The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-11 00:00:00

YESTERDAY,

ffrABBING.—This um-]'English offence appears to be on
the increase in Liverpool as well as other places. Two
severe cases came before Mr. Rushton yesterday. In
each case the unfortunate men were unable to attend, and
the hearing was consersiently aclfourned.
IRrsu BEGGAICS..--Its usual. a number of'squalid crea-
tures were brought up,charged with having been taken in
the act of begging. Almost without exception they were
natives of Ireland, and were unanimousin refacing to be
passed home. The alternative accepted was twenty-one
days' imprisonment.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—TWO ilhlooking fellows, named
George Evans and William Hussey, were placed in the
dock,- charged with having been concerned in a street rob-
bery. On Thursday night last, Mr. Ralph Le?land, a
respectable master carter, was attacked in Reay-st7eet by
four fellows, who knocked him down and took from his
person his watch and three pounds ten shillings. The
case was heard on Saturday, upon which occasion two
men were committed ; since then the two prisoners above-
named have been apprehended. They were remarteed is
order to afford time for the police to perfect the evit.*nea
against them.

INFORMATION UNDER ill E SANITARY Acr.—Mr. Fresh.
the Inspector of Nuisances, with Higgins, one of his
officers, appeared to state a case in which a baker, named
Thomas Phillips, residing in Bolton-street, Copperas-hill,,
was the defendant. Defendant's oven was alleged to be
a nuisance to the neighbouring houses, in consequence of
the excessive heat generated. Mr. Fresh said that Dr.
Duncan should have appeared in the case, and by the
consent of the parties concerned, an arrangement had
been made to adjourn the case for a week, the magistrate
concurring in this arrangement.
ROBBING THE DOCK TRUSTEES.—WiIIiam Faber and
James Owens, two ladn, were charged by a labouring man,
named John Moss, with stealing timber from Wapping,
the property of the Dock Trustees. Committed to prison
fir twenty-one days.
RECOVERY. OF GOODS. STOLEN FROM. WIGAN.—On
Saturday, Constable Grace apprehended a man named
Morris Hitches, in Williamson-square, with 51 yards of
ribbon in his possession, which is supposed to have been.
stolen from Wigan. The man was remanded.
ROBBING Two BLIND MEN.—A. blind man named
John Gillespie charged a fellow. named Robert Kerr with.
having knocked down and robbed him of four shillings
and sixpence. A witness stated that he saw the prisoner
attack the complainant in a most merciless- manner, and
take from him four and sixpence. The prisoner was one
of a gang of sevon fellows who seta upon the complainant
and another blind, man and some-friends in whose charge
they were, at a- late hour on Saturday night in Hopwood-
street, Scotland-road.. Remanded for further evidence.

PICKING POCKSTS.—A girl named Elizabeth.Nwaine,
respectably attired, was charged,with picking pockets on
Saturday last,. in Great Charlotte-street. There were
two cases against her, in one of which she was charged
with having taken fourteen shillings from the pocket of a
gentleman:. the evidence was defective in this case, and
she was sentenced to two months for having picked a
lady's pocket of some copper money. Mary.4Llen Grif-
fiths, another girl, was remanded on a similar charge.
A decent looking woman, named Mary Whitehead, stated
that, on Saturday night, she went to a pawnbroker's
shop, in Highfield-street, to redeem some pledges, with
which she received in change four half-crowns; almost.

as soon as she had deposited the money in her pocket.
she felt a band withdrawn from Utr dress, and imme-
diately the girl who had been standing by her side dis-
appeared, and with her the four half crowns. Her re-
mand was occasioned by the necessity far ftytherinfor-
matian.

ATTEMPTED BURGLARY.—WiIIiam Napier and Peter
Duff, two young thieves, were charged with having broken
into the office of Messrs. T. B. and W. Troughton, the
I well-known lime-banners of Hill-street, Harrington. A
private watchman, named Battersby, observed a light in
the office about ten o'clock on Sunday night, and imme-
diately ran to kneel: up Mr. Clements, a clerk in the ser-
vice of Messrs. Troughton, who reside in the immediate
vicinity of the yard. Mr. Clements at once returned with
Battersby, and after taking some little precaution to,pre-
vent the escape of the parties inside. Mr. Clements entered
the yard ; at the same moment Battersby saw the prisoner
Napier scale, the wall, which is nearly 20 feet high. He,
however, contrived to escape for the moment, but was
afterwards. taken by one of thr constables. Duff was ap-
prehended in his lodgings yesterday morning by Storey ;
he was identified by, a boy who saw him running from the
yard at the moment of the discovery of the robbery. The
office when entered by Mr. Clements yip found to be in
a state of disorder ; the key of a safe was removed from
the bottom office to the room above. On. the person of
gapier a number of other keys were found, which, in the
hurry of their precipitate retreat, the thieves carried off.
The keys had evidently been taken for the purpose of
gaining access to the different drawers and desks in the
office. Both prisoners were committed for trial.—The
thieves had gained admission to the office by unlocking
the door by means of a skeleton key, which,, with other
similar keys was found in the yard where they had. been
left by the thieves.

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