The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THURSDAY.

Two stevedores, named Thomas Murray and Wm. West-
away, were placed at the bar on a charge of having stolen tea
from a vessel which recently arrived in this port from Work-
ing. Their employer stated, that they and others were em-
ployed by him, in discharging the vessel, and that, last night,
(Wednesday,) one of them was detected in the act of ascend-
ing from the hold with the tea in his possession, which he
delivered over to the other. An officer was immediately sent
for, but, before he arrived, the prisoners contrived to effect
their escape ; they were, however, secured shortly afterwards.
In answer to some questions from Mr. Rushton, it appeared
that the chests in which the tea had been packed were in a
very insecure and damaged condition. The prisoners made
no defence, and Mr. Rushton committed them to the tread-
mill for fourteen days.'
John Doyle, a youth about fourteen years old, was charged
with a robbery under the following circumstances
A policeman stated that this morning (ThursdaYrhe stop-
ped the prisoner at the Railway Station, Lime-street, as he
was making enquiry in which office he must be booked, in
order, to proceed to Manchester by a first-class train. Find-
ing that he gave evasive answers to the questions put to
him, Wkt_ness examined him further, and found on his
person .0 14s, a watch, a pair of new boots, and a new
jacket. The explanation lie gave of his possession of this
that his father, who resided in Manchester,
'the money in order to pay his expenses home,
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hhweialli nads bought the watch, boots, and jacket with a
portion of it.
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Mr. Booth, attorney, of Tem le-court stated that the
,
prisoner was in his service
unTthoef
last (Tuesday) witness received
fficae;baoeyeo.
he put, somewhat carelessly, into a writing-desk ; lie had
indeed no opportunity of putting
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were joiners an
place, as there
him of what occurred . money
the policeman informed
terday lie went out of town and forgot it,and thTishme orning
Consisted of half-crowns.
Hogs, all the money he'found upon the prisone
The policeman said, that with the exception orfwaasfeiw shil-
half-
crowns.
ened to kill him if he went home that night, and
The prisoner, in his defence said, his mother htiaiedt thherehaetd
taken the money in order to provide himself with other
lodgings.
Sir. Booth said he had no wish to prosecute. He had,
until lately, had a brother of the prisoner in his service,
and at his (the prisoner's) father's wish he had taken him
instead of the brother, to enable the latter to obtain higher
wages elsewhere. His parents appeared not to have taken
the care of him which they ought, and there was some
temptation thrown in his way through his (Mr. Booth's)
carelessness. Under these circumstances he did not wish to
prosecute.
James Cook, a shopman, at Mr. Yell's, in Parker-street,
,proved that the prisoner had bought a watch there last night
for 425., which he paid in half-crowns.
Mr: Parkinson, on being appealed to respecting the value
ofc theo Cook
said it was worth no more than 255.
saidhhis master was willing to return the money.
Mr. Rushton, having reprimanded and cautioned the pri-
soner, ordered him to be discharged at the close of the day.
A man named Maguire was convicted in the penalty of
40s. and costs, or in default of payment to be imprisoned one
month, for a violent and unprovoked assault upon Wolff
and
broken against
Benjamin, iu Stanhope-street, Toxteth-park, on Tuesday
last. In connexion with this case,
without notice
there was a charge
Inspector Pool, of having wantonly
open the door of the defendant's father's house, in order to
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investigation,
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Rushton pronounced it unfounded.