The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-03-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

SHOPLIFTING.—On TueAday, Mary Hunt was charged at
the police-court with having enier,d the shop of Messrs. 1) ke
and Co. tailors and drapers, Castle-street, and stolen there-
from three silk handkerchiefs, valued at Mt. Mi. Dyke stared
that betwixt eleven and twelve that day he was passing through
the lobby which led from the yard at the back to his shop.
There was a glass door at the end of the lobby looking into the
shop. On getting close to the glass door be sow the prisoner
and another girl in the shop, white his shopman was serving
them with handkerchiefs. The shopman having turned his
head from the prisoner, Mr. Dyke observed her put her hand
into the window, and take up a piece containing three silk
handkerchiefs, which she put into her apron. Mr. Dyke then
walked through the shop into the street, and gave notice to one
of the police officers, who took the prisoner into custody after
she had left the shop with her companion. She was committed
for trial.—Ann Kirby was charged with entering the shop of
Mr. David Nelson, draper, Old Haymarket. and stealing a
piece containing five silk handkerchief's, valued at 30s. On
Saturday night eight or ten handkerchiefs had been stolen from
Mr. Nelson's shop, which naturally led the shopman to keep
watch, and on Monday night the prisoner, who had come into
the shop, accompanied by a confederate, was detected in
stealing the piece before-mentioned. She was an old offender,
and had been tried and convicted under another name. She
was sent to the sessions. Her companion was discharged with
a caution to take care how she acted in future.

CHARGE OF HOUSE ROBBIiRY.—On Tuesday Wm. Hewitt,
Henry Flynn, Robert Hunter, and zThomas Gardiner, were
brought before Mr. Hall, charged with having broken into a
house in Gloucester-street, and stolen therefrom various articles.
The first witness, a female, deposed that on Saturday night,
about seven o'clock, she heard the cry of " Stop thief," and
saw two of the prisoners, whom she pointed out, running down
the street. They dropped a bundle, which she picked up and
carried to Bridewell. A second witness stated that she saw one
of the prisoners, whom she identified, go to a spout, and put
something into it, which proved to be a chisel. In consequence
of the bundle having been taken to Bridewell, some of the
police went to Gloucester-street, and found that the house, No.
38, had been broken into in the absence of the owner, and a
great quantity of articles removed. It appeared that he- had
left the house betwixt six and seven o'clock. and did not return
till twelve. The officers found that the latch of the window
had been broken, and an entrance effected into the house,- -
where every thing was in disorder. Besides the bundle pro-
duced, another bundle had been thrown in Skelhorne-street of
which a Mr. Hughes, who was not present, could give an ac-
count. Mr. Hall remanded the case to bring forward Mr.
Hughes. There was some hesitation, on the part of the wit,
nesses, to identify the prisoners, one of whom., on being re-
manded, said with great emphasis, ° I am as innocent as the
child unborn." From the several bundles mentioned, the rob-
bery must have been to a considerable extent: •
kraocious Assxur.T.—On Tuesday, a man named James
Lighthurn, was brought hefore time magistrates, charged with a
violent and unprovoked assault on the complainant, John
Abram. On Tuesday morning the prisoner met the complain-
ant in the street, and, in' the true style of blackguardism, de-
manded to know " who the h— he was ?" Abram, naturally
enough, rejoined. " what is that to you ?" Ou which the, pri-
soner immediately took nut a knife, and made several stabs at
the complainant in the breast and shoulder. The complain-
ant opened his coat and waistcoat, and showed that they were
cut through, and that the knife had entered his breast. Several
large cuts appeared in different parts of the coat, which did not •
pierce far enough to enter the flesh, except at the shoulder,
where a very severe wound was inflicted; but altogether the
complainant had got two wounds and seven cuts. This took
place at two o'clock in-the morning', and the reason which the
complainant gave for being out in the streets at such an un-
seasonable hour was that he was a stranger in town, and did
not know the name of the street where be lodged. A double-
bladed penknife, one of which was hooked, was here produced,
covered with blood. Mr. Hall said that the ease appeared so
serious that no punishment the magistrates could award would
be commensurate with the injuries -the complainant had sus-
tained; and for the sake of convincing individuals that they
had no right to use knives in their quarrels, he should send the
prisoner to take his trial. If convicted, his punishment would
no doubt be very severe.
CAUTION TO PAWNBROKERS.—On Tuesday, a pawnbroker,
. trained Critchley, appeared before the magistrates to answer to
a summons charging him with not having delivered up a shawl
which had been pledged with him, but substituting another in
its place. Mrs. Ann Irving, the complainant, stated that she,
consented, about two years ago, to allow her sister. who was in
difficulties, to pledge a shawl worth .os. belonging to her, with
Mr. Critchley, on which she raised 10s. On Thursday she sent
for the shawl; • and paid up both principal and interest. She
then received. from Mr. Critchley's assistant what was said to
be'her shawl, tied up in the same handkerchief in which it had
been pledged. But she found that instead of a Thibet shawl
with "a black border three inches deep" she had got a shawl
which proved to be only Canton crape. Mr. Critchley's assist--
ant insisted that nu mistake could have occurred; it must have
been the same shawl as well as the same handkerchief. Mr.
Flail said, that by the act of parliament he was empowered to
_order the article pledged to be returned, and if it- could not be
found he was obliged to order the value of it to be paid. He
therefore ordered 20s. and costs to be paid in the present case.

