The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-16 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.
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EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF GUM FROM A WAREHOI7SE.—
On Thursday, John M`Govern and Edward Swain were
brought up on a charge of stealing 401bs. weight of African
gum from the warehouse of Messrs. Cookson and Hatton,
merchants, Mersey-street. The prisoners were employed
in a warehouse in Pothouse•lane, belonging to the prose-
cutors, and no suspicion had been entertuined of the men's
dishonesty, as nothing had been missed, although it is now
suspected that they have been, for a length of time,
carrying on a systematic course of plunder. Although
the warehouseman could not swear to the gum, the evi-
dence was so conclusive that the prisoners were committed
for trial.

SAVAGE ATTACK UPON A POLICE-OFFICER.--On Thurs-
day, a car driver, named William Woodfine, was brought
up on a charge of committing a ferocious assault upon
police-officer 212. Yesterday evening week, the prisoner
and his wife were drunk and quarrelling in Byrom-street.
The officer advised the man to go home, but, as he would
not comply, he said he would lock him up. The prisoner,
without making a remark, then struck at the officer,
knocked him down, and kicked him brutally in the face.
Assistance coming up, the man was secured, and the
officer taken to the dispensary, where it was ascertained
that his jaw had been broken by the violence of the kick,
which has rendered him incapable of duty ever since.
TIOUSEEREAKING.—On Thursday, two youths, named
Miles Burke and William Cooper, were charged with
breaking into the cellar of John Gleeson, shoemaker,
Scotland-road, and stealing therefrom 21 pair of boots;
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and Mary Collins was charged with stealing two geese.
The cellar lock had been broken on Wednesday morning,
and the property abstracted. Cooper lived with the
female prisoner in Co.mus-street. Cooper was discharged ;
for 14 days, for being in felonious possession of the geese.
various amounts for permitting the use of naked lights
on board their respective ships.
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the following parties were charged with infractions of the
Elizabeth
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Carter-street, Toxteth-park, fined 105. and costs, and
Beer-
seller : Chas. Audley, Bolton-street, fined 203. and costs.

THE SAILOR AND THE FORTUNE-TELLER.—OD Friday,
Rachael Donnelly was charged by Malcom Henry, a sea-
man, with picking his pocket of £2 10s. From the
statement of the prosecutor it appeared that he was
accosted in the street by the prisoner, who offered to tell
him his fortune if he '• crossed her palm." He gave her
a shilling, and they adjourned to a public-house ; but
before the prosecutor could hear anything of the good
fortune in store for him, he bad the ill-fortune to find
that he was minus the above sum, and immediately gave
the prisoner into custody; however, as none of the money
was found upon her, and several improper characters
being in the house at the time, she was discharged.
On Friday, John Ball, a man sixty years of age or up-
wards, formerly a surgeon in one of the public establish-
ments in this town, was fined 40s. for indecent conduct.
We understand that in the above case an appeal will be
made to the Recorder's Court, when evidence will be pro-
duced, it is considered, strong enough to prove an alibi,
in favour of the defendant, upon the grounds that the
matter had been carried on so hastily that he had no time
to make anything like a defence.

ASSAULTING A BAILIFF.—Henry Thompson was
charged with assaulting Evan Thomas, a bailiff, employed
to distrain for rent upon Thompson's mother's house, in
Albert-place, Russell-street, and was fi 203. and costs.
In default of payment to be imprisoned for a month.
SUNIMONS FOR DETAINING CLOTHES.--Robert Brown,
a black sailor-boy, summoned a boarding-house keeper,
named Margaret Montgomery, for detaining his clothes.
The poor fellow made a bargain with Mrs. Montgomery
for board and lodging, at 9s. per week ; and this sum,
with the exception of 4s. 6d., he had duly paid ; but she
made an additional charge of £1 16s. for washing. The
4s. 6d. had been tendered, and refused ; and the clothes
were ordered to be at once given up, with an intimation
that, unless the order was immediately complied with, a
penalty of £lO, to which she was liable, would be enforced.
SERIOUS CASE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.--Henry
a respectable-looking man, who had been in the employ
of Messrs. Grundy, Wright, and Co., of this town, for
the last thirteen years, as town traveller. at a salary of
£BO per annum, with a gratuity of some £3O or £4O each
year at Christmas, was charged with embezzling various
sums of money, amounting to about £2OO, the property
of his employers. It was the prisoner's duty to hand
over to Messrs. Grundy and Co.'s cashier any money he
might collect on their account, and enter the same at the
office, in a book provided for the purpose. On Tuesday
last the prisoner went to Mr. Grundy and told him that
he had lost or been robbed of £5O on the previous week ;
he also stated that there was something worse than that,
for he was a defaulter to a considerable amount. He
then handed to Mr. Grundy a list of various persons from
whom he had received money, which he had not accounted
for to the cash-keeper, or entered is the proper book.
He said that his defalcations had commenced so far back
as two years since, and he had eluded detection by enter.
ing smaller sums on account of the parties from whom he
had received them than had actually been paid. Three
receipts given by him at various times to a Mr. Robinson
were produced and verified, and the amounts not being
entered in the book in Messrs. Grundy's office, or passed
over to the cashier, were submitted as evidence against
the prisoner ; and the depositions being taken, he was
committed for trial.

CLAIM ROB, WAGES.—On Friday, John England, late
steward on board the Chrvsolit?, recently arrived from
China, summoned Anthony Enwright, captain of that
vessel, for a balance of wages, amounting to £7 149. The
defety,T was, that the complainant did not understand his
duty, and that in consequence of his general conduct he
was sent before the mast on the 10th November last.
He was engaged at £3 a month, but for the reasons
stated the defendant refused to pay him at that rate. Mr.
Mansfield decided that the defendant should be paid at the
rate of £2 ss. per month for the whole voyage.

CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENT.—Those who intend making
presents to their young friends, or to amuse their families
at their own fire-sides, during the approaching holidays,
cannot do better than follow the advice Mr. Colles gives is
his advertisement in this day's Standard, by paying him
a visit previous to making their purchases. He is con-
stantly adding something new to his already large stock,
and is likewise preparing some novelties for the amuse-
ment of evening parties. Mr. Colles's hours of business
—from 11 to 4—obviate, as he remarks, the necessity
taking children out at night, in order to afford them the
amusement they so naturally look forward to at this season
of the year. We can safely say that at Mr. Colles's apart.
ments in Bold-street, they cannot fail of being highly en-
tertained.

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