The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-05 00:00:00

A woman named Bridget

nous tradespeople with swim
false pretences. A number of witnesses were called, all
of whom had been sufferers by her swindling propensities.
She was committed for trial. •

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RECEIVING A STOLEN BOOK.—On Saturday, a police,
man, of the name of William :SmithSon, No. 488, was
brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of havin

ceived a book, knowing it to be stolen

The book ,i;

small one, and was very similar to a lot of books which

Krtipe,

's
-street, has on

)p counter

of it by way of aChristmas box; and that he was alto-

) at the same time, admitted that he had stolen it

'Wanted to have it inferred that he was not accountable
for his actions itasmuch as he had been twice confined in
a lunatic asylum. The policeman, as well as the sailor,

ROBBERY.—On Thursday, Henry Lafan, a young mai
of highly respectable appearance, and of prepossessin;
countenance, was brought before Mr. Rushton, on
charge of robbery. On Monday night he went into th
Monuments Tavern, London-road, and called for ale. H

it off for that purpose. On his return, he discovered that
the young man had gone, and shortly afterwards that the
till had been emptied of all the silver taken that day, ex-
cepting 4s. 10d. As the house had been very throng, the
sum must have been considerable, but its precise amount

a.cerLaineu. .nvatence was called b
an alibi but it was not satisfactorily established. 1
committed for trial.
INFORMATION UNDER THE BUILDING ACT

-.o prove
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Wecint,
Colthurst
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ing, as required by the pro

an Int-m.lllMA°'
nd Mark row

as heard

iving the usual

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ions of the Health Act

defendants did not appear. .Rushton, the Town
SurVeyor, stated that defendants had commenced building
-a church on the east side of Great Homer-street, for
Messrs. Horsfall, and without giving notice of their in-
tention to do so. The walls were improperly built, and
he had given the defendants notice to take them down,
and they were doing so. The defendants had told him
(the surveyor) that they were ignOrant of any notice
being required, and were taking down the-walls in order
that they might be rebuilt in conformity with the require-
ments of the act. . The defendants were convicted in the
penalty of 40s. and costs.
AWKWARD MISTAKE OF IDENTITY.—On Tuesday,
Charles P. Elsby, one of the late worthy officers of the
Highway Board, was summoned before Mr. Rushton,
charged with breaking windows, and other disorderly con-
duct. Mrs. Martha Hill, who lives in the neighbourhood
of Rose-hill, stated that on the night of Monday, the 14th
December, the defendant came to her house, between ten
and eleven o'clock, and demanded-the door to be opened.
She requested to know his business; but instead of de-
claring it, be broke two panes in • the parlour window.
He went round to the garden and broke four more, and
then said he had called for £4 taxes. Mr. Elsby totally
denied the charge. He said that at the time alleged he
was present at a meeting of the " First St. Stephen's
'routine Society," of which he was president for the time
being, and remained in the chair from eight to half-past
eleven o'clock. The complainant said it was nine o'clock
when he first came. She gave him in charge of a police-
man, and he was taken to the station-house in Rose-hill,
where he gave his name as Charles Hodgson. The bride-
well-keeper said-he remembered a policeman bringing a
man there at the time stated, for a disturbance at the
complainant's house, but the defendant was certainly not
him. Mr. Forsyth, the police inspector, said the com-
plainant frequently made charges against persons going
to her house, saying they. were calling for taxes ; the pro-
perty was in dispute, and the door was generally kept
locked. It was clear the complainant had 'mistaken the
offender's identity, aud. the eaae was dismissed.