The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

SUMMONS FOR THE WAGES OF A SEAMAN.—William
Boult, Master of the barque Superb, appeared at the Police-
office, before Messrs. Hall and Holmes, on Tuesday-, to show
cause why he refused to pay George Macintyre the stun of
£5 15s, claimed by the latter to be due to him for services on
board the above-named vessel. It appeared, that the plain-
tiff signed articles on the 22d of February last, to proceed to
Pernambuco, and back to any port in Great Britain, at the
tvages of £1 lOs per month. The vessel arrived at Liverpool
from the voyage on the 25th of July last. The complainant
stated, that the captain now refused to pay him more than
£1 per month. Captain Boult said, after he left this port on
his outward voyage, he was driven by the stress of weather
to put into the port of Kinsale. While there, he sent the
complainant in charge of the boat on shore with the steward.
The latter had to go and purchase provisions. While the
steward was absent, the complainant, instead of remaining
with the boat to keep her afloat, as the tide was falling, left
her to herself; the result of which was, that she got aground
amongst the rocks, whereby she was so much injured that he
had been obliged to get a new bottom put in her. When he
(the captain) taxed him with his neglect, his only reply was,
that he could not help it. In answer to this charge of the
captain, the plaintiff said, he had been compelled to leave
the boat on ship's duty, to purchase milk and vegetables. It
appeared, however, mat the complainant had chosen to go
with the steward instead of remaining with the boat. The
captain said he would have looked over this piece of neglect,
but he found throughout the voyage that the complainant was
incompetent to the performance of the duties of an ordinary
seaman, in which capacity he shipped. He could neither
steer nor splice a rope. Nor was he of any use whatever,
except to sweep the decks and tar the rigging. The com-
plainant said he could steer very well, and as for splicing a
rope he would convince them that moment that he could do
that, if the magistrate would but try him. The bate corrobo-
rated the statement of the captain as to the man's incapacity
of performing the common duties of a seaman. The captain
said he had no objection to pay wages at £1 lOs per month
for the first month, and £1 per month for the remainder of
the voyage. Mr. Hall ordered the wages to be paid at the
above rate, the captain to pay the costs. The balance
amounted to £3 6s lOd. Mr.. Hall complimented the captain
upon the unusual correctness with which the ship's articles
were drawn out.

STREET RommaY.--Eliza Hughes, a disorderly female
was placed at the bar of the Police-office on Tuesday, charged
with having robbed William Kendrick, hardware dealer, of
Parliament-street. The prosecutor stated, that about half-
past twelve o'clock that morning he was on his way borne,
when, at the corner of Great George's-place, he saw three
girls. The prisoner, Eliza Hughes, separated herself from
the others and followed him. She took hold of his arm and
attempted to enter into conversation with him, but he told her
to begone as he did not wish to have any thing to say to her.
Still, however, she pressed close to him, nor could he by the
most strenuous endeavours shake her off. He had at this
time in his pocket five sovereigns, two half-sovereigns, an
Egyptian silver coin, and two curious old pieces of money.
At length they arrived opposite to Rathbone-street, where
the importunities of the girl became still more annoying.
"As I had felt her feeling two or three times about my
pockets," said the prosecutor, " I determined to get rid of
her, but still she resisted me, every, thing I could do. Know-
ing I'd sovereigns in my pocket, I determined to see that
they were safe at all risks, so I took 'em out under a gaslight
—seized with a strong determination, and then and there,
sum enough, I saw at a glance that I'd been robbed of three
sovereigns and some of the silver." Mr. Hall—" Were you
sober ?" Complainant—" Yes, sir—oh, yes—sober as a
judge—l had been out on business." Witness stated further,
that he called for the police, and Constable Dovev came to
his assistance. The prisoner was taken to the lock-tp. When
there, the person whose business it was to search her, opened
her dress, and a sovereign and a half, with some silver, fell
out of her bosom. Amongst the silver was the Egyptian coin
before alluded to. An officer who had searched the place
where the prisoner was taken, had found one of the old coins,
which was identified by the prosecutor. The prisoner said
all the money was her own. She denied that she followed
and annoyed the prosecutor in the manner described, and
declared it was he who had dragged her along with him. She
was committed for trial.

