The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-17 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE.-WEDNESDAY.

SATURDAY.
James Williams, an individual of questionable character, was
placed at the bar charged with stealing a loaf of bread under
the following circumstances :—lt appeared that the prisoar savv
a carter standing in the street with a cart laden with bread, in-
tended to be taken into the country. He entered into conver-
sation with the carter, and induced him to take some-liquor,
during which time he jumped into the cart and stole the loaf.
He was detected, and several persons came forward to state that
the prisoner had previously been seen attempting to rob a female
in the streets the same evening. The prisoner, in his defence,
said "he was drunk," and imagine?' at the time it was a loaf that
he had purchased. In order to give an opportunity of bringing
witnesses forward against the prisoner for other offences, the
Mayor remanded him.—All the cases that came before the court
to-day' wlpe entirely void of interest.

MONDAY.

A nymph of nave, ciilliiii;rself Olivia Saunders, was
charged by a gentleirrav from the sister country with robbing
hire of his watch in the street the night previous. The corn-
nlainant stated his case, which appeared to be conclusive against
the prisoner, but he said that, being intos:irat.d at the time, he
thought that it was as much his fault as her's ; in consequence of
which Sir George Drinkwater discharged the prisoner with a
severe reprimand.
Robert \Vardleworth, a fellow whose appearance was perfectly
consistent with the character given him by the police,—that of
a determined scoundrel, was brought before the sitting magis-
.trate chared with knocking an old man on the head in the
street, and rifling his pockets. A watchman stated that he saw
the prisoner following the complainant in Byrom-street„ and
knowing him to be nothing better than he ought to be, he
ivatched his motions, and perceived him tracing the old man's
steps up Shaw's-brow, -and when near a gateway knocked him
down. and commenced rifling his pockets. He (the watchman)
-immediately went up, and heard the complainant say " that he
had no more money." He seized the prisoner and took him
into custody. The complainant, who said that he was perfectly
sober at the time, corroborated the statement of the watchman,
and the prisoner was committed for trial.

A disorderly female, named Thomson, was charged by a
watchman with lying speechless in the gutter, making a great
noise, on the night previous.- Expressing her penitence, the
prisoner was diserharged.

Lloyd, the constable, brought up a man in a seaman's dress,
who had been imposing up_on the benevolent of Evcrton as "a
shipwrecked mariner." Lloyd stated that whenever a wreck
took place, the prisoner, and others of a similar character, made
a practice of imposing themselves upon the public as a portion
of the crew "providentially saved.' The prisoner, promising
not to offend again, was discharged.
Jathes Watt, the sailor alluded to last week a 3 being re-
manded until to-day for smuggling tobacco from the ship
Augusta, was again brought before the Mayor, when Mr.
Brooks, the excise .solicitor, stated the facts, which have pre-
viously appeared, and the case being-fully made out against
him, he was convicted in the penalty of £lOO.
There wore no less than seventy persons "on the. books"
this morning, but the cases altogether did not possess the
Slightest interest, and the majority were for being disorderly in
the streets.