The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-16 00:00:00

LIVERPOW, POLICE.

ItJ. wit DtsTir.i.csto.--On Tuesday, at the Volie.e-Offir.e,
-cadaverous and miserable-laokin young cpaui, named:William
!'ranter, was hroadil up, charged with working an illicit still.
Mr. James Boys,ian excise officer, deposed that from informa-
tion he had re&.ived, he went on the Sunday, accompanied by
Ainsworth the police officer, to a house in Harrison-street, and
in a room there he found the prisoner; and in another room a
still in full work, with a mug underneath in the receipt of the
spirit. There were other mugs about containing small portions
of whisky, as if it had been drunk as manufactured, whiCh he
understood was the case. Only the prisoner was found on the
premises, and it was impossible but that he must have known
that the manufacture was going on. There was a tub contain-
ing thirty gallons of wash, and all the apparatus for distilling.
Ainsworth deposed, that the prisoner had told him that an old
man had left the still at the house on Saturdps,night. The pri-
soner said he had been bad of a fever for eight weeks, and he
knew nothing whatever of the distillery. Mr. Hallsaid, it only
remained for him to
.adjudge the fine under the act of parlia-
ment; he was bound to commit him if the case was proved.
He was of opinion that the case was proved, and he' adjudged
that he should pay the .flue of £3l), and in default be committed
for three months.

" A HOSTiL.E Mcssacx."—On Tuesday, at the Police-office
an Irishwoman. possessing the usual characteristics of Erin's
fair sisterhood, as seen in the classic purlieus of Ben Jonson-
street, named Sarah Raclin, was placed before the ma-
gistrates, Messrs. Hall and .Birch, charged- with sending a
hostile message of rather a novel, and of certainly a very un-
pleasant 'character, to one of the 'police. Policeman Andrew,
'Connelly' defused, that that inor.niag, about one o'Cleek,,
litttiad.th.e,iinfotter; at the I-tar-making a terrible nnise in Lean-.
clei=sWfit, over whiCti stip. ,appeared 'have 'utidisputedaviiy„....
none dining 4piiiisB..!.6 artOtnritiii'ciaieten her. •Ele-sie,ikr-to•
her!ektuiceteoo'h.frtrwhu-quiti and Wi•hoine; 'at -whiCh she wai'.;.
.
yet y,wrethi and running int.eh_r h-Ose, came out
d'*eat36lC'' .niiencenstinntid contend, and
frost ult 1104(1,130W' t lie .cun a-4ra ,Of fence"' to -protect
self. The tveapen.,
..n9tTel,icier than what thewitoess.de-,
Velee.te'a twist bashful Whisper) as the
tbisikl.oo.!!* top,* ts.ll :di • which. `she • "'shove" en to
lii It withiOnvrip,,aitri„prpg„}!.,,tak the, ayick achree, as
tit e C toek' 'her te ens:cm'
as sticht'.o)tiz4v.lniftiitiosesH enrsleasant to
sensitive noses if. hMaje,sty'Bl-servants, and, eXceeding'4t,
clecogatory ." to the dignitY of ihe ' Mr. 1-rall'iliettired'il.'
hetwas ustafh worse? ~:The.OrideWell'lke.eper " Oh; your IW.orsc:
ship„ 6e Was in a very dirty state,'!,,
.(A laugh.) Mr. Hall (to.
faisO ner)ll--"'\t'rell; wtrat you' say?" Prisoner: "Oh no;
.untkint, n„y the pier wurititip ; I never .seed ttie gitit le-.
man. It isn't nuself 'ud do what'ud not becoine,a leddy ; was
Ailiefrrylimf limner, I'd -empty the pO ott any wait, and Send
'JO cosse;,' clhe6)WS on a, gintleinati's coat ?" Notwith§ta
ing the " leddy'S" protestations that she had not made such a
hole in hermanners. Mr. Hall tined her ss. and costs, orlu '
default to be comblitted. Seven days. - •
EOFIVIENT" POLICE.---On Wednesday, at the Police-
office, 0 respectably-dressed leituile, named Catherine Wright,
having the ;-I.epearan,_:e )1-. a servant, was placed before the ma-
listrates., hall and Birch, on a charge of havitw
a quantity oc.,cotton. stockings in her possession the night
before, for which she. could not satisfactorily account. Police-
man John Dovilitig, Mo. 239, deposed that he Was about leav-
ing, his beat the night before, and showing to another officer his
beat, when lie saw the' prisoner with a white bundle under her
arm, walking ''up Bevingtou.street; he shouted after her,
" What have you got there ?"when she turned into an entry to
get away. lOitowed bier, and found a bundle of cotton
stockings upon' her, ',larked. She did not answer for their
possession,, as he thought, satisfactorily, and he accordiugly
took her to Bridewell. The prisoner, on being asked what she
had to say, said the stockings were hers and she was carrying
them home. A very respectably dressed young woman and an
elderly woman, the one, the sister and the other the mother of
the- prisoner, here stepped forward. The sister said that she
had given the stockings to her sister, who was carrying them
home. She, herself lived with a family in Chatham-place,
where she had lived for the last twelve years, and her sister had
.told the policeman that she (witness) had given the stockings to
her, and of to bring him to her master's house to corroborate
her statement; but he had ref used. Mr. Hall.—" Did she do
that?" Policeman.—" Yes; hut it was too far out of my beat,
so 1 took her to Bridewell." Mr. Discharge the pri-
soner." The mother of the prisoner here applied to know if
she could haveno redress for her daughter being kept in Bride-
well on such a charge? The magistrates made no reply, and
the policeman laughed aloud. The next case was called on,
anal the applicant was thrust unceremoniously down to make
room for the witnesses in the next case. The probability is that,
the friends of this pour girl being poor, this wanton exercise of
authority and breach of law in-confining a respectable young
woman in Bridewell all.night, amongst the vilest wretches that
infest the town, because the reference she gave as to her right
to the property she was carrying was toofarj'rom the policeman's
beat, will go unpunished;, but a mote barefaced infringement
on the liberty of the subject we never heard of; and the police-
man who committed it received no reprimand from the Magis=
Crates.

