The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-28 00:00:00

SOUTH LANCASHIRE SUMMER

ASSIZES.

CROWN COURT.—TIIESDA.Y, AITOUST 21.
(Before Baron Platt.)

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His lordship, on taking his seat, which, by an accident to
the high-sheriff's carriage, he was prevented from doing till
ten minutes past nine o'clock, proceeded to the trial of
ASSAULTS WITH CRIMINAL INTENT—in the the course of
which Abraham Naylor was sentenced to transportation for
life, he being convicted of a very aggravated assault on a
married woman, named Prudence Frost. Three men, who came
forward and bore evidence with the intention of proving an
alibi on the part of the prisoner, were committed for perjury.
—William Higginbottom, accused of an outrage on a girl
named Betty Hatton, was acquitted.—William Halliwell, con-
victed of an assault upon a girl named Agnes Heaton, was
sentenced to be imprisoned for six months, with hard labour.
—James Crompton, convicted of an outrage on a child named
Hannah Dawson, was sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve
months, with hard labour.
MURDER AT NEWTON.—Thomas Peters (aged 29), glass-
blower, was indicted for the wilful murder of James Rose, at
Newton-le-Willows, on the 14th of July last. The prisoner
and the deceased were fellow-workmen at the Newton glass-
works. About four o'clock in the morning, having been
working all night, they went together to a public-house in
the neighbourhood, and had some drink served to them
through the window. The prisoner afterwards lay down in
the road, and the deceased went into a field and lay down.
He had not been lying there long before the prisoner came
and threw a handful of mugs at him and cut his face. A
scuffle ensued, but the combatants were separated, and the
prisoner went home. The deceased returned to the public-
house. Soon afterwards the prisoner entered the tap-room,
and the deceased said to him, " For two pins I would knock
your d—d head off for that dirty action you have done,"
and at the same time aimed a blow at the head of the pri-
soner. Blows were given and exchanged, and in the course
of the scuffle the prisoner stabbed the deceased five or six
times with a knife. The left ventricle of the heart was pene-
trated, and almost instant death was the consequence. The
prisoner was found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to
six months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
BIGAMY.—Robert Henry Jones was found guilty of having,
on the 28th May last, married a woman named Mary Ann
Doyle, his former wife being then alive. He was sentenced
to eleven days' imptisonment,which would expire on the rising
of the court.

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of opinion that death had resulted from the violence which
had caused the mark. The deceased, it appeared, was suffer-
ing from diarrhoma when she was admitted into the work-
house. The jury, not satisfied with the evidence of the sur-
geon, were of opinion that death had resulted from natural
causes, and they acquitted the prisoner.
CHARGE OF BURGLARY AT WARRINGTON.--Thomas Hind,
charged with breaking into the house of John Fairhurst, a
shoemaker, residing in Scotland-road, Warrington, was found
guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour for six months.

UNLAWFULLY WOUNDING.—An Irishman, named John
Hester, was charged with unlawfully wounding a man, named
Richard Hartley, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.
On the 13th of this month the prosecutor and the prisoner
were drinking in Jackson's beer-house, Westleigh, when a
dispute arose between them as to who could mow the greatest
quantity of grass in a given time. The prisoner said he could
o'er-mow any Englishman, and the prosecutor replied that he
could mow as much as any Irishman, whereupon the prisoner
seized the poker, and with it struck the prosecutor a violent
blow on the right temple, and inflicted a dangerous wound.
He was found guilty of unlawfully wounding, and sentenced
to twelve months' imprisonment, with hard labour. The
court rose shortly before eight o'clock.

FRIDAY.
CASE OP ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER.—The first case
this morning was that of William Calloway, a master brick-
maker, who was charged with wounding his wife, Maria
Calloway, with intent to murder her. The prisoner and his
wife, it appeared, lived happily together since their marriage,
in 1851, till the commencement of the present year. Last
year he was unfortunate in business, and was put, by his
father-in-law, into Lancaster Castle, from which place he was
released in December. From which time he shunned com-
pany, became morose, and jealous of his wife, whom he fre-
quently assaulted. She was in consequence taken to the
house of her father, in Emily-street, Ardwick-green, Man-
chester. The prisoner afterwards sought a reconciliation
with her, and arrangements were made for them to live
together again. On Saturday evening, the 4th instant, the
prisoner's wife went to hear 31. Jullien's band at the Belle
Vue Gardens, and becoming separated there from her com-
panions, she agreed to walk home with the prisoner, whom
she met at the entrance, and who asked her to walk with him.
After they had proceeded nearly a mile, the prisoner suddenly
struck her several times with a long-bladed pocket-knife,
cutting himself severely at the same time. The prisoner and
his wife were ultimately separated by two passers-by, and
conveyed to the Manchester Infirmary, where their wounds
were dressed. One of the wounds on the female was close to
her windpipe. Her shawl and dress were cut through in
several places. The prisoner said that while he was in prison,
he learnt that his wife had been unfaithful to him. This
misfortune nearly drove him mad, and at the time he as-
saulted his wife, he did not know what he was about. The
jury returned a verdict that the prisoner wounded his wife
with intent to disable. His Lordship said that the verdict of
the jury would force him to pass a severe sentence, and though
he grieved to do so, it was his duty to sentence the prisoner
to 15 years' transportation.

