The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

YESTERDAY.—There were but 19 prisoners for petty
thefts ; no case of interest ; and no commitments for trial.
A boy, James M'Grath, for stealing butter, was committed
to gaol for three months. Catherine O'Neale, for rob-
bing a little boy who, for a living, sings in the street, of
Is. aid., was committed for two months.
A woman named Malone was on Tuesday fined 40s. for
inflicting a serious injury on the skull of another woman
with a rolling-pin.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES.—Five men, named William
Brown, John Harper, Joseph Harper, Gilbert Patterson,
and John Finch, were charged on Tuesday, the former
with breaking into houses in Paddington, Mount-pleasant,
Ivy-street, and elsewhere, and stealing silver spoons,
jewellery, &c., and the latter with receiving the stolen
property. The apprehension of the parties arose from a
report of numerous burglaries having recently taken place
in the neighbourhood of Windsor, which induced the po-
lice authorities to place Storey and Povey, two of the de-
tective police, on the look out, and these officers were
again assisted by Johnson, Hutchins, and Grimby, also
police officers. The officers having got on the track of
the prisoners, traced them from place to place, particu-
larly to No. 10, Ivy-street, where an entrance had been
effected on Sunday night, and some plate stolen. The
officers succeeded in apprehending the prisoners, one by
one, in various places, and discovered a number of silver
spoons, a clock case, a quantity of tobacco, several ladies'
work ',Jags, and a variety of property of different kinds, as
well as a large collection of skeleton keys and house-break-
ing instruments. Mr. Owen defended Finch, who is a
beerhouse-keeper. The whole of the prisoners were re-
manded for seven days.
INGENIOUS CAPTURE.—On Friday a ploughman, named
Jackson, in the employ of Mr. John Peers, of Thingwall,
had occasion to leave his team, which were engaged in
ploughing a field adjoining his master's house, all the
inmates of which were absent. On reaching the house,
he found that the kitchen window had been broken, and
an entrance effected. He immediately went to the stable,
where he met one of his fellow-servants, and, on asking
him if he had seen any one about, he was informed that
two men were seen coming from the house in the direc-
tion of a wood, situate at a short distance. Jackson then,
after detaching one of the horses from the plough, rode in
the direction of the field, and overtook two men—one of
them, named George Ewart, he succeeded in capturing.
Several drawers had been broken open, but the thieves
had only taken away six and a half sovereigns. On
Saturday, Ewart was brought up before the magistrates
and committed for trial. During his examination,
Mr. Gleave, the bridewell-keeper, and Mr. Inspector
Birnie, observed two women in the court, who seemed to
take very great interest in the proceedings. The prisoner
was also seen to recognise them. When the court broke
up P. C. Mathews and John Tagg watched the movements
of the women, and followed them to Liverpool, when
they were traced to a house in a court in Upper Beau-
street. At dusk P. C. Mathews, having the assistance of
two Liverpool police-officers, entered the house, and
there found a man named Edwards, whose hands were
much scratched, and his clothes smeared all over with
mud. He was taken into custody, and brought over to
Birkenhead, where he was identified as the man who
made his escape when Ewart was captured.