The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

SMUGGLING.--William Holford, master of a flat, was
on Friday fined £lOO, for having a large quantity of
tobacco secreted in his vessel, but as he appeared to have
been the victim of other parties, his case was recommended
to the merciful consideration of the Excise. On the same
day, two seamen, belonging to the Frederick William, of
Dantzic, were remanded, on a 'charge of having a quantity
of tobacco concealed under their beds. The cook of the
same vessel submitted to a fine of 40s. and costs, for
smuggling four pounds of leaf tobacco.
MARINE STORE DEALER'S CASE.—Ellen Nicholson,
the keeper of a marine store in Harrington-street, Tox-
teth-park, was placed at the police-court on Friday,.
on a charge of receiving stolen cotton. Storey, 253,
stated that on the preceding day he saw a girl enter
Nicholson's store, and place a small quantity of cotton on
the scales ; the prisoner was in the act of putting her
hand into her pocket to take out the money for payment,
when the officer arrested her. Tt is not the first time that
Mrs. Nicholson has been before the bench on similar
charges. The child who offered the cotton for sale, was,
by the judicious consideration of Storey, brought up as
evidence against the woman, though it was not taken.
The prisoner was committed to prison for on' month.
ILLEGAL PAWNING.—A prostitute, named Mary Ann
Wilson, was brought before Mr. Rushton, on Friday,
charged by John Davis, a seaman, with stealing his jacket
and five dollars. It appeared that the man accompanied
Wilson to a house in Thomas-street, on Thursday night,
and that on the following morning he missed the money
and his jacket. The jacket had been pledged. The case
resolved itself into one of illegally pledging. She was
required to pay ss. or a fine of twenty, or to be imprisoned
seven days. Mr. Rushton ordered the pawnbroker to
deliver up the jacket, and remarked that when women of
the description of the prisoner came to pledge articles of
men's clothing, it might be readily inferred that they had
been obtained in a dishonest manner.

CAUTION TO TRADESMEN.—On Friday, a woman
named Eleanor Whitehouse, was brought before Mr.
Rushton, charged by Mrs. Margaret Barton Redfern,
With having obtained three pair of stays from.her under
false pretences. The prisoner had ordered the stays under
a fictitious name. A. number of other shopkeepers, all
of whom had been victimized by Whitehouse, attended,
and detailed the fraudulent practices of the woman. The
magistrate informed them that the only course open for
redress was by an appeal to the County Court. The wo-
man was of course dismissed. She had not left the court
many minutes before a man of respectable appearance
came into court and begged protection. It appeared that
the man was the husband of the female swindler, and com-
plained of one of her victims, who had followed the pair
from the court and annoyed them. The person thus
offending expressed his determination to follow the parties
for the purpose of proclaiming their practices, which he
described as a systematic plan of swindling. The magis-
trate informed the gentleman that the law would not
bear him out in that course, and advised him to commu-
nicate with the secretary of the Guardian Society.
SMOKE NUISANCE.—On Tuesday four informations
were heard before the magistrates against the proprietors
of furnaces and mills for not consuminc, their own smoke.
The first information was against Mr. Thomas Raws-
thorn, proprietor of a furnace in Limekiln-lane, and a
policeman deposed to seeing, on the 3d nit., a black
smoke issuing from the defendaneswparesmaniseesnagtinmeeird:daanyd.
Mr. John Grantham stated that he
that he was acquainted with the premises occupied by the
defendant. He inspected the engine apparatus there on
the 9th of August, and found that the boiler was of cylin-
drical shape. There was a fire underneath it ; and the
smoke-burning apparatus was applied, but the air being
admitted at the back, fell in various ways. The smoke-
burner seemed tolerably successful. The defendant said
the boiler had been there for thirteen years, and that since
the apparatus had been applied, there had been some
trifling repairs. He named four new rivets in the furnace.
He (Mr. Grantham) was of opinion that the age of the
boiler was the cause of the failure, and not the apparatus.
He was also of opinion that it was quite practicable to
affix a smoke-consuming apparatus to the boiler. Mr.
James M'Donald stated that he was the engineer to the
Liverpool and Harrington Water-works Company, and
that he had several steam-engines under his charge. He
had applied the smoke-consuming apparatus, and he had
succeeded in consuming smoke without any apparatus at
all, at one of the company's stations. At the station in
William-Henry-street he had consumed the smoke with-
out the apparatus, and at the several other stations of the
company he had the consuming apparatus applied ; and no
injury to the boiler had ever taken place, so far as he
knew. He had used the apparatus with his boilers for the
last five or six years. The defendant said that his smoke-
burner consumed in a better manner than any at the
north end of the town, but that it was a great detriment
to the boiler. He had ordered a new boiler, and paid
£l5O for it ; and if it were not for the smoke-burning
apparatus, that boiler would last him ten years. Mr.
Rushton said it had been held to be essential to the
health of the town, that the apparatus for consuming
smoke should be adopted, and the magistrates were de-
termined to enforce the fine. The defendant must, there-
fore, be fined in the full penalty of £5 and costs. The
next information heard was against William Gerard and
Benedict Slater, for negligently using their furnaces.
A policeman deposed to seeing smoke issuing from the
defendant's premises in Fleet-street, on the 6th August,
at forty minutes past one, but Mr. Rushton, said after
hearing the case :—" We are disposed not to convict, not
because we do not think the offence committed, but be-
cause there appears to be some doubt whether a dense
smoke can be effectually prevented. • It is a difficulty you
have to contend with, and it does not appear that any
dense volume of smoke was observed, except when the
steam was raised after the dinner hour. We shall not
convict, but it is quite necessary at the same time the de-
fendants should be informed that as it appears practical to
prevent dense masses of smoke from arising they must
look to it in future. They must not do this a second
time." Acquitted. Jonathan Banks and Co., and Mr.
John Brocklebank, were then severally fined in £5 each
and costs for similar infringements of the sanatory act.
—On Wednesday two informations were laid against the
owners of ferry boats. One was against Mr. Sothern,
owner of the Egremont steamer, Prince Albert, but the
ownership of the boat was not proved. The other was
against the owner of the Queen of Beauty, but the case
was postponed. In both instances the steamers were
furnished with smoke consumers, which were inefficient,
but the inefficiency was occasioned, it was alleged, through
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