The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-18 00:00:00

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soners denied that they had robbe hid- 31 tat tfoo com-
pla in an t.) Have you any friends in-6*dt tbmPlainant.—
Yes sir; I ton't know where. Mr. Hall:---Tremand the pri-
soners; I will see the complainant by and bye by himself,
and see if I can understand him.

OH MY BEAUTIFUL BLACK DRESS.—Yesterday, at the
Police-office, an elderly and respectable-looking female and
her son, a boy about twelve years of age, named John and
Susan Charnock, were placed at the bar charged with having
stolen a quantity of clothes from a lodging-house. Susan
Bellis, a lodging-house keeper, stated that the two prisoners
lodged at her house and on the 26th of August one of her
lodgers missed his shoes. She went to search for them, and
then discovered that a number of other things were missing.
"Oh dear! said I, some one has taken Inv beautiful black
dress I am wearing for my husband." (Laughter.) She
immediately suspected the boy Charnock to have taken the
things. She missed a green shawl with a reddish border; a
blue coat, with plain gilt buttons, and cuffs lined with velvet,
belonging to one of her lodgers; a black coat, with silk but-
tons; aAid a waistcoat, with a rolling collar and black back;
in addition io the handsothe merino dress she had lost. The
whole of the things had since beenifound at a pawnbroker's,
and the coßts were identified by a mechanic, the complainant's
lodger. The female was observed leaving the house the day
before with a bundle, which was the only evidence against
her. The pawnbroker identified the lad as having pawned
the clothes with him. Mr. Hall ordered the informations to
be taken against the boy, and discharged the woman for
want of more distinct evidence. • _ _

ASSAULT.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a miserable-
looking young man, named AltNally, was charged by an
Irishman with having stabbed' him. The complainant, a
real picture of an Irishman, made up of excitement and slo-
venliness, said, " I wash workin' at Waterloo, an' returnin'
home, an' a woman axed me in Garden-lane to come in an'
tek a glass ov ale. I said I could not tek ale, bud I would tek
a glass ov cidher; an' while i was takin' dhe cidher in came
the prisoner, and called me a b—y Irish b—, and said I
had no business there filling my ugly skin. I told him I
should he sorry to fill myself at the expense ov the likes if
'im, and he swore he would stab me. He made a push at me
wid a knife; I stooped, an' the knife stuck me in dhe bead."
The female was called in whose house the complainant had
been, and she said that a Dir. Callaghan who was there said
the complainant was not an Irishman if he could not lick the
g— out of AliNalty, and that thereupon the complainant
struck the prisoner. It turned out that the female "kept
company" with the prisoner. Air. Hall said he must have
the evidence of Callaghan ; the female wanted to save the
prisoner, and was not unlikely the strumpet of both the pri-
soner and complainant. The prisoner was accordingly re-
manded. The complainant's head appeared dreadfully cut.