The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-09 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

FRIDAY.
A rather respectable middle-aged man, named Wm. Patterson,
was placed before Mr. Alderman Robinson, charged with having
purloined several pairs of stockings front the shop of Mr. Beck-
with, hosie.• of Paradise-street, under the following circum-
stances prisoner, who is represented as a hawker of
wearing apparel, had gone into the shop of Mr. Beckwith on
several occasions to make purchases of stockings, and, previously
to leaving the premises generally made a trifling purchase of
a few pairs, and generally carried a pack with him, in which he
placed the articles he purchased. Suspicion fell upon the
prisoner after one of his former visits, when some stockings of
the same sort as those purchased by. the prisoner had been
missed, and it was accordingly determined to set a trap for him,
the next time he might. arour Mr. Beckwith with a call. The
shopmen were not long kept in suspense, for on Wednesday he
repeated his visit, and made a purchase of more stockings ;
though at that time they did not at once discover that the pri-
soner had made free with two pairs, for which he forgot to pay.
The goods must have proved a profitable speculation to the
prisoner, or he must have considered himself well used in the
establishment, for on the following day this indefatigable pur-
veyor of lambs' wool again presented himself ; and although
there -were baits equally tempting' exposed to his view, he
seemed determined that no other bait should cause him to nibble,
previously to entering the trap, but some good wholesale stock-
ings. Mr. Plum, one of the shopmen, went quite mellow at the
thought of the opportunity thus afforded him of detecting the
prisoner, should he at this time attempt to take away any part
of the " forbidden .fruit." With this view, Mr. Plum exhibited
to the delighted gaze of the prisoner a bundle of stockings,
with which the prisoner appeared much gratified, and to show
his due appreciation of the courtesies shown to him by Mr.
Plum, selected no less a number than seven pairs ! 1 Even
after this extensive purchase the prisoner seemed not to be
satisfied, and his head would still go a wool-gathering. He
desired to see a few more of a different colour, and was shown
some black cotton ones; from these he selected three pairs, with
which he closed his markets for that day. The prisoner ten-
dered his money, and was about to take his leave; but, before
he was allowed to depart with his purchase, the active Mr.. Plum
had kept a sharp look-out, and discovered, on taking notice of
the number purchased, and the number left behind, that three
pairs were missing from the two bucdles. The prisoner—the
man of stockings—was accordingly detained till the arrival of
Flockhart, the officer, when he was taken up stairs and searched,
and the'stolen property found deposited in his pack.,-He was
committed to the sessions.

Catherine Cennor appeared on a warrant, issued at the in-
stance of Mr. Forwood, charging her with keeping a discirderly
Cellar in Fairhurst-street, which was open at all hours for -the
reception of abandoned character; to the serious annoyance of
-the respectable portion of the inhabitants. Mr. Forwoott Said
that the woman had been requested to leave the cellar, but she
had thought fit not to comply with the request, and it was there-•
fire the deterinination of the parish to indict her at the sessions.
-She was ordered to find bail or to be imprisoned..
• A simple-lookiug countryman craved the advise of the magis--
trates, under the following circumstances:—He said that whiW
in company on Thursdiiy evening, over his glass, ht' purchased
a horse for two pounds, which he had since ascertained to be
stolen, but ho knew nothing whatever of the parties who had
thus imposed upon him. It was stated by one of the officers
that the poor simpleton had gone into company with some per-
sons, suppdied to be coach cads, who had practised upon com-
plainant's credulity by pretending to sell him a horse and har-
ness, which belonged to Mr. Thornely, coach proprietor, of this
town, and over which they had no control, it being at the time
harnessed to one of Mr. Thornley's coaches, and not in their
possession. A person named John Crawford was stated as being
one of the number concerned in this nefarious trick.—The ma-
gistrate told the applicant that it was out of his jurisdiction, and
advised the .complainant to find out the men, and prosecute
them for the fraud.

