The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-08 00:00:00

PAVING AND SEWERAGE ACT.

The TOWN-ct.Er.x said, that at the last meeting nine gentle-
men had been appointed commissioners Mader this act. It ap-
peared, however, that though these nine commissioners must
be members of the council, that the choice must be left to the
inhabitants in vestry. The 733 clause of the Municipal act, it
was true, appeared to give the choice to the council, but on
taking the whole act, it did not seem to him that they had
greater power this respect than. the old council. He would
advise, that for the present the committee which had been
chosen should not enter upon the performance of their functions.
The council then adjourned at three o'clock, until Wedueb-
day next.

MIDSUMMER SESSION

TUESDAY.
ROBBERY BY A SHOPItfAN

A genteel-looking young Man, aged 22, whose connexions
were stated to be hiolily respectable, was indicted under a charge
of having feloniou'sly stolen five half-crowns, the property of
his master Nicholas Twigg. The prosecutor stated that he was a
grocer and provision dealer, in St. James's-street, in this town.
He carried on an extensive business, aadkeptseveral shopmeu.
ati the 11th of April last the prisoner entered his service, he
(witness) receiving a good chara.cter with" him from his last
place. On the 30th of April the prosecutor, for the first time,
entertained suspicions that some of the shopmen were acting dis-
honestly. Under this impression and determined to find out the
guilty party, he-had on a subsequent day at different periods of
that day, marked a quantity of silver amounting in all to about
£2O. This he placed in' three different drawers or tills in the
shop. At twelve o'clock on that night, he assembled his men
and told them that he had a charge against one or more of them.
He then commanded that each person should produce what
money he had about him. This was instantly complied with.
The money which each produced was examined, the prisoner
having produced money to the total amount of £1 lls. 6d. from
all his pockets. Among this were five half-crowns, all of them
marked distinctly with the impress which proved them to be
those which Mr. Twigg had placed in the drawers. On his
cross-examination by Mr. Vena.bles, he said he believed the pri-
soner was of respectable connexions and had previously borne
a good character. In the defence it was attempted to be proved,
that the prisoner had given change for a sovereign to a lady who
entered the shop ; that this lady returned and requested to have
a sovereign for the silver in return, which sovereign he had
then given out of his own pocket, in which he deposited' the
silver which she returned. Thus he attempted 'to account fol•
the market silver having found its way into his pocket. It ap-
peared, however, that alady had changed a sovereign on the
day in question, but the change was given by another shopman.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
The RECORDER exhorted the prisoner to take warning from
the disreputable position in which he was at present placed, and
amend his way of life. The learned gentleman dwelt much on
the respectability of the prisoner's connexions, which he said
had induced him to pass a mild sentence, hoping this would be
the prisoner's last offence. The court sentenced the prisoner
to be imprisoned for six months.