The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

and costs, for breaking as many, panes of glass in a win-
dow. She had had a difference with the man whose win-
dows she broke, and she said, in defence, that she was
advised- by his wife to break the windows, for the sake of

revenge ! the building, and the flames were extending across
BIGAMY .—On Tuesday last, a man named Jas. Skillen, ket-street and New Brown-street, particularly endangering
was brought up at the police-court, charged with the crime the buildings on the opposite side of the latter street•
of bigamy. He has married a second wife in Liverpool, Messrs. Cunliffe and Brook's bank was saved by the esel,-
while the first was living in Belfast. The prisoner was tions of the firemen, but the books, money, and valuate
sent for trial, and the witnesses were severally bound over papers were removed in omnibuses immediately on 1,7,
to appear at the assizes. being seen that the flames were extending in the q 1...
Art ATTEMPT TO STAB.—A black sailor, who gave his rection of that building. It was with difficulty that th_n.
name as Brown, was brought before Mr. Rushton, on Fri- flames were prevented from spreading to the buildings e!:,
day, charged with having attempted to stab several persons the opposite side of Swan-lane and New Brown-street, D:
in Clive-street on the preceding evening_ -A Mrs. Car- they did in the case of Pool-street, which is narrower tha°'
michael deposed to the man having assaulted her, and either of them. It was one o'clock before the flames wete, A
when her husband came to her assistance, Brown pursued got under, although they were not entirely extinguishe.';
him with a knife, with which he aimed a blow at the man ; at ten o'clock on Thursday morning. The damage, it I
it, however, fell on a towel which was suspended on a line estimated, cannot he less than £30,000.
undergoing the drying process, instead of the " devoted WATERING THE STREETS BY JET.—Early on Tuesdat
head. ' The towel was produced, and presented sufficient morning an interesting experiment in street-cleansing Nra"
evidence of the keenness of the blade. The man was fined tried at the Crescent, Salford, under the direction of 3..',:
£5. Darling, of the Salford Fire Brigade, in the presence of Al'
A DISHONEST SERVANT.—On Friday Mary Cain, a Edwin Chadwick, of London; Mr. P. H. Holland, secret
servant girl, late in the service of Mrs. Casey, of Everton tary of the Health of Towns Association ; Mr. Councillhe„
village, was charged with having stolen a quantity of Gendall ; and Mr. D. Chadwick, borough treasurer. le.if
wearing apparel and a purse containing money. It ap- object was to ascertain whether the streets could be ea-`.it,
t
peared the girl, who has been with Mrs. Casey several and conveniently watered by means of hose-pipe and of
months, put the children to bed on Thursday night as in the place of employing watering carts. The efficacy of
usual, and then left the house under the pretext of visit- jets for cleansing the streets was also tried. A partY, ,4
ing in the neighbourhood. Soon afterwards it was found firemen attended with several lengths of hose, and branOed
that all the girl's clothes had been taken away, and a with nozzles of various diameters. A flat piece of tina,,,
quantity of her mistress's, as well as a purse containing iron plate was placed obliquely just before the nozod
£l. ls., the property of Mrs. Casey's sister. The girl against which the rounded stream of water impinged 'lot
was taken early on the following morning at a house in was spread into a flattened sheet. It was found that 0,0
Stewart-street, with the clothes, purse, and money in her flowing directly from the mains could be laid on with gtsod
possession. She was committed for trial. ease and regularity, and that a surface of about boar
THE THUMB SCREW.—On Friday, James Clark, a square yards could be very sufficiently watered in pt,
notorious thief was charged with an assault. Police-con- minutes. The jet was then directed against the pavett 6
stable 523 stated that he was in Byrom-street at a late so as to wash the dirt fairly off, when it was found ttl9
hour on the preceding night, when he saw the prisoner at surface of about 240 square yards was very etlie"-was
an oyster stand, and knowing him to be a " queer cus- washed in three minutes. This washing experiment the
tomer," asked him if it were not time for him to be at not so satisfactory as the watering ; first, because at,
home. The fellow, in reply, got hold of the man's hand street was in a clean state from having been well swmise
and thrust his thumb into a circular ring of wood, about and from the previous day's rain ; and, secondly, bee" e 5
too •
an inch in breadth, and provided with a screw, which acted the jet washed away the gravel from between the - this
diametrically from the inner sides. The man's thumb had rather injuriously. On a boulder-stone pavemeevg4ion
no sooner been introduced into this machine than Jemmy washing would be destructive ; and our present imPreLal,'
" put the screw on, an operation which was attended is, that the jet will not be found a convenient and eetT-scill.
with considerable pain to the officer, who extricated his ical substitute for the sweeping machine, but that Lt 0.;
thumb only at the expense of a portion of its extremity. be a most useful and important adjunct. As a mei-00e"
In his defence Jemmy said he had invited the officer to laying on a considerable quantity of water, first to sod
have a pennyworth of oysters, when he produced the the mud and render it easily removeable by sweenll'etelf
wooden vice, which liO described as a crow's nest, and next to wash away that which the broom cannot coil . It
warned the officer that it would bite him if he put his fin- remove, the jet will be found exceedingly valuab,.enths;
ger in. This defence did not avail. The magistrate fined will be useful, also, as a means for washing the foa'P ow
him £5. 1
and perhaps the windows and fronts of the beusecsi ;or/
REFUSAL TO PAY SEAMEN'S WAGES.—At the Police- as these cleansing operations may be accomplish' .eacea'
court, on Tuesday last, Captain Travalest appeared on in the morning, no inconvenience will be experl4l. cc:
summons, to answer the complaint of the chief and se- Nor will there be an unpleasant dampness of the ~, the
cond mates, steward, and eight of the crew, of the ship casioned by this free use of water in the streets ; n _IA
Formosa, for objecting to pay the wages due to them. It . contrary, the air will be drier than it now is, since tlie,w, „lair
appeared from the evidence that the men shipped, on the which retains moisture, will be effectually
J renl" (eiciaiclj.
7th April last, for Maranham, and that on their passage the mere film of water left upon the stones will very
, home great dissatisfaction was manifested by the crew, in evaporate, —Manchester Guardian.