A SEAMAN'S STocic.—On Tuesday, a man named M'Kenna'
who keeps a cellar for carrying on the old clothes trade in
Prussia-street, was placed, along with his wife, at the bar of
the Police-court, charged
..with having in their 'Possession the
_entire " kit" of a young sailer, ahich bad been stolen from
him three weeks ago. John Cannon, the complainant, stated

that about the titnt'; mentioned, his chest, coot:Ai-111110 his clothes

and bed were stolen out of a public-houso where they had been

been placed; and no discovery was made of them till Saturday.
when a cook, who had been purchasing a pair of truwsers at
the prisoners' house, saw the chest. M'Kenna, in defence,
said he had bought the chest and its contents from two young
men, and had paid 12s. for the whole lot. Previous to doing
so, he had " consulted" the policeman of the district, and that
great legal authority had " advised" him that he was perfectly
safe in purchasing the chest, This was on the Bth of February.
A sort of note of sale was produced, which seemed to confirm

the prisoner's statement, and the entire stock of the complain-
ant did not appear to be worth more than 12a. Mr. Hall re-
►uauded M`lientia till the polieemauewha had advised with him
should be forthcoming. and discharged his wife.

A NEW WAY ot, It4sING THE WIND.—On Tuesday an
Irish pig jobber, who said he had been in the habit of coming
to Liverpool for twenty-eight years, was charged at the Police-
court with attempting to carry off a bed from a house where he
lodged, under pretence that tie had been robbed of his money.
The complainant, though rather advanced in life, was stout
and vigorous, and at any rate had sufficient strength to carry a
feather hed on his back from the attic to the kitchen. When
he was asked his reason for removing the bed, he entered into
a lung detail, the amount of which was that he had been rubbed
of L 4 while he was asleep, by his trowsers having been cut-at
the pockets• He had not taken the bed out of the house, but
only down stairs till he could recover his money. Mr. Dowling
here stated that he had received iuformation of various pranks
of the same kind which the prisoner had been performing.
When he wanted to raise money. he btought charges against
individuals with whom he came in contact, that they had robbed
him. Davidson, of the bralewell, state,'" that the last time the
complainant had been there he had charged hiw (Davidson)
with having robbed him of 25 or 26 sovereigns. With respect
to the pretended cuts in his trowsera they appeared to be of old
date. Mr. Hall said if he could find out that the prisoner Was
taking property out of the house, in order to carry it away, he
would send hint for trial. He was then. dismissed.
BURGLARY.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, three lads,
named Preston, Cassidy, and Barclay, were placed before the
magistrates, charged with having broken into the house of
Mrs. Sylvia Rainey, of Bootle, on the night of Saturday week.
Miss Eliza Grant, a young lady of colour, stated, that she
resided at Mount-pleasant, and was on a visit to Mrs. Rainey,
who resides at Bootle. On Saturday night week she was awoke,
about one or two o'clock, by a man holding a candle in her
face. He asked het for the money. She said she had no
money; he said sbe had, and she again said she had not, There
was another lady in bed with her who screamed out, and the
man said, "Silence; or else it will be worse for you." The
lady screamed again, and then he shouted to • another man,
"to bring that knife there;" and on his saying this, the other
lady screamed out, and they then ran away. She could only
identify the prisoner, Preston, who was caught in the house.
Mrs. Sylvia Rainey deposed, that she was sleeping in the next
room, and heard a terrible noise in the lobby of the breaking of
boxes, and got up to see what was the matter, when she saw
two men in the lobby, and immediately ran to the window and
screamed out, when she heard a police Man knock. • She again
screamed, and the policeman then ran as hard as be could
to the door. She saw the prisoner, Preston, and other two,
breaking boxes in the lobby. She gaVe notice to the police of
the articles she had lost. A number of things vrete taken out •
of the house. Police-officer 16 stated, that on the 25th of
February, at two o'clock on the Sunday morning, he was on
duty, in Bootle-lane, when he heard a scream from the house of
Mrs. Rainey. He ran there, and saw Mrs. Rainey at the witi-
dow, with a baby in her arms. He itnmediately after caught
the prisoner, Preston, coming out of the front door. Inspector
Thompson said that he heard the- policeman knock, and on
going to Mrs. Rainey's, found Preston iu the custody of the
officer, and on going round to the back of the house, ire found
the parlour a indow broken open and the. thieves escaped. In
the garden he found a hat, which he pi-whined. Ellen Alston,
the keeper of a beer-house in Ben Jonsoiflstreet, deposed that
the three prisoners were all at her house. ih company on the
night of the robbery, and left at nine o'clock. Mrs. Kelly de-
po3cd that on Sunday morning after the roblaery, the prisoner
Cassidy came to her house to borrow What. Peter Howie!,
who in the first instance was taken into custody on suspicion.
deposed, that on Sunday seeing the police about the neighbour-
hood, in Ben Jonson-street, and hearing.of the robbery, he met
Cassidy. and told him about the police being about, and Cassidy
said he knew it; they were after hint, Caasitly 'afterwards told
him that he was concerned in the robbery, and that Dixon had
stolen the rings and gold chain, and Woolwich had got the
breait pin and wore it on that Sunday. Constable Ainsworth
deposed that he went with Lloyd to a house in Heaton-street,
on the Sunday, from information they had received, and broke
into a house, in which they found Cassidy and Barclay endea-
vouring to conceal themselves. Barclay said Iris name was
Williams. They then both confessed to the robbery, but said
it was the first time. The hat found was tried on Cassidy's
head, and fitted it exactly. They were all three committed for
trial.

