The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

.Tuia STEWAAD'S Loa—Among the appliedists to Mr. Hall,
on Wednesday. was a lubberly-looking sailor; who appeared to
complain of his captain for striking him. The ainisplainant said
he had been steward on board the captain's vessel, and that the
captain, iii the course of the voyage, hart given him several
beatings, of which he had kept a regular tog, which, with the
permission of the Court, he would read. The uiegistrate said he
certainly should have no objection to hear such a curiosity.
The steward accordingly produced a paper, on which were the
following iteMi to the credit of the captain. Jane sth.—Wind
fair—captain hi a foul bad humour; only said there leas no
land like the baud of Liberty, (meaning America,) for which
captain said He would take the " liberty" to give me a kick in
the stern post ;, and so accordingly gave a cruel hard one. June 7.
Wind changeable ;—was remarking that the breeching of a gun
was out of order. Captain desired me to mind my own; at the
same time his foot let me know that my Bark was turned towards
him. Remarks:—Captain can't 'bear any one say his ship
be'nt the best on the station. June 2.lth.—:Wind S.S.E. Told
captain, could not grind any more coffee. " You can't grind ?"
he "No" says I. any
what use have you with all
them grindert ?says he ; and he knocked out my frontaooth.
Remarks : Captain would go more than an arm's length for a
joke. D—d fowl af puns. I'll post-iSh him for them yet. July
Ise—Fine strong,breeze; ship going ten knots an hour; only
told captain the beef was any thing but sound: he told me I de7
served a sound thrashing for saying so; said I couldn't let asit.
of it into my stomach; as it was as tough as a cable; "then;,"
says he, "you shall have your belly full of a rope's
Captain too smart with an answer; will make him smart for it.
July 10.—Captain scolding me all day, and gave ine a blow on
the cheek; Lord knows, captain bas too much jaivof his own at
all times, to attempt having anyahleg to do with another's: I'll
make him laugh on the wrong side of his mouth for all this; be
sha'nt be always letting his hand go cheek by jowl with my
chaps; no chap could stand it." Complainant was about to pro-
ceed with his extraordinary bringitig down the series of
assaults to the arrival of the vessel in which he sailed in St.
George's Channel, a few days ago, tint the magistrate said he
thought he had heard sufficient, and after complimenting him
on the ingenuity and novelty of his log-book, directed a sum-
mons to issue; calling upon the captain to answer the com-
plainant.
IMPOSITIONS BY A BAILIFF.—On Friday, at the police
office, John Gerard, a bailiff, living in Key-street, was brought
before Mr. Halton a charge of having fraudulently appropriated
to his own use, the sum of £5 Os. 6tl , which he had received
from a tenant on whom he had been employed to levy a distress
of rent. There was also a further charge against him of having
demanded 19s. 6d. from the tenant for his own expences, part
of which had been paid. Mr. John Youds, 58, Sawney Pope-
street, stated that he had let a cellar in the above street, to Ann
Smith, a widow, living in Fox-street. On her husband's death
she was in arrears for rent £5 Os. 6d., for the recovery of which
he was obliged to make use of the prisoner's services. On the
3rl instant he sent him to Mrs. Smith's cellar with a distresa
warrant, signed by his wife , but he had never seen the pri;
soner from that clay till Thursday night, when he was in the
custody of Barton, the constable. On the Tuesday following,
Mrs. Smith called at his (Mr. Yowls') house with a fresh
week's rent, and he was then informed, for the first time, that
the debt had been paid.—Mrs. Smith stated that Gerard called
at her cellar on Saturday, the 3d inst., when, after making
known his business, he told her in addition, that if he remained
to keep possession of the cellar, previous to the rent being paid,
she would be charged ss. a day, but if he went out, only 2s. 6d.
On hearing this she delivered up the key of the cellar to Mr.
Youds, jun., who locked it up. Gerard then desired her, if she
had anything to communicate relative to the rent to callon him
at Armstrong's beer-shop, Manchester-street. She called on
him the same evening with money to settle the rent. Gerard
then, after pretending to make some calculations, said that the
rent was £5 Os. 6d., and the expences 19s. 6d., making £6 in
the whole. Mrs. Smith paid £5 12s. for which she received a
receipt, and got back the keys. On Thursday, the Bth instant,
Gerard came to her for the remaining Bs., when she paid him
2s. 6d., and he said he would send for the balance on Monday.
