The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-12 00:00:00

EMBEZZLEMENT.

Thomas Barber was brought up on a charge of embezzle-
ment. It appeared that the prisoner had been employed by
Mr. Gilmore, a butcher, in Brownlow-hill, to collect his out-
standing debts. In April last he absconded, and it was then
discovered that he had obtained various accounts, ranging
from £22 10s. to small sums, and had not handed the money
over to his employer. The prisoner was apprehended the
other day in a neighbouring county. On his voluntary
examination he confessed that he was guilty, and was put
back to take his trial at the sessions.
YESTERDAY.
ROBBERY FROM A DWELLING-HOUSE.

Two young men, well known to the police, and both of the
same name, (John Williams,) stood charged with entering a
dwelling-house in a court leading out of Vernon-street.—
Police-officer 174 (John Chesworth) said, that a little before
two o'clock on Sunday morning, while he was on duty in
Marybone, he saw a man (the lesser of the two prisoners) at
the corner of Pickup-street with a bundle in his hand. He
asked him what he had got, and he said they were his wife's
clothes which he was fetching from a mangle, in Cheapside.
He having suspicions of the truth of this, said he would go
with prisoner and see. He accordingly went along with him
through Pickup-street, and while there the other prisoner
(the taller) came up with two or three other men and attacked
him. The latter prisoner on coming up said, " Let him go ;
the property is his own." Witness received several blows
and kicks, and the bundle became unfastened, and some of
the clothes fell into the street, and were taken up by some of
the persons assembled. Police-officer Christopher Maguire
came to his assistance, and they took the lesser prisoner to
bridewell, but found nothing on him. Maguire, and Cearns,
another officer, afterwards succeeded in capturing the other
prisoner, in Pickup-street, at two o'clock on the following
morning.
Jane Hewson, a widow woman, said she picked up the
handkerchief produced. The tall prisoner came and snatched
away all the clothes during the scuffle, except the handker-
chief, and made off.
Police-officer Cearns corroborated the statement of the
first witness, as to apprehending the taller prisoner.
Ann Hatton, wife of Hugh Hatton, said she lived in Par-
court, Vernon-street. Her husband was ill on Saturday
night, and she went up stairs to give him something, leaving
the door below on the latch. A little girl soon afterwards
came in and called her down, and when she returned below,
she immediately missed two shirts, two table covers, two
curtains, two dresses, a sofa-cover, and other articles, inclu-
ding two silk handkerchefs, and two cotton handkerchiefs.
Alice Finlay, who lives in the same court, saw two men in
dark coloured dresses came up the passage about the time
mentioned, and go to the far end of the court. One was a
little taller than the other. She immediately afterwards heard
of the robbery. (The prisoners were in dark clothes.)
The handkerchief found was afterwards identified by Mrs.
Hatton, as one of those she had missed.
The prisoners called two girls, who attempted an alibi, as
regarded one of the prisoners, but their testimony was not to
be believed. Both the prisoners were committed for trial at
the Sessions.

Mr. Rushton complimented Police-officer Chesworth, for
his promptness and determination in bringing the prisoners
to justice.
OBTAINING GOODS UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.

Thos. Brown was placed ai the bar, charged with defraud-
ing several respectable trades-people, out of sundry articles,
by representing them to be for his master or others. Miss
Hannah Thompson said she kept the shoe shop, No. 84,
Whitechapel, along with her mother. On the 26th October,
the prisoner came in and asked for a pair of boots. He se-
selected a pair, and said that if she (witness) would make out
the bill, and send it to the Swan Inn, London-road, where
his master was, he would pay it. Witness sent her mother
with the prisoner to that inn, she carrying the boots,wrapped
in paper. The prisoner was afterwards apprehended. Mrs.
Thompson said she went to the Swan Inn with the prisoner,
and waited in the lobby. In a short time the prisoner looked
over the settle, and said—" My master is in, and if you will
give me the boots, I will bring you the money in a minute."
She handed him the parcel, and the prisoner went out, but
did not return. The barmaid of the inn said she saw the
prisoner pass the bar, and go out at the side door into St.
Vincent-street East. He had no master at the inn.—There
were three other similar cases against the prisoner ; but only
one of them was taken, in which he had gone into the shop
of Mr. Dickenson, and asked for some knives and forks,
which he represented were for Mrs. Gilman, publican, Disney-
street. He said that she would choose one or other of the
sets produced, and if they were sent by him he would return
the money, and those not taken. A little boy was sent with
him to the house. He took the boy to the back door and
told him to wait; but he went through the house, taking the
articles with him, and did not return. He was committed
for trial.