The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-27 00:00:00

POLICE-COURT:YmERDAY.

ATTEMPTING TO PICK POCKETS.—Three lads, named
Walley Carr, John McLean, and John Jones, were charged
by detective officer Carlisle; with attempting to pick pock-
ets in Paradise-street, and also in Dale-street, on Satur-
day last. The witness saw them try several pocket& and
at last caught Jones with his hand in a girl's pocket, but
he had not been able to extract anything. Jones Who
had been committed before, was sentenced to be impri-
soned for one month ; the other two were remanded till
to-day.

OBTAINING MONEY ON A. FALSE PRETENCE.—Thomas
Anderson, a negro of unprepossessing appearance, was
charged with having obtained the sum of ss. on. Thursday
last, from Mrs. Hanson, residing in Great Crosshall-street,
under false pretences. From the evidence it appeared
that the prisoner called at the house of Mrs. Hanson, and
told her that he had been entrusted with a number of
articles for her from her son, which he (prisoner) had
brought from Lisbon, and the ss. was to pay customs and
other charges. On Friday he sent another coloured man
to Mrs. Hanson with a note, requesting to have another
6s. No goods having made their appearance, and Mrs.
Hanson recollecting that her son had gone to Havanna,
and not to Lisbon, refused to give any more money. On
Saturday last Anderson was apprehended. He gave a
rambling account of having been sent by some other man,
and said he must have made a mistake as to the party he
was sent to. He was remanded for a week.
ATTEMPTED GAROTTE ROBBERY.—James McCabe, re-
manded from last Monday, on a charge of having assaulted
and robbed a man named Michael Henry Kelly, between
one and two o'clock on the morning of the preCeding Sun-
day, was brought up. No new evidence was adduced, nor
had any of the prisoner's associates in the crime been
discovered. He was fined 40s. and costs for the assault,
or in default to suffer one month's imprisonment.
ASSAULT AND STREET ROBBERY.—Thomas Birming-
ham was charged with knocking down an elderly woman
in Burlington-street on Saturday afternoon, and robbing
her of a shawl. The case was clearly proved, and the pri-
soner was sentenced to be imprisoned for three months.
BASE INGRA.TITUDE.—AdeIina Robertson, a girl about
13 years of age, who belonged to Newton-in-the-Willows,
was charged with stealing a shawl, a pair of boots, a pair
of drawers, and other articles, from a family by whom, as an
act of charity, she had been employed as a servant. From
the evidence of the prosecutrix, who keeps a shop in Cases-
street, it appeared that about three weeks ago the prisoner,
late in the evening, had presented herself at the door
of the witness's father, who resides in Stanley-street,
and told a piteous tale as to her being an orphan,
that she had walked :from Manchester that day, was desti-
tute, and -very hungry, and wished. to be taken as a
servant. The unsuspecting father of the witness feeling
compassion for the little outcast, took her into his house,
and provided her with food and a bed, and induced his
daughter to employ her as a servant, with whom she had
been up to Saturday night last, when she decamped,
having first taken the property abovenamed. The un-
grateful culprit did not deny the theft, and admitted that
she had been very kindly treated. On account of her
youth, and some difficulty as to the precise nature of the
theft, she was not committed to prison ; but ordered to be
passed to the authorites at Newton-in-the-Willows.
A TICKET-OP-LEAVE VISITOR.—John Mack, known
as a convicted felon who was at large on a ticket of leave,
was charged with stealing a coat and waistcoat from the
house of Mrs. Thomas, residing in Southwell-street. From
the evidence it appeared that John Thomas, a sail-maker,
who lived with his mother and sister in Southwell-street,
having risen for a drink that morning, between three
and four o'clock, had his attention attracted by hear-
ing a click, as of the shooting of a door-latch bolt, and on
looking in the direction whence the sound proceeded, he
observed the prisoner in the act of leaving the house, with
the witness's coat and waistcoat over his arm. Witness
immediately followed the prisoner, and gave an alarm.
The prisoner, finding that he was pursued, threw down the
property and ran, but was secured and lodged in bridewell.
On being asked what he had to say, Mack declared that
for some time past he had been a teetotaller, but that, hav-
ing on Saturday and Sunday had some drink, he did not
know what he had been about or where he was ; he denied
all knowledge of the coat and waistcoat. Committed for
trial at the sessions.
ROBBERY PROM A VESSEL IN THE COBOURG
William Green, a labourer, was charged by Capt. Howell,
of the Lord Mostyn, from Waterford, now in the Cobourg-
dock, with stealing four sovereigns from a drawer in the
cabin of the vessel on Thursday last. The prisoner had
been employed to assist in getting the vessel into dock, and,
availing himself of the captain's absence, stole the money
in question. He was sentenced to be imprisoned three
months.
STEALING PAPER.—Three men, Peter Ainsworth, John
Muir, and Robert Collier, were charged with stealing
about a hundred weight and a quarter of used wrapping
paper, from the warehouse of Messrs. Duckworth and
Rathbone, by whom they were employed. As it was sup-
posed they previously had taken a considerably greater
quantity of paper than that which had been traced, the
case was remanded till this day.

ASSAULT AND THEFT.--Patrick Doyle was charged
with having been concerned along with two others iu
committing a theft at Kelly's marine store, on the 20th
inst., in which they violently assaulted Mrs. Kelly, and
carried off some property. The other two individuals im-
plicated in the outrage were brought before the police
court, but in consequence of the inability of Mrs. Kelly to
attend from the severity of the injuries she had sustained,
they were remanded to Wednesday (to-morrow), to which
period the present prisoner was also remanded.
Sxmors ASSAULT UPON THE POLICE.—Three men,
named McKenna, Riley, and Sayner, were charged with
a serious assault upon two police constables on Sunday
afternoon. From the evidence it appeared that McKenna
was drunk in Great Howard-street on the afternoon of
Sunday last, when police constable, 77, ordered him to go
home, which McKenna refused to do, and persisting in
making a great disturbance, the constable took him into
custody. On doing this, some of the crowd which had been
gathered said, "go on, never mind till we come to Porter-
street." The police obtained the assistance of constable
287, but on reaching the corner of Porter-street a violent
assault was made on the officers, who were knocked down,
77receiving severe kicks on the head,and 287 having his staff
taken from him and beaten severely with it. McKenna was
rescued from the offieers and ran away, as did also Riley
and Sayner, who had been engaged in the affray.
It appeared that officer 77 had been obnoxious to
some at least of the rioters, he having taken an active
part in attempting to quell a riot which had some weeks
since occurred among the shipwrights in the Park, on
which occasion he had been assaulted by some of the
parties with an adze. In the present instance, Riley
called out " this is the fellow who informed on the ship-
wrights ; pitch into him?' The riot on Sunday afternoon
was clearly proved, and M`Kenna and Riley were sen-
tenced to be imprisoned two months each; Sayner's case
was not quite so bad, and he was sentenced to imprison-
ment for one month.