The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THEFT BY AN OFFICE Boy.—On Tuesday, two boys, namrd
George Young and John Sloane, were brought' up at the Po-
licecou rt, charged with stealing a sum of money and a coat, from
the office of Messrs. Shaw and Spence, merchants, India-build-
ings.—Alr. John Shaw, son of one of the partners, stated that
Young had been ten days in their service as an office boy
previously to the 19th of December last. Ou the morning of
that day, when he (Mr. Shaw) went to the office, he found a
candle burning on the counter, but the inside shutters were not
opened. He examined the safe and found it open, and the
cash box. containing from £7. to £lO. in gold and silver, taken
away. He also missed five shillings from the mantel piece,
and a frock coat from the office. The shutters were secure, so
that the office had not been entered by the window, He had
left the prisoner Young on the preceding evening to put the
books in their places, and to lock up the safe and deposit the
key in the drawer. After locking up the office, it was his duty
to take the key to the watehouseman, and get, it back in the
morning. Young was not on the premises, and on enquiry it
appeared that he had obtained the key from the warehouseman,
and in concert with Sloane, the other prisoner, who kept watch
outside, had gone to the office that morning, and tarried away
the box containing the money, with whiCh they immediately de-
camped to Manchester. Information having been given to the
police, search was made for the prisoners, and they were brought
up on Friday last in the custody of one of the Manchester police,
when they were remanded. in addition to Mr. Shaw's state-
ment, Sloane told Lloyd, one of the constables, that he had been
called out of his aunt's house by Young on the morning of the
robbery, and that, alter it was committed, they had proceeded
as far as Prescot, where the box was opened and the money
taken out. They then threw the box into a ditch. The coat
was given to a woman who undertook to find them lodgings,
and the money was spent soon after.—Mr. Hall said he could
not conceive how a boy like Young should have had money en-
trusted to him, and he thought Mr. Shaw was blameable in ex-
posing him to temptation. There was more evidence against
Sloane than against Young. The evidence of the former was
not confirmed in any one particular except against himself.
After some further observations, in the course of which Mr.
Hall expressed his doubts as to the sufficiency, of the evidence,
but on which he said a .jury would decide, the prisoners were
committed to the sessions.

