The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

ANTIPATHY TO TEE-TOTALISAL-At the Police-office on
Friday, a youth named Ross, some 17 or 18 years of age,
who stated that he was a cooper's apprentice, was brought
before Mr. Flail, charged with having disturbed a tee-total
meeting the preceding evening in the neighbourhood of
Fox-street. The prisoner was arraigned by a member of the
society, who stated in a lengthy and circuitous address to the
bench, that he (the prisoner) was "drunk with the. drunk-
ard's strong drink—intoxicating liquor," under the influence
of which he attempted to disturb the meeting, and used
epithets of a very unsavory character—that he was requested
to desist—that the eloquence of the tee-total advocates made
no visible impression on him—and that he continued his in-
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trusive visit until forcibly ejected. The prisoner, however,
who appeared to entertain great contempt for tee-totalism,
and extended that contempt to its professors, returned to the
meeting again, and recommended his system of annoyance.
It was in vain that he was asked to sign—equally vain were
the denunciations levelled by the teetotallers against those
"who get up early in the morning that they may have slicing.
drink, and remain until night till wine inflames them." The
prisoner imagined that he could exterminate tee-totalism
root and branch, and no alternative remained but to give him
into custody.—Mr. Hall read the juvenile " lover of strong
drink" a lecture on the impropriety of his conduct iu thus
disturbing a peaceable meeting. He was fined ss. for being
drunk, and in default of payment to be committed to the
House of Correction.

A TitoußLEsoms LODGER.—A. person named Stagg ap-
peared at the Police-office on Friday, to prefer a complaint
against his lodger, who is an assistant to a chemist in Lord-
street. The complainant stated- that the prisoner came to
his house drunk, on Friday morning, between one and two
o'clock. He threw himself on a sofa in the front parlour,
and refused to go to bed. The prisoner, at the time, was
greatly intoxicated. The lodging-house keeper remon-
strated with hint on the impropriety of his conduct; to which
the prisoner replied that 'the apartment was his—he paid for
it—and he would "doas he liked with his own." The rAil-
loquy ended by the prisoner's proceeding to " kick up a
row"—breaking six ',tiles of glass in the complainant's
parlour—damaging his Venetian blinds—and disturbing the
neighbourhood. For the purpose of cooling his irritability,
the complainant called in the assistance of the police, anti the
refractory lodger was, with great difficulty, carried to Bride.
well. But this process did not mend the matter; for the
Bridewell keeper refused to receive him as an inmate: and,
flushed with victory, he instantly proceeded to the scene of
his triumphs—the parlour aforesaid, of which he took im-
mediate-possession, where he believed himself " monarch of
all he sur%eved." Determined to be avenged on the pug-
nacious landlord, he next attempted to fire the house—par-
lour, Venetian blinds, windows—all, believing that
The aspiring youth who fired the Epbesion dome,
Outlives in fame the pious fool that raised it;

and he was only prevented from carrying his resolve into ex-
ecution by the police again stepping in between him and im-
mortality. The prisoner, in his defence, confessed that he
had taken a few glasses of "toddy," which had a very ob-
livious effc-ct upon him. He was fined ss. for being drunk,
together with 6s. and costs fur "milling the glaze."
A PicoLivic BAKER.—A very young lad was brought up
at the police-office on Friday, having been detected by a
police-officer in an attempt to pick a gentleman's pocket.
The boy entered on his defence with all the volubility of a
thief—for thieves are a ready-tongued as well as a ready-
handed race—and was stopptd.just as he had burst into tears
and was reaching the climax of his speech, by the question of
"Where do you live?" Hereupon a grave-looking, stout,
elderly man came forward, and exclaimed, with a gruff voice,
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but in a most iusinating manner, " He's any son,—sir, if you
flease." Magistrate.—lt would please me better if you
would take care of your son. Father.—l does do that, I
assure you, sir. I looks strictly arter all their morals, and I
know be wouldn't do nothing that v•as anyways wrong. He's
been lugged int 6 some devilry and then left in the lurch,
maybe, your honour; for he's a wery good boy—he always
goes to bed early at night without grumbling, and that's a
vartue I knows the walue on. It's me that ought to do it,
for I've had a houseful o' them to bring up, and it was always
my maxum that him what's in bed early's out o' all harm.

agistrate.— What are you? Father.Z-I"Ma baker; but I
has wery little work, sir. wery little work. I can only get a
little loaf for a big family. Magistrate.—How many children
have you ? Father.—l'm the father of twenty. Magistrate.
—Twenty! By one woman? Father.—No, sir; six by a
former wife, and fourteen by my present wife.—The boy was
remanded.

