The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-22 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

STABBING.—On Friday, a female of the name of Cathe-
rine Donolin, was brought before Sir Joshua Walmsley,
on a charge Of having stabbed another female of the name
of Fanny Hill, in King-street. It appeared that two stabs
were given, both with a fork, one in the cheek and the
other in the arm, and that the prongs perforated to the
bones. The prisoner was fined £5, or, in default, ordered
to be committed for two months.

A YOUTHFUL BuRGLAR.--On Thursday, a boy about
twelve or fourteen years of age, named Thos. Jones, was
charged with breaking into the workshop of Mr. Ellis,
watchmaker, North John-street. When two of the men
went to their work on Thursday morning, they found the
premises broken open, a drawer containing a large quan-
tity of tools forced, and the prisoner concealed behind one
of the doors. The youthful aspirant for burglarious fame
had previously been in custody for breaking into a shop.
He was committed for three months.

BURGLARY.—On Friday, three prisoners, of the names
of George Burns, Michael Leonard, alias Sullivan, and
Matthew Wareing, were brought before Sir Joshua
Walmsley, on a charge of having broken into the house
of Mr. Evans, of Sackville-street. It appeared, from the
evidence, that the parties effected an entrance through the
back of the premises, and broke through the kitchen win-
dow. The crash roused the neighbours, and caused an
immense outcry ; and, in the course of the search which
was instituted, the prisoners were found upon some waste
ground leading up to Evertou. They were ordered to be
remanded.

INFORMATION UNDER THE BUILDING ACT.—Michael
Archer and Thomas Halsall, joiners and builders, ap-
peared to an information preferred against them under the
Building Act, on Thursday. Mr. Robinson, one of the
surveyors, stated that they had cut through a party wall
of a dwelling-house in Great Howard-street, and made an
opening eleven feet ten inches, whereas, by the provisions
of the act, it should only have been six feet. In reply to
a question put by the magistrate, the surveyor said the
building in its present state was not at all in danger,
although it was not in accordance with the act. The de-
fendants were convicted in the penalty of 20s. and costs,
and ordered to alter the building so as to make it con-
formable to the act of parliament.
ARSON CASE.—This case, the particulars of which ap-
peared in our last, was re-heard on Wednesday. The
young man, Mr. Bevan, was again placed in the dock, on
the charge of setting fire to a house and shop, which he
occupied in Castle-street, Kirkdale, where he carried on
the business of boot and shoemaker. Several new facts
were elicited. The shop-boy, George Crute, in answer to
a question, said that he was employed by the prisoner to
carry a large box for him to the railway station, a short
time before the fire. Mr. Maxwell, the inspector of sal-
vages for tbe Insurance Company, said, that since the last
examination before Mr. Rushton, he bad more critically
looked over the premises, and found that his former valu-
ation of the stock, furniture, &c., was upwards of £9 too
high ; the real value was, in fact, only £l6O Ils. 10d. The
prisoner was then cautioned in the usual way, but declined
saying anything, and accordingly was committed for trial
at the ensuing assizes. An application was then made to
take bail, which was refused.

CHARGE Or FORGERY.—On Wednesday, a stylishly-
dressed young man, named Henry William Gibb, lately a
theatrical performer, was placed at the bar on the charge
of having uttered a forged bill of £l2. Mr. Maguire,
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publican, of Wood-street, stated that on the fourteenth
of August last, the prisoner, with whom he was butslightly
acquainted,
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him thebill, saying his aunt was short of money, and hadgiven
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presented it, she refused to pay it, alleging' he(Maguire)
was a forgery. Search was then made that the bill
but it was found he had absconded,
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was heard of him until a few days ago, when c moree
Tuck apprehended him at the Amphitheatre. Mr. Owens,
who appeared for the prisoner, cross-examined Mr. Ma-
guire, who admitted that he was by trade a cooper, and
that he had formerly resided with a lady, a friend of his,
at a questionable house in Brools'-alley ; he was in no
regular emeloynient. Miss Catharine Page, a sister to
the lady on whom the bill was alleged to have been drawn,
said she could not swear to the handwriting being that of
her sister, as she did not correspond with her. The pri-
soner said, in his defence, that was the second instance
of his aunt having accommodated him in a similiar
manner. The bill was genuine, and he only obtained
l Os. from Maguire on the whole transaction. Mr.
Rushton considered the case was one requiring investiga-
tion, and remanded the prisoner till Monday, taking bail
for his appearance at that time. The required bail was
immediately produced