On Thursday Mrs. Smith was apprised of the fraud when she
went to pay her week's rent to Mr. Youds. Information hav-
ing been given to the police, Gerard was taken into custody by
Barton the constable, on Thursday night. When Barton asked
him why he had not handed the money over to Mr. Youds, he
answered that he had been robbed of one part of it, and had
spent the other. After the above facts had been stated, and the
prisoner having declined to say anything in defence, he was
committed to take his trial at the next sessions.
DRUNKENNESS AND ItOßßEßY.—Yesterday, at the Police-
office, an Irishman and his wife, named Dugdale, were placed
at the bar, charged with having stolen a quantity of bed-linen
from the house where they were lodging. A lodging-house
keeper, in the neighbourhood of Vauxhall-road, stated, that she
discovered on Friday, that a blanket, three sheets, a pillow, a
holster, and two pillow-cases were missiug from the bed of the
room which she let to the prisoners • she accordingly gave them
both into custody. Policeman 175 deposed, that on taking the
prisoners into custody, he found a number of pawretickets in
the possession of the woman, and by them found the missing
articles at Mt. Higgins's, pawnbroker, in Park-lane. A young
man attended from Mr. Higgins' shop and deposed, that the
articles were pledged in October last. The complainant said she
had not missed them before Friday. The female prisoner said
she pawned the clothes through distress, and that the complain-
ant knew she had done so, and it was all malice which made the
complainant brieg her there. This the complainant denied.
It appeared that the female prisoner had raised 12s. on the
articles. Mr. Hall inquired if she was known? Mr. Parkin-
son said, she had been tried and convicted in 18 months impri-
sonment. Prisoner. " Well, you need hot tell that; it was a
false charge." The husband here said he had nothing to do
with the pledging, and that his wife had pawned them for drink.
He had promised to redeem them out of his wages. Mr. Hall
ordered the woman to be committed to take her trial, and dis-
charged the husband.
STEALING COALS.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a man
named Harrison, in the dress of a coal heaver, was placed at
the bar, charged with stealing a quantity of coals. Inspector
Angus stated, that about half-past five o'clock on Sunday
morning he was corning over Chisenhall-bridge, when he saw
the prisoner coming out of a coal-yard with a sack of coals. He
endeavoured to conceal himself, when he took him into custody.
Mr. Robinson was the owner of the coals, but said he could not
swear to them. He had had a great deal stolen within the last
few weeks. When he (the Inspector) took the prisoner, he
said, " The police is very hard to take a fellow fora bag of coals,"
and offered him drink if he would let him off. The prisoner,
putting a bold front on the matter denied, that he was ever near
the place. He was remanded for the attendance of Mr. Robinson.
A NOBLE DISCIPLE OF TEETOTALISM.—At the Poliee-office.
yesterday, a young man of very unprepossessing, appearance,
who represented himself as a son of Lord Kennedy, and the
heir to immense property, was placed at the bar, charged with
having swindled an individual named Fallows, the keeper of
the Temperance Coffee-house in Islington, of three or four days'
board and lodging. An individual stated, that he met the
prisoner in Vauxhall-road, and knowing the charge against
him, and that the police were looking out for him, he gave
him into their custody. The complainant, Fallows, who ap-
pears to have been so long a disciple of " teetotalism," and to
have deluged himself with slip-slops and tea so much that his
wits have become very milk-and-water, then preferred his
complaint as follows "He came to my house, the Tem-
perance Hotel, in Islington, on Wednesday- night, and' told me
that he had been in the society for four years, and showed me a
ticket for the Wigan branch of the Grand United Teetotal
Society, and wanted board and lodging, but had very little
money. He says, did you ever hear tell of Robert Taylor,
Esq.' No,' says I. ' Well', says he, he was a gentleman,
and a relation of mine.' (A laugh.) lie then said that his
father was Lord Kennedy, and showed me at the same time a
will, in which he was left a deal o' money.'—Mr. Hall.—" What
do you bring him here for?" Complainant.—" Why he's been
in my place since Wednesday, and never paid use anything."
