Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-23 00:00:00

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES

CROWN COURT

[Before Mr. Baron WATioN.]

SENTENCES,

Zachariah Hardman and Joseph Booth, who were
fon:,:d guilty of having, at the Bury election, on the
29th April last, unlawfolly used force, violence, a►icl
restraint, to compel Jame 4 Constauti

to refrain crow

yotin, were sentenc2o
twelve calendar
months. His lordship, In
parliament haddcclared
of voting for members of parliament wa.
punishable by imprisonment. It was absolutely nee...
nary that the right of voting should ba protectea, and he
wished it to go &Ali that no persoa should violate-that
act of parliament .without receiving, in any court in
which he sat, the punishment that was due. Hardman
was the principal offender, and had tried . to impose on
the jury by keeping back witnuse3 that were partici-
pators an the crime. Booth ivw t must
not go unpunished.

with the right

:ess guilty, Ira-

CHARGE 0

lIROIVING A

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INDOW

John Irvine, aged 40, was indicted for hal.
Liverpool, on the 18th May last, feloniously kil.
slain "Margaret laytidd.

The &Ceased, Margaret hayfield, a child 21
old, was the, daughter of William hayfield, a biu
residing in York-street, West Derby-road.
18th May last, being suffering from a bad leg,
obliged to go to the hospital, and intended to t
child to the workhouse. He saw the prig on
day named, an'l they hal some uonversatien
child. The prisoner, who lived at No. 2 Cour
Portland-street, offered to take care of the ehild
lath& accepted his offer, and the prisoner to
child home. The prisoner, it was st:►ted, was

but could IN
in his arms.

k steady en.ou4ll to ca r! tt
About ten o'clock at night of

named, a woman, residing in the

the prisoner, head a noise and a weak scream,
coming out she found the child lying on its side
flags, having apparently fallen from the top wir
the prisoner's house. Thechild died almost mule
from the effects of the fall ; the skull was fount
fractured and the brain injured. The ,woma:

found the child was about tojpiek it up---vhen.
ncr said "Don't touch it." A police-officer
and, on his going into the prisoner's house,

the lower sash window of tic upper room takc
and the prisoner lying under the bed. The p.
was charged with having wilfully thrown the (
of the window

For the defence it was urged that the prisonel
have no nioti-•e in killing the child ; that he had
the time of its death, treated the child with kin
and that, if he wished, he. could have, at any; tic
rid of the child by returning it to its father.
further urged that the child had accidentally fat

of the winAo

The jur

pitted the prisoner

.IANSLAUMITER AT LIVERPOOL.

Militon Garai, aged twenty-two, a Spaniard, •
dieted for haying, at Liverpool,_ en the 3rd Am'
fdoniously killed and murdered Win. Marshall
Simon an,l Mr. Deighton appeared for the -pros(
and Mr. Aspinall and Mr. Sidgrave for t
portion of the evidence was interpreted
for the prisoner as the trial proceeded.
It appeared that on the night of the

the p►isoiler, a Bp,nish sailor, with three or foi
foreign seamen, was in Mr. Welsh's public
in Whitechapel, corner of Preston-street, and .1:11

Were sittit
There wer

themsi

the company wished

to go out

sorer Put .

passig

man iii question. This occasioned sonic ill
about two or-three roinute3 the man retort.—. ~
eleven and, twelve o'clock, the prisoner and hi
panious went out, and remained outside until
o'clock, when the • Englishmen, who had been di
witl: the deceased, came o-At also. The foreigner
sidering that some offence had. been given, the
menced an attack on the Englishmen. The p
was seen to strike a boy, who went by the r
Peter Smith. The deceased went up to rescue t

when the prisoner IN
of his side, and to

tiagger-k

Il it one

twice (no'

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