A FORTUNATE OWNER.—On- Wednesday,. at the Police-
office; an ill-looking fellow, a
.porter, named Edward Connolly,
was placed before the magistrates charged •with offering a
watch to pledge which had been stolen about twelve month
before. A pawnbroker deposed that the prisoner had brought
the watch to pledge the night before. On referring to the
books, he found that the watch answered the description of
'one that had been stolen about twelve months ago, and he ac-
cordingly detained the prisoner and gave him in custody. A
respectable-looking female, apparently a mechanic's wife, de-
posed that the watch was her husband's, and that lie:had lost it
about twelve months agM He went late one Saturday night
to get shaved, and left his watch at the' barber's shop; there
were other three men in and it was supposed one of tilein had
taken it. When•he got home he found he had left his watch,
and on going to the.barbers it. was gone.. Her husband was
then at work at Manchester. Mr. Hall said he supposed her
husband bad toid'her that tale, as she had called him to account.
about the watch. He could.not put the. prisoner on his trial for
such an offence,. committed at that distance of time. The
judge would stop the trial 'at *even two months from the coin-
mission of the :uffeule. The• mere circumstance of the watch
being foUnd in his possession will nothing. He might have come
honestly by the watch, He must leave her husband to settle
the matter with the _prisoner by an action ; he could make no
order about the watch, and must dischaige the prisoner. The
watch was 7
CAUTION TO HACKNY .COACHMEN.—On Wednesday, at the
Police-office, Jathes Roon, the driver of coach 174, and John
_Heaney, the driver of coach 57, were Summoned before the
magistrates on a charge of driving furiously down 'Parker-
street, after the mail. A gentleman named Preston stated that
nu Saturday, ahoutsix o'clock in the evening, he was driving
his gig up Parker-street, and he met the north mail about halt
way up; iimrediately after it, comming at full speed, were three
cars, two of•which, driven by the defendants, were foremost and
:abreast. He saw it was.almoSt impossible to avoid coming iu
contact with them, and with a great deal of difficulty he suc-
ceeded in pulling his horse and gig. on the parapet, and the
car nearest him contrived to:pnll up just before it run against
his gig. If he had not .pulled his horse, on the parapet it must
have been killed, and his gig would have been upset if the car
had not been stopped. as it was The cars filled the whole
street, and it was impossible. to get past them. He supposed
• they were striving which could get first to obtain a fare from
the passengers the mail.."Helrrought the case forwards as a
public duty; he thought .it Ame in:which:the 'magistrates ought
• to,interfere. he'qeferidantil, ofrouise, denied that they _were
either. driving fast ;oi• conting. abreast. Mr. Hall said he had
fined ear iltiers:,so.repeatedly :for.. this offence that it appeared;
'to him to haven() erteat''''lle was not in the habit of imposing:.
heavy fines, but Olisseetiakl-,16• be• a case which dulled for the
inflieticin of ahekvy,,penalty., ,He should fine
.lorin,'who was
on the Wrong side of th'e street: 20s: and Lusts; and Heaney 156, •
.••
and costs.. •

UN wHot.usONIE.:IIIgA T.—Yesterday,- at the • Police-Office;
BetnaidMurphy; wh,9 leepsat. stand. at St: Johifs' Market;' was
summoned bth)re the s charged by Holden, the
market inspectiir,, With haring exposed- for sale, on Saturday
night. last, 108 lbse of tneasled pork,. unfit for. human .food.• He
was fined 7i."4an4'ciiSts. 'Catherine Evans, the - keeper of a
stand in St. John's-Market, was summoned for' exposing.
:15 lbs. of measled'poik for sale on' Saturday: night last, unfit
.for food.- As she had. previously borne a good character the
fine, was remitted, and she was ordered to pay the costs. Wm.
Hisky, the keeper of a, stand in .St.. John!sllarket, was fined.
55.. and costs for espoSing for sale 83 lbs. ,of measled
Patrick Banner,. the keeper off-a -shop in Standish-street, was
fined 2s. 6d. and costs for exposing 3'2 lbs. of measled pork for
sale on Saturday night.

