The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-13 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE.-=WEDNESDAY.

A GIiNTLEM AN'S' DINNER.—John George Smith, a young
man, dressed in a reduced fashionable costume, was put to the
bar, charged with having, contrary to the laws of the realm, ob-
tained meat and drink under false pretences. ~
Mrs. Casson,. the respectable landlady of a public-house in
Redcross-strect, appeared as the complainant, and was about to
state her case' when her solicitor saved her that trouble, by do-
iug it inore.crilmly for her._ The prisoner at the bar, according
to his account,-ei:terea Mrs. Casson's tavern the preceding day,
and, haring seated himself in her best•-parlour,pulled off his.
gloves, stretched his arms, drew himself up opposite the fire, and
rang the bell. The waiter answering the tinkling summons was
ordered to bring in dinner; there was nothing but boiled chicken
iu the house, for the ordinary had been previously diapatched in the
ordinary way. This was no 4linner for a gentlera a ii; bu onsTerroos,
the chicken appeared and disappeared in the "twi king of a
bed-Post," as my Lord Duberley would say. The supply eing ina-
dequate to the demand, the guest ordered seine fried kidney-, and
these having produced that delightful state of satisfactiln which
eventuates in a vawn, he ordered some wine.:," Let it be Malled,"
said he, "for ram a gentleman;" and llii.emine was anuiled, fit
for any gentleman's palate. After dinner came another itretch_
of his 'fine attenuated figure, _and after the stretch the bill,. the
whole bill, and nothing but the bill, was produced; but,itiOn,
Mr. John George Smith, like sundry other great men, had no
assets—he had only,. one solitary .shilling, which was the more
valued inasmuch sit was'his last. Mrs. Casson did not speak
words of comfort; she got angry. Mr. Smith grew indignant, •
and demanded to be accommodated with a bed for the night,. as he
could discharge his bill in the morning; but Mrs. Casson's g.en-
' teel lodgers demurred to Mr. John George Smith's retention,
and accordingly he was handed over to a constable, and his
present position was the 'necessary consequence.
Mr. Smith did not deny the nature of -his taste or the extent
of his appetite, but promised to. pay 45. 6d., Mrs. Casson's bill,
and on that promise he was discharged forthwith.
A FRACAS IN Comer.—Mary Foley, an Emeralder; who held
in her arms a laughing little likeness of her beloved husband,
Paddy Foley, was brought 'up on warrant to keep the peace to
Mrs. M'Laughlin, as well as to all others the subjects of our
sovereign lord the king.
Mrs. 117'Laughlin sells soda, unties, hams, and dipped can-
dles, in a court in Dale street, and Mrs. Foley was one of her
customers. On the preceding day, according to Mrs. M'Laugh-
lin, she came into her shop to buy a ha'porth of "solder,"
which, being interpreted, means soda, used by laundresses.
Mrs. M'Laughlin said she had no solder for sale, at which Mrs.
Foley got very. angry; but her anger did not prevent her from
coining in again to buy a knuckle of ham, touching the weight
of which there was a dispute, on which Mrs. Foley flung the
knuckle of ham at Miss Ikl`Laughlin, and otherwise abused
her.
". Plase, gintlemen," said Mrs. Foley, " hear me :—Yester-
day I wiut into Mrs. Wlestighlin's shop for a ha'perth of
and Mary there was then-ahind the, counter. 'Arrah, be
afther given us a ha'porth of solder,' says I. We haven't
any,' said she. How can you say. that,' says I; seeing
you have enough of it there in the windy.' That's for our-
selves,' says she. Oh, very well,". says I, sure an I- can
get a ha'porth at any place ;' and thong God I'm not behelden
to her a ha'penny. 'Well, as I was thiukin of dinner, I went
into the shop agen, and says I, Mary,' says I, weigh that
knuckle of hate for me;' ant it wasn't weight. ' Mary,' says
I; 'tisn't weight.' "Fis,' says she. "fisn't,' says I, an
• I won't take it.' You shall,' says she, and wid'out more
ado, she ups wid,the unest and flung it out aft her me. I took it up,
to be sure, and flung it in at her, and I b'lieve it hit her in the
face, and that's all, ) our honours."
Here MiA Mary entered on a contradiction, stating that Mrs.
Foley flung, in addition to the ham, the carving knife at her.
"Here are all my witnesses," said Mrs. M'Laughlin, pointing
.to- a crowd of female testimony, who stood wan and pale behind
her. "And here are mine," cried Mrs. Foley, referring to an
equal amount of fair evidence. Upon this, all parties began to
speak together, amid the din of which the magistrate announced
that the prisoner was to find bail. "Won't you hear my wit-
nesses?" exclaimed Mrs. Foley, resisting the attempt oCAins-
worth, the constable, to put her down. "Hear my witnesses !"
she cried, and :the faint and emphatical cry of " witnesess,
nisses-es,s" was heard for several minutes, to the great amuse-
ment of a crowded court, from the gaoler's subterranean laby-
rinths.

