The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-06-14 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

RIOT AT THE WORKHOUSE.—OR Friday at the Police-office,
four men, inmates of the Workhouse, two ofthem blind, named
M,`Ginnis, M'Annaspie, Roberts, and Pierce, were brought be-
fore the magistrates, charged with creating a riot and violently
assaulting the gate-keeper at the Workhouse the night before.
Mr. Lowndes appeared on behalf of the overseers to support
the complaint. He said that the inmates were allowed their
liberty every other Thursday, and that many of them were in
the habit of getting intoxicated, and came back so disorderly
that it was absolutely necessary to make an example. After
heating the gate-keeper they violently assaulted one of the in-
mates who came to his assistance. A policeman was then
called, and found them so violent that he was obliged to hand-
cuff them, and on the caravan being brought to take them off to
'Bridewell one of them succeeded in getting his hand out of the
hand-cuff and knocked the officer down.. The gate-keeper, an
old man, named Burns, who appeared ivith a severe bruise on
the head from a stick from one of the prisoners, and the police-
officer deposed to these statements. The magistrates ordered
them to pay 40s. and costs, or in default to be committed for two
calendar months to the Borough gaol.
Imeosrolts.—George Rowe and Alexander Horner, alias
Edward Burns, were on Saturday placed before Mr. Hall,
charged with having attempted to obtain money from the Rev.
Mr. Thom and others, by the exhibition of a forged letter. The
complainant stated, that the prisoner Horner had called upon
him, and exhibited a note, which stated, that he (the prisoner)
was labouring under a disease which incapacitated him from
working; that he hal a wife and four children, and that he was
in a state of destitutioq. This epistle was signed, Thomas
Eden, and the prisorier7said it was from Mr. Eden, Surgeon,
Mountpleasant. The whole was proved to be a forgery. A
police-officer stated, that he had seen the prisoners alternately
taking tne note to different houses. The prisoners were com-
mitted to the House of Correction for one month.
UNWHOLESOME MEAT.—Matthew Lock appeared before the
magistrates, on Saturday, having been summoned at the
instauce of. the inspector of meat, for having offered for sale
forty pounds weight of unsound veal. Fined 10s. and costs.
APPREHENSION OF A SUPPOSED MORDERER.—OR Saturday
a man named Curran was placed at the bar of-.the Police-court,
having just been apprehended on the quay of the Prince's Dock,
by George M'Ker, a pilice-officer, from kreland, under suspicion
that he was the principal in the commission of an atrocious
murder which has lately been perpetrated on the body of Ran-
dall Hamill, at Ballyragainy, county of Antrim, Ireland. The
warrant of John Rowan, Esq., justice of peace, was produced,
and. David Monaghan proved that he (the prisoner) was the
person therein. described. He was delivered over to the officers
to be conveyed to Ireland, to wait his trial there.
• FELoNY.—Yesterday, at the police-office, a middle-aged
sanctified-looking man, named William Hebblethwaite, who
had been employed by Mr. Gordon, musical instrument maker,
as ocmcasional bookkeeper, was, brought before the magistrates
charged with having robbed his employer of seven cases of ma-
thematical instruments, a gold and a silver watch, and ot her pro-
perty, which was traced by Flockart, the officer, to various pawn-
brokers. The prisoner's sanctimonious appearance bad imposed
considerably on his master, for, as the various articlei had been
missed from time to time, every other person on the establish-
ment had been charged and suspected of the theft excepting
the prisoner, until they were traced home to him. F lockart had
found the silver watch at Mr. Tunstall's, the pawnbroker, which
had been pawned by a female with whom the prisoner lodged,
the pawn ticket for which the prisoner had given her for two
weeks board. The watch was pawned for 235., and was worth
about 30s. The gold watch had also been redeemed at the
pawnbroker's, the ticket having been sold by the prisoner. Mr.
Jones and other pawnbrokers appeared and produced the in-
strument cases, which were worth about 15s. each, and had
been pawned for 95.; they were identified by Mr. Gordon.
The prisoner was fully committed to take his trial at the sessions.