The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

STEALING COPPEIL-0:1 Thursday, at the Police-oftce, three
lads, named 'lshoulas Calderbank, Thomas Brown, andThourias
Parry, were placed before the Magistrates, charged with steel-
ing a quantity of copper from St. James's Market. It appear-,
ed that they had got access to the market on Wednesday night,
by getting into the yard of an. empty house adjoining, and had
ransacked all the stalls in the market fur the money to be found
in the different tills, and had thus obtained about £3 in copper.
A number of the stall-keepers spoke to having their tills broken
open. and copper money to various amounts being missing.
The thieves were detected on Thursday morning making their
escape with their booty from the empty house. Calderbauk and
Brown were committed to take their trials; Parry was remand-
ed for further inquiry.
SMUGGLING.—On Thursday, at the Police-office, Daniel
O'Flaherty, a warehouseman in the employ of Messrs. A. Brown
and Co., was placed before the Magistrates on a charge of hav-
ing attempted to smuggle a quantity of British spirits by the
Isabella Napier, trading between this port and Londonderry.
It appeared, that the defendant had consigned to him a crate of
eggs and six firkins apparently of butter; that he called at the
vessel as she was unloading, 'saving, he expected these goods,
end paid the freight 105.9 d. ; that afterwards, one of the custom-
house officers, on examining the cargo, thought there was some-
thing suspicious about one of the firkins, and holed it with his
spear, when out started whisky. A general examination of the
cargo took place, cud three other firkins were found. to contain
whisky in a similar manner. Of the six firkins addressed to
the defendant, tour contained whisky, the other two butter. In
each of the four firkins was placed a small keg containing whisky,
packed round with soft earth. The four kegs contained eighteen
gallons of whisky, 14 per cent. overproof, equal to twenty-two
gallons of proof spirits. Mr. Hall thought this a bad case. The
Magistrates should not convict the defendant in the lowest miti-
gation of the penalty, but convict him in the mitigated penalty
of £5O.

POCKET PICKING.—On Saturday at the Police-office, three
lads, named Doherty, Shaw, and 'Watson. were placed at the
bar charged with ha-ying the night before attempted to pick the
pocket of a gentleman in the street. A female stated that she
had observed them following the gentleman for a length of time,
when he, nearly opposite to where she was standing, trussed
over the street, and then she heard the prisoner Watson say to
Shaw, "G— d— you. you did not pull it out," to which Shaw
replied in similar' phraseology, " you are a I—r, I did pull it
out." They then all went down Clare-street, which is a very
dark street, apparently to conceal themselves, and she inforMed!
a policeman of what she had seen and heard. Policeman 334
stated that he was informed by the last witness of the above
circumstances and wen down Clare-street, where he appre-
hended the three stang at a back door. The prisoners all
stoutly asserted that- they vrre •" doing nothing;' and amidst
chiming asseverations of." Very hard sir," " standing at the cor-
of the street sir," "never see me here again sir," &c. &c. They
were each committed for three months to Kirkdale.
JUVENILE THIEF.—On Saturday at the police-office, a lad
about 12 years of age, named Win. Cutlass, was placed before
the magistrates on a charge of robbing the till of Mrs. Lucas's
shop in Bold-street. A young female from the shop stated that
they had repeatedly missed copper faun the till and suspected
this lad, whom they had taken as an errand boy three weeks be-
fore, of having taken it They accordingly, on Thursday,
marked a quantity of copper in the till, and soon after it was
all gone. They called in a policeman and had the lad searched,
and the copper was found upon him. They had received a very
good character with the lad. Mr. Hall—" Well, what have you
to say ?" Boy—" Please sir, I took the money sir." Mr. Hall
—" How came you to do that ?" Boy—'Please sir, there was
a boy at the door and he told me to take it." Mr. Hall—" How
o(d are you ?" Boy—" Please sir, 12." Mr. Hall—" You must
be a very bad boy!" Boy—" No sir, please sir, I never was
here before." It was stated that his father was a journeyman
cabinet-maker ; Mr. Hall remanded him untill Monday till he
had seen the father.

