The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

CELLAR OCCUPATION.—On Tuesday fifty-four infor-
mations, was heard against persons for either letting cel-
lars for separate occupation, or living in them contrary to
law ; and on Wednesday forty-six more informations were
heard in the Police-court, and in almost every case a fine
of 20s. and costs was imposed.
CAUTION TO OWNERS OF PROPERTY.—On Saturday
last Thomas Astbury was fined 40s. and costs for refusing
to repair the ash-pit belonging to No. 70, Falkner-street,
after receiving notice to that effect from Mr. Johnson, one
of the town surveyors. Mr. Rushton said he should impose
a further fine of 10s. a-week for every week during which
the necessary repairs remained undone after Wednesday
next.

BREAKING INTO PREMISES TO SLEEP.—At the Police-
court yesterday, no fewer than six men and lads, and one
female, were brought before Mr. Rushton, charged with
breaking through some premises, a stable, wall, &c., and
thereby getting into an empty house where they slept.
The owner said this had occurred repeatedly, that repairs
in walls and fences were of no avail, and that on one oc-
casion his pony was turned out all night in the rain, nearly
causing its death. The prisoners had all before been
known to the police, with the exception of the female
and a boy, who were discharged. All the others were
committed to gaol for a month.
MURDER IN TOXTETH-PARK,—At the police-court, on
Tuesday last, a respectable-looking man was brought up
before Zr. Rushton, charged with the crime of murder.
He had been arrested in consequence of a verdict brought
in by the coroner's jury yesterday week, against some
person or persons unknown. The first witness examined
was Ellen Hammill, who deposed that between the hours
of twelve and one o'clock on the morning of Sunday week,
she saw the deceased and two other young men going
down Bell-street, after a slight row had occurred between
some lumpers and carpenters ; but that they returned
shortly after, having two or three young women with them.
A lot of men were standing at the bottom of a court in
Bell-street. as they went up. The prisoner was one of
them. The three young men were going, when seven or
eight men ran after them. One man, standing with
Fagan, said now we will "bark" them. Fagan cursed,
and said he would leave him, and that he would not tell
who did it. When she saw the young men run, she ran
too. Will Medcalf ran up the court. The lads shouted
" police" and " murder." The prisoner was not the first
man who struck the boy who died ; another man struck
him first. The prisoner kicked him when down. Five or
six kicked him when he was down. The prisoner was in
his shirt sleeves. She saw him distinctly. It did not last
above three or four minutes, and then the men went back.
The boy got up, and took hold of a railing. Two or
three turned and kicked him. Then the boy ran and fell,
and ran and fell again. She never saw him afterwara
alive. He died on Wednesday morning. She did not
hear of his death till Friday, It also appeared, from her
evidence, that she had been threatened of her life if she
appeared against the prisoner, and that some man, whom
she did not know, had given her a black eye for the pur-
pose of intimidating- her. Jana Perryman enrroboratati
the testimony of this witness. One or two other witnesses
having been examined, all of whom bore similar testi-
mony, Mr. Rushton remanded the prisoner until Wed-
nesday, in order that the evidence of the boys who were
in company with the deceased might be obtained. The
prisoner, in company with another man who has since
been apprehended, was again brought up before the ma-
gistrates, which resulted in Mahony being discharged and
Fagan being again remanded.—Fagan was brought up
again on Friday, when four police constables, who were on
duty in the neighbourhood of Bell-street on the night of
the outrage, were examined ; but without any further evi-
dence resulting. Mr. Rushton said the girl, on whose
testimony alone the charge had been grounded, was mis-
taken. There was nothing to show the prisoner had been
concerned in perpetrating the violence.—Discharged.