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

MONDAY

PASSING BASE COIN.—A miserable looking woman, named
Margaret Sayar, who had two equally as wretched looking
children by her side, was charged with having uttered two
counterfeit sixpences in payment for some baeon, purchased
from Susan Mitchell, provision dealer. The charge was fully
oproved against the prisoner, and. Mr. Parlour, the superintendent
f police, informed the magistrate. that a die, for casting the
coin, and other tools for its manufacture, were found in the pri-
soner's house. She was committed for trial.

William Hewitt, a lad about fourteen years of age, was-
charged with robbing a youth, named Lawton, of 3s: 9d. It ap-
peared from the evidence of the complainant that he was sitting
upon the stepS of the Lyceum, in Bold-street, .counting his
wages, when the prisoner came 'up, knocked him down, and ran
away with the money. A gentleman, named Redford, who saw
the transaction, pursued the thief, and took hien. into custody.—
The prisoner then threw the money-into the street. Committed
for one mouth as a vagabond. -
A negro beggar, calling himself " Figaro," who has been
about fifty times before the magistrates for begging in the
streets, and who has refused an asylum in the Workhouse, was
committed to the House of Correction for one mouth, for prac-
tising his calling in Dale,street.
Mr. Ralph Nickson, a young man of respectable appearance,
was placed at the bar, charged by Mr. Rogers, a manufacturer
of Birmingham and Bristol, who also has a shop in Lord-street,
with threatening and intimidatiug him, and putting him in
bodily fear.
Mr. Lowndes, the solicitor, on the part of the complainant,
stated that on Saturday last, the prisoner, Mr. Ralph Nickson,
went to the house of Mr. Botterill, in Bold-street, where Mr.
Rogers was stopping, and, in a great rage, demanded to see Mr.
Rogers, on whom he vowed to be revenged, if he was hanged for
it the next moment. The prisoner did not meet Mr. Rogers,
but.in consequence of the threats he held out, that gentleman
thought Limper to bring him before a magistrate, that he might
be bound over to keep the peace.. The prisoner had been in the
-emp:oyment of Mr.-Rogers; and badre6cntly Ua:tried a young
woman who had lived with Mr. Rogers :Irony the period she was
twelve years of age to the present time, and-in consequence of
some suspicion on the part of the complainant, that the girl and
the prisoner had made free with property of his, which he had
stated, the prisoner was violently determined to be revenged,
and for that purpose had ;one on Saturday to seek the com-
plainant.
Mr. Rogers stated that the prisoner.was formerly his collect-
ing clerk, but was now in the Custoni-house. Witness's ser-
vants had informed him that the prisoner had been seen with
loaded pistols lookiug out for witness. He unhesitatingly de-
clared that he went in fear of his life torn the prisoner's threats.
A solicitor for the prisoner cross-examined the complainant,
and elicited that the prisoner claimed money from him which,
however, he denied owing. He admitted having had some pre-
vious conversation with the prisoner's wife which had displeased
her.

Margaret Lowe, servant to Mr. Bottetill, deposed to the
prisoner coming to that gentleman's house on Saturday night,
and asking, for Mr. Rogers, and that the prisoner said he had
left his wife in tits from the conduct of Mr. Rogers, and that he
would be revenged if he was hanged the next moment.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that Mr. Rogers owed him
£6O, and that he had called to ask for him, partly to under-
stand whether he intended to pay him, and partly to have an
explanation of some remarks made by. Mr. Rogers reflecting on
the honesty of his (the prisoner's) wife and himself.
The magistrates.told the prisoner that it was evident he had
put Mr. Rogers in bodily fear, which had been sworn to, and
they should therefore hold hint to bail to keep the peace to-
wards the complainant for twelve mouths, himself in £lOO, and
two sureties in £5O each.

SMUGGLING.—Mr. Coffer, one of the captains of the Dock
Police, brought up a seaman named Thomson, belonging to the
North American packet ship Augusta, on the charge of smug-
gling a quantity of tobacco. The captain of police stated that
he saw the prisoner coming from the ship, and his pocket ap-
peared bulky, witness consequently went towards him, when he
pulled off his jacket, threw it on the ground, and ran away.
Witness pursued the prisoner and took him into custody. A
quantity of tobacco was found concealed in the prisoner's
jacket, which was o!' the same kind as that on board the Augusta.
He was remanded for a week. •