The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-17 00:00:00

POLICE COURT, YESTERDAY,

(BEFORE J. H. SMITH, ESQ.)

Roncimit OF £136 FROM A CATTLE-DEALER.—John
Dixon, of Vauxhall-road'
. in this town, provision-dealer,
and John M'Grady, of Scotland-road, who had been
remanded from the previous Monday, were again brought
up, severally charged with receiving money from women
of disreputable character, knowing the same to have been
stolen. The charge against M'Grady was, that he had
received a £5 note from a prostitute who had been lodging
at his house, part of a sum of £136 stolen from Mr. John
Gordon, of Belfast, cattle-dealer, on the 22d of January

last. It appeared, however, that the woman in question
was indebted to M'Grady in the sum of 6s. 6d, for lodging;
and a day or two after the 22d of January she had taken
to him a £5 Bank of England note to get changed, out of
which he was to deduct the amount due to him. He ob-
tained change of Mr. John Clayton, brewer, his
master, and, retaining 6s. 6d. in payment of his bill,
handed the rest over to the woman who had given
him the note, and he protested that he had never
seen her since. There being no further recriminating
evidence against the prisoner, he was discharged. The
charge against John Dixon was, that he had received a
£5O note and some £lO notes from two disreputable
females, knowing them to have been stolen ; and that he
got the same changed, receiving £9O for the notes, £47
only of which he handed over to the women who had em-
ployed his services, and the other £43 he kept as his own
share of the spoil. The main evidence against the pri-
soner was his own admission to police-officer Grisenthwaite
that the notes referred to had been placed in his hands by
two women, whose names, however, he asserted he did not
know. He obtained change for them of Mr. William
Costello, a grocer and provision-dealer in Byrom-street,
with whom he had been in the habit of dealing for the
last two years, and to whom he owed a bill of £l3 Bs. Bd.,
of which £lO was at once paid from the proceeds of the £5O
note, and the remainder in a few days after. John Gordon,
the person who was robbed, was again called, and repeated
the statements made by him last week as to the circum-
stances under which the felony was committed. He bad
been in Liverpool on business, and was going from the
upper part of the town towards the Clarence Dock, be-
tween seven and eight o'clock in the evening of the 22nd
January, when he was accosted by two females, who asked
him to treat them. He went into a public-house—the
sign of which he did not know—for that purpose, and
drank 4d. worth of brandy. What the women had he
was not aware, though he paid for a glass a-piece for
them. When each had taken their first glass, the land-
lady of the house came in, bringing in her hand three
glasses of liquor, which he then believed to be whiskey,
and told them to drink it off smartly, wJile the landlord
was absent, as he would be angry should he know that
she had given it to them. He drank his glass, and about
ten minutes or a quarter of an hour afterwards became
quite insensible. He did not recover consciousness till
between twelve and one o'clock next morning, when he
found himself in the street, and that his pockets had been
picked of all his money, amounting to £136, and his watch.
He was certain that the money was in the breast pocket
of his waistcoat when he went into the public-house with
the women, in a purse, and consisted of one £5O note,
four £lO notes, and two £5 notes, all of the Bank of
England ; seven £1 Irish notes; £29 in gold, and some
silver—he thought about 10s. He did not know the
numbers of any of the notes, but knew from whom he had
received them at Manchester. On the part of the prose-
cutor, the police now asked for a further remand of Dixon,
as they expected to he dble to identify the £5O note (pro-
duced) which the prisoner had got Mr. Costello to change,
as one of those which had been stolen from Gordon. Mr.
Brebner, prisoner's attorney, said that no evidence had
been adduced against his client to warrant any further
detention. The bench, however, ultimately decided on
remanding the prisoner till the 25th instant, allowing him,
in the meantime, to give bail for his appearance, himself
in £lOO, and two sureties in £5O each. No bail, we un-
derstand, was put in yesterday.
COMMITTALS.—Bridget Welsh and Catherine Welsh
were committed for five days, for stealing half a hundred
weight of coals from the yard of Mr. John Taylor. Two
youths, entered in the police sheet as Miles Brown and
Miles Carroll, but who now gave the names of Fallon and
Maynard, were charged with stealing three pairs of shoes
from a shop door. Fallon was committed for three
months, and Maynard discharged. William Bond was
committed, for stealing a quantity of copper nails from
the Canning Dock, to three months' imprisonment. John
Callagan committed for three months, for stealing a quan-
tity of rope from the canal bank. Thomas Flannery
committed for two months, for stealing a monkey-jacket,
the property of John Ogden, from a vessel in the river.
Sarah Hughes, a domestic servant, was committed for
stealing £1 10s., the property of her master, Mr. Edward
Sweeney, which she had abstracted from a drawer in her
mistress's bedroom, for one month

DARING AND SERIOUS " GAROTTE "
ROBBERY.

