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

FRIDAY.

CHILD MllRDER.—Elizabeth Sanson, 35, a married
woman, was indicted for the murder of Eliza Ellen Sanson, at
Manchester, on the 16th of October. Oa the night of the
16th, about half-past twelve, as a person named Ambrose
M`Gogan was proceeding along a street leading out of Prussia-
street, Manchester, he beard a noise proceeding from a coal-
yard on the bank of the canal, at the opposite side to which
he was standing, a person calling out that a woman was
drowning. His attention was thus directed to a woman
standing in the middle of the canal, with a child in her arms.
He procured a pole, which the prisoner laid hold of, and he
succeeded in getting both out of the water. From the effects
of this immersion the child, only ten weeks old, never re-
covered. The jury found the prisoner not guilty, on the ground
of insanity. His lordship ordered her to be confined during
her Majesty's pleasure.

MALLAGIITER AT MANCHESTER AND SALFORD.—John
Norbury, an engine-builder, charged with the manslaughter
of Ralph Woods, at Manchester, on the 15th of June, was
acquitted, the grand jury having ignored the bill. On a second
Indictment, for the manslaughter of Frederick Anderson, at
Salford, the prisoner was arraigned on the coroner's inquisition.
Counsel for the prosecution declined to produce evidence, and
the prisoner was discharged.
HOUSEBREAKING AND WOUNDING AT OLDHAM.—James
Brown, a hawker, was indicted for breaking into the dwelling-
houses of Frederick Sugden, on the 21st of April, and Henry
Goulding, on the 26th, at Westwood, near Oldham. The
prisoner was observed to enter the house of Goulding, and
followed on his leaving with a bundle of wearing apparel, a
cutlass, and a pistol, by an Oldham police-officer, named
Robert Holt. Upon the officer apprehending the prisoner, he
was severely wounded on the back of the head, no less than
nine wounds being made, which produced erysipelas, and
endangered his life for fourteen: days. The prisoner, who had
only been a fortnight out of gaol, was found guilty, and
sentenced to 20 years' transportation, his.lordship testifying
his sense of the courageous _conduct of police.officer Holt, by
awarding him £10:
STABBING AT SALFORD.—Thomas Bruerton was indicted
for cutting and wounding Joseph Boardman, in a scuffle on
the 6th of April, at Salford, and inflicting a. wound a quarter
of an inch long, and an inch and a half in depth. The pri-
soner was acquitted.
ROBBERY OF WATCHES AND JEWELLERY AT HASLING-
DEN.—John Wilson, hawker, Henry Ingham, watchmaker,
and Christopher Banks, labourer, were charged with breaking
into the dwelling-house of William Tattersall Lees, at Has-
lingden, on the 15th of April, and stealing 100 silver watches,
20 gold watches, 97 gold rings, and a quantity of beads. The
centre shutter of the shop window had been cut in the form of
an eight and the screws unloosed. On the 18th of April de-
tective-officer John Mayberry, of the Manchester police,
accompanied by inspector Taylor, went to the prisoner Ing-
ham's house, New Islington, where he found a watch which
Ingham had purchased, bearing the number 18103, the 0
having been converted into 6. The watch he said he had
received from a man with £3 in exchange for a lever,recom-
mended by a person named Whittaker, whom he could find.
On their way to the Town-hall they met Whittaker, who
denied recommending any one, saying that he had been to
Ireland, and was but just returned. The officer then proceeded
to Wilson's house, Dimity-street, Newtown, Manchester,
where they found a pair of baragan trousers, in the pockets of
which Inspector Taylor found two watches, 97 rings, and
a quantity of coral beads. Whilst waiting the prisoner Wil-
son came in, and was taken into custody. He was committed
to Kirkdale, where he remained until Saturday fortnight,
when a communication was sent to Mayberry, requesting him
to come to Kirkdale, that he might give information of the
other parties, fearing that they would get out of the way. A
gold watch, pledged for £4105., and a gold case, for £2, with
Benjamin Henshaw, of Manchester, were identified as part of
the property : this pawnbroker had had dealings with the
prisoner to the extent of £9O within the past three months.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty of burglary against
John Wilson ; and to the effect that the others, Christopher
Banks, and Henry Ingham, were found guilty of receiving the
property knowing it to be stolen. The prisoners were ordered
to be brought up next morning for sentence..

