The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-05 00:00:00

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FROM LIVERPOOL (CLARENCE BASIN),
Wednesday 6th February.
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LIVERPOOL GENERAL QUARTER

SESSIoNS

These Sessions commenced yesterday at the Crown Court
in St. George's Hall, before Gilbert Henderson, Esq., the
Recorder.

The Calendar showed that there were 22 prisoners for
trial, but as in some cases there were several persons charged
in one indictment, there cvere only ten cases for trial. Of
the prisoners charged ten could read and write imperfectly,
seven could neither read nor write, three could read, and two
could read and write well. There were twelve charged
with misdemeanor, of whom four could read and write
imperfectly, four could read, and four could neither read nor
write.

The usual proclamation against vice and immorality
having been read, the following gentlemen were sworn as

THE GRAND JURY.

Mr. J. Bibby, merchant, Foreman

Messrs. J. S. Ashburner, wine merchant ; C. F. Carne,
merchant ; R. Colburn, do. ; W. Cliff. do. ; R. Dawson,
do. ; G. F. Fosbery, do. ; G. E. Garston, do. ; A. Gartside,
wool broker ; E. J, Lowe, share broker; W. J. Marrow,
merchant; R. Rankin, do.; A. Sleigh, broker; G. B.
Thompson, merchant ; W. G. Tomlinson, do. ; C. W.
Watson, ship broker ; H. Walker, merchant ; H. J.
Webster, broker, and R. Vening, merchant.
The learned Recorder, addressing the grand jury, said :
Gentlemen: The number of prisoners actually for trial is only
thirty, and the offences with which they aro charged are
generally light. In the calendar you will find one case of
stealing palm oil from the dock quay ; others with shops
having been broken open for the sake of plunder ; another
of a mourner haying his pocket picked at the brink of the
grave, at a funeral—a very bad case. There are also several
cases of persons attempting to pass base money, which shew
that this offence is rather rife in the town ; and there are
also several cases of assault in whict the knife has been
used, sheaving that that description of crime still prevails,
and by the persons charged being sent for trial, al o shows
that the magistrates are determined, if possible, to put an
end to that description of offence. The calendar, however,
considering a great community like this, may be regarded
as satisfactory, considering that more than six weeks
have elapsed since the last court was held. Since the year
1853, although the number of offenders had increased, the
number of offenders for these sessions had decreased. The
learned recorder then went on to say that he had no doubt
but that the magistrates thought that they were right in
dealing with cases summarily, as it might be a saving of
time, convenience, and expense, but expressed a doubt as
to whether such a course tended to the suppression of crime
in this county. In that opinion he was confirmed by the
report of a gentleman who had had more than thirty years'
experience in the administration of justice; he alluded to
Mr. Clay's report, who derived his information from Capt.
Greig's reports, that during the last year there were only
455 persons committed for trial at sessions, while 13,127
had been summarily punished. This showed a great dis-
crepancy when compared with the other parts of the county.
He then argued that it was very doubtful whether
the ends of justice were met by summarily punishing old
offenders, as there were cases in the calendar in
which it would be found that the prisoner had
stated that he did not care if he got three
months, so that he was not sent for trial, thus show-
ing that the offenders feared being brought before the
court, while they did not so much care for being summarily
convicted. The learned Recorder concluded by requesting
the grand jury to retire, and proceed with the finding of the
bills.

The following prisoners were then placed upon their trial,
and sentenced as undermentioned. As the chief facts in
each case have already appeared in the columns of this jour-
nal, it is unnecessary to repeat them on this occasion.
Thomas Hunter, aged 17, a tailor, was charged with
stealing Bs. and a purse, from the person of Mary Hughes.
Guilty. Six years penal servitude.
John Fortune, aged 16, labourer ; John Hughes, 17, do.;
and Patrick Sharkey, aged 21, a warehouseman, stood
charged with having broken into and entered a store in the
occupation of Mr. Hugh Lawrence, and stealing therefrom
three brass guage cccks and other property. Fortune and
Hughes were found guilty, and respectively sentenced to
four and six months imprisonment. Sharkey was
acquitted.
Bartholomew Cook, aged 19, a porter, was sentenced to
four years 'penal servitude for picking the pocket of Mrs.
Catherine Kermode.

Ed ward Dillon, aged 43, a labourer, was charged with
stealing a dress, the provrty of John Harris Gibson.
Guilty. Six months imprisonment.

James Neagle, aged 24, a smith, Mary Anne Neagle,
alias Fagan, aged 27, a sempstress, and James Murphy,
aged 28, a porter, were charged with breaking and entering
the shop of Mr. Robert Browning, 63, London-road, also
the shop of Mr. Desoer, of Boundary-place, London-road,
and also the shop of Mr. John Williams, 30 Soho-street,
and stealing some shoes, their property. James Neagle
was ordered by the recorder to be acquitted. The female
prisoner said that neither of the other prisoners knew
anything about the affair, as she had met a man in the
street who had given her fhe shoes to pledge, which she
had done, and had received a shilling for the job. The
female prisoner was found guilty, as was also Murphy. A
former conviction was also proved against Fagan. The
sentence was deferred.