RIVAL BRORERS.—On Tuesday, James O'Connell, a custom's
broker, was brought before Mr. Pall by a " brother of the trade
named Edward David Jones, charged with an assault on the
complainant. Mr. Jones stated that on Friday last, while he
was in the discharge of his duty as a broker of customs, Mr.
O'Connell presented his card to a gentleman; and on his look-
ing at the card, Mr. O'Connell struck him a violent blow in the
face. The gentleman to whom the card was shown, confirmed
the complainant's statement. When the card was shown to-the
witness, Mr. O'Connell observed that though they were oppo-
nents in business, he would be happy to do any thing to oblige
him. Mr. Jones had then looked at the card, and was struck
in the manner described. Mr. O'Connell, who appeared to he
greatly excited, and who had previously asked the complainant
if occurrences of that kind had not taken place before, sail that
these things were occurring daily with the complainant. About
nine months ago, he (Mr. O'Connell) had brought him up to
that court, when he received a reprimand from Mr. Hall, such
as he (the defendant) never thought he would forget. Mr. Dow-
bad then stated that he was a disorderly character. He
(Mr. O'Connell) declared most solemnly, that he did not strike
the complainant. When he showed his card to the gentleman,
Jones laughed in his face, and lifted up his top coat to make the
important discovery whether or not he conformed so far to Eng-
lish manners as to wear a shirt ! and feeling indignant at his
behaviour he drove him back. He was but of short standing
as a broker; and was viewed with jealousy and suspicion by the
complainant, who bad told him that he was an Irishman, and
asked why he did not stop in his own country, and not come
and take the breal out of his mouth. He had told defendant
that he and such-like Irishmen ought to be hanged, and Daniel
O'Connell hanged first ; and, to crown the whole, he called him
a thief in the presence of others. Mr. Hall remarked that
nothing he had said was an answer to the charge of assault
which had been sworn to by Jones and his witness. Mr. O'Con-
nell said he had attended with bail, and he wished both parties
to be bound over to keep the peace. Jones was constantly also
under the influence of liquor. Mr. Hall said it was perfectly
clear that people resorting to the Custom-house must be annosea
from day to day by these quarrels. If Mr. O'Connell had any
cause of complaint against Jones, he must bring him there.—
The defendant was ordered to pay 20s. and costs, or in default
be inaprisoned sixteen days in the Borough House of Correction.
MASTER AND APPRENTICE.—Mr. Richard Gardiner ap-
peared before Mr. Hall, on Wednesday, having been summoned
by John Price, his apprentice. Mr. Gardiner produced the
indentures and handed them to Mr. Hall. The complainant
said he had been working piece-work for some time past. Last
week but one he made the sum which it was requisite he should
make for his father, and 2s. 6d. over, to which he was entitled.
When he came to get his wages his master would only pay
him 3s. 9d., though he ought to have received his board wages,
which were 7s. and 2s. 6d. which he had earned. The master
said the statement as to the rate of wages was correct. He
referred Mr. Hall to a clause in the indentures, which provided
that the apprentices were not to receive payment for more time
than they actually worked, Mr. Hall asked for proof of the
actual time during which the apprentice had worked in the
week in question. Mr Gardiner called his time-keeper, who
produced the books. , The time-keeper said the complainant
had absented himself during the whole of the past week. In
the course of the whole of the former week he had only worked
three days and a quarter. Therefore he had lost one day with
another two days and three quarters. The time-keeper specified
the time lost on each day according to the books. The appren-
tice said he had a certain sum of money to earn for his master.
That sum he had earned and 2s. 6d. over; he therefore thought
he was entitled to his full wages and the profit too. Mr. Hall :
"Do you suppose that I shall order you to be paid your full
wages for six days when you have only actually worked little
better than half of that time? The master said the case stood
thus. The complainant and another young man had, tasks set.
What they jointly earned above that was equally divided
between them. During the week in question their joint earn-
ings had amounted to a sum which entitled them to 2s. 6d. profit
each. The complainant had credit for this sum; though be had
himself lost so much time that he was curtailed of 3s. 3d. of his
wages.—Mr. Hall dismissed the complaint.
Stuucei,lNG.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a man named
Dennis M‘Cool, the steward of the Robertson Pier vessel, was
placed at the bar of the Police-office, on a charge of attempting
to smuggle a large quantity of whiskey. A police officer stated
that that morning, about nine o'clock, he observed a cart with
a quantity of goods coming from the Prince's Dock. He ex-
amined the goods and found a large jug in a basket in the cart.
The carter said he brought it from the pier, anti that the stew-
ard of one of the packets put it on the cart. From the carters
description he found out the prisoner, who acknowledged that
the jug was his. A Custom-house officer deposed that the jug
contained three gallons and two quarts of whiskey. The pri-
soner said he knew nothing about what the jug contained, he
bad been requested by another person to get it on shore, and
was told it contained catsup. He had no permit. He was stew-
ard on board the Robertson. Pier. Mr. Hall said he convicted
him in the mitigated penalty of £25, or to be committed for
three months to Kirkdale.

ItoneEn Y.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a well known and
hardened thief, named Mary Brennan, was placed before the
magistrates, charged with having stolen a coffee pot. A police-
man stated, that at about 11 o'clock that morning he was
coming past the Adelphi, and saw the prisoner and another
woman going up Copperas-bill : knowing them to be bad cha-
racters, he followed them to a shop which they had just left and
inquired if they had lost anything, when the people of the shop
stated, after a short examination, that they had lost a coffee
pot. He immediately followed the women, and on the person
of the prisoner he found the coffee pot. The prisoner said she
had bought it for Bd., and had paid for it just and honest. The
complainant here stated that the coffee pot was hers, and that
the prisoner had not boug,ht it off her. Depredations of this
kind were continually being made on her property. Mr. Hall
sentenced the prisouer to be imprisoned three months in the
Borough House ot Correction.
STEALING IRON.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a ruffian-
looking fellow, well known to the police, named Martin, was
placed before the magistrates, charged with having stolen a
piece of pig iron from the Docks. A policeman deposed that
he saw the prisoner pick up a piece of pm iron from the quay of
the Prince's Dock and put it under his jacket. He immediately
went towards him, when the prisoner seeing him approach him
shrunk away and dropped the piece of iron behind a cart.—
When asked what he had to say in defence, the prisoner, in a
strong Irish brogue said, " I'd a mind to bring id away, bud I
tuk a second thought an' trew it out ov me hand, an' then this
young man follid me." Mr. Parkinson said the prisoner was a
well known thief. Prisoner.—" 1 was not staling at all, shur."
Mr. Hall.—" You are very well known; you are always steal-
ing about the docks." Prisoner.—" Times is very bad, shur."
Mr. Hall.—" One month to the Borough House of Correction."
DRUNKEN SERVANTS.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a
lady named Taylor appeared to prefer a complaint against her
cook, Mary M`Fee, who appeared at the bar, for getting drunk
and assaulting her. Mrs. Taylor stated the prisoner was her
cook, and on Wednesday she found her drunk in the kitchen.
She had got the key of the wine cellar, and taken out two bot-
tles of wine and a bottle of porter : of this, however, she had no
proof. She was so drunk in the back kitchen that she could
not get on with her cooking, and she (complainant) told her to
sit down till she was sober. She (the prisoner) then went to
the fire, and took up the shovel. and begun stirring the fire,
covering the meat with ashes and spoiling it, and she again told
her to give over and sit down, when she (the prisoner) struck
her a violent blow with the shovel, and so stunned her that she
had to be carried out of the kitchen by the other two servants.
A policeman staled that he was called into Mrs. Taylor's house
to take the prisoner into custody ; she made an attack upon him
also.—Mr. Hall said, this was pretty conduct in a servant ; on
her mistress going into the kitchen she had assaulted her.—Mrs.
Taylor said the prisoner had only been a week with her, but a
recommendation.—Mr. Hall: First of all she disgraces the
house-by getting drunk, which is a very high offence in a ser-
vant, and then she assaulted her mistress.—Prisoner : " She
shoved me first, and I only shoved,her back again."—Mr. Hall:
We shall fine you 20s. and costs, or in default you must be
committed fur sixteen days to the Borough Gaol.

