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London, England, 1824-09-06 00:00:00

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.

LANCASTER ASSIZES,Smsusza 1•

These Assizes commenced 'on Wednesday last. About three
o'clock oo that day. the High Sheriff, Julio Entwisle, init. of
Foslions, arrived in Lancaster, with an unusually numerous re-
sume. A bnnt ail he proceeded out of town, to receive the judges,
whom he met at the aqueduct, and escooted to Lancaster, where
they :waived about seven o'clock, and immediately proceeded to
the castle, where the Commission was opened in the usual form.
On Thum* morning their Lordships attended Divine Service ;
and the Rev. Edward Lloyds, rector of Brereton, the Sheriff's
chaplain, preached the usual sermon. About ten minutes before
twelve o'clock. Mr. Justice ltay ley entered the Crown Court, and,
after the usual formalities, the following gentlemen were sworn of
tin Grand Jury I
The Right Hon. lived Stanley, of Knowealey, foreman; Sir T.
Hesk-ls, Bart. Itnfford Hall; Joseph Ashton, Esq. Wootton;
flugla Itocran Bailin, Esq. Castieton fleorelt Itiginpas
hhiglard Hall; John Markham, Esq. M.P. Hale; John Ireland
Iliackbarne, Ea+ lisle; John Balton, E..q. Store's lhall; John
tliarke, Esq. Ail:field flow; Thomas Drinkwater, Esq. Dwell
!loose; Hubert I.:lowish-, Esq. Yu:choler.; Ralph Eletelaer, Esq.
Hoilnis; John lila:lstate. Est:. Syefortb [louse; Thomas Greene,
Esq. %I'Littingtos flail; Joh I YOWltell Hindle,un. Eeq.
bead Hi use; Edmund llornby, Esq. Balton Hall; Samuel Hue-
rocks, E'q. Lark 11111; Richard Houghton, Esq. Liverpool;
Robert blarkland, jun. Esq. Jlablidet ; James Royds Esq.
Mount laihnge; Edward Bootle Wilbraham, Esq. Latham
Noose.
Mr. Just ire IS . then delivered the following charge :
tientle:.,en of the firard Jury —Though the internal which has
eh; set .;tire the last Asmiz:s' is longer than usual, I am happy
to °Stare?, films the calendar,ar, that the nualber of prlsonen it
emus' .s much ensure ; and from the depositions that there are
very e tin ca-ee of an ag eravat4 nature. There arc several canes,
la *hid: ~,et flout a liwgen against more than one person fur the
14 the same otlente a and It will be desirable that you
should a:certain how fir the charge tapping to ouch ; how far the
person at each has been sa.isfactroily identified; and also, how far
the idereity of the stohn property has been sufficiently made out.
Hentlemyri, tic erleralar onstair.• several eyes of maeslaughter ;
end in each it will be desirable, before you find a bill, that you
sheuld be well rat,sfied of the cause and means of sheath. There
wee ease. in particular. where an indivithial is charged, on the
Ceponer's Iniesisitir.n, with man:Jai:y.lfeet, thinigh it appears, from
the evideece t f the no ti cal Man examined, that the loss of life was
sotomasinned by violence j butt that the ease was one of natural
Death. e a also one case of loathe ; n woman is accused of
the unnatural offence of destroying her own child. in this case it
is desirable, in thy. first Owe, that you should have reasonable
eviiience that the el lid was born alive; for, unless there is such
evliknee, any conceals: sot of the birth will be to foundation fur a
bill (Pond fur murder. If you should he moislied that the child
was bum alive, it will then he desireable that you should be sans-
Red what were the means employed to produce death. You are
well Swift tint it is C1A41,6111 to epee* the means of death; and I
luelltiOil this, in order that you may take rare, Shen the bill Coitas
before you. that the offence may be land in such a variety of ways as
von include the means used. In the el, positione there aipears to
be some doubt on the sub), ct. lientienten, there is one other case,
in which a complaint in made by the parent of a very itiong child :
and it is thsirable that the evidence of that child be confirmed by
Cost of :to ate other p.rson—cither a medical man, or some relation 1
of the child. lam not aware, Gentlemen, that there are any other
vises in which it will br necessary for me to say any thing to you.
lino are extremely well acquainted with your duty, and it .a ill
therefore be unnecessary fur me to trouble you further.
The Grand Jury thee retired, taking aid: thou several bills.
Prior to their return. J•r:..r Rasieski and Sikester Tlmormiurs, who
we* convicted at the lac Assizes, the termer of an assault of a pe-
celiar nature em a young swum, and the latter of wilfully setting
lira to the worry of Messrs. Duncan, at Liverpool, and with re-
gard to both of whom jaili,munt was respite) un points of law,
were brought up to receive sentence. Rosinski was first put to
too bar, and the Judge, after addressing him at sonic length (not.
er'Lhout internal:4.c Com the prisoner) sentenced him to impriam
'as ut for t calendar months. Sib/eater Thornton was dna put
to .he bar. eval the J de. told hint that, in consequence of lilt es-
te .::e youth, and the recommendation of the prosecutor, his life
would be spared ; but rare would be taken that he should not be
p.a. in a situation to repeat Cie offence in this country. Sentence
at death was then fen:Wed.

