The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-31 00:00:00

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so the signal was made as pre-arranged for fifty:men from committed to gaol for a month in default of paying the
her Majesty's ships for pumping. penalty.
We were therefore put to our shifts, and the work re-
ROBBING A CAR DRlVER.—Yesterday, Thos. Parkin-
quired for anchors, cables, warps, boxes, and their appen- son was brought before the magistrates, charged with
dages, which were all cut adrift, by occupying our crew stealing a horse-cloth and whip from John Jones, a car
allowed the pumps to get behind hand, and the water, driver. The complainant was at a house in Skelhorne-
which it was reputed required fewer pumps than before, street, on Saturday, taking up a fare, when the prisoner
speedily got ahead and at four she was to all appearance a took away the horse-cloth and whip and was in the act of
_ _ . . • waa taken info I-mei-nay_ He was an

The magist:

rate ordered hhal'to be commit-

water-logged ship, Fresh vigour was, however, infused, .
and before we got off Strangford, where I thought it best old offender
to go, a thick, a most dense fog came on, and obliged us ted for trial.
to go to Belfast; where baying kept the water under, we INGWEST.—Yesterday, on view of the body of John
arrived at about 4, p.m. lam now shipping labourers, and Rourke, aged 55. He resided in a cellar in Slade-street,
hope to be able to start to-morrow. A dry ship.—Your's lay down before the fire on Wednesday night to sleep,
truly, (Signed) C. C. CLAXTON. and was found dead next morning. The surgeon attri-
To Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co. buted death to disease of the lungs, and a verdict of
" natural death" was accordingly returned. The only

The Eastham regatta will take place to-day, and the important fact elicited was that there were three persons
sports will be first rate. sick of fever in the cellar at the time, and that six per-
A MAN FOUND DROWNED.—An inquest was held sons lived in the same wretched place. The health com-
yesterday at the coroner's office on view of the body of a mittee will, no doubt, look to this.
A DEATH UNACCOUNTED FOR.—Yesterday an inquest
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state of one
was held at the Coroner's office on view of the body of
decomposition, and the height was 5 feet 6 inches. Susan Kelly, aged 24, who lived with her husband in a
CRICKET MATCHES.—We understand that a match will cellar in Brick-street. It appeared from the evidence so
be played on Wednesday (to-morrow) morning between far that she did not often drink, but that when she did
the first eleveri of the Edge-hill and the Olympus so, as on Saturday last, she was extremely violent, and in
Cricket Clubs, on the Edge-hill ground, Hall-lane. A a quarrel with her husband and others she fell down, or
match will also be played on Saturday next, at noon, be- was thrown down the cellar stairs, but whether by her own
tween the second eleven of the Edge-bill and the first act in struggling with her husband did not clearly appear,
eleven of the Bark-hill Clubs, on the ground of the former. and the evidence being inconclusive the inquiry was ad-
CAUTION.—We have authority for informing the public journed.
that a man who is going about the town and neighbour- DEATH FROM DRINKING.—At the Coroner's office yes-
hood with a petition, apparently numerously and respect- terday, an inquest was held on the body of Kilmer Gre-
ably signed with donations for the widow and eight Ivory, a seaman, who lodged in Simpson-street. On
children of the late Lieutenant C. Loftus Robinson, is an ednesday evening he became stupified with drink, and
impostor. He sends the petition into the house with a staggered to bed. Soon after a noise was heard, and he
note, purporting to be from a highly-respectable clergy- was found on the landing of the stair with his feet up.
man at Walton, who knows nothing of the case. The He complained of his shoulder being stiff, and got worse
same liberty is taken with the names of other clergymen ; until Saturday, when a doctor was sent for, but he died
and we can only repeat the caution which we have fre- the same evening. He had been in the habit of drinking
quently given, that no person should be induced to con- much. The surgeon ascribed his death to congestive
tribute to any such applicant, without previous inquiry apoplexy, arising from excessive drinking.
into the truth of his statement. STEALING WEARING APPAREL.—Yesterday, an elderly
SMOKE CONSUMPTION.—Mr. Joseph Williams received woman named Margaret Burke, was brought before the
on Saturday a letter from Messrs. Jones, tobacco mann- magistrates on a charge of robbing Mary Bennett of some
facturers, Chester, stating that " his smoke consuming clothes. The complainant, a poor woman, residing in a
apparatus, after being in operation some months, answered court in Norfolk-street, left her home for a few moments
the purpose most effectually." Messrs. James Glover to go to the grocers, on Saturday evening. On her return
and Co., brewers, of Russell-street, in this town, have she saw the prisoner at the bottom of the staircase with a
also written to Mr. Williams to say that his " apparatus candle, and on being asked what she was doing, replied
completely destroys the smoke, except for a short time that she had taken a pair of trowsers and a vest (which
after making the first fire. We also find there is a saving were in her possession), because she was hungry.
of about about twenty per cent. in coals, with the additional ad- formation was given to the police, and the prisoner, who
vantage of a greater regularity in the heat and despatch did not make any resistance, was taken into custody. She
in boiling the worts : after being in constant use eight stated to the magistrates, in her defence, that she was
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months, we do not find any injury done either to the driven to the commission of the crime by starvao
coppers or stealn boiiert" . prisoner was committed for trial,