The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-04 00:00:00

POLICE INFRLLIGENCE.

PRESENTING A PISTOL TO OBTAIN ADMISSION AT THII
THEATRE-ROYAL.-At the Police-office, on Friday, a re-
spectably-dressed young man, named Thomas Richardson.
was brought before Mr. Hall on the following charge:—The
prisoner, it appeared, presented himself on the preceding
evening, about half-past nine, at the pit of the Theatre-
Royal, accompanied by a female, and tendered five shillings
for admission. The money-taker, observing the female to
be one of depraved character, very properly refused, in,con-
formity with the arrangements of the establishment, to admit
her into the pit, at the same time directing the attention of
the prisoner to a part of the house appropriated to the recep-
tion of the frail sisterhood. The prisoner Was in a state crf
intoxication, and insisted upon being admitted into the pi
together with his companion. Finding that he could not
effect his object, he became exceedingly violent, and left the
house in a high state of excitement. In about half an hour
he returned, having in the meantime provided himself with
an auxiliary which he fancied would effectually accomplish
his purpose—to wit a large rifle pistol. He again demanded
admission, and was again refused, upon which he immedi-
ately drew the pistol from his pocket, and levelled it at the
bead of the obstinate money-taker. The checque-taker, ob-
serving his movements, came suddenly behind, and wrested
the formidable weapon out of his hand. He was immediately
given into custody. The pistol was not loaded. The prisoner,
through his attorney, Mr. Davenport, expressed contrition
for his folly, adding that he had just arrived in town from
Sheffield, where he is employed as a commercial traveller.
Mr. Hall commented on the disgraceful exhibition which he
bad made, and the correctness of the Theatre-Royal main•
gers in preventing the intrusion of improper characters among
the respectable portion of the auditory. The prisoner ap-
peared sensible of his degradation. He was fined 5s for being
drunk, which he immediately paid, and, bowing respectfully
to the bench, left the court.

INFORMATION UNDER THE BUILDING ACT.—On Friday
at the Police-office, Mr. Roberts, builder, was summoned be-
fore the magisttates on the information of Mr. Rushton, the

surveyor, for not putting limbers of proper strength into a .
house he was building. Mr. Rushton stated, that the de-
fendant
was building some houses at Toxteth Park, and he

was not putting in the timber of the proper size and strength
according to the 19th section of the act, but had got smaller
timbers and had nailed pieces to the side to make them of the
size required. Mr. Woods, the surveyor, corroborated the
information. The defendant said he was of opinion that the
timbers were stronger than required • and there were other
houses in the same street which had been allowed to have

the timbers patched up in the same manner. Mr. Rushton
said he had examined those houses, and they weae nothing
at all of the sort. The defendant was one of those builders

in the Park who was building to sell, and he assured the
magistrates he had a great deal of trouble with him. The
defendant repeated, that others were permitted to build as he
had done, and he thought he had as much right as any one
to build so. Mr. Rushton explained, that about eight
months ago, a Mr. Hughes had one joist in a building barely
tbe required size, and on his complaining of it, Mr. Hughes
said, the fault was so very trifling, he hoped nailing a piece
on would remedy it. This had been done, and the joist was
now stronger than was required: but that was quite a differ-
ent case to the defendant's, he had six or seven joists, all
greatly too slender, and in order to patch them up to the re-
quired bulk he had nailed pieces of wood on both sides; and
they were now very far from being of the required strength.
Mr. Hall said the offences of others had nothing to do with
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the defendant's guilt; but it was right to inquii-e into what
he had stated. There was nothing he hated so much as par-
tiality. In future, be hoped the surveyor would make every
person conform strictly as the act required. The surveyor
said be should like the houses to be examined, for the defend-

ant was asserting nothing but falsehoods. He had told him
he must alter the joists, and he (defendant) had set him at
defiance. Mr. Hall : " Well, are you willing to alter it?"
Defendant: "Oh yes, if I must alter it." Mr. Hall : "You
must alter it. How long will it take you to alter it?" De-
fendant: "Two or three days." Mr. Hall: "We adjudge
it to be a nuisance and we allow you 7 days to alter it in. If •
it is not altered in that time it must be pulled down."
COMICALITIES OF THE POLICE COURT.—A female appeared
to complain against certain parties who had beaten her and

