The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

ROBBERY AND ImPitunExcE.—Ann Brown, a young girl,
who staved her age to be 15, having been placed at the bar, Mr.
J. M'Dougall, a timber dealer, from Belfast, apparently about
42 years of age, appeared to charge her with having robbed him
on the preceding night. He deposed that he was in Church-
street about ten o'clock, when the prisoner came up to him and
asked him to treat her. He replied that he had no objection,
and together they proceeded to a public-house in Whitechapel,
kept by Mr. Gradwell. They stood at the counter :4he had a
glass of ale, and the young girl had a glass of whiskey. There
was a gateway adjoiuing the public-house, to which a door from
the house led, and the prisoner went out at the dour, accom-
panied by the complainant. It was a very dark gateway. The
prisoner put her hand into his trowser's pocket, and took out a
kid leather purse, containing six sovereigns, and one_ or two
half-crowns, having secured which, she ran off along White-
chapel, pursued by the complainant. He, however, lost sight
ofher ; but, from the description of her person furnished by him
to Inspector Berry, she was apprehended at midnight, in a
house in Peach-street. The money was not found, Mr. Grad-
well, the publican, deposed to the fact of the prisoners having
entered and lett his house in company. They went out through
the door leading into the dark gateway, and in about ten
minutes Mr. M'Dougall returned, and said he had been robbed
of six sovereigns. Both deposed as to the iudentity of the pri-
soner, but she denied that she had ever seen the complainant,
and said that she had not been out of the house in Peach-street
for three days, in consequence of illness. She, . however,
entreated vehemently to be forgiven, and, bursting into tears,
promised to return to her mother, and remain with her. The
girl is one who would have been very good-looking, had it not
been for the debasing course of life which she has been follow-
ing ; for the present is not the lirst-time she has been in custouy
on a somewhat similar charge. Mr. Hall having inquired the
age of the prisoner, addressed the complainant in no very mea-
sured terms. He said it was perfectly disgraceful for a man
like him, who must be 40 years of age, to accompany a girl of
16 into a public-house to drink. He, and others in his position,
were ready enough to cr out against her when she did any-
thing wrong, but they never seemed to reflect how far they
themselves were to blame. They first threw themselves in the
way of being robbed, and in a manner which reflected great
discredit upon them, and then they came there to complain that
they had been robbed—so that they might, in some degree, be
considered as the punishers of a crime which they had them-
selves caused to be committed. The girl was remanded, to
take her trial at the sessions.

ANOTHEa RonaEnie.—Hannah Miiran, a disorderly girl of
great police celebrity, was charged by M r. Joseph Wood, druggist
of Fawcett's-buildings, Ordsall-lane, Sah.ord, with having rob-
ben him of live sovereigns. The case was almost precisely
similar to dozens of others which we have pubtishedas a caution.
The complainant met the prisoner and another female in the
street, accompanied them to a house in Leather-lane, and then
despatched one of them for ss. worth of drink. During her ab-
sence, the prisoner thrust her hand into. his pocket, and took
out five sovereigns, which she transferred to her companion on
entering, who immediately left the house, and was not after-
wards seen.—The prisoner was committed to take her trial. .

SUMMONS FOR SEAMAN'S WAGES.—On Saturday at the Po-
lice-office, Captain Orton. was summoned before themagistrates
by one of his seamen, named Wip-, Sloan, for thegien-payinent
of his wages. The comolainaut stated that li signed articles
on the siti of September last, in 'Liverpool, to ship as a seaman
at £2. 10s. a mom had'.£2.'los. advanced and they sailed
for Itichitructo. He was sod; aud was left, behind,;,-
,he was or-
del ed ashore by the captain, and (he vessel sailed the sante day.
He was a week before tie was dole to wall: to. Si. John's to get
a vessel home. He claimed pavtnent furl mum h and 17 days.
Mr. Hall—(to the captain) How came you to put this man
ashore and leave him 'trete when he was id a state of sickness.
The captain said on the 16th of November he got ready for the
sea,,as there was every appearance of their being frozen in
-there. He told the mate to get ready for sea, and then said to
him there was a man missing. He went forward and said to
the complainant, "are you not coming up to work the ship ?"
and the answer he gut was, "go to heti with You.' • He again
went down into the forecastle and said to the complainant—
" William, do you mean to come un deck and get the ship to
work, otherwise we shall have to slop the winter? you must
make your mind up, and come and, work, 'or go ashore." The
complainant then came on deck and after walking about a short
time went-below and packed up his hammock, and went ashore
in a boat which was alongside. His vessel was 690 tuns bur-
then, and he had 20 men on board. He was compelled to get
men from the shore to help him to work the vessel. Mr. Hall
his you mean to say he deserted the vessel?" The captain
1 have stated the fact, I have been very iii treated." The
complainant denied that he had used those words to the captain;
the captain must have mistaken him. The captain said tie was
quite certain of it. The ctimplainaut then said he thought it
was one of the men shaking his hammock, and not the captain.
The captain said he was not in Isis hammock at the time. Mr.
Hall said he was very willing to assist the captain; he thought
such language very reprehensive,' de had to decide all these
cases under an act of parliament, beyond which he had no
power, and that act told bon that he must have particular evi-
dence in all cases of desertion before be awarded a forfeiture.
That evidence the captain did not give him. The act of parlia-
ment was very plain on the point; it said that "every seaman
shall forfeit to the owner and his toaster all' his clothes and ef-
fects and all wages anti emoluments to which he is entitled,
provided the circumstances attending such desertion be entered
in the log book at the time, and certified by tha signature of the
master and the mate." He would see from what he (Mr. Hall)
haul read that he must produce the log book as evidence which
he had not done. He should not be doing justice to the man-
if he strained the law, and decided against him. He was bound
by the law to decide in the man's favour, and he did it with the
greatest reluctance anti from a lack of evidence. The balance
due to the man £l. 13.. 341. after deducting an amount of £l.Bs.
for stores which he acknowledged to having received, though
there was no proof, was then ordered to be paid to him. Mr.
Hall said he should not allow him his costs.

