violence ; I got a sovereign to go
back o Plymouth, and not to cook fur Mr. Bradley ; got 5s
one evening to put in my pocket ; I came back and went to
work by command of my father ; he did not tell me to pay
back the money ; it was two months after when I 8 AV/
-them, and they asked me for the money, and I said
perhaps I will pay is back, when Griffieles said, "oh! we
will get a lot out of you " They called me a b-- rogue
and bloody thief; I know Griffiths by sight. M'Millen
said nothing; there was nothing done to me, but I expected
there would be ; told Mr. Bradley what passed, and I
snppote he got the warrant; I mentioned it iri the work-
shop. Mr Bremner : 'he case is on information. Did you
nor come here and make an inforthation ? Yea, as I was
afraid to walk the streets. Thomas Powell, a cabinet
maker in Mr. B sin's employment, said : I know the
prisoners by name ; I saw M`Mi'len and Griffiths on We a
nesc;ay afterz..con, on George's crescent, after working
time. Mr. Conway objected to this, but the objection was
overruled. The witness went on to say that Griffiths
said he would ki k me for a rascal, and for stop
. ping at work. M'Millen was with him, and on one
o. casicn he called the other to order. To Mr.
Conway, : I have not received any money from
tees society. I got a great deal of bad usage when a
society m n. He said he would buy a new pair of boots
to k'elc me. To Mr. Bremner: I was called a "jackal,"
and was hooted at in the streets, for not joining them. I
have seen the picquets at the doors and corners, end saw
11.31 Ban and Griffiths run of er men to prevent them
working at several louses. To Mr. Mansfield : I have a
wife and family to suiport by my work, and of course
ant anxious to do an without inerference. These are very
bad men Mr Bradley was examined, and said—l took
the three men, Washer, Rowe, and Aairis, from Plymouth,
into my employme,ir. On Monday last they came with
M'Millen, and asked me how tnu&h they owe ! ? I told
them £l6 le, a, d M'Millen paid it; and then M‘Millen
p id each of the others .e 5 on my counter, and they than
deru.nded their rheete. Saw the picquets. On Thursday
last they prevented a man from c‘m•ng in. I• told the
man to come in, if he were not a metnber of the society,
and ho said he was ready to do so. M.'alil!en ery'eavonre'd
to prevent him The witness then described the opposi
lion. given by the prisoners to the men who were williing
work at his establishment. Mr. Conway crone-examined
Mr Bradley, who said the masters had an association to
protect themselves. Ta Mr. Man-field : The of t wages
was 241, but it was raised to 28s, and is so at present.
To Mr. Conway : We do not enter into a bond to pay 30s
as a minimum rate of wage 3. We have a list cf all the
men. There are 600 cabinet makers at Manchester, and
there aie only 70 of these on the list as belonging to the
the association of these men. Joseph Thompson, a carver,
in the employment of Mr. Bradley was examined, and
corroborated Mr. Bradley's statement, and said the five
prisoners were in the crowd at Mr. Bradley's on Thnr,day.
Tney surrounded a man veto wanted a job. I asked the
man if he would come to work, and the prison era said,
what is that to 'you? The man said he would come to
work, but he never came after. Mr Conway urged that
there was no evidence against any of the prisoners, parti-
cm'arly against the three men late in Mr. Bradley's em-
ploy. Ho contended that t Done overt act should have been
done before, the prisoners were subject to such a penal act.
Mr.,Manafield "aid: There Nyasa case of conspiracy clearly
proved. The case was one of great import, and he would,
therefore, send it before the highest tribunal in the land
He would commit them for trial at the aseizes, but would
take two sureties in £lO each, and themselves in 120, for
their appearance. This decision seemed very much to
astonish the prisoners ; who, from the confident air they
assumed, were quite airs of an ac,quittal.