DISORDERLY PAUPERS.—Yesterday, at the Police-office,
three paupers from the Workhouse, were placed before the
magistrates charged with violently assaulting a black man,
named Sambo, alsoin the Workhouse, and knocking out several
of his teeth. The complainant fully proved the charge. The
prisoners had quarrelled with him for thrusting himself in
amongst them at supper, and they had afterwards waylaid him
in the workhouse and given him the beating of which he com-
plained. Mr. Hall said it was highly necessary to preserve
order in the establishment, and he should therefore visit this
shameful conduct of the prisoners, who were subsisting on
charity, with a severe punishment. Two of them, named
M`Naspy and Piers, who were the worst, must pay £5 or be
committed for two months to the Borough Gaol; a third, Cow-
ley, must pay ss. and casts, or he committed (or three days;
and the fourth, named Lyon, to be discharged, with a reprimand.
A HORROR-STRUCK PotacEmaN.—Yesterday, at the Police-
' office, the keeper of a beer-house in Alhion-street, named
Samuel Shakeshaft, was summoned before the mtwistrates to
answer the charge of permitting disorderly conduct in his house.
His wife answered the summons. Inspector Thompson stated,
that on Saturday night he heard some singing in the house, and
on going in saw a disorderly woman quite drunk, and two
thieves singing; Inspector Hackev. would state the nature of
the song. Inspector Hackey.—" I saw the same, sir,; and
they were singing to the tune of " A roaming we Will gu."
" And a robbing we will go;
For to support her,.
We went a-robbin4 night and day."

And the woman was leading„ the choltii, so f took them all
into custody. (A laugh.) Mr. Nall.—You are actfuitted. Yon
cannot call singing 014, song being disorderly. The wife bete,
in a peremptory tone, demanded of the inspector, "Now, sir,
I should like to know who you call a dtsot del 'fionian." Iler
story was, however, out short by her being told that she was
discharged.

CORREJPONDENVE.

COMPtNS.VVION TO CORPORATION TENANTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Si li,—Aathe Corporation (although a discretionary power has
been vested in them by the act of parliament) refuse to compen-
sate their tenants, whose premises are recoired for improve-
ments. are the Town-council justified in,anowing a servant of
the Colonial Office, and of Irish Government, an office
rent free, or to entertain an application fora sum of money to
provide lodgings for an official, the duties of wLose office are of
no benefit whatever to the inhabitants of Liierpool, however
useful they may be to ititligiduals from other parts of the king-
dom? If the lowa-council possess authority to give the Go-
vernment the use of an otlice rent free, and to augment the
remuneration of a servant of Government, (not under the con-
trol of the Corporation,) perhaps some of your readers
,wril
direct attention to the source from which such authority is
derived, as every provision of the Municipal Bill appears to
prohibit such an appropriation..
Your obedient Servant, •
SCRUTATOIt.