The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Saturday a boy only about ten years of age was
committed by Mr. Rushton for trial, for picking a young
lady's pocket of Bs. 6d. as she looking at a shop window
in Bold-street.

On Saturday James Burns, a railway labourer, was
committed from the Birkenhead Police-court for trial, at
the next Chester assizes, for having so cruelly beaten his
wife that her life is despaired of.
STREET, ROBBERY BY WOMEN.—On Saturday night
week, as William Robinson was going home, he was
attacked, in Bent-street, by two women, named Ann
Burns and Ann Eccles, who knocked him down, and
rifled his pockets of two five-shilling pieces. The women
were brought before Mr. Rushton on Tuesday, and sent
to gaol for three months.

ROBBERY OF A LOAN SOCIETY.—On Tuesday, a man,
named Timothy Marshall, was charged by Robert Whittle
with stealing a book. On the previous afternoon, the
prisoner went into the office of the Great Howard-street
Loan Association, in which he was a shareholder, and'
applied for money for his shares, which being refused, he
took up one of the books, and ran away with it. The
book was ordered to be returned, and the prisoner was
liberated.

INTIMIDATION.—Mr. Sylvester Samuel, watch-manu-
facturer, appeared before Mr. Rushton, on Wednesday,
to prefer the above-named charge against a man of re-
spectable appearance, who stood in the dock, his face
disfigured by a black eye. Mr. Samuel said the man had
formerly. been in his employ, but he had been discharged.
On the preceding day he came to his manufactory and
assaulted one of his workmen. He also made use of
threats towards all who worked under price. Mr. Rush-
ton expressed his determination to put down such lawless
conduct whenever it came under his cognizance. He
decided that the prisoner should find bail, himself in
£4O, and two sureties of £2O each : in default, to be
committed to prison for three months.
INSUFFICIENT BOARD.—Three young men were brought
up on Tuesday, charged by the agent of the Urgent and
James Ray, Rio packets, with deserting their ships. It
appeared they had been allowed Bs. a week board wages,
and had requested 10s., which they had in London. The
agent refused to comply, and the young men left their
ships. Mr. Rushton thought Bs. a-week a small sum,
and the bridewell-keeper said that no boarding-house
would take them on the terms. One of the vessels being
on the point of sailing, the boys, in answer to a question
from Mr. Rushton, said they were willing to go in the
ship. Mr. Rushton told them it was not right to take
the law into their own hands, but, if aggrieved, to appeal
to him. The boys, who had conducted themselves with
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INFORMATIONS UNDER THE SANATORY ACT.—The pro-
prietors of the James Atherton, New Brighton boat, were
summoned before Mr. Rushton, on Wednesday, at the
instance of Inspector Fresh, for neglecting to consume
the smoke generated on board the same boat. Mr.
Grantham, the Corporation engineer, proved the possibility
of consuming the smoke by the apparatus on board the
vessel. In defence, Mr, Coalbourn, one of the proprie-
tors, stated that he had done everything in his power to
prevent the nuisance occurring ; and at the very time the
information was laid, an experienced engine-driver was
on board carrying out experiments previously planned for
the effectual consumption of smoke. It was contended,
too, that the long trip was a disadvantage, but Mr. Gran-
tham denied this to be a disadvantage. Mr. Rushton
said, under the circumstances, he would only impose the
mitigated penalty of twenty shillings and costs' which
would be increased if the offence was repeated. On the
same day fifteen informations were heard against parties
occupying cellars of tnsufficient dimensions. Fines were
imposed in the majority of cases.