The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-03-20 00:00:00

POLICE' INTELLIGENCE,

DIVFDI'NG HIS ATTENTIONS.—On Thursday, at t& soli
office, a young man, named Wolverhampton, an apprentice t:
man named Bradshaw, a watch finisher, appeared at the ba:
prefer a complaint against his master for not teaching him
trade, and for refusing to pay him his wages. The complaina- •
stated that his masts, never taught hint anything.—Mr.
1 What does he do all his time ?"—Apprentice: 't Why he has a
wife, and a woman be keeps, and he is three days at one placs•
and three at the other, and betweem 'em he teaches inc
nothing." (Loud laughter.) Mr. Hall:, "•Then he divides his
•attentions ?" Defendant (with much sang livid) "That's
dividing 'em fair any how." The apprentice then went-on to
say that his master o-Wed him nine weeks wages, at is. a 'week,
amounting to £3 3s.' • which he could not get paid. Defendant:,
It wouhl be as Well if you would ask him how inany,weekske
has worked out of these last nine?"—Mr.. Hall: " Answer the
first part of his charge, about not teaching him his trade?"—
Defendant: ".Oh, hers instructed as far as others for his time."
Mr, Hall:: " But von have no right to leave him e,—Dcfe:id -
ant: " I should like to know how I am to' support my family

and the other woman as he talks about, if .1. am away con
stantly ? I kept a publ•ie-house a shoat time, and I did
then. I confess, attend to' my work properly."—Mr. Hall.
•` What do you say about the wages for the last nine weeks?'
Defendant : " Well, I will pay."—Mr. Hail : "It is. a yet.-
improper thing: This boy keeps himself out of his wages, a•:,
you keep him waiting nine weeks without them. What is he I,
do? They ought to be paid punctually. You must pay tb
£33s. immediately, and if you do not teach the apprentice F.rc.
perly, I shall grant a warrant against you."

ROBBING WITH A Ktss.—Yesterday, at the Police-office; a
female named Mary Gore, was placed at the bar, charged 'uv e.
countryman with having robbed him of a sovereign. Thc
complainant, who appeared quite unsophisticated, said-"
war cumin' blip Mount Pleasant last noight, and I met with
that woman, and she pretended to know me, and axed me he-J,
I wuz, and got a holt of me. I told her I wuz very well, an
then she gay me a kiss, and at sane time I felt her hand in mL
pocket. I said you have robbed me?' She replied,
are a liar,' and then ran away. I stuck to her till I sar
policeman, and then I gave her in charge. I had a sovercl-i
a half-crown, and a sixpence in my pocket, and she had to rer
the sovereign." Policeman No. 20 deposed to taking the pi
goner into custody,- and she owned that she had the soveregi)
and said the complainant bad given it to her instead of a
shilling. The prisoner, in the most brazen-faced mane :r,
swore that this was the fact, and that an improper intimacy had

taken place between them, for which the money bad been -given
to her. The complainant appeared thunderstruck with astonish-
ment, and reiterated his former statement. The prisoner was
sent for a month to the Borough House of Correction.
BOBBING A TlLL—Yesterday, at the police-office, a
named Win. Hewson, was placed at the bar, charged by .
Brown, Druggist, of London Road, with having attempted !..o
rob his till on Sunday night, when he heard a noise, which
thought like the sound of a drawer being opened. He looked it)t,i,
his shop, and saw the prisoner bobbing his head up above thc-
counter, beside the till which he had been attempting to ro'.7.
Ile had twice before had his till robbed. The prisoner, cr..
being asked what he had to say, said : "Please stir I was orCy
going into the shop for a ha'porth of Spanish." Mr. Parkinsvr.
said he was very well known, and had been committed. Mr.
Hall transferred him once more to the Borough House of
Correction for three months.

THE DEVIL AMONG THE TAILORS.—We believe it has be
a frequent remark that the artizan tailors are, as a class, ttikr
most profligate set of men, with whout it is an established ;II::

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tom, from which it is considered a degeneration to vary, to
quite drunk three days in the week. Yesterday, at the polio
office, no fewer than 9 or 10 of this fraternity were chareo.
with having been drunk, disorderly. fighting in the streets, ztr:-1
so forth. Amongst the rest, Patrick M'Quillan, a "tailor n'
trade," was charged with having been exceedingly riotous ;-).. ,-r
disorderly on Sunday night. The prisoner was a very diminu-
tive and sickly looking individual with elbows peeping out
of his coat, hair standing on end, and nose and chin porn' _.,:,
as sharp asithe needles of his trade, in fine, one whom it.w0,.:,.1
be no libelln call "a fraction of a man." A policeman sti:‘, .:
that he had been 'called into a house in Scotland Road tf-.
the prisoner out, he behaving in a mast riotous arid ilisoi;;
manner. After a great deal of trouble he succeeded in 'nettle.:
him out, but he fought and went on in such a way, that he w-
obliged
obliged to take hint to Bridevvell. Mr. Hall; Why did y(
behave in this way ? Prisoner.—Why the person of tL:
house had got a cat of mine, and he would not give it no.,
Mr. Hall: A cat ?—Prisoner: Yes, a eat. (A laugh.)—Mr.
Hall: But you should not, because he has done so, go to hi's
house caterwauling and making such a noise?—Prisoner-:
Well, he'd got a cat of mine;. and (in a pathetic tone of voice)
it's only a fortnight since he stole a bitch of mine, and left Ivo
with two pups but a fortnight old—(loud laughtery—and 1.
thought it rather too much to take both; and instead of tlig
policeman protecting my property he beat and abused me; and '
I thought it better to come and see if he was justified in doing
so.—Policeman : He told me about the cat, but the man their;
told me he had not taken it.—Mr. Hall; It seems to me that.
the tailors are growing vet y riotous. Will you promise to con-
duct yourself better for the future? The prisoner made the re-
quired promise and was discharged.
ONe Use OF NEWSPAPERS.—Yesterday, at the Police-of •-e,
two apprentice lads, named Middleton and Murray, wer,:
placed before the Magistrates, charged with having conducted
themselves in a riotous and disorderly manner in the streets Or_
i Sunday night. Inspector Thompson deposed that he fon
them iu the streets making a very great noise, and shouting t . •
parently for their own amusement. He desired them to 1.;c•
quiet or he should take them into custody, and they passed i...i.
About au hour aftel wards he found Chem in Scotland-ro; _.
making as great a noise as ever, so he took him into cus:oi. .
They told him they cared nothing about being put into Brit
well
well ; they should only have to pay si, for being drunk , .i. 1..
they 'were frightened of was being put in the newspapr7s.
Middleton said he was a watchmaker, and Murray that be wai.
a book-keeper. Both behaved with great levity and very in•
decorously before the magistrate, ana seemed to think it ww,3
an excellent joke. Mr. Hall ordered each of them to pay st.
for being drunk, or in default to be committed to the Borough
Gaol for three days. On hearing the fine imposed they 1.)(0.
burst out into laughter, and Middleton whirled his hand ront4,
in the air in derision. Mr. Hall told them if they were brouth.i.
up again they should find bail. , ,