The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-06-24 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

AN UNPLEASANT INTRUDER.—On Tuesday, at the Police-
office, an old man, attended by a posse of his neighbours,
amongst whom were a number of females, appeared before the
magistrates to complain against a miserable dirty-looking old
man, for habitually taking possession
,of his back premises,
where he was in the habit of sleeping, to the annoyance of com-
plainant's filthily and the neighbours, who held a common right
to them along with himself, and afterwards fur assaulting him for
turning him out. The- cotnplainint, addressing the magistrates,
said, "Please your worships when I got up this morning, about
half-past six o'clock, I heard a brick fall in the yard, and 1 went
to see where it cause from, when I found this old man sitting
fast asleep in—in Mrs. Jones's. He slept there on Sunday night,
and thought proper to stay in all Monday, and barred every
body out, and the women were complaining very ill about it—
(laughter)—and this is what he is continually doing. As soon
as I saw him I determined at once on a forcible ejectment,
and, seizing him by the collar, I made him march out in " dou-
ble quick time." The prisoner then seized the half-brick which
fell in the yard, and threw it at me with considerable force,
and it cut through my hat, and made a hole in my head." Batch-
eldor said the Prisoner was a very dangerous old fellow, he had
nearly killed a man in Bridewell when in custody some time
before, by throwing something at him. Mr. Hall said he must
be fined 10s. and costs, or in default be committed for 14 das:
UNWHOLESOME MEAT.—On Tuesday, at the Police-office,
William Hoaks, Elizabeth Gilbert, Jane Brooks, and Thomas
Linney were each summoned before the magistrates by the in-
spector of St. John's Market, charged with having exposed for
sale on the 16th instant, at their stalls, various large quantities
of plaice-flukes unfit for human food. The fish had been duly
examined by a jury and condemned. They were fined 2s. 6d.
each and costs.
CAUTION 'TO CAR DRIVERS.—On Tuesday Mr. Alderman
Rawdon appeared to lay a complaint before the magistrates on
the bench against Michael Maguire, the driver of car NO. 57,
for au overcharge for setting,:a gentleman down. Mr. Rawdon
stated that he took a car the day before, and a gentleman who
was with" him wished to get out, and was put clown. For this
the driver had asked 6d. more than the fare,.saying that he had
a right to it for putting down the. gentleman He :had sum-
moped the car-driver in order to try that right, far he belieVed
a very general error prevailed on the subject. Ile had ne ether
fault, to find with the car-driver. Mr. Ellis, on lookiug at the
by-law, said no car-driver had a right to charge .any thing for
takiug a. person up or, putting one, M
unless they were'de-
tained above ten minutes, When, they could charge 61. Mr.
Hall said it was very proper to lieg the case forward. He
should fine the driver in the ovefi,Tharge and the costs merely,
as it seemed a prevailing, error.
Senrous ASSAULT, -On Tuesday three men, named John
Win. Dodson, and Chas. Whinney, were brought be-
fore the magistrates charged with having violently assaulted and
seriously injured a person of the name of Kehoe, oe Wednesday
evening week. The case could not come on before owing to the
injuries Katie had received. disabling him froth sooner getting
down to the police-office. Kehoe, who appeared in a very weak
state, and with his head bound up, then stated that on Wednes-
day evening week he had been with some friends in 'Knight-
street and staid rather late, and was rather intoxicated when he
left to,go home. As he was going on some persons overtook
him, au 1 to the best of hiS recollection, after he bad endeavoured
to get rid of them, struck him and knocked him
,senseless ; he
remembered uo more after he was struck. lie could not swear
to the prisoners. A witness said that he heard a noise at the
top of his court in 13oltou-street, and on going to see what was
the matter he found complainant on the ground, his head and
face covered with blood, and the prisoner, Dodson pulling
him by the collar and standing over him; he seized him and
gave him into custody, when the other two prisoners came up
—"earl together. The complainant was
never agoke till next. morning.—
said she saw Dodson knock the coin-
.rds beat him on the face. The corn-
Dodson knocked him down again,
. The two other prisoners were
not see them strike him. One of
him right, beCause he had charged
Another ferriale corroborated this
uestfon from the magistrates, Kehoe
i attended by a surgeon, and was
to follow his employment for some
said that he was going home when
a, who was "drpuk, quarrelling with
a watchman, and he offered to assist hiai house. They went
