The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-16 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.

ATTEMPTED GAROTTE ROBBERY.-OTI Friday, two
rough fellows, named M'Shane and Hart, were committed
to gaol for three months, for an attempt to rob Mr. John
Holt, on Thursday night, about twelve o'clock. Whilst
near to his own house, in Eldon-place, the prisoners
seized the complainant and nearly throttled him. Some
persons coming up, they ran away, but were subsequently
apprehended.

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CAPTURE OF AN OLD OFFENDER.--Mary Kearns, the
woman who has so long been victimising the public of
Liverpool, by sending respectable children, whom she
met in the streets, to borrow money from friends or re-
latives, by pretending that their parents had sent her to
tell them to do so, and who last week defreuded Mr.
Kirkham, of West Derby, by sending a little girl, Oe
niece of Mr. Carter, of Redcross.street, to borrow £5
from him, was brought up before Mr. Mansfield on Wed-
nesday, and committed for trial. She was arrested in
Finch-court, Finch-street, by officer Tuck, who had been
long in search of her, and who stated that she had been
previously committed to Knutsford, and that he found
many pawntickets on her.

RIOT IN WEST DERBY WORKHOUSE.—On Wednesday,
three men, named Cross, Ireland, and Maybrick, were
brought un, charged with assaulting one of the officers of
the West Derby Union Workhouse. The prisoner Cross
had refused to work, upon which he was placed in the
refractory cell ; and when the officer took him his supper,
which consisted of hot porridge, he threw it in his face.
Subsequently he tried to escape, but the officer took him
into custody, when several of the other paupers made an
attack upon him, and attempted to rescue the prisoner.
Two of them, Ireland and Maybrick, who made themselves
most conspicuous--Ireland having brandished a stone-
hammer—were taken into custody. Cross and Ireland
were ordered to pay a fine of £5, or be imprisoned for two
months ; and Maybrick was sent to gaol for 21 days.
UNWHOLESOME FISH.—On Tuesday, John Guthrie,
fishmonger, St. John's Market, was fined ss. for exposing
for sale 541bs. of unwholesome salmon and trout.
SINGULAR CHARGE OF BREAKING OPEN A CASH-
DRAWER.—On Tuesday, a respectable-looking man,
named James Croft, was charged with breaking open a
cash-drawer. belonging to Mr. James Barton, licensed
victualler, Edmund-street. Mr. Barton stated that the
prisoner was his barman, and resided in the house. The
drawer in question was one in which he occasionally kept
cash and books, and he had a private key to it ; but a per-
son had been employed by the prisoner to lift the counter
ton off, remove the lock, and get a new one made for it.
He left money in the drawer, but he did not miss any.
The prisoner's defence was, that there had been an inquiry
as to what the receipts were between the time that the
house was under his management and the one who had
preceded him. He knew that a memorandum book in
the drawer would show what was the fact, and hence had
it opened. Mr. Mansfi4:l said it was certainly improper
to open the drawer; but he did not think there was a
shadow of felony against him.

YESTERDAY.
SYSTEMATIC POCKET-PICKING.—A well-dressed and
respectable-looking woman, named Ann Daly, with an
infant in her arms, and her daughter, Maria Daly, not
more than eight or nine years of age, were charged with
pocket-picking under the following circumstances. Mrs.
Catherine Sanderson, wife of Mr. John Sanderson, up-
holsterer, 4, Adelaide-buildings, Renshaw-street, stated
that on Saturday afternoon, about two o'clock, the pri-
soners walked into the shop, and the elder one first asked
the price of some pillows and then of some cushions, but
she only offered one-half of the sum at which they were
sold. In the course of their waiting, the prosecutrix had
occasion to go to the end of the shop, which is very narrow
at that part, whither she was followed by the accused, and
whilst the mother kept her in conversation she noticed
that the girl pressed continually against her person. After
they had gone from the shop, Mrs. Sanderson missed her
purse, which she had known to be safe a few minutes be-
fore, containing 13s. 61 in silver, and a counterfeit six-
penny piece, which she could swear to by certain marks
pieced on it. The servant' girl was sent after the pri-
soners, who returned with her when they had been threat-
ened with apprehension by the police. On the mother
Be. 4d. was found, and the counterfeit sixpence was picked
up at her feet.—The prisoners made no defence, and were
committed for trial at the next sessions.
ASSAULT AND ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.—Two well-
known characters, Thomas Anderson and John Clare,
with a female named Mary Ann Clare, were apprehended
by the police on Saturday night, for a violent assault on a
labouring man, and an attempt to rob him. It was
proved that the prosecutor had been severely ill-treated ;
and, had it not been for the timely interference of two of
the landing-stage police, who were passing along Tithe-
barn-street at the time, there was little doubt but that he
would have been plundered. They were ordered to pay
20s. each, and costs, or be committed for 21 days.
ROBBING AN INFANT.---A lad, not more than seven or
eight years of age, was seen on Sunday night last to lead
a little girl, that had strayed from its parents, into an
entry, and afterwards strip the child of its pinafore, with
which he tried to make off, but was apprehended by a
person who had watched his proceedings. He was re-
manded, to allow time for making enquiries respecting
his friends.

