The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-03 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

STABBING.—On Thursday, Ann Roach was brought up
on a charge of stabbing her husband with a knife. The
offence was proved, and the prisoner fined £5, or to be
imprisoned two months, and a further period of four
months in default 9f sureties to keep the peace.
IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—On Friday, Roger M'Anally, a
dock porter, was brought before Mr. Rushton, charged
with stealing eighteen barrels of flour from the Waterloo
Dock. A person in the service of Messrs. Sanders and
Claxton stated that on the previous day he was engaged
discharging the cargo of a vessel in the Waterloo Docic:
he was obliged to leave for a short time, and during his
absence the barrels were taken away. Two men, it ap-
peared, coolly loaded a float, and as coolly drove off with
them. The float was found in the street deserted by the
driver, who decamped on seeing the witness return to his
charge. The man left in charge of the vessel identified
the prisoner as one of the men who loaded the float. In
his defence he said he had been hired by the driver to help
him to load the float, and knew nothing of the robbery.
He was remanded. •

CHARGE OF ARSON.—On Friday, at Birkenhead police
court, before J. S. Jackson, Esq., James Clayton, landlord
of the Egerton Arms' Hotel, and Ralph Webster, were
brought up for final examination on a charge of arson. It
appeared from the evidence that, on Monday evening,
three fires broke out in Clayton's house, two in the spirit
vaults, and one under the cellar stairs. Webster was seen
to place some shavings under the stairs, and set fire to
them. He was seized, but escaped by the aid of Clayton.
He was taken some time after. Several rather suspicious
circumstances came to light, but nothing beyond suspicion.
Both prisoners were committed for trial, it being intimated
by the magistrate that he should consider whether he would
accept of bail for Clayton.
SMOKE NUISANCE.—Several informations were, on
Tuesday, heard at the Police-court, against parties for
not, in conformity with a clause in the Sanatory Act,
consuming the smoke from their steam-engine, furnaces,
&c. The first case was that of the steamer Alexander,
plying to the Rock Ferry, the funnel of which emitted
volumes of black smoke. Mr. Grantham, engineer, said
a smoke-consumer had been put in, and must hr.ve been
negligently used, otherwise the smoke complained of
would not have arisen. Mr. Rushton considered the case
proved, but deferred fixing the penalty. In the case of
Willey and Smith, the latter stated that he considered the
consumer had a tendency to destroy the boilers, and thus
end 1•1'.
I property, Mr. Grantham did not con-

anger life anc
cur in this deduction, and instanced a case in which
consumers had been used for years without such result.
Mr. Rushton adjourned the case for further enquiry on
Saturday, when the case against the steamer was with-
drawn. Further evidence was heard in the other,—con-
firming Mr. Grantham's opinion, and Messrs. Willey and
Co. were fined £5 and costs. Mr. Rushton said he now
satisfied himself, by the evidence of Mr. Grantham and
the otner witnesses, that the smoke-consuming apparatus
did not injure the boilers, and he hoped every person
connected with furnaces would take warning that, if
informations against them came before him the penalty
would lie.
COMMITTAL OF A SPORTING GENTLEMAN TO PRISON.

—On Thursday, James Brown, a person well known in
the sporting world, appeared at the Police-court, in
answer to a charge of assault brought against him by
police-officer Richard Parry. The officer stated that on
the previous evening the defendant was at the Zoological
Gardens, and attempted to force his way into the ball-
room without having a ticket. The defendant was intoxi-
cated, and after being put back repeatedly, and remon-
strated with by the officer, he struck at him several times,
and on one occasion inflicted a blow over the face. It
was stated that there was another offence of a similar
character against Mr. John Mytton, also a sporting cha-
racter, who had assaulted Mr. Sumner, a gentleman con-
nected with the Licensed Victuallers' Society. Ile was
taken to Bridewell, and liberated on giving bail. Samuel
Kirkpatrick, one of the ticket-takers, stated that the de-
fendant was refused admission because he was disorderly
and had a un told that such

prte with him. fie was paut
characters couldosti ntuot be admitted, upon which the assault
took place. Mr. Rushton said, the case was very severe
against against the defendant ; a gentleman, presuming on his
rank, to go into the ball-room of the Licensed Victuallers'
Society, intoxicated, and with a prostitute, amongst the
wives and daughters of respectable tradesmen, was too
outrageous a thing to be tolerated. Mr. Rushton said he
was prepared to admit the right of respectable people
having their enjoyments protected; a fine on the gentle-
man would to him be nothing, and he should order him
to give sureties for his appearance to answer any indict-
ment at the next sessions. He was then ordered into
custody. Brown was fined £5, which he paid imme-
diately. The prisoner Mytton was liberated on bail,
himself in £lOO, and two sureties in X5O eavh.