together a short distance, when the complainant got his legs
entangled with his, and threw him down, falling upon hire;
Whinney then came up and assisted him to get complainant
home, as he was too much for him alone. The complainant
then suddenly stopped, and told them not to rob him. On
hearing this he left hold of him, and the complainant followed
him and gave him a blow on the side of the bead. He thought
this too bad, and struck him and knocked him down, and he fell
with his face against the'parapet, which was the cause of the
injury he had received. The other two prisoners denied that
they had anything to do with it.—Mr. Hall said it was a very
bad case; they had not only knocked the complainant down,
but beaten him whilst he was down, and Dodson must have
kicked him, for his fist could not have indicted the injury the
complainant had suffered. The magistrates did not think
that there was any punishment which they could inflict which
would be severe enough. They must each find good bail, to
appear to take their trial for the offence at the sessions.
BRIBING THE POLICE.—On Wednesday, at the Police-office,
Stephen Caramel, who had been fortherly one of the police
force, was placed in the dock before the magistrates. Mr.
Walmsley, the chairman of the watch committee, said the case
had beeu sent before the magistrates by the watch committee.
It had come to their knowledge that the man at the bar, who
had beeri a policeman, had received a bribe of ss. from a beer-
seller, and the watch committee thought it a duty on this being
proved against him to dismiss him from the service, and the
head constable thought it his duty to send him before the ma-
gistrates to let the public know that there was no wish on the
part of the watch committee, but to hold the scales of justice
impartially between the police and the public. Mr. Hall said
he was exceedingly glad to hear that the watch committee had
adopted this proceeding. The officers who received bribes would
then see that the offence would not go unpunished. There was
no offence of which they could be guilty worse than that. If an
officer so far forgot himself as to receive a bribe in order not to
•prefer a charge he ceased to be trustworthy, and it was only due
to the public that he should be immediately deprived of all au-
thority. He was exceedingly glad that the watch committee
bad dismissed him from the service, as he was unworthy of
trust. He should order him to be remanded till the parties
could attend, and should then consider, ors hearing the circum-
stances of the case, what course he should pursue.—The pri-
soner was brought up yesterday morning and discharged.
EXTENSIVE SWINDLING.—On Wednesday, at the Police-of-
fice, two men named John Parkinson and John Maddox, were
brought before the magistrates, charged with having represented
themselves as being employed by the West of England Fire
Office, and as engine-men on the establishment, and forging
orders in the name of Mr. Whitehouse, the agent for the Fire
Office, and obtaining on those orders goods from various trades-
men. James Oxford, sbopman to Messrs. Mc.Andrew and Co.,
braziers,Wapping, deposed to the two prisoners coming to their
shop on Monday, and presenting an order for a brass speaking,:
trumpet, signett by Mr. Whitehotise, of the West of England •
Fire Office. Maddox represented himself as foreman of the
engines, and seeing some brass rivets and some brass chain on
the counter, said " they should want some of that, though it was
not in the order, and he might as well take what they had, and
he would give a receipt for it, and whatever he ordered, as fore-
man, would be right." He accordingly let him have two lbs. of
brass rivets and six yards of brass chain, for which he gave a
receipt, signing his name Phillips. Mr. Whitehouse said the
order was not in his handwriting, nor in his father's, nor had
they any such ma>S as.the prisoner in their employment. Mr.
William Allender said, he was clerk to Mr: Mender, of Castle-
street, hatter, and the prisoner, Maddox, accompanied by the
other prisoner, came to their shop on Friday or Saturday last,
and produced an order for two hats purporting to be signed -by
Mr. Whitehouse, which he let them have. The prisoner said
they- should want thirty or forty more hats, and that he was fore-
man of the engines. He had also learnt that Maddox had gone
to a tailor's and got measured, along with-his companion, for
two suits of clothes, and-presented an order for them purporting
to be signed by Mr. Whitehouse, and also for f6rty other suits.
They had cut out about thirty whea they thoughtit as well to
make a little inquiry, and discovered the forgery. Mr. White-
house said that all these orders were forged; from information
he received he heard of the forgeries, and that Parkinson' was
at a sail-maker's at the docks. He went down and found him

