The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-13 00:00:00

LI VERPOUL POLICE.

TUkSijA.T.—(Befoie Mr. Alderman Waintre.)
llsteeraceo,RoneettY.---s-A. man named Willidm.Barneri wia
Shared - by Mr. EL Moss, ion of Mr. Elias Mois,.pawnbroker,
with having stolen 13-pieces of India handkerChies, and other
articles, the preperty.of the latter. Hugh Peril, .1. lienshull,
IL Green, Mary Green? Mary Green, jun., and aviary Hughes,
were charged with having received the same, knowing them to
have been-stolen. Mr. H. Moss stated that the prisoner Barnes
got his living by renovating and cleansing worn or soiled ap-
parel, in which avocation he had been for the first time em-
ployed by his (Mr. Moss's) father about a fortnight age.. tie
was placed to work in a room where were stowed a great num-
ber of miscellaneous articles, and amongst the rest a large
quantity of India silk handkerchiefs. He finished his eark on
Friday. last, and returned on the following Saturday fer his
wages. Mrs. Moss, having at this time missed a table cloth
from the kitchen,' mentioned the circumstance to her son, who
had also missed some jackets and waistcoats from the room
where the prisoner had been working. This set him uptin ex-
amining more closely into this matter, vr'nen he dis Covered that
handkerchiefs; to a considerable value had been purloined. He
immediately caused an inquiry to be set on foot, and it was not
long before he received information that a great number of
handkerchiefs had been purchased by the prisoners who bore
the name of Green. Having procured the co-operation of the
Public officers, he went to the house of the last-named parties,
and there found Mr. and Mrs. Green and their daughter.
Having explained their' business, witness heard Mrs. Green
whisper to her husband "there is nothing," undo which the
latter led the way through the apartments. 'When they ar-
rived at-the chamber; the officers searched the bed and found
within it several silk handkerchiefs which' he (witness) knees to
he the property of his father. On a chest he saw lying one of
the waistcoats which had been missed from the room in which
the prisoner was put. to work. On the chimney-piece in this
chamber stood a vase, the orifice of which was not of greateedi-
ameter than a sixpence. This vase was examined, and ulti-
matelyleoken, when it was found that a handkerchiefharl been
with incredible pains stuffed into it. At this time the prisoner
Henshall entered the apartment and identified himself with the
transaction by claiming the vest as the property of his father.
Herishall and the family of the Greens were instantly secured,
and the officers then returned and took Barnes into custody:
Barnes acknowledged that he had taken twenty-one handlters
chiefs to the house of Henshall. They then went to the house
of the prisoner Mary Hughes, where they found' a number of
handkerchiefs and tickets for others which had been pawned.
Here also they found another of the waistcoats and a piers of
cloth. All these articles were identified by Mr. Moss as his
father's property. Mary Williams, Mary Roberta, Catharine
Parry,•and Eliza Butterfield corroborated' the evidence aoainst
the above-mentioned prisoners by preying that they hadiir-
cliased seyeraleif the stolen..handkesechiel's from the4s'forls.-6d-:'
each. The value at which Mr. Moss estimates them is about 3s.
each, so that the value purloined iu handketChiefs ;done, during
the abort period that Barnes was employed would be Aunt-Ma
138. The prisoners Hugh Parry and Mary Green, jun., Were\
discharged, no evidence appearing to crienuate them. The •
others were committed to take their trial at the. sessions now
holding at Kirkdale.
A .LA DIES QUARREL.—Jane Cattrall, the Wife of a car4iwner,
was placed at the bar charged with an assault and battery under
the following circumstances:--Charlotte Carter, a modest and
genteel-looking young woman, stated that she had ridden from.
Wootton on the coach in company with the prisoner, who wit; a 1
total stranger to her. They and souse whets had descended from
the coach, near the monument in London-road. The prisoner .1
in descending fell beneath the wheel, when she, complainant,
had called cut to her to take care. Upon this the prisoner arose
and rushed at her with the utmost fury, nor did she quit her till
she had rolled her in the dirt, torts her bonnet and cap, and
poured upon her .a torrent of .the most abusive language. At
length; at the climax of her vengeance, she kicked her upon the
head, and having seized her umbrella made off with it.--Magis-
trate: "Had-no words passed between you previous to this."—
Complainant: "None, sir. A young man who was sitting on
the coach took off his hat to take out his pocket handkerchief,
and happened to touch her with the bat, upon which she ac-
cused nttn or attempttng to take liberties with her, and con-
tinued to abuse him all the way." The prisoner said that she
and her husband were sitting on the front of the coach with the
driver when a young man who sat behind, next to the Com-
plainant, put his arms round her neck and-wanted to kiss her.
She thought this behaviour very scandalous. She told her hus-
band and he would not take any notice. The behaviour of the
young man had been abominable; he was making love to her
and she was. a Married woman. Here the prisoner began to
weep over the detail of her wrongs, and became so coarse iu
her accusations that they are -unreportable. The young man
alluded to, a decent simple-looking country lad, now stood for-
ward. He stated that he had merely taken off his hat to take
out his pocket handkerchief, when, happening to touch the
prisoner's shoulder with it, she had turned fiercely (spoil him
and accused Isles of an impropriety which had never entered his
head. " For," said the witness. with the greatest simplicity,
" how does your worship think I should want to kiss an ugly
woman like that, whets here was such a pretty young lass as
this sitting beside me ?" (Laughter.) The prisoner gazed
with the eye of a gorgon upon the witness. The latter pro-
ceeded to state that. the prisoner was intoxicated during the
whole ride, and that she had gone on increasing her accusations
from less to snore, and wos king herself into a fury, till, when
they•had alighted at London-road, she had fallen upon the un-
offending complainant, whom she had used most shamefully.
Another witness appeared in .court to corroborate this statement.
The coachman was called on behalf of the prisoner, but his tes-
timony was against her. The complainant produced a silk
gown, a black velvet bonnet, and Some other erticles, all of
which were completely spoiled by the mutt and filth into which
the complainant had been throWn. The damage sustained
amounted to two pounds, which sum the prisoner was ordered
to pay, or to go to the House of Correction for a month.

TAKIaG 111ATTERS EASILY.—A woman named Jane Parr
was charged with having stolen a jacket under the following
circumstances. A drawling Dutchman, named John Peters,
who seemed almost too lazy to support the weight of his own
body, stated as follows :—" I vent into a pohlic-hoze, an dat
voman shtole mine shacket, and run'd avay vid him, and pone
him. I vash tell dat it. rash von vet root hoze, an 1 sit ver com-
fortable, doze to de fire, an I smokes mine pipe, an I not care
far not. nohady 1--t3y irrg, large- masir, tricdirrri itry -or ale Nat
call for—au I like de ale, it wish ver coot. An she come to me,
an she say for the to take off mine 'shacket. An I say no I
vont. Den she say take it off, Lou will be too Term. Zn I take
off mine shacket, and I bay—mine cootness, I hopes flit dish is •
coot hoze, an she say yes. An she ask the to go to under room ;
bete I say, no tang you I vent to shmoko mine pipe and be com-
fortable here beside dish fire vat blaze so nicely. An den she
take mine shacket and say she will go out vid it; an den she
did go out vid it, an she pone it, an Beu I finish mine pipe, -an
I go out to look for to find her, an die toder man find her f,-r
me." Another Dutchman. of livelier spirit, now stepped for-
ward and said, in better English, that the prisoner had played
upon the simplicity of his friend, and had duped him out of his
jacket. The prisoner said that the complainant had himself
sent her with his jacket to pawn for him. Alderman Wright
ordered her to be remanded till she should return the jacket to
the complainant.