The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-16 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Thursday, the keeper of a night cellar, in Sherwood-
street, named Davies, was fined £5 or a months imprison-
ment for smuggling a bladder of whiskey from the Cum-
berland steamer.

On Friday William Maxwell was fined £5 for harbour-
ing prostitutes and other disreputable persons at a ball in
Mr. Tuton's rooms, Lime-street. A police-officer de-
scribed the disgusting scene he witnessed in the place.
How THIEVES ARE TRAINED.—A middle-aged woman
was charged, on Wednesday, with having a quantity of
cotton in her possession which was supposed to have been
stolen. A police-constable had seen the prisoner stand-
ing under a railway arch, in Edmund-street, and noticed
that she had received the cotton from a number of little
boys, who took it to her in small quantities from the carts
passing along, Mr. Rushton committed the prisoner for
twenty-one days.

BlGAMY.—OnWednesdayarespectable-looking middle-
aged man, named Buckley. s shipwright, was brought up
on a charge of bigamy. On the 15th February, 1820, the
prisoner was married in St. Peter's Church to Sarah Ann
Thompson, and on the 21st January, 1848, he married
Julia Rourke in St. James's Church. Witnesses to both
marriages were present in court. The prisoner's two
wives were also in court, and seemed to be on friendly
terms with each other. Buckley was committed for trial
at the assizes.
STRANGE APPLICATION.—On Tuesday Mr. Rushton
granted a summons on the application of a young woman
against the captain of a ship which arrived here on Sun-
day week. The complainant said that she went on board
the vessel at New York to see a female friend, and that
the captain forced her into the cabin, and would not allow
her to go ashore, and consequently she was brought to
this port. On Friday the captain appeared to answer the
summons, but the complainant was non est inventus, and
the summons was therefore dismissed.

On Saturday a young man and woman, both Irish,
were brought up, having been found concealed, the for-
mer in a flour barrel, and the latter in a box, on board
the American emigrant ship James H. Shepherd. It was
stated by a gentleman from the office of Messrs. Tapscott
and Co., emigration agents, that the prisoners were acci-
dentally discovered as described, and that they narrowly
escaped being run through with a spear, which was being
applied to the packages. The woman was nearly suffo-
cated when taken out of the cask. The prisoners had
paid £1 each to a man to be thus stowed away. The fel-
low not being in "ustody, the prisoners were remanded.
UNFOUNDED CHARGE OF PERJURY.—On Thursday,
the attention of Mr. Rushton was occupied for several
hours in investigating a charge of perjury, preferred
against a respectable young man named James Newall, of
Nottingham, by Mr. William Blackwell, an upholsterer
of that town. Mr. Snowball appeared to prefer the
charge, and Mr. Pemberton defended the prisoner.. The
charge arose out of an action (Cooper v. Blackwell) on a
guarantee tried at the late assizes, on which occasion the
prisoner swore that the guarantee then produced, indem-
nifying the plaintiff, Mr, Charles Cooper, attorney, of
Manchester, for the expenses of bringing certain actions,
was in the hand-writing of the defendant, William Black-
well. At the close of the case, Mr. Rushton said that he
could not believe the testimony of Blackwell, who swore
that he never signed the guarantee, but on his signature
being shown to him, said that it had never been read over
to him. The young man was honourably acquitted.

ASSAULT ON A SWINDLE 2.-011 'i'hursday, Consi-
derable disturbance was created in the neighbourhood of
the Waterloo Dock by a number of porters, who com-
menced an attack on a negro named Williams, whose
swindling propensities are well known to the police of
Liverpool. It appears that Williams had been engaged
as passengers' cook on board the ship William Rathbone,
and in this capacity introduced himself to a respectable
female, a passenger on board the ship. Having learned
that she had a considerable sum in English gold coin, he
advised her to get it changed for American money, in
order to avoid a serious loss at the other side of the
Atlantic. Acting on this advice, and accompanied by
Williams, the woman proceeded to an exchange-office in
the neighbourhood of the docks, and was there changing
her money, when a number of porters, who knew Wil-
liams's character, and suspecting that his intentions were
not very disinterested, interfered, and struck Williams,
who would have been worse treated but for the arrival of
the police. One of the porters was taken into custody,
and Williams was detained until it was ascertained that no
deception had been practised on the female. Subsequently,
on the representation of the police as to his character,
Williams was discharged from the William Rathbone.
OVER FASTIDIOUSNESS.—At the Police-office, on Fri-
day, Ann Hargreaves appeared to answer the complaint
of two inspectors of Gill-street market, who stated that
the defendant had been summoned for having occupied a
stall in the market, for which she did not pay rent. It
transpired that some other parties in the market occupied
a plurality of stalls, and that the person holding the next
stall to the defendant was willing to resign it to her; but
the superintendent of the market objected, his reason
being, according to the statement of the informants, that
Mrs. Hargreaves. exposed offal upon it, held to be in

contravention of the 24th by-law. This offal was stated
to be heads, hearts, liver, 87c. Mr. Rushton having read
the by-law referred to, said there might be a question as
to the construction of it. One of the inspectors said the
summons had been caused in consequence of the defendant
selling offal, which the superintendent said looked so bad.
Mr. Rushton (smiling) : " Look so bad ! Why, does it
look worse than anything else ? Do you not think poor
people like cows' heads and hearts ? (To the defendant) :
It seems these gentlemen's sense of propriety is offended
by the sight of cows' heads and hearts ; but if you had
been brought here merely for that, I should have dismissed
the information ; but you are clearly wrong in putting
them on a stall that does not belong to you ; but why these
fastidious gentlemen should find fault with the sight, I do
not know." A fine of ls. was enforced.