The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-16 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

BASR COIN.—A girl, named Ellen Turner, was charged
at the Police-court, yesterday, with passing- a base sixpence
to Mr. Townsend, shopkeeper, Byrom-street. An old
woman was charged along with her, but was discharged
for want of evidence. 'Turner had been-seen to send a
little girl into the shop with the sixpence, and was pursued,
and stopped in St. John's-lane. There were found upon
her sixteen base sixpences and nine base-shillings.—She
was sent for trial.

PICKING POCKETS.—A young woman, named Shaw,
and an old woman, named Wilson (relatives), were
charged with having, on Saturday night; in St. John's
Market, picked the pocket of Mrs. Atkinson, wife of a
publican, of Roscoe-street, of a purse containing twelve
shillings, which they accomplished very adroitly. Both
had been tried and convicted at the September sessions.
They were sent for trial.

SHIP DESERTION : SEAMAN'S WAGES.---OR Saturday,
John Lunn, a mariner, summoned Captain Grant, of the
Hero, for a balance of £8 wages, alleged to be due for an
outward voyage in that vessel from Liverpool to Bonny.
It appeared that he had signed articles for both the out-
ward and homeward voyage, but on reaching Bonny he
was transferred to the brig Amity, (both vessels being the
property of Mr. Benn,) which was short-handed. The
crew of the Amity met with shipwreck or a serious mishap
at Colinsay, when the whole of the crew, headed, it was
alleged, by the plaintiff, deserted the vessel; the captain
was left helpless and alone. and much of the cargo, palm
oil, was in consequence lost. Mr. Rushton refused to
make any award under the circumstances till the Amity,
now at sea, shall return to port, and the matter be fully
cleared up.

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STEALING FROM THE PERSON. Atthe Police-court
yesterday, two girls, Eliza Cann and Sarah Gillot, were
charged with stealing from the house of Mr Hugh Glad-
stone, Brougham-terrace, £3 10s. in money, from a tin
box ; also a pair of lady's gloves. The first-named pri-
soner had been a servant in the house, and the other
occasionally visited her there. Cann left her service, and
the money (part of double the sum which was left in the
box), was then missed. She was seen in the street ' • taken
to the house,, and shown the box, but denied all know-
ledge of it. Upon the prisoner was found a mantle,
belonging to. the house, and the pair of gloves. Gillot
was discharged, there being no evidence against her.
Cann confessed in court that she had taken £2 of the
money, and said the gloves were given to her by a servant.
She was committed for trial.
HOUSE-BREAKING AND ROBBERY.—Three boys, Wil-
liam Roberts, Cornelius Level, and another, were charged
with having broken into a cellar in. Brownlow-hill, and
stealing therefrom £3 ss. 3d. in money and a pair of slip-
pers, on Saturday last. The complainant, William Cum-
ming, said he occupied the cellar as a workshop. In the
morning he wrapped the money in a paper and put it into
the corner of a box amongst tools, &c., thinking it would
be safe, as he had to go out for the day. He locked the
place up, and on his return at night found the door had
been partly broken in, and on entering he missed the mo-.
my. Roberts was seen in the cellar, and the slippers
were found upon Level, who said when apprehended that
he had bought them for a halfpenny. The two first-.
named were committed for trial.
COMMITMENTS YESTERDAY AT THE POLICE COURT.---
Henry C. Johnson, for stealing an umbrella from a cellar
in Richmond-row, on Saturday : three months.—Thomas
Collins, for stealing a hen in St. John's Market, the pro-
perty of George Whitaker, on Saturday : one month.—
Margaret Newland, for picking the pocket of William
Cringle of fourpence, in Gibraltar-row, on Saturday night:
committed for trial at the sessions.--Charles Connor, for
stealing a coat from David Smith, in Regent-street. was
sent to gaol for a month.—Three hardy-looking tars
(belonging to the same vessel) were charged with having
been found gloriously drunk in the forecastle on Sunday,
and also with having in their possession sundry bottles of
wine, apparently part of the contents of a barrel of wine
that had been discharged from the vessel and was left
under the shed at the quay : committed for twenty-one
days to the House of Correction.
On Saturday four Liverpool thieves were committed for
trial, from the Birkenhead Police-court, charged with
having stolen five handkerchiefs from a clothes line in
Poole-terrace.

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FRAUD BY A PASSENGER BROKER.—On Wednesday,
Thomas Godfrey, a passenger broker, was fined £2O, and
had his license revoked by Mr. Rushton, for practising
a fraud on a Staffordshire farmer named Chapel, who had
applied at his office for a passage to New Orleans.
THE WINE ROBBERY.—The prisoners implicated in
this robbery were brought up again on Thursday. Seve-
ral publicans who had purchased wine from them were
examined, and the prisoners were fully committed for
trial. From the statement of the clerk, it appeared that
upwards of 94 dozen had been stolen.
IMPORTANT TO MASTERS OF TRADING VESSELS TO
IRELAND.—On Tuesday, Captain Rowland, master of the
brig Resolution, from Dublin, was fined in the mitigated
penalty of ten pounds, for having one and three-eighths
of a gallon of whisky on board. He had procured the
spirits for the use of the crew, but had neglected to ob-
tain a certificate imposed by a recent act of parliament.
ROBBERY OF WATCHES, &C., TO THE ti ALUE OF £l5O.
—On Wednesday, William Jones and Charles Godfrey
were charged with stealing six gold watches and four
chains, from Mr. reglintoo, watchmaker, St. George's,