The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-09 00:00:00

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POLICE. INI'ELLIGEA'CIe.

. HONEST AND DESHDN;I4:qT —On Friday, at the Police-nface.
Mary English, a woman tat though not forty, with a face "round
as the shield of Fingal," and a nose of African size and eon
.formation, was charged with having robbed a sailor of his watch.
The sailor stated, "a few days 'lgo, yo sin, I geet a cope o'
drink, and I met this girl in Garden-street, when I wur wining
along in-and.out-ifysh, bike a lass i' her Sunday elooas walking
i' a lane full o' puddle-holes. Very well, this girl and Me geet
into conversation,—haply yore worship doesu't feel curious
about though ? Magistrate.—" Not, at all; go on and tell me
what occurred." Complainant.—" By jingo . yore worship's
nut at a' loike my granny; no loves to hear a'th' ins and outs
of a story, 'specially if it be any ways comical: Noa, nna.
Well, so sin, I told her 1 was gooing aboard vessel; and 00.
says. Mon I goo wt' you ?' not i' that fashion, howsoever, for
her pronuncification's regular Irish a' over, though her name
somehow or other is English. Soo I says too her, you can come
if you Joike; 'daze yourself; but if you do coins, gie thee a
a bit o' summat to ait. (Laughter.) Well, 00 agreed to this,
and aboord we went, and while' she were ailing her victuals, I
went to bed, being sleepifyish with the drink,loike; and when
1 wakkened, three or four hours after, inriybe, her. and my
watch had bonath mizzled. Well, I leet of her accidentally
Cother day, and I says to her, Dun yoo remember taking any
watch, young woman ? And if uo didn't lift up her eyes like a
duck i' a thunder-storm, or a ranting parson when the steam's
up, and said oo had never seen me! Gadzooks, says.l, struck
dum with the way on brazened it out, didn't you go me to
our vessel, and didn't I gte yo a dollop o' salt beef and— 0,
ay ! Ido recollect now,' she says, and yo went to bed drunk ;
so I took yore watch for safety.' Then oo toud me as haw she
had tekken th' watch to a pawnbroker's, who wouldn't take it
in ; but as haw he had kept it notwithstanding." This turned
out to be the fact; the prisoner had offered the watch fur pledge,
but the pawnbroker, having some suspicion, retained it, though
without informing the police. The magistrate remarked that
she had acted dishoneStly in taking the watch, but honestly in
informing, him where it was: he (complainant) would never
have got it back ekcept for her disclosure. Complainant—
" Well, there's good o' both sides, for I don't wish to put her i'
ony trouble, as oo says her as a child. I'm glad I've getten it
back—that's a'." In consideration of the complainant having
to sail shortly, and of the subsequent partial honesty of the pri-
soner, she was dismissed.

DEFINITION OF BEING IN THE FAMILY-WAY.—Sarah News-
ham, a respectable-looking girl was brought up at the Police-
()thee, on Friday, charged by another young woman, cousin to
the prisoner, with theft, under the folliiwing circumstances t•-s-,
The complainant, in the-most indignant manner, and with a
modulation of tone that would have reflected high credit On an
actress, deposed t bus—" That woman was at my house, sir, a
short time ago, and I says to her, ' Sarah, go up stairs and
fetch my shawl'—the shawl, you know, sir, was hanging amiss
the rail of the bed, as I told her; and she comes down presently
and Says that the shawl wasn't there: I went up myself snots
arter, and sure enough it was gone, sir. Now,,what was Ito
think. Why, 1 didn't know what to think; but I did think of
it above once, sir, for it was a very handsome shawl; it was, as
all the neighbours owned—except them that was jealous of me,
sir; tbir a black crow never owns as how a peacock's handsomer
than himself; and grapes as grows out of reach, you know, is
.always sour, as Mr. Fox sail. Well, sir, I went to her house
one day to borrow an iron, and (wOuld you believe it ?) she had
my own shawl on her back—and she's my own cousin,-too! She
wants to cousin me, but she shan't if your worship won't let
her." The prisoner declared that she had not been in the
house of the plaintiff, nor had she been sent, up stairs for her
shawl. On the evening when the complainant came into her
mother's house, she had been to Byrom-street Chapel, and was
about to retire to bed. She had on her own shawl—a shawl
which all the family knew to be hers—when her cousin caine in
and claimed it as her own. Complainant—"lt is not her
shawl." Prisoner.—" Begging your pardon, Mr. Hell, ,it is
my shawl." Complainant.—" 0 my! how can you say that,
Sarah ? I know my, shawl very well; it has a mark upon it. A
bit had been torn off by my nail when the balloon went up, and
here it is now !" she exclaimed, in a tone of inexpressible. de-
light, and pointing to the corner of the shawl in a triumphant
manner. Prisoner.—" When she lost her shawl, sir, she went
to a fortune-teller about.it, who told her that,it had been stolen
by a person in the family•way and another tail) person, and that
is the only reason she has for accusing me." "But you ate not
I
tall?" "'No, sir, nor in the famiiy way ; but she interprets it
thus—A person in the family-way is one in the way of the
family, I belong to the family—therefore I am in the way of
the family—therefore I am in the family way —and therefore
stole her shawl." The mother of the prisoner deposed that the
shawl in dispute was the property of her daughter, who had
bought it about three weeks ago in Whitechanel. "She (coins
plainant) went to the fortune-teller to see what kind of a person
it was that took it, and that's all she knows. My daughter was
never here before, but she has been here mauy a time. , She
was drunk, too, sir, and had a rafllle in her house." Magistrate.
—"lf your daughter bought the shawl as you say, the better
way will be to let the roan from Whitechapel come here." Mrs.
Newsham.—"But he can't come sir ; he's dead. It's a pity he
didn't live 'a week or two longer, then my daughter could have
been cleared: She (complainant) is a very malicious. false
.woman." Another witness deposed that the shawl had been
purchiised by the plaintiff, in her presence, at Poynton's, in
Paradise-street. The result was that the prisoner was remand-
ed,„ that the shawl might be taken. to Mr. Poynton, to see
'whether he could recognise it.

