The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-01 00:00:00

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Kirkdale gaol, for trial, charged with the manslaught
Robt. White, of Fontenoy-street, by running over
with a car.

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A RESPECTABLE FAMILY.—On Saturday a broth,

—.rah Ann Dug-
dale, were charged with stealing a quantity of furniture
and £45 18s. belonging to their brother Edwin Dugdale.
The prosecutor stated that the robbery was committed
whilst he was in prison under an excise fine for having a
still. The prisoners took the goods out of the house and
sold them to a broker, and the money was missing. The
prisoner Thomas Dugdale denied any knowledge of the
money ; but said the furniture was his. The reason it

was sold was, he had the misfortune " to get two month..
for a bit of a job of a waistcoat ;" and his sister, who had
taken her brother's child whilst he was in prison had to
dispose of the furniture in order to support it. The case
assumed a very complicated aspect; there seeming not
much to choose between the accused and the accuser. Mr_

Rushton ordered the Pri;One;;TOI;edi;e1;';;;Cl'

YESTERDAY.

DOG STEALING.—A man named William Owens, in
custody for having stolen two pointers from the Woodside
Hotel, was handed over to the Birkenhead police.
Suspicious CHARACTERS.—EIIen Hawkins, Margaret
Butterworth, and Catherine Butterworth, three women
known to the police, were remanded on suspicion of hav-
ing been concerned in a robbery of serious extent. A sum
of £35, together with a valuable gold watch, was found in
their possession.

STREET ROBBERY,—John Ball, a known thief, was
committed for trial charged by a Jersey sailor, who gave
his name as Francis Le Morquincl, with having stopped
him about two o'clock on Sunday morning, in Pellew-
street, and stolen his watch.

POCKET PlCKlNG.—Notwithstanding the number of
captures recently made by the police, the light-fingered
gentry seem to pursue their nefarious avocation with un-
abated energy. Several of the class were taken in St.
John's Market and the neighbourhood on Saturday even-
ing, and summarily convicted yesterday ; many of them
were extremely young. The following was the most im-
portant case :—three girls of 18 or 20, named Hannah
Martin, Martha Welsh, and Anne Hands, were charged
with having picked the pocket of a French lady in Great
Charlotte-street, of 175., on Saturday afternoon, and
shortly afterwards of picking the pocket of a Mrs. Ra-
venscroft, of Church View, Bootle, in Dale-street, of a
purse containing two half sovereigns, a duplicate ticket,
&c. Mary Anne Rose, barmaid at the Flying Horse,
Dale-street, stated that the prisoners came into the above
public-house, but hastily left in consequence of the police
being on their track. As soon as they had gone out she
picked up an empty purse. This purse was identified by
Mrs. Ravenscroft. Upon the person of Martin a sum of
money amounting to £3 79. was found, among which
were two half-sovereigns, and a number of half-crowns,
(of which the money taken from Mrs. R. consisted.) The
charge was brought home to them so clearly that Mr.
Owens, their advocate, looked very blank, when Mr.
Rushton rather drily asked what he had to say for the
ladies. Mr. Owen (hesitatingly) : It looks very likely to
be brought home. Mr. Rushton: Likely? it is brought
home, not likely but tightly. They were adjudged three
months' imprisonment.
IMPUDENT BURGLARY.—Jno. Leigh and Geo. Leech
were remanded on a charge of having stolen some articles
of furniture, such as a chest of drawers, &c., from a
house in Midgliall-street. It appeared the house had for
a short time been untenanted, the furniture remaining
until it could be conveniently removed. These circum-
stances were known to one of the fellows, who seems, un.
der pretence of selling some furniture to the other, to
have procured his assistance in concealing the goods in a
stable to which he had access.

JUVENILE CRIME.—Much attention has of late been
given to the subject of juvenile crime, its sources and its
remedies. Yesterday a case was heard which revealed in
all its deformity the abominable system of tutoring to
which young children are subjected by abandoned charac-
ters, who subsist upon the gains of their unfledged prey.
A child named Johanna Gibson was charged with having
stolen a shirt, which shirt was found at a pawnbroker's
shop, where it had been pledged for one shilling and six-
pence. It appeared a woman named Kelly was at the
bottom of the case, and she had accordingly been taken
from her abode, in the neighbourhood of Vauxhall-road,
to the police-office. While in the office, she appeared to
be in the last stage of consumption, and so debilitated that
Mr. Superintendent Clough had her conveyed home,
fearing she would expire in the office. The child's father
said the woman was the sole criminal in the case ; she
had allured his child from his roof, from which she was ab-
sent sometimes for six weeks at a time. She had given
the child a penny to get the shirt from the mangle, which
was done under false pretences.—Mr. Rushton directed
that the police surgeon should be sent to ascertain the
state of the woman, and the child was put down to be dis-
posed of after the case had received his consideration.

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