" THE SATISFACTION OF A GENTl.EMAN."—Yesterday, at the
Police-office, a gentleman named Geo. H. Kemp was summoned
before the magistrates, Messrs. Hall and Birch, bye gentleman
named Bird, on a charge' Of having sent him a challenge and
otherwise threatened. him. The challenge -was said to have
originated out of a love affair. Both parties. we understand,
had been paying their best attentions to a oung lady, and, the
complainant _being the more lucky. Lothatio, the defendant
vented his disappointment' in sending the other a challenge,
which forrned the subject of the present complaint, the defen-
dant alleging that he was put in, bodily fear thereby. Mr.
John Bird, the cemplainant, stated that on Sunday night,
about eleven o'cloCk, he left a houke in Northumberland-street,
where hehad been. He had got but a little way Unit it, when
Mr. Kemp came yp. and said he " Wanted to speak" with him.
He (complainant) replied he. did not wish to haYe anything to
say to him. He was aavare that he.had been threatening him.
About three months before, defendant, met him and threatened
to horsewhip He in consettuence thought it best to go
home agairt,andhe returned to the house, in Reethuniberland
street, and gitveo,Jouil knock at the door. The defendant then
came up to' hint " stop till I Iv, a.:horsewhip about
your back,''.
cane'
him " cowail:" lady of the
house then. id the door and called a yolicenaa9, and the
defendant ran:iiiyay down • the street. 'Next itiortiing he re.
ceived a note frogs the.; (complairianthere handed a
note to the niiigistrates,) and he understiod.that,,helini:d been
laying Vaitl4 hitn since. He was afraid of injury, awl
, 0
Could not walk,the streets in safety.
111 r. Hall (to defendant.)—" What do you say -I.fitthis ? Is
that .your note ?"
DeTendaut,----" Yes, it is." •

How came you to send such a one?" ,
Defendant.'—l received a summons last evening. I imme-
diately consulted a mutual friend, wishing to settle the matter
out olcourt, and I have only received the answer this morning,
and in consequenc lam quite unprepared to say anything. If
I could get the case deferred until to-morrow, I should be pre-
pared with my flefence.
Mr. Hall.—" What defence could you have then more than
you have now of
Complainant.—" I must have protection ; I went over the
water last night. I thirst not sleep in tovii."
Defendant,—" I never intended to injure the yonng Man at
all."

Mr. Hall.—" You ask him to give Toil satisfaction 2"
Defendant..;-lf I went into a vindication of my whole con-
duct I could show you—"
Mr. Hall.—" I am not going into the whole of the transac-
tion. This note, after the above demand, says, ' If not I shall
be obliged to brand you as a coward in every public place in.
which I may see you: You then give your address and, where
von may be found at such an hour. It then goes on, 'lf you
have the soul and spirit of a man and a gentleman, you will give
me immediate satisfaction as a gentleman:. Are you prepared
with bail 2"
Defendant.—" No, I am not."
Mr. Hall.—" Cannot you send for any, respectable per Son to
bail you? We cannot all6W this to pass. This,gentleinan has
called on us for protection, and he must have it at our hands."
Complainant.—" It is a great annoyance, to the.family?,
Mr. You must find bail; yourself in 1.100, and two
respectable sureties of £5O each. (TO complainant.)—That is
your object I believe." .
Complainant.—" It is, Sir."
The complainant then left the court,' and the-defendant:re-
mained in custody until his bail should arrive. The epistle
commenced, " I do not mean to dispute your charming prize
with von;" and then went on "I neither intended to cut or
murder you as you seemed so much to apprehend last evening;
I merely wished for an explanation from you as to the cause or
your re-adinission to Mr. 's. This, I conceive, you can-
not but give me, as you must be aware that I answered you a

similar question on a similar occasion. If not, -of course you
cannot object, if Yon have the soul and svirit or a in in and
entletnan, to give me satisfaction in a wailer way. Sliouid
you feel inclined to do neither, I shall be under the necessity
of branding von as a coward in any public place in which I May
meet you, which I shall assuredly do.—l am yours. Stc., •
"G. 11. KEMP."

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