ATTEMPTED FRAUD.—A sailor, whose name we suppress[
was brought up at the police-office on Tuesday, in custody o
police-officer, No. 89, charged with having attempted to de-
fraud a lodging-house-keeper in-the following manner. The
complainant stated, that in April, 1837, the prisoner went to
her house to board and lodge. He said he was going to sea
and, under promise of letting her have the note for the firs
monthly advance, he induced her to purchase some clothest
for him. He thus got nearly four pounds in her debt. When
he got his monthly note, she wont and got it changed for him,
and he gave her twelve shillings. He did not go near her
that night, but early in the morning he went away while she
was in bed, and took away all the new clothes which she had
purchased for him. She soon afterwards discovered that he
had spent all the balance of the money, and after all he did
not go with the vessel, so that she became liable for the
money. He soon afterwards went away in another vessel,
and from that time to the present she had been unable to get
payment from him. She said she was a poor woman, with
five children, and could not afford to lose the money. It ap-
peared that the prisoner had just arrived at this port in the
Emma, of Waterford. Mr. Hall said he would not allow a
trick of this sort to be played with impunity. He remanded
the prisoner, and ordered him to find some means of settling
with the poor woman.
ROBBING A SEAMAN.—Sarah Hancock, a pretty young
woman, of notoriously bad habits and character, was placed
at the bar of the police-office on Tuesday, charged with hav-
ing robbed Daniel Miney, a rough, 'weather-beaten sailor.
It appeared that the latter met the prisoner in the street on
the preceding night, and according to the usual course in
such cases, had treated her with a quantity of drink, and got
intoxicaied in her company, after which she took him to her
house, a notorious den of iniquity, " I had, said he, fifteen
shillings stowed away in my fob, and a sovereign snugly
lashed about with twine in the breast of my shirt. She got
the money out of my fob somehow, and managed to cast
adrift the fastenings of the sovereign. If I'd 'a seen het at
work I'd 'a told her to avast heaving, but I di'n't till she'd
set off. I was n't dead sober, but sober enough to know,
when she cut and run a' that way, summat was wrong. So
soon as I missed my cash, I turned to and made sail after,
and I soon came up with my chase, and handed her over to
the officer here." As it appeared uncertain how soon the
complainant would be going to sea, the prisoner was re-
manded. In the mean time inquiries will be made on the
subject.

A YOUNG EMIGRANT.—On Wednesday, at the Police-
office, a young Irishman, about 18 years of age, who, but
two days before, was in custody for lurking about some back
premises under suspicious circumstances, and having a pistol
found on him, and who was then acquitted on his statement
being found correct, that he was going to Canada, and was
there merely accidentally, was again brought before the Ma-
gistrates. Inspector Fresh stated, that he had been informed
by the person with whom the lad lodged, that, from what he
had stated, he suspected he had run away from home under
suspicious circumstances. He accordingly took the lad into
custody, and challenged him with having run away from
home and bebaved ill, when the lad acknowledged he had
run away from his father, who was a stonemason in the coun-
ty of Galloway, and that he had robbed him of £2B. It ap-
peared that he had taken his passage by the Henry which
was to sail that day at one o'clock, and had pain £2 lOs Od.
for it. When taken into custody he was carrying a gun and
an antiquated pinchbeck watch was found on him, which he
had purchased for 335.--worth abont ss. Mr. Hall said he
was a very foolish young man. He was ordered to be kept
in custody till his father could be communicated with.
BRUTAL ASSAUI.T.—On Wednesday, at the Police-office,
a labouring man named Nelson, was placed at the bar, char-
ged with having violently assaulted and severely injured a
publican named Lunt, who resides in Vauxhall-road The
complainant, an old man, stated, that the prisoner came into
his house the day before, and behaved in such a riotous man-
ner that he was obliged to put him out. He put him on the
steps, and thought he would go away, instead of which lie
seized a sharp pointed spade used for getting in coals, and
pushed the edge of it violently in his face, cutting the bridge
of his nose right through, and cutting his cheek open within
a quarter of an inch of his eye. The old man's fee was dis-
figured with a frightful gash. The prisoner said he was sorry
for what he had done—he was drunk at the time. Mr. Hall
—" Sorry, indeed ! you have very nearly taken away his eye-
sight." He was ordered to pay a fine of £5, including costs,
or in default to be committed for two months to the rough
j ail.

ASSAULT ON BOAROSHIP.-00 Wednesday, at the Police-
office, the steward of one of the American packets, named
Wyberg, a French Canadian, appeared before Mr. Hall, to
complain of having been assaulted by the mate, Alexander
More. The complainant, who, with difficulty, could be made
to speak above a whisper, said, " He struck me in de face
Yen I wash in my pantry on board de ship. He came in and
borrowed my looking-glass, and I tell him not to take it, and
he swore he would knock me down, and zen he struck me."
" Oh," said the mate, " I'll tell your worships how it was.
You must see—l'd just bin shaving myself—an' I wanted a
glass—to see—if I'd done the thing clean. So I jist looked
intil the pantry and looked intil his looking-glass. Ses he,
shoving the glass away from me before I'd a peep, Get out
o' this, I wont have you here—get out,' ses he. Ses I, Stew-
ard, abs I, I don't want any ver ins'lance.' Ses he, ' You go
to the debbil,' (a laugh,) and then he collared me—an' struck
me on the head with a piece of plate—an' made it bleed—an'
I guess—l then collared him—an' he got the wust tarnation
—that's all." Neither party having witnesses, Mr. Hall spe-
culated on the chances of the grievance being on the side of
the complainant, and fined the defendant ss. and costs, which,
after sticking his tongue in his cheek at the Frenchman, he
paid immediately and walked out before him.
OVERCHARGING OF Csu-DaivEas.—Yesterday, at the
police-office, William Evans, the driver of a car, was sum-
moned before the magistrates for charging more than his
legal fare. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Bretherton,
solicitor, that on Tuesday last he engaged the defendant to
drive him from St. James's Market to his office in Union-
court, for which he charged himBd. more than the legal fare;
the fare being Is. 4d, and he insisted on having 2s. He was
fined ss. and costs, and ordered to return the overcharge. If
this plan were pursued generally—summoning all car-drivers
before the magistrates who make any overcharge—the con-
tinual extortions of these men would be put an end to. At
present they are far worse than car-drivers in London or
in any other town.