Mr. Dowling here read a part of the will, which was produced,
to the court, It was a large sheet of paper, plastered on paste-
bOard, with a Queen's Arms cut at the top, and filled up as ver.
bosely as most lawyers could, with a relation of the prisoner's
being an illegitimate child of Lord Kennedy, and that he had'
left him by his will a copy of which purported to be embodied,
£60,000 a year, and sundry landed and other estates. This was
attested by a number of signatures, forgeries of course, some of
"which were very laughable specimens of orthography; under
one signature was written "justice of the piece." The reading
of this document excited much laughter. Mr. Hall.—" If there
were nut such exceedingly stupid persons as you in the world,
the prisoner would not deceive them by telling them such a pre-
posterous story as that he was left £69,000 a year. Complain-
ant.—'There is many going about under the garb of teetotalism
swindling the public, and magistrates ought to put a stop to
them. lie would deceive any of us, sir." (A laugh.) Mr.
Hall.—" I don't know but what he is a teetotaller." Com-
plainant.—" I think he doesn't act as one; he has deceived
other people besides." Mr. Hall.—"l venture to say that
there is not half a doien other men in the town ahem he would
deceive by telling them that Lord Kennedy had left him £60,000
a year. Discharge him." •

ACCIDENT ON THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAIL-
WAY.—On Wednesday evening an accident, unattended with
any serious personal injury, but resulting in the destruction of
some goods, and a considerable detention to several trains, oc-
curred on the Liverpool and Manchester railway, at Collins
Green, nearly opposite the Brand stand, on the Newton
~racec-
ourse. At this place one of the waggons in a train of go.ds,
proceeding from Liverpool to Bolton broke an axle, and the
cotton bags with which the waggons were loaded were thrown off
upon the other line of rails. The grand junction half-past six
o'clock train from this town to Birmingham reached the soot
immediately afterwafds, and the engine ran over the bags
which were lying across the line. The engine, the Tender, and
one or two of the carriages, were thrown off the line; one of the
axles of the mail carriage was broken by the shock, and three
bags of cotton were set on fire ; but though several passengers
were severely bruised, and others stunned for a time, we under-
stand no very serious personal injury was sustained. The bags
of cotton, though not. wholly destroyed, were, we believe, ren-
dered useless, except as waste. The train which left Liverpool
at half-past five o'clock for this town, came up soon afterwards;
and signals being made, the train was stopped, and, as well as
the seven o'clock train from Manchester to Liverpool, was de-
tained upwards of half an hour before it could proceed. There
does not appear to have been any blame attributable in the
outset of this accident; and it is said that the Birmingham
train was at the spot before the men on the Bolton train bad
time to rembVe the Cotton, or even to make signals.—Manches-
ter Guardian.

ACCIDENT ON THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAy.—On Tues
day evening last, a fatal accident occurred on the Grand Junc
tion Railway, between Birmingham and Wolverhampton. The
second class train, drawn by the Dragoh engine, consisted of
nine carriages; the three first being laden With nine horses, and
the six following with passengetS. It started from Wolver-
hampton at ten o'clock, and proceeded at a moderate rate until
its arrival upon the embankment between James's Bridge and
Willenhall; when; suddenly the passengers were alarmed by a
violent, irregular movement of the carriages, and, in an instant
they found they had been thrown off the trains, and were evi-
dently running over the embankment into an adjoining field.
1 In the course of less than a minute, four of the carriages—the
three first containing horses, and the fourth passengers—were
turned over; and the engine and tender, which had been dis-
engaged from the other vehicles, were dragged down the em-
bankment about fifty yards into the field. The descent from
the embankment is in depth about ten feet, and is :note than
usually steep and rugged. Upon examination it was discover-
ed that a horse, which had strayed from the field into which the
engine had runs had been lying Upon the railway, and that this
obstruction had been the cause of the mischief. It was some
time before it became known, that any of the passengers or
servants of the company were injured; but, upon inquiry,
Hewitt, the engineer, was found to have been thrown into the
field upon the descent of the engine, and to have been severely
cut upon the head. Further inquiry led to the discovery of
James. Hewitt, his brother, the fireman, who was found dead,
underthe overturned tender. It appears that deceased had kept
his plate for a considerable distance in the field, and that it was
not until the tender was upset that he log his footing, and was
crushed under. its weight. The poor fellow, when discovered,
with great difficulty was taken from utider the tender, hut death
must have been instantaneous. Of the nine horses in the three
first carriages which were upset. only one was killed, although
they were all more or less injured; Fortunately; not one of the
passengers in the fourth carriage suffered any serious injury.—
ibid;