The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

PETTY CHARGE.--011 Thursday, a lad named Patrick
Dooley, was brought. before Mr. Rushton, charged with
stealing from Mr. Corkhill, of Leeds-street, a halfpenny-
worth of coals ! The offence not being proved, the little
prisoner was discharged.
A NEW DODGE.—On Friday, a fellow was charged
at the Police-court with having robbed the till of a shop
in Great Howard-street of 4s. 6d. The prisoner, observ-
ing the shop in charge of a boy, informed him that there
was a man on the outside cutting a pane of glass from the
window; the boy immediately ran out to detect the sup-
posed thief, and, during his absence, the money was ex-
tracted from the till.
Mary Ann Howarth and Mary Ann Jones, two young
women charged on Friday week at our poliCe-office, on
suspicion of having been concerned in an extensive rob-
bery at Manchester, and from whom upwards of £6O in
£5 bank notes, gold, and silver, have been delivered up
to the Manchester police. The prisoners are suspected of
having been connected with a gang who had lately com-
mitted several daring and extensive warehouse robberies
in Manchester.

COLLISIONS.—Two cases of collision were on Thurs-
day, brought before Mr. Rushton. The first was the
case of the schooner Lady Saltoun, which came in con-
tact with the Queen of Beauty ferry-boat. As the colli-
sion had, in some measure, been caused by the Lady
Saltoun letting go her stern rope, the case was' dismissed.
—The second case was that of the schooner Success, run
foul of, on Monday morning, in the Salthouse Basin, by
the ship Camillus. It appeared that a fresh breeze was
blowing at the time, when the Hesperus broke loose, tak-
ing the Camillus and two other vessels along with it. This
case also was dismissed.

A BRUTE.—John Jones, apparently a sailor or ship-
carpenter, was charged on Tuesday with the horrible of-
fence of biting off a man's lower lip. The previous night,
the prisoner, with complaiwt, a man named Hugh Jones,
and several others, were playing at cards at a public-house
in Key=street, when a slight quarrel arose, and after they
had got out into the street a scuffle ensued between the
prisoner and the complainant, in the course of which they
fell down together into the channel ; when, before they
could be separated, the prisoner laid hold of the under lip,
of the complainant with his teeth, bit it right off, and spit
it into the street ; it was afterwards picked up, and the
wounded man was taken to a surgeon, who sewed' on the
severed part, but told him that he would be disfigured for
life. The prisoner, in his defence, very coolly said that
the complainant endeavoured to bite him first, and in re.
turn he laid hold of his lip and-bit it off. Mr. Rushton
committed him for trial.

CHARGE OF ARSON.-011 Friday, a youth, named Ball
Patricks, was brought up before Mr. Rushton on a charge
of having attempted to set on fire a joiners' shop, in the
neighbourhood of Abercromby-square. Two men in the
employ of Mr. Bridson stated that on Thursday evening
they were passing Cambridge-street, when they observed
the prisoner go into the joiners' shop belonging to Mr.
Arnold. He had a box of lucifer matches in his hand,
and having lighted one, he proceeded very deliberately to
set fire to some paper and wood, and no doubt the build-
ing would have been burnt down, had it not been for the
act having been noticed by the witnesses. Mr. Arnold
stated that his premises had been burnt down some twelve
months ago, and he never had been able to discover the
cause. The prisoner, in his defence, stated that he had
lighted the matches and paper, but that he intended no
harm. Mr. Rushton observed that the case was of too
serious a nature for him to deal with, and committed the
prisoner for trial at the assizes.
A LIVERPOOL SAINT GILES.—One of the juvenile gra-
duates for Van Dieman's Land, of the genus " Saint
Giles," was, on Friday, brought up before Mr. Rushton
and charged by a man named Wright, a butcher, with pil-
fering 2% of beef from his stall, or shop. With Mr. Wright
there appeared no fewer than five witnesses, including the
police constable, all willing and ready to prosecute the
luckless, ragged, hungry perhaps—and wretOed-looking
boy, whose head, when he stood on tiptoe, could scarcely
be seen above the edge of the dock. The case was fully
proved. And yet neither the kind caution, the humane
advice to abstain from evil and learn tg do well, nor the
touching precept of moral rectitude—of the latter he ap-
peared totally ignorant—were administered to him ; no,
no, the dignity of the law had to be maintained. The
child was put through the usual ordeal to lads of his class
and age, of being interrogated thus :—" Well, boy, what
have you to say to this charge ?" " Oh, sir, I was hun-
gry,"'responded the young offender. "He is one of a lot
who continually annoy my shop," intsed the butcher.
" Seven days l" sonorously responded,. Rushtou,