The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

SMUGGLING.—On Thursday, Andres Zuchantiqui and
Jose Barrandica were each fined 20s. and costs, for smug-
gling cigars from a vessel in the Prince's Dock.
ROBBING A HOUSE.—On Wednesday, at the Police-
court, Mary Devine was committed for trial for stealing a
watch from the house of Mrs. Jackson, Toxteth-park.
She offered the watch in pledge in Brownlow-hill.
IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—OD Tuesday, a woman, named
Marrow, was committed by Mr. Rushton, for stealing
two cushions from a car in Bedford-street, while the
driver was taking his dinner.
PICKING POCKETS. —On Thursday, a respectable
female, whilst walking along Byrom-street, was hustled.
by a party of lads, one of whom she caught in the act of
landing her purse to another of the party. She imme-
diately tripped up the young rogue into fie kennel, and
handed him over to a policeman. On Friday, he was
committed for trial.

A Raul BEGGAR.—On Tuesday, Bridget Dougherty,
an old Irishwoman, was committed by Mr. Rushton to
the Borough Gaol for seven days for begging. On being
searched by the assistant matron at the gaol, there were
found secreted amongst the filthy rags with which she was
clothed, and upon her person, ten sovereigns, four half-
crowns, ninety-three shillings, and thirty-nine sixpences,
in all £l6 2s. 6d. She stated that she had been in this
country about ten months, and for some time past she
had been receiving 4s. a week from the parish, and that
land being now very cheap in Ireland, in consequence of
the distress, she had been saving the money to " buy a
little farm!"
CAUTION TO SERVANTS.—On Friday, Mrs. Ashcroft,
of Great George-square, widow of the late Dr. Ashcroft,
appeared at the Police-court, to charge a woman named
M`Leone with a theft perpetrated in her house. The wo-
man, with her son, a lad about twelve years of age, under
some pretence called upon Mrs. Ashcroft, and whilst in
the hall, in the absence of the inmates, got possession of
a child's dress which was hanging up, and with which she
made off. She was captured with the stolen property in
her possession, and conveyed to bridewell. Another lady
attended for the purpose of laying a similar charge against
the woman ; it was not, however, gone into, as she was
convicted on this one, and sentenced to three months'
imprisonment. The boy was discharged.
EMBEZZLEMENT. Two young men, named Henry
Jones and Richard Yates, were examined at the Police-
court, on Friday, on a charge of embezzlement.—Mr.
Thomas Wilcock, tea dealer, Chester, proved that some
time ago he paid Yates £8 ss. 6d. on account of Messrs.
Palmer, his employers. Subsequently he paid Jones
£4 ss. for them.—Mr. Heath, of Chester, stated that, on
the 12th of October, he remitted a £lO note and a post-
office order for 3s. 3d. to them, the receipt of which was
acknowledged by Yates. There are proofs of other pay-
ments to both prisoners, but none of them had been ac-•
counted for to Messrs. Palmer. In the possession of
each a betting book was found, and Yates had some en-
velopes of letters which had contained remittances.
Yates endeavoured to exculpate Jones.
AN UNFOUNDED CHARGE.—On Tuesday, Thomas
Ford, a man residing in Birkenhead, was brought up at
the Police-court, charged by a man, named John Crook,
with robbing him of ten sovereigns. The statement of
the complainant was to the effect that he had ridden in a
coach to Kirkdale in company with the prisoner, and had
ten sovereigns in his pocket on starting ; but on leaving
the coach he found that the prisoner had taken his money
from his pocket. The prisoner, in his defence, said that
it was true that he had been drinking with the complain-
ant, but had not taken his money. They had been for a
day or two enjoying themselves at several public-houses,
at an outlay, the enumeration of which was sufficient to
show that little capability could exist on the one part to
take care of, or on the other to feloniously appropriate,
money. The prisoner was discharged.
A CURIOUS CASE.—On Wednesday an inquiry took
place before Mr. Rushton, respecting the loss of eight bar-
rels of flour, belonging to Mr. Ellis Owen, which were al-
leged to have been taken by Messrs. Geo. Dennistoun and
Co. It appeared that there were two vessels, side by side,
in the Brunswick Dock, landing flour, one called the Ve-
nilia, and the other the Amelia. After the discharge of
the latter, it was ascertained that she had eight barrels
more than her complement, while the former had eight
short. How this strange mistake occurred no person
could tell. Mr. Rushton said the plaintiff had failed to
show that the eight barrels in the possession of Messrs.