SIAORNING WlTNEssEs.—Thomas Carter, a publican, and
John Hampson, painter, were indicted for having conspired
to " bribe and corrupt" Emily Thornton and Margaret Fowler,
for the purpose of preventing their appearance at the Man-
chester sessions, on the 15th June, to give evidence upon a
trial against Thomas Birchmough and John Hampson. Thorn-
ton and Fowler had been bound over to prosecute. Through
the instrumentality of a hawker of jewellery (Christopher
Brady, 34), who had been included in the indictment, but
allowed to turn approver, a meeting was arranged between
Carter and Hampson and the two women, Thornton and
Fowler, when it was agreed that if Carter would give Thorn-
ton £5, and an 1.0. U. for £5 more, both the women would
"go out of the way." Carter paid the £5 to Thornton, and
the witnesses did not make their appearance. In consequence
of their absence the bill against Birchmough and Hampson
was ignored by the grand jury. Subsequently the police dis-
covered the place of Thornton's concealment and brought her
to Manchester, and in consequence of what she said, had ap-
prehended the prisoners. After a mass of evidence had been
gone through, the whole trial lasting upwards of eight hours,
the jury found both prisoners guilty. Sentence deferred.
[William Bolton and Augustus Bonland, two witnesses, who
had been adduced on the part of the defence, were committed
to prison for contempt of court, in having endeavoured to mis-
lead the jury.]
CHARGE OF PERJURY.—David Roberts, brought up by
habeas from Lancaster, on a charge of perjury. No evidence
was offered on the part of the prosecution, and he was dis-
charged.

BIGAMY.—Thomas Roberts was indicted for marrying Mar-
garet Murphy, at Prestwich, in February, 1851, his former
wife, Elizabeth Delany, being alive. The prisoner pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced to be imprisoned for 13 days, which
would expire in a few minutes.

MANSTA.IIGIITER AT MANCHESTER.—WiIIiam Welsh, la-
bourer, was indicted for the manslaughter of William Arm-
strong, at Manchester, on the 18th of March. A fight took
place, and the deceased received a blow which occasioned his
death on the 9th of August following. From the medical evi-
dence it appeared that death was caused by a blow struck by
the prisoner's brother. His lordship here stopped the case, and
directed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty, as the pri-
soner could not be held responsible for a blow inflicted by his
brother. The prisoner was then discharged, and the court
rose at a few minutes past eight o'clock.