MILITARY KNIGHT.—The vacancy in the lower founda-
tion of the Military Knights of Windsor, caused by the
death of Major Henderson, has been filled up by the
appointment of Captain J. Douglas, late of the 45th
regiment.
SOMEWHAT os. A. JUMPER.—Mr. John Lawrence Bagler,
in the _Louisville Times, offers to bet from $5,000 to $3,000
that he can do as follows :—Jump five feet further on a dead
level than any man in Kentucky—three feet further than
any man in the United States—one foot further than any
man in the world—or that he can stand flat-footed upon the
earth and leap a brick wall 15 feet high and four thick.

THE ALLEGED
POISONING, IS ILI. FORGERY,
AND PERJURY
AT MANCHESTER.

ADJOURNED EXAMINATION or THE PRISONERS,
AND COMMITTAL.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

MANCHESTER, MONDAY.

This morning the prisoners, Terrence M'Loughlin, and
James Keefe, who stood remanded from Wednesday last,
on the charge, M'Loughlin with having forged a will,
purporting to have been made by the late John Monaghan,
and Keefe with having committed perjury, in connection
therewith, were again brought up at the city pollee-court
for further examination. The case had been remanded
in order that the forged document might be obtained from
Chester.

The prisoners, James Monaghan, George Barry, and
Edward Dunn, who stand remanded to Wednesday next,
before the coroner, on the charge of having poisoned John
Monaghan,—Dunn having also already been committed for
trial, on the charge of misappropriating monies received by
him on account of the Diadem Insurance Company,—were
also brought up under a habeas corpus, obtained before Mr.
Justice Erle, on Saturday last, charged with being con-
cerned in forging the will.

Mr. Bradlaugh again appeared on behalf of the prose-
cution; Mr. Ferneley, barrister, defended the prisoners
Monaghan, Dunn, M'Loughlin, and Keefe ; and Mr. Bent,
solicitor, defended Barry. The court was much crowded
during the progre's of the case.
Mr. Bradlaugh, at the commencement of the proceed-
ings, desired to make a statement, in consequence of the
three other prisoners being now charged. He said that in
this case he now charged Terence M'Loughlin, James
Monaghan, and Edward Dunn, with forging the will of
John Monaghan, who died on the llth of August last, and
he charged James Keefe and George Barry, with being
accessory. He charged James Keefe with perjury in proving
the will, and James Monaghan, in addition, with suborna-
tion of perjury. He would make no further statements
but at once proceed to call witnesses.

Charles Foden examined : I am record clerk of the eon-
sistory court at Chester. I produce the will of John
Monaghan. It is a paper proved as his will in the coneis-
tory court, with the affidavit annexed. [Produced]. I
received them from the surrogate. It is not usual to have
affidavits annexed to wills when properly attested. The
affidavit was prepared in our office, and returned by the
surrogate to me, with the will attached to it, as it is now,
after being sworn.
The Rev. W. Huntington, rector of St. John's, and a
surrogate in the diocese of Chester, called: [Will handed
to witness.] On the 17th of September last, to the best
of my recollection, the two prisoners, Tames Monaghan,
and .Tames Keefe, came to my house about surrogate
business. A few days before the 17th some person or
persons came to my house respecting the will. I think
Keefe and James Monaghan were the two who first came,
but I cannot speak positively. I then stated that there was
an informality in the attestation. I told them to come a
second time. Four or five days afterwards, When the will
came from Chester, one or both of them came again. In
the ordinary course they would not be in my presence more
than a quarter of an hour in the first instance, and five
minutes in the second, The endorsement on the back of
the will is in ily handwriting. The will on paper pro..
duced is the same that Tames Monaghan brought to me,
It was signed by him, and the affidavit annexed to it was
signed by Keefe. I speak of them to the best of my recol-
lection, but I will not positively swear it.
Mr. Bradlaugh now proposed to have the will read, but
Mr. Ferneley objected, as it had not been distinctly proved
that the prisoners Monaghan and Keefe were the persons
who signed the will and affidavit respectively.
The magistrate ruled that the *ill and affidavit should be
read. The will was as follows :

" August 3rd, 1856,

" I, John Monaghan, do hereby bequeath to James Mona-
ghan, my son, of Minshull-street, the sum of three hundred
pounds sterling, due on the policy, No. 150, at my decease,
from the Diadem Insurance Company, and to pay all debts
and demands after my death.

