The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

ROBBING A TH.L.—At the Police-office, on Friday, a boy
named Shaw was brought before Air. Hall, charged with
robbing the till of Mrs. Hastie, publican, _ Torbuck-street.
The boy, accompanied by a man and another boy, entered
the house in question on the afternoon of the preceding day,
and called for some ale. The.apartment in which they seated
themselves communicated with the bar. While the servant
went below to draw the ale, the prisoner proceeded to empty
the till, which contained some forty or fifty shillings. In
doing this, however, be was clumsy enough to let some of
the silver fall, and the servant hearing it immediately gave
the alarm, which the prisoner and his conirogues construed
into a notice to quit. The prisoner, as Rob Roy bath it,
was "easily found by his friends, and still more easily by his
foes,"—for, in his flight down the street, he rushed into the
arms of a policeman, who was waiting to receive him. His
flight was a little impeded by having crammed a quantity of
the silver into his shoes, little imagining, perhaps, that his
exit would be so peecipitous. He was committed to take his
trial at the sessions.

• A POCKET Fut.L.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, one of
the constables of St. John's Market preferred a charge
against a female for stealing some butter. He said he saw her
going awarin a great hurry from a stall and endeavouring
to put a pound of butter in her pocket; he stopped her, and
on enquiry, found that she had stolen the butter. He search-
ed her, and found in her pocket a tumbler glass, a knife and
fork and nine eggs! all of which he found she had stolen.
None of the parties appeared against her from whom she had
taken these things, and she was ordered to be discharged.
STEALING A WATCH.—Yesterday, at the Police-office,
one of the horde of thieves that prowl about the town steal-
ing whatever they can lay their hands on, named Charles
Marshall, was charged by the servant of one Patrick Daley,
with having stolen a watch out of his kitchen. The servant
girl said, that between 8 and 9 o'clock on Saturday night,
she went out to get a quart of porter for the family, and was
about three minutes away, and when she. returned she met
the prisoner coming up the kitcben steps. She said to him,
"you voting rascal, what are you doing down those steps ?"
lie asked if Mr. Stephenson boarded there? She told him
to go 'to the front door and enquire' lie had no business
there. On entering the kitchen, and looking on the shelf,
she found the watch was gone. On looking after the pri-
soner she found he was gone too. She gaVe an alarm and a
description of him to a policeman, and he. span after appre-
hended.him ; but the watch was missing. Mr. Hall commented
on the (tirelessness of the servant in leaving the kitchen in that
sort of way. Twenty persons might have entered it. It was
merely a case of suspicion. 'AI r. Parkinson said the pri-
soner had been in custody before, and was; an associate of
thieves. The prisoner swore positively he was never near
the house at all. The girl, however, Was confident as to his
identity, and Mr. Hall committed him for 3 months to the
House of Coirection.

" WATCHES HERE MADE TO Go."—Yesterday, at the
Ponceoffice, a thievish looking young scamp, named Charles
Dillon, was placed before the magistrates, charged with hav-
ing robbed a drunken looking man, named Stewart Bond, of
his, watch. The complainant stated, that about ten o'clock,
on Saturday night, be was coming up Castle street, and met
the prisoner accompanied by two other men, and he (the pri-
soner) ran up against him; and said, " well my hearty," and at
the same instant snatched his watch out of his waistcoat
pocket, and ran off, " and here's the guard," said the com-
plainant, as with a lack-a-daisical face he held up to view a
shattered watch guard, made of black beads, which seemed
to be in mourning for the loss of its accustomed appendage.
" I found my watch was gone," said the complainant, " and
the thief with it, and I cried, stop, stop, but my watch was
made to go, and wouldn't stop. I told the policeman of
what had happened, and he followed, and took the prisoner
into custody." Police officer, 40, stated, that on being in-
formed of what had occurred, and seeing some men running
he asked which was the thief, and having the prisoner pointed
out to him, he followed, and after a sharp chase captured
him in Lancelot's-hey. The complainant was quite Sober
when he saw him. The prisoner called his sister, who swore
she saw the complainant robbed, and that it was by another
party of men, and not by her brother; and that the com-
plainant was drunk. The• Bridewell keeper was examined
as to whether the complainant was drunk or sober, and be
said he was drunk. Mr. Hall said, it was of no use com-
mitting the prisoner, for no jury would find him guilty on
the evidence of a drunken man. The prisoner said he was
a tailor by trade. Mr. Parkinson said he was a thief by
trade. Mr. Hall remanded the case for further inquity, as
he could not depend on the evidence of a drunken Man as to
identity.

PASSING BAD SOVEREIGNS.—Yesterday, at the Police-
office, a man named John Dixon, was placed: before the
magistrates, charged with attempting to pass bad sovereigns.
The prisoner was put into the custody of an officer on Fri-
day, on a similar charge, but made his escape. .It appeared
from the evidence of Mrs. Hope, of the Horse and Jockey,
public-house, in Gilbert-street, that on Thursday last, the
prisoner came to her house, and purchased two glasses of
wine, for which he gave her a good sovereign in payment, and
asked for change. She was going away to get change, when
"
he said, " surely you have that much ?" She replied, Yes,
I have." II e‘requested the sovereign to be returned. Pre-
sently he said, " never mind, I want change," sod gave her
another sovereign, which she immediately discovered' to be a
bad one. She returned irto him, and he gavalier a good
one instead of it. Policeman 207, said he took the prisoner
into custody on Saturday night, and had him searched in
Bridewell, and seven good sovereigns, and a bad half so-
vereign were found upon him. Mr. Dowling said many of
the publicans had suffered severely by' these sort of tricks.
If Mr. Hall would allow the case to be adjourned to Wed-
nesday, he believed he should have some further evidence.
The prisoner was accordingly remanded till Wednesday.
ASSAULT ON BOARD THE NEW BRIGHTON STEAMER.—
Yesterday, at the police office, an individual named Peter
Taylor, one of the class of pugilists in this town, who are in
the habit of kicking up rows for the purpose of bragging over
their fellows, and exhibiting their "science," was placed be-
fore the magistrates, charged by a gentleman named Moxon,
a surgeon, from Huddersfield, in Yorkshire, with assaulting
him on Sunday night on board the New Brighton Steamer,
and giving hint a black eye. Mr. Moxon stated that he was
a stranger in the town, and was returning on Sunday even_
ing from New Brighton, when it began to rain, and in erowd-
ing into the cabin a disturbance took place on beiid the
steamer, and a female screamed ; he immediately afterwards
saw her struck by. the .defendant,—(the tonna "sbfestee
which led to a sort of fight, in which the defendant got well
basted. This passed over, and he (complainant) was standing
on deck, and the defendant came towards him and wanted to
know why he had received so many blows ? He (complain-
ant)7 your eyes I'll strike you," and
immediately
said, " you should not have struck at a woina,n its, The
defendant r r
e tsot r tuecdk— (1—
him a
vioent blow on the face, which
gave
him.alJaeW,fve,. The defendant had since tried to compro-
ter, he th..ggt.with him, but having heard the man's charac-
gistrates. Mr. Crewe, wo,?aitsring the case ,b,gatnitit.,
deavoured to show that the steamer was-ow-WO L; shire shore,
and out of Mr. Hall's jurisdiction; and then that the defend-
ant bad been irritated, and struck. the complainant in mistake.
Mr. Flail said there was no mitigating circumstance. The
assault was most distinctly proved by a respectable person,
who having seen him first raise his list against a woman and
strike her, (old him he ought not to do it, and he then imme-
diately struck him. He must pay- 40s, and costs.