The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENt.g.—PIuDev.

OF XSSAT.
A glib-tongued girICHARGE.
of abouk seventeen or eighteen years
of age, appeared before Messrs. Rushton and Booth to pre-
fer a charge of assault against a young. boy. The gist of the
accusation was, that the boy had struck the complainant on
the mouth with a stone which he held in his hand; but the
young woman, not content with a plain statement of the mat-
ter, went on at much length to aggravate the aggravation.
In the midst of her complaint, she was interrupted by the
mother of the boy at the bar, who indicated,- in a pretty loud
tone, that the complainant was uttering anything but truth.
Mr. Rushton.—Come forward, if you have anything to say.
There now stepped into the witness-Box a female Falstaff,
in a state of great excitement, and, the New Testament
having been placed in her hand, preparatory to her being
sworn, she began to devour it with kisses, before Mr. Shuttle-
worth had repeated the words of the oath, She first kissed
the book on one side, then on the other,ng, " I am
"
not afraid of swearing both 3Vays ; the Almighty knows that
I shall only tell the truth, began to turn the Testament in
all directions, and to imprint upon it most enthusiastic kisses.
Mr. Rushton.—Are you drunk ? Have you been drink-
ing ?
Witness.—No; I have not. I'm trembling, sir; I was
never in such a place before, nor my poor boy e.ther,• and I
hope we won't be again.
The oath having been administered, the' witness was asked
to state what she had to say with respect to the charge against
her son. She replied, "Well, sir, I will tell you—it is a
false charge altogether, sir—l live in Union-street, sir—l am
telling the truth, lam indeed, sir. I wouldn't tell you a lie
for all the world—no, sir. lam all of a tremble, sir. I was
selling fowls in the market all day yesterday, sir. I have
had two pennyworth this morning, I won't deny that. Dear
me, I'm very tremblesome. That is my boy, sir. As to
this woman, (the complainant,) she keeps a real common
house. I don't care she does ; you may put me in gaol for
seventeen years, but my boy ,is innocent. He isn't in the
market with me ; he's a good lad, sir. Put him back till to-
morrow, sir, and then you shall know all. I'm well known
in the market, and all mylieighbours can depreciate my cha-
racter. It isn't true, sir. - There, yga man
you can speak better than me. , you tell him ;
The man pointed to came forward, and stated that he had
seen the complainant first strike the Mother of the prisoner.
Mr. Rushton.—Discharge the lad.
THEFT BY annar...t...sm,
Margaret Smith, a servant to Mr. John Lane, publican,
Vauxhall-road, was charged with having stolen some articles
of wearing apparel from the house of her employer. The
prisoner, it appeared by the evidence, had been five months
in the service of Mr. Lane, and had on Monday last left the
house without notice or leave. Nest morning Mrs. Lane,
on going into the childrens room, missed some clothing, two
sheets, and a number of other articles. A constable was
applied to, and the prisoner's Ipdgings were searched. She
was found at home, and, on being questioned, denied having
taken any thing. The principal part, however, of the missing
clothing, &c. was found in the house, as well as a number of
other articles, which hid not before been missed from her
master's house. The prisoner, who is a middle-aged woman,
and a widow, was committed for trial at the sessions. We
understand that, such was the confidence reposed on her, her
mistress had made arrangements to take a cottage in the
country, where she (the prisoner) might take cart of the
children, whom she wished to remove for a time from the
bustle of the house.