The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THE CELLARS.—On Wednesday another batch of about
50 persons were charged at the Police-court with either
letting to others, or residing in condemned cellars. Most
of them were fined 405., and ordered to leave their mise-
rable abodes.

JUVENILE BURGLARS.—On Friday, two boys, whose
united ages would fall short of twenty, were brought be-
fore Mr. Rushton, on a charge of having broken into and
entered an office in Hurst-street, and stolen therefrom a
tin box, containing papers and a bank-note. It appeared
that they effected the entrance by forcing the window
with a chisel, and that they then broke the side and bot-
tom of the box, which, fortunately, contained no money.
The prisoners, who gave their names Thomas Fox and
John Sedman, were committed for trial.
OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT.—On Thursday, police-officer
Edwards, 309, was fined £5, and dismissed the force, for
assaulting Mrs. Barnes, a lady residing at 3, Windsor-
street. The complainant, it appeared, had been sit-
ting up for her husband till two o'clock on Tuesday
morning, and then went out to meet him. The officer
accosted her—said that she was a prostitute—that he
knew her of old, and dragged her off to Bridewell for be-
ing drunk ; but the bridewell keeper refused to take the
charge. Her clothes were almost torn from her body.
Mr. Rushton said the case was one of the worst which had
come under his notice.

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COLLECTOR.—WiIIiam Jones, a
middle-aged man of most respectable appearance, was
brought before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of embezzlement,
on Thursday. Mr. Peter Delamere, agent for Messrs.
Tayleure and Co., coal merchants, prosecuted. From the
evidence adduced it appeared that the prisoner had been
employed by Messrs. Tayleure as collecting clerk, and that
in October last he received from Mr. John Fallows the
sum of £2 98., for which he gave a receipt, but for which
he had not accounted to the cashier, Mr. Blunt. Jones
left Messrs. Tayleure's service some months ago, at which
time no suspicion whittever attached to his character. On
the contrary, he was held in great respect by his employers,
so much so that they used their influence to obtain him
the appointment of relieving officer to the parish, which
situation he held when he was apprehended on the above
charge. He was fully committed for trial.
FRAUD UPON MERCHANTS.—On Tuesday, a man,
named George Williams, a carpenter, summoned Messrs.
Gladstone and Serjeantson for the sdm of £l2 75., being
a balance of wages due to him. He stated that he had
shipped on board the Henrietta, belonging to those gen-
tlemen, on the 30th May last, at five pounds per month.
He did not know when he shipped where the vessel was
bound to, but afterwards found it was Baltimore. He had
been on shore at that place, and had contracted a debt,
which the captain promised to pay out of his wages.. For
this debt he had been put in prison, and the ship sailed
without him, leaving him to return in another vessel.
The case was dismissed, it being, as was stated, a common
practice with the men to ship themselves for these ports,
and to leave the vessel on her arrival, or to cause them-
selves to be arrested for debt, and thus impose upon the
owners.

IMPORTANT TO LODGING-HOUSE KEEPERS.—On Tues-
day an Irishman, named Edwd. Grady, living in Wright's-
court, Chisenhale-street, was charged at the Police-court
with letting his house to mendicant strangers without
being registered at the Town-hall, according to act of
parliament. It was proved that he had been in the habit
of receiving such lodgers, and that as many as thirty-five
had slept in the house in one night. Fever had been in
it twice, and it was sought to have the nuisance abated.
The house was rented at 3s. Id. per week. Notice had
been served Upon Grady, but he had neglected to comply.
He was told that he must go immediately to the Town-
ball and register his house, when he would have it sur-
veyed and be informed how many lodgers he might take
in, otherwise a fine of 40s. and costs would be inflicted.
This being the first case of the kind, this measure of le-
nity was exercised towards the prisoner, with the intima-
tion that no more would be excused.

CURIOUS CHARGE.—On Wednesday, an elderly man,
who gave his name as Dr. Edmund Henry Pierre, of 32,
Sussex-street, Toxteth-park, was charged, before Mr.
Rushton, with obtaining money under false pretences.
He had, it was stated, gone to the widow of the late Dr.
Wetherill, and, as a widow's friend, offered to raise her
£2OO. The proposal, of course, met with her partial con-
currence. He called on two or three medical gentlemen,
and obtained from them £4 ls., which he neglected, how-
ever, to pay over to Mrs. Wetherill. The accused entered
into a very long statement in defence, which, if true, proved
him to be a paragon of benevolence, under suspicion, ill-
treatment, and ingratitude. He had, it appeared, much
interested himself in the late Dr. Wetherill's affairs, and,
according to his own account, even borrowed money from
a private friend, to prevent the goods being distrained.—
Mr. Rushton disbelieved the statement ; but, from the
artful manner in which everything had been conducted,
and the apparent concurrence of Mrs. Wetherill, held that
the charge could not be substantiated, and ordered the
prisoner to be discharged.
CRUEL ROBBERY.—On Tuesday, a well-dressed female
was placed at the bar of the Birkenhead Police-court.
She gave her name as Elizabeth Roscoe, and had formerly
lived as a servant in the neighbourhood. It appeared
from the evidence of Catherine Jones, the wife of one of
the men on board one of the Ro',;k Ferry steamers, who
lives in Limekiln-lane, Tranmere, that on Friday night
week, between ten and eleven o'clock, the 'prisoner
knocked at her door end asked for lodgings, saying that
she was going to a place the next morning. The prisoner
was admitted, but told by Mrs. Jones that she could not
provide her with a bed, as she expected her husband to
be at home that night. The prisoner then asked to be
allowed to remain in the house, which was permitted, and
tea was made. When witness was about to pour out the
first cup, sbe perceived some light-coloured liquid in it,
and on enquiring what it was, prisoner said it was only a
little gin and would do her no harm. Witness drank,
but shortly after became sick and ill. After tea the pri-
soner gave witness something in a wine-glass, which she