The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-04-20 00:00:00

the local ne

(Laird), undeitlie followi

said that, on Saturday nieht, the woman of persons, it would seem that he then honoured the rem-
,v in Hope-street,and Samuel Floyd was drunk dence of a near neighbour of Mr. Gateliffe,—Mr. Middle-
And disorcerly at the same time, in company with her. brook, solicitor,—with a visit, and being similarly prompted
Mr. Jamieson—What was she doing ? as in the former case, he abstracted a pound of sugar, some
Officer.—Bawling and quarrelling about. She was currants, and other articles. He safely escaped with the
drunk. I advised them to go away, but they would not. booty until he reached Islington, where police-officer
Mr. Floyd, in reply to the charge, said that, on Satur- Yates (314) seeing him toiling under the pressure of a
day evening the female, then in the dock, who was a large hamper, humanely insisted upon him putting down
most respectable woman, working in Wolstenholme- his burthen ; and upon overhauling it, finding it to con-
square, requested him to accompany her to inquire after tain a rather incongruous variety of articles,—amongst the
some work in the neighbourhood of Hope.street. He rest those stolen from the houses of the gentlemen already-
consented ; and when they got into Dope-street, as he named,--relieved him from any further trouble, by calling
himself was not very well acquainted with the locality, he another officer to take charge of the property, and con-
suggested to Mrs. Smith that she had better make siderately accompanying Mr. Davies to the apartments of
...., Mr. Governor Parkinson, where he found am ple opportunity
of resting himself after his previous arduous labour..

was disorderl

inquiry from the police-officer. She went up to him
and asked him to direct her to the place she
wanted. The officer (520) turned round, called
her an improper name, and said, " I think it is a man
you want, and not that street." Mrs. Smith replied
that he was a nasty, dirty fellow, for using that language.
Ile (Floyd) went up, and told the officer that he thought LADY EMILY AUGUSTA FITZGERALD and her husband he was exceeding his duty, and was net justified in using have been arrested, at Dover, on a charge of swindling.
words like those to a respectable woman, and that he JENNY LIND has set apart £20,000 to found a charity
would regret having done so when lie came before Mr. school in Sweden.
Mansfield. The officer replied, " B—r you and Mr. A Mits. AUST has been fined in London £2O for giving
Mansfield ! If you speak again, I'll shove my stick false characters to servants.
down your b—y throat," and raised his stick and
pointed it close to his mouth. There were two gentle-
ROYAL MAIL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—At the
men in the middle of the street, smoking, and he meetrins of the company in London, on Thursday, a divi-
(Floyd) requested that they, would witness the pro- dend of £2 per share, free of Income-tax, was declared.
ceeding. Another police-officer (90) came up, and, after PROFESSOR WILSON has resigned the Chair of Moral
whispering with the other officer, seized him (Floyd) by the Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. The electioa
collar, took hold of his arms, and did all he could on the of his successor is fixed for the Bth of June.
way to bridewell to aggravate him to a breach of the DISCOVERY OF A NEW PLANET.—Professor de Gas-
peace : he pulled him backwards and forwards, bent his paris, of the Royal Observatory ,at Naples, announces
arms, told him to look out for his shins, and goaded him the discovery of another small planet on the evening of
in every possible way. (Floyd hero stepped forward. to March 17.
the bench, and showed an injury inflicted upon one of his
fingers by the officer.) The other officer took the woman A LUNATIC has been apprehended and placed in safe
keeping for walking about in front of Buckineham-palace
and using threatening language towards the Queen. She:
along in the same style. She requested of him not to
hurt her, cried, and implored of him to take her quietly,
had a knife concealed in her bosom.
