The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-26 00:00:00

PARENTAL AFFECTION INDEED

A poor, neglected youth, not more than nine years of age,
was placed in the dock, under rather curious, yet pitiable
circumstances. The superintendent of St. James's Market
appeared, and stated to the magistrates that on Sunday he
received information that some person or persons were con-
cealed in the abovenamed market ; that he proceeded thither,
and found the boy at the bar had been there, as he supposed,
the whole of the night. Whatever his object might have
been, he could not say, but he found many of the stalls com-
pletely upset, and on his approach the lad had fled, or made
his way up the chimney, from which place he would not
emerge until threatened that a fire should be made in the
grate, which, however, had the desired effect of causing the
little fellow to surrender himself into the hands of the autho-
rities ; and, shameful to relate, on finding out his parents,
(the mother being adorned with a black eye,) neither cared
anything for his welfare, and actually refused to appear at the
court on his behalf. Such wretches are truly disgraceful to
society, and ought not to be entitled to the name of parent.
The bov was ordered to be taken to the workhouse, where it
is to be hoped he will find that attention which his ungrateful
parents deny.
Several cases were heard for assaults upon the police-
officers, which, from the repeated and increasing outrages
upon them, and their services, demand every punishment
the law allows. Numbers were heavily fined on Monday for
assaults and interruption of the police whilst on duty—indeed,
in one or two instances, some had so far interfered as to
cause the offending parties to escape the detention of the
police. These richly-deserved their reward. The police
must be protected in the exercise of their duty.
YESTERDAY.
(Before Messrs. RUSHTON and BOLTON.)
ROBBERY BY A FEMALE SERVANT.

Margaret Roberts, a middle-aged woman, who had been
for the last twelve months in the service of the Rev. Edward
Hull, of Mason-street, Edge-hill, near this town, as cook,
was placed in the dock, charged with having stolen a bottle
of wine, ,and a bottle of rum, the property of her said master ;
also a pair of white cotton stockings, the property of Miss
Hull.

Mary Bruce, another servant in the rev. gentleman's
establishment, appeared as evidence against her ; she, on
being sworn, stated that the prisoner was on Tuesday last dis-
missed from her situation by her master, for being intoxi-
cated. They had been bottling wine that day, and had left
the wine cellar open. After the prisoner had left, she (the
witness) found three bottles, which appeared to contain wine,
hid under the cellar stairs; one bottle was in a hamper,
among broken glass. She informed Miss Hull of what she
had seen. On the following morning the prisoner came to
the house for the clothes she had left the day before. The
clothes were in the wash-house, near the place where the
bottles were deposited ; after she was gone, the witness
noticed that the bottles had been taken away; the two
bottles now produced are the same ; the one contained port,
and the other, she believed, rum, as her master had generally
rum in the house as well as wine. The stockings she knew
to be Miss Hull's.
John Dodd, policeman No. 121, was sworn. He said he
received information of the present charge, on Wednesday
last, and in the evening apprehended her in Mr. Hull's
house, where she had come for her wages, as he was informed
afterwards. He told her the charge against her, and she
declared she had taken the bottles ; that they were in her
box, at Mrs. Jacque's house, in Copperas-hill. He took the
prisoner to Bridewell ; and there received from her a key,
which she said belonged to her box at Mrs. Jacque's. On
his going thither, and opening the box, he found the bottles
produced, and the pair of stockings.
The evidence being so very conclusive. almost an acknow-
ledgement of the offence, she was committed to take her trial
at the next sessions.