The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-10 00:00:00

His Lordship sad in consequence of this statement he
would treat both men the same way—but for it he
would have sentenced Lloyd to transportation for life.
The sentence of each was therefore to be transported
for ten years.
GARROTING A FEMALE.—Christopher Thomas was
charged with having at Manchester, on the 24th of Sep-
tember, violently assaulted and robbed Fanny Maybury.
The prosccutrix was the wife of a man named George
Maybury, and on the night in question, about eleven
o'clock, was coming home along Oldham-road, after
having received some wages for her husband from his
employer, a chairmaker, named O'Connell, when she
was followed by the prisoner, and another man not in
custody. They caught her by the throat, and choked
her in regular garrotte fashion, and then robbed her of
the few shillings she had in her possession. The woman
remained insensible on the ground until she was found
soon after and carried home. She knew the prisoner by
1 face and name before the outrage, and he was accord-
ingly arrested and identified by her. Some other
articles of property, such as a cap, a shawl, a box, and a
fish she had bought, were stated by the woman to have
been taken by the prisoner. None of these arti I,s were
found in his possession when arrested. The jury found
the prisoner guilty. Sentence deferred.
CHARGE OF GAILROIING.—Thomas Hansall, a boy of
16, described as a fustian coact.; was charged with hav-
ing been one of a party who feloniously assaulted
Francis Strahan, and with great violence robbed him of
a watch, four shillings, and other articles. The prose-
eutor stated that on the Ist of October, abetit half-past
eleven at night he was going home, and in passing
through Deansgate he 31W the prisoner, who appeared to
watch him closely. Ile turned into R.ainford street,
and was proceeding on, when he was seized by two men,
one of whom squeezed his throat, white a boy, whom he
stated to be the prisoner, rifled his pocket. The evi-
dence of identity was very uncertain, and his lordship
directed an acquittal of the prisoner.'
BURGLARL—SamueI Fisher, aged 22, tailor, was charged
with having, on the night of the 26th October, at Man-
chester, feloniously and burglariously broken and entered
the house of William Avers, and stolen a clock, three silk
handkerchiefs, a waistcoat, and other articles. The prose-
cutor keeps a house called the Grapes Inn, Union street,
Manchester. On the night in question, the servant girl was
roused by some noise, and saw a light outside her door.
Some oue looked in, but withdrew. She got up, and,
coming to the door, saw a man, whom she stated to be the
prisoner, with a light, which, as soon as she appeared, he
blew out. She raised an alarm, and her master came down,
but the burglar had escaped, and the property mentioned
was gone. A man, whose occupation was knocking persons
up every morning, deposed that he saw the prisoner, with
two other men, in an entry leading into the house on the
morning of the robbery. The prisoner was subsequently
apprehended. Mr. Wheeler conducted the prosecution, and
Mr. Tindal Atkinson defended. The vary found the pri-
soner not guilty. The court rose at six o'clock.

SECOND COIJKT.
BEFORE MR. SERGEANT CHANNELL.
BURGLARY AT SALFORD.—James Robinson, 20, fustian
dresser, was placed at the bar charged with having burgla-
riously entered the dwelling house of William Farrar, at
Salford, on the 16th of September, and stolen therefrom 18
gallons of ale and a shawl. Mr. Raffles prosecuted, and
Mr. Sowler defended the prisoner On the morning of the
day in question the prosecutor's wife heard a noise in her
b droom, at d on:her husband, whom she awoke, going down
stairs, he found that the cellar window had been broken,
and that an eighteen gallon cask had been emptied of its
contents. His wife also missed a shawl from her bedroom,
and this was fouel concealed in an umbrella at his lodgings.
On cross examination, the prosecutor admitted that his wife
had bad tea, on the evening preceding the robbery, with a
man named 'corn Richards, hot he could not say what kind
of cream they had- used. (Laughter.) His wife was not
quite drunk, but she did not sleep in the same bed as he did.
Mrs, Ferrer also admitted that she had had tea with Tommy
Richards and five others, and that they bad a quartern of
rum in the cream. (Laughter.) The prisoner previously
lodged in the house, and knew how to open the cellar win-
dow from the outside. Mr. Bawler, for the defence, urged
that the most probable explanation of the else was that
Mrs. Ferrer having been overcome by the " cream," had,
during the evening, visited the cellar to draw some ale, and
that forgetting to turn the cock, the liquor had run waste.
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner
was discharged, after ate admonition from his lordship to
reform his rife, which was admitted to be of a dissolute
charecter.