In reference to the charge of drunkenness, Mr. Floyd
requested of the magistrate to examine the entry made Mr. FRANK FORSTER, recently the engineer to the
at Hotharn-street with that made at the Main Bridewell. Metropolis Commissioners of Sewers, died suddenly on
All that he had drank was three glasses of ale and half Tuesday. He was in the act of writing a letter when he
a glass of brandy; and the fact of his recollecting all the was struck with apoplexy, and almost immediately ex-
circumstances was a proof that he was not drunk. In Aired.
bridewell lie asked for a pencil to take the numbers of the SUPPOSED SUICIDE IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.--
officers ; the bridewell-keeper gave him one, and whilst On ,Thursday morning, the body of a young man was
he was in the act of doing so. police-officer 90 (who did taken out of the ornamental water in Kensington Gar-
not appear in court) asked him what he was doing. He dens. No papers were found upon him, but his linen was
said he was making a memorandum of his own, when the marked W. Johnson.
officer made a spring at him, caught him by the throat, A 'WHEELWRIGHT OF HUDDERSFIELD has emulated-
and thrust him to the wall. He (Floyd) had been kept
gleratiovelgewtaigtgo.o_uwnte'T;ighiheni a chamber over
Robinson Crusoe's construction of a canoe without con-
in bridewell until last (Sunday) night, as his bail was not sidoration of how he was to get into the sea. The wheel-
innNg izsaenlyenh has
solenahne-
town. During the process of taking them to bridewell,
hiswri gsilli to
ph,asbubtuiisl t unable a‘b‘
the officers used the most degrading and abominable
RIVALbu ed a
largeT o TtrtoeugKho 1t r
diamond,- Noou
language. What he (Floyd) had said was a plain state-
ment of the case, which he was ready to verify on oath.
towards Mr. Floyd then called two men who were being brought
.
- towards the payment of his debt to the East India Gorn-
to bridewell at the time the charge was being taken against
pang. Taken in round numbers it weighs 400 carats, and
him to bear out his statement relative to Officer 90.
Police-Sergeant Lewis, the bridewell-keeper at Hotham-
is the largest diamond next to the Brazil diamond.
street, stated that Floyd was drunk, throwing himself EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—On Saturday, the 3rd, as
about in all directions, and making a kind of a rescue. woman named Cross, residing in Wooton-Fitzpaine, Dor-
Mr. Floyd.—A rescue in the st dion-house from the setshire, was safely delivered of three promising daughters,
officer; I hope you (Mr. Mansfield) will notice that, sir. who, with herself, have been doing well since. The in-
Market Constable No. 6, who was in the bridewell at fants have been baptised Faith, Hope, and:Charity.
the time, " booking" two prisoners. He said he saw no THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—Messrs. Fox and Henderson violence used towards Floyd. Floyd was a little excited, have given public notice that, in consequence of a comma-
but there was no such disturbance as induced him to notice nication from the office of her Majesty's Works and Build-
it, having at the time his own prisoner in charge. As to ings, the Exhibition building can no longer be thrown
being pushed, he saw nothing of the kind. open to the public by the contractors.
Mr. Floyd.—Probably not; you had your own prisoners
MELANCHOLY RESULTS OF PASSION.—On Monday
to attend to.
morning last, Mr. G. Collard. of Elverton farm, had beers
Mary Smith (the woman in charge), stated that she engaged in a somewhat angry altercation with one_ of his
asked the officer to direct her to No. 30, Hope-street, tenants on the grounds near his residence, and the parties
and he said, " Hope .street :it is not Hope-street not had separated only a few paces when Mr. C. fell, and al-
want—you want a man." She told him that she did not most instantly expired.--Dover Telegraph.
understand him, and he repeated the words.
Officer 520.-1 said it was farther on, and they then THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY have just corn-
began to abuse me.
pleted their through range of wire (118 miles) from Lon-
Mr. Mansfield.—lf you made use of that language to don to Bristol. Several hundred men are now employed
her, there is no abuse that you did not deserve. upon the link remaining to be completed between Bristol
and Exeter, of about 73 miles, and which it is expected
Mrs. Smith continued to state that she told the officer
that he was a bad man to use such language. The person will be finished by June.
