The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MAD Does.—The Mayor having issued his usual
clamation, requiringall dogs to be confined, fifteelltPir
sons were summoned on Thursday for permittile but
curs to go at large. All sorts of excuses were road
in most of the cases the defendants were fined 5:
bite,
FRAUD BY A RAILWAY SERVANT.-JOhll "
western
carter in the employ of the London and North- tto
Railway Company, was committed at the Police-cour—,
take his trial for altering a freight note from 2s. 9a• to
3s. 9d. -- •

MODE OF INTERMENT.—On Friday a number of sex'
tons were charged with infractions Of the provisions of
the sanatoryrequires that two feet six inches of earth shall e
placed on every coffin immediately after interment! to rft-
main undisturbed until the grave is wanted again. In
some cases the offence was proved; but Mr. Rushton
said that the act was of peculiar construction; and be-
lieving that the defendants had sinned from ignorance. he
dismissed the cases, and warned them to comply in future
with the exact conditions of the law. The defendant°
promised obedience, and departed.
REMOVING-NIGHT-SOIL AT AN IMPROPER
On Thursday a policeman represented to Mr. Rushton,
that the inhabitants of Burgess-street and the neighbour-
hood had been annoyed by the men in Mr. Rose's enl:
ployment removing night-soil, and, in so doing, allowing
a liquid manure to flow down the street, the eftluvlor,,
from which was extremely unpleasant. The magistril
enquired the hour at which the men were employed, allA
was told 11 o'clock. This, he said, was too soon.
person from Mr. Rose's establishment said they n'':„
authority from the parish committee to commence
early as n o'clock. Mr. Rushton said he should reek°
the order, and fine Mr. Rose, unless there was a bye-lf,
to provide for this ; he confessed himself ignorant of '-
existence of such law.
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SHAMEFUL STREET ROBBERY.—A young manila - „
Michael Dowdie was brought before Mr. Brush „te,";
charged with having stolen a watch from Mr. Wm- ;
lands, a music teacher. The prosecutor is almost bile e
and on Tuesday evening last, he was going through 01,
cross streets, with a view to get into Great Howard-streeot
It was dark and rainy, and he lost his way. Corning,,,o
length, to the end of a street out of which there we° ;a
exit, the prisoner and another man came up to hinl
asked him where he wished to go ? He said to 9,,rraf
Howard-street, that he might reach the pier-head. Thus
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took each hold of an arm, and led him along verine
streets till near the canal bridge, when the prisoner, v4A,,,
the other held him, snatched his watch and ran o'l
He was committed for trial at the sessions. lief,
ROBBERY OF A BANKRUPT'S STOCK.—On Thu s.-,
Abraham Turbott, William Prescott, and James Hart.e:e;
were charged with an extensive robbery on the Pre° k-
lately used by Messrs. Stockdale, soap-boilers, Blackstog
street. Police-officers Lloyd and Bates went, on Me," bee
morning, to a yard in the above street, and, in a 5,11. p.
there, found some cisterns, lined with lead, a box of IL "s►
six pound weights, large screws, beams, and brass-fi
bagging, and a great quantity of other articles. .1e
the
then went to Hornby-street, and, in the house of ir
prisoner Prescott, who had charge of the premisesuld
and night, found under his bed a basket, containing raeoci
candles, a large table which had been used as a desk,:esa
an office stand;, also a quantity of bags similar to tmuse,
found in Blackstock-street stable. At Turbott 's bed is
other art.cles of a similar description were found, anoa
Hartley's house, Thistle-court, Shore-place, weights,
scales, candles, and testing instruments, were disc° dis-
In all, from £BO to £lOO worth of nroperty had beetliva,
covered, but a much larger quantity had been takenAiely
Turbott was also charged with, stealing a quantity °f of;
Tome, and offering to-'sell-it Cusey, Nosil-b° de-
but Mr. Casey, suspecting it to have been stoliire,
tamed the property and gave information to the
and was thus the means of bringing all the parties, in the
tice. It appears that the property is now vest 00. t.
Borough Bank, and it was to be sold on Mon
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The prisoners were committed for trial.
THE STONELEIGH ABBEY CASE BEFORE T- I 110
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POOL POLICE-counr.—On Friday forenoon a ge, Dolts
went into Mr. Rushton's court in a state of grew' -whiel)
ment, and desired a hearing from the magistrate,talea•
was granted after some immediate business was desP' ; bat
He inquired for the reporter of the Landau Ti/liesurt,ll°
finding that paper employed no reporter in the ee in
sent for the correspondent of the paper, who aPPen7., re'
short time. The latter was immediately speciayddie-
tained." Soon after the gentleman introduced a trsaliell
aged man to Mr. Rushton, who made a statemen'ublicll
was taken down in writing.. The gentleman then Pvigh °
tnaLacioa'
said, that his name was Jones, that he was Lor.e. /porn:
solicitor, and that he had arrived in Liverpool
ing with a person who was able to. rebut the au"e fiaa
charges brought against Lord Leigh,. and that Perissletiell
now it court.—Mr. Rushton said be had no :Jur. e state;
in the case, which begun in another court ; but the state;
ments made by the person alluded to were of B,ll..acieposr,
leave no doubt of their truth. Re then readt,inenent,,_
tion of that person. It was to the effect that a'art Edge'
name was William Billinge, aged 52, residinfrAdge
hill, and at present a mason employed on thews Lat st,a"
erecting in Wavertree-road ; that in 1814 he i_sepbt,
leigh Abbey with his father and his brother.Ju eTrA
former of whom was the only Matthew 8i110g,e826, ort
knew ; his father died at Stockport, in 1825 erela L3/41070
was buried near that town. Deponent nrodue,utr. Jells
proving that his father was alive after 1814. ,a7;.eiiil4-0
thanked the magistrate for bearing the cases t),liix Oro)
latter said it was the duty of every one tp °truth el ti-
the truth, repeating his conviction of the „r„. Itage
statements made. The man was identified blr.sfit to
ton's own son, an engineer, who was sent fscesabeled
had seen the accounts in the newspaperspAn" r the
send a letter to Lord Leigh when a nevisPeref tbe 7)
to him came to hand, containing au accon mgr. Jo
written by Mr. Jones, to whom he wrote, n
syln
having succeeded in finding out this witnee,,nress._Ate4
quence Mr. Jones came here, travellingf `i;eat
arrived at the mason's boon state °
meat.