The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Thursday, Margaret Jones, Ann Fowler, and Te-
rence Murphy, who occupy stalls in St. John's Market,
were severally fined ss. and costs for swearing and using
obscene language in that market on Saturday.
On Wednesday, William Wharton, a carter, was fined
10s. for overloading a horse, so that the poor animal
dropped down dead in consequence of bursting a blood.
vessel.

Same day, George Williams, and three others, were
charged with knocking down a coloured man, cook of a
ship, in Sir Thomas's Buildings, and robbing him of his
watch. Williams was committed for trial.
STEALING HARNESS. - On Saturday, a man named
Warner, was committed for trial, charged with stealing a
set of gig harness, two saddles, and other articles, from
the stables of Mr. Newman, in Edge-lane. Mr. Rushton
commented strongly about Mr. Abraham, a car-owner,
having bought the harness from the prisoner at a price
much below its value.

EMBEZZLEMENT.—A young man, of respectable ap-
pearance, named William Moreland, was brought up on
Saturday, charged with embezzling at various times,
£650, belonging to Messrs. Blundell and Sons, coal
dealers and merchants, of Liverpool, Manchester, and
Preston. The prisoner absconded to America, and the
Guarantee Society made good his defalcations to the
amount of £421 6s. Mr. Rushton ordered the prisoner
to be sent to Manchester.

On Friday, John Smith was committed for trial, on a
charge of having stolen three coats from no fewer than
three shops. When apprehended he wore one of the
coats ; the other two he had pledged.—Patrick M`Gerri-
gan was committed for trial for stealing 221 b. of bacon
from the house of Elizabeth Maclean, of Rose Vale. He
had managed to creep upon his hands and knees noise-
lessly into the cellar, and got clear off with his booty, un-
til perceived running across some fields close by, when lie
was followed and captured.
CHILD STEALING.—An aged and forbidding-looking
woman was brought up on this now uncommon
charge. The mother, with her child in her arms ta very
pretty and interesting-looking girl, three years of age,)
stated that, about eleven o'clock on Thursday morning,
she missed the child from the door, where she hcd seen it
a few minutes before. After searching in every direction,
and giving notice to the police of her loss, the child could
not be found, nor was anything heard of it until that
morning, when, being advised to go to the sheds in
Brownlow-hill, the prisoner was there found with the
childlin her possession. She was remanded.

ALLEGED USE OF THREATENING LANGUAGE TO THE
MANAGER OF THE WOODSIDE FERRY.-At the Birken-
head police-court, on Thursday, before the Rev. Mr.
Fielden, Mr. George Wade, junior, paper dealer of this
town (but who resides at Birkenhead), appeared to answer
a summons issued against him at the instance of Mr.
Rudd, the head manager of the Woodside Ferry, to the
effect that. he (the defendant) had, on the 22d February
used language to Mr. Rudd calculated to provoke a breach
of the peace, contrary to the Birkenhead Improvement
act. Mr. Conway, barrister, appeared for Mr. Rudd, and
Mr. Dodge, solicitor, for Mr. Wade. Mr. Conway stated
the case. The summons, he said, was taken out under
the Birkenhead local act (6th Vic.) which empowered that
court to inflict a penalty of 40s. and costs, if the offence
charged were proved. On the night of the 21st Feb., it
being then very stormy, Mr. Rudd gave orders at the
ferry that if the storm did not abate the boats were to stop
running after 2 a.m. next morning, and should not again
run until 5 a.m. The storm (he continued), not abating,
the boats ceased running as directed. The defendant and
his wife, it appeared, had occasion to remain in Liverpool
till a late hour, and not reaching the landing stage until
shortly after 2, a.m., were no doubt inconvenienced by
finding no boat went across until five o'clock. Next day
defendant went to Mr. Rudd's office, and made use of the
language complained of.—Thos. Nicholls, bookkeeper at
the ferry, being called, said he remembered an altercation
that morning between the two parties, but admitted he
was not present the whole time. He had not a perfect
recollection of all that was said. He heard the words
" d—d fellow ; d—d thing," and presumed the words
were used to Mr. Rudd. He did not hear Mr. Rudd'
reply, or what he said at all ; he heard only what Mr
Wade said. Other wore

s passed

in the office, but he

could not remember them. On cross• examination, he
said he could not swear that Mr. Rudd did not say to Mr.
Wade " I don't care a d--n for you or your wife either !"
Mr. Dodge remarked that the witness had a very conveni-
ent memory.—Ambrose, a police-officer, said he heard the
row, and also heard Mr. Rudd say that the bcats were to
run if the weather permitted. Mr. Wade said he and his
wife had bcon kept throo hours and a half un the lantlhw-
stage, all through Mr. Rudd, and that "the commission-
ers were a d—d set of composed imposters, and that he
(Rudd) was at the head of them ;" "a d—d fellow like
him." In cross-examination he said he had no need to
take a memorandum of the words, as he had a capital
memory ! He did not hear Mr. Wade complain about the
boats.—Mr. John Moss said he was on the slip during the
fracas, and the first words he heard were " It's a lie, sir !"
Both the parties were much excited, and Rudd said, " If