CAUTION TO BUlLDERS.—Yesterday, at the police-office,
Mr. Tomkinson, builder, was summoned before Mr. Hall
for not having proper fences before a building, at which he is
occupied in Percy-street. Mr. Hall remarked that this
building had been partially fenced round, driving foot-
passengers into the street, since November last, and there
appeared to have been needless delay in getting the rubbish
in front cleared away, and proper railings erected so as to
leave the parapet clear. If this should be found to be the
case longer than necessary, an information would be laid
against him on that account, as the act did not allow such
barriers to be erected in a street longer than necessary. He
was fined 20s. and costs.

CARPET SHAKlNG.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, Mrs.
Charters, of Richmond-row, the keeper of a lodging-house,
was summoned before Mr. Hall for shaking carpets in the
street at an improper hour. The defendant, who appeared
with a very fine infant in her arms, and who said she had
two more similar " little responsibilities" at home, said that
she had a gentleman lodger who was always in early in the
morning and late at night, so that she could not get her
parlour carpet shaken except in the day time. Mr. Hall
said then she trust shake her carpet in the parlour, or the
kitchen, or in the fields, he could not suffer carpets to be
shaken in the streets in the day time. The defendant doubt-
ed the practicability or feasibility of carpet-shaking in either
her parlour or her kitchen, and, as to the third point urged,
that she had no servant to take her carpet to the fields
and could not go herself, and begged hard to be let off the
fine. The infant, too, turned special pleader, and, surveying
Mr. Hall with an earnest and frowning look, seemed to bless
his eyes and say, as plain as infaut could look, " You are not
going to fine my mother ?" Mr. Hall, however, was proof
against such battery, and fined the defendant Is. 6d. and
costs..

APPLICATIONS FOR SUMMONSES.-It is very amusing to
hear the dialogues which occur in the police-office when
parties apply to" Mr. Hall for summonses for assaults. At
least four fifths of these applications are made by women who
have been assaulted by other worsen. Mr. Hall, who ap-
pears to entertain a pretty good notion of the belligerent
propensities of the " fair sex" and of the absurd trifles about
which they squabble and pull caps, generally treats them with
little ceremony and advises them to go home and give over
squabbling with their neighbours. He also pays little
attention to their heavy grievances, having found by ex-
perience that they generally grow exceedingly in weight in
carrying from the scene of action to the police-office; and
the grievous assault and battery which procures the sum-
mons often dwindles down in the description of a witness to a

very light affair indeed. We once saw an applicant for a
summons pull a horse's tail out of her pocket, which she
stoutly swore was her own " particular hair," and had been
torn off her her head, along with a very handsome cap, by
her antagonist. We need hardly state that when the case
came to be heard it was proved beyond a doubt that on the
complainant's head the horse's tail never grew, and, more-
over, it transpired that the tail was the property of the neigh-
bourhood, and was let out, as occasion might require, to the
different female worsted belligerents, to produce before the
magistrates as the dark brown locks of which they had been
violently deprived. The following is a sample of the appli-'
cations and their treatment :—A burley little squat woman,
who would be as difficult to upset as a sugar hoghsead, stood
up, and being sworn, said—l wants a summons again a
lodger o' mine. Mr. Hall —Well, what has he done to you ?
Applicant.—He? it's a she; she beat me very ill yesterday
at two o'clock, broke the panel of my door in, tore Tny cap oif
my head, and pulled all this 'ere 'air off, (exhibiting a hand-
full of something like chair-bottom stuffing.) Mr. Hall.—
Well, what had you done to her? Applicant.—l only axed
her for the rent, bekase she come in quite tossicated wi'
drink. Mr. Hall.—Did you not give her as much as she
gave you ? Applicant.—l did not. Mr. Hall.--You re-
turned the blows, did you not? Applicant.—l did not; and
if my sister-in-law had not come to my rescue, I should have
been murthered. I'm beat black and blue as it is. Mr.
Hall.—Well, I am glad to see you have escaped so well
from marks? Applicant.—Excuse me, sir. Mr. Hall.—
Well, take a summons. Applicant.—That's jilt what I
wants. Mr. Hall.—You have no marks now; your eyes
will be turned black by morning. The applicant said
nothing in reply, but retorted a look at Mr. Hall, which
seemed to say—though I do flirt a little with the men, and
am a bit of a thief, you can't say black's the white of my
eye.