The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

IMPUDE.T THEFT
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William Piper, (16,) was found guilty on an indictment
charging him with having stolen a firkin of butter, the pro-
perty of Mr. Alexander Robb, provision-dealer, of Shaw's-
brew, in October last. The firkin was left outside the shop
door for a few minutes, and the prisoner passing by took it
with him. His defence was that another lad had asked him t
carry it. It appeared that he had been previously convicted
of felony, and the RECORDER in passing sentence told him
that there was evidently no hope of his amendment in this
place. He mist,. therefore, be sentenced to ten years'
transportation.
ROBBERY FROM THE RAILWAY STATION. .
Charles Coward, (19,) and Thomas lienstrorth, (20,) were
indicted for having stolen 78 yards of Valentia, and 23 yards
of Kerseymere. The goods, which formed the subject of the
indictment, were laid as the property of the Liverpool and
Manchester Railway Company ; of Mr. Robert Turner, ma-
nufacturer, of Huddersfield; and of .Mr. Matthews, forwarding
agent, of this town. From the s

...atement of counsel and the
evidence of witnesses, it appeared that on the lit of Decem-
ber last, the goods in question were forwarded by Mr. Turner,
by the railway, to Mr. Matthews, for the purpose of being
sent by him to Mr. Scott, at Mr. O'Gorman's, Dublin.
Notice was given by the Railway Company to Mr. Matthews
of the arrival of the goods at the Wapping Station ; upon the
4th December they were seen there safe, but on the sth,
when they were sent for, they were gone. The same night
the prisoner Coward left a pack of Valentia, some of which he
also sold, at the house of Mt. Porter, a beer retailer; and on
a subsequent day he and ti, -a other prisoner were there endea-
vouring to effect sales. Their acting in concert was conclu-
sively established. Mr. Turner identified the Valentia which
was found upon them as his property. They were both found
guilty. They were each sentenced to seven years' transpor-
tation.

None of the other cases tried during the day were of the
slightest interest. Most of all of them, indeed, have already
been noticed in our police reports.

The calendar contains the names of 84 parties for trial on
charges of felony ; 18 for misdemeanours and assaults ; and
1 mint case ; total 103. Considered with regard to education,
it exhibits the usual results, demonstrating that crime is the
offspring of ignorance. There appears among the prisoners
a lamentable absence of the first elements of knowledge, to
say nothing of the want of religious and moral culture. For
instance, out of the whole number charged with felony there
are only six who are able to read and write well, and of the
six there is but one female. Twenty-one are able to read,
but very imperfectly ; and thirty-three can both read and
write, but in a manner that scarcely deserves the name, whilst
the large proportion of twenty-four, or more than one-fourth
of the whole, are unable to read or to write. But in the
misdemeanours the state of education is still more deplorable.
Out of the eighteen not one can read and write well, onr:
reads imperfectly, five read and write imperfectly, whilst
thirteen are quite ignorant of both. The wan who is to be
tried at the instance of the officers of the Mint can neither
read nor write. The oldest prisoner is a female aged b 2, and
the youngest a girl aged 13 : the former has no idea of ma:l-
ing or writing, but the latter is able to read imperfectly,

SUMMARY

Able to read imperfectly
Able to read and write imperfectly
Able to read and write well
Unable to read or to write

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