Dennistoun and Co. were of the same brands, marks, and
quality as those missing, and this proof was necessary be-
fore he could adjudicate. It turned out in evidence, that
nearly the whole of the flour landed from the Amelia was
sold ; to trace the flour will now, therefore, be a difficult
matter. From the statement of one of the witnesses, it
appeared that Messrs. Dennistoun requested the plaintiff's
men to examine their flour before it was sold, but the an-
swer was that the barrels were without brands.
CAUTION TO SEAMEN.—On Friday, a case of consi-
derable importance to the merchants and shipowners of
this town was heard before Mr. Rushton. It appears it
is the practice of many sailors to ship from this port to
British America, and when there desert their vessel, and
engage for the run home at higher wages. On reaching
this port, by paying ten shillings to the customs, they are
allowed another ticket. During the past week, a man
named Neill Cook, who had deserted his vessel at Quebec,
gave notice to the customs of his intention to apply for a
ticket to enable him to re-ship on board another vessel.
The ship which he deserted happened to be in port at the
time, and the captain gave such information as led to the
detection of the prisoner. Mr. Rushton haying inquired
what amount of expense the captain had been put to to
procure a substitute, he was told £l5 13s. 4d. The
magistrate then spoke at some length on the dishonourable
practices resorted to on the part of the men, and com-
mitted the prisoner to gaol for three months, saying the
men might as well -rob the vessel of her cargo as act in
such a manner; he was determined to punish every man
hi the same way. Shortly afterwards another man was
brought up -under similar circumstances, and he also was
committed for three months.
CURIOUS CASE.—In July, 1840, Mr. John Bibby, a
merchant of the utmost respectability in Liverpool, and
founder of the Royal Bank, was found drowned in a pit in
a remote field near Aintree, six miles from. Liverpool, and
three from Mr. Bibby's residence at Bootle. On the
preceding evening Mr. Bibby had dined at the Royal
tank, and had partaken rather freely of wine. He left
about eleven o'clock, and took a car to a spot within 300
yards of his own residence, as he was in the habit of do-
ing, but he never reached home. As he was a gentleman
of great firmness of mind, it was supposed by his friends
that he had been waylaid and thrown into the pit where
his body was found, and in this opinion they were con-
firmed by the discovery that his watch was missing.
Search was made for it, and the pit emptied in vain ; the
watch could not be found ; but as there was no mark of
violence on the body, it was considered possible that the
deceased had been robbed of his watch, and that he had
wandered to the place of the fatal accident. Last Wed-
nesday, however, new light was thrown on the transac-
tion ; a stranger took a watch to Roskell's, watchmakers,
in Liverpool, to have it repaired. On looking at it, they
discovered that the original number had been defaced and
another substituted. Ott further examination they found
their own private mark, placed on the watch when they
had repaired it for the late Mr. Bibby. On Saturday the
stranger called for it, and on being questioned, the
watch was traced to a disreputable character, the keeper
of a disorderly house. Two men are in custody, and the
police are making further inquiry .—London Times. [We
were aware of the facts before our last publication, but
suppressed them at the request of the police.]
EXTENSIVEROMIERY or MONEY FROM A CHESHIRE
LADY.—On Thursday, two men, John Burgess and
William Mitchell, were brought before the sitting magi-
strates of Birkenhead, on a charge of being concerned in
the robbery of Mrs. Mathison, of Capenhurst-hall,
Cheshire. The prisoners had been brought up at the
Guildhall Police-office, London, and were sent down to
Liverpool, and thence to Birkenhead. Mrs. M. stated
that on the 26th of last month she received at Heywood's
bank in this town a £lOO Bank of England note, and
eight sovereigns, &c. She went home the same day by rail
from Birkenhead. No one was in the carriage with her
at first, but afterwards five or six men got in, one of them
like Burgess. She got out at Sutton station, and on
going into the office, discovered that her purse and its
contents were gone, and the train had started before she
could give the alarm. She could not identify any of the
prisoners. Emanuel Franklin, of the firm of Franklin
Brothers, Lord-street, bullion merchants, said that two
men called on the 27th October, wanting American notes
for a £lOO Bank of England note. He changed the note
accordingly, and he gave the court an account of the
American notes given. The prisoner Mitchell was one of
the two men. John Durandu, bullion merchant, of
Waterloo-road, said that on the 27th. October, Burgess
called, and said a friend of his bad a number of American
notes to change. He (witness) asked him where he got
them, and the reply was,. from. America. Witness• said

he thought the notes had been stolen, probably from
Franklin's. The prisoner said that he would go with him
in a car to Franklin's. Witness said he would not Lave
anything to do with them, but he would keep the note he
bad, and he, the prisoner, might call in the morning.