rolled her in the mud. In allusion to a young girl, one of
the defendants, she said, ." She was so 'aspirated that ske
threw a handful of slush at me,"—pointing to a bruiseon her
face—" this is the way they served me this morning, and
yesterday they came and attacked me the second time."—
Stevenson, a very active police-officer, complaining against
a man who resided in a cellar, where he harboured a number
of notoriously bad lads, said, "He keeps a cellar for the ex-
ception of thieves."—l"olice-officer No. 8 having been ques-
tioned as to his certainty respecting something he had over-
heard from a prisoner, said, "Oh ! I am sure be said so; he
spoke it in a very laudable voice."—Another officer, who
could scarcely have known that line of the poet,
" I love thee, solemn, sober-suited night,"
described Wednesday se'nnight as " a very intemperate
night." Two sailors were brought up for fighting on the
dock quay. They stated, that they had always been good
friends and comrades. Mr. Hall : " Such condtiet is very
disgraceful. Why do yotrfight in this manner?" " Why,"
said one of the tars, "we bad a few words, and then we came
to blows, that's all. It 's very hard if men can't fight when
they quarrel, if they choose."—A deaf man was placed at the
bar, charged with having stolen a bit of canvas from a vessel.
It was not without the greatest difficulty that the prisoner
could be made to hear. Tell him," said Mr. Hall, " tohao
if ever he comes here again I will punish him severely."
One of the officers bawled in his hear, " If ever you come
here again, you'll be severely punished." There was no
reply. The officer bawled still more loudly, " What do you
say to that ? Will you ever come here again ? If yOu do,
you 'll be severely punished, the magistrate says." "Oh,
no," said the deaf man, "1 'll not come here again, if nobody
brings me here, 1 'll promise that. 1 wouldn't ha' come now
only they brought me here; but I'll not come again if they'll
let me stop away. Thank you, sir !"

A CAUTION. Eliza Hughes was placed before Mr. Hall,
on Saturday. Inspector Poole stated, that he had recently
received information of several children being robbed, as
they came from the Savings' Bank, where they were sent by
their parents, each Saturday morning, to draw small sums of
money. That morning (Saturday last) be put on plain
clothes, and went to watch in Bold-street. He saw the pri-
soner loitering about the bank, and watched her. He saw
her accost four different children, whom she endeavoured to
induce to go to a back passage with her. At length she got
one little girl, and took her into the new arcade which was,' .
building. He went to her and took her into custod3. He
sent for two little girls, who had been robbed on the preceding
Saturday morning, and, placing the prisoner with several
other wometr, he asked the children if they knew her. They
at, once selected the prisoner as the person who.robbed Olean: _
One was a child about seven years old. She told the little
creature, that she was its aunt, and thus got possession of all
the money. Mr. Hall spoke in severe terms of the folly of ,
sending such young children for money. He thought the offi-
cers of the Savings' Bank ought to make a rule, that they
would not pay any money to children. The prisoner was re-
manded for further inquiry.

BEGINNING EARLY.—Yesterday at the police-office, a lad
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drunk? An inspector—l have seen him repeatedly drunk
sir, myself. Policeman—He was drunk sir, and made use
of very bad language. Mr. Parkinson said the boy had also
been in custody fur felony. Mr. Hall—You are beginning
early. Pay ss. for being drunk ; (a laugh) and in default,
to be imprisoned for three days in the Borough Gaol.
GLASS STEALlNG.—Yesterday at the police-office, a man
named Thomas Makin was placed at the bar, charged with
having stolen some glasses, the property of Mr. John Grey,
of the Rob Roy Tavern, Moorfields. An officer stated, that
between nine and ten o'clock that morning the prisoner was
offering two tumbler glasses for sale in Moorfields. He
examined the glasses and saw the initials J. G. attempted to
be ground out of the glass. He heard the prisoner say that
he had 202 of them to sell. He accordingly took him into
custody. The landlord of the Rob Roy identified the glasses
as his property. The prisoner had been in his house that
morning taking a glass of ale, before he was apprehended,
and he (the publican) was of opinion that he had stolen the
glasses then. The evidence was ordered to be taken against
him, and he was remanded.
RJUBERY—Yesterday, at the Police-offic. .ed
Thomas Williams was charged by Mr. C.
with having robbed him of a loaf of white : „
The complainant stated that his brother to! . .
prisoner was attempting to steal a loaf of sug...
there and saw the man detained, and the sugar
him. He asked him if he had stole the sugar, and W' .

