The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

At the police-court on Wednesday a number of persons
were fined for letting cellars which were not constructed in
conformity with the requirements of the Sanitory Act.
THE SANATORY LAW.—On Saturday several persons
were summoned for keeping pigs in Beech-street, which
were a nuisance to the neighbourhood. Mr. Davenport,
on their behalf, promised that the styes should be removed
that day; but Mr. Rushton said he had come to the de-
termination to enforce strictly the Sanatory Law, and in-
flicted in each case a penalty of 20s. and costs.
ARTFUL THEFT.—On Saturdaann Green, a wretched
looking middle-aged woman, only that morning liberated
from gaol, was charged with having stolen some blankets,
the property of a poor woman, who had given her shelter,
and (on a pretence which she made of being ill) had al-
lowed ber, although a stranger, to go up stairs and lie
down in the bed. There was a second charge against
the prisoner, but as the evidence in both cases was un-
fortunately inefficient to convict, she was discharged.
WANT OF FAISON DISCIPLINE.—On Friday, Frances
Kelly, a middle-aged woman, was committed for trial by
Mr. Rushton, charged with having stolen a dress-piece
from the shop of Mr. Lewis, Great George-street. The
prisoner had been sentenced in September, 1842, to seven
years' transportation, and got off with three years. In
November, 1845, she was sentenced to transportation for
life, and got off with three years and a half; and last
June, she was imprisoned six months. When sentenced
to transportation, she was not sent out of England, but
endured her seven years of imprisonment in the aggro,
gate in this country.
A BAD PULLEY.—On Saturday, Mr. John Westhead,
flour-dealer, Great Howard-street, was fined twenty
ssil-
Itngs and costs, Mr-hauling up to Ms warehouse some
barrels of flour without proper rope or pulley. A police-
officer stated that on the occasion in question the pulley
appeared to have gone wrong, and the men engaged pulled
up the barrels with a rope held in their hands. One of
the barrels slipped, and fell upon the head of a poor
working man who was passing at the time, and who was
seriously injured. Mr. Rushton said Mr. Westhead was
liable to a penalty of ten pounds. He would mitigate it
to twenty shillings and costs, in order that he might make
compensation to the poor injured man, who had a clear
case against him. He- had better compromise the matter
with him.

POVERTY AND CRIME. Five young women were
brought up on Thursday, charged by a man named Robt.
Roberts with stealing a loaf from his shop on the previous
evening. They were all young women of poor but re-
spectable appearance, and one of them stated that she had
stolen the loaf, and that they had all partaken of it. Her
reason for doing so, she said, was that they were starving.
In answer to inquiries from Mr. Rushton, she stated that
they had all been at the Night Asylum for the last three
weeks—that she had applied to Mr. Simpson at the parish-
office for relief, and he told her to go for it to where she
came from—that the was born in Liverpool, had been five
years in Manchester, and they were all at present out of
work. Mr. Parkinson said the prisoners were not known
and that only one of them had been there before. The
case was remanded, to give time to make inquiry into the
truth of the charge made by the prisoner against Mr.
Simpson, the relieving officer.
IMPUDENT ATTEMPT TO Ron.—On Wednesday a re-
spectable seafaring man called a cab at the stand in Lime-
street about seven o'clock, with the view of proceeding to
an hotel in Regent-street. Immediately on his doing so, a
man named John. Taylor said to him, " Sir, I'll fetch you
a good cab," and shortly after he came to him in com-
pany with a cabman whose name and number he did not
know. The prisoner and the cabman were talking toge-
ther when he was getting inside ; and as soon as he was
seated the prisoner came into the cab also and sat down.
In this way they proceeded down Dale-street, and on till
they reached Waterloo-road, when the prisoner began to
be abusive, and struck the complainant several times in
the face. He then attempted to pull his watch out of his
pocket, but in this he was defeated by the exertions which
he made to save his property. While this was going on
he called to the cabman as loudly as he could to stop the
car; but this the cabman did not heed, as he drove on
until within a short distance of the hotel, when he
stopped, and his accomplice got out and left the party.
The cries of the seaman then brought a policeman, who
apprehended Taylor, who was brought before Mr. Rush-
ton on Thursday. Further inquiry was ordered to be
made, as there appeared to be some doubt as to the-iden-
tification of the parties.