THEFT FROM A SHOP.—Thomas Seatle and Thomas Roberts,
two boys, were on Saturday last, placed before Mr. Hall,
charged with having stolen a firkin of butler from the shop of
Mr. Henry Neal, grocer, St. James's-street. Samuel Jones, a
shop-man in the service of the latter, stated, that about five
o.clock, on Wednesday night, the 17th inst., be unloaded
twenty firkins of butter from a cart and placed them opposite
the shop window. He went to open the cellar door, when he
heard a person call out, "There is a lad stealing a firkin of
butter." Witness ran round through the shop and gave chase
in the direction indicated. lie caught a glimpse of a boy with
a firkin in New Bird-street, but lost sight of him again. Wit-
ness met Inspector Hockey and told him, and, in nn hour after-
wards, the latter came to him and told him that he had found
the firkin. Witness identified the firkin, and declared the but-
ter to be worth about Z-1. James O'Donnell, nephew to a
marine-store-dealer, in Chaloner-street, proved, that, on the
night of the 17th instant, the prisoner Seatle offered a firkin of
butter for sale at his uncle's warehouse. Witness's aunt sus-
pected the prisoner, and told him that she would have him
taken into custody, upon which he immediately ran out of the
place, leaving the butter behind him. Seatle joined the pri-
soner Roberts, who was waiting at a little distance. Inspector
Huckey stated, that, having obtained a clue to the prisoners,
he went and found Seatle in bed, at his father's house. Ile
taxed him with the theft, and the prisoner replied, that Roberts
knew as much about it as he did. When the inspector took
Roberts, he replied, "I did not touch it, but I saw Seatle take
it." Before the magistrate Seatle said, "That boy's aunt told
me if 1 bad any thing to bring to her, I might, at any time."
Roberts declined saying anythiug. They were both committed
fur trial.

THEFT BY A SERV NT.—Hachel M`Laughlin, a pretty-look-
ing servant girl, and Catherine Carrell, a large
coarse woman,
who has gained her living by acting as charwoman, were, on
Saturday, placed before Mr. Hall, charged with haring stolen
a carpet, value about £4. Mr. Thomas Woodward, of No. 2,
Hawke-street, stated, that the prisoner had lived in his service
about three months. About half-past eight o'clock, on Friday
niget, he went home and learned that M`Laughliu had gone to
bed. He went up stairs to ask her for the key of a closet. He
found that she was intoxicated. She said it was somewhere in
the room. He sought for the key, and found it and two half-
crowns under the corner of a carpet at the foot of the prisoner's
bed. He proceeded to the closet and unlocked the door, and
missed the carpet.—(Produced.) About a week before, the
carpet had been folded up and placed in the closet. Witness
also missed, from the same closet, three pints of gin and a
quart of ruin. Witness went to the prisoner and asked her what
she had done with the carpet. She said ," I know nothing
about it." Witness replied. " you must have pawned it: where
have you gotlhis money ?" She denied that she pawued it; but,
upon being pressed more closely, she confessed that she had
pledged the carpet, but she refused to give up the ticket. Wit-
ness sent for Inspector Whiting, and he-took her into custody;
but she still refused to give up the ticket or to say were she had
,pledged the carpet. At length, Whiting found the ticket near
the bed, and, on Saturday morning, he found the carpet in the
shop of Mr. Brown's, Copperas-hill. Inspector Whiting stated,
that he found four pawn-tickets in the room of the prisoner.
One of them was for the carpet in question, which he found at
Mr. Brown's, in Copperas-hill, pledged in the'naine of Rachel
Bailey.. The pawnbroker, Richard Brown, of Copperas-hill,
proved that the prisoner Catherine Carroll pledged the oarpet
with him for ten shillings, on Friday, at half-past five o'clock.
She said she had been sent to pledge it by her mistress. The
prisoner Catherine Carroll was taken into custody by police-
officer Bagnall, who was sent for, on Saturday morning, to
the house of Mr. Woodward for that purpose. 'She confessed,
both to the officer and before the magistrate, that she was en-
gaged at the house of Mr. 'Woodward as a charwoman, and
that she took the carpet to pledge at the request of M`Laughlin,
without knowing any thing about it. Her statement to Mr.
Hall was, that the other prisoner came to her •and said she
wanted her to go an errand. It was to take a bit of carpet to
"my uncle's." M`Laughlin put the. carpet on her head, and
she took it, pawned it, and gave the ticket and the whole of the
money to M'Laughlin. Both prisoners were committed for
trial.

