The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

JUVENILE OFFENDERS.--SIOTey, the active police-
officer, charged Charles Turner and William Bradburn,
two urchins, with having attempted to rob several shops
in Pitt-street, about five o'clock on Thursday evening.
Turner, the elder lad, who is a notorious thief, was com-
mitted to prison for three months ; the other, an ex-
tremely young boy, was sent to the overseer.
EXTENSIVE ROSSERY.-Edward Turner, a warehouse..
man in the employ of Messrs. Sanders and Claxton, corn
merchants, was on Thursday committed for trial at the
sessions, by Mr. Rushton, on a charge of stealing a large
number of bags, the property of his employers. Papers
in possession of a witness named Brierley, of Preston,
proved that the latter had purchased 3,000 of the bags
from the prisoner at different times for £42, all of which
were afterwards sold in Preston and its neighbourhood.

DEFRAUDING AN EMIGRANT.—On Saturday, John
Byrne, a middle-aged man, was charged with having
been a party to defrauding, by false pretences, Pat Carley,
a poor Irishman, of a sum of £2 10s. The statement of
the complainant was to the effect that, on Tuesday
morning, the prisoner and Mr. Jones, the second mate of
the packet-ship Siddons, came-to his lodgings, and offered
him a passage to New York in that vessel for £2 10s.
(the only money be had), if he would consent to act as
"Jemmy Duck," and feed the fowls on board ship. To
this the poor fello-w consented, and the party, which also
included a person named Gaskill, adjourned to a neigh-
bouring public-house. Carley paid the money to the
prisoner, who handed it to Jones. He went on board the
Siddons, was stowed away by the second mate, but dis-
covered, turned off, and the vessel has since gone to sea.
Gaskill appeared in court to testify apparently in favour of
the prosecutor. He had suggested, he said, a receipt pro-
duced, as a security for the money which was paid down.
Mr. Rushton expressed his opinion that the witness
Gaskill, who had come under pretence of serving Carley,
was one of the same class as the others, and lived by
plundering poor passengers of their money. The prisoner
spoke up and said, " Yes ; he got 10s. of the money. I
only got three glasses of brandy." Mr. Rushton, after
referring to the act, ordered the prisoner to be put back,
and an information to be laid against him. He indig-
nantly ordered Gaskill about his business, and said,
" Never let me see you here again, either as a witness or
in any other character."
DARING ROBBERY.—OIIe of the most barefaced rob-
beries that has ever been committed in this town was per-
petrated on Thursday evening at the shop of Mr. Sewell,
watchmaker, of South Castle-street. About a quarter
before seven o'clock, Mr. Sewell's foreman was alarmed
by hearing one of the shop windows, which are made of
strong plate glass, smashed from the outside with a brick,
and instantly some person in the street snatched eight
gold watches and two gold cases, of the value of £l2O, or
thereabouts, with which the thief made off. The shop-
man instantly rushed to the shop door, with the view of
pursuing the plunderers, but to his great surprise he found
that the door had been secured on the outside by turning
the cross-bar, so that it was utterly impossible that he
could get out without the assistance of some person in
the street who unfastened the door. It appears, however.
that some other parties had seen the transaction, and not
only captured one of the thieves, but they also recovered
some of the stolen property. Three men were seen lurk-
ing about the Belvidere Hotel, and one of them having
given something to the other two, the party went towards
Mr. Sewell's shop. After staying near the door for a
short time, one of them smashed a window, and having
stolen the watches and divided them as quickly as possi-
ble between them, they ran off in different directions. A.
police-officer. who bad seen part of the transaction, pur-
sued one man named William Power, and tripped him,
causing him to drop something which proved to be a gold
watch. Ultimately, in consequence of the alarm, a num-
ber of persons joined in the pursuit, and the prisoner was
overpowered and captured. Another gold watch was
picked up by a boy in Gilbert-street ; a third was picked
up by a little boy named Robert Price, and a person
named Pickford found the case of a gold watch. The
value of the property recovered was stated to be about
£5O. It is much to be regretted that the prisoner's com-
panions escaped with the remainder of their booty. On
Friday, Power was brought up before Mr. Rushton l►ttd
committed for trial.