The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Tuesday, a young girl, named Catherine Jones, alias
Wallace, was sent to gaol for three months, for picking
pockets at the Bazaar in Church-street. This is the girl
who, a short time since, figured so conspicuously in the
robberies on board the Woodside steamers.

A man, named John Doran, was committed to gaol for
two months, on Tuesday, for stealing a bag of wheat from
a flour warehouse in Fleet-street. He was observed by
one of the detective police to be moving suspiciously
about, when he was watched and traced with the stolen
property to a stable in Duke-street-lane.
Mr. It. M. Beckwith, the town-councillor, was sum-
moned at the police-court, on Tuesday, on a charge of
drunkenness. The charge of intoxication was refuted by
a number of witnesses who were called, but it appeared
that Mr. Beckwith had interfered with the police who
brought the charge, and used intemperate and abusive
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NOVEL CHARGE.—A man had been placed in custody
by police-officer 865 for having been found illegally pick-
ing horse manure in Great Howard-street. Mr. Richard
Pickering, publican, Vauxhall-road, said the prisoner,had
been placed in charge at his (Mr. Pickering's) instance;
he was a contractor under the corporation for the manure
in the streets, and was a great loser by reason of per-
sons picking the street sweepings. Mr. Rushton, after
referring to a section of the Sanatory Act, said to the
officer :—" Why did you take him into custody ? If he
has been guilty of any offence, it is one by which you
should have brought him under summons." Mr. Pick-
ering said there were parties in the town who employed
as many as forty or fifty persons to collect for them, and
the loss thus occasioned to him was £4OO or £5OO a-year.
Mr. Rushton : " You can't, because you are a contrac-
tor, have poor wretches like that taken into custody.
You may have actions brought which would cost you
more than the value of horse manure you may collect for
a long time. The informations must be by summons."
At the Police-court, on Saturday, Joseph M`Cabe was
charged with having stolen two five gallon bottles from
the warehouse of Messrs. Leigh and Sons. Preeson's-
row. The prisoner said he had been sent for them by
Mr. Rogers, druggist, of South Castle-street. The ware-
houseman said he would send them, as they were heavy,
but while he was making out the invoice the prisoner
snapped up two of the bottles and made off with them to
a marine-store dealer, who properly gave information.
He was committed for trial.—Nicholas Ward, keeper of
the York Hotel Tap, who had been committed for trial on
suspicion of having participated in the robbery of a watch,
was brought into court, and on account of his delicate
state of health, Mr. Rushton admitted him to bail.—
Catherine Wilson, one of those persons who ply little
gambling tables in the street, was charged with having
placed a seductive bazaar table in Great Charlotte-street,
which was also attended to by her husband. The charge
for playing was one penny, and there were no blanks.
Some handsome toys were on the table, but the construc-
tion of the apparatus was such that these were scarcely
ever attainable, and the prizes were worthless little arti-
cles taken from a drawer. Mr. Davenport, who defended,
said nothing illegal was done, and that there waa a bazaar
on a larger scale, but similar in principle, in Church-
street. Mr. Rushton felt the force of the objection, and
discharged the prisoners with a strong caution, that if
they were again brought up under the same circumstances