A Junng, OF Honeeeexsu —Patrick Curtis, a tall, thin
fellow, wi h & head of ha 'r that would have saved Dick
Tarpin the expense of a trig, was put to the bar on a
charge of having stolen a horse value .£2O, the alleged
petty of A hen; ;mated John Nevile, of Carrickmacross,

County Monaghan. Mr. •Goodere defended the prisoner
The main feature of the prosecutor's case was this :—He,
along with the prisoner (Curti4), came to Liver-
pool to sell some horses the latter biiLg the assietaut
of the former (Neville). They left a horse at the Pheasant
Inu, Queen square, and it appeared that the prisoner; in
the absence of Neville, took cut the animal to 0, mskirk,
and sold it to a Mr. Godfrey, a dealer, living in Hatton
Garden, for £B. The prisoner ten came to town, and in
his case the pro'erb of "ill got, ill gone," was fully
realised, for the matey was stolen from him by an unfortu-
nate woman ; and his next adventure was his arrest by the
police, on tho charge of having stolen the horse. Mr
Goodere, on cross-examination of the prosecutor, tried to
show that the prisoner was a partner in the horse-flash line
with him, but this he stoutly denied; he was a friend of
prosecutor's only, and was to be paid for his services. Mr.
Goodere: He is a good judge of horse-flesh. is he not?
Witness: Yee, so good, that he stole my £2O horse, and
sold him for £B. ,(Loud laughter.) But is he really not
the best jadge of a horse to be had ? Well, he is a good
judge. Are you a good judge? Witness: What?
(Laughter.) Mr. Goodere: Answer, sir, are you a good
judge of a horse? Witness: Well, I think I am, middling. 1,
Mr. Goodere: I happen to know something of a horse
myself, and Winces (interrupting him with great
naivete): I hope you ton't know anything about treat-
ing them. (Roars of laughter.) Mr. Goodere : And do
yeti swear your partner sold this horse? Witness: the
d—l a taste of a partner of mine he is, no more than
yourself, asthore ! (Renewed laughter.) Mr. Godfrey,
of 'lateen Garden, stated that ho bought the horse from
the prisoner at the fair of Ormskirk ; he had had dealings
with the prisoner before, in Ireland and this country.
Mr. Goodere : You are a jockey, are you not? Ye,
and you'd make a good ore, too. (Laughter) How
much did you give for him ? Two pound,' more th .n
his value—l gave £8 for him, and he's only worth £6
( Laughter.) Mr. Goodere: Is it the rule with
jockeys to give a couple of pounds more for a
horse than his value ? Well, so netiales I give as much as
a ten pound note for a horse more than tlle velne (laugh )
Mr. Goodere : Innocent. Mr. Godfrey: Now sir, if you
have done so was it not with the expectation of meeting
some "flit" ? Well, perhaps it might, but I often proved
the flat myself. (Renewed laugh er.) Mr Goodere : Is it
not the t ulethat a horse jockey —Witness: I am a horse
dealer. Mr. Goodere : Is it not the rule for &jockey or a
dealer to stick his mother, in a horse, if he could ? Wi:nese :
I have heard of such things. Mr. Goodere : And I know it.
(Laughter) Witness: I dare say you know morethan that.
Mr. Goodere : And you swear you gave eight pounds for a
horse value only six? Witness : I swear I gave eight
pounds for tl.e horse. Mr Goo sere : Six pounds is thirty
shillings a leg you know, and you g .ve eight pounds ?
Yes. Mr. Goodere : you are the most benevolent horse
jockey I hive ever heard of ; h ive much did he ask for the
horse first ? He asked six•een pentads. He is not worth
what I gave for him ; he is broken-winded, and one foot
dropping off. (Laughter.) Mr. Hide, a publican, provei
having seen the prisoner sell the horse to Mr. Godfrey,
who paid him The prisoner was remanded in order to
produce some witnesses in his favour.
RoBSERY U :MEI TITS GALLOWS.—A fashionably attired
young man, named Thomas Griffiths, was brought up on
a charge of being concerned, with another person (now in
jail for trial), named Smith, for robbing a man named
John Connor of his watch, on Saturday week, under the
gallows, when Captain Rogers was executed. The prisoner
denied the charge, and esked to be remanded to Tuesday,
sayicg he could bring witnesses to prove that he was not
there, and that he was a respectable tradesman in Birm-
ingham. He was remanded accordingly.