SATURDAT.—(Before Alderman LAWRENCE.)
Shelly, a watchman, produced an individual before Alder-
-man Lawrence, concerning whom he made the following state-
ment:—" Last night this man called after me in New Bird-
street, I went to see what he wanted, and found that be was
quite drunk. He requested me to take Care of him and his
money, as he considered that he was incapable of looking after
himself. As I knew of no safer place than Bridewell for such
a purpose, I took him there, and booked hi:n for safety." Al-
derman Lawrence told the man, that he ought to think himself
well off that there were persons provided to take better care of
hint and his money than he himself seemed capable of doing.
Fined ss. and discharged.
COUNTING Houss Ronneev.— Two well-known thieves,
named John Rice and Joseph Atkinson, were charged with
having broken into the counting house of Messrs Robert Rus-
sell:lnd Co., in Blundell-street, on the previous night, or early
that morning.—John Bryan, a man whose house adjoins the
premises of Messrs. Russell and tated before the magis-
trates that he and his wife heard, Co.,difiut half-past one o'clock,
footsteps in the room above that in which they slept, and which
room they knew to be Messrs. Russell and Co.'s counting
house. Bryan then got up and procured the assistance of fhe
watchman, and of Kelm,. the dock police officer. Bryan and
the watchman, accompanied by the warehouseman, whom they
had roused, proceeded to inspect the premises. They found the
window shutter of the outer office broken open. Under a
boat the watchman found some plane frames, plane-irons, and
other implements, which the prisoners had thrown from the
window. As they proceeded they found the doors and drawers,
&c., broken open, and the articles they contained scattered
about in confusion. Under a desk in the (Alice, the prisoner,
John Rice, was discovered by the watchman, and instantly se-
cured. Meanwhile, the dock. policeman, Keho, who hahackre-
mained outside, saw the other prisoner, Atkinson, put his head
out of a window and instantly withdraw it. He called to know
who it was, but received no answer. He whirled his rat'le, and
immediately heard the prisoner driving a hole through the roof.
Presently this purpose was effected, and he was seen running
along the slates of the roof, from which he dropped into the
yard; here, while attempting to escape into Blundell-street,
Kehl took him into custody. He was taken to the Station-
house and there examined, when a seal, with Mr. Russell's
crest upon it, and afterwards identified as his property, was
found in his possession. The other implements were also proved
to be the property of the firm. Some chisels, &c., found in pos-
sessioia of she prisoners, were produced, and James ghannon,
captain of the nightly watch, said he had compared them with
the marks on the drawers and doors, and they corresponded ex-
actly. Committed for trial at the borough sessions,

YESTERDAY.—(Before the MAYOR and Mr. Alderman
LAWRENCE.)
A SOLDIER NOT WORTH OWNING.—A man named Thomp-
son, who some time ago having confessed himself to be a de-
serter from the army was committed to the borough jail as such,
was brought before the magistrates again to-day, having suffered
a week's confinement in order to hear the report of the . war-
office, as to his disposal. The officer of the court here stated
that the secretary at war had been written to, and every inquiry
made, but the army refused to acknowledge the prisoner as
deserter. They, in fact, knew nothing of him, nor did they
want. Under these circumstances the prisoner was discharged,
his worship, the Mayor, informing him that the next ,time he
choose, to claim kindred with the army in a similar; way he
would get committed to the House of Correction as a rogue and
vagabond.
ANOTHER MOCK DESERTER.—A foolish-looking young fel-
low, dressed in a regimental suit; having the appearance of
what the sailors term a " Horse marine," was brought up
charred by a Dock police-officer with having obtained a night's
lodging, &c., in Bridewell, under the pretence of being a de-
serter froth the 74th regiment. It appeared from the evidence
that the prisoner had represented himself to the officer as hav-
ing deserted from the above regiment in Newry in consequence
of being flogged, but on Mr. Bacheldor, the Brideweil-keeper,
(an old soldier,) measuring him it was discovered that his height
was two inches less than the army standard, therefore he could
never have been enlisted as a soldier. Bacheldor added, that
the prisoner had talked about having served in Don Pedro's
army, and, front that circumstance, coupled with others, he had
no doubt the man was half an idiot.

