The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-06 00:00:00

THE COINING CASE.

The examination of Edward Arnett, the father of the pri-
soner, Edward Arnett, who was committed on. Wednesday last,
was resumed on Friday, in the magistrates' room.
Robert Barton, constable, deposed to having searched Arnett's
house in Virgil-street, and to finding seven pawn-tickets, six of
which were for plate pledged in the name of Edward Arnett of
Richmond-row, and the other for a remnant of silk. They
were pledged at the shop of Miss Little, pawnbroker. The
plate was produced.
Miss Little said the plate had been pledged at her house, but
she could not say by whom. ,At the time it was pledged Mr.
Arnett's card was handed over to her as the name she was to
enter it to. She was desired to look at Arnett, but said that he,
was not the person who had pledged the plate.
Mr. Powell, the Mint inspector, said, since the prisoner had
been remanded, he had investigated another charge against him
connecting him with the coining. That investigation had been
going o
ntmtil the afternoon before at half-past four, and he
hadas e n
t the particulars by the snail to the Attorney-General,
and wished
the prisoners to be remanded until Tuesday. by
which time he should have received an answer.
Mr. Crewe applied for the discharge of the prisoner as there
was no evidence against him.
Mr. Powell believed that he had found out circumstances
which. would connect the prisoner with the coiuers.
Mr. Harvey thought, under these circumstances, he could not
refuse the application to remand the prisoner, Mr. Powell not
being, prepared to bring forward his evidence; he thought too,
it would be an accommodation to the
prisoner.
Mr. Crewe still persevered in his application, when
Mr. Harvey said he would consult with Mr. Hall on the
subject.
Mr. Hall having entered the room, said that it was an every
day practice to' detain parties when the circumstances appear-
ed to the magistrates to be such as to. authorise their detention.
It-Might be of great consequence that the evidence. should be
complete before it was brought forward, otherwise witnesses
might betampered with. The. first
.cause of his detention was
fur receiving stolen plate, the evidence of which was not con-
clusive;, but Mr. Powell now said he had. found out further
4v.idente tonneeting Mai *Air' the coining.

Mr. Crewe wished sufficient evidenc.: to be produced to war-
.rant his committal, he then .saw nothing
.agaitist his client. ~
Parkinson,. the constable, then deposed that he went to search
the prisoner's house in Ric:l-mond-row, and .-he found in a box
up stairs a counterfeit sovereign and 'a counterfeit half crown
wrapped up:separately in the box; there was a large• sum of
good money by ►tself. The prisoner had told him previously
that he had no counterfeit money in his possession.
On being cross4mamined by Mr. Crewe, he said the prisoner
kept a retail chandler's shop in Richmond-row, and. was doing
an extensive business. He might have received this money in
the course of his trade.

Mr. Powell deposed that the money was of the same descrip-
tion as the money found in Virgil-street, and had never been
in circulation.

Mr. IlarveY said, under these circumstances, he should re-
mand the prisoiter until Tuesday (this day) at 12 o'clock.
The prisoner was then taken away in custody.

