The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

On Tuesday, Miss Martha Ilelsby applied to the magis-
trates to cancel the indenture of one of her pupils, Miss
Hannah Evans, a pupil teacher at St. Clement's School,
Windsor, on account. of disobedience of orders and refrac-
tory conduct. After a long investigation the indenture
was cancelled.

On Tuesday, Michael Murray, an:lrishman, was charged
with using threatening language towards a Mr. Elliott, of
Waterloo-road, to induce him to forego the prosecution
of a prisoner at the present assizes, who was charged with
breaking a man's skull with a hammer. The prisoner
was ordered to find bail to keep the peace, himself in £3O,
and two sureties of £l5 ; in default to be committed to
gaol.
SMOKE NUISANCE.—On Wednesday, no fewer than
eight informations were laid against the owners of the
Cato, Birkenhead, and Eliza Price, river steamers, plying
between Liverpool and Birkenhead, for not consuming
their smoke. In five cases out of the eight a fine of ss.
and costs was inflicted. Three of the informations were
against the Liverpool Corporation.
On Wednesday, a young man, named James Ellis, was
brought up on suspicion of having stolen two silver forks,
two spoons, and a fish knife, from the residence of the
Rev. W. W. Ewbank, at Everton. The prisoner was
remanded.
A lad, named Mitchell, was, on Thursday, committed
for trial for stealing a valuable gold watch from a Mr.
Black, a merchant, who had been dining out, and was re-
turning through Prescot-street in a state of intoxication.
AN ARTFUL. DODGER.—In the Liverpool Police-court,
on Thursday, a female, named Mary Sadler, was charged
by Messrs. Oakley and Chadwick, Custom-house officers,
with smuggling one gallon and three quarts of whiskey.
The prisoner was a passenger on board the Hercules,
Newry steamer, and had just arrived from Ireland. Sus-
picion having been excited, the prisoner was searched,
when it was discovered that two tin cans were very inge-
niously made to fit the body, suspended from the shoul-
ders, and hanging underneath each arm. The cans were
double cased. The prisoner was fined £lO, or in default
to be imprisoned for one month.
EVENING'S AMUSEMENTS.—Four young gentlemen,
whose names did not transpire, were brought up fur break-
ing windows in Edge-lane on "Wednesday night. An
officer stated that he saw them attempting to twist the
knockers off several doors. They were each fined ss. and
costs for being drunk, and Is. 4d. and costs for breaking
windows.

Two sailors, named John Crome and Richard Muse,
were charged with an assault upon two coloured men, a
steward and seaman on board of the American packet-
ship New World. The complainants said they were pro-
ceeding quietly along Great Crosshall-street, when the
prisoners knocked them down, and made an ineffectual
attempt to steal the watch of one of them. Mr. Rushton
sentenced them to pay a fine of 20s. and costs.
William Gamble, ati ex-police-officer, now a potato
merchant, was charged with throwing a bad potato into
the shop of Mrs. Eliza Scott, a rival dealer in that article,
in Roscoe-lane. Mr. Rushton remarked that Gamble,
being an old police-officer, ought to have known better,
and ordered him to find bail, himself in £2O, and two
and two sureties in £lO each, with twenty-four hours'
notice of bail.

ATTEMPT TO DEFRAUD THE ROYAL INSURANCE COM-
PANY.-At the Police-court, on Friday, Mr. George
Smith, of Scotland-road, tailor and draper, together with
a person called Mark Carson, were brought up on the
above charge. It appeared that Mr. Smith applied to the
Royal Insurance Company for the purpose of effecting a
policy of insurance upon his stock-in-trade and shop fix-
tures. The amount of the policy was £B7O, and the date
of the same was the 15th of May. On the 13th of July
the premises were partially destroyed by fire, and on the
26th he put in a declaration, in which he stated his losses
were over £l5OO for goods, and £5O for fixtures. Three
men, Edwin Roe, William Roe, and Mark Carson, had
been brought up previously, having in their possession a
quantity of woollen cloth, supposed to be stolen. This
charge failed, but it turned out in the evidence that it was
got from Smith's, and that the numbers upon it corre-
sponded to that in his invoices. The two Roes were dis-
charged, but Carson was kept in custody ; and an appli-
cation was made by Mr. Booker for a warrant to arrest
Smith on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Royal In-
surance Company. After much evidence had been gone
into, tending to prove the conspiracy, the prisoners were
remanded until Wednesday.
On Monday a notorious thief, named George Coleman,
alias John Makin, who had been taken into custody by
the Birkenhead police-officers on a charge of felony, whilst
being placed in the police-office, preparatory to being
locked up, coolly walked out of the.office, and has not
since been apprehended.