The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-23 00:00:00

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vrnar MANY NAlErs.—Joim Holmes Was
brought up on a charge of obtaining a large quantity of
flour, by false pretences, from Mr. Thomas Hollick, miller,

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traceda to Liverpool; and on coming here he discovered
quantities of flour from Mr. Hollick, who
that the prisoner had passed in 'various places under the
names of Ovens, Meyrick, Troug'hton, and Holmes.—Mr.
Rymer, far the prisoner, cross-examined Mr. Rollick, who
stated that he had been to Mr. Reay, of the Guardian So-
ciety, who had told him that Ovens was a very bad Charac-
ter, and he would lose his money, for he had diddled the
people at Leeds and other places.—A clerk at the Railway
Station-was examined relative to-the delivery of the flour
at a place in Marybone.—Mr, snowball said it would be
requisite to bring parties from the stations at Nuneaton,
Bedworth, and Coventry, to prove the transmission of the
goods under fictitious names ; and he hoped that the case
would be remanded.—Mr. Rymer objected against the re-
mandon the ground that the prisoner was a natural child
and really had no name at all; he had used no fa!
tence when obtaining the goods.—After a COTIF
between Mr. Booth and Mr. Mansfield, the prise...__
remanded, but allowed bail in two sureties of £5O eaeh.
Maria Stevens, charged with attempting to pick pockets
on the Landing Stage, was sentenced to one month's im-
prisonment.

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- John Conolly and Wm. Duckworth were sent
14 days, for stealing potatoes from a field.
John Kelly and Samuel Smith were charged with steal-
ing wearing apparel from on board the ship Montezuma,
To be imprisoned one month.
Etienne Petrarchi Gammania, a foreign sailor, for steal-
ing wearing apparel, was sentenced to"ye imprisoned one

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CAUTION TO PERSONS ALLOWILVG
DOGS TO GO AT LARGE.

Yesterday, at the Police-court, Samuel Holme, Esq., the
Mayor, spoke to the following effect relative to the danger
arising from allowing dogs to go at large during the pre-
sent hot weather. He said :—I have obtained the sanc-
tion of Mr. Mansfield to interrupt the progress of the
court, whilst I make a few observations on a subject which
I conceive to be of very great importance. From the in-
formation which I have received—a variety of information
which I received some time ago r felt it my (

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magistrate of Liverpool to issue the usual notice, ora
all persons to keep their dogs within their houses. a
informations have been laid by the police, and th
day, when I sat as a magistrate, some of these i is
tions came before me ; in the hope that thr in
would, during the present hot weather, k Leh
'dogs within their houses, I merely inflicted the
penalty of one shilling, and one shilling costs. The penalty
for disobedience may be, I believe, £5. This morning I
counted no less than 27 mongrel dogs between the top of
Faulkner-street and the top of Bold-street, all loose in the
street, and prowling about. On Saturday last a very serious
.case of hydrophobia occurred, in consequence of a man
having been bitten by a dog six weeks ago ; and on last
Saturday week a lady was severely bitten in the leg by a
loe, which was roarn;ng at large. On Saturday last, a

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youth, returning g ic;i7sbelioca, was attacked by a bull-dog
and I saw the case, and his flesh is lacerated in the most
horrible manner. I received a letter from a lady this
morning, who says she was likewise attacked by
the public streets, some days APA

sine been able to leave her house, in* consequ,
number of dogs prowling about in the streets. -- .. be far better, indeed, that all the dogs in Liverpool were
destroyed than that one solitary case of hydrophobi
—the greatest scourge

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should ekecur. lam exceedingly sorry that the sur-
veyor of assessed taxes does not ascertain the per-
sons to whom those dogs belong, and make every one
of them pay the full duty ; for from information which I
received I have no doubt whatever that, for three out of
every four dogs in Liverpool, no duty is paid at all. I
have this morning directed that the police should be offi-
cially informed, that in every case in which there is a dog
prowling about the public streets, it is their duty to lay

mbliely, in hope that every

)olicen'ian who sees a dog in

the pUblie streets will summon the parties to whom it
belongs ; and if he has reasonable grounds for believing
that a dog is in a rabid state, or may have been bitten by

tog in a as

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ed by law to destrOy that dog : and I

Mansfield and my brother magistrates to join me in my
endeavour to put an end to such a fearful evil as that, by
levying a very heavy penalty on every individual sum-
fr moned here during the present hot weather for permit-
ting' a dog to go at large, and so endangering thJ safety

and the lives, of the whole of the hihal

.emarks whiCh I have felt it my painful but public (14ty to

make, will be attended to by till; for I, for one, am deter-
mined, so far as the law gives me power, to prevent tilE
continuance of a nuisance which is of such a fearful deserip•

Mr. Mansfield then directed the magistrates' clerk t<
port the names, of all parties summoned for allowing

dogs to go at large to the surveyor of assessed taxes.
Mr. Garnett said that was always done.
The Mayor : I hope a list N.l-.ill be kept of every person
summoued to this court, and I'll take care it is trans-
mitted to the surveyor of assessed taxes.
Mr. John Holmes also strongly reprobated the habit of
allowing dogs to prowl about the streets.

CHILD KILLED.—A little boy, named Thomas Davies,
two years and a-half old, residing with his mother, at 9,
Marshall-place, Arley-street, died on Sunday, the result of
injuries received from being run over by a spring-cart, a
few days ago. The father of the boy was killed about two
months since, by a bale of cotton falling on him.
CHILD Ovmnraix.--Francis Scarry, a child 9 weeks
old, was found dead in bed, at 22, Marybone, by its mother,
yesterday morning.

DEATH PROM tiIiTINHENNESS.—A widow, named Mary
Monday, sixty-six years of age, residing at 19, Portland-
street, whilst drunk early on Sunday morning., fell down
the cellar steps, and so injured her head that she died in
a few minutes afterwards. She was an habitual drunkard.
An inquest will be held this day.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—Peter Ward, of No. 3 Court, Perry-
street, fell into the hold of the ship Persia, lying in the
Prince's Dock, on Thursday last. He was immediately
afterwards conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where he
died on Sunday morning from the injuries received by
the fall.
DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.—A man named Hugh
Jones, residing at 15, Holland-street, Toxteth-park, died
on Saturday last, of hydrophobia, having been bitten by a
mad dog belonging to Thomas Vernon, of Woolton, about
two months since, after which the dog was destroyed.
Jones became seriously ill on Tuesday last, and died in
agonies on Saturday.
before Mr. Statham, deputy-coroner.
DEATH or A SEAMAN.—Peter Painter, thirty-five years
of age, a sailor on board the ship Grand Bonny, which
arrived yesterday in the river, from Bonny, received an
An inquest will be held this clay,
injury in the foot eleven weeks ago, in consequence of the
anchor slipping, and the cable running across his foot.
He was confined to bed during the whole of the passage.
Yesterday, he was removed in a car to the Northern Hos-
pital, but his wife interfered ; and, although every PrePa"
ration had been made at the hospital for his reception, she
insisted upon taking him to his own residence, 48,0ement
street. When the poor fellow reached there he was found
to be dead, An inquest will be held this day.