The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

REMOVING NIGHT SOIL.—On Tuesday, several infor-
mations were heard against parties for removing night
soil, not being contractors under the corporation. In
most cases they were fined 20s. and costs.
ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—On Tuesday, James Johnson,
alias James Hughes, was convicted in the penalty of £lOO
for working a private still in Athol street. It was proved
that the prisoner rented the premises, and superintended
the working of the still.' He had previously been fined
four times for similar offences.

IMPOSITION BY AN IRISH PAUPER.-011 Tuesday, an
Irishman was brought up, charged with having applied
for relief at the parish station in Stewart-street, at the
same time having ss. 101 d. in his pocket. The offence
was proved. The prisoner was committed to gaol for
fourteen days, and the money found upon him ordered to
be appropriated to his maintenance.
A CHIMNEY SET ON FIRE BY " Mercury."—Mr. Wm.
Appleton, who keeps a public-house in Hanover-street,
was summoned before the magistrates on Thursday, for
having allowed one of the chimneys of his house to catch
fire. The defendant said that two men came into his
house on Tuesday morning. and after having called for
two glasses of ale they seized the Mercury newspaper, and
having ignited it, thrust it up the chimney, thereby setting,
it on fire. Acquitted.
WORKING ON GOOD FRIDAY.—On Thursday, Mr.
Hurton, printer, was summoned before the magistrates
by one of his apprentices, for stopping his wages, because
he did not work on Good Friday. The defendant ad--
mitted that he had stopped the wages, but there was an
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said he had worked frequently on Sunday ; but it appeared
he always got paid for it. Mr. Rushton said the lad had
a right to all the protection which his indentures afforded,
and could not be required to work on, Sunday or Good
Friday. He considered it improper to work apprentices
on those days, and the complainant must have his wages.
ALLEGED DAMAGE FROM THE NEGLECT OF A PILOT.—
On Thursday, John Pritchard, a pilot, was summoned be-
fore the magistrates at the Police-court on a charge of
having caused considerable damage to a Spanish vessel,
and also to a schooner called the Ocean, in consequence
of mismanagement. It was stated that the ships were
lying abreast of the Duke's Dock, at anchor, when the
defendant, who was in charge of a vessel, commenced re-
moving, her preparatory to her being docked. She ran
into the Ocean, by which both vessels were much damaged.
It was alleged that the pilot ought to have set some of the
sails before weighing the anchor, in order to obtain proper
command over the ship. It appeared that some of the
master pilots had offered to compromise the matter, but
the defendant refused. Mr. Rushton said, the defendant
appeared to have been to blame, and must be held respon-
sible for the damage to both vessels. He ordered Mr.
Askew to make a survey as to the expense of repair, and
he would then decide accordingly.
NON-CLEANSING OF MIDDENS BY THE BOROUGH
CONTRACTORS.—On Saturday, Richard Pickering, Ro-
bert Birch, Paul Brenton, and. Richard Okell, contractors
with the sanatory committee for the cleansing of all the
middens of the borough, were summoned before Mr.
Rushton for an infraction of the contract. There were
several complaints against these contractors, for the non-
cleansing of middens in various parts of the borough, but
the only case investigated on Saturday was one brought
forward by the Rev. David Thom, dissenting minister, of
St Mary's-place, High-street, Edge-hill. A gentleman
in court said that sixteen of his houses would be empty
that morning in consequence of the middens not being
cleaned, and Mr. Rushton said the matter was becoming
a very serious one, and as several parties unauthorised to
empty middens had been fined, the law, which inflicted a
fine of £5 on the contractor, in case of neglect, must be
carried out, for it was dangerous to public health to per-
mit middens to remain in their present state. Mr. Thom
said he had given proper notice on the 7th, to have his
midden emptied, and it was not until the 14th that the
place was cleansed. The contract made between the de-
fendants and the corporation was produced, and the pro-
per notices on the defendants were duly proved.—Mr.
Pickering said there two or three thousand middens to be
cleaned, and he had no idea until lately that the town was
in such a state. It would break the Bank of England if
the contractors were to be fined in every case of neglect.
There were no fewer than ninety-three middens at pre-
sent to be emptied in one street.—Mr. Rushton said 'the
defendants must pay a fine of £5 for Mr. Thom's case,
but ultimately consented to postpone the case until this
(Tuesday) morning at ten o'clock.

AN UNNATURAL HUSBAND.—On Saturday, an ill-.
looking fellow, of brawny proportions, who followed the
occupation of a stevad ore, and gave his name Francis
Mooney, was brought before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of
having savagely assaulted his wife and thrown her out of
the window of the house in which he lived. The wretched
wife, whose Christian name is Margaret, and whose ema-
ciated appearance told but too plainly of her sufferings,
said, in a feeble voice, that she lived in Bishop-court,
Park-lane. About eleven o'clock the night before, the
prisoner came home, and abused and threatened her so
much, that she was glad to make her escape next door.
In the morning, thinking that the prisoner had had suffi-
cient time to cool, she returned home ; but the moment he
laid eyes on her he seized her by the hair and dragged and
kicked her about the room. She succeeded, after a severe
struggle, in rushing down the stairs, and making her way
again into the house next door, whither the prisoner fol-
lowed her. He seized her in one of the bed-rooms, kicked
her over the face, legs, and body, and pitched her head
foremost out of an open window into the streets. Fortu-
nately, her cries of " murder" attracted a crowd of persons
in front of the house, and they, seeing her descent from
the window, grasped and held her fast as she was approach-
ing, head foremost, towards the paving stones. But for
this timely interference, there is every reason to believe,
that, from the violence with which she was hurled out, she
would have been killed upon the spot. As it was, she had
two wounds on the scalp, a swollen face, and parts of her
body were beaten almost to a jelly. The prisoner made a
vigorous resistance to the persons who endeavored to take
him into custody. He seized a poker, and swore that he
would be hanged for the murder of the first person who
attempted to enter the premises ; but, after a short time he
was overpowered. He was committed for trial.

A SMUGGLER IN THE POLICE FORCE.—On Friday,
police-officer 646 (John Powell) was brought before Mr.
Rushton, on a charge of having stolen several articles
from on board the Royal Mail Steam-ship Hibernia.
Superintendent Clough stated, that the prisoner was
stationed on board the Hibernia for the purpose of watch-
ing her and preventing plunder, and that at eight o'clock
on the morning of that day (Friday) he called at the
station for the purpose of going off duty for the day. The
superintendent, from information he had received, called
him back when he was leaving the station, and asked him
what he had got in his pockets. He admitted that he had
a bottle, and the superintendent found that it was a bottle
of rum. On searching him further the superintendent
discovered that he had 13 small wax candles, 49 cigars,
7 heads of Cavendish tobacco, 3 paicels of tea, a very neat
parlour bellows, richly varnished, and that some of those
articles were secreted in his hat, and others of them inside
the lining of his cape. The steward of the Hibernia
identified the wax candles only, as part, to the best of his
opinion, of the ship's stores. The prisoner said, that as
to the candles they were pieces which were not generally
used. He had bought the tea, and gave Is. 6d. for the
bellows. The tobacco had been given him by the seamen
on board the Hibernia, and every officer who did duty on
board the Hibernia was supplied with pieces of tobacco
in the same way. The bottle contained a mixture of rum,
gin, and brandy, glasses of which liquors had been given
him on board, and he had mixed them all in the bottle
for the purpose of drinking at home. Mr. Rushton said
he was afraid that this was a system of petty plunder on
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to pay a fine of 403. for smuggling the tobacco, or, in
default, to be imprisoned fourteen days, and to be dis-
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