The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-09-25 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

TuEs oA Y. —(Before Alderman Sir Thos. Brancker.)
COINING BASE MONEY.—George Calligan, Bridget Calligari;
and Peter Brown were charged with being found in the act of
coining and counterfeiting the money of the realm. Mr. Par-
lour stated that inconsequence of information given him he dis
reeledlsall, one of his officers, to keep a watch upon the Pris
seuer Bridget' Calligau, whOm he bad before known under the
name of Bridget Fitzpatrick. On Wednesday last he gave or•
tiers to Ila!salt and other officers to go to the house of Calligan,
in Fir-place, Charter-street, and take the parties there found
into custody. He had this day received from Halsall the frag-
ments of amould formed of plaister of Paris, two good and one
bad sixpeuce, with the colouring attached to it;. the bad six-
pence was in the state in which base coin is when first taken
frinn the mould; he received also another counterfeit sixpence
in a more finished state, a tobacco pipe with some metal in it,
some metal which had been melted, a paper containing plaister
of Paris, and part of a mould bearing the impression of the ob-
verse aide of a sixpence. He likewise received from Ainsworth,
another officer, a penknife, asmall square file and. the pieces of
a broken cup with metal adhering to them. These articles are
such as are used in the manufacture of base coin. The two
counterfeit sixpences had been cast in the same mould, and
were made of the same kind. of metal as that which he had re-
ceived from Halsall.
Helsel' deposed that on Wednesday last, accompanied by
Ainsworth and other officers, he went to a house in Fir-place;
went up stairs and found the door of the only room on that floor
fastened and forced it open ; some person in the inside pushed
against the door; that person was Bridget Calligan; but he
!pushed her aside when the, door was forced opeu ; the prisoner,
who calls himself George Calligan, was in the room standing
near the fire-place, and stamping upon something' under his
feet; seized, threw him down, and secured him; the prisoner
ran out of the room and down stairs, where he was stopped by
the officers stationed there and brought back. When he had
secured Calligan he examined what he had been stamping upon,
and found the fragments of the mould formed of plaister of
Paris, which bad been produced by Mr. Parlour. On the
chimney-piece he found two good sixpences, and one bad one in
an unfinished state. In the fire he found a tobacco-pipe with
metal in it, and a quantity of melted metal running through the
grate on. to the hearth. In a chamber vessel he found part of a:
mould with:die impression of One side of a sixpence upon it.
Ainsworth, the officer, depoied to the same facts.
Elizabeth Money, the wife of Patrick Money, said that on
Wednesday week Bridget Calligan came to her house and en-
gaged the lodgings for herself and her.lausband,at fifteenpence
a-week. She returned in the evening with George Calligau,
and they lived together as man and wale until away were, taken
intocustody. lid nottefiovi-how they got their ; never
saw the prisoner Brown until he was taken into custody; did
'not go up stairs with the constables.
George Calligan said in his defence, " I was not five minutes
in the roc= ,that morning after being two days and a night
away."
I:ridget Calligan said, " I have fie:husband that I know of;
-I know nothing about the charge; any person might go into'
the room and put anything they liked into the place; there .was
neither lock nor key to the door."
The prisoner. Brown said, "I know nothing at all about it;
I went into the room to borrow a fork."—Conimitted for trial.
DETAINING PROPERTY BELONGING To SEAMEN.--A rough-
looking tar presented himself before the magistrate and bluntly
requested his worship to order a Mrs. Brown, with whom he had
recently lodged for a few days, to deliver up his clothes, which,
he :saiti, she was detaining nuder pretence that he owed her
money, though he had paid her every farthiug she de-
Mended from him when be quitted her house. Mrs. Brown's
son, who appeared for her, said that the clothes were detained
because the complainant refused to pay for a razor' which he
had spoiled. There was also an extra charge for the washing
of souse linen. "That's all just 'cause I wants to is'out to sea,
ver 'otter," said the sailor. Mr. Ellis said that by the mer-
chant seaman's act, lately passed, no person was allowed, an
any pretence whatever, to detsiiti property belonging to seamen,
under a penalty of live pounds. Alderman Sir Thomas Branc-
ker ordered that the clothes should he immediately given up,
and recommended that the parties should endeavour to arrange
amongst themselves the dispute about the small sum (35.6 d.)
alledged to be owing by the seaman, as amicably as possible,
WEDNESDA).—(Before Sir THOMAS BRANCEER and Mr.