COMFORTABLY DRUNK.—An Irishman, who rejoiced in the
soubriquet of Mulligan,. was brought up recently at the Police-
office, charged with obstructing with his own person the free
current of noxious waters which, having oozed from various
contributory drains and culverts, carry themselves away by a
gutter in the neighbourhood of Dale-street : he was, however,
unconscious of the offence he was committing, for, as he rolled
and changed his position in his. sop but not downy bed, feeling
not quite so %,arni and comfortable-es in his own chamber, which
he imagined he occupied, he in haltdistinct, yet smothered ac-
cents, called repeatedly upon his better half to " tuck .hina in."
The unusual grunting to be "tucked in" in a gutter attracted
the attention of an officer, who, finding the prisoner unable to
pilot himself home, locked him up, for safety. " Yer hanar," said
the prisoner, "I was'nt drunk at all, and he's a dirty spalpeen
that says to the contrary. I'd bin working at a big Auiericker
ship all the Hinged night, and I could keep awake no longer;
and 1 s'oose I'm not a ' sunnambler,' for I couldn't walk in me
sleep, or sure, yer hanar, I'd not have throubled the place man
to disturb ine dramite." Mr. 14 have been bete
before. Prisoner—But never, ver hanar, for .anY thing but a
dhrop o' dhrink. Mr. Hall—Well, you may go'away now, but
be inure sparing of your drops, or I shall be obliged to fine you.
Pat promised a tee-total abstinence, and with evident gratifica-
tion regained his liberty.
BREACH of Te UST.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, one of
the sailors in the empliryment of the Live% pool Fish Company,
named John Ball, was placed before the magistrates, on a change
of defrauding the company. Mr. Archibald, the agent. for the
company said, that he had received information of the prisoner
having sold a quantity of fish at Douglas, Isle of Mau, which
he had -no autnority whatever to ; and also, of his having
offeredone of the company's boats for sale, forElo, at Ulvei stone.
Mr. Hall said he had no jurisdiction at Douglas, or at Ulcer-
st4me. It was finally determined that an officer should be sent
With the prisoner, at the company's expense to Douglas, where
the case of selling the fish was to be !messed against him.

ROBBERY.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a female of dis-
orderly character, named Ann Williams, was brought up,
charged with having robbed a man of colour. The complainant,
John Francis, deposed, that he was going to his lodgings the
night before, about twelve o'clock, when he met the prisoner at
the bar, who claimed an acquaintance with him, and asked him
many familiar questions—if he was acquainted with Mrs.
Williams, where she formerly lived, and made herself uncom-
monly free with his person, as' well as familiar, when, all at
once, she gave a theatrical start, as if she were frightened, and
ran off: He felt much surprised at this, and began to search
his pockets to ascertain the cause, when he discovered she had
not gone empty handed, but that his purse, containing 22s , had
disappeared with her. lie immediately pursued, and overtook
her, and gave her into custody. In ausaer to an inquiry from
-Mr. Hall, he said he was a seafaring. man. The officer who
took the prisoner into custody said; he found her purseconcealed
under her apron. The prisoner entered into a rigmarole de-
fence, the truth of which the complainant denied. Mr. Hall
ordered the informations to be taken against her.

