The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-10 00:00:00

POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY.

ROBBERY BY A SERVANT AT THE TUNNEL HOTEL.—
Thomas Lyons, a servant man employed at the Tunnel
Hotel, Edge-hill, was charged with stealing the sum of
£6. 2s. from the housemaid at the hotel. The I
cutrix stated that, on Wednesday afternoon last, _
prisoner went up stairs, under the pretence of washing
himself, and remained there for some time. Durir
time she thought she heard him in her bedroon

called to him to come down. In the evening, the prisoner
paid the master some money which he owed him. He
had no money in the morning, when ti►e master asked
i►im for what he was owing him. On Thursday morning,
on examining her box, the prosecutrix found that it had
been broken open, and the sum of £6. 2s. taken from it.
Another witness, a young man, proved that, on the
evening of the robbery, the prisoner asked him to go with
him to a pubiie:house. He had several sovereigns in his

possession, and witness saw him change a sovereign.
Another witness deposed to the prisoner stating that he
had borrowed the money from a young man stopping at
the Tunnel Hotel, which was denied by the person in
question. The prisoner, who had nothing to say in his
defence, beyond denying that he was in the prosecutrix's
bedroom, was remanded till to-morrow.
POCKET PICKING IN A ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL DUR-
ING SERVICE. --Alad named Robt.Mulldowney was charged
with stealing a pocket-handkerchief from Wm. Flinn, on
Sunday morning, in Copperas. hill Roman Catholic Chapel,
during the hours of divine service. The prosecutor stated
that whilst in the chapel he; detected the prisoner just as
he had succeeded in abstracting his handkerchief from his
pocket. Peter Noonan, the clerk at the chapel, stated
that on the prosecutor informing him of the circumstance,
he considered it his duty to have the prisoner taken into
custody, on account of there having been so many rob-
beries committed in the chapel during the time service
was going on. Scarcely a Sunday passed without some
pockets being picked. Last week, one poor woman was
robbed of fourteen shillings, and the week before another
woman was robbed of eighteen shillings, the money being,
in both instances, the earnings of their husbands. Wit-
ness asked the prisoner what he had come to chapel for,
and he replied that he bad come to Mass, on which witness
remarked that he appeared to be paying more attention to
the prosecutor's pocket than to Mass. The sermon was
proceeding at the time. The prisoner, who said he had
come from Kilkenny to Liverpool to seek employment,
was committed for a month.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF A COMMERCIAL TRAVEL-
LER BY A PROSTITUTE.—A. girl named Caroline Smith,
Mason' s - r o w , G 1 ofsor
auenicqd, Gloucester-street,
ttet
hoen
art,
dress
frequently
hte
grseensret
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daughter
who is engaged at one of the dancing saloons in William-
son-square, was charged by Mr. William Jackson, a
commercial traveller from Hull, with robbing him of a
gold watch, a diamond pin, and about £lO in money.
The whole of the stolen property was valued at about
most
anything
£4O. The prosecutor stated that on Thursday evening he
went into a dancing saloon in Williamson-square, and met
with the prisoner, who stated that she was engaged there
as one of the dancers. After the rooms had closed, he
went with the prisoner to a house (one of ill fame) in
where they remained for some time, and afterwards lie
the night,
look
u peon:
itthaes
hold
k e
thept f
ebhvykiefianadidni iNag ; rs.
Bell'
went with her to a house in Northumberland-strret,
Tosteth-park, where she said she resided with her rnothi-r.
of Friday. Whilst the prosecutor was in company with
he awoke, the prisoner had left the house, and he
goneo
an ndd 1 ) down
pin
when
nej gnot
jewellery, but
In the afternoon he went to sleep, and
missed his gold watch, diamond pin, and money. Th
He remained wibthuthehredduirdin
the prosecutor demanding his
she would go with him to see property,the mother said
they went to the dancing her daughter about it, and
saloon in a cab, where they saw
the prisoner. On the
tophr Prisoner's
then prisoner,er's
m dancingot shshaeerl o
prosecutor asking the prisoner for
the property, she said •
it w
at h was all right and safe, locked up
Lome. Finding that he was unable to get posses • slim of
the property, he gave information to the pollee, and t he
prisoner was taken into custody, charged with ),- -
stolen it. In answer to a question from the mag!_
prosecutor stated that during the time he was in company
with the prisoner, he spent net less than from £5 to £6,
and in addition to that he had been robbed of £lO or £l5.
Mr. Parley, pawnbroker, of London-road, produced the
diamond pin, which the prisoner had pawned for a pound.
When taken into custody the prisoner admitted having
pawned the diamond pin, and stated that the prosecutor
had made her a present of it. The gold watch, she said,
had been sold by Mrs. Bell to a person at Mr. Anderson's
beer-house, in Hotham-street. In her defence the pri-
soner said that the prosecutor was drinking with her from
Thursday night until after twelve or one o'clock on Friday
afternoon. They were drinking brandy, and were both
drunk. She denied having committed the robbery. On
the application of Mr. Clough, in-door snperintendent of
police, the prisoner was remanded for seven days, in
order to give time to recover the remainder of the stolen
property. ~

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