MATRIMONIAL FELICITY.—On Saturday at the police-office,
an extraordinary looking individual. named Hadfield, was placed
at the bar, under a warrant, charged by his wife, who was almost
as singular looking a woman, with ill-using her. The prisoner
was tall and thin almost to emaciation, yet there was nothing
about him to betoken positive distress or want, but a considerable
air of self importance. Had he had an inverted basin on his
head he would have been a living representation of the prints of
Don Quixote, the valiant Knight of Salamanca. His wife, a
woman of middle age, who resembled him exceedihgly iu ap-
pearance, commenced her charge thus :—" Gentlemen, I want
a clearance of this wan ; I can't live with him: He is a mur-
derer. Mr. Hall—What did he do to you on the 7th of April ?
Complainant—He struck me and threatened my life at different
times. Mr. Hall—What did he say on Saturday? Complain-
ant—He threatened to murder. Mr. Hall—What did he say ?
Complainant—Elesaid he would have my life before morning.
He asked me for II s. and I told him I could not give him it; I
had given him 3d. in the morning, (a laugh) and I have only
been married to him nine weeks last Tuesday. He said he
would have my pocket and my puddioys along with it if I would
not give any money, and then struck me. Mr. Hall—Has he
behaved kindly to you before? Complainant—No sir, never
since I have been married to him. Mr. Hall—Was he drunk?
Complainant—He was middling; but he's threatened me in
sobriety. Prisoner—She is welcome to enjoy my half; and
gentlemen, I have neither hurt her, nor will hurt her. Mr.
Hall—Where do you get the Hs. a week ? Complainant—l
draw it sir; he does not earn it; it is allowed him for certain
property. Prisoner—lt is allowed me by the property of my
familv,,and such times as I have drawn it, she has had half of
it. I'm very sorry indeed that she should attempt to hurt her
husband in this manner. Mr. Hall—lt is very wrong to keep
her in a perpetual state of alarm by threatening her in this
intinner. You must find bail to keep the peace. On this an-
nouncement the antiquated couple glanced on each other an
extraordinary' look of anything but love.

IRISH E I.OQ UENCE.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a genu-
ine sample of an Irishman, fresh as imported, and a fine speci-
men of the wordy, blarney, unprincipled race, was placed belore
the magistrats on a charge of having stolen a roll of tobacco
twist from a tobacconist's shop in Parliament-street. Police-
man No. '272 stated, that on Saturday night, about II o'clock,
he heard a cry of "Stop thief!" and. saw the prisoner running
and drop a roll of tobacco-twist. He took him into custody.
A lad named Joshua Walinsley, stated that his master's shop
was in No. 3, Parliament-street, and he saw the prisoner come
in and deliberately take the roll of tobacCo off the counter and
run away. Ile ran out after hinarcrying. "Stop thief!"' and he
was taken into custody. Mr. Hall: Well, what have you to
say?—Prisoner: Gint'leinen, plaze yer harmer, shur, I was
afther bain' wurkin' till nine O'clock in Prince's Dock, an! I
was wantin' to take out a shirt ov mine i' the pawn, savin' yer
presitice, an' dbe woman ov dbe house went up to dhe top ov
Mersey-street, an' I wanted a few shillin's, shur, to take out a
shirt,
savin' your presince; an' I was cumin' down New Bird-
street, shur, an' dhe night was rainin' a little, an' I was in a
little hurry, an there was two men a coinin' up, an' I did not
know whot dhey was shoutins, ribey were a tar distant way
shur, an' dhey shouted, " Stop, stop!" au' nobody iu dhe
sthreet bud me dhe same time, an' the giutleman (policeman)
tuk a holt ov me. And gintlemen, you may inquire into id, if
id is a likely thin' I should take a tobacco roll—l could take me
oat, shur, I never knowed at or now about id. Mr. Hall: Is he
known ?—Mr. Parkinson : He has been committed. Mr.
Hall: Two months in Kirkdale.—Prisoner : Well, shur, if yer
hanner, shur, would remit me for two or three days, jist to get
my day's wages, 1 will come back again and stop dhe term.
The prisoner's eloquence was unavailing. He was thrust be-
low in the midst of his speech.

POCKET Pica iNG.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a lad
about 12 years of age, named Fitzsimon, was placed at the bar,
charged by a gentleman with having attempted to pick his
pocket the night before in King-street. The gentleman stated,
-that as he was passing along King-street the night before, he
felt a pull at his coat lap, and caught the prisoner attempting
to pick his pocket. He imtnedialy seized hold of him, when he
cried out, " Will you see this fellow ill use me ?" and several
persons gathered round and struck him (complainant.) Mr.
Hall: Well, what have you to say ?—Pi isoner: I have no
other ways and means of keeping myself, Complainant: He
got between my legs and caught hold of me by the thigh with
his teeth, and bit the piece out and tore my trousers. Mr.
Parkinson said the prisoner bad only been out of custody two
days. He was committed for three months to the Borough
House of Correction.

