The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

NOVEL MODE OF EFFECTING A ROBBERY.—On Thurs-
day an elderly man, named Adlard, the proprietor of a
number of small houses in Scotland-road, appeared before
Mr. Rushton to charge Maurice Crompton with having
stolen two deal boards, his property. It appeared that
Crompton, who is a tenant of Mr. Adlard's, was stopped
in the street by a policeman carrying the boards in ques-
tion, and about which he was unable to give a satisfactory
account. The officer accompanied him home, and upon
looking over the premises discovered that the boards had
originally served as shelves. Mr. Adlard said it had be-
come a practice for men of the description of the prisoner
to take a house for a long period, and decamp in a few days
with a portion of the fixtures. The case was one over
which the magistrate had no control, and the man was
.therefore discharged.

COMMITTAL OF AN ACTING INSPECTOR AND A POLICE-
MAN.—On Friday, a lengthened investigation took place,
before Messrs. Rushton and Benn, at the Police-court,
relative to a charge of assault preferred against two police-
men, Nos. 667 and 665, by a man named Devine. The
case had been previously brought before Mr. Dowling, by
hom it was referred to the magistrates. The deposition
of the complainant was to the following effect that, between
the hours of two and three o'clock on the morning of
Tuesday, as he and another person of the name of M'Carthy
were walking along Great Howard-street, they met two
policemen, and were followed by them for a considerable
distance. At length the officers bade them halt, and de-
manded, in peremptory terms, to, know who and what
they were. To.each question a proper answer was returned;
yet the policemen were not satisfied, for they proceeded
to search their pockets. M`Carthy quietly submitted ;
but not so.hie companion. The consequence was a "row,"
in which Mr. Devine was severely beaten. Mean, hile
M'Carthy ran for assistance to Mr. Hutt's provision-
shop, situated in the neighbourhood ; but ere he re-
turned to the scene of battle, the officers had decamped:
Mr. Davine's evidence was corroborated by Mr. M'Car-
thy. Neither, however, could swear to the identity of
more than one of the officers-665. Mr. Rushton, how-
ever, after giving him a severe reprimand for inflicting
such a beating on Devine (who had been examined by Mr.
Parkinson, and found to be severely bruised), committed
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(667), he was sent away. Policeman 649 was then placed
before complainants, for identity. They could not, how-
ever, swear to him. The investigation was then almost _
closing, when acting-inspector Heyden 156, made a state- L's^j
ment to Mr. Rushton, to the effect that 665 had told him
that acting-inspector Blake, 621, and he had had a row . .
with two suspicious characters, in Great Howard-street,
on Tuesday morning. As this deposition seriously incul-
pated Blake, that officer was sent for, and, on being told.
of the charge, owned that he was the companion of 665
during the alleged occurrence. Mr. Rushton, therefore, : :
committed him likewise.

EitOtrfrt P.OllO.

CURIOUS DEATH.—A few days since a child, five:years
old, was- burnt to death, at Manchester, through her
clothes. having caught fire in consequence of the poker,
which had been left in the fire, falling on them.
Mr. Young, a. chemist, of Manchester, has discovered
that a waste product from the manufacture of chlorine,
consisting chiefly of a solution of chloride of manganese,
destroys the odour of nightsoil and other decomposing
matters, without impairing their fertility. The liquid is
produced in very large quantities, and has hitherto been
thrown away.

SWEDE TVILNIPS.-All excellent crop of turnips has
this year been raised by George Fishwick, Esq.. of Spring-
field, Scorton, from seed supplied by Mr. Skirving, of
Liverpool. The turnips were pulled from a quarter of an
acre of land, statute measure, and, after their tops and
roots were closely cut off, they were found to weigh 9 tons
5 cwt, ; being after the rate of nearly 60 tons per custo-
mary acre. The means used per acre were, 4 cwt. of
guano and 5 tons of farm-yard manure.--Lancaster Ga-
zette.

OPERATION UPON A MARE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
CHLOROFORM.-011 Friday, Mr. Lawson, veterinary sur-
geon, Manchester, unnerved a mare while under the in-
fluence of chloroform with complete success. Two small
sponges were soaked in the chloroform and secured in the
nostrils with tape. In about two minutes the mare stag-
gered and fell. The operation was then performed. The
mare was in no way secured, and lay perfectly still while
the nerve was cut down upon, and with the exception of a
slight twitch when the nerve was divided, she did not
evince the slightest feeling. The sponges were then re.
moved, and in about sia minutes she got up all right,

LYNCH LAW IN CHESHIRE,—A woman having endea-
voured to corrupt the honesty of ari eiritid-boy in the ser-
vice of Mr. Booth, grocer, Halton, Cheshire, the lad pre-
sented her with some parcels of sawdust, &c., made up to
represent the booty which she coveted. o sooner was
she in possession than three stout men, armed with holly
branches and stinging nettles, who had been stationed by
the boy's master, rushed out and inflicted summary
punishment, concluding by dragging her through the
horsepond. _

How TO &AAR THIEVES.—During the last week
" some person or persons" attempted to break into a but-
cher's shop at Barden-lane, near Burnley. Having ef-
fected an entrance, and no doubt in high expectations of
" roast and boiled," they were preparing "to help them-
selves," *hen a most tremendous noise and the approach
of footsteps so alarmed the robbers that they decamped
with precipitation. Whence all this hubbub ? was a ques-
tion the thieves did not stop to ask ;—but a live cow
which the butcher had put into the shop for the night, on
rushing up to receive the unexpected visitors, had knocked
down the weights and scales, and thereby had occasioned
the (to them) untoward alarm.

FATAL ELECTIONEERING AFFRAY.—On Thursday,
during the polling at the election, a gang of about 10(1
men, armed with staves, brickbats, &c., went to• the
Lyceum, Stockport, and commenced the demolition of
the doors and windows. Several of Mr. Kershaw's
friends were within. Information had been previously
received that an attack would be made, and a number of
men were accordingly collected in the hall of the building
to protect it. These last rushed out, and a general battle
ensued. One man (not owned by the last accounts) was
killed, by severe blows on the head and face, his skull
being fractured. The windows and doors of a house and
shop opposite, which had been occupied by Mr. Mars-
land's committee, were all broken to pieces in the riot.