The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-FRID AY.

ILLEGALLY PAWNING.

John M'Gahey, a young man, was brought before Mr.
Rushton on a charge of having taken away and pledged a
coat belonging to a fellow lodger, without his permission.
The case being proved, the magistrate decided that the pri-
soner should pay a tine of 20s. and costs, 155., or, in default
of payment, be imprisoned 21 days.

FELONY BY A LODGER.
Edward Dean was placed before the magistrate on a charge
of felony committed more than two years back.
Elizabeth Worrall said that she was the wife of Charles
Worrall, and lived in Lambert-place, Lambert-street. The
prisoner went to lodge at her house about Christmas, 1836,
and remained until the 4th February, 1837. About two
o'clock on the afternoon of that day, Dean went out, and
returned no more to his lodgings. It was ascertained that he
had left behind him his own old clothes, and that a surtout
coat, a pair of trousers, and a silk handkerchief, belonging
to the son of witness, had been taken. She did not see the
prisoner again until Thursday forenoon, when she observed
him in St. John's Market, and went up to and accosted him.
He pretended not to know her ; but she took hold of him
and detained him until police-officer Charles Worrall came
and took him into custody.
Henry Worrall, the owner of the stolen property, on be-
ing taken to the prisoner, said, " How could you think of
treating me in the way you did?" He answered, "I am
very sorry that I did so ; I can't look you in the face." In
reply to the question of what he had done with the clothes,
he said that he pawned the coat and wore the trousers out.
The prisoner had tried on the coat on the Sunday before he
went away.

The prisoner, on being asked whether he had anything to
say, replied, " I shall do my endeavour to know my own in
future, and this shall be a warning to me. It shall never
happen again, sir. He was committed to take his trial.

ASSAULT.
Two gentlemen, one of them a chemist and druggist in the
town, were charged with having, on the previous night, as-
saulted a young man who was following his benevolent oc-
cupation of endeavouring to reclaim an unfortunate, female.
The Bridewell keeper who booked the gentlemen, stated that
they were drunk ; but this was indignantly denied by both.
One of them said, " You ought to be ashamed of yourself,
sir, to make such an avowal. It is nothing but an act of
gross perjury. I was as sober as 1 am now." The other
gentleman denied that he had assaulted the complainant. He
only touched him in the slightest possible manner with an
umbrella, and that umbrella was a silk one. They had acted
only out of " a little carelessness and wantonness." The
magistrate said that their appearance bespoke them to be
gentlemen, and they ought to know how to conduct them-
selves in a fitting manner. They were each fined 40s. and
costs—in default of payment to be imprisoned for 21 days.

SATURDAY.
HOUSEBREAKING.

John Young and John Lane, two ruffianly-looking fellows,
were placed at the bar of the police-court, on Saturday,
charged with having broken into the house of Mr. John
Tuffin, of Edge-hill. It appeared that, on Saturday morn-
ing, Mr. Tuffin sent his family and servants to Cheshire.
He went away himself to pay his parish-rates. On his
return home he attempted to open his front door with his
key, but, to his surprise, he found that it was chained inside.
Confident that he could not have chained it inside himself,
he suspected that thieves were in the house. He immediately
procured assistance, entered the house, and there found the
two prisoners. They were at once brought before the magi-
strate. There was no evidence to prove that they had
touched any of the property. An officer was, therefore,
sent up with Mr. Tuffin, to ascertain whether the prisoners
had laid hands on any of that gentleman's goods. When
the parties returned it was announced, that nothing had been
displaced, so far as could be discovered. The officer reported,
that entrance had been effected by breaking two panes in the
back-kitchen window. Mr. Rushton told the prisoners, it
was fortunate for them that they had not been allowed to
remain five minutes longer before they were discovered ; they
would, assuredly, have been committed for trial at the
assizes. As it was, they were committed to the House of
Correction for three months.

STABBING.
Francisco Zooros, a tall, good-looking sailor, a native of
Ostend, was placed before Edward Rushton and Christopher
Rawdon, Esquires, charged with having stabbed Mary Mil-
ligan a female of ill-fame. It appeared that, at a late hour
on the preceding night, the prisoner went with the girl to a
brothel in Orange-street. As the case was not fully entered
into, we will give the evidence on which the prisoner was
remanded. A girl, whose appearance told of dissolute habits,
stated, that, between one and two o'clock that morning, the
prisoner came to the house at which she lodged, accompanied
by a young woman. They went up stairs. together, and, after
a while, the prisoner came down and asked for a candle.
The young woman with whom he had gone up stairs came
down, and he called to her to open the door for him. "As
she approached him he drew out his knife and stuck her in
the side," A man, dressed as a seaman, said, " I was
sleeping at the house. The young woman came down stairs
and he told her to open the door. When she got near him
he stuck her. She shrieked Murder!' and he rushed out
of the house, and I saw him throw the knife away in the
entry." Police-officer No. 492 said, he heard the shrieks of
' Murder' and ran instantly to the spot. He-stopped the
prisoner as be was coming out of the entry. He searched
about the place and found the knife which the prisoner had
thrown away. The officer here produced a formidable-look-
ing knife, enclosed in a leathern sheatte, to which was
attached a belt for fastening it to the waist. The knife
appeared somewhat larger than a shoemaker's knife. The
officer further stated, that the surgeon who had been called
in to attend Mary Milligan had pronounced her in consider-
able danger, and directed that she should be removed to the
Northern Hospital. The surgeon's certificate was produced.
The prisoner said, he was so drunk that he did not know
what he was doing. The officer had informed him, that he
had injured a female, but he had no recollection of it. The
prisoner was remanded, and the officer was directed to pro-
cure daily reports of the state of the injured woman.

YESTERDAY.
A DESERTER.

A young man named David Jones, was placed before Mr.
Rushton, charged with having deserted from the service of
the East India Company. Sergeant Murphy stated that
while he was on his passage from Glasgow to this port, he
saw the prisoner on hoard the steam-packet, and on accost-
ing him, found that he was a deserter from the East India
Company. He had acknowledged having enlisted, and he was
described in the Hue and Cry. The young man said he had
enlisted in the service ; but had gone to Glasgow merely to
see his brother, and that be intended to give himself up on
his arrival here. The informations were taken, and he was
committed until a communication should be made to the war
office, and a reply received as to his ultimate destination.

Several cases of theft were this day charged against pri-
soners ; but as the evidence was imperfect, they were re-
manded to the next day.

ILLEGAL PAWNING.
Peter Carson, and Agnes, his wife, stood charged with
having opened a chest containing the clothes of a young man,
a joiner, named John I\l`Lavin, who lodged in the same house
with them, and taken therefrom a quantity of wearing ap-
pearel which they had pawned and appropriated the money.
There appeared to be no evidence against the male prisoner,
and he was discharged. The female was required to pay
£l. u s. Gd., and to redeem the articles, otherwise she should
be next day committed to goal.

BIGAMY.
A man named Prosser stood charged with having married
in April last, in this town, Peggy Neville, his first wife,
whom he had married in Waterford some years ago, being
still alive. Witnesses were produced who had been present
at the respective nuptials. The prisoner said that on the
last occasion, charged of marrying in this town, he had been
in a state of intoxication for a week, and did not know what
he was doing. He was remanded, in order that further evi-
dence might be procured.