The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-06 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE.-WEDNESDAY.

STEALING COTTON.—John Blundell, an incorrigible young
thief, about 14 years of age, was placed at the bar charged with
pilfering a quantity of cotton from a cart passing along Chapel-
street. Mr. Parlour, the Superintendent of Police stated that the
prisoner was one of a numerous class of young thieves who sub-
sisted by pilferin,, from the carts laden with cotton as they came
from the docks. `The plan they pursued was, first to cut a large
slit in the bags as the carts passed along, and as the cotton
dropped they picked it up. By these means they managed to ac-.
cumulate great quantities, which was disposed of to receivers of
stolen goods, who encoura.ged them in the practice. The pri-
soner was committed for three months as a rogue and a vaga-
bond.

SMUGGLING.-An Irishman, named James Watts, was
charged with having in his possession a quantity of contraband
tobacco. It appeared from the evidence of E. P. Lloyd, a con-
stable, that he met-the -prisoner in- Park-lanw carrying seVen
bundles of wha.tappeared to be tobacco • he stopped the prisoner,
and examined the bundles, and found they contained Dutch
canastre. He questioned the prisoner as to where he. received.
the tobacco, for which he could show no permit. The prisoner
said that he had just been ordered to bring it from a vessel, but
he could not tell the name of the vessel, nor the dock where she
lay. The case was fully made out, and the prisoner was fined
in the penalty of £IOJ, which' not being able to pay, he was
committed.

THURSDAY.

WHOLESALE ROBBERIES FROM CHILDREN.—A woman,
named Anne Milienan, for whom the police have been some
time on the look out, for robbing children of bundles in the
streets, was placed at the bar, charged with that species of rob-
bery. There were no less than six cases against her. It ap-
peared from the evidence, that the
.prisoner was in the habit of
watching children who were carrying bundles of clothes to the
pawnbrokers or elsewhere for their parents, and induced them
to leave their bundles with her whilst she sent them on sonic
fruitless errand, for which she promised them sixpence. By
these nefarious and impudent means:she.sticceeded in.purloin-
jug articles of considerable value; and, on Wednesday last,
from one little boy she contrived to steal a bundle, containing
a new brown cloth coat, a valentia waistcoat, kerseymere
trousers, and a black silk handkerchief, which he was carrying
to the owner; for his father, who is a tailor.—From another she
stole two new pairs of shoes, and other articles, and from others
new dresses, shawls, &c. The children gave their evidence in
each case, which were fully made out against the prisoner;
who, however, denied all knowledge of them. The Mayor, in
committing the prisoner for trial, observed that he had never
heard a more heinous case, and he hoped that, if found guilty
by a jury, she would meet with a due punishment.
John M'Carroll and Andrew Walker, two juvenile burglars,
about thirteen years of age, were committed for having stolen
a cheese. The watchman apprehended the prisoners near Free-
mason's-row, with the cheese in their possession, which was
owned by a provision dealer of Freemason's-row, who deposed
to his having had his shop broken open on Tuesday night, or
early on Wednesday morning. Mr. Batchelor, the gaoler,
stated that Walker had been convicted six or seven tunes of
felony.
AN INFANT PA GANINI.—A boy about 10 years of age, named
Williams, was brought before the Mayor charged with a felony
under the following circumstances :—The prosecutor, a publi-
can, stated that a few days ago the prisoner came to his house
and amused his customers by` fiddling on an old broken violin ;
he played very well.iu the opinion of his customers, and they
fancied he would play better on a better creraona, and knowing
that he (the landlord) had a violin in the house, they asked him
to lend it the boy, which he did, but whilst he was out of the
way the urchin managed to slip the old fiddle into the bag from
which the new one was taken, and ran away with the new one.
A few days after this he met the prisoner fiddling away in the
streets, and he took him into custody. Ile had then a still
better fiddle, and, perhaps, had " rung the changes" on
some one else. The prisoner acknowledged taking the fiddle,
and said he had lost it in the Salthouse Dock. The Mayor
said he should not let him off until he gave a good account
where the fiddle was to be found, and he was accordingly re-
manded.

AUDACIOUS STREEII ROBBERY.—William Frazer and John
James, lads not more than eight or nine years of age, were
charged with robbing a young lady, named Dutchman, of her
reticule, in Toxteth-park, on Wednesday evening. Miss Dutch-
man stated that she,was passing through Parliament-street, on
Wednesday evening, just as it was getting dark, wlaia-thpini,
soners came up to her, and cut the string of her reticule,
snatched it, and ran away. She informed two men of the cir-
cumstance, and the prisoners were pursued. Frazer was taken,
but James escaped. The reticule was not found upon either of
them. It contained 2s. 6d. in silver, some copper, and a pair of
scissors. The constable who apprehended the prisoner James,
found a pair of scissors and a .card case upon him, which, no
doubt, the young thieves had plundered from some one else in
a similar way. The prisoner James informed the consta-
ble that they had found the bag, and that he (James) had
spent the money at the theatre, having been to bear Mr. Bra_
ham. Having nothing to say in their defence, the prisoners
were committed for trial.

STEALING COTTON.—Five individuals, four women and one
man, were brought up charged with stealing cotton from the
porters carts, in a similar manner as described in the case of
Blundell, on Wednesday. The Mayor said it was high time
that the felonious practice was put a stop to, for it appeared
that it was carried to a most extraordinary extent. He then
sentenced the elder prisoner ,(Hayes) to three months impri-
sonment, and the four women to one month's imprisonment
each in the House of Correction.