The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-27 00:00:00

POLICE COURT.-MONDAY.

Our Police-court yesterday contained, with the exception
of one case, which we report below, no business worthy of
being noticed. It is satisfactory, however, to observe the
decided improvement in the morality of the town. which
continues to manifest itself as the result of the regulation for
closing the public-houses from 12 o'clock on Saturday night
until one o'clock on Sunday. The number of cases brought
up yesterday was only 80, instead of upwards of 150, the usual
number in time past. Of these there were for
Felony
Drunk and disorderly 39
Other offences ..

• 80
Six more cusps, we believe, were taken subsequently. to
this statement.'" Between the hours of five o'clock in the
morning and one at noon on Sunday, only one prisoner was
apprehended, and that for felony ; and, until five in the
afternoon, only five, viz :
For Felony
Drunk and disorderly .

• 5
ILLEGALLY PAWNING.—A woman, of middle age, was
brought up for snatching a pair of boots from a girl whom
she had accompanied to redeem them from pledge, and sub-
sequently pledging them in her own name for 2s. Bd. She
was fined, the facts having been distinctly proved, 555. and
costs, with the amount for which the boots were pledged.
A middle-aged woman, decently dressed, was brought up
for stealing twopence from a child in Convert-street. The
mother, who appeared as a witness, stated that on Monday
morning (yesterday) she gave her little girl twopence, her
week's school money, with which she was proceeding to St.
Andrew's Infant School, when she was stopped in Concert-
street by the prisoner, and the money taken from her. The
prisoner was seized with the money upon her person. The
magistrate, after commenting upon the cruelty of robbing a
poor woman who devoted her savings to so meritorious a
purpose as the education of her children, sentenced the pri-
soner to one months' imprisonment.
ASSAULT BY TURN-OUT ROPERS.—TWO men, named
Cooper and Barker, were placed at the bar, charged with
committing an assault, accompanied with great violence, on
two ropers, named Winterbottom and Green, employed at
Mr. Jackson's ropery, Old Swan. It appeared from the
evidence that there has recently been a turn-out amongst the
men employed in the various roperies in this town ; and that
the prosecutors, who had at first left their employment at
Mr. Jackson's, had subsequently returned to work at what
was thought by the rest of the trade to be sufficient wages.
For this offence threats of violence have been levelled against
them by the turn-outs ; and on Saturday last the assault
complained of was committed upon them by the two prison-
ers and a man named David Jones, not in custody. These
parties having met them at the eorner of St. Andrew-street,
Copperas-hill, much abusive language was directed towards
them, the prosecutors being denominated " black sheep,"
and other slang names used by working men on similar occa-
sions. The prisoner Cooper, who is a powerful man, at
length struck Winterbottom a severe blow on the head, from
the effects of which he fell, and Green was knocked down by
the man David Jones, arid severely kicked, whilst on the
ground, by the prisoner Cooper. By this t reatment his head
was severely cut, his cheek scarred, and his handkerchief'
and shirt soaked with blood. The prosecutors at length got
away to their own homes. About three-quarters of an hour
afterwards, however, a mob wss heard outside their house,
and several persons forced themselves up the passage of the
court in which the prosecutors lived, making use of very vio-
lent language towards the black sheep ;" and after a short
time, when the turmoil had a little subsided, Winterbottom
ventured out, followed by Green, and the two prisoners, by
the aid of a policeman, were taken into custody. The case
was very clearly made out by the evidence of the complain-
ants •, and after the prisoners had been heard in reply, Mr.
Rushton, after characterizing in strong terms the conduct of
the turn-outs in interfering to prevent men who were willing
to work from selling their 'labour at their own price, sen-
tenced Cooper to pay a fine of £5, and find bail for £2O, in
two sureties of £lO each. As Barker' though one of the
turn-outs, was not proved to have used violence, he was or-
dered to find similar bail. The magistrate intimated that
the rigour of the law should be visited upon such offences in
future •, and that he should grant a warrant for the man
David Jones.

PARLIAMENTARY REVISION, 1812.

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