The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-09 00:00:00

WARRINGTON.

SERIOUS ROBBERY.--At the Police-office, on Monday,
Abraham Gerrard was pldCed before the magistrates to an-:
swer the charge of stealing thirty new sovereigns- from' the
pocket of Mr. John Orford, a farmer, of Burton Wood.- The
prosecutor, who had been drinking, went, on Saturday after-
noon, to the Barley Mow public-house, with thirty new
sovereigns wrapped up in a canvass batr. During his sojourn
there, a scuffle was kicked up amongst the company, and the
prisoner was seen to seize him round the waist, and to have
his hand over the prosecutot's pocket. The prisoner left the
house immediately. He was afterwards apprehended, and
twelve shillings were found upon him. He was the only per=
son who quitted the room, and on his being questioned he
denied having been at the Barley Mow at all that day. The.
magistrates fully committed him fur trial. .
SHOPLIFTING. —On Saturday last, Anne Wait went into
the shop of Mr. Johnson, draper, Sankey-street, and pur-
chased a pair of stockings, which she paid for. After she
had left, a pigee of gingham was missing, and on her being
apprehended by the police, a part of- it was found in her pos-
session, and the rest she had pledged at the shop of Mr:
Mather, a pawnbroker in the town. She was on Monday
examined at the police court, and committed for trial.
CAUTION TO BEER SELLERS.—It is imperative upon the
beer sellers iu Warrington to close their houses at ten o'clock
at night. On Monday, Joseph Gerrard, a beer seller, of
Warrington, was convicted in the penalty of £2, and Ils.
costs, for having his house open at twenty minutes to eleven
o'clock.

THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER.-011 Monday, Mr. Edwd.
Fair, the landlord of the Millstone Tavern, Sankey7street,
,
Warrington, appeared before the magistrates to answer an
information, chargitig hini with having his house open be-.
tween the hours of twelve and four o'clock on the night of
the 18th Of September, and permitting drunken and disor-
derly conduct therein. The information was laid at the in-
stance of the Warrington police committee, in consequence
of some information that had been given by one of their
discarded officers. Thomas Garnett deposed, that on the
night in question he was at defendant's house at one o'clock.
He saw no disorderly conduct, nor any one drti%k in the
house. It appeared to him that there had been a public sup-
per, or something of that sort. Mr. Fair explained, that on
the night in question, a number of his friends had assembled
at his house to await the arrival of the express bringing the
news of the Doncaster St. Leger race. At the time that
the officer came, they had all left, with the exception of those
lodging in his house. The magistrates dismissed the infor-
mation. The costs off' the day were applied for by Mr. Fait's
legal adviser., but refused.

CHEATING an, UNCLE.—At the Warrington Police-court,
on Wednesday, James 111‘Dougal, a pawnbroker, of Church-
street, appeared to answer a summons, to show cause why
he refused to deliver up a bundle of wearing apparel, the
property of Catherine Hill. The complainant's story was
exceedingly simple. She had pledged some things at the de-
fendant's "depot," and on some day of the last week she
went to make a further deposit. The defendant, on that oc-
casion, declined making any furtber.cash advances, and in-
timated an intention on his part to detain the bundle until
such times as the articles pledged by the complainant had
been redeemed. Mr. Ashton, the defendant's solicitor, sub-
mitted that the case, as proved against his client, did not
come within the jurisdiction of the magistrates; her only
remedy was by an action of (rover. The chairman ()ferruled
the objection, intimating that the case not only came within
their jurisdiction, but that they hhd power, under the pawn-
brokers' act, to inflict a penalty. The defendant was next
permitted to tell his tale. He had lately added the business
of a pawnbroker to that of a licensed dealer in tea and coffee,
and according to his own showing had no great knowledge of
his new calling. He said that a number of women, as well
as the complainant, were in the habit of coming to his shop
in the dusk of the evening with various bundles, which they
pledged. In less than three weeks the complainant had been
with him eleven times. Her frequent. visits led him to sus-
pect something wrong, and he accordingly examined the
pledges, and to his surprise, found that they were complete
rubbish. He had since received information which induced
him to believe that the complainant had been employed to
pledge the things by other pawnbrokers in the town. The
bundle was ordered to be restored. The defendant wished
to know whether he could immediately proceed to the
sale of the articles pledged, as they would, before twelve
months had "elapsed, be worth nothing. He was told that
the law compelled him to keep them, whether the person
pledging them bad or had not an intention to redeem.
TOLERABLE Skinr.—One day last week the bon. member
for North Lancashire bagged nineteen and a half brace of
birds, and next day, along with the Hon. and Rev. Horace
Powys, Rector of Warrington, on the Beivsey estate, thirty
brace, with a corresponding number of hares ond.r4bits.