she was going to see was a Miss Whaley, a respectable HULL ELECTION.—A rumour has reached us that
young woman, who had engaged her to do some work. several gentlemen who are known as taking deep interest
The person with whom Smith lodged stated that she in the success of the liberal cause in the borough, have it
had lived with her for three years, and she was a very in contemplation to invite Viscount Goderich, the eldest
respectable young woman. son of the Earl of Ripon, to offer himself as a candidate
Mr. Floyd.-1 lodged with her for five years, along with 'at the ensuing election.—Eastern Counties Herald.
my wife, and lam now a housekeeper in Circus-street. THREE HUNDRED MORE ATTORNEYS.-011 Friday the,
Mr. Mansfield.—l think in this case there has been customary notices required by the statute from persons
decidedly some misconduct on the part of the police- seeking to be admitted attorneys were given in the Court
officers,—to what extent I shall not decide. It is a pro- of Queen's Bench :—To be admitted in the present Easter
per charge to entertain, and will be inquired into by the 'Term 172, and in the ensuing Trinity Term 156; making.
Head Constable and the Watch Committee. The prisoners with 29 who have applied to he re-admitted, a total of 356:
must be discharged.
THE POLICE AND THE ORANGE VENDERS. A GIRL NAMED HAWKINS was working near a place
Mr. Feeney, of the Merchants' Dining Rooms, the where some stubble was burning in a field at Gorefield
Green, near Wisbech, a few days since, when a spark was
originator of the humane agitation now going forward on
behalf of the itinerant street venders of fruit, &c., came blown upon her dress, which immediately caught firo, and
before the court to make a complaint against a police before the flames could be extinguished, she was sok
officer for unjustifiably taking into custody a boy named severely burned as to leave no hopes of her recovery.
Patrick Kelly, on Saturday afternoon, who was vending VCECUTION OF KEENE, THE MURDERER,—On Tues-
oranges in Tithebarn-street. day morning, John Keene, a labourer, aged twenty, was
Mr. Mansfield and Mr, Jamieson submitted whether, executed in front of liorsemonger-lane gaol, for the mur-
as there was no charge of assault involved, it would not dor of the child of his wife by dropping it down a well. A.
be the better course to pursue, to take the case before the vast crowd assembled to witness the ceremony. The ipett
Head Constable and the Watch Cominittee. made no confession.
Mr. Feeney assented, consequently the particulars of RAFFLE OF A SAINT.—The brothers of Mount St. Berms
the case did not publicly transpire ; but we understand nerd's. in Leicestershire, have the picture of a saint toe
them to be these :—About four o'clock on Saturday after. raffia for the benefit of their establishment, and nothing
can be more alluring than their appeal to the gambling
noon the boy was standing with a basket of oranges in
Tithebarn-street, when Police-officer 87 went up to him, piety of their patrons:—" The holy sacrifice of the mass.
and said " I'll knock your b—dy head off if you don't is offered up every Thursday; the litany of the blessed
oh had
ooßf
D._..... big.
A Dolman,melancholy
ewe:
go out of this street." He (the officer) took the boy to Virgin said every morning for all benefactors living or
bridewell, but having no information against him furtheruter deßado:TanAdctei:DkEeNtsTcNanE-Abße
than ell,
bet would not go out of the street when
dgievnet,dautetennodteifidcwatiitohntthoe tll:essfoorfttuwnoatleivweisnnoecrconufertarhredoesoza7iont!dite:
do so, the charge was refused.
Mr. Feeney wished to say a few words to the court,
with the view of ascertaining whether a certain class of
night of Good Friday, in Sandford Pound, poor persons would be allowed to earn a livelihood by
Five young men (drapers' assistants), in the afternoon of
vending fruit and other articles in the street so long as
that day, engaged a two-oared pleasure boat, and went
they behaved themselves properly. The police-officers
traced their authority to their inspectors, and no furth down the river as far as Nuneham. On their return.
er home, the boat upset, and two of the party, named
grave.
and where they met a poor woman, with a basket /in the
street, to please the officers, she must go back again, and Perrot and Moysey, met with a watery
these people were thus driven about out of one street into AN INQUISITION has been sitting at Seaton, Devon,
another, and prevented from making an honest livelihood. before E. Winslow, Esq., one of the commissioners of
Mr. Mansfield said the officers had no business to drive lunacy. to inquire into the sanity of the Rev. Sims Sta..
