The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-26 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

CELLARS.—On Friday, no fewer than fifty persons
were fined 20s. each and costs, for occupying cellars not in
conformity with the sanatory act.
On Tuesday, police-officer 148 was suspended, by Mr.
Rushton, for having been drinking with a woman of ill-
fame, and for having subsequently locked up the same
woman, on a charge of being intoxicated.
A man of respectable appearance. who lives at Kirkdale;
was placed at the Police-court on Friday. He had been
taken from a public-house in Richmond-row, he was in a
state of intoxication, and, when taken, had a glass con-
taining sherry and laudanum before him. He was sent
home. _ _

STRIPPING A CHILD.—On Saturday, James Blundell,
a youth of bad character, was charged with stripping the
boots from a little girl, named Grace Williams, and sent
to gaol for three months. He had the impudence to
demand from the mother a pint of ale before he would
deliver up the boots.
ANOTHER POLICEMAN STABBED.—On Saturday Wm.
Jenkins, an elderly mariner, was charged with having stab-
bed a police-constable in the side. The prisoner, it ap-
peared, was, on Friday night, drunk in Scotland-place,
and, on the officer requesting him to go home, he drew a
small pocket-knife and stabbed him in the left side. The
wound, fortunately, was not deep. Mr. Rushton said the
officers must be protected, and he committed the prisoner
for trial.
BIGAMY.—On Wednesday, a man named John Willesey
was brought up before Mr. Rushton, on the charge of
bigamy. He was married to a woman named Mary Ann
Harvey on the 7th July, 1845, at St. Martin's Church,
with whom he continued to live up to a recent date. He
is a seaman, and has just returned from sea; and on his
getting paid he left his first wife, Margaret Keetley, whom
he also left in a few days, and returned to his former wife,
The second wife received information on Monday that the
prisoner was a married man. Both the marriages having
been distinctly proved, the prisoner was fully committed
for trial.

A WOMAN THROWN OUT OF A WINDOW.—About
twelve o'clock on Friday night William Doyle, a young
man, came to his residence, in Prince William-street, in
a state of intoxication. A female with whom he:coha-
bited, afraid of his violence, crept under the bed, but 'he
dragged her out, beat her severely, and then projected her
from the window, two stories high, into the street. The
policeman on duty observed her fall., Her eye was black-
ened, her face seriously bruised, and one of her wrists ap-
peared to be broken. On Saturday Doyle was placed in
the dock at the Police-court, and pleaded that he was so
drunk at the time of the occurrence that he did not know
what tie had done. He was ordered to pay a fine of £5,
or suffer two months imprisonment in default.
STEALING JOINERS' Toots.—On Friday, a middle-aged
and decent-looking person, named Charles Mann, was
charged by W. Blackmore with stealing a chisel, gouge,
saw, a box rule, a plane, and other joiners' tools, of the
total value of 3, from a shed attached to a house in Ken-
sington, of which Blackmore is the gardener. Mr. Andrew
Little, of Rupert-street, Everton, it appeared, was execu-
ting some work at the house in question, and the work-
men's tools were deposited in the shed. Blackmore stated
that on the previous morning, at ten o'clock, he was open-
ing the yard gate, when he heard some one in the shed.
He told his wife some one was stealing the tools. She
said, " Don't go near them, or perhaps he will knock your
brains out." By-and-bye the prisoner came out with the
tools which have been named, when Blackmore pursued
him, and held him till assistance could be obtained. He
was committed for trial.
REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—lnspector M`Donald charged
an elderly man, who gave his name Wm. Mansell, before
Mr. Rushton, on Thursday, with having embezzled twenty
shillings. The prisoner is said to be the son of a member
of parliament, and the brother of a barrister now living ;
he presented all the marks of decayed gentility ; his per-
son was attenuated, and he was clad in garments that
once had been new. Mr. Jeoffrey Bevan, the proprietor
of a haberdashery shop in St. Anne-street, stated that
the prisoner had agreed to collect his accounts at a per
centage. In pursuance of this agreement, Mansell had
collected the sum of £1 ss. (in weekly payments of ss.
each) from a lady named Wintle, in St. Anne-street, for
which he had not fully accounted, having handed over
only five shillings. The case was fully proved, and the
unfortunate man, in his defence, produced a paper pur-
porting to a guarantee of certain monies due to him from
other parties, being in course of payment by order of the
County Court. This apparent purpose of repayment of
the sum embezzled was not regarded, and he was sent
for trial.
ROBBERY OF CASKS FROM THE DOCK QUAYS.—On
Thursday, Edmund Fulham and William Henry Green
were charged before Mr. Rushton with having stolen up-
wards of 20 empty casks from the docks quays. A little
before eight o'clock on Wednesday morning, the police-
man on duty stopped one of the prisoners rolling a cask
over the Canning Dock bridge. The cask belonged to
the Glasgow Traders' Company, and had contained nap-
tha ; another one was missing. Mr. Simeon Thomas
Relph stated that on Tuesday night, about five o'clock, he
observed the two prisoners select four naptha puncheons
lying near the Glasgow Traders' Office, and put them on
their ends. Next morning, he observed the same parties
nailing cards upon them, and the younger prisoner, as had
been stated, roll one of them away. The prisoners, it
appeared, were in the employ of Mr. W. H. Green, coo-
per, and on searching a warehouse recently taken by that
gentleman in Thomas-street, the key of which was found
upon them, upwards of 20 casks were found, which be-
longed to brewers and other parties, and had been stolen
at various times. They were both committed for trial.

