The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-24 00:00:00

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STEALING FROM A SLAUGHTER-110USE.—Yesterday, al
the Police-court, a man named William Hughes was placei
at the bar. He had been apprehended on Wednesday fore•
noon, while offering some lead for sale at a marine-store it
Harrington-street, and which was probably stolen, but a
much heavier offence having afterwards attached itself to
him, the former charge was not proceeded with. It appeared
that a person named Phillips, who has a slaughter house in
No. 1 Court, Key-street, had from time to time missed con-
siderable quantities of meat, and latterly the carcass of a
lamb and another of a sheep. An entrance to the place had
been effected by scaling a back wall about eight feet high,
and the meat taken. The animals were slaughtered on, Tues-
day morning and missed on the following morning, when in-
formation was given to the police. After he had been ap-
prehended on suspicion of having stolen the lead, two officers
went to his house, which is not far from the slaughter-house,
and found portions of the lamb and sheep, part of them
wrapped in a leather apron, some hid in a straw bed, some
tied in rags, and some concealed in the fire-grate. The man
who had slaughtered the beasts identified part of the lamb
from the peculiar way in which it was dressed, which (he
being a stranger in the town) was different from the practice
here, as he pointed out. The whole of the meat was much
soiled with dirt, and, apparently, soot. A little boy, who
lived in the court, said he was sitting up on Tuesday night
waiting for his uncle, who was attending his club ' • and about
eleven o'clock, be saw a man in the yard, coming down from
the wall by a door. The prisoner ran away. He had no
doubt of the prisoner being the same man. It appeared also
that there was glass on the top of the wall, and the prisoner's
hand was cut, as if by it, when he was apprehended. The
prisouer attempted a defence—alleging that on the night in
question he was lying drunk in a public-house, and that the
cut in his hand was produced by a knife, with which a man
had previously assaulted him. He called the names of seve-
ral witnesses to prove this, but only one woman appeared,
and her evidence being by no means satisfactory on that
point, he was committed to take his trial at the sessions.
BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—After the usual routine of busi-
ness had been transacted on Tuesday last, the board pro-
ceeded to consider the report presented by Messrs. Stewart,
Holmes, Wightman, Picton, and Cunningham' the five sur-
veyors appointed to examine the designs which had been sent
for approval in reference to the new schools for the work-
house. The report having been read, which unanimously
recommended the plans No. 8 and No. 34, for the first and
second prizes, it was moved by Mr. Wm. Earle and seconded
by Mr. Arthur Henderson, that it be adopted. Mr. Cooper
moved as an amendment, which was seconded by Mr. Kil-
shaw, " That the designs No. 24 and No. 8 having been de-
cided by the board to be entitled to the first and second
prizes, if they could be executed for the sum specified, the
authors be called upon to prove whether this can be done, and
that the motion of last week, being irregular, be rescinded."
On a division the original motion was carried by a majority
of eleven to ten. The following is a list of those who voted .
For the original motion—Rector Campbell, Mr. Deakin,
Mr. Thornely, Mr. Henderson, Mr. Renshaw, Mr. Foster,
Mr. Paton, Mr. Dover, Mr. Ackers, Mr. Rimmer, Mr.
Earle. For the amendment—Mr. Hand. Mr. Kilshaw,
Mellor, Mr. Urquhart, Mr. Groom, Mr. Scholfield,
Cooper, Mr. Clapham, Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. Whitby. It
No. 24 be included with No. 8
Mr. Clapham, that t plan for which
was afterwards moved by Mr. Scholfield, and seconded by
and No. 34 in ascertaining the expense for which they can be
executed. This motion was negatived by a majority of 12 to
8. The following are the names the motion—Mr.
Hand, Mr. Kilshaw, Mr. Groom, Mr. Scholfield, Mr.
Wilkinson, Mr. Whitby.
Campbell,iVir. Mr. Mellor, Mr. Deakin,
Mr. Thornely,Mr.
MC Cooper, p
AgainstPaton,r , lir•tAci C:.
for a
Dover,
aemneraon, Mr. Renshaw, Mr. Foster,
Mr. Ackers, Mr. Rimmer, Mr.
Earle.