them at all, unless they were obstructing the street. The combo Richards, a gentleman of considerable property,
matter was a very proper subject to be brought before the for the last fifteen years a resident at that quiet
court, more especially as the head-constable was then watering place. After a patient investigation, a jury of
sitting beside him. At the same time, lie must observe, twenty-two unanimously declared that the reverend gen-
that some of these persons—the chip-girls especially— tleman had been incapable of managing his affairs since
were sometimes extremely insolent ; for, but the other 1825.
night, an officer had to be called to remove one of them A HEARTLESS SOLDIER.—William Butler, a private
from his own door.
soldier of the 83rd, has rendered himself infamous by
In reply to a remark from Mr. Feeney, that the officers having contracted a mock marriage at Gillingham Church,
were in the habit, in nine cases out of, ten, of pushing in September, 1850, with a young Irish girl of respectable
parties with their sticks, Mr. Mansfield observed, that birth and habits, whom, after the birth of a child, he hag
neither hand nor stick ought to be used by an officer, except now discarded, 'and left to starve. When the Queen to defend himself in the execution of his duty. visited Liverpool, Butler was here on a recruiting party,
Mr. Feeney said the declaration of the magistrate together with his wife. A strict investigation is being
would serve the object which he had in view, which was made by the authorities into this case.
to prevent poor vendors of fruit, &c. being persecuted and
HORRIBLE MURDER AND SUlClDE.—Agardener,named
ill-used by police-officers.
Dawes, at Lynn, who has been in a low state of mind for
It was understood that the subject will be brought some time past, on Saturday week cut the throats of his
before the consideration of the Watch Committee.
wife and child, a boy of seven ears of and there INTERRUPTING THE POLICE IN THE EXECUTION OF y age, drowned himself in a river hard by his cottage. The mar-
THEIR DUTY.—Patrick Kelly, an Irishman, was charged der was only discovered on some men taking home the
with having interrupted police officers 260 and 104, whilst corpse of the murderer, which they had found in the-
taking two boys to bridewell, on the previous day, for
throwing stones. The prisoner used most abusive lan- stream. A jury returned a verdict of wilful murder in re-
gard to the
guage to the officers, and at one of them threw a large far as the suicide.woman and child, and temporary insanity as
stone. A fine of 10s. and costs, and in default fourteen
days' imprisonment, was imposed. A SURGEON SENTENCED TO TRANSPORTATION.—Mr.
A NOTORIOUS CRACKSMAN.—A well-known house. William Hamlyn Pascoe, a surgeon or "village apotbe-
breaker, named William Martin, (but who, on this cary," as his counsel apologetically called him, of Cuth-
occasion, assumed the richer appellation of Marrow,) was bert, near Truro, has been convicted at Bodmin, of admi-
placed in the dock under the following circumstances : nistering a drug to Miss Catherine Nicholls, daughterthet
Detective officer Povey stated, that about half-past six of a saddler, causing a miscarriage.
. The sentence. was
did
culprit'sfirstoffence, not think this was the and guilt
walking together in Upper Mill-street, when they met
more aggravated it was difficult to conceive. The verdict
o'clock on the previous night, he and officer Russell were years' transportation,
. Justice Erie remarking that he dul.
the prisoner, and knowing him to be a professional
character, and suspecting that he was then actually on and sentence came upon the prisoner like a thunderbolt.
