The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-15 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

(Before THOMAS JAMES HALL, EStl.)
FRIDAY.

Eictsa INFORMATIONS.—Peter Quley was summoned on an
information, laid by the Excise, charging him with endeavour-
ing to smuggle a quart of whiskey, for which he was liable to
the penalty of 12100: One of the Excise officers deposed to see-
ing the defendant coming out of the William Penn steamer, on
the Ist of December last, with something under his arm which
excited his suspicions; he searched him. and found he had a
quart bottle full of whiskey. Defendant said he was taking it
to the steward's house, and afterwards to the captain's. Puley
in defeuce,said that his wife waS very ill, and had been confined
to her bed-'four months, and he was taking this whiskey on
shore for her. The reason he said he was going to take it to the
steffiard was, because he did not belong to the boat, and he was
afraid they might think he had stolen it. The collector deposed
to defendant being a poor man, and that it was his first offence.
The magistrates, under these circumstances, convicted him in
the mitigated penalty of £23, and recommended to the board of
Customs to reduce the fine to 40s.

An information was laid against J. C. Watson, of No. 11,
Rodney-street, Manchester, charging him with having, on the
38th of December last, secreted two quarts of spirits in a box.
The box and things in it were sought to be condemned. Mr.
Watson (lid not appear. One of the Custom-house officeri de-
posed.to searching a box which came from on board one of the
steamers, on the 28th December last, and finding in it two quart
bottles filled with spirits, eight pounds of fish, and twenty-eight
pairii of stockings.—Goods condemned.
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An information was laid- against Mr. John Moran, publican,
of venison-street, for having had four ounces of cigars in his
posSession on which the duty was not paid, for which he was
liable to a penalty of £lOO. Thoulas Rowland, one of the Cus-
tom-house officers, deposed that on the Ist of January be found a
box of cigars on defendant's preies, containing aboUt four
ounces. Previously to, finding them, he aSked him if he had
any cigars, bat he refused to answer. On searching he found
theta in the cellar, on a shelf..
Cross-examined by Mr. Crewe.Defendant told hiin he had
them given to him by a lodger. These was no concealment.
He was licenceci to sell cigars.
Margarite Bannister deposed to having lived servant with
Mr. Moran at that time, and to a gentleman a 'foreigner, who
lodged with them making him a present of some cigars .for
himself. They were put in a box down stairs to keep them.
damp. Her master smoked them himself, and never sold any.
Mr. Hall said this came within the meaning of the act,
"knowingly keeping goods that had been illegally unshipped."
Thy. onus plobandi lay with defendant that they were not so.
The Collector deposed to the defendant having always been
an honourable man.

The Magistrate convicted him in the
_mitigated pep Ally of
£25, and recernniended its further mitigation to £5: - -
An information was laid against Mary Bond; who keeps a
small publics-house in Dennison-street, charging her with
knowingly suffering" cigars to be in her house, not having
paid the duty, for which the penalty of MOO was sought. -
Rowland, one of the Customhouse officers, deposed to finding,
on the Ist of January last, a box containing about a pound of
cigars on the defendant's premises, He asked her for a ticket
for them, and she said she had not got one, and referred him to
her son. She told him she had the cigars. He requested her
to send her son up to his house, but he never came.
Mr. Mannan deposed to seizing the cigars the day after, and
finding only about half a pound; he seized them: because he
could not ascertain where the defendant got them.
On being cross-examined, he admitted that he was told that
they belonged to the lodgers, who left them there.
Mary Clark deposed to being servant with Mrs. Bond at the
time in question; they had three mates lodging and boarding
with them. The box was brought there by one of the mates, and
placed on the sideboard; they put their cigars into it. Some-
times they would leave three or four cigars on the table when
they went from dinner, and she used to put them into the box.
When the mates had no cigars iu their pockets they used to
take them out of the box. _ _

Mr. Hall said the magistrates had no power but to convict
under the section of the act on which the information was laid.
They should mitigate the penalty to £25 and recommend the
Board of Customs further to mitigate it to £5.

ROBBERY.—Owen M'Ardle was brought up charged by
James Dudley, an elderly labourer, with a face like Parkgate,
all on one side, with having robbed him of his pulse, contain-
ing 18s. 6d. The complainant after giving a bewildered stare
round the court, wes asked by the magistrate what charge he
had against the prisoner.
Complainant.—On, yees, sir; 18s. 6d.
The Magistrate.—Do you know which is the prisoner ?
Complainant.—Oh, yees, (looking at a gentleman at the
other side (.f the court.)
The Magistrate.—Why, you don't know where to look for
him.