did it? He said he would never du it again, and begged
hard to be let off, going down upon his knees. A very la-
telligent lad, the brother of the complainant, said he saw the
prisoner coining out of the warehouse, with the sugar loaf
under his arm; as soon as he was certain it was his brother's
property he seized hold of the prisoner and detained him.
The prisoner, with unabashed assurance, to the boy.—Didn't •
I ax you, ses I, where is that man gone? Boy.—What
man? Prisoner.—He told me he wanted some sugar, and
pointed to your cellar. Boy.—You said nothingabout a man.
Prisoner.--Tbat man ses to me, pointing out that sugar,
"Take that," ses he, " an' I'll give you sixpence." A.
young man, who assisted the complainant's brother in de-
taining the prisoner, said that when he had been seized he
actually went down on his knees and asked him to forgive
him. Prisoner—When he axed me to tek the sugar, I talc
it; I acteally did; I'm as hinnecent as the child unborn;
I'm as hinnecent as a lamb. Mr. Hall.—He is a very im-
pudent fellow. Has be been tried before? Mr. Parkinson
said he had only been five days out of gaol. Prisoner.—l'm
as hinnecent as • a lamb. Mr. Hall.— Let the inforvations
be taken.

STABBlNG.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a female ser-
vant, named Harriet Albison, appeared to prefer a charge
against a boatman, named Arthur Smith, for stabbing ber in
tbe head. A policeman stated that he saw the complainant
walking in Tithebarn-street the night before, when she was
met by the prisoner, who never spoke a word to her, but he
(policeman) saw him strike the girl on the head, and in an
instant he heard her scream out, and fall on some steps, and
ask him what he had done that for. On going to her he
found she had been stabbed in the head.—The girl exhibited
ber head, which had a large plaister across it. She said she
had formerly given evidence against the prisoner for robbitl
the house where she lived, and for which he had been impri-
soned two months:—The prisoner said he was gOing along
the street with his knife out eating some meat and bread, •
when the complainant got hold of him, and he gave her a•
shove, and told her to go away, he wanted nothing to do with
her, and his shove knocked her down on the steps. He did
not know he had cut her.—Mr. Hall said this was an infa-
mous thine.. He must put an end to the use of these knives;
it was an offence becoming much too common. The prisoner
must pay £5, including costs, or be imprisoned two months
in the borough gaol; an, further, find bail to keep the peace
to the young woman.
INDECENT CONDUCT.—Yesterday, at the Police-Office, a
smith, named Robert Gallagher, was placed- at the liar,
charged with having indecently assaulted several females,-
going to St. Nicholas' Church, on Sunday afternoon. Mr.
Griffiths, of the Athenteum New-room, stated, that, about
a quarter before three o'clock on Sunday afternoon, the pri-
soner was in St. Nicholas' church-yard, and shoved him
(Mr. Griffiths) down the steps as he was going up to church.
He thought he was tipsey, and took no notice of him; but
the prisoner immediately returned into the church-yard, and
seized hold of a female far advanced in pregnancy, and lifted
off her feet' by the waist. He then put his nose under a
young lady's bonnet, and attempted to give her a kiss, and
followed her into church, going into the same pew. He (Mr.
Griffiths) told one of the vergers, and the man was turned
out, He (Mr. Griffiths) then told him he should give him
in charge, both for assaulting himself and the lady, and
called a policeman, to whom he gave the prisoner into cus-
tody. The prisoner said, he had got a little drink, and went
to St. Nicholas' Church, when they ordered 'Ain out. Mr.
Hall said it was a most shameful thing ; ladiei going to a
place of worship to be insulted by-birn in this manner; it
was a most disgraceful thing. He could hardily have thought
it possible that such a thing could have been done in LiveD•
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pool. Mr. Griffiths said, he thought it a very serious charge,
or he should not have come before the magistrates with it
Mr. Hall said, Mr. Griffiths had acted vety properly, and
fined the prisoner 40s. and costs, or be committed for one
month to the Borough gaol.

DSOR CASTES HOTEL.—The admirers of the delight.
fu artiNof bowling may have a splendid opportunity of grati-
fying their curiosity to-morrow evening at the Windsor Cas-
tle Hotel, when a cup will be contended for on the green
attached. A dinner will afterwards take place, which,
we
have no doubt, from the well-known character of Mr. Woods
as an adinirable• caterer, will afford a riot, treat to the
visitors.