The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

OVERREACHING.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a lad
named Thomas Dawson' who drives a donkey cart about the
the pier-head plying for luggage, appeared to charge David
APNeill, an impudent fellow with a crutch, with having
swindled him out of ss. The complainant stated that the pri-
soner got a job from a gentleman to carry five large trunks,
and got him (complainant) to take them with his cart.
M'Neill received from the gentleman his pay, and then ran
off with the whole money. He (complainant) only wanted
half of it, with which he would be satisfied, giving the other
half to the prisoner for getting him the job.
Prisoner.—Whoy, sur, he's 'elfin' fause all time. I got
Is. 6d. for the first two chisteses, and he got Is. 6d. for the
other three.

Mr. liall.—(to complainant.)-1-le was to have some of it?
Complainant.— Yes, sir, but he got all the money and ran
away, ttud I never got none on it.
Prisoner.—Whoy dount you tellt' truth of wonst. Didn't
we get 3s. for the whole ? Whoy, sur, he's telliu' a fause
oath.

Complainant. —There was four or five on 'em all in a gang
together determined to cheat me.

r. Hall said he understood it very well. The prisoner
must pay half the money, 2s. 6d., or be retained in custody.
PocKhr PlCKlNG.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a re-
spectable man named Haswell, appeared to charge a lad
named Goodwin with attempting to pick his pocket. The
complainant stated that he was proceeding from chapel the
evening before, when he felt some one's hand in his pocket.
He immediately turned round and seized the prisoner, and
what made the case more aggravating, the prisoner immedi-
ately struck him a violent blow on the eye which puffed it up.
Mr. Hall thought the lad could hardly reach complainant's
face. The complainant said one would imagine not, but as-
sured Mr. Hall that it was the fact. Other two boys were
with him, who had made their escape with his pocket hand-
kerchief. Mr. Parkinson said the prisoner was very well
known in Manchester as a thief. Mr. Hall committed him
for three months to the House of Correction.

A TASTY BlT.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, one of
the constables of Pownall-square Market appeared to prefer
a complaint against a man named Scarlett and his wife, for
making a disturbance on Saturday night in the market.
The constable on preferring his complaint said,—this man
came into Pownall-square Fish Market on Saturday night,
and went up to the different stalls creating a disturbance.
He was drunk, and the people told him to go away. At
length he went to one stall, and took up a large eel, and bit
the tail off, and the woman at the stall ordered him away.
He then went to another stand, and got hold of a haddock,
and wanted to sarve it the same way. I then wanted to put
him out of the market, but he pushed his fist in my face,
and I was obliged to go into Vauxhall-road for an officer to
take him to Bridewell. He then, when the officer came,
behaved so roughly that the officers were obliged to drag him
along like a sack of flour. His wife assisted him as much as
she could. The male prisoner said he was a ship-keeper,
and had been up all night, and got a glass of grog, which
took effect on him. He certainly did bite the fish, but it was
only for "a bit of a lark," and he intended to buy it after-
wards, when the officer came and knocked him dow-n.
An individual in court gave the prisoner a good character
for an industrious man, when Sober. Mr. Hall said he might
have forgiven him if he had not struck the officer. As it
was, be must pay ss. for being drunk. The woman was dis-
charged.