The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Saturday, three men were committed for
charged with having stolen five firkins of butter from 5P.:
Clarence Dock quay, just landed by the Hercules freu.
Newry. Two other men were committed for receivia
the same, knowing them to have been stolen.
VIOLENT ASSAULT.—On Tuesday, at the police-coat'
two men, named James Bowman and Joseph Croft, Were
charged with committing a violent assault upon an elderti
gentleman, named M'Cann, at the corner of Regent'
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street, Waterloo-road. Mr. M'Cann was conveyed, I°
state of extreme exhaustion, to the shop of Mr. LOTE
ridge, a druggist, labouring under a severe wound on t""
left temple, which had been inflicted with some sharr
instrument. A short time ago, he had occasion to nr
pear against some companions of the prisoners, who ford
part of a lawless gang, and are the terror of that part of
the town. Committed for trial.

THE MARINE STORE DEALERS.—It appears these getl:
try have hit upon an expedient tocircumvent the vigilaue'
of the police, which of late has been directed especially t°
their mode of doing business. On Thursday a met]
named Smith, who keeps a store in Brick-street, uv,
brought before Mr. Rushton, charged with having 20'
lqr. 171bs. of lead in his shop, supposed to have hell
stolen ; the lead was melted. Smith stated that he boa
bought it from two women whose names are Mullions°
and Campbell, and both of whom keep marine stote9;
The women denied the charge. From the fact of the lead
being melted, it was impossible to trace the ownership;
the three prisoners were consequently discharged.
THE DESTITUTE IRISH.—The approach of winter
brings instances of the miserable condition of the pool'
Irish in this town. On Thursday two peasant lads from
the unhappy country were brought before Mr. Rushton
on the charge of having stolen a few turnips. A police
constable arrested them at Everton, with the turnips 10
their possession, which they stated were taken from
field four miles off. They gave their names as Michael
and Martin Drury. The magistrate enquired from what
part of Ireland the lads came, to which they replied Ross'
common, but declined to return, as they have no friend]
there. The only alternative open to the magistrate tvas
put in force, namely, fourteen days' imprisonment. ,
STEALING A Cow.—On Saturday, Edward Hassall and
Michael Coody, two butchers belonging to this town'
were brought before the magistrates at Birkenhead'
charged with having-stolen a fat cow, the property of the
Rev. Josias King, of Woodchurch, in Cheshire. It aIY
peared that the cow had been taken from a field at Wood'
church at a very early hour on Monday last, and brought
over to Liverpool (by two men answering the descriptll
of the prisoners) from Tranmere ferry, by the six o'cloc
boat. On Thursday or Friday Hassall or Coody called to
sell a cow's hide at a tannery in Bevington-bush. The
tanner noticed that it answered the description given I,lt
a descriptive bill, a copy of which be had received, stl_,
sent out for the police, but the men ran away. The'
were, however, captured, and committed to Chester cuss',,,,e7
for trial.

IMPUDENT CLAIM.—On Saturday, a claim for war?.
was made by a seaman named Taylor against CaptalO
Duncan, of the Ravina. He and twenty others had ide'
serted the vessel to get higherwages. After the case had
been heard, Mr. Rushton said to Taylor,—"How did Vol
get back to Liverpool ?" Taylor : " I came in the Aber;,
deem' Mr. Rushton : "At what amount of wages?
Taylor r "X 5 per month." Mr. Rushton (to the car
tain):. " I advise you to seek out the owners of the Aber:
deen, in order that their wages may-not be paid. This is
one of those common robberies committed by fellows who
sign articles to go to our colonial ports : they desert the
ship in order to obtain higher wages. If you will take ii
advice, you will warn the owners of the Aberdeen ; 9°'
may file an information against the crew, and they will be,
made to pay all the expenses you have incurred, the vibe
twenty-one of them, and you cannot do a better service
to the mercantile marine than by doing this."
CHARGE-OF EVADING DOCK DUES,—On Wednesdeil
Messrs. Boyd and Brown, commission merchants, appeare°,
to answer a summons preferred by the dock solicitor, o!"
leging that the defendants had shipped a quantity of P
iron on board the ship Ohio, lying in the Waterloo Dock,
The vessel left this port on Saturday, and on Monday the
defendants tendered the amount of the dues at the DoOt'
office, when it was refused. Mr. Rushton, after hearing
evidence, said there was no legal proof of an attempt t°
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evade the dues, the course pursued being the usual one ,
besides, the defendant did not hear anything of the sun?'
mons till after the money was tendered. A clerk 10
Messrs. Boyd's office said he had repeatedly paid dues 03
iron two cl.lys after the shipment. There was no attempt
made to evade payment. Mr. Rushton thought the sys-
tem pursued was a lax one, but he should, under the cir-
cumstances, merely inflict a nominal penalty of 205., and
order the double amount of dues to be paid. The full pe-
nalty is £2O.
EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY.—James Carr, James Reed,
and Henry Green, three bailiffs' followers, were charged,
on Saturday, with having stolen a clock and sofa, value
£3 10s., from the house of Mrs. Margaret King, Hi"'
street. In the course of Friday the prisoners, with two
other men not in custody, entered Mrs. King's house,
and said they had come to levy under a distress warrant)
but produced no authority. Mrs. Xing was astonish°
beyond measure. She owed no debt, and could not be 10
arrears for rent, inasmuch as she is the owner of the
house which she occupies. The men threatened that,
unless they were paid 17s. 6d. they would distrain 11P°12
her goods. She ordered them away. They came back,
however, shortly afterwards, and, smashing in the bat
door, effected a forcible entrance, and took a clock s°_,.
sofa from the back parlour. These were put into a cart
which they had in readiness, conveyed away, and offered
for sale at Mr. Harris's. in Church-street. On the force'
ble entrance being effected Mrs. King invoked the assist•
ante of a policeman, but he refused to interfere till he
could obtain assistance. Mr. Rushton rebuked the man;
He said, " Why did you not proceed yourself to arrest
them. One officer should be a match for five thieves : all
thieves are cowards." Some of the bailiff fraternity, ND'
not, it was stated, the prisoners themselves, had been
engaged on the previous day by the agent of Mrs. Kea
to make a levy on a tenant in Gascoyne-court, who bo
for a long time paid her no rent, but given her much abuse"
The men were beaten out of the house ; and it is eolle
jectured, although it did not clearly transpire during
hearing in court, that non-payment by the agent of tpel
fees had stimutated the felonious proceeding described
above. They were committed for trial. •