The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-FRIDAY.

DISCOVERY OF A STOLEN WATCH.-CURIOUS CASE.
A person named M'Kenna was placed at the bar, on a
charge of having in his possession a stolen watch, knowing it
to be stolen.. The prisoner, who is a tide-waiter in the cus-
toms, was tried at the last assizes for a rape on a child who
lived with him, and was acquitted. It appeared that the
prisoner had parted with the watch in order to defray the
expenses arising out of. his prosecution at the assizes, and a
person into whose hands it ultimately fell, offered it for
pledge at a pawnbroker's, who, knowing from the description
given at the time of the robbery that the watch had been
stolen, detained it and the person who presented it. The
latter immediately gave up the name of the prisoner as the
party from whom he had received it. The owner of the
watch, who lives at No. 5, Pitt-street, intbrined the bench
that he was the owner of a vessel called the Yeoman, and the
watch now produced, which was his property, was stolen from
that ship in 1838, when the prisoner had her in charge as
tidewaiter. The prisoner, who was asked by the magistrate
what he had to say in answer to the charge, said that about
five months ago, when he had the keeping of a ship in the
Prince's Dock, one of the sailors came to him and asked him
whether he could keep a secret Ile (the prisoner) replied
that he could ; and the man showing him the watch, said
that it was stolen, but that he should have it if he would
advance £2 or :C3 on it. He advanced the required amount,
and the man from whom he received it having gone to sea,
the watch had remained in his posession ever since. This
explanation not being deemed satisfactory to the magistrates,
the prisoner was remanded.

SUSPECTED ROBBERY BY THREE. FEMALES.

Three females were brought before Mr. Rushton, on suspi-
cion of having stolen, and then pawned, a quantity of ladies'
boots from the shop of Mr. Dutton, London-road. They
were respectable, intelligent looking girls, the eldest appa-
rently about eighteen years of age, the next about fourteen,
and the youngest not more than e e.*.i or twelve.
A pawnbroker stated that the girls had been in the habit of
pawning articles with him during the last twelve months.; and
when one of them came yesterday with a pair of new boots,
suspecting that they had been stolen, he caused her to be de-
tained until his scruples were satisfied. lie traced the boots
to Mr. Dutton, to whom be believed they belonged, as also
several other pairs which he had in pledge.
Mr. Dutton stated that he believed the boots produced be-
longed to him ; they bore his private mark ; but lie felt un-
willing to press the charge against them. Each of the girls
had lived in his house, and one of them, the eldest, was at
present lodging with him. His suspicions were directed
against one of the prisoners only—the other two he believed
to be innocent of any fraud ; but still, as he could not posi-
tively swear that the property had been purloined from his
shop, lie must decline to prosecute.
Mr. Rushton complimented Mr. Dutton on his forbear-
ance and caution ; and after reading a suitable lecture to the
three prisoners, they left the court.
[A letter appears in another column correcting one or two
of these statements.]