BLACK INGRATITODL—A. black man of the name of Wells
was charged at the police-office on Friday with having stolen
a bundle of clothes, a small sum of money, and a few other
trifling articles, from the smack• Herald, on the preceding
night. It appeared that Michael Daly, the captain of the
smack, had kindly given the prisoner a free passage hither
from an Irish port, together with his meat; the vessel ar-
rived on the Thursday, and the prisoner ungratefully took
the opportunity of decamping with the clothes of the captain.
He was apprehended in Sparling-street by a police-officer,
on suspicion, and on the examination of the clothes a letter
was found which indicated to whom they belonged. The
prisoner was remanded to take his trial.

THE MONK MURDERER.—Yesterday, at the Police-office,
the alleged Monk Carrick, whose revolting cruelties to some
children in Dublin have recently created much sensation,:,
was bronght up at the Police-office, having been apprehended.'
and detained on the verdict of the coroner's jury at Dublin-.
The prisoner, John Joseph, alias Jerome Carrick, a meek-
looking, or as he has been describe" "saintly" looking
viduaCattired in a long black coat of clerical cut, was' placed,
at the bar, and Mr. Commissioner Dowling addressing the
bench, said the prisoner was on Sunday, charged by a monk
named Kelly, and another man, who is the clerk of the Ca-;
tholie Chapel at Copperas-hill, as the person who had caused -•1
the death of the child, John Touche, in Dublin, over whom -1
a coroner's inquest had been held, and the prisoner faind„
guilty of murder. He held a newspaper in his hand, which
detailed the evidence given before the coroner's jury, attri-
buting most revolting barbarities to the prisoner, who, it
appeared, called himself a Carmelite Monk, residing in
Key-street, Dublin, where he was in the habit of receiving
children for a small sum of money, for the purpose of educa7
ting them. When the prisoner had been brought to him (111.,
Dowling) he had read the statements given in the Mei cury
to him, and asked him if he was the person alluded to? lie
said he was, but that his name was Jerome Carrick, and'uot.
John Joseph, as stated in the paper. He (Mr. Dowling) hod
written to Dublin respecting the prisoner, and applied to4r.
Hall to remand him until he heard respecting him. The Pri-
soner was accordingly remanded. On the person -of the, pri-
soner were found several pieces of coloured leather and
satin, sewed together as little bags, and a number, of„sinalt fl
pieces of white substance, apparently ;vax, which he,..wais in
the habit of selling as charms to keep the devil away;' i the.,
bags were to put them in to hang round the neck. 'vhis is
another evidence of the degrading superstition of his dupes.
- ABSENCE OF MlND.—Yesterday, at the Police,office, a
dirty-looking individual, named Smith, was charged- With
having been found fast asleep, quite naked, iu
,a ,gyttet, Sri
the neighbourhood of the docks: The prisoner,noWith-
standing what Dr. Young has said to the contrary, that

" Tir'd nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep,
He. like the world, his ready visits pays
Where fortune smiles,"
insisted that he was one of the most unfortunate of Men'; for,
by by some witchcraft which he could nut divine..his bed; 'lnai Ily
so warm and comfortable, had been changed into the bei of
a kennel; his downy _pillow into a pillow of Alutc/t,t,„kiv Lear
kind hearted Molly into a hard hearted cobble Stonq, an 1 to
complete his misfortunes, he had not a rag of Gliioket, and;
every stitch of his clothing had miraculously disappeared,,
From the statement of the policeman who took him into
custody, it appeared, that the prisoner had been wandering
homewards from some friend's house, Bacchi pleni; when
having made several circuitous tours, he imagined, very na-
turally, that he had walked long enough to be at home, and,
therefore, concluded, very erroneously, that he was at home.
Acting on this conclusion, he proceeded forthwith to pull off
his clothes, as he would have done in his own proper bed-
room ; of which, having totally disencumbered himself, he
proceeded to step into what he supposed was the bed, by
stepping into the bed of the kennel, in which, having com-
fortably deposited his length, he threw his arms round a
cobble stone, to which he addressed several very endearing
epithets, calling it, his " dear Molly," and dropped soundly
asleep. Whilst he was snoring with his cheek against the
cobble, some one had taken the opportunity to walk off with
his clothes. In this state he was found by the policeman,
who roused him from his dreams, and safely lodged him in
Bridewell. He appealed at the bar in a " shocking" bad
suit of clothes, which had been lent to him. Mr. Hall, after
severely reprimanding him, told him to take care and .not
make such a beast of himself again, which being promised,
he was fined ss. for being drunk, and liberated to tell his
" dear Molly" his adventures.

