The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-30 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1851.

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.

CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT AGAINST A CASH COL-
LECTOR.—John Hyland, a man employed as a solicitor
and collector to the firm of Messrs. Smith; Mumford, and
Co., brewers, Smithfield-street, was chargecron Friday with
having embezzled various sums of money which he had re-
ceived on account of his employers. About five weeks ago,
the prisoner confessed to Mr. Cafferata, one of the partners
in the firm, that he had embezzled several amounts of
money, and gave a list of them from memory. On inquiry,
the defalcations were found to amount to upwards of
£57. On the 12th July, he had received £3 4s. from a
publican named Porter, for which he had not accounted.
The prisoner said, that when he confessed, Mr. Mumford
promised not to press the charge. The prisoner was
remanded until this day (Tuesday.)
CHARGE OF FELONY AGAINST A POLICE-OFFICER.—
On Friday John Bryan, 447, was placed in custody under
the following circumstances :—The prisoner appeared in
the dock in plain clothes. Detective police-officer Storey
stated, that on Monday night, a little before nine o'clock,
a gentleman lost his watch in Great George-street.
Three boys, who were then present, in coming along in
that district found a watch, which they gave to a police-
officer at the bottom of Mill-street. These boys had
several times been taken to the police-station to see if
they could point out the man to whom they had given the
watch, and had failed to do so ; however, they now swore
that the prisoner was the man to whom they had given it.
Mr. Owen submitted whether or not the case came within
the form of a felony. Mr. Mansfield said, that where
goods lost were given into the custody of a police-officer,
and he had failed to take them to the proper place for
their deposit, this was held to be felony. The prisoner
was placed under a general remand. In the course of
the evidence, it transpired that a gentleman who went up
at the time that the watch was given to the police-officer,
took the officer's name. The ground of remand was, in
order, if possible, to have this person produced.
GROUNDLESS CHARGE.—On Friday ayoung man named
George Ratcliffe Smith, in the employ of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Company, was placed in the dock on a
Customs' information. From the evidence adduced for
the prosecution, it appeared that on Wednesday the
young man presented to a Custom-house officer, at the
Waterloo Dock, a sight bill for three casks, which had
arrived from New York by the Atlantic. The officer
proceeded to have the casks opened for examination, and
while the cooper was operating on one of them, he tore
'the paper cover of a parcel inside. This revealed a quan-
tity of manufactured foreign tobacco, which was immedi-
ately seized. The tobacco was pointed out to the prisoner,
who said, " Yes, it has been sent from a friend in the
interior of America." He was then taken into custody.
For the defence, it was stated that Smith was a young
man of the best character, and had been in the employ of
the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company since its
opening. In this matter he was only acting in the usual
course of his business. The company had received instruc-
tions from Manchester to pass and forward these casks,
and Smith had the management of the matter entrusted to
him. The magistrates did not think it necessary to call
witnesses for the defence, as they considered the prose-
cutor had failed in showing that the young man had a
guilty knowledge of the tobacco being in the cask, and
the prisoner must therefore be discharged.
ILL-TRE ATING A WIFE.—Mr. Jas. Fen wick, flour-dealer,
Mill-street, appeared by sum mons before the magistrates on
a charge of ill•using his wife. On the previous Sunday
night, Mr. Fenwick came home a little before twelve
o'clock, and immediately turned the servant out of the
house ; he then went up to his wife's bedroom with a
gun, and, after locking the door and putting the key in
his pocket, sat himself down on a chair behind the door,
and said to her " Don't address your discourse to me,
but make your peace with God, for you have not long to
live." Mrs. Fenwick's screams brought assistance, and
the door was broken in. She made her escape from the
room, and begged a police-officer who had arrived to pro-
tect her, and take her to the house of a friend. This the
officer did, and there she remained. In summer Mr.
Fenwick's threats had caused his wife to flee from the
house for the period of three or four months. This state-
ment several witnesses were called to prove. Their exa-
mination showed a very unhappy state of matters between
the husband and wife. In his defence Mr. Fenwick
denied the charge, and stated that the gun was his son's,
a lad of 16 ; that he did not approve of his having so dan-
gerous an article at his age ; that on the night in question
he had taken the gun to lock it up, and was seeking the
powder-flask, when he went up stairs with the gun in his
hand. The magistrates strongly suggested a separate
maintenance, but at the same time they had heard suffi-
cient to show that the defendant had so wrought upon his
wife's nerves as to make her fear for her life; and :she
must, therefore, be protected. Mr. Fenwick was then
ordered to enter into his own recognizances for £2OO, and
to find two sureties for £lOO each, to keep the peace
towards his wife.

EMBEZZLEMENT.—WiIIiam Christopher Cartmell was
charged, on Tuesday, with having embezzled £l5, the
property of John Marshall, Esq.. barrister•at-law. The
prisoner was given a cheque for the amount, which he got
cashed, on the Bth instant, at the Borough Bank, and for
which he did not account. Sent for trial.

ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—On Tuesday, a female, calling
herself Jane Thornhill, was convicted in the penalty of
£3O, in default of payment to be imprisoned three
calendar months, for working an illicit still in Wright-
street
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Ball. surgeon, accompanied by some friends. ap-
peared, on Tuesday, at the police-court, and entered into
security, himself in £5O, and two sureties in £25 each, to
prosecute an appeal at the next sessions, in reference to
the charge lately preferred against him.

VIOLATIONS OF THE REVENUE LAWS.—On Tuesday,
Robert .Abernethy was convicted, on evidence, in the
penalty of £lOO, for concealing Bibs. of cigars on board
the Ingleborough, of which ship he was mate but not
paying the amount, he was committed to gaol.—James
Robson, master of the Patria, was fined £2 lls. Bd. for
secreting a piece of silk on his person ; and William Neill
was fined £1 14s. 6d. for secreting a foreign crape shawl.
CHILD STRIPPING.—A lad named Thomas Wilson was
sent to gaol for twenty-one days for stealing the shoes
and a belt from three children, to whom, in return, he
said he would bring them a bird.
STEALING TOBACCO FROM A SHIP'S STORES.—Wm.
Quinn, a seaman on board the Liverpool, was sent to gaol
for three months for having broken the Customs' seal
and stolen a quantity of tobacco from the ship's stores.
On Christmas Day, the stipendiary magistrate sat at a
quarter to ten o'clock to dispose of the drunk and disor-
derly cases. There.was the average number of cases of
this class. The charges of felony were allowed to stand
over until Friday.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Saturday last five young
fellows, named John Hooley, William Reed, William
Richards, William Williams, and Gilbert Lynas, were
charged with highway robbery under the following cir-
cumstances :—Robert M'lntosh was proceeding along
Dryden street, at a quarter past eight o'clock, accompa-
nied by a man named Pickavance. He was attacked by
the prisoners, who knocked him down and otherwise
abused him. The prisoners were all committed for trial.