The complainant giving another belildered stare round the
court, amidst much laughter, said, on discerning him, oh, there
he is! as if he had seen Halley's commet, tail and all in the
dock. Sir, (continued the complainant, and pointing to the
prisoner)—he took 185.6 d. out of my pocket.
The ➢lagistrate.—When was it?
Complainant (studying). This is Friday, yesterday was
Thursday ; well, he did not come that day; it was night afore
last night. Well, he lodged wi me and he didn't pay his way;
he's howed me ss. this last three year. He has not lodged wi
me latterly, I hedn't 9. bed for him. On Wednesday he come
to me and 1 let him sleep wi me. I had a little pnrse, you see,
as I didn't want my wife to know bout about, wi 18s. 60. in it,
as I shoved under the bolster afore I got into bed. This purSe
came slipping down into bed atween us somehow, and he made
off wiv it afore daylight.
The Magistrate.—Was there any one in the same room with
you besides, who might have taken it?
Complainaut.—Oh noa; nobbut t'wife and child in another
bed.

The Magistrate.—You and the prisoner were in one bed, and
your wife and child in another, in the saint: room ?

Complainant.—Yees ; that was tlway. When I found t'inoney
was gone, he wur gone to; and neither t'money nor hint caw
back again.
The prisoner said he did not sleep in complainant's room, ha
had a room of his own in complainant's house, for which he
paid rent.
Cotoplditrant-,--Now you've paid no rent ; take rny .Ikoath
o'that.•

The Magistrate.—Are you sure now—
Complatuant.—Yees, 1 am. •
'the Magistrate.—Waite; are you sure—
'Complatuant.—l'm very sure, sir. (Laughter.)
The Magistrate.—Do hear what 1 have to say to you. Was
it the same night that he slept with you that you Missed the
money ?
Complainant.--,-Yees it was; the very same , .
Constable No. 52, deposed to complainant-' ialr nun in-
formation of what had taken place, and to ap eTiending the
prisoner.
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The Magistrate remanded the, prisonkovteNPfkdale for two
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the police with creating a disitAanlee the night bef.ue. The
policeman said, before threeo'clakthiscamrning this gen n
was
.making a speech about thegacit.o.,d whigs" before the
Adelphi, and several people were •Cife'erihg him; I went up to
him and told him if he still persisted in making at noise I would
take him into custody. He then abused me very touch, and I
took hint to Bridewell. He was very dunk.- When asked
what he had to say to the charge, defendant said, the policeman
has stated that I was intoxicated; it's eight months, your wor-
ship, since I've been intoxicated before from drink. (Laughter.)
1 was returning home from the Amphitheatre along with some
friends, and we were laughing and joking in the street, perhaps
louder than we ought. 1 was making a Speech, I'm rather a
merry fellow, you see, (laughter,) and they were laughing,
when the watchman came up to me and was very insolent., and I
was very indignant at such conduct, very imiignated indeed,
your worship. A witness here stepped forward and said that he
was one of the party of
.plea Sure who were returning front the
theatre. As we were going home Mr. Mullen was very jocular.
He is gifted, your worship, with the use of the tongue, and we
cheered him very much. We then proceeded 'home, but still
his tongue was going (laughter,) when this young watchman
came up, who does not seem to know his business; and took,
more liberties than the law allows him.—The magiStrate: You
are one of the cheerers,. I suppose.—Witness : Why, a little ;
bnt the women cheered most. (Laughter.)—The inagiStrate
Perhaps the policeman would not have done wrong to have
taken you with him. I shall fine him 5s fur being drunk.

