The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-02-09 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

LIVERPOOL POLICE,

SUMMONS FOR WAGES—IMPORTANT TO SEAMEN.—Captain
Isbester, of the brig Stormont, was, on Tuesday, summoned by
John Irvine, to show cause why he did snot pay the sum of £2O,
Alleged by the latter to he due to him for wages. Irvine deposed
that he had shipped as 'carpenter in the brig Stormont, which
sailed on the 15th August last for Demerara. His wages were
fixed at E 5 per month. The vessel returned to this pot's. on the
24th January. He had received his first monthly advance of
£5, in addition to which, the 'captain had supplied hint with
tire pounds of tobacco, •three pounds of coffee, and three pounds
Of sugar. He was sick in Demerara, and the present dispute
Was respecting the doctor's bill. Themaster of the .vessel ad-
mitted that all was as the complainant had stated. The vessel
had been away five months and nine days, and Irvine had been
with her during the whole time. He bad, however, shipped, as
a carpenter, and when he got to sea he found that he did not
understand his business, neither'conict he do duty. as a seaman,
So that he was perfectly useless in all respects except the occa-
sional handing ola"rope or some other simple matter. ' The
carpenter's duty was'altog,etheis perfornied, by himself and the
mate. The wages to a person who could wily do duty as a sea-
man was £2,105, per month. The cornplainant'h`ad, however,
been at sorne•eXpense for tools:and ihe (the master) hadoffered
to pay him his wages,_ deducting £1 per month, and thedoctor's
bill. The complainant, in reply to this; said that 'he-was a car-
renter. and' could do his work! as well ;as any man. He had
worked three months forMr.Russel,.over. at Cheshire, and that
gentleman could prove his asertion. He had gone a voyage
as carpenter in the ship James Grant, for New :Orleans. He
had, served seven years' apprenticeship to his trade, with Mr.
'Peel, at Workington. While they were at sea the vessel had
16st her masts: and all his clothes and tools had been washed
overboard. His full wages would be £26 6s: Bd.. His monthly,
advance and the stores Caine to £5 13s. 6d. and the balance
which he claimed was, therefore £2o' 13s. 2d. • The captain
stated that the doctor's
bill which he•heid paid•was fifty guilders,
'or about £3 12s. Mr. Hall inquired whether the illness had
beenin consequence of the perferinance of his duty in the ves-
sel. The captain admitted that, it had; and the complainant
said that when the vessel lust her masts, she was very wet, and
he had taken cold whiCh brought on' an'ulcerated- sore throat.
The continual wading through salt water had' also produced
what.were called salt water boils in both his legs, which were
very painfulsand difficult of 'mire. He was still lame from them.
lie believetla he captain lied been dissatisfied with Min, because
'he could not take his turn at the helm. The only ignorance
which he was conscious of having displayed, was when the
:pumps were out of order. They were patent pumps, and he did
not-understand them. Mr. Hail said that the ase had assumed.
au aspect which placed it out of his power to interfere. The
act, did not authorise a magistrate to make a decision, except:-
when the claim was for a sum less thin It now appeared
that the claimant'S demand was£2o 13 Ile (Mr. Hall), how-
ever; recommended the •parties to endeavour-to crone to some
agreement between themselves, as if they went to lays' the.ex-
!reuses would be very heavy. He much, questioned the right of
the captain to deduct the amount of the' doctor's tat as it.was:
!distinealy laid down by the 18th section of the act, that all ex
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penses of that nature were to be paid by the owners, where the
illneSs was taken in their service. After some further eXplana-
tion hy 'Mr. Hall, the captain agreed to pay £l7;- but the coms
'plainant determined to stick to his bond, and said he would
have the whole. Mr. Han, "If you go to law, you will get
very little of it, I can -tell you. The greater portion, if not the
whole, will be absorbed in the consequent charges. Take my
advice, and come to an understanding with each other.' The
complainant said he would not take anything less than £2O.
Mr. Hall said he knew something of these matters, and he
swain advised the complainant to put the£l7 into his pocket,
for if he went to laws he would inevitably be worse off The
complainant still refused.. Mr. Hall told him that he was a
very foolish fellow, sind the parties left the court.
FRlDAY.—(Before Taos—lames HALL, Esq., and theMaYoe.)
EXCISE INFORMATIONS.—Patrick Mac Avoy was charged,
on an information laid by the Excise-office, with having, on the
4th of November last, hail an illicit still working in his house in
Birkett-street Soho. Witnesses were called who folly proved
the facts as laid down in the information, and the defendant was
convicted its the full penalty of £2ol).—An information was laid
against Daniel Harvey, of Sawney Pope-street; charging him
with selling beer without a license, whereby be was liable to a
penalty of £2O. A witness named Anderson deposed to pur's
chasing two glasses of ale on defendant's premises, on the 2d of
November last, for which he paid 3d. Evidence was brought
forward to prove that he had no license. The magistrates con-
victed him iu the mitigated penalty of £5 and costs.—An infor-
mation was laid against Mr. Robert Rothery, publican, charging
him with having had in his possession a bottle of geneva and a
pound of cigars, for which he had no permit and on which duty
had not been paid, whereby he had incurred a penalty of £lOO.
Mr. Rowland, excise-officer, deposed to finding, on the 16th of
November last, on Mr. Rothery's premises, a bottle of geneva
in a room up stairs which was not entered as a place of deposit
for spirits, and also to finding a pound of cigars on a shelf in the
bar. lie had wished him to enter the room in the excise books.
lie knew the premises to be Mr. Rothery's. On being cross-
examined by Mr. Crewe, he said he never had found anything
irregular before. The cigars were not attempted to be concealed.
The geneva was amongst some cordials and was not attempted
to be concealed. Mr. Rothery had told him that he had ex-
changed some brandy for this geneva for his own use, and had
bought it of a dealer whose address he had given him. Mr.
Crewe submitted that Mr. Rothery was a very respectable man
and had always conducted his business in a respectable manner,
and that there had never before been any complaints against