THURSDAY.
Two reputed thieves, of a most roguish and determined as•
pect, calling themselves Jones and. Johnson, (but whose rca
names are unknown from their having _clanged them at every
commitment for felony,) were brouglitsip- by Ainsworth, the
constable, as suspicious characters. The constable said that he
observed the prisoners lurking about the streets, as he supposed,
for no good purpose, and he took them into custody. On search-
ing Jones, he found a couple-of chisels, evidently made to effect
burglaries. He had met the prisoners together several dell;
before. Johnson, with the utmost -effrontery, said that he was.
perfectly unacquainted with his fellow-prisoner, and had only
been in Liverpool from Leeds three days. He was a carpenter
looking for work. Several of the constables spoke to John-
son's having been seen in company with the most determined
thieves for several months, and his fellow-prisoner, Jones, was
an experiencei hand in a court of justice, and the jailor, on
referring to the hands of Johnson. discovered no signs of
their having handled tools, being apparently more adapted
to picking a pocket. The Mavortold the prisoners it was an
old adage that a man might be known by his tools, and he knew
sufficient of mechanics to convince him, that the make and
sharpening of the chisels were not adapted for carpenter's work.
The prisoner replied, that they were for rough work, which the
Mayor not, being inclined to dopbt, committed both the pri-
soners for three months as rogues and vagabonds.
A young woman was charged with stealing a quantity of
canvas, the property of Messrs. Bateson and l?orsfall. Lloyd,
the constable, saw the prisoner carrying h bundle in the street,
and suspecting all was not right, asked her where she got it
from; she refuied to state, and he consequently took her into
custody, and found that the canvas bore the mark of Bateson
and Horstall. A porter from Messrs. Bateson anti Co., proved
the robbery, and stated such robberies were very frequent, and
the Mayor committed the prisoner for trial, observing that he
had some knowledge of her, he and Mrs. Wright having, from
the prisoner's pitiable tales, been induced to relieve her.
.Anne Jones was charged by a tradesman named Crokelt
with smashing one of his panes of glass, in a fit of intoxica-
tion. The prisoner pleaded as an excuse that she had got drunk
in consequence of burying her aunt !—Ordered to pay 2s. for
being drunk, and the damages.
. William Gamble, alias Bristol Bill, a prize fighter, was charged
by Mr. Price, a publican, with creating a disturbance in bis
house, with intent to commit a felony. T. he complainant stated
that the prisoner on the previous night rushed into his bar and
commenced a disturbance, he believed with an intention to
create a confusion, for the purpose of robbery. The last time
the prisoner was in his house he was robbed of £25, the lease
of his house, and' the licence, but the prisoner could not be
identified as a party in the robbery, although most likely con-
nected with it.
The Mavor.—ls the prisoner known ?
Mr. Parlour.—As a common thief, sir, and a most notorious
rascal; he is called by the flash cognomen of " Bristol Bid," but
his real name is Gamble.
The Mayor told Mr. Gamble, that it appealed necessary to
cut his gambols short for a time, and- committed him for three
months.
Thomas Jones, an apprentice of Mr. Ratcliffe, the tailor, was
charged by his employer with stealing a quantity of cloth, silk,
and other articles, at various times. It appeared from the state-
ment of Mr. Ratcliffe, that he had missed goods at various
times, which he had at length ascertained were pawned by the
prisoner. On oneeiCcasion, the prisoner had been entrusted to
carry home a coat to its owner, and he returned stating that a
man-had met him and taken the coat from him. Since the dis-
covery of his thieving propensities he had admitted the story
about the coat to be false, and acknowledged having stolen it.
He also implicated the parties with whom he lodged as encou-
raging him to steal the articles. The prisoner, however, had
told so.many lies that there was no believing him. After hear-
, ' ing the case, the Mayor remanded the prisoner until this day,
in order to give an opportunity of discovering the stolen pro-
.- nerty.

Finis.—On Tuesday morning last, about half-past two o'clock,
a fire was discovered to have broken out upon the premises of
Messrs. Ashton and Ginn, shipbuilders, Waterloo-road. The
watchman on the district was the first to discern the fire, which
broke out in the smithy, and threatened destruction to the sur-
rounding property. fie immediately gave the alarm, and the
engines were shortly upon the spot, as were the active superin-
tendents of police and watch, Messrs. Parlour and Whitty.—
Notwithstanding the speedy arrival of the engines, they were
some timul.aefore they could be brought to play, in consequence
of the great. want of water which was felt. - The buildings in
that neighbourhood, it appears, are newly erected, and. the
water-plugs were so far'distant hat it was found expedient to
place the engines in a connecting line with the water-plug, and
by these means, after stoma delay, a sufficient quantity of water
was procured, and the fire got under, but not until the forge,
the counting-house, stables, and shipbuilder's materials were en-
tirely destroyed.