SATURDAY.
RUBBERY.—Jane .Mackee was brought up charged by Mrs.
Mary Dawson with having stolen a quantity of ornaments, the
property of herself and hersisteist"ltig -Dawson stated that
six weeks ago the prisoner Wis7lerbylVillir two days to help'
them to smooth, and, doring the 'tohissed a small box,
4 fans, A ear five
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links of beadS, together 'with othericibailActoriopcurts of a la-
containing a number of sea shells,`Lt'w
dies paraphernalia, namely,. threejol,oo,4'6,44tismsqine crosses,
and a elock-it to conclude with. 'ln c4l-pa eli they caused the
prisoner to be taken into Custody, and she tll9,l";biad them she
would confess all about it if they' would gO to the
" coalhole_;" hut when they got there she wonid'tellltoni no-
thing. They went round to all the pawnbrokerS, antlhMfOund
some sea shells and the fans, which were theirS„pledged byt he
prisoner.—The magistrate inquired if the prianner.p.,, a married
woman ?—Complainant : Oh,- yes, sir, she` has husbands,
both living (laughter;) one is a sailer, and }he ether
The sister of the complainant deposed to fonsli,ging aside
the box," and to the cornhealing beads being at insoid" on the
day the prisoner was at their house, and when she was gone
they missed it. They had promised to forgive the prisoner if,
she would give the things up ; she'at first said she wauld, bat
afterwards she would not.—The prisoner denied having tukeri
the things, and said the shells were given her by some sailors,
lodgers of the prosecutors. She was remanded till Monday._
On Monday she was again brought up ; the magistrate, how-
ever, said there was not evidence to convict her, and she was
discharged.
SEAMEN'S WAGES.—Captain Tucker, master of a New
Brunswick ship, appeared to answer a summons issued against
him by Geo. White, his second mate, for non-payment of wages.
White said that he shipped at St. John's, New Brunswick, to
.go the voyage round from there to Liverpool, and 'from Liver-
pool to America, or any part of Great Britain. The vessel was
discharged and loaded again, and the captain refused to pay him
his wages; he had received one month's pay in advance,
£3,155. They sailed on the 20th of January, and arrived here
on the 16th of February. The captain said he had passed his
word for a suit of clothes for him, amounting to £4, leaving the
mate in his debr, and since then he had heard that he intended
to leave the vessel and swindle hint out of the balance; he had
in consequence seized the mate's clothes to save himself, Which
he should have on paying the balance due to him. .The .cap-
tain also said that the seaman had forfeited his wages by ab-
senting himself from the vessel without leave. The mate said
that he took sick, and was obliged to go on. shore to a doctor,
and when he came aboard the captain ordered him ashore. The
captain put in the ship's articles, from which he contended the
mate was obliged to return with him the whole voyage back to
New Brunswick. The magistrate, however, on reading over
the articles decided, from the loose manner in which thsy were
drawn up, that the mate might claim his discharge, and of
coarse his wages on arriving at any port where. the vessel un-
shipped her cargo. The captain then made out the balance due
to him to be £1 25., having chargcd ss. in the pound currency,
being the digirence in the exchange between England and New
Brunswick.Whe magistrate said he would be perfectly right
in doing so, provided the mate had hadto return with him; but
as from the wording of the articles he had a right to leave the
vessel in Liverpool; he must pay him the full amount in Eng-
lish currency. The magistrate ordered that he should pay the
balance still due to the captain, and that the captain should re-
turn him his clothes.

BRUTAL Ass/►ULT.—Thomas Beeston, a middle-aged man,
was brought up charged with a most brutal assault on a servant
girl. Mr. M'Averil, of Clare-street, stated that the prisoner
lodged With him, and had struck his servant a violent blow with
a poker. Grace Heald sail she lived with the last witness, and
saw the prisoner take very Improper liberties with the servant,
and becauSe she scratelrea him, he took the poker and struck her
behind the head and across the forehead, and he would have
killed her if she had not taken the poker from him. She had
since been obliged to hive leecheit applied. The prisoner said
he did it in a passion, and did .not know what he did. The
Magistrate said they'must find ways and means to make him

THE ti:%titl3-60t StANDAtai.

control his passion. He had not even the plea of drunkenness
in extenuation. He had inflicted a most serious injury, and the
magistrates thought that that was a ease in which they ought to
be severe. lie must pay a flue of £4 and costs, or he counnit-
ied to Kirkdale for two calendar months.
MONDAY. •

CHARGE OF STABBING.—AMEKICAN EQUALITY.—SamueI
Innis, an American and a man of colour, was brought up
charged with stabbing a sailor in the shoulder, on. Wednesday
last. The case had been remanded until this day, owing to the
sailor being unable to appear. John Flannigan who appeared
in a very weak state, and had his arm in a sling, said that on
Wednesday last, as be and three of his shipmates were coming
from the ship Britain, and turning the corner of Launcelot's
Hey, they meta coloured man, the prisoner. The prisoner took
the inside of the wall, which was not the proper way in the
United States; they did not allow a coloured man to take the
wall there. He said to him, " blue skin, make a little more
room." The prisoner thee turned immediately round, and
told him to " kiss his•—," and raised his hand as if to strike
him ; he in defence raised his arm, when he immediately re-
ceived a stab in 'the shoulder, and the prisoner ran away. He
had had tvrel' glasses of spirits, but was quite sober. He had
been in the Infirmary ever since. He had never seen the man•
before, and did not shove against him. John Scott, another
sailor, deposed to being with complainant on Wednesday
morning last as they were going to breakfast, when they met
the prisoner at Union-street corner, and the complainant'
said, "slew on one side, blue skin," and the prisoner made use
of the expressions before stated in reply. They then both
turned round, and he thought they were going to fight;
complainant was not quite sober. Complainant then walked
pretty sharp towards him, and he saw that his shirt was all
bloody In answer to a question from the prisoner, complain-
ant said he did not push him off the parapet. John Nelson,
another sailor, deposed to seeing complainant all bloody, and
running after and catching the prisoner. A constable here pro-
duced a spring dirk, shut up in a knife handle, which the pri-
soner had dropped, and which was spotted with blood. The
prisoner had nothing to say in defence. The magistrate said he
was happy to say that there was no distinction in this country,
whether a black man or a white 'inau should go nearest the
wall:fdile. should send the prisoner to be tried at the sessions
for anaagravated assault; and if he could find bail he might, but
it mustibe very yowl bail ! !
Pugikrr PICKING.—John Grady, one of those numerous
• young 'thieves who infest the town, and who could scarcely see
over the Prisoner's dock, was brought up charged by Mr. Pattis-
son 'of the • Livei-pool Standard, with attempting to pick his
pocket. Mr. Pattisson said that be was passing through Queen-
square, on Saturday night, between seven and eight o'clock,
along wiih a friend, when he felt some one with his hands in
his coat pocket,, and on turning round perceived a boy picking
the pocket of his friend, and the prisoner doing the same kind
nffice'fer hiln. ' On perceiving him turn round, 'l2 or 14 boys.iif
a similar size started off running, and the prisoner.along with,
theta; he kept his eye on him however, gave chase, and cap-
tured him, and gave him into custody to the first policeman
they met. There was no policeman in Queen-square, or near
it at the time. The magistrate committed the prisoner to Kirk-
dale for one month.

