The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

ALLEGED FELONY.—James M'Connell and another man,
who was subsequently discharged, were on Friday placed at the
bar under the following circumstances:—Robert Nixon, a
book-keeper, stated that he had been at the Amphitheatre on
the night of the 19th December last. He was somewhat in
liquor when he came out, and, as he was passing Stebbing's
public-house, he was knocked down, but he could not tell how
or by whom, and rendered insensible. On the following morn-
ing he found himself in Duncan-street bridewell, where he had
been put for safety—was taken before a magistrate, and of
course discharged; but on going for his property to bridewell,
he found that his watch was missing. He had it safe in his fob
when he left the Amphitheatre. Information of the robbery,
and a description of the watch, (which was a silver lever, worth
five or six guineas,) was communicated to the commissioner.
On the 28:h December he was sent for to the shop of Mr. Jones,
pawn-broker, Gerard-street, and on going, found that the watch
ban been pledged there. Samuel Latchford, an assistant of
Mr. Jones's, deposed that the prisoner, M'Connell, had, on the
20th December,. pledged the watch at his master's for £3, say-
ing that it was his own.—On Thursday, the other prisoner went
to the pawnbroker's to redeem the watch, and a police-officer
having been sent for, he obtained such information as led to the
capture of INlTonnell. The prisoner called evidence to prove
that he had purchased the watch. The first witness, a disorderly
girl, deposed that she had sold a silver watch to the prisoner
for £l, about a week after Christmas: It had been left in her
custody by a sailor, and she had stipulated that the prisoner
was to return it when the owner came back to claim it ! Ano-
ther female witness then presented herself. Magistrate—
" What are you ?" Witness—" lam his Ol'eannell's) wife."
Magistrate—" Stand down, then." The witness finding that
her conjugal relationship formed a bar to the reception of her
evidence, exclaimed, " Oh I am not his wife, but I live with
him. Ido not pass for his wife, because every one knows that
I aninot." Her evidence was then taken, which was in sub-
stance similar to that of the previous witness: she affirmed
that the watch was sold to her quasi spouse about a week after
Christmas, and pawned a day or two after the purchase.-
111‘Connelt was committed to take his tmial.

ATTEMPTED DROWNING.—EIIen Gallagher, a poor, sickly-
lookingon niday, brought before Mr.
young woman, was,
Hall, charged with having attempted to drown herself in the
canal on the preceding day. Dr. Lambert stated, that about
half-past eleven o'clock on Thursday, a police-officer knocked
at his door, and said that a woman had thrown herself into the
canal, and requested his assistance. He (Dr.L.) went to a
house in, Chisenhale-street, where he found the prisoner in a
state of exhaustion, and almost dead; but by the application of
proper remedies she was restored. She had afterwards several
heavy fits. He left her, however, in a state of convalescence.
About five o'clock the woman wished to return home, but the
circumstances of the case were such that he had deemed it ad-
visable to lay the matter before Mr. Hall. He had understood
that she went out with a determination to throw herself into the
canal, Flockhart, one of the constables said, that the prisoner
lived with her mother, in a cellar, betwixt. Atherton-street and
Finnv-lane, and that they were very poor. Dr. Lambert said
he believed the woman had got married to aseaman, and
.that
her mother was dissatisfied with the match. The mothet the
prisoner was here brought forward. Mr. Hall, you don't care
much about your daughter. Mother.—l care too much about
her. She said she went to be married on Easter-Monday, but
she was not married. I went to the place where she was sleep-
ing, and demanded her out of bed. Parkinson, the hridewell,
keeper, said that the mother kept a disorderly house. Flock-
hart said he knew the woman, and she had known him, from
his boyhood, and he never knew her to be a disorderly woman,
though, he believed, she took a drop of drink. One of the
officers, however, gave a quite different account of the house
and mentioned some procee,:ings he had seen, which confirmed
Parkinson's statement. Mr. Hall said he would speak to Mr.
Evans about the prisoner. She was then remanded.

CONCERT, TEMPLAR-HALL.
MADAME FILIPOWICZ, the c,elebrated Violinist, begs
respectfully to announce to ttie Nobility, Gentry, and
Inhabitants of Liverpool, that br/CONCERT will take place
at the TEMPLARS'-HALL, on NIVDAr next, May 7th. A Pro-
gramme of the Performances will be expressed in the Bills of
the day. Tickets may be had at all the Music Shops in Liver-
pool. Tickets for the Body, 55.; Gallery, 3s. 6d.