A POLICEMAN STABBED.—On Friday, a young man,
John Owens, attired as a mariner, and Mr. James, tea-
dealer, of. Byrom-street, were placed in the dock, the
former charged with stabbing John Sparrow, police con-
stable 245, in the forehead—the latter with interfering
with the officers as they were taking Owens into custody.
Police constable Bland, 535, said that a little before mid-
night, on Thursday, he was called by the friends of Owens,
who was intoxicated, to assist in taking him out of the
Adelphi Theatre. He brought him into the street, and
Sparrow came to his assistance, when Owens stabbed the
latter in the forehead with a clasp knife. Sparrow, who
felt the cut, cried out to the other—" Take care, he has
got something in his hand," when Bland seized him by
the arm, and he let the knife fall to the ground. Mr.
John Paul, surgeon to the Eastern Dispensary, spoke to
the extent of the injuries the officer had received : the
temporal artery had been cut, and it was with difficulty
that the great effusion of blood could be stopped. James,
on their way to Bridewell, excited the mob, crying,
" Shame ! let the man go." Owens was committed for
trial, and James put down for further consideration.
OUTRAGE ARISING OUT OF A TRADES' STRIKE.—
On Tuesday last, Peter Shaw, an operative ropemaker,
residing in Lawrence-street, Windsor, appeared before
Messrs. Rushton and Dixon, to answer the complaint laid
against him by summons of Charles Driffield, also an
operative ropemaker, for having committed upon him an
assault. The case appeared to have excited great interest
amongst the body of workmen connected with rope
making, the court-house being crowded with operatives of
that class. It appeared from the evidence of Driffield
that he was in the employment of Messrs. 3arvie and Co.
of Lodge-lane, at whose works there had been a strike. In
Lodge-lane there is also another ropery, over the men
employed in which the defendant's father is overseer, and
the hands in Messrs. Jarvie's employ have to pass this
yard in going to and returning from work, and such had
been the outrages committed upon them whilst so doing,
and the threats of intimidation held out, that the men,
through fear, were prevented passing, the result of which
was, that the operations of the works were now stopped,
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going home, lie was waylaid near to the water works, and
an attack was made upon him by Shaw, who struck him
several times with a stone. The defendant was fined £5,
or, in default, ordered to be imprisoned two months.