CHARGE OF ROBBERY.—Mary Roach and Margarite John-
son, two girl . of the town, were brought up charged by a-sailor
with having robbed him cf his watch and two sovereigns.
Complainant stated that he went to the house of the prisoners
on Wednesday last; he had known the old maid, one of the pri-
soners who kept the house, before, and took them to a public-
house and treated them; he then went back with them and
slept there all night. His money and watch were all right at
night, and in the morning he "-found tlyin gone." He slept
in his trowsers all night, and Would swear his money was in his
piwket when he got into bed; hiiwatch was also in his fob, to
the best of his belief, though he did not remember having hold
of it before he got into bed. In answer to a question from Mr.
Hall, he said he had his-watch at the publiehouse where he
took them to ;
.there might be other people there, but they were
not in his company. He was a little tipsy, but could walk quite
steady. In the morning, when he missed it, he told oue of the
women, but she said she knew nothing about it. He gay.! them
afterwards into custody.
An officer said there was only Iod. found on one of them
when taken into custody.
Mr. Hall said he had no doubt Complainant was so tipsy that
be did not know what he was doing. Be should discharge the
prisoners !

STEALING MEAT.—Maria Hayden was brought up charged
by Mrs. Fairhurst, who keeps a butcher's stall in St. John's
Market, with having stolen a piece of meat, her property. Mrs.
Fairhurst's son deposed to the prisoner having purchased and
paid for a piece of meat at their stall, and on her going away his
mother desired him to fetch her back he did so, and searched
hel• basket, and found in it -about Albs. of meat, which was theirs,
and which she had not paid for. They then gave her into cus-
tcdv. Mrs._ Fairhurst said the prisoner was a married woman,
with seven children, and she never knew anything against her
before. The prisoner said she did not know the meat was in
her basket. 'The magisirate told bar not to do so again, and
discharged her.

ILLICIT STlLL—Lawrence English, Michael Wood, and
Thomas Conland were brought up charged by Mr. Rowland,
the customs' officer, with working an illicit still.' Mr. Rowland
stated, that about nine o'clock on Saturday evening he found
the prisoners at a small house in Gray's-court, lleatou-street,
working a private still. The still was about three parts charged;
there was WO gallons of wash, a number of tubs, a quantity of
low wines, a copper worm, and about a quart of whisky. Con-
land said it was their first brew, and the other two prisoners said
they had merely gone iu to see the operation, and to take a glass
of whisky. The still was calculated to defraud the revenue of
£5O a week, and, from its state, it must have been worked twelve
months, as it was nearly worn out. The officers had the door of
the house to' force open, and it took them twenty minutes to do
so. When they got it open they found the three prisoners
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three mouths .t 0 the House of Correction.

EFFECTS OF 4aLousY...—Rose Fegan, a young lady of pugi-
listic appearance; was brought up, under a warrant, charged with
violently assaulting Mrs. Jane Riding, on Tnursdav night last.
appeared with,•two.4.44.rible .eyes and_
other external evidences of having been "in the wars," deposed
that she was going down Richmond-road on Thursday night,
having just left her husband, with whom she had been getting
tea, when the prisoner laid hold of her by the hair of her head
—took no notice of •her cap—tore the hair off her head, and
kicked her several times.—The prisoner, of whom the " green-
eyed monster" had evidently got full possession, said, pleaze,
sur, she has got a habit of going with a young man as I'm ac-
quainted with ; is it a likely thing 1 was to stand that F And
when I met her she begun calling me because I knowed
and I called her, and then she struck me, and I struck her. I
have more right to him than she has oily way.—The magistrate
fined the prisoner, notwithstanding her exclusive claim to the
" yonng man" 30s. and costs fur the assault, or in default, to
go for three weeks to Kirkdale.