DOSING Foe SOVEREIGNS.—Yesterday, at the Police-office,
an Irishman, named James M'Criff, with " thief" indelibly
stamped on every feature, an intending emigrant to the United
States of America. was charged by another emigrant, named
James Crouch, with having robbed him of four sovereigns.
The complainant, an English country lad, stated that he was
about emigrating to America, and became acquainted with the
prisoner aboard the vessel, which is to sail this day. The pri-
soner went with him to his berth, where he (complainant) took
out his money (4 sovs.) from his bog, as he thought it would not
be quite safe, and put them in his pocket. The prisoner ad-
vised him to conceal them in the lining of his coat, and said he
would put them there for him. He apparently did so, and
when he (the complainant) telt at them he thought there was
only one. So he opened his coat lining immediately and found
only a shilling. He immediately called an officer and gave the
prisoner into custody. Officer 37 said that he look the prisoner
but found no money about him. His impression was that the
prisoner had swallowed it, as he was apparently throwing up
and could not speak when he spoke to him. A ticket for his
passage was found upon him. Prisoner.— I came aboard yes-
terday;. 1 could take my oat' I lied nether part of his money nor
know what came of id. Mr. Hall.—There is uti doubt you
swallowed it. ' ('Co Mr. Parkinson.) I think if he was placed
in the hands of a doctor? (Laughter.) Mr. Parkinson. —I
will take care of him and have him dosed. Mr. Hall.—Very
well; dose him. (Continued laughter.) To complainant.—
Come here to-morrow morning. (Roars of laughter.)

BANK NOTES FOUN n.*--Yesterday, zit the Police-office,, a
female, named Nancy Roberts, was placed before the magis-
trates charged with having changed three £lo Bank of England
notes, which were lost on Saturday afternoon by a young man
named Rogers, an apprentice to Mr. Williams, draper, of St.
James's-street. It appeared that the apprentice had been sent
to receive a payment of £34, and. received three £lO notes and
four sovereigns, which he kept in his hand on his way to bis
master's. When he got to his master's the notes were missing,
but the sovereigns remained in his hand. A reward of £5 was
offered for the recovery of the ndtes. Since then, two of the
notes had been changed and traced to the prisoner. She was
remanded for further inquiry. Most probably she had found
them.

HOUSE. STRIPPING.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a man
named Thomas Manley, who keeps a shop for the sale of goods
in Sparling-street, was charged before the magistrates with
having stripped a house of a quantity of furniture. It ap-
pears that a Captain Day, who lives in Hill-street, had gone to
sea, and his wife had gone, amongst her friends and had
locked the house up. About a fortnight ago, Constable
Chalmers got some information which led him to suppose that
the house had been got into and some of the furniture conveyed
away. He made enquiries and found the carter who had con-
veyed away the furniture, and from him learnt that it was
carried to the prisoner's house. The prisoner had told the
carter that it was his father's house, and therefore he had no
suspicion that all was not correct, or that he was robbing the
house. This, however, was not the case. A number of articles
of furniture were found at the prisoner's house, and identified
by a girl who had lived servant with Captain Day. The pri-
soner was remanded for further information.

GENERAL EVANS AND HIS LEGlON.—Yesterday, at the
Police•office, four miserable looking, half starved, and sun
burnt men, two of them dressed in tattered regimental coats,
named Benjamin Curs, William Clarke, Andrew Goodwin, and
John Wilson, were placed at the bar, charged with wandering
about the streets on Saturday night, and having no where to go.
't.hey stated. that they were from Spain, and were landed at the
Cove of Colic, without a halfpenny in the world, and no place to
go to. One of them belonged to Davenport, in Devonshire,
two to London, and another to Manchester. They had walked
to Dublin, and there had a passage given to them, by tie
Stranger's Friend Society to Liverpool. - Mr. Hall said, they
had no business to come to Liverpool, they aught to have gone-
to Bristol. They replied, that was the only chance they had of
getting to England at all. They were discharged.

