The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-11-27 00:00:00

SATURDAY, Nov. 24.

Samuel Nowlan was convicted of having unstamped Almanacks in
his possession, and committed to the House of Correction for one
month.

James Scott, William Wright, and Joseph M'Culloch, three able-
bodied well-dressed men, who seem to have had no regular occupa-
tion, were committed for trial on a charge of robbing Samuel Keene,
of a pocket book, containing seventeen sovereigns, and three Ameri-
can bank notes for five dollars each. The prosecutor, who is steward
of the Monongahela, Philadelphia packet ship states, that about
eight o'clock on last Monday evening, he went into Mrs. Wyatt's
public-house, in Williamson-square, and was shown by Mrs. Wyatt
into a parlour, where she said there were two gentlemen. On enter-
ing the room he saw the prisoners Scott and Wright, and having
called for some brandy, he took out his pocket book, and taking half-
a-sovereign from it to pay for the liquor, returned it again into
his trousers' pocket. He was sitting close to Scott and Wright at that
time and while he was paying for his brandy, the other prisoner
M'-
Culloch entered the room and gave Wright some money, and the
three then entered into some conversation which he did not over-
hear. The prosecutor began to smoke a cigar, and the prisoner,
Wright, asked him for one which he gave him, and afterwards they
got into conversation together, in course of which, Wright showed
him a pair of braces, which he said a lady had made him a present of,
to whom he wished tointroduce the prosecutor, which oiler the latter
declined, but, on the matter being pressed he consented to accompany
Wright to her house for haif an hour. Scott and 31' Culloch then
said they also knew the lady and would go with them, and they all
proceeded together to the house of Mrs. Margaret Eachus, 45, Great
Newton-street, where Scott enquired for Maria Eachus, who, Mrs.
Eachus said was gone to Mrs. Rogers's, in Gildart-street, whither
they then went, and on being shown into a parlour, one of the pri-
soners called for a bottle of wine. A bottle of port, and afterwards
two of sherry were brought in, and Maria Eachus entered the room
and was introduced to prosecutor by Wright, who he had never seen
before, as " a particular friend" of his. The prosecutor drank
four glasses of wine, and afterwards took out his pocket-book and
gave " one of the ladies" (Mrs. Rogers was present) a sovereign, and
Wright gave him six • shillings in change. He then returned his
pocket-book to his trowsers pocket, which he buttoned up. 'He
then began to feel very heavy and drowsy, and shortly afterwards
Maria Eachus said she was going home, and the prisoners and
prosecutor went with her, the latter walking arm-in-arm with S. M.
Ile walked with great difficulty, but was pefectly conscious of all that
passed. When they got to Mrs. Eachus's house, they'all went into
the parlour together, and Wright called for a bottle of wine. and in
about half an hour, Wright proposed to take him to bed, and accord-
ingly Scott and he helped him up stairs, and he remembered nothing
more than that they threw him down on his face, he fell asleep, and
awaking next morning he found himself lying in bed, with all his
clothes on, but his trowsers pocket was unbuttoned, and the pocket-
book with its contents was gone. He then told Mrs. Eachus that he had
been robbed, and she said if it were so, it was by the gentlemen who
had put him to bed, who had left word that they were staying at the
Bull Inn, Clayton-square, which on enquiry he found to be false
He then went to the Police-office and stated these circumstances,
in consequence of which, Turner, the constable, apprehended
M'Culloch on Thursday evening at the Globe Tavern, in Russel-
street, and calling there again the next morning, received a note ad-
dressed to M'Culloch, which he opened. It was to request M'Cul-
loch to meet Scott at the Throstle Nest Hotel, whither he accordingly
proceeded, and took him into custody, and in the same afternoon he
found the prisoner Wright, at dinner at Clarke's public house, at
Windsor. They all, on being taken, denied any knowledge of this
business ; but Wright said it was very lucky Turner had taken him
then for he was "in another hobble," and should have set off for
Birmingham as soon as he had dined.---Mrs. Eachus states, that when
she hia placed 'the bottle of wine on the table, after the party had re-
turned to her house, she went up stairs, and shortly afterwards she
saw Wright and Scott pulling the prosecutor up stairs. The latter ap-
peared quite insensible, and Scott held him up, and told her to go out
of The room as they were going to undress him. She then saw Wright
unbutton the trowsers pocket of the prosecutor, and heard "him say,
" it's all right," upon which Scott threw the prosecutor forward on to
the bed, with his face downwarda, and they left him. She asked why
they had not pulled, his boots off, and they said he would do well
enough for a couple of hours, and she must then awaken him, and
turn him out, and he would know where to go to. They then went
down stairs to M'Culloch, who had remained below, and there' they
told Maria Eachus they 'should' be much obliged by the prosecutor
being allowed to stay all night, as he was a particular friend of theirs,
and, that if she would get him some breakfast in the morning, they
would call for him about nine o'clock ; and they then, all three, left
the house together.