The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

JUVENILE BURGLARS.—Three lads, the eldest of whom
was not above twelve years old, were sent to prison, on
Wednesday, for burglary—the elder for three months,
the second for two months, and the youngest, after a short
confinement will be handed over to his parents.
AN IMPOSSIBILITY.—A man was charged with violent
conduct, and with having used threatening language to a
policeman. He indignantly denied the charge, and, ad-
dressing Mr. Hugh Hornby, who occupied the bench, said,
" I am a special constable, sir, and it a impossible 1 could
commit a breach of the peace !"
MARINE STORE DEALERS.—On Wednesday a man
named Beaamont was sent to gaol for two months, for
stealing a quantity of lead from the Workhouse ; and a
marine-store dealer, named Robinson for one month,
for receiving the lead, knowing it to have been improperly
obtained, with an intimation that his license would be
withdrawn.

BAREFACED ATTEMPT.—A person who WAS fined by
Mr. Rathbone on Friday, for permitting his dog to be at
large, laid down the amount of the penalty and hastily
shuffled towards the door. He was, however, hailed most
vociferously by Boothby. the receiver of fines, who dis-
covered that half the amount, a half-crown, was base.
The person recalled expressed a well-feigned astonish-
ment at the half-crown being bad, and unwillingly sup-
plied its place with a good one.

STEALING PLUM PUDDING.-William Lynch, a boy,
not previously known to the police, was charged with
having stolen a piece of plum pudding from the shop of
an eating-housekeeper, named William Sutton, in what
street did not appear. Struck with the tempting display,
he had, it appeared, thrust his hand through a window
pane and stolen the pudding. Mr. Sutton stated that this
was the third time his window had been broken in a simi-
lar way, within the last two and three weeks. The boy's
fondness for an Englishman's favourite dish was rewarded
by a month's confinement in gaol.

A POLICE-OFFICER STABBED.—On Wednesday a sea-
faring man, named Thomas Fox, was charged at the Po-
lice-office with inflicting several wounds on Police-officer
294, by stabbing him with a clasp knife. On Wednesday
morning the officer was on duty near the Waterloo Dock,
when the prisoner, without any provocation, rushed upon
him, and stabbed him several times in the neck and face.
The prisoner was taken into custody. The officer was
conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where he received
every attention. The surgeon to the hospital described
one of the wounds as dangerous, the vessels of the neck
being separated. The prisoner, who said the officer first
struck him with a stick, was committed for trial at the
assizes.

SINGULAR CASE.—On Thursday a man, named Thos.
Carr, was charged with an assault upon Mary Ann Viner,
who keeps a grocer's shop in Browniow-hill. The patties,
it appeared, came from Manchester, and had been cohabit-
ing together for the last nine or ten months, but latterly
the defendant had behaved with cruelty to her, turning
her out, on one occasion, into the street. Mr. Parkin-
son stated that the defendant was a notorious thief. The
complainant admitted that they had both been tried at
Manchester, but she allowed herself to be charged inno-
cently, in order to save him from ten years' transporta-
tion ; she did not then know so much of his villany as she
had done subsequently. Mr. Rushton ordered the pri-
soner to pay a fine of £5 for the assault, or in default to
beimprisoned two months, also to find bail for his future
good behaviour, himself in £BO, and two sureties in 5..40,
or be further imprisoned four months.