" business," they " turned him up," and found upon him EXECUTION OF ABEL Ovezes.—On Friday the convict
fifteen skeleton keys, a " jemmie," and other instruments Abel Ovens underwent the extreme penalty of the law its
used in housebreaking. They took the prisoner to bride- front of Monmouth county gaol for the murder of his We-
well. They then went and examined two houses which Eitimate child, by drowning it in a stream of water at
had been broken open—the one on Good Friday, and the Newport- The prisoner was tried before Mr. Justice
other on Sunday week. Amongst the keys found on the Wightman at the last Monmouth assizes with a woumut
prisoner, was one which opened the door of Mr. John- named Sarah Dove. the mother of the child, who also was
Wn, in Almond-street, and that of Captain Locke, in foundguilty,but reprieved three days before that appointed_
indsor-street, from both of which houses large quantities for her execution. It is, however, still uncertain whether
of property lied been stolen. The marks found on desks she will not be executed also ; for, according to the state-
and drawers which had been broken open, exactly cor- ment of Ovens, it was she who stripped the child of its
responded with the " jeromie" found upon the prisoner. clothes and threw it into the water.
A witness was called, who deposed to having seen the EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT COLNEY-HATCH RAIL
•
prisoner coming out of Mr. Johnson's house on the WAY HOTEL.—A singular scene of riot and confusion
evening of Sunday week.—Mr. Johnson stated that, on occurred at this village on Monday, on the opening of the
returning home from church, with his wife, on Sunday Railway
evening week, he found that his house had been feloniously Hotel, by Mr. Davis, on which occasion a gene-
ral feast was to have been given to the inhabitants, in the
entered—that every desk and drawer in the house had
old Homeric style. of roasting a whole sheep and an en-
been forced open, and a gold pin, some brooches, a pair tire ox ! As soon as the feast was ready end the guests
of gold ear-rings, a bracelet, and other property stolen.—
prepared, a strong party of excavators, mustering betweenarba'
Police-officer Russell " scientifically" explained the uses
and purposes of the different implements which had been from the railway works, and, is
ounced upon the roaster!
- all before them. em. The
found upon the prisoner, and which were now produced cattle, carrying riot and devastation the
in court.—The prisoner was placed under a general disjointed roasted ox was seized,.s booths Upset, and a
remand, to enable the police to make further inquiries. thirty and forty, rushed like a " band of fierce barbarians"
universal melee commenced. A there_ was but one police-
"HEßE'S A PRETTY SET OF US," NICR OLD RASCALS. man at the station the excavators had it all their own way,
and made a regular clearance of the viands and other good
Sco tmostt) introduceddistinguished to theper
personages
onnontgi notice
at
tf
court, two of whom had had the honour of appearing in,
t—he Police
DROWNING OF Two DRAGOONS, AND DEATH OF ONE
and the good fortune of escaping out of, the celebrated
magistratesoffi cer 4tsh2ree(
OF THEIR SWEETHEARTS.—On Tuesday evening Mr..
chase arising out of the late suburban burglaries, effect Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the London Apprentice,
by means of cutting circular pieces from house doors, In. Isleworth, on view of the bodies of Charles Irvine, aged
which a notorious fellow named Mutch, and others, were 22, and Hardy Moorhouse, aged 23, two privates of thou transported. The names of the prisoners_uar .
y.A.-"e7 4th Light Dragoons, quartered at Hampton Court, who
Dougherty, Ellen Murray, and Mery Potiing
alio4 were drowned opposite Isleworth Church, on Sunday weeks, officer stated that he fell in with them whilst
Hewed gthem into in consequence of the upsetting of a pleasure-boat. Evi-
London-road, and knowing them,
efro
who, no doubt, deuce having been heard, the coroner summed up, and the
Shaw-street, where the male pisrisfoe ,
nmale companions of cheer.
jury returned a verdict of—Accidental Deaf b.—At the
had scented him, signalled i
i nidkerchief. The whole trio close of the inquest the coroner was informed that Mary
danger, by waving a white la
but he seized Dougherty, Love, the (laughter of the summoning officer, to whom.
make
off;
news of his
were then about to
who took charge of the ladies Irvine was betrothed, was so affected by the . .
and called another officer,
A ' down to bridewell. Ir. Mans- death, that, being of a naturally delicate
sunk constitution, Pi
and they escorted them
...
that she and
d the officer upon his promptitude and was so overwhelmed with grief
field complimente
• lie had discharged hi. .1- -
Parkinson the way in which
nee.. .e.
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