The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-11 00:00:00

FORGERY BY A CLERK.

John Dinmoody Johnson, a youth 21 years of age,
who pleaded guilty to forging orders for £5OO and £3OO
at Liverpool in November and February last, was sen-
tenced to seven years' penal servitude.
BURGLARIES AT AINSWORTH AND
TOTTLNGTON.

James Greenhalgh (33), Egbert Scowcroft (34), Ro-
bert Meadowcroft (42), and John Sutherst, were charged
with having committed burglaries at the house of Mrs.
Jane Brooks, at Ainsworth, on the 29th of November ;
and Sutherst and Meadowcroft were also indicted on a
charge of burglary at the house of Cyrus Kay, at Tot-
tington, Lower End. Mr. Higgins prosecuted, and the
prisoners were defended by Messrs. Wheeler, Hopwood,
and Pope. The principal witness in this ease was also
the approver Dearden, who said that the robbery was
planned at the Bay Horse public-house, in Bury, in
November. He (Dearden) refused to take part in the
robbery, and a few days afterwards Sutherst met him
and told him they had got some currants, sugar, &c.
from the shop of Mrs. Brooks. Ultimately, the jury
not placing full reliance on Dearden's evidence, returned
a verdict of " not guilty" in both cases.

SENTENCES.

In the course of the day the Judge passed sentence on

the following prisoners :—George Smith, for two bur-
glaries at Liverpool, in April last, twenty years' penal
servitude ; George Smith, who pleaded guilty to a charge
of obtaining goods at Manchester by false orders,
eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour ;
Lawrence Riley, who pleaded guilty to a charge of bur-
glary at Liverpool, eighteen months' imprisonment,
with hard labour.
THE RAILWAY COLLISION AT ROBY
STATION.

The jury having ignored the bill in this case, the
prisoner was discharged.
ROBBERY AT A PAWNBROKER'S IN
MANCHESTER.

Three men, named John Williams, 20, Michael
O'Hara, 22, John Roden, 22, and a girl, named Selina
Clancy, 18,i were indicted for stealing a quantity of pro-
perty from the house of Mr. Luckman, a pawnbroker at
Miles Platting, near Manchester, on the 18th of last
April. Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Hopwood prosecuted.
Mr. Torr "defended Williams Mr. Temple, Clancy ;
Mr. Oates, Roden; and Mr. Pope, O'Hara. A quantity
of property having been identified by Mr. Luckman,
who described his premises before and after the robbery,
a Mrs. Mason and her daughter Margaret, a little girl

eleven years of age, were examined. From the evidence
of the little girl it appeared that one of the prisoners,
named " Flash Mick," sent her to pawn a shawl and a
piece of blue merino, in her mother's name, with a
pawnbroker named Gracie. The pawnbroker refused to
take the articles from the child, so the prisoners sent
her a second time, with the servant, when they got 12s.
on the articles. The servant received 2s. of the 10s.,
and the little girl saw " Flash Mick" take two watches
from the chimney of one of the rooms.
The testimony of the child was confirmed by her
mother, and an assistant in Mr. Gracie's employ proved
that Mrs. Mason's servant, the prisoner Selina Clancy,
came with the little girl and pledged a shawl and dress-
piece, the day after the robbery, for 12s. The prisoner
Clancy also pledged a watch with another pawnbroker
for 3s. Evidence was also given by various police offi-
cers, of the connection of all the prisoners with the robbery,
and after a lengthy address from the various counsels,
the jury returned a verdict of guilty against the male
prisoners, but acquitted the female. Sentenced deferred.
The court rose at eight o'clock, the jury having been
in consultation for a very long period in the last case.

NISI PRIUS COURT.—YESTERDAY.
(Before Mr. Baron WILDE.)

