The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-10 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE.-SATURDAY.

Hill Newell, a youth about thirteen years of age, in the ernS
ploy of Messrs. Heap and Sons, wholesale grocers, was charged
with embezzling the soda of 1:5 195., the monies of his employer.
The clerk to Messrs. Heap stated that on Tuesday last he gave
the prisoner the keys of the safe, and desired him to fetch an
article he wanted therefrom, which he did, and he then sent him
on an errand to Mr. Ewart's, but the prisoner did not return,
and on examining the safe he discovered that £5 19s. had been
stolen ; since which time, until Friday, the prisoner had ab-
sented himself from his hone and his emplOyinent. Witness
trletovith him on Friday, in bad compauy, near Williamson-
square, and took him into custody. '1 he money was not found
upon him. •
Mr. Heap stated that he was not in the habit of keeping
much cash in his safe, but this was loose silver he had placed
there the night befoi e.
The boy denied having taken the money, and said, in his de-
fence for absenting himself, that he had been reading the ship-
ping list in the office, and saw that some ships were going to New
York, and, as he had been there betere, he thought he could go
again. The Mayor said that he should remand him until he
furnished some account of the money.—Remanded accordingly.
HOUSE STEALING!—An idle, disorderly lad, named Williams,
was brought before. the .Mayor, charged by a constable with
being found in an empty house, demolishing the interior. The
constable stated that it had become a practice with the idle and
disorderly boys, who get their living by thieving, to break into
empty houses and pull down the materials, which they carried
away piecemeal, and great complaints.had been made of their
proceedings by the owners of houses. Several persons who had
suffered in this way, who were in court, corroborated the con-
stable's statement. The Mayor said lie was perfectly aware that
this species of robbery was carried to a considerable extent,
being himself a sufferer by it. It was only lately that a house of
his, worth £l6 a-year, had been demolished, even to the roof, and
carried away by these young robbers. The ease was fully proved,
and the May or held the prisoner to bail, which, not being able to
procure, he was committed.
A Welsh butcher, named Williams, charged a ruffianly Irish-
man, named Byrne, with nviolent assault, committed under the
following circumstances :--The butcher stated, that he was in a
druggist's shop in the Vauxhall-road, when a female, out of
breath, rushed into the shop, followed by the prisoner, who de-
manded from her a pint of ale. . Witness asked the female, a
respectable looking woman, if she owed him a pint of ale, who
replied that she did not, and never saw the man before in her
life, but that he had chased her for about half-a-mile, asking for
ale, and she was at length obliged to take refuge from his violent
behaviour and threats. Witness desired the fellow,to go about
his business, and took the woman under his protection down the
street, when the prisoner came up and struck him a blow on the
face,_ which cut him severely. He then procured assistance, and
took the prisoner to Bridewell.
' The Mayor asked. the prisoner what he had to say for such
unmanly and disgraceful conduct. •
The prisoner said he was drunk, and did not recollect any-
thing of the matter.
The Mayor said he would teach the prisoner that the plea of
drunkenness was no excuse for his disgraceful conduct. ' He
regretted to-find that drunkenness was so prevalent, and he be-
lieved that almost every crime that came before him might be
traced to that vice. - Ile then sentenced the prisoner to pay a
fine of fifty shillings, or be committed for two months.
A nother case of violent assault;coininitted by a ruffian named
Padmore, who was stated by -Batchelor, the gaoler, to be the
terror of the neighbourhood in which, he resides, next came on
for hearing. It appears that the prisoner was indecently standing
near the shop of Mr. Jones, a grocer, in the -Scotland-road,
when the servant was cleaning the steps. The'giil desired him
to go away, when he teak up the bucket she was using and threw
the contents over her. The girl then ran into the house, but
was pursued by the prisoner, who began kicking her. Mr. Jones
hearing a noise in the kitchen, ran in and seized the prisoner,
who, hOwever, managed to get him on the.tloor, and also kicked
- him severely on the side. Others shortly came to his assistance,
.and the prisoner was secured and taken to Bridewell. This
prisoner, in his defence, said he was drunk. The Mayor fined
the prisoner in the full penalty of £5; and, in default of payment,
committed him for two months to the House of Correction.