The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

CLEANSING OF MIDDENS. -On Saturday, Messrs.
Pickering, and others, the contractors with the corporation
for the cleansing of middens, were summoned before Mr.
Rushton for neglect of dpties. In two cases they were
acquitted, but in three other cases they were fined £l5
and costs.

A MAGISTERIAL POLICEMAN.—On Tuesday an Irish-
man, named James Murphy, was brought up before the
magistrates, charged with rioting. Mr. Rathbone, who
was the complainant, said, that, when in Brown-street,
he was told that a man was beating his wife. He went
to the place and saw the prisoner in a boxing attitude.
As no officers were about, he said he must turn officer
himself, when the crowd, as usual in such cases, took part
with the man. The man was eventually imprisoned.
He would not have appeared against him had he not
thought it necessary that these things should be put a
stop to. He applied to the court for protection against
such scenes. The prisoner, however gallant he had been
in abusing his wife at home, showed the white feather in
court, and said he most humbly begged Mr. Rathbone's
pardon and would never do it again. Mr. Rathbone said
he had no vindictive feeling in bringing him forward.
His object would be accomplished if people were taught
that these scenes could not be allowed. After an admo-
mnietßinoi,no,the IN
namedw was fined ss. and costs.
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Cheshire, and the policeman struck him with his stick.
This was acknowledged by the officer, who said that he
used the stick in self-defence, and if he had not done so,
he would have been killed, The magistrates fined Wal-
thew 20s. and costs, Tilston 10s. and costs, a fine which
would have been heavier but for the punishment he got,
and Rogers was also fined 10s. and costs, or seven days
imprisonment. The defendant, Walthew, has written to
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cence—that he was not in St. Andrew-street at all—and
that his only offence was a remark on the brutality of the
police, for which he was taken into custody.
CRUEL FRAUD ON IRISH EMIGRANTS.—A poor emi-
grant complained on Friday at the Police-court of the
conduct towards him of a passenger broker, named Patrick
Gormanby. The evidence was to the effect that Gor-

manby had, by false representations, induced Daniel Har-
ragan and three others to ship themselves for Pugwash,
North America, instead of St. John's, New Brunswick,
the place to which they desired to go ; Harragan landed
in Liverpool on the 11th April, and two days aftek en-
quired of Gormanby if he had a ship for St. John's. De-
fendant said he had a vessel called the Sophia for that
place, and asked for the passage money. Harragan re-
plied, that he had his wife and two young women who
had come from Cork to emigrate with him, and as they
were outside he would speak to them first. Gormanby
said there was no time to be lost, and if he did not pay
the money the vessel would put to sea before they could
reach her. Harragan went and afterwards returned with
his wife, to whose enquiry defendant gave the same an-
swer, and she paid him £B, the passage money for herself
and husband. She then brought in the girls, and they
also paid £8 for their passage. They then left the office,
when Harragan's wife found by the tickets that they had
shipped themselves for Pugwash, in Newfoundland. They
returned and complained to defendant, who laughed at
them, and told them they could not go to a better place
than Newfoundland, and that Pugwash was only 36 hours
sail from New Brunswick. Harragan protested against
the fraud, and desired that the money should be returned.
This being refused, he offered the defendant 30s. to re-
store it, but without success. The vessel alluded to had
gone out of dock at eight the same morning, in place of
at four in the afternoon, as defendant had stated she
would, but she returned next day disabled, and remained
in dock till the 18th. During the interval Harragan re-
peatedly called to get back the money, but never finding
defendant at home, the whole party were constrained to
go by the ship named. She encountered bad weather,
and put into Belfast dismasted. The government officer
then found 50 passengers on board, although he knew she
had cleared
.the Custom-house here tor only 29, and he
wrote to Lieutenant Hodder of this port. The latter,
from enquiries made of several of the passengers, found
that several of them had been defrauded in the same way.
A defence was attempted, but it failed. Mr. Rushton
said the whole affair was disgraceful on the part of the
broker, and he fined him £lO, and deprived him of hie
UMW,