A person who gave the name of George Williams, was
charged at the Police-court, yesterday, before J. H.
Smith, Esq., with violently assaulting and robbing Thos.
Bland Lee, of a cash-box, containing about £l2O in cash
and notes, and valuable securities for between £l5O and
£2OO more. It appeared in evidence that about ten
minutes or a quarter of an hour before seven o'clock, on
Saturday evening last, Mr. Lee, an apprentice with
Mr. Thomas Gorman, whose office is at No. 22, Temple-
court, in this town, went from their place of business to
deposit the cash-box of his employer, according to
custom, at the house of Mr. Wordley, of Lord-street,
silversmith. He had the cash-box, tied round with a strap,
in his hand. It contained £3O in gold, £l5 Bs. 6d. in
silver, £37 in half notes, a Bill of Exchange for £4O, and
other securities, principally 1. 0. U.'s, amounting to be-
tween £l5O and £2OO.

On leaving Mr. Gorman's office, Lee had observed the
prisoner lurking in the neighbourhood, but no suspicion
was then excited against him. When he got into Har-
rington-street, however, he distinctly heard some one
following him at a brisk pace, and immediately afterwards
heard a whistle. He was somewhat alarmed at this, but
had scarcely time for reflection ere he was seized by the
throat from behind.

This occurred at the corner of Doran's-lane ; and the
moment after, he felt himself in the grip of some person,
and received a heavy blow on the right side of his head
with some instrument, which appeared to be more for-
midable than a stick. Similar blows were several times
repeated ; but Lee still retained consciousness, and could
distinguish that he had been attacked not by one man
alone, but by three ; and it was the tallest of them who
struck him. The prisoner at the same time made the
most vigorous efforts to get the cash-box out of Lee's
hands, but he held it fast for a considerable time. He
endeavoured, during the struggle, to shout for assistance,
but was unable to do so, through the tightness of the
grasp which had been fastened on his throat.
At last, through exhaustion, he was compelled to let go
his hold of the box, when it fell to the ground, and the
prisoner, seizing it, ran away. Three females then came
up, and seeing what had occurred, they pursued the pri-
soner, shouting " murder" and "robbery." At the end
of Harrington-street, where it runs into North-street,
the prisoner, finding escape next to impossible, threw the
box away, and Lee, who was in hot pursuit, picked it up
again. On turning the corner, he found the prisoner in the
custody of some person who bad secured him as he ran.
Witness instantly went up and collared the culprit, who
beat him several times over the hand, to compel him to let
go ; and he received several severe cuts on the back of his
hand from a sharp instrument, but whether from the pri-
soner or some bystander, as a crowd had now collected,
he would not undertake to swear.
The prisoner was then taken for safety into the ware-
house of Mr. Golden in Worth John-street; but some man
who happened to be in the warehouse at the time told
them that they must not go in there, and they were com-
pelled to return into the street, where a police-officer
immediately afterwards came up and took the prisoner in
charge.
The evidence of Mr. Lee was corroborated by Mary Ann
Gilligan, who, hearing groans as of some one in pain, had
gone out into Harrington-street and witnessed a great part
of the struggle. Lee was then holding the cash box in his
hand. She observed that the prisoner was assisted by two
other men. When the box, in the course of the scuffle, fell
to the ground, Mrs. Gilligan stooped to pick it up, but
one of the thieves immediately put his foot on her hand ;
and a moment after, she felt something sharp drawn across
the back of her hand, which severely wounded it. On the
prisoner's getting possession of the box and running away,
it was she who followed him crying out, " murder" and
" robbery," till he was stopped.
Mr. Thomas Charles Kent, who resides in Meadow-
lane, Tranmere, heard the cries described by the last wit-
ness, and tried to stop the prisoner, but he also received a
cut over the hand by some sharp instrument.
Mr. Eli Conway, engaged in an office in Harrington-
street, had heard the struggle which took place below the
window, and going out, heard, rather than saw, the pri-
soner run away. After the policeman had taken the man
into custody, witness went back, and, on making search
at the spot where Lee had been assaulted, found a broken
life-preserver.
The prisoner declined to say anything in answer to the
charge, contenting himself with asking one of the wit-
nesses whether he (the prisoner) was not drunk at the
time of the occurrence. He was fully committed for trial
at the ensuing assizes.

The sitting magistrate then passed a high eulogium
upon the courage and praiseworthy conduct of Lee, in
retaining possession of the box under the circumstances,
and also on the several witnesses for the prompt aid which
they rendered, and which had evidently been the means
of apprehending the robber. The behaviour of the man
at Mr. Golden's warehouse, on the contrary, appeared to
be highly reprehensible.

THE STOCKS REVIVED.-At Padiham, near Blackburn,
in this county, three youths were last week confined in
the stocks for the period of six hours. We understand
that the offence was that of following unlawful pastimes
on the Sabbath.

LANCASHIRE YEOMANRY.—Tuesday 'a Gazette an-
nounced that the following commissions had been signed
by the Lord Lieutenant of this county for the " Duke of
Lancaster's Own Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry :"
William Edward Royds, gent., to be Lieut. in the
Rochdale Troop, vice Thomas Ainsworth Crook, pro-
moted ; the Hon. Algernon Egerton, late Cornet in the
Furness Troop, to be Cornet in the Rochdale Troop ;
the Hon. Spencer Compton Cavendish, commonly called
Lord Cavendish, of Keighley, to be Cornet in the Furness
Troop, vice the Hon. Algernon Egerton. The following
had also been signed for the " Lancashire Hussars :"
Lieut. William Ulick Tristram Viscount St. Lawrence to
be Capt., vice Willikup Charles Yates, resigned.