The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-07 00:00:00

ANOTHER. THEFT FROM AN EMPLOYER

John Bolton, 28, was indicted for having felonious!)
stolen ninety-eight skins, the property of Messrs. Robin-
son and Hadwen, his employers. Mr. HENDERSON and
Mr. CARDWELL conducted the prosecution, and the prisoner
was defended by Mr. MURPHY. The prisoner was employed
as confidential warehouseman, by Me,zrs. Robinson and
Hadwen, and took the Neutria skins, named in toe indict-
ment, and, without any authority, sent them to a person
in Hanging Ditch, Manchester, with a regular note, request-
ing him to sell them. T! ac jury returned a verdict ef guilty,
but recommended the prisoner to mercy, on account of his
good character.—Sentence deferrcd.

STEALING COaN.
Edward Robinson, 45, pleaded guilty to an indictment
charging him with having stolen eight sacks of wheat, the
property of John Tomlinson and another. The prisoner.
appeared, had gone into the warehouse, and, when he ar
in the top room, be lifted up some lx-m-ds arid descended into
the room below, and filled the sacks. He received a good
chitracter. Sentence deferred.

Tired.

EMBEZZLEMENT.
Thomas Barber, 26, was indicted for having feloniously
embezzled the several sums of £5 Els, £2 3s 9d, 41 II s 2d.
£1 is 2d, and £22 14s, which he had received on account of
his master, William Gillmore, butcher. The prisoner pleaded
guilty. The prosecutor Said he had been in his service from
three to four years, and, in considcraLion of his wife, recom-
mended him to mercy, but ho would not again receive him
into his service. Sentence deferred.
MINT CASE.

George Ford and Mary Ford, (husband and wife,) were
indicted for a misdemeanour, in having in their possession,
on the 31st December last,
twenty pieces of false and coun-
terfeit coin resembling half sovereigns, and one counterfeit
sovereign, with intent to utter them. Mr. LAWRENCE and
Mr. HENDERSON appeared for the prosecution ; the pri-
soners were undefended.
George Ackers said, he was a clerk in the carrying depart-
ment of the Grand Junction Railway Office, in Liverpool.
On the 27th December there was a I eticule came by the mail
train from Birmingham, addressed to " Mary Ford." At
that period they were in the habit of receiving provisions and
perishable articles, and he was separating them from the
others for the purpose of delivering them in the morning,
when he found the dirsenctritiboonnathiet
ti(eteicounl.teail-atshdeecfaocuendt.evfleliet
relig)en7adndita, counterteit sovereign. By the instruc-
tionsf thereforeso
of the manager he informed Mr. Dowling. On the 31st
two officers (Ainsworth and Fell) came, and the reticule was
made up as it had come, and it was given to Pendlebury, the
parcel deliverer.
James Ainsworth, a police-officer, said, it had been ar-
ranged that the reticule should be taken to Hendrick's pub-
lic-house in Bannister-street. Fell had previously taken the
female prisoner, and witness apprehended Ford afterwards.
Ford said he knew nothing about ti e. reticule, but that the
parcel man asked him to sign for its delivery.
Joshua Fell confirmed the testimony of the last witness.
He added that the male prisoner came into the public-house
followed by the woman. Fendle'tniry then came in, and said
there was a parcel addressed to Mrs. Ford from Birmingham.
She said she knew it came from Birmingham, and that the
carriage was only ls. 3d. instead of Is. 6d. Ford's house is
nearly opposite t, Hendrick's house. The parcel was ad-
dressed—" Mary Ford, to be left at Hendrick's public-house,
Bannister-street, Liverpool."
William Pendlebury proved that the female prisoner paid
the carriage of the reticule, and that the other prisoner
signed the delivery-book.
Mr. Dowling produced the counterfeit coin.
This was all the evidence for the prosecution. The pri-
soners denied the charge, but called no witnesses. The jury
returned a verdict of gnilty against both the prisoners. The.
Recorder sentenced them to twelve months' imprisonment,
with hard labour.
The court adionrned about five o'clock, till half-past nine
this morning, (Tuesday.)

FoolCnAcE.—A foot-race of 133 yards, between Fowler
and Savage, of this town, for ze4o, will take place this day,
at two o'clock in the afternoon, half-way between the Blat k
Bull and Aintree Race-course. From the well-known speed
of both men, it is looked upon with much anxiety as to
termination. Betting is 6to 4on Fowler, at which figu. e a
deal has been done.

UNPRECEDENTED QUICK PAgSACJE: NEWSFROM PERU.
—The Maypo, Captain Seymour, arrived at this port on
Thursday night, after the quickest passage from Lima on re-
cord, she having been only 85 days from port to port. The
Maypo has on freight 500,000 dollars. The dates from Lima
by this vessel are to the 10th of October. The Chili troops
were to leave Callao on the 18th, for Va!paraiso. Santa
Cruz had been elected President of Bolivia, ant. it was the
general opinion in Lima, that, immediately on the departure
of the Chili troops; a revolution would break out in that city
in his favour, as Gomarra's Government was very unpopular.
Several of the Chili troops had been assassinated in the streetr,
so much were tbey detested by the Limanese. The state of
trade was favourable. . The Congress was tp ses..sion, but it
proceedings bed not been of general itetettst.

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