BEGGING IMPOSTORS.—Yesterday the attention of the
court was occupied for a very considerable time in dis-
posing of a great number of cases in which parties were
charged with begging by the police. Amongst the accused
were included an old man, said to be 112 years of age.
tottering from infirmity, and several young boys and girls
whom their parents are in the regular habit of sending
out to beg. There were also a dumb woman, and many
other pitiable objects afflicted with almost every suffering
to which humanity is liable. In dealing with the cases
the stipendiary magistrate discharged many, passed others
to Ireland, committed the well-known impostors to prison
for various terms of imprisonment, and directed the
attention of the parochial authorities to be given to seve-
ral cases where want and destitution were alleged as the
real cause of begging in the public streets.
ANOTHER CHARGE OF POCKET-PICKING.—In the
course of examination of prisoners, in the magistrates'
private room yesterday, a boy, connected with a gang of
pick-pockets, was charged with stealing a handkerchief
from the person of Mr. Owen Hughes, a joiner, living in
Brownlow-bill, as he was leaving the Baptist Chapel, in
Great Crosshall-street, on Sunday evening last. The
prisoner was seen to commit the offence, and being in-
stantly apprehended was sent for trial at the next session?.
ALLEGED CASE OF DESTITUTION.—O❑ Saturday last,
a young girl named Mary Woods was apprehended by a
policeman with a dress in her possession, which she said
belonged to her sister. She mentioned to the court yes-
terday, that she had only arrived in Liverpool from Sut-
ton last week, that her parents were dead, and that
she had no means of subsistence. There was no
person present to prefer any charge, and the girl was
liberated, with the intimation that the dress would be
given up on the sister corning forward to corroborate her
statement.
FAMILY QUARRELS.—A baker tarrying on business in
Milk-street and Park-lane, of the name of John Fenwick,
charged his son with stealing a watch, and with using
threatening language towards him. He said the watch
had been his property for 18 or 19 years, and he believed
he had won it at a raffle. The wife of Fenwick, who had
recently prosecuted her husband to conviction for threat-
ening her life, stated that the watch, which was formerly
her father's, had been given by her to her son, the de-
fendant, some time since, and he had paid the repairing
of it repeatedly. She was not now able to live with her
husband on account of his conduct, and had recently pur-
chased her son the clothes he wore. The son, a respect-
able-looking young man, denied ever using any abusive
language to his parent, and remarked that he had been
only withheld from resenting his repeated attacks by a
sense of duty to him as his father. The magistrates said
there was no pretence for the charge, and at once dis.
missed the case.

ST. HELENS.

Mr. William Eckersley has been elected commissioner
in the place of Robert Daglish, Esq., resiened.
On Thursday morning, James Moseley, a labourer,
whilst excavating clay for brick, on some land near St.
Helen's, a portion of earth gave way and fell upon him,
by which one of his thighs was broken, and causing other
injuries. He was conveyed to the Liverpool Infirmary.
The petty sessions were held on Tuesday, before Thos.
Rodick, Esq., chairman, T. W. Rathbone, Esq., Z. Siliar,
Esq., M.D., T. T. Parker, Esq., and Sir John Gerard,
Bart. Edward Fox and Edward Charlson were appre-
hended under a bench warrant, charging them with using
a dwelling-house, the same not being built in conformity
with the St. Helen's Improvement Act for 1851. They
were ordered to find sureties, themselves in £4O each, and
four sureties in £2O each, to appear and answer the charge
at the next Kirkdale sessions. The other cases were
unimportant.