The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-27 00:00:00

VIE tiVinrooL STANDARD,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Police-constable Stevens, No. 519, was suspended, on
Thursday, for striking a car-driver, who was arranging
with a gentleman about a fare.
SMUGGLING.—The steward of the ship Queen. now
lying in Waterloo Dock, on the information of Edward
Catchpole, one of the officers of her Majesty's Customs,
was fined 303., or to be imprisoned ten days, for having
secreted a quantity of cigars on board the vessel.
BASE COlN.—John Timmins was committed for trial
on Thursday for this offence. He was detected at a house
in Crosshall-street, where a considerable number of base
half-crowns were found, as well as crucibles and other
materials for carrying on the manufacture.

On Saturday, Mafia Ball, who had been remanded on
a charge of robbing Mr. Richardson, the man subse-
quently found drowned at New Brighton, was brought up
for further examination. There being no additional evi-
dence, she was discharged. No traces have yet been
obtained of her husband.

ROBBERY AT THE WORKHOUSE SHEDS.—Four women
were placed in the dock, charged with stealing a quantity
of wearing apparel from a poor woman who had come to
sleep in the workhouse sheds in Brownlow-hill. The
superintendent of the sheds appeared in court, and said
that when poor women came to the sheds with any cloth-
ing, they were sure to be robbed by the prisoners. Mr.
Rushton said that the most wicked thing in this wicked
world was a wicked woman, and ordered all the prisoners
to be imprisoned for two months.

CHARGE OF FORGERY.-A man named Thos. Bedford
was placed in the dock, on the following singular case of
forgery. It appeared that, a short time ago, a man named
Peter McFarlane had been sentenced to be imprisoned in
the Borough Gaol for smuggling. The prisoner Bedford
had written a petition to the commissioners of customs,
begging a mitigation of McFarlane's sentence, and pur-
porting to be signed by Mr. Rushton and Mr. Duke, the
governor of the Borough Gaol. The commissioners of
customs had sent down to their solicitor in Liverpool (Mr.
Brooke) to make inquiries as to the correctness of the
statement. On making the necessary inquiries, Mr.
Brooke found that both the signatures of Mr. Rushton
and Mr. Duke were false.

OBTAINING GOODS BY FALSE PRETENCES.—On Tues-
day, James Cooper, who had been remanded for a week,
on a charge of obtaining goods by false pretences from
Messrs. Featherstone and Perdue, Islington, Wag a second
time brought b_fore the magistrates. It appeared that
he, and a man named Scholes, (now in gaol on a charge
of attempting to cut his wife's throat,) conspired toge-
ther, and obtained from Messrs. Featherstone a quantity
of oil tins. One of the witnesses being unable to attend,
he was remanded on that charge. Evidence was then
tendered to the effect that, in conjunction with Scholes,
Cooper had obtained two coils of rope, worth £l4, from
Mr. Donhaney, roper, of Kirkdale, width he disposed of
to another party at a reduced price. On this charge he
was committed for trial.

SINGULAR CHARGE OF FELONY.—On Saturday, Nicho-
las Hill, the captain of a vessel sailing from this port, was
charged under the following circumstances : It appeared
that in 1846 Mr. Roskell, watchmaker, of this town, sent
four watches to Valparaiso by the ship Eliza, of which
vessel the prisoner was at the time master : the watches,
it was alleged, were placed in the prisoner's care, and he
was to receive £1 for his trouble. Subsequently two of
the watches were sold by the prisoner to a jeweller at
Falmouth, which circumstance led to his apprehension.
The main feature in the case appeared to be whether the
prisoner had taken the watches out as a speculation, in
which he was to have an interest, or whether they were
entrusted to him as the proverty of Mr. Roskell. Mr.
Rushton said that if there bad been a felony committed.
upon which point lie would not say anything, it was not
within his jurisdiction, and must be dealt with at Fal-
mouth.

A STRANGE AFFAIR.—On Saturday the Rev. Henry
Lane, a Catholic priest, appeared before the magistrates
to make a claim on the Victoria Burial Society. Mr. G.
Holrne, the secretary of zhe society, was the defendant.
Mr. Lane said he was one of the executors of Alice Cum-
ming, of Chisenhale-street, who died a few days ago.
The deceased was a member of the society in question,
and the executors were entitled to claim £4 15s. for fune-
ral expenses. The secretary had, however, refused to
pay. In reply to a question, the complainant said the
will of the deceased had not yet been proved. The defen-
dant said, the reason for withholding the money was, that
the deceased had a son living. The Catholic priest and
another person had so operated upon the mind of the de-
ceased as to induce her to become a convert from Pro-
testantism to Catholicism ; and she had made over all her
property to the Catholics, to the disinheritance of her son.
Mr. Lane stated that he had had the sole charge of the
funeral and had paid the expenses. The defendant said
one party made a will, and willed the property to the
other as executor; the prosecution was altogether an im-
proper one, and the society wished to pay the money to
the son, who was at present at New Orleans. The de-
ceased had only left him an old clock as his share of the
property, while all the rest was to be handed over to the
priests. Such was the state of infatuation into which the
priests had brought her that sic wanted to be carried into
the street to die. This was not allowed, but still the
deceased laid on the floor three days and died in that
state. She was a sister to the celebrated Mrs. G. of this
town, and, being a woman of bad chatacter, was induced
to submit to the punishment as a sort of penance for her
sins. She was possessed of a considerable amount of pro-
perty, besides jewellery, furniture, &

Mr. Rushton said
he could not do anythi4 until the will was proved. The
defendant assured the magistrate that the society only
wanted to know the proper person who was to receive the
The parties then lett the court.

money