" WANT A LITTLE Jun."—Yesterday', at the Police-office,
an old man named Hammond, well known in the town, who
goes about, with a.scissor grinding apparatus, grinding scissors,
vi as l+laced I.:).6'ie the tiYaglitrates; nha'rged with' beiug Jrutil

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and disorderly. Inspector Morley stated, ibsit ore Saturday
afternoon, as he was in lied; ;it h s iIIIIIS*I in Lornliipi,:rneil„,
.heard a terrible noise and bawling in_ the. street, and got up tis
see what was the matter, awl saw the prisoner coining up:the
street hallooing, and makitig,a ilreadfui noise.,
,lie told him to
be quiet, when he 'StoOped, and begi) to abuse liiur, and he was
obliged, in order to get him away, to dress himself, and take
bilu to,Bridewell. The prisoner ke.pta politic-house, but during
the day time went about the streets Pig " Kinves to grind!"
Mr. Hall.—Well, what have you to say ? Prisoner.—Hear me
out, and I'll tell about it. I was cumin' thrptigh the
street wid my barrow, an' where I go every Saturday, and was.
a trawlire my titles, Lillie Job," Little Job," " Little Job,"
when he came out and tuk me; and I'm well known in the
town, and niver insulted any body, and abet, man told you a big
lie., i was brought here about eight years ago for the same
crime, an' I told 'em it
,was no use their bringing ,ine to .the
magistrates, fur they could do notbiu' to me, 1 was licenced.
(A laugh.) Mr Hall.—Was he merely shotitiug his scissors to
grind ? Inspector Morley. —Oh, no; he was shouting "H.alloo !"
singing Jim Crow, and making all sorts of noises.
.1-'risoner.—
I cried out, " a'little job," " a little work," all:as I said .was
" I can't make 'em hear." Mr. Hall.-1 see by your manner
you have got it into your head you cannot be fined, and unless
you are, you will go on
.in the same way. You must pay
half-a-crown for being' drunk, or. be committed for one day.
Prisoner.—" Sir, if you please sir." Officer.—" Go down."
The prisoner, turning up. his eyes, ejaculated with a tone of
astonishment, as he was being pot down, " half-a-crown, or be
committed one day !" (Laughter.)
STRE KT BEGGING.---Xestertlay,two woureu, named Lamb and
Aun Owen,• were charged before Mr. Hall, with begging in the
streets. Mr. William Earle stated, that, as helves, on Sunday,
passing along Hope-street, the two prisoners came to him to
beg, and represented themselves as in great distress. ,He told
theist he never gave anything ip the street, and got their ad-
dress, and gave a pollee-Officer soon after instruction's to watch
them, as they smelt strong of spirits. He afterwards found, that
the same women had been begging shortly trefore at his house.
The policeman stated, that he traced the wouleu•to the Roscoe
Head public-house, where one of thew had a glass of ruin and
the other a glass of gin and peppermint. The prisoner Owen
said, Lamb came to her and said she was very had, and asked her
to go with her to the public-house, where she gave her " three-ha'-
p'orth" of ruin, and had " of gin herself. They
got their living with selling little thiugs. They were each or-
dered to pay ss. for being drunk; or be committed to the Bo-
rough House of Correction fur three days.—[We have frequent-
ly ourselves seen. and been pestered by the same women beg-
ging in the street. It is mistaken charity to relieve such persons
iu the streets, for in 9 cases out. of 10 they are worthless impos-
tors. It iS not,with the street beggar that real distress is to be
fou ud. 1

ATTEMPT TO COMMIT A RAPE.—Yeslerda, at the Police-
office, a middle-aged man, named Lennon, who is quite blind,
was charged with having attempted to commit a rape on a child
about 14 years of age. The particulars ale unfit for pub-
lication. It appeals that the child had recently come out
of the Catholic orphan school, and lived with her aunt, to
whom the prisoner was paying his addresses. On Thursday
week. he called at the house of the aunt,- who was not at home,
and sat down, the niece being in the house knitting. After a
time he proceeded to take the liberties with the girl which form-
ed thk'subject of the present charge. The girl told her comPa-
nionlhe day after, and on the Monday told her aunt. The
reastra,why the case had not sooner been brought before„tho
Magistrates was, that M r. Gibson, the Catholic priest, had tried
to hush up-the matter, all the parties being Roman Catholics.
Mr. Hall said, he and Mr. Cropper were of opinifm, that the
offence was proved, and the prisoner must pay a penalty of £5,
including costs, or be committed for two months to gaol; and,
further, Lind bail to keep the peace towards the complainant,
himself in I:80, and two sureties of £4O, -and to give 21 hour?
notice of bail.