there and gave him into the custody. of flalsall the police officer-
Lloyd the pollee officer found Maddox under the bed in a house
in Bridgewater-street, and found the hats and the other property
there. lie took him ►nto custody. Maddox told a lung rigma-
role story that he had been engaged by a gentleman who repre-
sented himself as Mr. Whitehouse, to be the foreman of the
West of England. Fire Office engines, and who had written and
given him various orders. Parkinson made a similar defence.
The informations for their commitment were then ordered to be
taken. ' •

INFORMATIONS —Yesterday, .at the Police-office, Anna Cot-
ter, of Grafton-street, Palk, appeared to answer an information
laid by inspector Pool, fonselling beer.during the hours of di-
vine service on Sunday last. Pool said that. on Sunday morn-
ing last, during the hours of divine service, be saw the defend-
ant serve out through a pannel in the door a pint of port wine
and a pint of porter to two different persons. Mrs. Cotter, in
defence, said both were for two persons who were • ill. She
called a female who deposed that she sent for the port wine for
one of her lodgers who was ill in bed. A boy stated that he
fetched the porter for his step-mother who was lying in. Mr.
Hall said he was afraid if he allowed this excuse every body
would be ill on Sunday; besides,
,he saw no such provisO in
case of illness, in the act of parliament. She must be fined 20s.
and costs. The following parties were then fined, residing in
Toxteth-park, on the information of Pool, for the same offence :
—William Ellis, of Beer-street, for allowing drinking in his
house during divine service—fined 20s. and costs Robert Grif-
fiths, beer seller, Porson-street, 10s. and costs. William Dale,
beer-seller, Potteries, 2t/s. and costs, and Charles Walton, beer
seller, Croston-street, 30s. and costs. There were a great num-
ber of similar insormations for other parts of the town.
POCKET PlCKlNG.—Yesterclay at the Police-office, Mr.
Whiteley, hatter, of the Crescent, appeared to complain
against a lad named Joseph Martin, a well known thief, who
pick his pocket the night before in Dale-street.
attempted to
lie was going down the street when he felt a sudden jirk at his
pocket behind, and turning round saw his handkerchief at his
feet ; he immediately seized the lad (who struggled violently to
escape) and gave hint into custody. Batcheldor said he bad
before been countlifted for two months to the House of Cor-
rection. He was remanded to obtain a further practical know-
ledge of rotatory motion for three months more.

MaTittmoNia FELlClTY.—Yesterday at the Police-office, a
female named Davis, who had a most awful squint, her eyes
keeping up a cross-fire between the bench and the prisoner's
doc -, appeared to complain against her husband for ill using
her and spending her fortune.. The complainant then in a tone
arid deiheanour which betokened her to merit to the full the
term vixen, addressed the magistrates—" I was married, please
your worshipS, to this man but a week to a day, when he began
to ill use me, and I have never been without tieing black and
blue since: have had a standing black 'eye for this last
four monthi, ever since I' married'hina. Last week he kicked
me, and in the, situation -in which I was, I was not fit to be
kicked, and then he turned me out of doors. I then would not
live with him, but be promised so faithfully that he would never
ill use me again that I went to him, and the very same night he
took a knife and threatened to run me through. And he has
got all my
_fortune, (for 1 had a good bit of money by Me when
he married me) and. spent it. I had £l5 and 60 dollars left me
by my grandfather, and he has spent it all; and all I have ever
got from him' this last four months is 20s. Gd. And he has told
me over and over again, that three months Was loug enough to
live with any wife, that he ought to have a fresh wife every
three months, and what was he to be bothered with me for. All
I want gentlemen is, to get to my own place again, and to
live quietly without him." Prisoner: Oh Mars, Mary,
Mary ! tell the truth and don't tell a lie. If she likes to go
home with me, gentlemen, I will make her as comfortable ar
any wife in the world. Last Tuesday when I went to the cattle
market to look after my business, on coming back I found the
house stripped of nearly all the furniture, and my wife gone a
galliVanling. There's faults on both shies you may depend
your worships." The magistrates fined hint 20s, and costs,
and ordered'him -to find bail to keep the peace; in default to be
'committed for 14 days to the Borough gaol.

and said they would all go
completely senseless, and -n
Another witness, a female, si
plainant down, and afterwarc
plainitut then got up, and D
and he never stirred after.
standing round, but she did
them said." be had served b
them .with robbing him," .
statement. I n answer to aqt
said he had ever since been
afraid he should not be able
time. Dodson, in defence, s
he overtook the complainant.