hint. There had been no concealment, and there had been no
intention of defrauding the revenue. He trusted that under the
circumstances of the case the magistrates would not inflict the
penalty, but condemn the goods. Mr. Hall said the act of
parliament gave a discretionary power to the Excise-office
whether they would sue for treble the amount of the goods or for
a penalty of £foo. The Excise-office had chosen the penalty.
He had no power to remit it. Mr. Crewe still urged that there
was no intention of concealing the property. Mr. Hall replied
that the words of the act were " hurbouring or concealing."
The magistrates would not press the case of the cigars; they
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no power of remitting it. They should convict him in the miti-
gated penalty of £25 ; they could not go below one-fourth
according to the act. Mr. Crewe then applied that the magis-
trates should recommend the case to the Board of Excise for a
remission of the penalty. The magistrates thought that under
the circumstances they could not interfere.
An information laid against Joseph Bowen, of N 0.5, Oxford.;
street, charging him with working an illicit still, whereby- he
had ineutred the penalty of £2OO. Mr. Rowlands, excise offi-
cer deposed, that in consequence of information he had re-
ceived, he went to Bowen's house, at No. 5, Oxford-street, and
found a private still there at work. There were 18 tubs there
containing 180 gallons of wash. There was no one on the pre-
Mises.—Mr. Ashburton, excise officer, went with Mr. Rowland;
he corroborated this statement.—Mr. Patrick Daley knew the
premises where the still was seized. Mr. Bowen was .the per-
son who occupied them ; Mr. Bowen took the house of him; he
had no other tenant. The defendant did not appear. He was
convicted in the full penalty of £2OO.
APPRENTICE COMPLAINT.—AIr. John Gaskill, upholsterer,
appeared to lay a complaint against his apprentice for absenting
himself on the Monday, and not making his appearance the
whole of the week. His reason fur it was, that he (the apprenas,
lice) was not likely to learn his business with him; he con-
tinued to follow the seine business as when he first came to him,
and hed as.inuch work. His apprentice had got it into his head
that he was rather forward, and was likely to make more money
by leaving him: John Gaskill, the apprentice, said his master
sent him out to work for other masters, and that he had not
been set to upholsterer's work, but that he had to work for the
upholsteresses. The master replied that that had been the case
some months ago, but that he was now fully occupied and likely
to be so. Mr. Hall said some masters had a mistaken impres-
sion that they had a right to transfer their apprentices to any
party for a short time, when they could not-employ them. The
parents of the apprentices in placingthein with a master, might
have confidence in him, but not in the party to whom they might
he transferred, In the present case, however, he thought it but
fair that he should return to his master, which the magistrates
should order him to do; he had better do that than go to the
House of Correction: The apprentice consented to return.'
FeeoNY.—Mary Murphy, an old offender, who had been up-
wards of fifty tinieS before the magistrates, and Eliza Cutler,
were brought up, charged by the waiter of the Wellington
Hotel, With having stolen a large number of slippers, the pro-
perty of the boots of the hotel. The night before, he saw Mur-
phy come out of the hotel door with an, apron full of slippers ;
he asked her what she had got in her apron, and she said she
was selling some old shoes; he then 'opened her apron and
found them full of slippers. He could swear to the slippers.
There were 23 pairs of slippers; they were worth Is. 4dsst pail.
The ether prisoner wits standing outside of the door watching,
and when he gave Murphy into custody was very abusive, so he
gave heralso into custody. Murphy in defence, said she was
walking down Dale-street, when she met a man who sold her
the slippers for 6d. The prisoner Murphy was committed to
take her trial at the sessions; the other prisoner (Cutler) was
discharged with'a reprimand from the magistrate.
SaeronisAv.—(Befere THOUAS JAMES Hash,' Esq., the Ma-
gistrate.)
BURGLARY.—John Myers was brought up charged with bay-
ing broken into the house of Mr. Burgess, in Crown-street, the
night before Fait,. and taken a quantity of property therefrom.
Furlong, the watchman, stated that he saw the prisoner between
two and three o'clock in the morning walking up the dark side
of Crown-street with a bundle in his hand. He followed him,
and when the prisoner found he was followed he stopped on
some waste irround in Crown-Street, where the foundation of a
house is laving, and loosed his trousers. When he got up to
him he asked him what he had got in his bundle ; he replied, it
was only a bonnet which he was taking to his sister; the bonnet
was wrapped in a shawl. He then took him into custody. On
his return fr6m Bridewell he told the captain of the watch all
the
circumstances, and they went to the waste ground where the'
prisoner had been standing and searched about ; they found
nine silver tea spoons, two large silver spoons, a silver salt spoon,
a pair of silver sugar tongs, two silver thimbles, and two silver
caster tops, just covered 'over with earth, exactly in the place
where the prisoner had been-standing. They made inquiry, and
found the property belonged to Mr. Burgess, of Crown-street.
The captain of the watch said he afterwards found two necklaces
and a gold locket at the waste plot of ground in Crown-street
where the prisoner had been standing. A constable stated that
on searching the prisoner at Bridewell he found on him some
cheroots and a gold ear-ring, and also a piece of liquorice. On
inquiring at Mr. Burgess's house lie found that a panne! of the
door had been cut out large enough to admit the entrance of a
man, and that the spoons, &c. had been taken out of a closet in
the front parlour, together with the cheroots and the liquorice ;
the bonnet and shawl was the property of Miss Burgess, and
had, along with the necklaces, &c., been taken out of a box from
a room up stairs. Mr. Burgess identified the silver spoons as
his property; altogether there might he £5 worth of things
stolen. Miss Burgess identified the bonnet and shawl as her
property, and also the necklaces and locket; the ear-ring found
on the orisoner at Bridewell was also het's. The thimbles* were
hers. Th., prisoner had nothing to say in defence.—He was
committed to take his trial for the offence.