SHOP-LlFTlNG,—Yesterday, at the police office, two girls,
named Jane Brannan and Ann Sullivan, were placed at the
bar of the police-office, charged with huvibg' stolen a pair of
b,ots from a shop in Pitt St., and also a brass pan front another
shop. Policeman 175 deposed that on Saturday eight he was-.
on duty in Pitt St., when the prisoner Brannan was given to
him in charge for stealing a pair of boots. He afterwards over-
took the other prisoner, when Brannan told her to run, and lie
took her also into custody. A young woman named• Roberts,
stated that three girls. of whom the prisoner Brannan was one,
came into their shop on Saturday night, and wanted to buy a
pair of shoes. They pointed out a number.to Ler which she got
down and they tried. on, but none of them would suit them; at
last she told them she had none that would tit them and they
went out. After they were gone she. missed a pair of boots.
The officer stated that there was another case against the pri-
soners. Mrs. Taylor, the keeper of a broker's shop in Pitt St.,
here came forward, and stated that the two prisoners and ano-
ther girl came into her shop on Saturday night, to price a
round table, which they would have her take down. They did
not buy any thing, and when they went out she missed a brass
pan, which she had seen just -before they entered. She would
swear to the girls. The prisoner Brannan dented being in com-
plainant's shop at all, and the other prisoner, Sullivan, said she
never was near the shop, "and did not know what she was tuft
for neat her." Mr. Parkinson said they were both well known
bad characters. Mr. Hall ordered them to be committed for
two mouths to the borough House of correction.

ROBBERY BY A CEERK.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, Mr.
Judson, of the firm of James Judson and Cu., Hargraves-build-
ings, appeared to prefer a complaint against, James Alfred
Unwin, his clerk. for robbing him of a £IUO note. Mr. Judson
stated, that o❑ Wednesday.last he xave the prisoner, James
Unwin, a letter to take to the Postoffice, which contained a bank
note for £lOO, and told him to take particular care of it, it con-
tained money. He returned about an hour afterwards, and
said there wet e not any letters in the box. About three o'clock
he went to dinner, and he had never seen him aftei wards till
then. He was his clerk. He had hills printed the following
aioroiPg, describing the prisoner, and giving the number of the
note. It was a Bank of England note, number 9,6.32, and
dated Liverpool, September 16. 1837.—Mr. Lowe, clerk in the
Royal Bank of Liverpool, staled that o❑ the 2-lih instant, a
person purporting to be James Judson and Co.'s clerk, whom
he had seen before, presented a note for MO, and asked fur
sovereigns, for Judst,n and Co: Perceiving the nape of Judson
on the back of •the note, he asked him to put his name ou it,
which he did, and then gate him stivereigna for it, The psi-

