The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGEIVC.E.

On Tuesday the Mayor, John Bent, Esq., sat in the
Sessions house, Chapel-stree-t, to hear summonses against
persons for using deficient weights, measures, &c. Thirty-
one persons were fined in sums varying from 2s. 6d. to
40s. besides costs. They were chiefly grocers, butchers,
and provision dealers.

On Wednesday George Simms, employed under the
Corporation. at the public offies, in Cornwallis-street, was
charged with having embezzled certain sums of money be-
longing to the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Liv-
erpool ; having received money under the pretence of pay-
ing a labourer for work which that labourer had not
performed. He was committed for trial.
CHARGE OF STABBING.—On Wednesday William
Sampson was charged with having stabbed Joseph Cur-
ran, a seaman, with a knife. The parties met in the
neighbourhood of Tithebarn-street, when the prisoner
brought the prosecutor into Chapel-street, for the pur-
pose of getting some liquor at an early house. They
quarrelled and fought relative to the prosecutor not
treating the prisoner. The p*:- - was ordered to pay
£5, or be imprisoned for

o moot

SHAMEFUL AuTwit
charged with bege
found the child beg
a rag upon its back,
state of nudity. and in this state it
sympathy of the byst
supply it with clothing
parents stripped off th
again on the followin_
continued from day to

slay a little child was
kpolice-officer stated that he

ging in Bold-street
. its parents usua

ving scarcely a

upon the

riders, that ti
On it

s return in the eve
and then turrie

ie cloth

g day to beg. This practice was
The child was remanded.

YESTERDAY

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ROBBERY IN A PLACE OF WORSHIP.—Thos. Johnson,
a lad whose countenance and dress were calculated to
convey to the observer an idea of his extraordinary
sanctity, was committed for 21 days for having stolen two
hymn books from the Wesleyan Chapel, in Stanhope-
street. The lad had offered the books for sale at a shop
in Lime-street or. Saturday. He was detected, and ulti-
mately given in charge.of the police.
SUSPECTED ROBBERY OF £lb.—Joseph Rumyard, a

,h looking lad, who gains a livelilMod by vending
bath-bricks, was charged with having stolen £l5, the
property of Mr. Abraham Burrows. Mr. Burrows, it
appeared, is a wholesale dealer in the description of bricks
referred to, and occupied offices in the Goree Piazzas.
The prisoner, who dealt with Mr. Burrows. ormsinnally

performed trifling duties for him,
leave his wheelbarrow in the cellar. On Sm...
he swept the office only, at which time the office-,..
the cash-book containing the money lying on the, desk.
Rumyard passed in and out several times, and the money
was soon after found missing, no other person having been
in the office. Gressenthwaite, who apprehended him,
found a box, containing a new suit of clothes, in the house
in which he lodged. Down st the ^,-fanner stopped to
ask for a drink, when the of imago._
noise of the jingling of mone. Ind, upon
found a purse, containing eleven overeigns,
supposed the prisoner had dropped He had also taken a
silver watch out of pledge prior t ' -
tody. He stands remand,
to bring forward morr.
possible.

was allowed to

Lrdny morning

he heard the

y. an,

taken into cus-

in order to allow the officer
[sivc evidence of his guilt, if

SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS.—
Kelly, Patrick M`G
four 'ruffianly lookit

Michael

Sl'Dermott,

flows, were brought up for being
—..eets at an unusually late

found loitering rbo-ut tl
hour. Mr. Rushton cap
extreme measures in all s

fised hi,

ination to take

er to put a stop

predation whi

was now of

One of the fellows, with cc

y occurrence.
nce, observed
," which they

nit they were taken up and

he thonght such changes in

were sent to prison

Several other fellows

imstunces.
1, a lad about

books,

der false pre.

Whevrill:and

number of

limself so far

x and (loose,