COMPENSATION FOR BODILY INJURY.—SWITHERBANK
v. LOWE.—In this case Mr. Monk, Q.C., and Mr. Rus-
sell appeared for the plaintiff ; and defendant's case was
conducted by Dr. Wheeler, Q.C., and Mr. Pope. The
action was brought to recover from the defendant com-
pensation for certain severe injuries which the plaintiff
had sustained through the alleged negligence of the de-
fendant's servants. The plaintiff is a joiner and builder, 62
years old, and on the evening of the 21st Dec. last, he was
going along Market-street, Manchester, and had occasion to
cross the street. Before crossing, he looked up and down
to see that no vehicles were in the way ; a mule cart was
slowly coming up, and the plaintiff left the pavement to
cross to the other side, when the driver of the mule cart
lashed the mule, and the plaintiff was knocked down and
run over. The cart, after the accident, drove on quickly,
and the plaintiff was left to get home in the best way he
could. Upon reaching his house he was put to bed, and
the next morning it was discovered that his water was
deeply covered with blood. A surgeon was sent for, and
plaintiff was confined to his house for four or five weeks,
and he is still suffering severely from the injuries he
sustained. The medical men who were called stated
that it was probable he would never recover the use of
his limbs. The learned counsel for the defendant urged
in his behalf that the plaintiff did not take proper pre-
caution before crossing the road. In support of this
the driver was called, and he stated that upon seeing
the plaintiff he called out to him to get out of the way.
It was further shown that the mule was sufficiently
muleish to be incapable of going at a furious pace like
that which the plaintiff's case represented it to be ; and
the jury accordingly found for the defendant.
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DISPUTED DEBT.—BARLOW V. LOMAX.—This action
was brought to recover from the defendant the sum of
£62, the unpaid balance of a loan of £126, which the
plaintiff had advanced to the defendant. Mr. Overend,
Q.C., and other learned counsel appeared for the plain-
tiff, ; and Mr. Monk, Q.C., and Mr. Ovens conducted
the case for the defendant. The money which has been
paid—about £64—was paid at different times ; and the
defendant now disputed a part of the £62 as being never
owing, and alleged that the other part had been paid.
The case occupied a considerable time, but was of no
public interest. The jury found a verdict for the
4efendant.

Mr. Hanbuy, MY is the donor of the splendid
r,
drinking fountain, which was opened for public use on
Tuesday last, in the Strand, opposite Somerset House.
RELICS or LUTHER.—The Illuserirte Zoitung states
that an interesting museum of articles relating to
Luther, collected by an inhabitant of Halberstadt, has
recently been purohiped by the Prince Regent and re-
moved to Wittenberg, where it will be preserved in the
house once occupied by the great Reformer.
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DETERMINEP CURE TOR TOOTHACHE.—A verdict of
wilfill murder has been returned against Mrs. Dodds,
residing at Wrangle, Lincolnshire, for poisoning her
husband by arsenic, purchased at the shop of Mr.
Chebrington, druggist, Leake. She* stated that her
husband was suffering from a severe toothache; °Ad she
required it to relieve the pain.
EFFECTS OF THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT.
--We
bespeak the attention of our readers for a word of ex-
Plahation. once on a time, the editor of an Irish news-
' paper claimed the indulgence of the public foT
issuing the half of his journal in a blank form,
compositors had gone to the
by reason that his coin
races, and that they bad PA come back. We
Irishman, but from, 'a
are crippled like mita the
very 'different cause. That which the races, did for
the review has done for its, It so, happens
that the majority of 'the yourkg raeo, in out employment
have enrolled them:sell:Ts AnAcuagst the volunteers ; and
we had muoli
Oeasure in acceding to their request to be
to
mittea to proceed t Edinburgh, which they have
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done ' to the number of upwards of thirty, as mem-
bers of the Ist Press or 60th Lanarkshire
.Companyy
of which the manager of our printing establishment, is
captain. In this way our hands are so much reduced
that those which remain can, only bring.out a single
instead of our ordinary double sheet. The case stands
simply thus: Had we adhered in this instance to our
regular plans,our readers would have had the usual
amountof letterpress 1,
; but au efficient company of sixty
me, would Ilot have been able to stand before her'
Maje Sty, as they bad yesterday the honour of doing in
the Queen's Park at Edinburgh: ,Our present fix may.
also he taken as an indication that, in the event of an
actual, invasion, we must restrict ourselv,es, to the publi-
cation of abbreviated sheets until the enemy has bit the
dust. We trust, however, that this diminution of the
usual:size of our sheet has not in any degree marred the
fidelity 'or copiousness of the report 'of this memorable
review.—Glasgow Herald.