The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-11 00:00:00

TilE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE WINTER

A SSIZES.

(Before Mr. Justice Wightman.)
TUESDAY, DEC. 4.
ASSAULT AND ROBBERY AT MANMESTER.—Joseph Arm-
strong (18), cabinet-maker, James Carroll (29), brass-founder,
and Robert Williams (35), joiner, were indicted for assaulting
John Rowan, on the night of the 20th Oct., at Manchester,
and robbing him of a watch, bunch of keys, and other articles,
worth altogether about £B. There was also another indict-
ment against Armstrong, for assaulting Thomas Lloyd, on the
17th Oct., and robbing him of a watch and chain, worth £B.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty against Armstrong and
Williams. Carroll was found not guilty. The second indict-
ment against Armstrong was not gone into. The prisoners
were sentenced each to four years' penal servitude.
GROSS OUTRAGE UPON A POLICE SERGEANT.—John Moss
(37), shoemaker, and William Young (23), watch-maker, were
indicted for having, on the 23rd Oct., violently maltreated a
sergeant of the county police, William Lawton, with intent
to murder him. The outrage took place on the 23rd of Oct.
The jury found both prisoners guilty of a grievous assault, but
without intent to kill. An indictment for a common assault
will be preferred against them.
STABBING.—Richard Baxendale (35), cotton-spinner, was
indicted for the committal of an assault, with intent to do
grievous bodily harm, upon George Hitchwell, at Cuerdon.
The prosecutor and the prisoner, on the 26th Aug., were drink-
ing together in a plantation at Cuerdon, and, having quarrelled
about the change for some liquor, they fought, and, during the
fight, the prisoner cut the prosecutor several times with a
knife. The jury found a verdict of unlawfully wounding, and
the prisoner was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment,
with hard labour.
BURGLARY. John Jones (26), collier, indicted for having
at Oldham, on the 14th Oct., burglariously entered the dwell--
ing-house of Bernard Murray, and stolen two jackets, a waist-
coat, and two handkerchiefs, was found guilty, and sentenced
to penal servitude for five years.
The court rose at half-past six o'clock.

DAY
The court sat at ninWEDNESe o'clock. .
HOUSEBREAKING APD BURGLARY AT MANCHESTER.—
William Machin (19), and Mary Parry- (19), were indicted for
breaking into the house of John M`Gill, a grocer, at Manches-
ter, on the night of the 21st Oct. last. William Turton, on
arraignment for the same offence, had pleaded guilty. Verdict,
guilty. Sentences : Turton, fifteen years' transportation ;
Machin, eight years' penal servitude ; Mary Parry, two months'
imprisonment. Machin and Turton had each pleaded guilty
to other indictments for burglary, and previous convictions
were proved against them.
George Bagshaw, clerk (1S), and John Cotterill, stone-
mason (21), were indicted for breaking into the house of
Thomas Whitehead, in Dolphin-street, Hulme, on the night
of the 13th Sept., and stealing property to the value of £2O.
They were both found guilty. A previous conviction was
proved against Bagshaw, and he was sentenced to five years'
penal servitude. Cotterill was sentenced to twelve months'
imprisonment, with hard labour.
CIIAPEL BREAKING AT MANCHESTRR.—Josiah Crook (22),
spindle and file-maker, was charged with sacrilege, in stealing
£2 from the Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Chad's, in Man-
chester. Verdict, guilty. Several previous convictions were
proved against the prisoner. In 1852, he was found guilty of
breaking into an Established Church, and in Aug., 1854, at
the Liverpool assizes, he was sentenced to twelve months' im-
prisonment for a similar crime, so that he could only have been
about three- weeks out of goal when he committed the present
offence. His lordship sentenced him to six yexrsr penal servi-
tude.

BURGLARY AT SALFORD.—John Coupe (21); blacksmith,
was indicted for breaking into the house of William Brassing-
ton, tailor, 108; Chapel-street, Salford, on the night of Satur-
day, the 11th of Aug. last. Nothing had been stolen, but a
cap, sworn to belong to the prisoner, was found lying in the
kitchen.. The prisoner was found guilty. Sentence: four
years' penal servitude.
ROBBERIES, WITH VIOLENCE, AT MANCHESTER.—WiIIiam
Turner (23), collier,.was charged with having, at Manchester
on the 13th Nov., violently beaten and assaulted Richard
Wardleworth, and. robbed him of 9s. 6d., and a counting-glass.
It was the second offbnce of the kind by the prisoner against
the prosecutor. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and a
previous conviction having been proved against the prisoner,
he was sentenced to four-years' penal servitude. The prisoner
swore most violently as he- was being removed from the bar.
George Shaw (24), striker;„ and Elizabeth Makin (29), char-
woman, were charged with having assaulted and robbed John '
Jones, on the morning of Sunday, 2nd of Sept. about two
o'clock. Both prisoners were-found guilty, and each sentenced:
to four years' penal servitude.

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER BY AN ENGINEER.—Henry.
Pickup (40), mechanic and engine-tender, was indicted for
manslaughter. The prisoner- had been employed for two or
three years at a mill, at Preston, and the person whose death
he was alleged to have caused was also employed there, along
with him, but had no authority to touch the engine. One
morning, before the hands miner to work, or the prisoner had
arrived to put the engine into order for working, the deceased
took-upon himself to turn on the steam. An explosion was
the immediate consequence, whiali killed the deceased. Before
any witnesses were called, the jury, at his Lordship's direc-
: Lion, acquitted the prisoner.
• ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER.; AT SALFORD.—George Jen-
nings (31), millwright, was indicted for the manslaughter of
John Mattier. On the afternoon of the 15th Oct., both parties,
with several others, were drinking at Shaw's beerhouse, New
Richmond, Salford, when the deceased challenged the prisoner
to fight. Prisoner at first declined, bat deceased insisted upon
fighting, and said that if the prisoner-did not now, "he would
catch him again." An encounter: ensued, and the deceased '
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jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended him to
mercy, on account of the provocation-le had received. He was
sentenced to four months' imprisonment, with hard labour.