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ton and Elizabeth Fowler, in order to prevent them appearing
to give evidence at the Manchester City Sessions, were sen-
tenced, Hampson to twelve months', and Carter to eighteen
months' hard labour.—Patrick Bryan, convicted of a garotte
robbery, four years' penal servitude.—Joseph Hill, convicted
of illegally wounding, three months' imprisonment.—John
Lennox, who pleaded guilty of bigamy, six months' hard
labour.—John France, who pleaded guilty to having forged
the name of a person as security for the payment of a promis-
sory note of £2O to a loan society, six months' hard labour.
ROBBERY—Patrick Caulfield, and Mary, his wife, were
charged with robbing John Neal, an Irish harvestman, of
£1 18s. 10d. at Warrington, on the 17th inst. Prosecutor,
the male prisoner, and others, had been drinking together.
The prisoner induced Neal to go home with him, and the
latter lay down upon a sofa and took off his trousers, in the
pocket of which was the money. Soon afterwards he saw the
female prisoner come down stairs into the room, take up his
trousers, and put her hand into the pocket. Next morning
he discovered the robbery. Caulfield had then gone to work,
and when apprehended by a police-officer shortly afterwards,
he said that Neal was drunk on the night before, and en-
trusted the money with him for safe keeping. He at once
restored £1 4s. 10d. The male prisoner was found guilty, and
sentenced to twelve months' hard labour. The woman was
acquitted.
BURGLARY AT CoLNE.—John Hay, a railway porter, was
charged with burglary at the house of William Hopkinson,
the " Jovial Hatters," Windy Bank, Colne, on the 6th of
July, and stealing Z 5 3s. 81-d. On the night in question,
Mr. Hopkinson retired to bed about half-past ten o'clock,
after making all the doors and windows fast. He
took off his trousers, and placed them beside his bed. In
the pocket was a leather purse, containing a R 5 West
Riding Bank note and some small coins. In the garret
a man named Joseph Clegg had been put to bed intoxi-
cated. At four o'clock in the morning a policeman aroused
the landlord, and told him that his house was on fire. They
went together to Clegg's room, and found his trousers and the
bed on fire. Clegg was sitting up on the bed, and one of his
feet was severely burned. They extinguished the fire and
searched the house. It was discovered that a small window
looking into a narrow passage, which had not been opened for
twelve months previously, had been broken, and onened so far
that a person could gain admittance. Mr. Hopkinson found
that his purse and money had been stolen, but no one was dis-
covered about the house who was likely to have committed
the robbery. A young man saw the prisoner looking about
the house at ten minutes past eleven o'clock that night.
About one o'clock in the morning of the 7th of July, Kennedy,
a police officer, who was in company with three others, saw
the prisoner in a hay-meadow called Colne-field. 'The latter
attempted to escape, but he was followed and captured. On
him were found some shillings, a sixpence, two fourpences, and
some copper, exactly corresponding with the odd money lost
by the prosecutor, and they were covered with chalk, a quan-
tity of which was in the pocket from which they were taken.
The prisoner was committed to Preston gaol for a month for
trespass as a vagrant. The police officers were not aware at
the time of the burglary at Hopkinson's. On the Ist instant,
when the hay in the meadow was cut, the stolen note was
found by two little boys in the track taken by the prisoner in
trying to run away, and given to the mowers. It was
wrapped in a piece of mouldy newspaper, and was identified
by the number and from the circumstance that it had been cut
in two, and rejoined by a piece of paper pasted up the back.
The evidence, therefore, was entirely circumstantial, but it was
proved that the prisoner was quite familiar with Hopkinson's
house, and had often slept in the garret where Clegg slept on
the night of the robbery. The jury returned a verdict of
guilty, and the prisoner having already once suffered trans-
portation, his Lordship sentenced him to be transported for
fifteen years.
This case closed the criminal list.

NISI PRIUS COURT.—TIIESDAY, AUGUST 21.
(Before Mr. Justice Crowder.)
ALCOCK AND °TRIMS v. FLETCHER.—This was an unde-
fended action to recover the sum of £1,874, the balance of a
banker's account, with interest up to the present time. A
verdict was given for the plaintiffs; execution to issue on the
25th inst.
LORD v. ASHWORTH 16. ND ANOTHER (EXECUTORI).—This
was an action to recover, oney lent by the plaintiff, Henry
Lord, to a Mr. Peter Lord,:. deceased, for whom the defendants
were executors. By consent, a verdict was taken for the
plaintiff for £64.
ACTION ON A CHARTER YARTY.—KIRKMA.N v. FEENIE
AND ANOTHER.—The plaintiff in this case was George Kirk-
man, shipbroker, 8, James-street, in this town, and the defend-
ants were Messrs. Fertile Brothers, also ship-brokers. The
plaintiff sought to recover compensation for services rendered
in srocuring a charter for the -ship Trade Wind, belonging to
the .defendants, in the month of November last. At that
time, in the course of his business, the plaintiff had a cus-
tomer who wanted a vessel of a particular description, and
the plaintiff heard that the defendants had a vessel then in
this port. It was an American ship, owned by American
gentlemen, and the plaintiff applied to the defendants to
know her:tonnage and the terms upon which they would let
the vessel on a charter-party. He saw Mr. Henry Fernie, and
learning that the terms did not suit his friend, wanted to
know whether the terms would be altered. He was told that
they would not, but that he had better not be more than an
hour or so in effecting the charter, or else the vessel might be
fixed for somewhere else. Not having any person to whom
he could immediately apply so as to effect a charter, he ap-
plied to Messrs. Muir, Moreton, and Co., who carry on a
business as shipbrolzers here much more extensively than he
did himself, and asked if they could procure him a broker,
stating the terms upon which the defendants would accept
a zharter. Mr. Leighton, the managing clerk of Messrs.
Muir, Moreton, and Co., knew a person who would take the
vessel, and he and the plaintiff accordingly went to the de-
fendants' office to arrange the terms. The plaintiff was at that
time busy with other matters, and he left Mr. Leighton in
the office to arrange. Ultimately, through the introduction
of the plaintiff, the charter was effected at £6 per ton. The
vessel was about 1,200 tons burthen, and the amount of the
charter would therefore be £7,200, and the usual commission
of five per cent. upon that would be £360, the amount of the
present claim. Defendants entirely repudiated any transac-
tion with the plaintiff, and would not pay Messrs. Muir,
Moreton, and Co. more than one-third of the commission.
They said, " We are not the shipowners in the case, but
merely agents for them, who reside in America, and we,