A constable here said that the prisoner was one of the cheap
passengers by the Irish steam-packets, numbers of whom hay
recently been imported into Liverpool.
The Mayor asked bow much it would require to send the pri-
soner back to his own country ? "Only sixpence, said the con-
stable." Send him then by all means, returned the Mayor, and
if you see him on board, you need not be nice about giving. an
extra sixpence for his fare. (Laughter.)
THE LATE ACCIDENT IN VAUXHALL-ROAD.—HelirV Coglan,
a young fellow of disreputable character, (being a known thief,)
was charged by Mr. Vickers, of Vauxhall-road', on suspicion of
robbery on the ruins of the late accident in Maguire-street,
Vauxhall-road. From the evidence of Captain Herbert, of the
watch, it appeared that on Saturday night last the premises of
Messrs. Ring and Vickers were visited by thieves, and infor-
mation of the fact was communicated to the watch, who, on
searching the premises, found the prisoner concealed in an out-
house in the yard. The yard-door was locked, and there being
no doubt but the prisoner belonged to the gang who had attempt.
ed'a robbery that night, and who had stolen a quantity of lead
missed from the ruins a few days ago, he was taken into custody.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he was " a respectable
shopkeeper," residing in Maguire-stre.et, ard had gone into the
place where he- was found for the purpose of sleeping, being
locked out of his own house. The constables, however, who
were acquainted with his character, stated that he was not oily
" a disorderly," but something worse ; and the evidence of -the
" Black Book" proving the same, the magistrates committed
him for three months as a rogue and vagabond.
Ronneetes IN Peniic-HOUSES.—Publicans cannot he too
Much on their guard against a class of robbers who may aptly
he termed "Drunken thieves," who make a practice of peram-
bulating from public-house to public-house, in the strictest sense
to take
.a glass, for they not only swallow what the glass con-
tains, but the glass itself is swallowed by the pocket. Innu-
merable instances of this description of thieving occur daily.
To-day a thirsty rascal, and coveter of publicans' glasses, calling
himself Robert Williams, was charged with stealing three ale
glasses from the house of Mr. Grimshaw, Haymarket Tavern,
Haymarket, when the publican related a tong story of losses in
a similar way. It appeared that the prisoner went on Saturday
night to the Haymarket Tavern, and having drank a glass of
ate waited until-three other persons who were drinking in the
same room left, when he stole his own glass and their's also.
A little girl detected him, and the prisoner was followed into
the street. He denied having them, but on beiug searched,
they were found secreted on his person. In his defence the
prisoner stated that he was drunk, and bad several times asked
a watchman to put him in Bridewell. The watchman refused,
and as he was determined to obtain a night's lodgings he went
' into the public-house and stole the glasses. This was, of course,
taken for granted, but, as it was probable that three or four ,
months lodging might be also agreeable, the magistrates coin-
milted him to the sessions for trial.
A LADY BARRYMOHE.—Miss Molly Malone, an experienced
disorderly of mature age, who has spent one-half of the last
three years in jail by way of atonement for the misdeeds com-
mitted during the other half, was placed at the bar for the sixty-
second time charged with taking great pains with one oU her
shoes to break the windows of a publican in Tithebarn-street.
The publican stated, that on Saturday night the prisoner came
and asked for gin, which was refused in consequence of it being
known that she never paid for it. The denial being given, the
prisoner became outrageous, pulled off one of her shoes, com-
menced breaking glasses, and did not cease until she had de-
stroyed to the aliment of £l. 4s. A conveyancer of disorderly
bodies in the person of a watchman being near, Miss Molly
was, of course, handed over to him.
Mr. Shuttleworth, the magistrates' clerk, remarked that the
prisoner was something like the late celebrated Lady Barry-
•more, of London, being constantly before the magistrates for a
a similar offence.
The Mayor asked the priiioner what he should do with her.
She appeared quite incorrigible.
The prisoner replied that she supposed he must send her back
to jail. The fact was, (she said,) the constables brought her
for her good nature. It was good nature that caused her to get
druuk and kick up rows.-,Committed for two mouths to the
House of Correction.

POETICAL ANKCDOTE.—Mr. , in his poem, makes trees
coeval with chaos; which is next door to Hans Sachse, who,
in describing chaos, said it was so pitchy dark that even the
very cats ran agaiu,st each other.