CAUTION TO WAsnOtwomEN.—A man named John Woods
was charged with the commission of a felony by John
Churchwell, who deposed, that he 'resided near the Black
Horse, West Dorby. He kept a cart and horse, which he used
as employed. On •Saturday he usually brought baskets of
clothes to town for washerwomen. On Saturday morning last,
at about ten o'clock, he had received a basket of clothes from
Mrs. Davis, a neighbour of his. Ile was to take them to a
place near the Blue Bell, in London-road. He set out for Li-
verpool, and stopped his cart, in St. Anne-street. He went into
a house and was absent about a minute ; when be returned he
missed Mrs. Davis's basket from the hinder part of the cart. A
woman indicated that he, should run in the direction of Rich-
mond row. He did-so, and in llichniond-row he saw the pri-
soner walking very leisurely, with the basket of clothes upon his
head. He immediately seized him, and held him until Naylor,
captain of the watch, came up.
The case being fully proved, the prisoner was committed to
take his trial fur the offence.

[ln our police report of Friday last, of a case of extensive
fraud committed by. one of ,Mr. Dempsey, the timber mer-
chailt's clerks, by some unacemintable error Mr. Cuthbert
Simpson's name, who attended as a witness in the case, was in-
serted as the <<young man in the employmeut of Mr. Dernp-
`ev,” instead of John Jones, the proper name of the clerk. - Mr.
Cuthbert Simpson has called upon us, and expressed himself

aggrieved at this error. Mr. Cuthbert Simpson is an elder! y
gentleman, and we believe is not, nor ever has been, ‘‘ in the
employment of Mr. Dempsey." The description could not
therefore. attach, in the slightest degree, to him. 'We'beg, hoc
ever, to rectify as far as possible our mistake.]