you repeat that I'll take notice it in another way."
Mr. Wade then told him, " your conduct [in stopping
the boats] is actuated by a contemptible caprice, sir." He
also charged him with being a public servant, and said,
" You are my servant, and the servant of the ratepayers,
sir."—Mr. Thos. Williams Lloyd heard the words, " It's
a lie." Mr. Rudd walked up about half a step towards
Mr. Wade, with his arms raised in a boxing attitude ;
but he drew back again, saying, " 1 had a very great mind
to take the law in my own hands, but I won't now : I will
take another way of it." The night preceding was boister-
ous up to about 11 or 12 o'cleck.—Mr, Wood, the sub-
manager of the ferry, spoke to the orders given by Mr.
Rudd. It blew fresh till half-past 12 ; but it was more
moderate at four o'clock.—Mr. Dodge (who called no
witnesses) regretted that Mr. Rudd (who was in court)
had not been put into the witness box; for, had the
learned gentleman on the other side done so, he (Mr.
Dodge) would have no difficulty in at once proving that
the conduct of Mr. Rudd, so far from meriting the
sympathy or support of that court, was such as to bring
upon him the censure of all peaceable men. Had he been
placed in the witness box—he alone, of all the witnesses,
who could speak to the whole of the facts—such a case
would have been established as would have led to the
instant dismissal of the summons. Mr. Conway had
taken a wise course, deeming it better to keep that gentle-
man sitting beside him. He did not intend to justify
anything Mr. Wade had said in a moment of passion ; for
Mr. Wade himself much regretted it, though the provo-
cation was assuredly great. The fact was, that being put
to inconvenience by being so long detained on the stage
during the night, notwithstanding the boats were adver-
tised in the Standard (produced) and other papers to run
every hour; he had called in a gentlemanly manner to
remonstrate with Mr. Rudd, and was treated with great
rudeness, which provoked him to retaliate. He left the
case in the hands of the court, in the assurance that the
smallest coin in the realm would be a sufficient penalty to
meet the justice of the case.—The Magistrate remarked
that it certainly was extraordinary that Mr. Rudd had
not himself been examined, and the detention of Mr.
Wade so long on the stage was enough to excite the ire
of that gentleman ; but an apology for the language
uttered being made, he put it to the parties whether it
would not be the best course, as between gentlemen, to
let the case drop where it was.—Mr. Rudd declined to do
so unless the defendant paid all the costs.—Mr. Dodge
said he would prefer taking the judgment of the court to
any such compromise.—After some further conversation,
the bench decided upon fining Mr. Wade one shilling.—
The parties then left the court.—[We think the magistrates
might have been very well spared from adjudicating on
such a case as this. The officials of the Birkenhead Com-
missioners appear very thin-skinned, but they are not
likely by any such exposures as the above to conciliate the
public in their favour.]

YESTERDAY

CHARGE OF ROBBERY OF MONEY.—Catharine Smith,
a young woman, was charged by a woman calling herself
Mrs. Vizard, the wife of a labourer, (but whose real name
is Connor,) with havina robbed her of £3 16s. 6d. The
complainant said that she lived at 15, Hodson-street, and
that the prisoner was her servant. Her allß.gation was,
that the prisoner broke open a box in one of, the rooms,
and, after abstracting the money, had left the house. The
complainant seized her by the throat, and £1 4s. 6d. was
found upon her. The depositions were taken, preparatory
to the prisoner being sent for trial ; but being asked what
she had to say, it came out, from her story, that the com-
plainant kept a house of ill fame, and that the probability
was that the money was the result of a robbery of some
one (of which prisoner had taken her share) ; the court re-
manded the case, so that inquiry might be made, and that
if possible any party who may have lost the money may
be found.

STEALING FOWLS.—A rough-looking youth, named
Patrick Rowan, was charged with having stolen seven
domestic fowls from the premises of Mr. Jonathan Braith-
waite, publican, Peach-street, on Sunday. The prisoner
was seen in the street, and was then carrying two dead
fowls in his hand. On finding himself observed, he drop-
ped the birds, and made off ; but was soon captured.
Other dead fowls were found on the cellar steps of the
house where he lodged. When taken, his hands were
covered with blood. It appeared that the fowls had been
stolen alive from the place where they were kept, and that
the prisoner had drawn their necks, or otherwise killed
them. He was committed for trial.

ROBBERY OF A WAICH, 8;c.11 young man, named
Joseph Devaney, was charged by a coloured man, named
Thomas Potts, cook of the ship Jonathan, with receiving
his watch and other property knowing the same to have
been stolen. The complainant had gone on the 11th inst.l
into a certain house kept by a person named Sweeney,. in
Spitalfields, and remained for the night. In the morning
he missed his gold watch, worth £lO or £l2-.a coat which
had cost him £3, and 17s. 4d. in money. In the morning
he found all the parties had left it,. The RrISCRet WNW h.