The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-11 00:00:00

FALSE CHARGE OF-ROBBERY

A cyprian wa:s next brought up,• charged with robbing a
gentleman in Lord-street, the eveningbefore, of a purse con-
taining eight soverigns.
The gentleman said he had committed a great mistake,
for although he gave the girl in charge for robbinghim of the
money, he still found he had it in his possession, though
without his knowledge, all the time.
Mr. Rushton inquired whether he was sober when he had
given her in charge, to which Ire replied in the affirmative.
One of the bridewell watchmen proved the contrary, and
said he was drunk.

Mr. Rushton said that he ought to be ashamed of himself ;
that he got intoxicated, charged a girl with robbing him, put
her into prison, and then finds the money in his own pocket.
He would now discharge the girl, and at the same time advise
her accuser to make her some compensation, for should she
commence an action against him for false imprisonment, he
would find himself rather awkwardly situated.
The gentleman promised to compensate her, and retired.
FELONY.

Patrick Campbell, a labourer, was fined 50s and costs, for
stealing a quantity of sandstone, in Smithdown-lane, from the
highways, in the township of West Derby.

SMUGGLIIVG.
Two men of colour, belonging to the' sliip City of Poonab,
were ordered to 'be imprisoned three days, for conveying on
shore a bottle of wine and two bottles of ale.

EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE.
A woman named Mary Taylor charged her husband with
maltreating and knocking her down in the street three seve-
ral times the evening before.
The husband in his defenee said that his wife was con-
stantly in the habit of folloWing him from place to place, and
that she exasperated him to such a degree on this occasion,
that he found it impossible•to'keep.hiL hands off her. -
Mr. Ruslitori-inquired Whether they ever had any children ?
, Mr. Taylor replied in the affirmative. They had had two,
but he had taken one away and put it out to nurse. He said
that his reason for taking the child away from his mother was
because she was not able to take care of it. He added that it
had not been long since one of their children died, and that
he believed it had been smothered by its mother, for she was
drunk on the nights of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and
the child died on Tuesday:

Mr. Rushton thought, from the hostile feelings they had
evinced towards each other, that it was impossible for them
to live together.

The prisoner said he was " blowed if he'd live with her."
(A laugh.)

The prisoner's employer gave him an excellent character,
and said that although he had been a year and some months
in his einplovinent, he had never yet seen him intoxicated.
Mr. Rushton desired the complainant to go and agree with
her husband; and to be civil and obedient to him, for that he
(the magistrate) would not interfere between them.

YESTERDAY.
SMUGGLING TOBACCO

John Smith, a poor old negro, who had been remanded
from Monday last, was finally placed at the bar, on a charge
of smuggling from the ship Dahlia about seven pounds weight
of negro-head and Cavendish tobacco, of foreign manufacture.
The case was clearly proved against the prisoner, who said he
had brought it for his own use, and not for sale. He expressed
his anxiety "to get clear of it." Mr. Rushton said he wished
he could ; but the laws against smuggling were very severe,
and he had no power to mitigate the penalty, which was £lOO,
or six months' imprisonment. He should impose the fine,
so that he might memorialize the Commissioners of Excise,
as

the presetit was a first conviction. The magistrate then
communicated with Mr. Brook, who appeared as solicitor for
the Customs, and that gentleman stated that he should re-
present the case in the proper quarter in as favourable a
manner as the circumstances would permit, the prisoner
being an illiterate man, apparently ignorant of the law, and
nothing being previously known against him.