The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-14 00:00:00

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and they identified Rig-by as the man-who had seized the
proseoutOr by the throat, and one of the party, not in
custody, as handing some money to the girl. The evidence
against Beaman was that Just about the time of the
robbery he had been at Beaumont's spirit vaults, whbre

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of ale, and left the watch stolen front the
prosecutor as security for a few shillings he then llor-
rowed.. This watch was after*ards given to the police,
and identified 1w the preseehtor as the tine stolen from
him on the night in question. The prisoners were found
guilty., A ferrher conviction was proved against the two
Male prisoners, Heaman having been transported for seven
years; and was consequently out on a ticket-of-leave.
Mary Kennedy eighteen months' imprisonment, Rigby
seven years', and Heaman nine years' penal servitude.
STABBING AT ELTON,—Samuel Wolstenholnr., aged 20,
a factory hand, was charged with having on the 13th of
April last stabbed Thomas Ridings, with intent to de hilt
bodily harm. In this ease the prosecutor` and the Olson&
were drinking together at a public house with some mutual
friends, when some words passed, which, after a short
time, ended 'Ail a personal conflict, in the course of Which
it was clearly 1)1'0'0 that the priserier stabbed the prose;
critor in the arm. The 3ury acquitted the prisoner of the
felonious intent, and found him guilty of a common assault,
for which he was sentenced to eighteen months' imprison-
ment with hard labour.

HOUSEBREAKING AT MANCITESTER.—SamIIeI Fisher, aged
21, a tailor; who was remanded from the last assizes, was
placed at the bar, charged with having, on the 19th of
November last, burglariously entered the dwelling house
of Mr. James Allen, and stealing therefrom a quantity of
cloth of the value of £3O. The melancholy facts connected
with this case, besides the crime itself, was, that on the
night of the robbery the-servant girl had been so much
alarmed, that she had since died, and, therefore, was not
present to give her evidence. From the statement of the
witnesses the breaking into the house was clearly proved,
as was also the abstraction of the property. The chief evi •
Bence against the prisoner was the statement made by a girl
with whom he had Formerly cohabited, and his own sister,
all of whom lived together, who, on the morning after the
robbery, found the stolen property in his possession at
his lodgings. The prisoner in his defence denied all know-
ledge of the robbery, and stated that the girl had been
induced to accuse him with the offence, because he had
formed a connection with another female, upon which sho
had threatened to transport him. The jury acquitted the
prisoner.
TIIE CASTLETON GANG OF 13URGLARS.—Edmund Holt,
aged 32, a baker ; T_Triah Crossley, aged 60, an engine
driver; Mary Crossley, aged ,8, a housekeeper, and
sqUire Crossley, aged 19, a collier (the latter father,
mother, and' son), were charg6d, Holt with breaking into,
and the other prisoners with receiving a large quantity of
property, stolen from the house of Mrs. Susannah Sykes,
on the night of the 9th of May last. There was also a
similar charge against the same prisoners for a robbery
committed on the 9th of June, in the house of David
Buckley, at Rochdale, and likewise, for another robbery
on the night of the 16th of July, when a quantity of goods
were stolen from the house of Mr. James Plate, of Butter-
worth. The prisoner Holt pleaded guilty to each of the
indictments, and also with having been previously eon.
•Victed, and sentenced to transportation, from which he
had returned before the expiration of his sentence. The

thily evidence adduced was that to prove that the three
prisoners upon their trial had been guilty of receiving the
property, knowing it to have been stolen. Witnesses were
called, who spoke to having frequently seen the prisoner
Holt at the house, and in communication with the other
prisoners, in whose possession a large quantity of stolen
property was found immediately after the robbery.
The jury found the mother, Mary Crossley, guilty of
but acquited the son, Squire
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ttiOi placed upon their trial for the second offence, in
which Mr. Buckley, of Rochdale, was the prosecutor. In
this case some of the stolen property was clearly tr

the possession of the prisoner, Squire Crossley, who,. in
his defence, called the prisoner Holt, who -stated that it
was true that he had called himself the Young Jack Shep-
herd from Ireland, and that he had committed the
robbery_ and n.lso that he had sold the clogs to the Squire

for Is the day after he robbery, and that Ile knew nothing
whatever about. their being stolen. In this case the mother
and sou were found guilty, but the jury acquitted the
father. Uriah Crossley. The third charge was not pro-
ceeded with. In passing sentence upon the prisoners, his
Lordship said that the prisoner Holt had been convicted.
by his own confession, of three burglaries, after having
been previously convicted. It appeared that he had cam •
menced the trade of a robber in 1848, in which year he
was transported for seven years, but in 1853, through the
leniency of the authorities, was discharged in the month
of Mareti, but no sooner had he been discharged than he
again commenced the trade of a robber. Upon such a
character it was impossible to pass a lenient sentence.
The Court ordered him to be imprisoned to penal servi-
tude for eight years. The other two prisoners, Mary and
Squird Crossley, were each sentenced to fifteen months'
imprisonment. _

COINING IN LivEnpoor..—:Marmaret Goodin, aged 42, a
housekeepbr, was charged with° having, on the 15th of
April, made and counterfeited three pieces of coin resem:
bling shillings. Inspector Skirmer, an another of the
police force, stated that on the day in question they went
to the prisoner's house, at No. 8, Smithfield, where they
found her engaged in making the coin, and took her into
custody at the time, with all the metal and implements for
casting the coin. The prisoner, in a very plausible tone,
alleged that it was a conspiracy got up between a woman
with whom she had had a glass of rum and the police, to
get her out of the way. Guilty. Four years' penal
servitude.

ATTEMPT AT CHILD MURDER BY A MOTHER.—Mary
M'Conville, 19, factory hand, was indicted for having, on
the 21st of April, attempted to drown her male infant, by
leaving it exposed in a stream of water. Mr. Fearnley
prosecuted, and Mr. Higgins defended. The prisoner
was confined of the child in question in the Manchester
workhouse, on the 11th of April, and left it on the 21st,
under pretence of going to her father's. In the course of
the evening, she stripped the child, and left it lying in a
shallow stream of water, running through some fields
near St. Lukes', Manchester. It was fortunately dis-
covered in its perilous position, shortly after the aban-
donment by its mother, and its life preserved. The
mother was arrested the succeeding day. She was
acquitted of the felony, but pleaded guilty to exposing,
the child, and was sentenced to six months' imprison-
ment.
The court then adjourned.