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HAMMERING Away.—Yesterday, at the Police Office, a
respectable looking man, residing in Rupert-street, appeared
to prefer a charge against a mechanic-looking sort of indivi-
dual, for perpetually hammering away at his door knocker
on Sunday morning. The complainant stated, that he was'
awoke out of his first, and only sleep, by a tremendous thun-
dering at his door. His first impression being that his house
was on fire, he started out of bed in great alarm, which was
not at all lessened by the continued noise of the door knocker,
" knock, knock, knock, knock," knocking away enough to
knock the door down. In his hurry and trepidation he got
his unwhisperahles on the wrong way first, which delayed
him for a short time, and the knock, knock, knocking, was
renewed with redoubled vigour. At length be got down
stairs, and found,-on opening the door, that the prisoner was
the cause of the noise. On asking him what he was rousing
him and the whole neighbourhood in that way for, he told
him that

" Door knockers, like watches, were made only to go,"
and walked off. He (complainant) had just got into bed
again, and was calming his perturbed spirits, when he was
again startled by the same "knock, knocking." He thought
this time he would let the prisoner go at the knocker till he
was satisfied. But so unintermittent were its heavy blows on
the door, that he began to think perpetual motion was found
out, and applied to his knocker. Unable any longer to bear
the noise, he again got up, and threatened to give the pri-
soner into the custody of a policeman if bedid not desist. He
then walked off, but soon returned again to the charge, and
the knocker went on " knock, knock, knock," as loud as
ever, and 'when he spoke to the man, lie received nothing
but abuse. This went on till eleven o'clock in the morning,
when, being fairly knocked up by the noise of his door-
knocker, he sallied out in quest of a policeman, and gave the
prisoner into custody.• The prisoner, when asked what he
had to say for indulging so unwarrantably in his knocking
propensities, said the complainant's wife had, two days be-
fore, knocked one of his (prisoner's) children down with a
very unfit weapon, to wit, a rolling pin, and that, the day
before only, the complainant himself had given another of
his (prisoner's) children a severe knock on the head with
his umbrella, and so he retaliated by knocking him up. The
complainant stated, that the children were very greatly an-
noying to him. Mr. Hall fined the prisoner ss. for being
drunk.

SMUGGLlNG.—Yesterdav, at the Police Office, a young
man, steward of the ship Elector, from Cronstadt, in Russia,
was placed at the bar, on a charge of attempting to smuggle
a quantity of tobacco. From the statement of Mr. Neil,
tide-surveyor, it appeared that on his rummaging the vessel,
which arrived only that morning into the Prince's Dock, he
found, concealed-between the lining of the beams and the
deck, in the captain's state-room, 21 lbs. of tobacco and
cigars, and Ilb of snuff. The prisoner was on board at the
time, and said the tobacco was his, and he had put it there,
and that he was a native of Inverness-shire, in Scotland.
The prisoner was remanded till the pleasure of the Board of
Customs, in London, should be known.

A DISTRESSING CASE.—A young woman, of rather an in-
teresting appearance, and who had evidently seen better
days, applied on Saturday last to the select vestry for relief,
desiring a small sum of money to provide herself with some
articles of decent clothing, to enable her to undertake a situ-
ation, as a domestic servant, which she had obtained in the
family of a gentleman in the neighbourhood. Her 'history
is a short but melancholy one. She is the wife of a Captain
W—, of this port, and during the absence of her husband
she formed an acqn4intance with a Mr. R—, a dashing
young fellow, well known in the town, to her most fatal in its
result—lie accomplished her ruin. She was found with her child
in a garret in Edmund•street, the wet and cold having free
access to the room, in the depth of the winter of last year,
with scarcely sufficien t clothing to cover her nakedness during
that inclement season; the consequence was death to her
child and a long illness to herself. Her heartless seducer re-

fitsed t contribute one shilling towards her relief Her rela-
tives are respectable, and reside in the town; but from
motives of delicacy we suppress their names.
It is confidently stated that the Lord Mayor, as conservator
of the Thames, has issued, or is about issuing, an order for-
bidding persons to angle in that river on Sundays.—Morning
Chronicle.