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

BEGGING LETTERS.—On Friday, at the Police-office, Mr.
Lloyd, solicitor, appeared before the magistrates to lay a com-
plaint against a female, who gave her name as Ann Robinson.
On Thursday the woman had called at his office with a number
of letters, stating that her husband had, been many years in the
employment of Messrs. Buck and Starlefunt, his agents at Pres •
ton, and producing% letter purporting to be signed by them,
she concluded with applying for relief.- The letters were not in
the handwriting of the parties they purported to be, and it was
his opinion that the husband Of the woman was a person who
had been going about amongst solicitors representing„hiniself as
on business in the town, and as clerk to Messrs. Buck and Star-
lefunt, and producing letters of credit for small amounts of El
and £2 for unluoked for expenses, and which in many instances
he had obtained. He applied to have the woman detained till
inquiries could be made. Mr. Hall said he would commit her
for one mouth for the imposition, which would be sufficient de-
tainment.
THE RESULT OF INTEMPERANCE.—On Friday, at the Police-
office, a respectable-looking young man named Thomas Woods
was placed before the magistrates charged with having been
found the night before in a state of beastly drunkenness, lying
in the streets. He had been conveyed to Bridewell for safety,
which had probably been the means of saving his life, for on his
reaching Bridewell he was found in such a state that it was ne-
cessary to send for a surgeon and apply the stomach pump. On
searching him, between £6O and £7O in gold was found upon
him. On being placed before the magistrates, he said that he
was a passenger on board the ship Birmingham, about to sail
kr America, and that he was going to emigrate. lie had lost
£l5O in notes, which had probably been taken from him by some
person the night before, but he did not recollect anything about
it,. He was discharged. There is not the slightest evidence to
trace the robbery.
Excise INFoRMATIONS.—Henry Andrew BateS appeared
before the magistrates to answer to an information preferred
against him by the officers of excise on Friday last. Thomas
Lee, officer of Excise, deposed to having received information
on the 18th ult., that Captain Bates, of the Erin, had detained
from the passengers a two-gallon jarof whisky and some foreign
wine, and applied it to his own use, under a pretext that it would
be seized bylthe revenue-officers,!and which bad been brought on
hoard, for the purpose of getting it smuggled, by some of his
passengers who came from Newry. He went on board and in-
formed him of this, but the captain denied that he had done so.
He\ (witness) then said he should search his stores, and on doing
so found the whisky and foreign wine as stated. The jar 'was
half empty, and the captain then ordered his steward to fill it up
again from the stores, and, calling him on one side, said the
passengers had, without his knowledge, attempted to smuggle
it, and he had ordered his steward to detain it. He, in conse-
quence, seized the goods. Alexander Burney, the steward, was
called, and deposed to the captain ordering him to put the
whisky amongst the ships' stores, and tell the passengers when
they called for it that it was seized. The whisky was afterwards
used as ships' stores. A gentleman who appeared on behalf of
the captain, who was not able to attend, put in a written state-
ment in mitigation. The magistrates convicted him in the mi-
tigated penalty of £25.
Thomas Caffrey, who keeps a tailor's shop, appeared to answer
an information charging him with having in ins possession some
smuggled negro-head tobacco. Woodroffe, the Excise-officer,
said he had information that Caffrey was dealing in this tobacco,
and lie gave an assistant, in July last, sixpence to go and par-
chase some. He saw him enter the shop and purchase some of
the tobacco. He then went in himself and asked the defendant
if he had any, which he positively denied, He, however, searched
the house, and in a cupboard he found 81!)s. of negro-head to-
bacco. He asked him for his permit, and he replied, "how
could he have a permit for a contraband article." The magis-
trates fined him in the mitigated penalty of £25.
Richard Robinson, a sailor, appeared to answer to an infor-
mation charging him with having, in July last, smuggled a
quart of whisky. Woodroffe stated that one of his assistants
saw the defendant coining from on board the ship Mersey, and
endeavouring to conceal a quart bottle of whisky in his coat
breast. They then went on board and searched his berth, and
found another quart bottle of whisky. The defendant said he
had saved it from his sea store. The magistrates fined him in
the mitigated penalty of £25, not having power further to lower
the fine

Thomas Welsh, a sailor, appeared to answer to an informa-
tion charging him with having attempted to smuggle a large
quantity of spirits. Woodruffe stated' that betwee❑ ten and
eleven o'clock on the evening of the 10th of July last the defen-
dant was stopped by a policeman carrying a box, and, on ask-
ing him what it contained, he refused to answer. On breaking
the box open, it was found to have in it a small keg which con-
tained about five gallons of whisky. The magistrates lined him
in the mitigated penalty of £23.

Tax OBSTRUCTIONS IN STANLEY-STREET.--Oil Friday, at
the Police-ollice, upwards of forty furniture-brokers residing
in Stanley-street were summoned before the magistrates charged
with exposing their furniture for sale at the outside of their
shops, and obstructing the footwalk. Mr. Venables was engaged
on behalf of one or two of the parties, and all depended on one
decision. Inspector Martin deposed to John iirown being a
furniture-broker, and residing in Stanley-street. On the 13th
of August last he had three chairs exposed for sale outside of his
door.---Inspector Lyon corroborated" this. - "On -being -erois-
examined by Mr. \ enables, he raid he had known the street
about twelve months; nearly every person in the street was a
furniture-broker, and nearly all of them had been in the habit
of exposing their furniture at the front of their doors for sale.
Mr. Venables supposed the question was now raised by the fact
being proved. He could not contend that Stanley-street was
not a public thoroughfare, and that these were not obstructions;
but Stanley-street had been, if he might use the expression, from
time immemorial, the residence of furniture-brokers, and that
the custom of exposing their furniture for sale had so far pre-
vailed as to give them a right of market, as in Moortields in
London. Mr. Hall inquired the width of the footway;_ to which
Martin replied that it was only five or six feet wide. Mr. Vena-
bles said it was a matter of great consequence to the brokers to
expose their furniture, for, if they did not, they might as well
shut up their shops at once. Mr. Hall said, strictly speaking,
the case was certainly within the act of parliament, for there
was no exception made with regard to any street. Any person
might walk, if he chose, in Stanley-street, and furniture on the
footway was an obstruction to passengers. Did they mean to
continue exposing. it? Mr. Venables said perhaps Mr. Hall
would fix a limitation for them to place their furniture a certain
distance, for it was necessary to their trade that they should ex-
pose it. Mr. Hall said he must decide one way or the other.
If he were to draw a line, applications would be made from va-
rious parts of the town for the same indulgence. Mr. Venables
said then it would destroy the trade of the inhabitants of the
street. who were exclusively furniture-brokers. Mr. Hall said
the obstruction must, be discontinued; the act of parliament
made no exception, and he could make no distinction between
the different streets of the town. The circumstances adduced
might go in mitigation of the fine. if he were to permit it, he
should be making a new law. He supposed all the cases were
similar. The majority of the defendants acquiesced that the
decision of one should govern them. Mr. Hall said in all those
cases where the parties had admitted the offence, he should put
on a very small fine. The act of parliament was perfectly clear
on the subject, and they must endeavour in future to keep their
furniture within their houses. By. that act it was declared to be
a nuisance, and ho hoped the parties would not be brought be-
fore him again. He should fine those who had admitted the
obstruction Is. and costs. Those who did not admit the obstruc-
tion were fined 2s. 6d. and costs.

