The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Saturday several drapers were fined £1 each, and
costs, for having tempted theft by exposing their goods
for sale at their respective doorways.
On Saturday a man was sent for trial by Mr. Rushton
for stealing books worth £2 10s. from the Methodist
Chapel, Pleasant-street.

ROBBING AN EMIGRANT.—Francis Dudon was charged
before Mr. Rushton on Thursday with robbing John
Wilkinson of £23. The prosecutor and prisoner arrived
from America on Wednesday in the Waterloo packet-
ship and slept together the same evening. The money
was secreted by Wilkins in a purse about his person, but
in the morning his cash and bedfellow had disappeared.
Dudon was afterwards apprehended with money upon him,
which answered to the description of that which had
been stolen. The prisoner was committed.

AN EXPENSIVE CUSTOMER.—An old pensioner was
brought up at the Police-office on Monday, charged with
breaking a window and being drunk. He had appeared
before the magistrates a hundred times for drunkenness,
on an average twice a week, and has cost the borough fund,
in one way and another, about £lOO. Mr. Rushton de-
clined to see him again for some time, and to ensure that
gratificrtion, ordered him to pay Bs. and costs for break-
ing the window, and to find two sureties in £lO each to
keep the peace, or to be imprisoned three months in de-
fault.

THE RIGHT OF SLAUGHTERING CATTLE IN THE TOWN.
—On Wednesday, John Doherty, of Cable-street, and
Wm. Mossford, of Harrington-street, were summoned
before the Magistrates on an information charging them
with slaughtering cattle in the town, contrary to
the provisions of a clause contained in the Sana-
tory Act. The case was adjourned, to permit the de-
fendants to prepare their defence. There were twenty-
seven other cases of a similar kind, and Mr. Rushton di-
rected that informations should be laid against all the
offenders, in order that the whole question might be raised
at one time.

EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF SMUGGLED TOBACCO.— On
Tuesday, a man, named Jacob Smith, was charged before
Mr. Rushton with smuggling an immense quantity of
unmanufactured tobacco. Jas. Luke Lee, a landing-waiter
in her Majesty's Customs, deposed that, on Saturday last,
a number of bales of cotton were landed from the barque
Archelaus, from Charleston, and conveyed to the Excise
depot. On examination, four of the bales were found to
contain 1,206 lbs. of unmanufactured leaf tobacco, which
was ascertained to be the property of the prisoner. Smith,
however, denied being the owner, and after a subsequent
hearing on Friday, the prisoner was fined £lOO.

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KID;TAPPING.—Oa Wednesday, a woman was seen to
take a child out of Grosvenor-street; she contrived to
elude pursuit, but the child was afterwards found in Gar-
den-lane, stripped of its clothes. On Friday, an old wo-
man, of the name of Mary Talbot, was brought up charged
with having taken a pair of shoes from the feet of a child
named Gardner. The hag was seen in the act of depriv-
ing the child of the shoes in Windsor-street ; she was
pursued by a boy and eventually taken. The police state
that there are innumerable cases of children being robbed
in this manner, and doubtless many are to be attributed
to this woman. Mr. Rushton committed her for a
month.

ROBBERY AT KNOWSLEY-HALL.—Peter Lyon %nd
Mary Smith were charged before Mr. Rushton on Thurs-
day with stealing two silver spoons, and offering them for
sale to Mr. Upton, silversmith. Mr. W. F. Newbury,
house-steward to the Earl of Derby, stated that the pH=
soner Lyon was a shoemaker, and had constant access to
Knowsley-hall for twenty years. The whole establish-
ment employed him, and he had frequently received acts
of kindness from the family. For some time past a sys-
tem of plundering had been carried on at the hall, and
about three weeks ago the two spoons were missed. Mr.
Rushton directed that the two prisoners should be handed
over to the county justices.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF LACE.—On Saturday, at the
Police-court, three men, Jeffreys, Eagan, and Derby-
shire, where charged with having stolen, from the Rail-
way Station, at Wapping, two bales of lace—value £350.
The bales had been sent from the manufactory of Messrs.
Watson and Co., of Macclesfield, and were addressed to
Messrs. Ironside and Co., of this town, for shipment to
the Brazils. The robbery was discovered through the
active exertions of constable Kehoe. The robbery was
committed on the 2nd of September. The goods were in
thirty boxes, some of tin and others of copper, and these
were made up into two packages. Kehoe visited several
of the large towns, and finally, with assistance, found
twenty-two boxes of the lace in question, at Messrs.
Samuel and James Watts, Fountain-street, Manchester,
who had brought them from Mr. W. Otty, of Langton,
Staffordshire. Mr. Otty was called upon, and he imme-
diately, on a sample of the lace being produced, said that
he had had similar lace, and showed a bill of parcels for
22 boxes. He also stated that Mr. Jackson, of the same
town, had made a similar purchase. This gentleman was
called upon, and he showed them a bill for six boxes for
which he had: given £22 6s. Bd. Thus, 28 out of the 30
were recovered. This was signed by the prisoner Eagan.
Kehoe, accompanied by the two gentlemen named, went
to Warrington, and .found and arrested Eagan, and his
brother-in-law, Jeffreys. It was proved by Kehoe that
Eagan was a receiver of stolen goods, and had been tried
at the sessions in this town six months ago. The other
prisoner was afterwards apprehended ; and Eagan stated,
on being taken, that he had bought the lace from him.
In reply to a question put by Mr. Rushton, it appeared
that Mr. Otty had bought the 22 boxes of lace for less
than one-third of their value. The other two boxes were
found at Mr. Brown's, publican, Scotland-road, where
they were left to be taken care of. A female afterwards
called, and wished him not to say that any parcel was left
there. This excited his suspicions, and he informed the
police. The prisoners were remanded until Wednesday.