Alderman Hoasiat ea.)
CAR-DR WEBS' OVERCH A RGES.—M r. Vapdamitne summoned
Arthur Ebbs, the driver of a car, for an overcharge. He had
.hired the ear at the Prince's Pier-head, from whence he had
been driven to Bedford-street, and from thence back to Ex-
Change-buildings, for which he demanded five shillings. The
fare being only three shillings and fourpence he was ordered to
refund the balance, and fined five shillings, with costs, for the
.extortion.
Mr. John Taylor summoned the driver of one of William
Gardiner's cars for an overcharge. Mr. Taylor engaged the car
eat the top of Water-street, and was driven to his house, No. 17,
Bedford-street, Abercrombie-square; be gave the driver one
shilling and sixpence, which he refused, and demanded two
shillings, and was exceedingly ineolent sbecause he would not
pay snore. Mr. Gardiner, the owner, of the car, appeared and
,declared that the man had not accounted for the fare lie had
received from Mr. Taylor. The magistrate fined the owner
five shillings and costs for the misconduct of his servant. .
A blind woman was sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment
in the House of Correction for begging in Oldhall-street.
Two boys were committed for trial fur breaking open a desk
'and stealing therefrom seven shillings and sixpence, the pro-
perty of Messes. Jones and Parry. of Vauxhall-road.
ROBBERY IN A PCBLIC-110CSE.—TWO men, named James
'Aladdo: and ---e-- Rowlcson, were charged with robbing James
'Riley in a public-house. Riley stated that he arrived from
AMerica in the Catectoiaia on Saturday, and that the prisoners
were fellow-passengers with him in that ship., On the previous
day'he had walked about the town with them, and in the course
of it accompanied them to Sherlock's Hotel, in Bath-street,
_where they had some whiskey and water together. He bad up-
wards of eighty sovereigns iu his pocket. The landlady, find-
ing that Riley had fallen asleep, and understanding- from her
bar-maid that the prisoners were making attempts to rob him,
called in a police-officer and gave them into custody, Maddox
be tisahateacacsiizarn the pcuaket of Riley twen h su.Vcf:e.igns.
,As Rowleeon was not iu the room at the time the- robbery was
'committed he was discharged, and his compauion fully com-
mitted for trial.
John Lingreen, popularly known as "happy Jack," was
charged with an attempt to entice a very interesting little Welsh
boy to rob his employer, who keeps a "shop iu Paiadise-street,
by offering him money for anything he could steal from him.
The boy informed his master, and Lingrcen was taken into
custody near the shop, about which he was loitering. Mr.
Batcheldor said that the prisoner had been, assisted by his wife,
the leader of a gang of thieves for the last sixteen years. The
prisoner said that he was a -rigger, but did not work for any par-
ticular master. After the case had been heard at some length
the prisoner was committed for trial:
Two cowkeepers were summoned before the magistrates for
suffering their cows as they were being driven from the fields to
occupy the foot-path in upper Frederick-street and Sperling-
street. Dodd, the.street-keeper, gave evidence of the fact, but
from an informality in the summons the case was dismissed.
The magistrates intimated to the cowkeepers that the cows could
not be permitted to occupy the footpaths, and that in driving
them through the streets they must take the necessary precau-
tions to prevent them from doing so.
SKAAIHN'S WAGES.— Andrew Willie summoned Captain
William Small, the commander of a ship in the Quebec trade,
for stopping from the amount of wages due to him the sum of
£1 2s. id. Captain Small said that the sailor had complained
of being ill before he left Quebec; that he had offered to ad-
minister to him such medicines as he hail on board, but that the
complainant preferred putting himself in the hands of a doctor
on shore, whose bill he (the captain) had been obliged to dis-
charge. The total amotint claimed by Willie was £3 hi. The
captain handed in a copy of his account against the sailor; to
saine items of, which the letter: took exceptions.. These Sir
Thomas Bmneker decided the magistrates had nothing to do
with. Referring, however, to a recent decision at 'the Thames
Police-office, London: he said that the sum stopped for medical
advice and attendance must be paid to the sailor in full, and
ordered the balance of £3, the sum admitted to be due if the
men had not required medical advice, to be paid.
The other cases' for assaults and other disorderly conduct
were unimportant, and altowe her devoid of any interest.