The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-18 00:00:00

YESTERDAY,

THE SAILORS' STRlKE.—Charles Atkinson, Robert
Roberts, Francis Curran, and Jas. Inversdale, four sailors,
who had been brought up by warrant, were charged, at
the instance of Messrs. T. Tobin and Son, with having
signed articles as part of the crew of the Lord Elgin,
Capt. Smith, and afterwards refusing to go on board.
One of the men, in his defence, said he had shipped for
Fernando Po, and afterwards was required to go to Cala-
bar. Mr. Rushton read over the duplicate of the articles
which disproved the man's statement. The four men
were committed for thirty days,
BEGGING IMPOSTOR.—Mary Jones, a middle aged fe-
male, decently attired in mourning, and wearing widow's
weeds, was charged with begging in Great George-street.
Officer 503 said that on Saturday evening as he was on
duty in Great George-street, his attention was drawn to a
crowd of persons. On going up to the spot he found the
woman at the bar apparently very unwell. She stated
that she had suddenly been seized with illness. Several
humaneladiessurrounded thewoman,and had procured wine
and other restoratives, which they administered to the
apparently unfortunate creature. In answer to the police-
man's interrogatories, she stated that she was a seaman's
widow, and had recently come from London. She also
represented herself as being in a state of distress. Sus-
pecting the truth of her story, the officer examined a
bundle which she carried ; his suspicions were confirmed
by finding that the contents of the bundle were nothing
more nor less than rags. Another policeman had seen
her attempting the same trick previously in St. James's-
place. The woman pretended that her story was true,
and that her daughter, whom she had come to reside with,
might be found in Scotland-place. Mr. Rushton directed
the officer to ascertain the truth of the statement.
APPREHENSION OF THE THIEVES IN THE £284 Ron-
BERY.—Thomas Williams, Hannah Smith, and John
Carter, alias Arthur, were placed in the dock, when Ser-
geant Carnes made thel following statement :—On Friday,
the 28th of February, I was in the court when I was in-
formed that a robbery of £2B-1 10s. in gold and notes had
been committed. I took a description of the parties from
the person who had been robbed, and have been on the
look-out ever since, but have not seen them until Satur-
day last, when as I was going along Elliott-street, 1 met
Williams and Smith. Having apprehended them, I took
them down to the police-office, and placed them with seve-
ral others, when the man was pointed out as being one of
the parties who committed the robbery. I know that the
woman has cohabited with Williams, and at the time I
apprehended them Carter was in the house in which they
live in Peter• street,—the particulars of the robbery have
already been made public. A cattle dealer, named Carr,
who resides in the north of England, was, on the evening
of the day named, inveigled by a woman into Newington,
and when in the act of entering a narrow passage in that
street, two men rushed out, knocked him down, and
robbed him of a sum of money of the amount above stated.
All three prisoners were remanded, in order to give the
police an opportunity of adducing the evidence of Mr. Carr.
CAPTURE OF A GANG OF BURGLARS.—Joseph Ormsby,
Edward Richardson, Matthew Richardson, and John Lu-
cas, were charged with having broken into a house in
Thompson-street, Toxteth-park, occupied by a person
named Gregory, and stolen therefrom six silver spcons
and a pair of silver sugar-tongs ; and William Mercer was
charged with having feloniously received the same. Mr.
Simon appeared for Ormsby, alias Chuck'em, and Mr.
Snowballappeared for Mercer. Storey, one of the detective
officers, gave a rambling statement of the circumstances
of the robbery, the sum of which appeared to be, that,
having tracked Ormsby and Edward Richardson through
several streets on Saturday evening, he at last saw them
enter a house in Thompson-street ; in a quarter of an
hour after they came out ; previously to this he had seen
Matthew Richardson, an old man (said to be the father of
E. Richardson), lurking about the house. Not having
any proof that a robbery had been committed, Storey
went home, having first left instruet'ons with Inspector
Lowcock to let him know if anything transpired to require
his presence and aid. About two o'clock in the morning
he was knocked up and informed that a robbery had been
committed in Thompson-street. He went immediately
to the place, and found that the house which had been
robbed was the same as the one he had seen the two men
enter. Ormsby, who keeps a beer-house in Richmond-
row, was taken the same night : in a room in the upper
part of his house the prisoner Lucas was found in bed ; and
outside the window, concealed by the sign, was a bunch
of skeleton keys—acknowledged by the police to be the
best implements of the kind they had ever seen. On the i
same night, Lucas and the younger Richardson went into
a public-house in Milk-street, kept by a person named
Bickerstaffe ; Mercer, who also keeps a public-house in
Leeds-street, and who is related to Bickerstaffe, was in
the house at the time. Lucas and Richardson offered
some spoons and sugar tongs for sale to Mercer, who
purchased them, These spoons were proved to be the
property of Mr. Gregory. The keys exactly fitted Gre-
gory's door. Several witnesses were called who had seen
Ormsby and the younger Richardson lurking about the
house which had been broken into. The prosecutor stated
that he had recently kept a public-house, the transfer of
which he had sold to a person named Glover, who had
introduced the younger Richardson to him as a lawyer's
clerk, with the object of having the contract drawn up
economically. In this manner Richardson obtained a
knowledge of the prosecutor's house. Mr. Snowball said
that his client, Mercer, had conducted his house with
great propriety for ten years ; he had given3s. Gd. an ounce
for the plate, which. he would not have bought had he