The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

UNRULY APPRENTICES. —Yesterday, before Mr.
Rushton, no fewer than eight apprentices were brought
up by summons by their master, Mr. Collard, rope-
maker, for deserting their work for several days without
leave, beginning by going to the races on Thursday week,
though they were offered Is. 6d. of additional pay for the
day if they would remain. They had refused to go back
to• work unless the whole of their wages were paid as
usual for the whole time they were absent. Mr. Rushton
ordered them to toe taken into custody, and they were
remanded.
CAUTION TO BUILDERS.—On Friday Mr. Samuel Mar-
shall was summoned before Mr. Rushton for altering
certain premises leading from Renshaw-street to the Upper
Arcade, without leaving a notice to that effect at the sur-
veyor's office. Mr. Johnson, the surveyor of the district,
stated that the alterations so made were contrary to the
act. Mr. Rushton said he should bind over the defendant
in the sum of £lOO to have the necessary alterations made
within twenty-one days.
REFUSAL OF SEAMEN TO PROCEED WITH A VESSEL.—
On Wednesday, six seamen were brought up for refusing
to go to sea in the ship Jane to Quebec, after signing
articles to that effect. They alleged the bread was had,
but this allegation was disproved. Mr. Rushton directed
that their clothes should be sent to the Sailors' Home, and
not be delivered up till the money obtained on the notes
was refunded, and they must each go to gaol for thirty days;
he added,—" That is the result of your determination to
impose on respectable merchants and tradesmen ; you
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ing had an office in King-
street, where they acted as brokers under the firm of
Yates and Co. No such persoiras-ates was there, but
Thos. Fowler called himself so. John Fowler and T
son went to Mr. Cameron's shop, and saying they y
some watches for exportation, selected lg
and six
chain, value in all £4O 155., and requested them to hed
sent to Yates and Co.'s office, within an hour. Mr. Ca-
meron's son took them within the time, together with an
invoice marked " nett cash." A man named Musker,
who had pretended also to be one of the firm, was there.
He was introduced to a person said to be Mr. Wilson, who,
it was added, was the purchaser, but who was the prisoner
Thompson. The watches and invoice were given to him,
and he took them into an inner office, saying all was right.
Mr. Cameron asked for the money, and was told to call
in an hour and he should have it. He called in an hon
and found only Bell, a clerk, who handed him a not
signed by G. F. Yates & Co. " guaranteeim
of the amount stated in " three months."
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he did in the afternoon, and found the place locked up.
He afterwards called, and fifty times since. but with uc
success, only a boy being in the place. He never, indeed,
saw the prisoners until they were apprehended. The
principal evidence was the clerk Bell, who had been in
custody, but was liberated on promising to tell all he
knew. The company was composed of the three prisoner:
and )busker; but they kept.no books, and they had done
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some of them were pledged. The gold watch and char
were found on John Fowler when he was apprehended.
The others were also found, and identified. The prisoners;
who declined to say anything, were committed for trial,
and bail for their liberation was refused, the case being
considered: as amounting to larceny.—Yesterday, the
three prisoners named above were again placed at the bar,
and, along with them, the fourth individual implicated
in the transaction, David Musker, who had been appre-
hended since the last hearing of the case. Mr. Reay, of
the Guardian Society, who had been active in bringing
the case forward, was again in court, and the prosecution
was conducted by Mr. Envas, solicitor of the society,
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case was brought forward against the firm of Yates and
Co., charging them with having obtained a large quantity
of laths, for which they had not paid, but, as it was ad-
mitted by the complainant that credit we:
the prisoners, the court at once dismissed the case a,
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to pledge several of the watches. The gold watch was
his mother would be surety to any amount. Air. Rushton
refused, on the ground that he was as much implicated as
the other ; and the whole four were then finally committed
for trial at the assizes, which are fixed for tBbh.aeilG:salliryp.irDiolgaxitri:binao-t.