STREET ROBBERY IN MINCRESTER.—Another indict-
ment was preferred against Henry Ingham, for having, at
six o'clock in the evening of the 3rd of February last, in
company with a female, run against an auctioneer named
William Dixon Fullalove, while passing along Newton-street,
and robbed him of his gold watch and chain. Verdict, guilty
of receiving stolen goods. Sentence deferred.
STREET ROBBERY IR LIVERPOOL.—Patrick McKenna,
blacksmith, Arthur Melburn, carter, and John Effey, labourer,
were indicted for assaulting and robbing Richard Moss, the
captain of a flat, at one o'clock on the morning of the 13th
June. The prosecutor was crossing Chisenhale-bridge on
his way home, when the prisoners came upon him, knocked
him down, and rifled his pockets of six sovereigns, half-a-
crown, two shillings, a pocket-book, &c. The prisoners were
found guilty of the highway robbery with violence, and
'WKenna and Melburn had previously been convicted as re-
puted thieves. Sentenced to be transported for 15 years.
SENTENCES.—Joseph Knight, stonemason, charged with
burglary at Kersley, on the 23rd April, and stealing a quan-
tity of wearing apparel ; William Price, labourer, Alice
Knight, charwoman, and Phoebe Jones, factory worker, for
'receiving the property knowing it to have been stolen.
Another indictment charged them with stealing three pieces
of printed calico and 70 yards of cotton cloth belonging to
John Burd and others. Joseph Knight, who pleaded guilty, and
had previously been in gaol for different offences, as a reputed
thief, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude ; Alice
Knight, who had been twice previously convicted, 18 months'
imprisonment with hard labour; Phoebe Jones, 12 months;
and William Price 12 months—The females to be sent to
Lancaster Castle. Maria O'Brien, factory worker, for break-
ing into the house of Henry Hart, at Ashton-in-Mackerfield,
and stealing wearing apparel, was sentenced to 12 months'
imprisonment in Lancaster Castle. Catherine Roberts, a ser-
vant, found guilty of stealing a watch and some wearing
apparel, from Mr. Davies, at Waver4ee, was sentenced to six
months' imprisonment in Lancaster.
The Court rose at five minutes to nine. .

SATURDAY.
BIGAMY.--John Lennon, 47, pleaded guilty to a charge of
bigamy with Mary Donnelly, at Ballymore, on the 12th
December, 1854, his former wife being then alive.
ALLEGED CHILD MIIIIDEREL—EIizabeth Hird, 40, a ser-
'ant in the house of Mr. Darlington, at Lowton, near New-
ton, was acquitted on a charge of child murder.—Alice
Wrigley, a servant to Mrs. Hartley, of the Britannia Tavern,
Middleton, was found guilty of endeavouring to conceal the
birth of a child, and sentenced to four years' hard labour.—
Elizabeth Wilson was indicted for wilful murder, but the bill
having been thrown out by the grand jury, she was charged
with concealing the birth of a female child at Liverpool. She
lived as servant with Mrs. Mary Ann Hankers, 50, Pitt-street,
Liverpool. Guilty, and sentenced to three months' imprison.
ment. _ _

WILFULLY DAMAGING MACHINBRY.-- Joshua Harper
was charged with having wilfully damaged a " mangle." He
was employed at the bleaching works of Messrs. Rule and
Davis, Blackrod. Henry Scholes, a fellow workman, said that
he (Scholes) was working a " night shift" on the 17th April,
when, about midnight, the prisoner came into the room
intoxicated. He had no business to be there at that time.
-Witness's mangle was working in perfect order at the time,
and continued to do so for about three quarters of an hour.
The prisoner charged him with " rucking him up with too
much work," the goods having to pass through his hands in
the next process of manufacture. Scholes desisted from his
work, and told the prisoner that he had finished for the night.
Prisoner then asked him to " do two more pieces," and put
the machine into gear himself, The mangle began to revolve,
and Scholes immediately discovered that the cloth then in it
was being damaged, and he threw it out of gear. On look-
ing he found that the piece of cloth was very much torn, but
he said nothing at the time, They both • :remained about
fifteen minutes, and then left the mangle-room and went
away. The prisoner afterwards took the cloth to the watch-
man on the premises, and told him it would do to build his

fire up with. Another calenderer, working " day work,"
came to work at Schotes's machine, and discovered a
piece of iron and a nail placed in the cylinders of the
machine in such a manner as to cause damage when it
revolved: A calendering machine adjoining was also dis-
covered to have been similarly deranged, and on being set in
motion it tore the cloth and suffered injury. The damage,
done to both machines was calculated at £l5. The offence
was tried under a section of an act of 7 and 8 Geo. IV., which
constitutes the offence a felony, The prisoner, it transpired,
had been at a " merry-making " on the night in question, and
was accompanied to the works by his wife. The jury acquitted
the prisoner, and his Dirdship ordered his immediate dis-
charge.
DISCHARGE OF THE GRAND .JURY.—The duties of the
grand jury being finished at a quarter before four o'clock,
they appeared before his lordship, who, before discharging
them, addressed them at some length on the cases that had
been brought before them, especially those of criminality on
the part of young females ; and urged the necessity of pro-
viding the county with a reformatory institution, into which
youthful criminals might be placed, instead of sending them
to gaol, where they were only likely to be more contami-
nated.
THE HASLINGDEN JEWELLERY ROBBERY.—Nathan Dale,
who was allowed to turn approver in this case, was brought
up to-day, but no evidence being offered against him he was
discharged. The other prisoners received the following sen-
tences ; Wilson, four years' penal servitude ; Ingham, twelve
months' imprisonment on the first count, and six months' on
the second ; Banks twelve months' hard labour.