Witness then gave information to the police. Adam
Spellman, No. 10, Lombard-street, London, bullion
dealer, said he had seen both prisoners on the 28th Oct.
Mitchell produced a quantity of American notes,. and
called himself Capt. Bridgewater, of the ship Wellington,
lying in the St. Catharine's dock. Witness purchased the
notes. Both prisoners afterwards came with more notes,
which he said he could not do until next day--when
Burgess called, and he gave him into custody. This
finished the evidence at present against the prisoners,
and Mr. DowOng, in whose custody they had been brought
from Liverpool, sought a remand of the case, which was
agreed to, and fixed for Wednesday.
ALLEGED CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER.—On Thursday,
a man named Thady Freeman was brought before Mr.
Rushton, charged with an assault on Patrick Falkney,
who was at the time in a dangerous state. Before the
case was gone into, intelligence was brought into court
that the man was dead. The prisoner was therefore
handed over to the coroner, Mr. Curry. On Friday, the
inquest was held, and Freeman and his wife were brought
up as being implicated in the man's death. John
Mc. Nulty, a labourer, living in a court in Shaw's-brow,
said that deceased was thirty-two years of age. Three
weeks ago, on Sunday, he, (witness,) deceased, Freeman,
and his wife, a man, named Grady, and others, were
drinking in a public-house, in Dale-street. Words arose
between deceased and Freeman, and the latter struck de-
ceased on the head. When they got out into the street,
Grady struck deceased at the back of the head with a
stick, and deceased immediately said, " There is iron or
lead at the end of the stick." The blood flowed from the
back of deceased's head ; and at the same time Freeman's
wife struck him about the head. Witness took deceased
to his :louse in North-street. His head afterwards
swelled, and a surgeon was called, who attended him up
to the time of his death, on Saturday week. Another
witness, who corroborated these facts, said, that after
Grady inflicted the blow, he secreted the weapon in a
grating. Mr. Lynch, surgeon, said he was called to de-
ceased on the 18th ultimo, and found a wound on the
head, which was followed by erysipelas. He did not at-
tend him again for two or three days, and then found him
in a comotose state. Death ensued by erysipelas, caused
by a blow of a stick or a fall. Witness, on his last visit, '
found a man holding a basin under one of the deceased's
temples, 'and, on inquiry, was told that Dr. St. Pierre
had bled him. That, person was then in the garret, and
afterwards came down stairs, and admitted to witness that
he had interfered with his patient, that it was unprofes-
sional, but the danger was positive, and that he had been
urged by the man's friend to bleed him. It appeared
from their evidence,
,that he had put the man in a sitting
posture in bed, whilst he dashed cold water over the pa-
tient,
put salt in one of his ears, and on his stomach ; he
also put vinegar in his eyes, and administered some yellow
stuff to him. Besides this, he bled him in three places in
the arm, on the temple, and on the ankle. The re-
mainder of Mr. Lynch's evidence went to say, that the
bleeding was decidedly improper, and that the treatment,
generally, adopted by Dr. St. Pierre, accelerated death.
It appeared on re-examination of witnesses, that the
bleeding was attempted by the counsel of the friends, but
that very little blood was taken away owing to the low
condition of the patient. In reply to questions uy the
coroner, Mc. Nulty and Mr. Lynch said that they thought
that Dr. St. Pierre had had some drink, but was not po-
sitively drunk. The coroner, on addressing the jury, said
that he had gone to the Town-hall, and had received the
highest professional advice, the result of which was, that
he should adjourn the case until Monday, and in the
meantime order a post mortem examination. The co-
roner took Dr. St. Pierre's assurance that he would then
be in attendance: