The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-02 00:00:00

POLICE COURT-YESTERDAY.

LEAVING GOODS ON THE QtrAYS.—Several shipowners
and brokers were summoned before Mr. Mansfield, at the
instance of the dock police, for having allowed corn, iron,
and other merchandise to lay on the dock quays. They
were severally fined in sums varying from ss. to 10s. each,
with costs.

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PICKING POCKETS.—James Griffiths, a sharp-looking
youth, was charged with picking the pocket of a young
woman, named Margaret Poole, of the sum of 14s. 6d.
The prisoner met the prosecutrix in the street, and she
stated positively that he picked her pocket of the sum
mentioned. He was immediately taken into custody; but
nothing was found on him. His father said the boy was
an industrious and hard-working lad, and had not been
twenty minutes out of the house. The prisoner was
discharged with an admonition.
ROBBING A SAILon.— Ann White was charged with
robbing a sailor, on Sunday night, of seven five-dollar
gold pieces. It appeared that the prosecutor had been
drinking to excess in course of the day, and at night, as
he was proceeding along Park-lane, he met the prisoner,
and went with her to a public-house, where they had some
drink. After this he accompanied her to her lodgings;
where he fell asleep. His money, amounting in all to £2l
in gold five-dollar pieces, was sewed up in a leather belt,
which he wore round his person. On awaking he found
that the sewing had been partly opened, and the money
referred to gone. He could give no further account of the
matter, and the prisoner, who, of course, denied all know-
ledge of. the transaction, and who bad none of the coins in
her possession when taken into custody, was discharged.
STEALING A PITREE.—Ann Jones and Ellen Hudson
were committed for trial at the Sessions, on a charge of
stealing a purse, containing five and a half sovereigns,
from John Turner, provision agent in Liverpool, in an
entry in James's-street, that morning, between two
and three-o'clock. He admitted that he had treated them
hi a public-house.

ILLEGAL PANNlNG—SusamMacdonald was charged with
pawning several shirts, a pair of drawers, a blanket, and
some other articles belonging to Captain M`Neill, residing
in 66, Hill-street, and which his wife had employed the
prisoner to wash. Macdonald, who did not deny the
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PICKING POCKETS.-Elizabeth Dawling and Margaret
Dunn were convicted of picking the pocket of a lady in
Church-street, near Coußton House, on Saturday. Both
had been previously convicted of similar offences, and they
were sentenced to be imprisoned for three months.
THEFT Or EIGHTY POUNDS.—John Teague, Richard
Montley, James Wright, Midget Quoin, Margaret Quoin
and Catherine Rooney, were charged with being concerned
in the theft of £BO from the person of Daniel Parkyns,
potato dealer from Manchester, on Saturday last, in the
Ellesmere Hotel, Hurst-street. From the evidence it ap-
peared that Mr. Parkyn, who has been in the habit for
several years of putting up in the Ellesmere Hotel, was
there on Saturday last, and occupied a room contiguous to
the baK. A man from Manchester whom he knew called
and asked him in the bar for the loan of 55., when he took
lout his purse which contained his money, and taking out
half a sovereign got change for it and lent his friend the
55., returning the purse into his pocket. The prisoner
Teague, who was present, saw where he put the purse.
Soon afterwards, feeling heavy, the prosecutor went into
his room, lay down, and speedily fell asleep. Shortly
afterwards he was awoke by feeling a tug at his clothes,
but he saw nobody. On examination he found his purse
was gone ; it contained a note for £2O and 38 sovereigns,
besides other money which he could not particularise. He
gave an alarm, and the landlady immediately said that
Teague had taken it. It was proved that Teague :,as
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