The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-13 00:00:00

THEFT FROM A SHOP DOOR.

Margaret Breeze was charged with having stolen a piece of
linsey from the shop of Mr. Evans, linen-draper, Pitt-street.
William Gough, one of the constables of Cleveland-square
Market, received information about half-past eleven o'clock
yesterday morning which induced him to go to the corner of
St. Thomas's Church. He there' found the prisoner, and a
man holding a piece of linsey. He asked her where she had
got it, and she replied, "Itis my own." The office asked
her where she bought it—she again replied, " It is my own."
Gough took the linsey from her, and took her into custody.
He afterwards discovered that it was the property of Mr.
Evans. The latter stated that, about nine o'clock yesterday
morning, there were five pieces of linsey exposed for sale at
the shop door. He missed iL about half-past eleven o'clock.
The piece measured 32 yards, and was worth ls. 9d. per yard.
The prisoner said in her defence that a little girl gave it to
her. She was committed for trial.
YESTERDAY.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF MON'EY.

A woman named Ellen Williams was charged with abscond-
ing from her lodgings with a large sum of money belonging
to the occupant of the house.
James Kenyon said, " I am a porter, and reside in June-
court, Addison-street. The prisoner, Ellen Williams, has
lodged at my house about three wanths. On Friday after-
noon last, I received from Mr. Kenyon, solicitor, of Castle-
street, two £lOO Bank of England notes, one £5O note of
the same bank, six sovereigns, and two half-crowns. I after-
wards took £3 15s. from the amount, and put the notes in a
memorandum book, which I put into the drawer in the gar-
ret. I put three sovereigns and a half-sovereign in the cor-
ner of the same drawer. I locked the drawer, and put the
key in my pocket. The prisoner slept in the same garret.
On Sunday afternoon last I had the notes in my hand, and
looked at them, and replaced them, locking the drawer. A.
little before seven o'clock yesterday morning, my wife in-
formed me that the prisoner had left the house. I went to
the garret, and found that the drawer had been forced open,
and the lock lay at the bottom of it. The nails had been
drawn. I missed all my money. I gave information to the
police. About noon a woman came to me, and said she could
show me the woman who had taken my money. I and my
wife went with that woman to a cellar in Adlington-street,
where we found the prisoner on a bed. Inspector Anders
came. He had searched her previous to my arrival. He
shewed me two £lOO notes, and a £5O note, one sovereign,
twenty-one shillings, and 40. I have no doubt but the mo-
ney produced is that which I missed,
Ca herine Kenyon, wife of the last witness, corroborated
this testimony.
Jonathan Anders, inspector of police, said—l received
information of this robbery between nine and ten o'clock,
yesterday, with a description of the person who was supposed
to have done it. About noon, a man gave some information,
and took me to a cellar in Adlington-street. I there found
the prisoner sitting in a chair, apparently in a fit. She came
a little to herself. I. said, " what made youlaave yourlodgings
so suddenly this morning ?" She made no answer. I said,
what have you done with those papers which you took ?"
She said, "Is Mrs. Kenyon here ?" I said, " No." I
asked where her pocket was ? She handed it to me. I
searched it, and found a sovereign, and fourpence half-
penny in copper. I then began to search about the bed.
The prisoner said, " I will give them to you." I then turned
up the bed, and between it and the matrass, I found a purse,
containing two one-hundred-pound Bank of England notes,
one fifty-pound Bank of England note, and twenty-one
shillings. . _

The prisoner said, " 1 suffered a great deal of poverty,
and did not know there was so much money."
The prisoner was committed for trial at the sessions.
Mr. RuanroN said, that having learned that the prose-
cutor bad received the money with a view to purchase the
good will of a business, and that it would greatly incommode
him to lie out of it until after the trial, ha should take care
that an equal sum should be paid to him in the course of
the day, so that the notes might be retained for identification.

ABUSE OF THE COURT WHOLESOMELY CORRECTED.
Amongst those who were fined for neglecting to keep watch
on the decks of their vessels in the night during the hours
pointed out by law, was a person belonging to a fishing boat
called the Dolphin, who (the law being explained to him)
was required to pay is. fine, and Is. 6d. costs—the smallest
sum imposed for such neglect. He complained in no very
measured terms of the infliction, and when retiring, said in
loud and angry tone,
" There is a great deal of law here, but no justice."
Mr. Rushton.—" If you make any furtrer observations
derogatory of the court, I shall take steps which you will not
find to be agreeable."
The man (angrily)—" I don't care what you do."
Mr. Rushton.—Officers, take that man into custody, and
before I release him, he shall be brought to a sense of the
impropriety of his conduct.
The order was instantly obeyed, and the man, who appeared
to be rather astonished at the enexpected result of his im-
pudence, was taken down the subteranean passage to bride-
well. Shortly before the closing of the court—some hours
having elapsed—he was brought up, and on promising in re-
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