The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

IRISH PAUPERS.—On Thursday, several Irish people,
of various ages, were brought before Mr. Rushton, on
charges of pilfering about the docks. The option of being
returned to their homes was put as usual, and as surely
rejected, with the remark that " they had no homes to go
to." In consequence of their refusal to comply with the
offer, they were committed to prison for brief periods.
A REASON FOR BREAKING WINDOWS.—On Thursday,
a girl was brought up charged with breaking windows in
Richmond-row. It appeared she deliberately thrust her
hand, without any apparent cause, through a square of
glass in a shop window. The prisoner admitted- the of-
fence, and said she did it because a boy in the shop "made
unbecoming signs to her." She was ordered to pay for
the damage, or gO to gaol for three days.
OVERCHARGE BY A PAWNBROKER..—On Wednesday,
Mr. John Little, pawnbroker, of 55, Brownlow-hill, was
summoned at the instance of Wm. L. Ralph, for charging
81d. more than the interest allowed by act of parliament
on some goods which had been pledged at his establish-
ment. There were two distinct informations for over-
charge. When the evidence had been gone through and
sifted, Mr. Rushton said he should convict in the full
penalty of £lO in each case.
ROBBERY OF PLATE.—On Wednesday, two boys, named
John Millen and Henry Williams, were placed at the bar
of the police-court, on a charge of robbing the house of
Mr. S. J. Storey, St. James's-road, of several articles of
silver plate. The prisoners entered Mr. Storey's kitchen,
whilst the servant was absent up-stairs, and took away a
toast-rack, some forks, and spoons. The prisoners were
apprehended in the neighbourhood with the stolen pro-
perty upon them. They were committed for trial.
BURGLARY.—On Tues&y, W. Metcalfe was brought
before Mr. Rushton, charged with breaking into the
dwelling-house of Thomas Milburn, shipwright, Upper
Frederick-street, and stealing a quantity of wearing ap-
parel. The prisoner was stopped by a police-officer with
a bundle in his possession, and answered evasively the
officer's questions. The prisoner was taken into custody,
and it was subsequently ascertained that the prisoner had
broken the window of Mr. Milburn's house, and stolen
the property. lie was committed for trial.
CHARTIST LAW.—Two rough-looking fellows, named
James White and James Carney, were brought before the
magistrates on Wednesday, charged with disorderly con-
duct and assaulting persons in the street. An officer of
police stated that the prisoners belonged to a gang of
about fifty fellows who had been for several days going
about the streets in the neighbourhood of Vauxhall-road,
crying out for repeal, and threatening violence to all who
resisted them. On the previous day they met him (the
officer) and struck him, and also another person who was
standing near, and ultimately got into custody. They
said the time had come when they had laws of their own,
and they were determined to show it to the police and
those who resisted them. Mr. Rushton remarked, that
if such fellows as the prisoners would commit outrages
upon the peaceable and orderly inhabitants, they must be
severely punished. The prisoners were fined £5, and in
default of payment to be committed to gaol for two
months, at the end of which period they are to find bail
for their good behaviour, or be further imprisoned four
months.

CHARGE OF FORGERY.—On Friday a charge of forgeiy
againsl a young man named Parsons was heard before
Mr. Rushton. A number of witnesses were examined,
and their evidence went to show that the prisoner had
committed a forgery on the post-office, to the amount of
£2 17s. 9d., under the following circumstances :—ln the
month of February last he was lodging at the house of
Mr. James Jones, engineer, Burlington-street, and it
being known to Mrs. Jones that he was "a kind of an
attorney," she referred to him a matter of a debt of
£5 15s. 6d., for lodgings owed to her by a gentleman
named Bremner, who had removed to London, for which
she had kept his trunk in piedge. Parsons wrote a legal
note to Mr. Bremner, to which Mrs. Jones received an
answer. He offered to pay half the sum immediately,
and the remainder soon after. This offer was agreed to,
but till three weeks after that Mrs. Jones heard nothing
about the matter, and then a note from Mr. Bremner ap-
prised her that ie had sent the money, in the shape of a
post-office order for £2 17s. 9d. An inquiry at the post-
office led to the suspicion that Parsons had received the
order, and got it cashed, signing " Samuel Jones" in
receipt. Two of the clerks knew him well, and remem-
bered him being in the money-order office on the 15th
February, with a money-Order. One of them, Corduroy,
swore positively that he saw Parsons on that day, writ-
ing on a paper and receiving money for it from another
clerk, named Tyson. After the case had been gone into
at considerable length, Mr. Rushton expressed his opinion
that the presence of Mr. Bremner was absolutely necessary,
in order to show that his order was the one that the pri-
soner got cashed. In the mean time he adjourned the
case for a week.