ASSAULT.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a young man,
Edward Jones. was placed at the bar charged with having com
-
nntted ainost brutal assault on a respectable man named James
Davreson, the night before, •in Dale-street. The complainant,
wt.o appeared with his face covered with plasters, and his head
much swollen, and his -face discoloured, deposed that he was
going home from seeing a friend, the night before, between
twelve and one o'clock, and, when passing the top of Dale-
street, he met the prisoner, who pushed against him, and got
hold of him. He asked him what he wanted with him—had he
any business with him, when the prisoner replied, b' I'll soon
let you know," and with that he hit him a most violent blow on
the face with something in his fist which knocked him down
senseless, where he remained till the policeman picked him up.
A policeman stated that he saw the prisoner knock the com-
plainant down on the bricks at the top of Dale-street, and when
he was down the prisoner struck him and kicked him; he (the
policeman) then came up and made him a prisoner. The com-
plainant appeared quite stupefied with the blows he had re-
ceived. The complainant here stated that he had a surgeon to
his face. and he had stated that it was cut right into the bone,
and he was afraid he should lose one of his eves. The prisoner
said he knew nothing about it. He was a fireman out of em-
ployment, He never saw the complainant in his life before.
Mr. Hall Said it. was a most savage assault ; the prisoner had
knocked him down and kicked hid, and probably struck him
with some instrument in his hand. The magistrates had no
hesitation in going the Lull extremity of the law. They con-
victed hint in the penalty of £5. including costs, and in default
of payment to be committed for two months to the Borough
Gaol:

A GENUINE JbHN But.t.—Yesterday, at the pOlice office,
a farmer named Johu Hockleshaw, of Qllerton, was summoned
'before the magistrates on a charge of his two Men having
removed night soil Horn two places,. from the twin of Liver-
pool, during the hours not allowed by law. On both inforiha-
lions he Was fined 6s. 6d. with costs. - The defendant presented
a finkt specimen of an old English farmer. He' was a man
about 60 yeari of age, immensely stout, but, active withal, res-
pectably dressed in farmer style, and had an expression on his
features of sulkiness at being brought there, and dogged obsti-
nacy. His defence was, that he knew nothing about his men
being in Liverpool, having given them orders to go elsewhere.

He was fined, however, notwithstanding, when he immediately
said he . would not pay. Mr. Hall: "Is that your determina-
tion ?" 'Farmer: Yei." Mr. Hall "Then I must order
you into custody till cry warrant can be returned." The old
man then submitted to be taken into custody, and was placed
in the prisoner's dock. After remaining there a short time,
Mr. Hall again addressed him. " Come now, why cannot
you pay this fine? You seem a respectable man, and I don't
wish to be harsh with you. You know I have power to detain
you till my warrant for the sale of stacent of your property to
cover the tine and expeuses has been returned. Come put your
hand in your pocket." Fanner—" I don't see that I ought
to pay it." Mr. Hall: As to my reasoning with a farmer, that
is quite oat of the question. Look here, suppose I send my
warrant; you will look very foolish to be kept here till Satur-
day; you will lose two days, and when you get home you will
find a part of your property taken under my warrant, and will
be laughed at by all the farmers arround you. Come pay the
13s. Fanner (after considering awhile), "rake something off
it." (Laughter.) Mr. I will lessen the flue and
put you in the same situation as some of the others who have
been fined. Pay ss. 6d. for each information, that will be Ils.
then, 2s. off. The old farmer without uttering a svllableslowly
paid the money, shilling by shilling and then walked 4teadily
and sulkily out of the court.