"I certify this to be my own will and deed. Given under
my hand this third day of August, 1155, in the presence of
the undersigned witnesses.
" JOHN MONAGHAN, his X mark.
" Witness, TERENCE M‘Lotta unix.
" Witness, JAMES KEEFE."
The affidavit which was attached to the above paper- pur-
porting to be the will, was signed by the prisoner Keefe, and
stated that he was present when the deceased executed the
will, and that he was one of the attesting witnesses.
Michael O'Neill, a bricklayer, residinc, in 11one-street,
Manchester, called. I know the prisoners James Monaghan,
Terrence M'Loughlin, and Keefe. [Will and affidavit
handed to witness.] The hulk of the will is in my hand-
writing as far as " John Monaghan." I wrote the paper
in Francis King's house. Francis King and James
Niona,gban were present, and just as I had done writing
Terrence M'Loughlin came in. James Monaghan asked
me to write it ; he had a paper in his hand, and he said he
wanted a copy to keep clean. I wrote from his dictation.
Ha said John Monaghan did not sign some other paper, but
that it was a mark he put on. James Monaghan wanted
me to put a cross on the paper I had wrote. I threw the
pen down, and told him I would do no such thing.
Monaghan then knelt down on the floor, and took the
paper, and did something to the paper, but I cannot tell
what. He then gave it to Terrence M'Loughlin, who
wrote his name upon it, and also the name of James Keefe,
who was not present. James Monaghan then took the
paper, and I have never seen it since until now. This must
nave happened in September, because 1 was at John
Monaghan's funeral, which was in August, and it was about
a month afterwards before I saw any of them.
The witness was cross-examined at some length by Mr.
Ferneley, but he failed to shake his testimony in any
particular.
Francis King, son-in-law to the deceased John Monaghan
and with whom the latter resided v.hilst living, was next
examined 1 I know the prisoner Edward Dunn. About a
week after the death o' John Monaghan, Dunn and James
Monaghan came to my house. [A. paper handed to
witness.] 1 believe this paper is what 1 saw Dunn writing
upon. Dunn said to James Monaghan that that will was
as good as if they had paid a lawyer for drawing it. Soon
afterwards they left the house. James Monaghan taking the
paper. [The paper produced was a genuine will, leaving
£lO to the witness to pay for his funeral expenses.) In
further examination the witness corroborated O'Neill's
statement, that in about three weeks after Dunn and James
Monaghan were at his house, M'Loughlin, James Monaghan,
and O'Neill, again came to witness's house. James
Monaghan gave O'Neill a clean sheet of paper, and asked
him to write from his dictation, at the same time producing
what witness believed to be the paper which he saw Dunn
writing upon three weeks before. O'Neill wrote as
directed by James Monaghan, until he had written
to the words " John Monaghan." James Monaghan
then asked him to make a cross, and ha refused.
Afterwards Terrence M'Loughlin signed his name
to the paper, and then James Monaghan asked witness to
write the name of" James Keefe," which witness refused
to do. Keefe was not present at the time. Terence
M'Loughlin then signed the name of James Keefe. About
a week after these proceedings commenced, witness met
M'Loughlin, and told him he was in a dangerous position,
when M'Loughliti replied, " Oh, I can turn Queen's evi-
dence, and then I shall get clear, and be paid as well."
Eliza King, wife of the last witness, corroborated the
testimony of her husband.
Mr. T. K. Greenbank, insurance agent at Manchester,
was next called, and stated that be had had many opportu-
nities of seeing the handwriting of the prisoner Dunn, and
believed that the pencil writing and alterations in the
genuine will of the deceased John Monaghan were his.
After some discussion between the legal gentlemen on
both sides, the genuine will of the deceased, with the pencil
interlineations and alterations, from which James Monaghan
dictated the alleged forged will to O'Neill, was put in and
read.

It appeared from it, the bone file document, that the
deceased said, " I, John Monaghan, do hereby bequeath to
Eliza, my daughter, the wife of James King, the sum of
£lO 16s Od, due at my death on a polio/ in the Wellington
Life Assurance Company," &c., &c. The pencil marks
scored out the name of " Eliza" and substituted that of
"James Monaghan." They also substituted £3OO for £lO
16s Od, and " The Diadem Life Assurance Company," for
the Wellington. The names of the attesting witnesses to
the genuine document were also scored out, and the names
of the prisoners, M•Loughlin and Keefe, substituted.
Mr. Ferneley then addressed the bench on behalf of his
clients, the bench having stated that there was no case
against Barry. At the close of Mr. Ferneley's address
Mr. Maude, the presiding magistrate, said the bench had
determined to commit the four prisoners to take their trial
at the next assizes.

On the usual caution being given,
The prisoner Keefe, although advised by his counsel to
reserve anything be might have to say, said, " No, I don't
care, I'll tell all about it." But after a conversation with
his solicitor, and having been again asked if he had any-
thing to say, he replied, "No, I have nothing to say as DOT?
advised." _

The prisoners iptrteodtiolteth. e assizes,
and the
severalit were
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committed
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The charge of murder against the prisoners Monaghan,
Dunn, ,4nd Barry, for having poisoned John Monaghan,
witnesses
will be investigated before the coroner on Wednesday, and
also before the magistrates on Thursday. The evidence of
the analytical chemist, Dr. Frank. land, professor of chemis-
try at Owen's College, will be laid before the coroner on the
former day,