The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-18 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

ROBBERY OF A MILLINERY ESTABLISHMENT.—OR
Saturday, a young woman, of respectable appearance,
named Sarah Biglands, was charged with having entered

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and stolen thereout a great variety of articles. The loss
altogether was about £l7. She was committed for trial.
ANOTH ER HIGHWAY ROBBERY.--Daßiel Fairhurst was
brought up, on Tuesday; charged by Robert Silcock with
robbing him of US. 'The prOSecutor said he was knocked
down by the prisoner and another man who had followed
him in Falkland-street, and robbed of his money. He said
the thieves had got his silver, but did not find his gold.
They had taken his handkerchief, and tied it round his
mouth, almost choking him. The prisoner was sent for
trial.

PORTABLE GAMING TABLES.—OR Thursday, three
lads, who gave their names William Callagan, Luke Con-

neli, and Stephen Ray, were brought before Mr. Rushton
by Marks, 253, who stated that he saw them in Manches-
ter-street on the preceding night, in charge of a board, a
box and dice, and other gambling apparatus. He at-
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immediately the other two prisoners, aided by about a

was entirely owing to the fact of assistance having come
to hand, that he was enabled to apprehend the

prisoners

Callagan was committed to prisdn for three months for
illegally gambling, and the other two for one month for

attempting to rescue a prisoner

MASTER AND APPRENTICE.—On Saturday Mr. Cromp-
ton, whitesmith and bell-hanger, was summoned to answer

alleged that he was not being taught his trade:- Wiggins
said, be had learned a portion of the business the first six

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and his principal complaint was, that he was never put to
work at the tire. Mr. Crompton observed, in reply, that
the plaintiff had, on three different occasions, absented

himself from his work; and that a whitesmith had to
learn fitting, filing, and striking, before he was put to
work at the tire. The complainant had been in every de-
partment of the work that an apprentice of his term ..)f
servitude ought to be put to ; and if he continued in the
employment and behaved himself, he would be perfected
in due time. Mr. Rushton dismissed the complaint ;
ordered the lad to return to his work; and said that, while
the conduct of the master had been exemplary, that of the
apprentice had been improper.
NON-REMOVAL OF NIGHT SOIL.—On Friday, Messrs.
Pickering and Co., the contractors for the removal of
night soil, appeared by their clerk at the police-court,
before Mr. Rushton, to answer informations charging
them with having neglected to remove a number of pri-
vies after notice. These cases were distinctly proved ; and,
in one case, which was postponed, it was stated that the
lady and her daughter, who were the complainants,_ had
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since been taxen in or rne typhus fever. Mr. Rushton
said that there was abundant evidence before him that the
town was in a dreadful state, and he had little doubt but
that the noisome smell which had been generated by the
neglect of the contractor had, to some extent, produced
the fever of which the ladies who had been alluded to
were ill. The contractors must settle the affair with the