The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-05 00:00:00

were produced, and it appeared that he had sold two of them at
different times to a man for two-pence each, and had made a
present of the third to another boy. He admitted that he had
been in the practice of taking papers containing hilf-a-dozen
at a time.

BURGLARS CAUGHT. --John Evans Croucher and Thomas Wil-
liams were committed, for trial, charged with burglarious)
y
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Mrs, Mary Woody
in Church-street, and stealing therein a bottle of wine.—The
wife of a car-driver living in Clayton-lane, was sitting up for her
husband, between three and four o'clock on Tuesday morning,
when she heard some persons walking up and down the lane.
—She put out her: light, and looked through the window,
and saw three men in the lane, two of whom got over
the back door, and,into the yard behind Mre. M. Wood's
house, and immediately afterwards shi heard the breaking,
of a pane of glass, and a cracking noise like the breaking
open of a door. She then called the watch, and the man who
had remained in the lane ran away. One of the watchmen
got over into the :yard, and opened the back door, arid then
proceeded with his comrades to search the premises.. They
found that a pane of glass had been broken in the back cellar
window, by which means the hasp that fastened it was un-
hooked. The cellar door was found to have been forced open,
and a tattle of wing had been taken out, which was found on
the steps of the kitchen door in the 37ard. Several marks of vio-
lence were visible on: the kitchen door, caused by the forcible
application of a crow-bar. The parties who had thus been dis-
turbed in their operations, had passed out through the front cel-
lar into Church-street, leaving the door open. While this search
was making, the watchman of Williamson-square saw the two
prisoners run along Tyrer-street, and pursued them, He over-
took Williams; Croucher, whose person he distinctly recog-
nised, made his escape, but was apprehended about seven
o'clock, in bed in a house in Ben Johnson-etreet. On the per-
son of Williams was found a crow-bar which exactly fitted the
marks in the cellar window and back kitchen door of
Mrs. 'Wood's ; and the watchman in Cases-street; iden-
tified the prisoners as two men whom he had seen in that
street, about sixty yards from the back door of Mrs. Woods'
house, at half-past three o'clock that morning. Croucher was
formerly employed by Mrs. Wood, as a porter, but left her
service about three weeks ago
.;—and '—and a curious circumstance,
corroboratiVe of the identity of Williams with one of the two
men seen by the car-driver's wife to get over the wall,,is the
finding of a coat-button in the yard adjoining Mrs. Wood's
premises, close to the door which that witness describes them
to have got over, which button corresponds (as to the maker's
name and general appearance), with the set on the coat worn
by Williams at the time when the watchman caught him, one
of which set was missing from the right hand side of the breast
part of the coat, having probably been rubbed off in getting
over the wall.