The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-29 00:00:00

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SLEALING A GOWN PEON A LODGING-HOUSE.—AIIII
Handley was brought up, on remand from Saturday,
charged with stealing a gown and several articles of wear-
ing appard from the house in which she lodged, on Tuesday
last. When taken into custody she was dressed in the
stolen gown, which she said she had bought from a woman
she did not know, for 2s. M. She was sentenced to he im-
prisoned for seven days.

CONFESSION OF TllEFT.—Thomas Walmsley gave him•
self into custody on Thursday night, in Preston, stating
that he had stolen from his employer, Mr. Roberts, in
Scotland-road, a hone whetstone and half a crown. He
had, he said, sold the hone, which was worth about les.
or 17s. Remanded for a week.
STEALING ROPES.—Michael Cosgrove, brought up on
suspicion of stealing ropes from the Queen's Dock, on
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for the p:

On seeing that he was observed by the
police, prisoner threw down the ropes and ran away. HE
said he got them to carry from a man he did not know

was to meet him and relieve him o

le load

mee, one month's imprisonment under the V

STEALING CARPET STIOES.—Rose Townley, .an old
woman, was sentencedto fourteen days' imprisonment, for
stealing a pair of carpet shoes.
OBTAINING A QUANTITY OF ROPES ON FALSE PRE-
TENCES,

—John Sclioles, a man of decent external appea-
,ace, was charged with obtaining 35 fathoms and 80
fathoms of new rope, value £l5 3s. 6d., on false pretences.
He immediately disposed of the rope to a marine store
dealer, named Murray, for the sum of £ll. From the
evidence it appeared that the prisoner, towards the end of
last month, went to the premises of Messrs. Williamson
and, Sparks, rope and sail-makers in Park-lane, where he
saw their manager, Hugh Laing, to whom he represented
himself as Mr. J. F. Robinson, residing in 108, Gill-street,
mid saying he was contractor for a reservoir in course of
construction for the corporation on the outskirts of the
town, ordered 35 fathoms of white cordage of 3i-inc}
diameter. In a day or two afterwards he called r-
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and saia the rope was not m, ,se would prefer it to
be only Bi-inch, as he was afraid that first ordered would
be too thick for his blocks. He got away the 35 fathom
of at-inch rope, and shortlyafterwards returned to the
mises of Messrs. V a C-•

Vilhamson and Sparks, expressing his
entire satisfaction with the rope which had been sent ; at
the same time inquiring if they had any 31-inch rope, as
he wanted 50 fathoms of that size. Mr. Laing showed
him a coil of that diameter, telling him it contained
80 fathoms. Scholes, pretending to make some mental
c,alculations as to the suitableness of the rope, concluded
his pretended cogitations by saying he would take the 80
fathoms, which he did, and had it carried off with him.
Mr. Laing deposed positively that he would not have
given the rope to the prisoner unless he had believed him
to be Mr. Robinson, and the contractor for the reservoir,
as he had represented himself to be. Almost immediately
on obtaining possession of the rope, he had it conveyed
to the premises of -- Murray, a marine-store dealer,
who, on the prisoner's own representation that he was a
respectable party, backed by the decency of his appear-
ance and the verbal guarantee of a man who was with
him, purchased the coils of rope, for which he paid £ll.
On the application of Mr. Clough, the prisoner was re-
manded for seven days, that time may be afforded for the
discovery of his accomplice. The prisoner, it seems, is
well known to the police ; and the magistrate, after cau-
tioning Murray to be more careful in his future dealings
with such parties, ordered him to give up the rope to the
officers of the court.

ROBBERY FROM TUB PERSON.—Margaret Kelly was
charged with robbing a young man, named James Garvan,

of eight sovereigns, in a house in Peter-street, on Friday
afternoon. From the evidence of the prosecutor, it ap-
peared that the prisoner and he were old acquaintances,
and that on the occasion in question, on meeting her she
invited him to accompany her to a public-house. He did
so, and they had some drink ; into which the prisoner put
something which stupified him. Before he was completely
stupified, however, he perceived the prisoner put her hand
into his pocket, and he saw her take his money. The
prisoner, who was not taken into custody until Saturday,
had only a small sum in her possession. She said the
prisoner was so drunk when she met him that he did not
know what he was doing ; and that he left her to go to the
Theatre with two other women; that she was entirely it-
nocent of the robbery ; and that the alleged mixing of the
drink was altogether imaginary. The case was remanded
till next day.

THE FORGED COTTON DELIVERY ORDERS.—Nancy
Hindle, implicated in the cotton case, connected with
which John Woods, late clerk with Messrs. Seddon, was
a second time remanded last Monday, was brought up,
and remanded till Wednesday.
SUSPECTED CIIA.RA.CTER.—WiIIiam Thompson, alias
Bargain Bill, was charged with being found loitering

, -v sal, UN. in the morning of Sunday, opposite
the premisei of a wholesale tea merchant in St.
Anne-street. The prisoner is said by the police-officers to
be "one of the cleverest thieves in Liverpool, and one on
whom the detectives have had their eyes for a long period.
Remanded till to-day.
STEALING COPPER NAILS AND BOLTS.----
bout 60 lbs.
and John White were charged with stealingFanany, lying in
of copper nails and bolts from thesi
between one and
'William Bird
the Bramley-Moore Dock, on Sunday,seen on board the two o'clock. Both prisoners werethestolen property in their
ves-
sel, and were detected
ASSAULT ON TIM Pg Orliobert Ruxton, Helen Gilmore,and
_itNtevdilifiaornriGaill.more,
Thomas
possession. . They werewcojitoinhEm.
Young, Edward Davie _
and Briscoe, in the house of Helen
Gilmore, were charged with violently assaulting Police-
-lane, about a quartert before one o'clock
. The affray, appeared, arose.out of
onconstablesSunday
Gilmore,
an attempt made by Bradley to apprehend James Gilmore,
one of the sons of Helen Gilmore, charged with an in-
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decent assault upon a young girl, named Maria Catterell.
On Bradley attempting to secure the prisoner, he was
assaulted and struck over the head with a poker, and
Briscoe corning to his aid, was similarly treated. All the
male prisoners were convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine
of ss.,.With costs, or to be imprisoned seven days each,
with the exception of William Gilmore, who, along with
his mother and sister, was discharged.
ROBBERY OF TWENTY-TWO POUNDS FROM A LODGING-
HOUSE.—.Margaret Dee, an old woman, and her two daugh-
ters, Margaret Brown or Dee, and Mary Dee, and Cathe-
rine Holmes, were charged with stealing £22 in sovere
from the house of John Howell, 46, Clayton-street, in
which the three Dees lived, on Friday last. From the
evidence it appeared that the elder prisoner, who was in
arrear of rent for a month, induced Mrs. Howell to go into
their apartment, leaving in her own a box in which she
had the money ; while engaged with the Dees, some -of
them contrived to get into Mrs. Howell's room from which
the money was abstracted, and shortly afterwards the
whole of the last-named prisoners decamped. Information