STEALING LEAD.—Yesterday; at the Police-office, a lad
named John Green was placed at the bar of the Ponce-office,
charged by Barton, the constable, with having stolen a quantity
of lead. Barton deposed, that that morning, between two and
three o'clock, he was out with constable Ainsworth, searaing
houses, when they saw the prisoner coming out of an unoccu- •
pied cellar in Harrison-tweet. Ainsworth seized him, and on
taking him into custody, and searching the cellar, they found
in a square hole in it, which is made a depot for the conceal-
ment of stolen property, a quantity of lead piping in a wet
state, as if only just laid tnere. The prisoner, in defence
-said, that feeling very dry, he got up for a drink of water,
and was just gone out when the officers took him into custody.
Barton said, that a number of thieves lived in the house over
the cellar. Mr. Hall (to prisoner) " What are you ?" Pri-
soner.—" I work for my father." " What is your father ?"
"He is dead about three weeks since." (A laugh.) Parkin-
son said, that the prisoner had only come out of Bridewell a
fortnight before. Mr. Hall said, he would give the officers till
next morning to make inquiries about the lead, and lemanded
the prisoner.
IRISH SISTERLY AFFEcTioN.—Yesterday. at the Police-offic,
two young Irishwomen, named Eliza and Jane M'Court, were
brought up at the bar charged with being drunk and kicking
up a disturbance in Paradise street, on Saturday night. Officer
No. 291 deposed that the two prisoners were fighting together on
Saturday night, about twelve o'clock, in Paradise-street, and
creating such a disturbance that a great crowd collected around
them. Mr. Hall asked them what they had to say in defence,
when Eliza M`Court, the elder of the twain, said, in a strong! •
Irish brogue, ." Plase yer banner, we're shisters, an' we lives.
aC PreScot, an' make caps to sell at the markets. An' in dhe
hate ov me joy at selling all dhe caps I got jist a little drop 0'
whiskey, an' gev. a little o' the same to my snister, an' it took
a holt of us. We were a goin' to get back to Present by the'
coal carts, which takes us for sixpence—treepencea piece, when
in dhe hate ov dhe whiskey I gev her a slap, jist a gentle tip yer
banner, an' 1 b'lieve she fell twin a gas post an' cut her face a
little Well, yer hanner, 'she 'didn't like id, an' paid me of
wid change ov dhe same, but she's me to blame for it all, as
she's a ynungerer shister. But plase yer hanner, it is two years
since I was drunk before, an' savin' yer piesince, nicer get
drunk agin, an' she, yer banner, was .niver Ilrunk afore; an'
as to•creating a disturbance. plase yer hamlet.; I don't recollect
anvthin' at all about it, an'. I promise to God an' yer harmer I'll
niver get drunk agin." Mr. Hall discharged them on their
promise never to do the like again.
ASSAULT.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, an emaciated-
looking mar, named Carr, an Irishman, a coach-builder by
trade, appeared to complain against a prisoner named Rooney,
an apprentice to a wheelwright,' for violently assailltiUg-
self. and his wife. The complainant, who appeared to be
coMpletely under the mastership of his tongue, and nut to
be the master over it, in very_ prolix brogue proceeded to state
his grievances. He said, -1-er worship's reverence, on Satur-
day night. 1 wint nut at seven o'clock, whin I heerd my wife a-
screechin' in the ketchin, and I went from my own apartment
to see what was the matther, whin I see'd a man sthriking hur
rihns way, (suiting the action to the word,) au'd dhat man was
named Pat Murphy, a pig-jobber he is by trade. So 1 wint in
order to eradicate me wife, an' he cut up stairs. Sis you
must answer for dhat," sis I, "on Monday.before an Aldeman,"
sis I, "to satisfy me." In dhe course of half an hour he goes
out thiough dhe hall. Mr. hall—" This is all about another
man; come In the charge against the prisoner--Rooney.'' Coin;
plainant —" Well, he wint out and stopped out till eleven
o'clock, an ni,,de use ov desperate eXpiessions, as he was a-
. guilt.' At eleven he comes in wid this matt Rooney, sis
he, " qwhare is dhe peel& dhat dare fight us, an' behaved in a
bravo brutal manner?" and vfid that, Murphy rushes. past me,
mid sthrikes me wife agin. I made a rush in assist me wife, an'
this fellow Rooney' runs behind me, an' takes dine poker from
dhe fire. I stoops down, and dhe blow 14 on Inc wife, an' they
beat. me wife to such a degree- (that she is quite Mail:: •1 lie
poor wife, who appeared to have come in for all the beating,
here exhibited her arms, Which were black and blue. t fneigh she
herself was white enouh.. It appeared that there h- ti been
some qoarrel between the 'parties, and that Murphy hylg.'d up
attic s in the same Ipuise. and tilitt this pukering hil,iness was
the settlina of the dispute AO. the Irish fashion, sac.
defence? that Mrs: Cdtt had put her head but of the