The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-11 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

j Before THOMAS JAMES HALL, Esq.)
TUESDAY.
IMPUDENT ItOßßEEY.—llenrs Flynn, and Thomas Beeforth,
were brought up charged by Riibert Taylor, an elderly man,
with e most impudent attempt to rob him on the night previous.
He was passing down Carlton-street when the .
two prisoners
came up, and-asked him if he would have something drink;
one of them then pulled out a k.iife or smne other sharp instru-
ment, and suddenly ripped his waistcoat pocket open, anti he
lost his spectacles and a knife out.- The prisoners then both
ran away ; he iinmediately called watch, and. they were stopped
by the watchman. Lie had nine sovereigns in his fob which. they
luckily missed. Murphy, the watchman, deposed to seeing the
two prisoners runoin,, away, and taking them int,s,) custody.
Ritcheidor said they were both common thieves. they were
committed for three months to Kirkdale.
brought up under a charge of
A %Vat:H.—Maria Willin was
ohtaining money by fortune-telling. WCooinli, the constable,
deposed, that in of information he had received he
went to Limekiln-lane, and entered a house there, and on pro-
ceeding up stairs he found an old woman, the prisoner at the
bar, whose foreknowledge was not able to predict his entrance,
sat'at a table with two yoeng women ; she had cards in her
hand, and there were two sixpences on two different cards which
the 'young women said they had paid to have their fortunes told.
ni) said the young women were ashamed, and did not
like th,cuirie fo-wards, lout there was a witness in court who had
paid for her fortune. An elderly countrywoman here stepped
forward, and said she had heard a great account that the pri-
soner was a conjuror,. and she went to have her fortin told, for
which she paid sixpence. The Magistrate.—Did she tell you
your fortune. Witness.—Whoyrees; she tould me a egret deal
moor than T expected. (Laughtero The migistrate intimated
to the professor of the black art that she must give up her for-
tune-telling, for he must tell her her fortune. The prisoner,
who certainly had a countenance which did not belie her pro-
fession. said she never requested anybody to came to her. The
magistrate said it was perfectly understood that she sat there
for the purpose, and she had better nut be brought before him
again. he was discharged.
Ronakay.—Jane Gillespie, and Rose M`Callister, quite a
child, two girls of the town, were brought up charged with hay-
ing robbed the mate of a vessel of his purse, containing
Complainant said that he and his friend (another mate) were
walking through the town the night before, when they went into
au oyster shop in lVilliainsoo-square to have seine oysters.
Hearing some music up stairs, they ordered their oysters tii be
carried there, and whilst there the two prisoners came in. They
had a glass of grog each, and he asked one of the girls if she
would have a glass of sherry, which she assented to, and he paid
for it putting his purse afterwards in his %vaistcoat pocket. Soon
after his friend, and the other girl Gillespie haul some words,
and parted from each other, and his friend fell asleep. Gilles
pie thee came and hustled close to the siwboard side of his
waistcoat, and begged of him to take his friend away; he hail
his money in the larboard pocket. In a few oninaes afterwards
the girls left, and he soon after missed purse and mimes and
all, they had not left him a "shot in the locker." Another girl
the.) told him where to steer to find the girls, and he went to a
house which he boarded, but they fasteoA down the hatches,
and would not let him come out again. Ile hove too with 'eat,
and after a broadside succeeded in getting clear. Ile then told
the first watch.nan he met, coil 6'olll the description he gave
him of their figure-heads, the watch had made a prize of the
two girls. Murphy, the constab!e, corroborated this, and said
that nothing was found on the persons of the girls. "There being
no evidence criminating AL(Callister she was discharged; the
other prisoner was ordered to stand down till next day. Next
slay Gillespie was again brought up, but there being no evidence
to trace the money to her she was discharged.