The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-15 00:00:00

YESTERDAY.

TURNING THE TABLES.—Charlotte Shaw, a servant
girl in the service of a person named Cavanagh, who
keeps a beer-shop in Gilbert-street, charged her mistress
with having robbed her of two sovereigns. The girl's
statement was to the effect that she had two sovereigns
wrapped in a rag in her pocket ; that her mistress,
assisted by her sister, forcibly " bereft" her of this money,
by tearing away her pocket, which, with its contents, she
had not since seen. In reply, Mrs. Cavanagh stated that
on Friday evening last she had in her possession a sove-
reign and a half. This money was in her pocket when
she went to bed : the girl Shaw wasin the habit of coming
into her room before aay-light for matches, &c. On Sa-
turday morning the money was missed and Mrs. Cavanagh
sent for her sister, a person named Collington, who in-
sisted upon having the place searched, as she was con-
vinced that somebody in the house had taken the money.
The girl volunteered to be searched, and commenced by
taking her clothes off, as well as her shoes : she particularly
invited attention to her stockings as not containing any-
thing like money, and requested her mistress would put
her hand into the shoe for the same purpose ; this was
done without result, but as she was about to replace the
shoe she heard something jingle, and the result was that a
sovereign and a half were found concealed beneath the
inner sole. It was stated too that when the girl entered
Mrs. Cavanagh's service, she deposited with her sixteen
shillings, stating that she had no more money. This she
denied to Mr. Rushton, and alleged as a reason for having
deposited the silver and not the gold for security, that the
latter could be more effectually secured in a bag than t .e
greater number of silver pieces. The magistrate ques-
tioned her rather severely with a view to discover how she
came into possession of the money. The girl entered into
a minute statement of the sums received by her from her
last two situations, but explain them how she would, she
was unable to shew receipts to the " amount in hand,"
and on this ground Mr. Rushton ordered the prisoner to
be discharged trom custody and her place to be supplied
by Shaw. The girl was accordingly placed in the dock
and eventually committed fot trial; she, however, lost
nothing of her inflexibility and coolness, but repeated
seriatim the original charges against her mistress of rob-
bery, and duplicity on the part of her sister, with the
aggravating circumstance of ill-treatment.

-FEMALE- HIGHWAY ROBBERS. - Catherine Hopkins,
Margaret M'Cartney, Jane Wilson, Margaret Murphy,
Jane Lloyd, and Ann M`Donald, all prostitutes and,
though young, of the very worst character, were ranged
in front of the dock to answer the charge of having as-
saulted and robbed Michael Duffey of 15s. 54d. The pro-
secutor, a miserable looking Irishman, said that he was
on his way home about eleven o'clock on the preceding
night, and when in Spitalfields he was accosted by one of
the girls, who invited him to enter the house, but he re-
fused, upon which the whole bevy rushed out, and, to use
the man's own words, entangled him, knocked him down,
and dragged him into the house, where he was struck by
several, (one using a knife,) and his money taken from
him 'ay a girl who had absconded, and bad not been taken
by the police. Mr. Rushton committed every one of them
for trial.

THE RISK OF HARBOURING SMUGGLED GOODS.—A
washerwoman named Bray, living in Nelson-court, Milk-
street, appeared to answer an information for smuggling
tobacco. Mr. Chadwick, of the Inland Revenue, stated
that Bray's house had been searched, and fifty-six boxes
of foreign cigars and seven and a half pounds of loose
ones were found in her bed-room. The evidence being
conclusive, Mr. Rushton imposed a penalty of £lOO. The
woman, who had only just entered the court, then stated
that she was in the habit of washing for a number of cap-
tains who boarded at the house of a man named Cruse,
who had sent the cigars to her house in a basket a minute
before the officers entered. Mr. Chadwick believed in the
statement. Mr. Rushton then asked him why he did not
strike at the greater offender.—Mr. Chadwick :' We can't
reach him.—Mr. Rushton said there was no doubt she
was open to a conviction, but he conceived that it was not
the object of the revenue to proceed in a case in which
probably the defendant was the unwilling instrument of
another; he should, therefore, adjourn the case to the
next day.

CAUTION TO PAWNBROKERS.—Margaret Maguire, a
prostitute, was charged with having stolen a coat and a
vest belonging to a sailor, named Moore. The man in-
cautiously accompanied the girl to a brothel in Albion-
street, on Friday night, and on Saturday found himself
unable to leave the house in consequence of his clothes
having been taken away while he was asleep. The clothes
were eventually found at Mr. Little's, pawnbroker. Mr.
Rushton, addressing the pawnbroker said. it was in vain
for him to warn them, they still continued to take in clothes
from brothels where sailors were stripped and turned out
of doors ; pawnbrokers had no business to take sailors'
clothes in. He ordered the articles to be given up, and
the girl discharged, there being no evidence that she had
pledged the clothes.
ROBBING A PARENT.—Mary Jones and Sarah Worrall,
two girls, the former not more than fourteen years of
age, were charged with having stolen a quantity of wear-
ing apparel, belonging to the prisoner, Jones', father, a
decent mechanic, who stated that Worrall was employed
by him to execute some needle-work at his house, and
that she had taken the opportunity of corrupting his
child, who had taken his clothes, and with the proceeds
both girls took a jaunt to Manchester. They were
remanded for seven days.