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

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

TEM COINERS.—On Tuesday Edward Arnett; sea., who was
remanded on suspicion of being connected with the coiners of
Virgil•street, was discharged, the mint declining, in his case, to

prosecute.
JUVENILE DEPRAVITY.—On Tuesday, at. the Police-office,
a disorderly female, named Margaret Henry, was placed before
the magistrates charged with having stolen a watch from a boy
named Edward Clark. The complainant, a cadaverous-look-
ing young man, dressed in a blue trock coat, and who, consider-
ing the nature of the charge, had a pretty considerable quantity
of assurance, addressing the magistrates, said, "My companion
and me went to the theatre last night together, and met that
young woman, and my companion had a bottle of ruin in his
pocket, and he gave her some, and we shared it, and I don't
remember whether I went with her or not, but this morning I
missed my watch." Mr. Hall.—" Pray how old are you ?"
Complainant.—" Seventeen." Mr. Hall.—" Is it notdisgrace-
ful that a boy like you should be getting so drunk that you don't
know what you do, and then going into such. company, as this?
Do you live in the town?" Complainant.—" Yes." Mr. Hall.
—" What are you ?" Complainant.—" I am a workman with
my father." (A laugh.) A police-officer said that the night
before he had received information from the complainant that
he had lost his watch, and he learned that it bad been pledged
for a sovereign. The pawnbroker said that the prisoner had
long been in the habit of pawning articles, but had always re-
deemed them. The complainant said the watch was his father's,
and that he had only had it lent. The prisoner said that the
complainant had accompanied her home, and had given her the
watch to pawn. Mr. Hall decided that as the complainant ap-
peared to have been in such a state of, intoxication that he did
not know whether he-did or not authorise the prisoner to pledge
the watch, he should order the prisoner to be discharged. •
AN ACCOMPLISHED CH A ACTER,—On Tuesday, at the Police-
office, a female named Mary Lynch and her husband were
placed before the magistrates charged with creating- a violent
disturbance in the street the night before. A policeman stated
that the night before the female prisoner was creating a great
disturbance in Crosshall-street, and he desired her to go home,
she went towards home, and shortly after he saw her husband
thrusting her out of the house and beating her. The husband
was " duly" sober, but the wife was a " little" drunk. An el.
derly woman, named Mary Wickley, the mother of the female
prisoner, and who appeared with her face covered with bruises,
said that her daughter (the prisoner) had abused her shamefully,
and at night she came in again, and was going to repeat her
conduct when she looked out for a policeman to take her into
custody, and not seeing one she asked her (the prisoner's) hus-
' band to protect her, and put his wife out, which he was doing
when the constable came up and took them both into custody..
" Oh.she is a treacherous bad girl your worships." The pri-
soner (shrieking out)—" 0 mother, mother ; isn't this hard,
isn't this hard ? And the police used me in such a way that
they put my shoulder out, and a surgeon had to be sent for to
the coal-hole last night to pet it in. Oh dear me, oh dear me !"
Batcheldor said that the prisoner was one of the worst charac-
ters in tho town ; she had been repeatedly brought up for as-
saulting her mother; and as for putting her shoulder out, she
could throw it out when she liked—she was quite mistress of the
art. She had even thrown it out in court ou one occasion when
brought up in order to excite commiseration. So long as 18'27
she had been put under bail for assaulting her me:her. Pri-
soner—" Oh, I will be 'good; let me off but this time. Oh my
poor shoulder, it aches to my very heart." (Laughter.) Mr.
Hall ordered her to pay 40s. and costs, or in default to be com-
mitted to the borough jail for one month, and discharged her
husband. The prisoner was taken down, shrieking out in a
manner intended to be very pitiful.
A NICE POCKET FULL.—On Tuesday, at the Police-office, a
filthy looking man named Francis •M'Catarack was placed be-
fore the magistrates charged with having stolen a glass, the pro-
perty of a person named Thornton, who keeps a beer-house in
the neighbourhood of Scotland-road. The complainant, ad-
dressing the magistrate, said, "Last night 1 saw this man come
into my house, and after looking about him, pocketed a glass off
the table; so, going up to him in a gemman-like way, I axes
your pardon, sis I, but be so gobd as show me the purse as is in
your right-hand breeches poclset. Certainly, sis he, and he forks
out this here tumbler glass, and I'm bloomed if it warn't half full
of ale ! (Laughter.) We are continocally losing glasses, and
it is time we made some sort of an example." The prisoner
said he was " werrey tipsey," and thought he was putting hii
pipe in his pocket. Mr. Hall said, in that case, according to
his own story, they should fine him ss. for being drunk.
BEA a BAITING.—On Tuesday, at the Police-office, a person.
named Wm. Green was summoned before the magistrates on an
information laid by inspector M'Culloch•.charging him with
keeping a bear and baiting it. Inspector M'Culloch deposed
that on Monday, the 29th ult., he went to William Green's
house in Freemason-row, Vauxhall-road, and there saw a large
area fitted up as a ring, with fifty or sixty
.persons there. In
the ring was a large bear, and a dog in the act of baiting him,
whilst twenty or thirty dogs were there muzzled. The defendant
had been fined 40s. about live months before for the same offence.
Mr. Hall said this shameful cruelty must be put an end to. De-
fendant : Oh; it is no cruelty at all; I have the bear dressed in
another bear's skin, and the dogs can't hurt him, and he can't
hurt the dogs; it isn't like bear baiting in London, where the
bears are quite naked.—Mr. Hall: I think you would find out
whether it was cruel or no if you were dressed in the bear's skin.
Defendant : I would not care twopence to be bagged and baited
myself in the same road.—Mr. Hall : If you will promise me to
let all the dogs come at you and worry you in the same way, I
may believe you that it is not cruel.—Defendant: Yes, I will;
I'll let all the dogs in. Liverpool come at me; I couldn't be
hurt; the bear is in a complete bag. I can't keep the hear doing
nothing; 1 must do something to get a living.—Mr. Hall : Get
your living in an honest way.—Defendant : It is an honest way ;
it is just as honest as fox-hunting. Turning a fox loose and
catching it again, with thirty or forty dogs after it running it
down is just as cruel, but that is a gentleman's game.—Mr. Hall :
I shall fine you 40s. and costs, and give you fair notice that if it
is not paid, the proceedings in this case will be much more severe
than when you were previouslrefined.—Defendant : I haven't
40s. in the world.—Mr. Hall : mien you must take the conse-
uences.

CORRESPONDENCE.

CAUTION TO STRANGERS ATTENDING THE ZOO-
LOGICAL GARDENS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR.,—A few days ago a gentleman of the name of Bradley, a
timber-merchant from Halifax, in Yorkshire, visiting the Zoo-
logical Gardens here, gave the elephant a piece of bread with his
hand. From the rough manner of the beast, in taking it, the
gentleman was not willing again to risk his hand, but put a
piece of bread in his hat, and offered the same to the elephant,
thinking he would take it out, instead of which he took the hat,
tore it in pieces, eat the bread, and threw the torn hat in the face
of the gentleman. I understand it was a new hat, and
T.
had not
been worn many times.—Yours, &c., .