The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-04 00:00:00

prisoner will in all probability be acquitted, it is more con-
ducive to public justice to throw out the bill at once than to
put the prisoner upon his trial upon insufficient evidence, for
if acquitted, he cannot be tried again ; but if the bill be
thrown out for insufficiency of evidence, and further and
more conclusive evidence be afterwards discovered, he may be
again indicted and again tried.
MINT CASES.—The Grand Jury having retired for a short
time, returned with true bills against several of the prisoners,
and the court immediately proceeded with the trials; the first
being against Mary Ann Connor, charged with having counter-
feited two shillings at Liverpool, on the Ist of November.
The prisoner resided in No. 6 Court, off Shaw's Brow ; and on
the police constable going there, which he did in consequence
of information, he found the prisoner there, and in the kitchen
he found a plaster mould in the oven, an iron spoon which had
been used for the melting of metal, also a bag containing a
small quantity of plaster of Paris. There were likewise a num-
ber of impressed prints of shillings struck on silver leaf; there
was also a quantity of silver leaf and some tools in a box. The
officer and his assistants found seven base shillings of the date
1820; there were also found three bad shillings in the house
of a different date. She was convicted, and sentenced to be
imprisoned for twelve months with hard labour.
JOHN DUFFY, shoemaker, was charged with having, on the
19th October, uttered a counterfeitshilling, and with having also,
on the 10th of the same month, uttered a counterfeit sixpence.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Evidence was adduced, and
the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Prisoner having been
previously convicted of a similar offence, was sentenced to four
years' penal imprisonment
GAROTTE ROI3I3ERY AT MANCHESTER.—Mary Ann Wilson,
was charged with being concerned in assaulting Samuel Butter-
worth, in Manchester, and stealing from his pocket a silver
watch of the value of 305., on the 26th vf August last. It
appeared from the evidence, that the prisoner made up to the
prosecutor on his way through Thomas-street, on the night in
question, and persisted, under various pretexts, in continuing
her dodging him till coming to a lonely part of the street,
when she gave a signal, and a man instantly rushed out of a
place of concealment, and seizing the prosecutor by the throat
nearly choked him, rendering him, at all events, insensible.
In this state he was robbed of his watch. The jury returned
II verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner was discharged.
FORGING A PRONITSSORI" NOTE.—John Johnson, dyer,
Emma Booth, housekeeper, and Sarah Smith, factory Worker,
were charged with forging,a promissory note in Manchester,
and uttering it in Manchester, on the 2nd of August last.
From the evidence it 'appeared that some of the parties
wanted to raise money'on loan from a loan society, and that
to enable them to do so 'the prisoner Johnson signed a docu-
ment by the name-oreeorge Mills, and at a subsequent stage
of the business he 'represented himself to be George Mills.
He had done so, it-appeared, at the instigation of the'women,
who wanted to raise money without the knowledge .of their
husbands. Verdict, Johnson not guilty, the females both
guilty. Sentence deferred. Johnson was discharged.
ASSAULT tivrT INTENT TO MllRDER.—John.lioss, shoe-
maker, Williatn Young, watchmaker, and Thomas Dixon,
watchmaker, -were charged with having 'assatilted William
Lawton, with intent to murder him, at Widness, on the 23rd
of Octoberiast. In the case of Dixon, the grand jury ignored
the bill, -and he was immediately discharged. On the jury
being impanelled to try the case, it was explained that one of
the chief *witnesses in the case, a policeman, had been so much
injured 'in the discharge of his duty as to render it hazardous
for him to remain, and he had, with'the'eonsent of the judge,
returned home to Rainhill, on the condition that he would be
in attendance to-morrow (this day), it4vvelve o'clock. His
lordship said that he had only granted an adjournment of the
casein the instance of Craggs, and Train the present case.
Re should not allow one farthing of coats in this case.
'ASSAULT AND Hie uwicr ROttnrr.—Richard Allen, a
'hand-loom weaver, was charged with assaulting and robbing
'Richard Willmy of the sum of -Bd. and a tobacco-box, on the
:20th of October last, at Longridge. The jury, after a brief:
"consultation, returned -a verdict' of"-not guilty."
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Before the court rose, his lord Ship intimated his into:6°7l°f
proceeding with the trifil Of Heywcod, charged with an atro-
cious murder committed at RoChdale, and postponed from kit
assizes.—Adjourned at '7 o'clock, till 9 o'clock this morning.