Viewing Toner, aged 25, was then put to the bar, charged, on
a-) indiettneut, with haring rubbed ton the highway Mr. !Cotten
Mammon, and owlets from him a gold watch, and some other
_pro.
When Mr. Asstwontrn rose Instate the case to the Jury, Sir.
Justice BATLEY asked it it required opening ?
Ms. A sit won't!, sad he Ihnught it dill. Ile then belay stated
the fact* to the Jury. 11'l et he hod concluded—
Mr. Justice .I.lairhrT intimated that he thought an opening
ought have been disposed with.
Mr. A 811111027 II —My Lied, if your Lordship will lay down,
at a nth., that there shall be no openings, I, as one ut the Bar,
shall immediately bend to your Lordship s wishes.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY-1 Om 1/13C like to sir the time of the Court
rided with. It'uu know we do not always allow costa r hen the
too.: of the l'ourt is unnecessarily wasted.
Mr. A SU WORTII —lf your Luidthip will say that there shall be
• opanio—
Air. Jus gs 1:11 BATLEY—I bare often said I whited there were
Pone.
Mr. A 8111,011714 then p-oreetled to call his witnesses—from
whose evidence it al paired, that on the evening of Friday, the 7116
of May, the pros-eutor, who is a watchmaker and silversmith at
Ilanchester, was going slung Oxford-road towards home, he eon
stowed by 'hue men near the I/shod-toad Inn, one of whom co-
vered his eyes and pulled him harkw.ools on the ground, aitilst
Inc other two oiled lee peckers, aid took from him a gold want,. a
key, and a few shillings in silver. Ikhen be got up again he saw
ttie prisoner at the bar looking at the watch, anti intantoliately em lied
Auld of the seals • the prisoner polled at the watch, until Chu LIJW
to which the ribbon was attached broke, !caring the ribbon and
basis in the hands of thepnriecutor, and he watch In those of the
protonto, who ran off with it. The prosecutor said he had a *try
mood opportnnity of siting the prisoner's are during the struggle,
and was sore he was the same man. On the following Sunday, at'
9th of May. the lois snee, together with a man teamed Cl.uLe, was
apprehended in Aneont's-lane, by William Kilbit, one of the Lek-
-411.5, and taken to a reighbositing public-house. On their way
sok. r. Kllbie saw the prisoner pot his hand inside his ,
.clothes, aid immediate.% heard something tear. lie asked the
iri-
unner what he was tearing; the prisoner replied that he was tearing
nothing. llowertr, on searching hint, Kilbie found that his watch
pocket was nearly torn off, and that it contained a gold watch,
which turned out to he the one lost by the prosecutor. When
Kil-
bit asked the prisoner if he bad tiny actount to give of the watch,
the prisoner said to Clarke, " It's a dead nail,' and to Kilbie,
You do your duty ; I don't choose to give any account of it."
The prisoner now T:11:1, in his defence, that the watch was given
to hint by Clarke to take care of it ; but he declined to cacti any
wistsesues.
The Jury, without hesitation, found him guilty. Sentaree ce.
death rerordeth
. . . .

The following is a aynolnds of the calendar ;-3lttrtfer 1 ; bur-
ials:l. 5; highway robbery, 8; larceny, 3; ntanalaughtcr, 5;
bigamy, 1 ; forgery, I ; r.p , I ; malicumaly cutting, 1; 'nailing
• I,eiter, I ; Aurae-straling, 1; inhalemcanor, 3. Total, 31.
iu addit so the above, there are two ;tenons on ball fur man-
slaughter ; one on bail charged with receiving wuden goals; mai
one committed ,incc the c.‘lendu was made up, us a clmige at

highway robbery.
The canoe lisicisotains 153 canon, viz. 33 from the hundreds of
mounderurss, bonsitalr, Itisckbir and JA, land ;34 from she
huudi.d of s4ltord; and 66 iron' tit hundred of %Vest Irerby
char/here.