The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-21 00:00:00

SOUTH LANCASHIRE SUIIMER

ASSIZES.

CROWN COURT.—TUESDAY, AUGUST 14.
(Before Baron Platt.)
SENTENCES.—Joseph Hall, convicted of uttering forged £5
Bank of England notes, at Manchester, on the 18th June, wa
sentenced to 15 years transportation.—Matthew Bell,plasterer,
was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour,
for bigamy, at Manchester.—Thomas Taylor, collier, charged
with a burglary, at Bolton, on the 22nd May last, was sen-
tenced to 9 months' imprisonment, with hard labour.— George
Marsden, block-printer, found guilty of burglary, at Man-
chester, on the 3rd April last, was ordered to be imprisoned for
8 months, with hard labour.—Terence Lynch, farm servant,
for a burglary at Aston, on the 16th January last, was sentenced
to 12 months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
STABBING AT WARRINGTON.—PatriCk MalThioD, labourer,
charged with having, on the 30th April last, stabbed Thomas
Kelly, iu Bridge-street, Warrington, was convicted and sen-
tenced to be imprisoned for 12 months, with hard labour.
CASE AGAINST MESSRS. BAHR, BERREND, AND COMPANY
—Mr. Atherton, Q.C., applied for the discharge of the recog-
nisances of the witnesses in the charge made against George
William Bahr and David Behrend, of having, at Liverpool, on
the 19th January, 1854, obtained a British registry for the
Russian ship Atlantic. The learned counsel said he made the
application on the recommendation of the Attorney-general,
and it was grounded on the fact that the defendants had already
been sued in the Court of Exchequer, where penalties had been
recovered against them.—The application was granted.
STEALING FROM A DWELLING-HOUSE.—Catherine Roberts,
servant, and William Jones, potato-dealer, were indicted, the
former with having at Wavertree, on the 30th of June last,
stolen a watch and a quantity of wearing apparel, the pro-
perty of Edward Davies, residing at Wavertree, and the male
prisoner with having feloniously received the same, knowing
them to have been stolen. The female prisoner was found
guilty, and the male prisoner was acquitted. His lordship
instructed the prosecutor that he was entitled to his property
without paying the pawnbrokers anything.
BURGLARY AT WARRINGTON.—Joseph Partington, baker,
was indicted for having at Warrington, on the 26th of March
last, burglariously entered the dwelling-house of William Gre-
gory, and stolen therefrom about £lO, in copper money. The
prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to four years' penal
servitude.

STABBING AT PENNINGTON.—DanieI Gardner, hawker, was
indicted for having at Pennington, on the 12th of June last,
feloniously stabbed Thomas Collier, with intent to do him
some grievous bodily harm. He was found guilty, and sen-
tenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
GAROTTE ROBBERY AT ABRTON-IN-MACRERFIELD.—Mat-
thew Danson, collier, was indicted for having, on the 16th of
June, in company with several other persons at present un-
known, feloniously assaulted a farm labourer, named Samuel
Salisbrey, and robbed him of ss. The prisoner was found
guilty, and sentenced to be transported for fifteen years.