ERROR OF A PawNettoeea.—Peter Allwood, a pawnbroker,
appeared, by his servant, on Friday last, in answer to a summons
issued against him by Katharine htliot. The latter stated, that
she had, on Saturday week, taken and pledged a pair of trowsers
for ls. 3d. On Saturday, she went with her sou to redeem them.
Her son placed the ticket and ls. 31d. in the hands of Miss All-
wood. 't hey waited there from ten o'clock until twelve, when
Miss Allwood came forward and said, that she had already de-
livered the goods. This was denied, and the poor woman said
she would appeal to the magistrates. Miss Allwood said she
might do so, but she would not appear, and that it should cost
her a pretty penny before she got any redress. Mr. Allwood's
servant said that Miss Allwood was out of town. The trowsers
had been delivered to the complainant, but she had suffered
some one else to take them up, The boy who was with the
complainant, swore most distinctly, that Miss Allwood had never
been near him, after she took the ticket and money. The value
of the trowsers was stated by the complainant to be 55., by Mr.
Allwood's servant 2s. Mr. Hall said, that pawnbrokers in
,general behaved exceedingly ill on these occasions, giving the
poor people, with whom they had disputes, all the trouble they
poSsibly could. Mr. Hall ordered that Mr. Allwood should pay
4s, to the complainant, and 2s. costs to the court.
A CREDITABLE ACQUAINTANCE.—On Saturday,
at the Police-
office, a young lady having flaxen hair falling in profuse and
flowing ringlets down each side of her face, and wearing a large
t, which
black veil, which enveloped a fashionably made bonnet,
had suffered woefully in shape from ride contact with the police,
and who rejoiced in the harmonious name of Miss. Mary Eliza-
beth Creeton, was brought before the magistrates charged with
being disorderly the night before in London-road. A policeman
stated that he saw the female pi isoner, walking with_ a man in
a very disorderly state u
Londou-road the night before. He
told them to go home add walked after them; the man, on see-
ing him following, ran down a back street and the female bolted
into a cook shop and into a back room, where he followed her.
She was not getting anything
.to eat. He thought the circum-
stances suspicious. and not being able to obtain any satisfartory
account from her, he took her into custody. On being searcheil
at Bridewell a gold watch was found upon her and LI 9s. in
ey. Miss Mary Elizabeth Creetou—" One pound twelve
snri Int sif you please, and a gold watch, and cheene, amid seals."'
deweii.keeper said that a little had been taken for her
The Bri
victuals and for her bed. Miss Mary Elizabeth—" Hoi've got
CIO victuals and no bed for the last forty-eight hours, and bui
should like to know why hoi 'm brought here. Hui came from
Manchester the other day, and am a lady of high respectability
from London, as von may aux Mrs. Hawkesworth, ofthe Talbot
inn,it, Vernon-street, as knows wot hoi am; and hoi was wok-
int; towards the Theatre from the Zoological Gardens with a
friend, to which place of ainoozement the E DITOR of the Liverpool
Journal had given me a ticket of admission, when,hoi wos hap-
prehended by this here hofficer, and hoi consider it most scan-
dalous husage." The announcement of the name of the lady's
friend created quite a sensation in court. The name of the
Editor of the Journal never created such a sensation before. The
whole court, not excluding the magistrates on the bench, burst
into a general titter, in the midst of which Miss Mary Elizabeth
Creeton was discharged. Truly the Editor (1f the Journal, like
many anotherfortunate:wight, has reason to exclaim, "Save me
from my fiends !"
STEALING A WATCH.—On Saturday, at the Police-office, a
female named Mary Crawford, was placed before the magis-
trates charged, with having in her possession, and offering for
sale a gold watch, of which she could give no satisfaFtotrlataca-
count. A watchmaker, who resides in Cheap side, sid
female brought the watch to his shop the afternoon before, and
wished him to purchase it at any price. She said
washing.
she had
brought it from some gentleman, for whom she
He told her she must satisfactorily convince
hint
she went hack and brought the prisoner at the wofhothsi:idasniide
wanted £lO for it, and, if he would not give tltlaet,n called,
to live what
he chose forit. She said it was hers.
policeman and gave her into custody. The prisoner said the-,
captain of a vessel had given her it. IMr. Hall said that was all
nonsense; the watch was worth £lO at least. She was remanded
to atioid time for the officers to make inghiries about it. The
watch is a hati'dseine lint gold watch, with a.silYer face.