The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

STEALING A GOLD PENCIL CASE.—Oh Friday, a man
in the service of Dr. Macrorie, of Duke-street, was com-
mitted for trial for stealing a valuable gold pencil-case
belonging to his master. It had been offered in pledge by
a young woman, who stated that the prisoner had given it
to her to pledge.
ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—On Thursday, Edward
Powell, Wm. Powell, and James Simpson, were brought
before Mr. Rushton. charged with having savagely as-
saulted police-constable Rainford (193) and his wife. It
appeared the assault had been committed in consequence
of the officer having previously given evidence before the
magistrates against one of the Powells. Mr. Rushton
admitted a severe reprimand to the fellows, and commit-
ted them for three months, in default of paying a fine of
£5, and further required they should find sureties at the
expiration of this time, two of £2O, and themselves in
£lO, or be again imprisoned for four months. To one he
adjudged six months, in default of bail for making use of
a threat in court.

EMBEZZLEMENT.—On. Friday a young man, named
Thomas Philip Ward, an apprentice and collecting-clerk,
in the employ of Messrs James and Thomas Bold, ship-
owners, Water-street, was placed before Mr. Rushton, on
the charge of having embezzled £94 19s. Id., the money
received on account of his employers, from Messrs.
Thompson, Kay, and Findlay, merchants, Exchange-
buildings. On the sth instant the prisoner went to the
office of Messrs. Thompson and Co. for the payment of
two accounts due to Messrs. Bold and Co. The amount
claimed was paid by a banker's cheque upon the Branch
Bank of England, less the usual interest. The prisoner,
it was shown, had, not accounted for the receipt of the
money to the cash-keeper. The prisoner was committed
for trial.

POLICE ESPIONAGE.—On Thursday evening, a young
man named Thomas Allen, was apprehended in Soho-
street, by Constable 33. On the following morning the
case came before Mr. Rushton, in due course, when it
appeared, defendant's crime was that of walking through
the streets with a quantity of shoemakers' tools under his
coat. On hearing the charge and the affirmation on the
part of Allen that the tools were his own, Mr. Rushton
at once dismissed the case and administered a reprimand
to the officious officer. Mr. Rushton : You have no
business to stop persons in this way.-officer : He refused
to tell his name.—Mr. Rushton : " Well, but you must
have some sense, either there must be suspicious circum-
stances or• the person's character must be known to be
bad. At this rate nobody will be safe."
OUTRA:GEODE CONDUCT OF BAILIFFS.—On Wednes-
day, Richard Hall, (in the employ of Mr. Kirby, sheriff's
officer;); Peter Jackson, John Russell, and Solomon James
Sowerby, also bailiffs, were brought up on a charge of
stealing some surgical instruments from William Russell.
Mr. Russell, the complainant, had lately arrived from
France with his wife and mother-in-law, neither of whom
could speak English. The parties lived in Paradise-street,
at the house of Mr. Leary, and being distrained upon for
12s.,the prisoners behaved in such a brutal manner,,
that the mother-in-law became so alarmed that she was
seized with paralysis. Mr. Russell offered them his gold
watch, which they declared was not sufficient—they must
have two watches ; and, rushing at Mrs. Russell, took a
gold watch from her neck. A case of instruments, worth,
£ll, was missing, which had been purloined by the pri-
soners. Mr. Rushton said, the conduct of the prisoners
was most abominable and oppressive. and though he did
not mean to charge them with felony, there was no doubt
the article missing had been removed by the fellow Jack-
son. There were abundance of remedies against the
offending parties, either in the county court, by writ, or
by common law. H,e would detain Jackson, but discharge
the other prisoners. On Thursday Jackson was again
brought up and further remanded, Mr. Rushton observ-
ing that so many cases had occurred latterly of improper
conduct by bailiffs, that he would make a representation
to the authorities on the subject.
ROBBERY OF NOTES AT TRANMERE.—On Saturday,
Mary Hughes, alias Henrietta, Terence Murphy, Hannah
Mitchell, George Hullock, Hugh Murphy, and Ann Smith,
were brought before the Birkenhead magistrates, charged
with having robbed Mr. J. Dawson of £1,005. They had
been previously examined and remanded. Mr. Dawson
stated that, on the previous Saturday evening, he was on
the road between Tranmere and Rock Ferry, with upwards
of £l,Booon his person, when hewas accosted by a female,
in whose company he remained about twenty minutes.
After leaving her be found that he had been robbed of notes
to the value of £1,005. The police were immediately in-
formed, and on Monday the prisoner Hughes was detected
while offering one of the notes, a £5O, in payment for her
passage to America. On Tuesday the prisoner Mitchell,
who keeps a beerhouse in Grange-lane, Birkenhead, was
taken into custody, she at the time acknowledging that
she had some of the notes in her possession, which had
been given to her by a man to take care of. Theyamounted
in value to between £7OO and £BOO, and she handed them
over to the prisoner Murphy. Mitchell was kept in cus-
tody, and subsequently Ann Smith was apprehended at a
house in Back Chester-street, she having attempted to
change one of the stolen notes. The other prisoners were
afterwards apprehended on suspicion. Evidence was pro.
duced that went to show that the prisoners were seen to-
gether on Sunday, and that a woman named Ann Rooney
was the person supposed to have committed the robbery.
Rooney was seen to change her dress, in order, it is pre-
sumed, to escape detection, and she had a quantity of
notes in her possession. There was no evidence against
Hullock, and he was discharged, but bound over to pro-
secute as a witness. The other prisoners were committed
for trial at the ensuing sessions at Knutsford. Two other
persons, supposed to be in some way or other connected
with the robbery, were apprehended at Birkenhead on
Saturday evening.