STABBING AT PRESTON.—Robert Ogden, 29, handloom
weaver, was placed in the dock charged witn having feloni-
ous'y slabbed Jane Overend' at Preston. on the night of the
7th of September, with intent to do her grievous bodily
harm. Mr. Cross prosecuted, and Mr. Wigham defended
the prisoner. The prosecutrix is one of the unfortunate class
of women who walk the town, and, on the night in question
she, with two or three compenions, was pursuing her miser-
able calling. She returned to her house, in Green street
Preston, about three or four o'clock, the following morning
(Sunday), and as she was about to close the shutters, the
prisoner came np and pulled her by the clothes. She
pushed him in return, whereupon the prisoner drew a knife
and stabbed her in the side. He immediately took to
flight and was pursued by the prosecatrix. She soon,
however, became taint from loss of blood, and fell insensible
in the street. She was removed to the house of recovery,
and there lay for mono than a fortnight in a very precarious
state. The sergeant of police who was examined for the
prosecution, stated that Cee prisoner was married, and that
he was a man of good character. Mr. Wigham strongly
urged this evidence in faveir of the prisoner, and eonteneed
that it was a case of mistaken identity. The jury returned
a verdict of "unlawfully wounding. Sentence was deferred.
ARSON AT TOXTETH PARK.—Patrick Keogh, 23, hawker,
was indicted for haying at Toxteth Park, on the 18th
September last. feloniously set fire to two stacks of wheat,
the property of Thomas Aspinall. Mr. Hornby prosecuted.
The prisoner was undefended. Ile admitted that it was
he who set fire to the stacks, but alleged that it was done
through accident. On the evening of the day in question,
the was seen by Mr. Aspinall'e servants entering the
haggard, but no further notice was taken of him. The
family retired to rest at their usual hour, end at that time,
all seemed quiet about the premises. At two o'clock in
the morning, one of the workmen was aroused by seeing
flames burst from one of the stacks. He promptly gave
the alarm, but the flames, being wafted by the wind,
communicated the fire to two adjoining stacks, and raged so
furiously that in spite of all efforts to suppress them, the
three stacks were totally consumed in a short time. They
were valued at £l5O. Shortly after the discovery of the
fire, Constable 41 of the Liverpool force met the prisoner
walking towards town. He accosted the prisoner, and the
latter after a moment's hesitation, told him that he
had set fire to the stuck, but it was accidentally. He said
that the night being very wet, and having no money
wherewith to procure a lodging, he went to sleep
under the stack. In the course of the night
he lit hit pipe, and, unhappily, the match which
he used set fire to the stack. When taken to the
p lice station he was searched, but no money was
found on his person. A pipe full of tobacco and a few
articles of sham jewellery of the most trifling value were
the only things found in his possession. There being no
reason to doubt his statement, the jury returned a verdiot
of not guilty.
BURGLARY AT ORMSKIRE..—Thomas Rimmer,lB, labourer,
was indicted for having, at Aughton, near Ormskirk, on the
12th October last, burglariously broken and entered the
dwelling house of Jeffery Robinson. and stolen therefrom
£lO, the moneys of the said Jt fferey Robinson. Mr. Simon
prosecuted. The prisoner was undefended. The prosecutor
is a farmer residing at Aughton, near Ormskirk, and shortly
before the period of the robbery the prisoner was in his
employment as farm servant. While so employed be became
well acquainted with the habits of the family, and the place
where the prosecutor kept his money. On the day of the
robbery he was away from home on business, and left his
house and family (his wife being of unsound mind) in charge
of a little girl about 12 years of age. The prisoner was aware
of this, and lost no time in availing himself of the opportunity
to rob the house. He was drinking in the evening with a
number of men in the public house adjoining the prosecutor's
dwelling, and while they were making merry he left their
company for about half an hour. During his absence the
landlady heard a noise in the prosecutot's house as if a lock
was being broken, but at the time she took no notice of it.
The prosecutor returned in the course of the night, and next
morning he found that the house had been entered through
the kitchen window, and that his chest had been broken, and
£lO in gold taken from it. It was at once seen that the
robbery had been committed by some one well acquainted
with the house, and suspicion fell on the prisoner.
It was known that before the robbery he was so
poor that he could not pay a small debt of a few
shillings, while immediately after be seemed "flush of
cash," and was to be found in every public house in
the neighbourhood for several days subsequently, drinking
and lavishly treating his acquaintances. He also gave four
sovereigns to a person in the neighbourhood to keep for him.
He was convicted, and sentenced to four years penal servi-
tude. This is his first conviction, were it otherwise, he
would have received severer punishment.
SHEEP STEALING AT WEST DERBY.—George Smart, 18,
Was indicted for having at West Derby, on the 3rd October
last, feloniously stolen one sheep, the property of William
Robinson and another. Mr. Raffles prosecuted, and Mr.
Scott appeared for the prisoner. It seemed that a few days
before
the 3rd October, Henry Case the drover of Messrs.
Robinson and Morgan, cattle salesmen, placed 138 sheep in
a Field near West Derby, previous to their being sold at the
re xt market at the Old Swan. He went to count them on
the 4th, and missed two .if them. A sheep having the same