The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-FRIDAY.

AUDACIOUS THEFT.
David Browick was charged with having in broad day
snatched a watch from the fob, of the Rev. Mr. Cardwell, Of
St, Paul's Church. The Rey. gentleman said, that he re-
sided at No. 74, Rodney-street, and that about four o'clock
on Saturday afternoon, while he was walking from his
house towards Leece-street, a man passed him. The man
immediately turned round, and seized the chain of his (Mr.
C.'s) watch, and drew it from the fob. The prisoner rdn to-
wards the Mount, and Mr. C. pursued him, calling " po-
lice," and " stop thief." The prisoner was stopped near
the end of Mount-street, and the witness on going up to him,
said, " Give me my watch, you • scoundrel." The prisoner
handed him the watch. Constable Wm. Lancaster came up
and took the prisoner into custody. Mr. Cardwell expres-
sed a wish that the prisoner might be dealt with in a sum-
mary manner; but Mr. Rushton finding by inquiry, that the
prisoner was of a bad character, and considering, moreover,
that the offence was most daring, said that he could not with
a dne regard to the ends of justice concur in the recommen-
dation, and ordered the informations to be taken. The pri-
i soner was accordingly committed for trial.

TUESDAY.
'SALTING AN OFFICER.
An officer of police (N 0.64) complained against two brawny-
shouldered individuals, that, on Monday last, they had
'• 'salted" him, as he expressed it, in Pownall-square market.
It may -be that.the officer has newly entered the force; if so,
he is what the Oxonians are in the habit of denominating a
freshman ; and the pickle into which he got is the less extra-
ordinary. One of the prisoners, Henry Smith, is a brewer's
drayman, and, as is usual with men in that capacity, a stal-
wart, broad-shouldered, well-fed individual. No class of the
community hold the rule of analogy expressed by the learned
lexicographer in higher repute than brewers. They seem to
hold it as an axiom, that he
" Who drives fat horses should himself be fat."

Thomas White, the other prisoner, was also a man of large
dimensions, and proportionate muscles and sinews. •
The officer stated, that Smith was making a noise in Pow-
nall-square Market, and " blowing up" an old woman about
the price of potatoes, when he interfered, and "ordered
him to keep order." The brewer's drayman minded not his
commands a rush, but continued to " blow up" till the officer
told him, that if he did not hold his peace he would remove
him. This the drayman regarded as an utter impossibility,
and he treated it accordingly. The policeman did not feel
inclined to have his authority set at nought. He therefore
seized the drayman, and threatened to lock him up. Smith
made what, in slang phraseology, is called " small beer" of
his antagonist, and shook him off as if neither the law nor its
retainers had any terror for him. Number Sixty-four was
was not to be trifled with however, so he procured the assist-
ance of two of his brethren, and they took Mr. Smith into
custody. Full soon they had to deal with another antagonist ;
for, according to the account of Number Sixty-four, the pri-
soner White rushed forward, hot him (64) on the head, and
attempted to ris-skew Mr.* Smith. They succeeded, how-
ever, in getting the lattCr to the lock-up, where Mr. White
began to knock Violently at the door, and to behave other-
wise so disorderly, that it was deemed advisable to domicile
him with the individual on whose behalf his chivaltic spirit
had been excited.
Mr. Smith, the drayman, said, he had committed no offence
whatever. All he did was to go into the market and inquire
from an old woman the price of potatoes. She told him
threepence halfpenny a score. Upon this he bought a score,
and the old woman poured them into his brat. When he was
about to pay her, she told him that was not enough, and re-
fused to let him have them at the price named. He threw
them back to her, and went away, but he afterwards returned
in order to ascertain, if possible, what price she bad been
selling her potatoes. He blowedher up, he said, for her un-
proper conduct, but he did not see what right the officer had
to interfere. " I never 'salted the officer," said he, " bud
the officer 'salted me moor till once, an' all 'cos I axed the
price o' taties."
The prisoner White had no excuse to offer. He seemed to
think that he had acted very correctly in interfering when
three officers were taking one man, and in compliance with
the old English usage of fair play to the weaker side, which
was in this case somewhat dubious, he had at once espoused
the part of the drayman, to whom, it appeared, he was a total
strangers. Both prisoners, it was stated, were under the in-
fluence of liquor.
Henry Smith was fined 10s. and costs. Mr. Rushton ex-
horted White.to be more prudent in future, as he had ren-
dered himself liable to a fine of five pounds. He was fined
ss. and costs.