soner was the person who presented it; it was about mid-day.--a
Mr. Lewis, of the Branch Bank of England, stated that on.
Wednesday, the 24th instant, Mr. Judson presented two bank.
orders fruhr Ireland, 9n their bank, for £l5O 16s. 7d., and in
part payment he paid him a £lOO note, dated Sept. 15, 1837,
No. 9,632, which was paid in again the next day by Baring
Brothers and Green,.of Baring Brothers and Co.'s
noose, said that on Thursday he had to makea remittance of
£5OOO iu the Branch Bank, which he did, but could not tell
whether the note in question was amongst the money he paid in.
I be note was here produced, and M:. Judson said the name
Judson on the note was in his handwriting, and that of Unwin,
in the prisoners.—Ainsworth, the coustaide, said he received
infornaatiou of the robbery, and traced the prisoner to Man-
chester, where he beard that he had taken his place for Stock-
port. He met hint iu Bridge-street, walking with two gentle-
men, and went up to him dud asked him his name? He said
his name was Rodgers. He (Ainsworth) then asked him if his
name was not Joseph Alfred Unwin ? He replied that it was
not; that he had a document in his pocket which would prove
that his name was Rodgers. On seeing a boy fiorn
son's office, whom he (Ainsworth) had with him, be acknow-
ledged tnat is name was Unwin. He (Ainsworth) then searched
hint, and found on hint 'A/sovereigns. and £1 19s. in silver. The
prisoner, when asked what he had to say, said he could ask Mr.
Judson as to his former integrity and character. Mr. Judson
said he had never observed anything wrong in him before, and
had not the least suspicion of hint. He had been nearly three
months with him, and he took him on the recommendation of a
friend. The prisoner was described in the bill as very good-
looking, and about five feet three inches high. Mr. Halt said
he who had given the description of hint was a man of observa-
tion; he did not think they should have apprehended him from •
the description. The prisoner is an exceedingly plain and ordi-
nary looking young roan, and is 5 feet 11 inches high. When
asked what he had to say in defence, the prisoner said "about a
fortnight previous to this unfortunate affair. I was misled into
some very bad company, end during the fortnight did not know
what I was doing. When I went to Manchester I was in a
slate of intoxication, and I determined to return on the Friday,
and throw myself on Mr. Judson's mercy, and Mr. Ainsworth
met me going to the'r;iilway for that purpose; the two gentle- -
men he met with me I met at the inn." He was committed to
take his trial.

SINGULAR CHARGR.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a per-
son named Robertson, was placed before the magistrates, on a
charge of making a false charge against, and assaulting a per-
son, named John Roy. Policeman 9-1 stated, that there was a
disturbance in Mold's public-house, iu the Haymarket, and an
altercation between the complainant, and the prisoner. The
prisoner accused the complainant of bigamy, and the complain-
ant accused the other of assaulting him, when he took both into
custody. The complainant had been let out on bail. The cum-

plainant who gave ins name as John Roy, stated that he was
reading the newspaper very quietly, in Mold's public-house, on
Saturday, when the prisoner entered the room, and said " Well
Russell, what are you doing here" and sat down besides him,
and laid his hand very familiar on his thigh. He (complainant)
said " You are mistaken, my name is nut Russell." ",Oh" said
he " I know you very well ;- you are the best walker in Lanca-
shire." and went on with a great deal of nonsense, still calling
him Russell. He (complainant) again told him be was mistaken,
and did not want anything more to say to him, when the pri-
soner said he was an ollicet from Lancaster, and had &warrant
against him for bigamy. He (complainant) then called up the
landlady to certify that his name was not Russell, and wanted
to go away, when the prisoner would not let him, but pushed
him back. Ale (complainant) then sent for a policeman, when
the prisoner, gave him iuto custody for bigamy, and he charged
the prisoner with the assault. The charge of bigamy was'.
entered against him, but he was allowed to be out on bail
by the Bridewell Keeper. The prisoner said he had
just come down from Manchester on Saturday afternoon
when he fell in with the complainant and if he was not the
man Russell, he never saw two men so like each other in his life.
He was described in the!" Hue and Cry," and had been ttied

fir a conspiracy and big- atny.—Mr. Hall, " What are your:
Prisoner, " I am a spirit • and porter dealer in Manchester.'
Mi. Hall, "But you told the complainant that you were a con-
stable?"—Prisoner, " No; I told him I was a constable. lam
a friend of the parties that want to take this person into custody;
and I am of the same opinion still, that he is the man, or I never
saw two men so like each other in my life if he is not, the sound
his
of voice and every thing." Mr. Hall said, if the prisoner
was in search of the man Russell, he ought to have kept him-
self sober. He had no right to make such a charge against him
in a public company. The prisoner said, he was sober. The
officer, however, said he was very drunk. Mr. Hall ordered him
to pay ss. fur being drunk. Both parties are Scutchmen.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard Office, Three o'Clock.

LIVERPOOL MARKETS.

CORN MAIIKEr—TutspAY, JANUAQY 30, 1838.

We have very trifling supplies of every article in the trade
to this morning's market, which was better attended by country
millers and dealers, but who were not inclined to purchase
Wheat or Oats, except at a reduction of 2d. per 70Ibs. on the
foi liter, and 111. per 45Ibs, on the latter; waiting the expected
supplies from the change in the weather.

Flour niet a tolerable demand from needy buyers at Is. to
2s. per 280 11)s...reduction.

Oatmeal 3d. to 6d. per 240 lbs. cheaper.

The week's imports of Butter ate 5,313 firkins. There has
been a very limited sale, and middling qualities have rather re-
ceded in value.—Fine Lard in good demand.