The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-04-06 00:00:00

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES

CROWN COURT.
TUESDAY.—MichaeI Margery was discharged by
proclamation.

SENTENCES.—John Hutchinson and John Stanfield,
who pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary, were sen-
tenced, Stanfield to transportation for ten years, and
Hutchinson to eighteen months' imprisonment.
BURGLARY AT EVERTON.—Patrick Ryan was con-
victed of having broken into the dwelling-house of
Ebenezer Bates, Seacombe-street, Everton, on the
morning of Sunday, the Bth Feb., and stolen furniture
and other property valued at £lO. To be transported for
ten years,

STABBING AT PRESTON.—Robert Nixon, a piecer in a
cotton factory at Preston, was convicted of having stabbed
Mary Nixon, his wife, with intent, &c. Transportation
for ten years.
ROBBERY OF A CASH Box IN LIVERPOOL.—George
Williams was found guilty of having, on Saturday
evening, the 14th of February, assaulted Thomas Bland
Leigh, striking him on the head with a life-preserver, and
stealing a cash-box, which the prosecutor was taking to
Mr. Wordley's, in Lord-street, containing £3O in gold,
£l5 Bs. 6d. in silver, and I 0 U's for between £l5O and
£2OO, and eight bills for £4O. The prisoner was sen-
tenced to be transported for life.
MANSLAUGHTER AT HULME.—William Thompson
was acquitted of having caused the death of Sarah
Thompson, his wife, by throwing her down stairs.
SACRILEGE.—SamueI Royals was found guilty of
stealing some joiners' tools, a prayer-book, a shilling, and
a silk gowp from St. Nicholas's Church. Twelve months'
imprisonment, with hard labour.
CUTTING AND WOUNDING.— William Hughes was
charged with having, on the 14th of Feb. last, cut the
throat of John Eccles, at the Wheat Sheaf Inn, Black-
burn. It appeared that the prisoner had been begging at
the house in question, being intoxicated at the time, and
on being refused relief, had drawn a razor across the
throat of the prosecutor, who was also intoxicated, and
endangered his life. Prisoner was found guilty, but
recommended to mercy. The learned Judge postponed
passing sentence.

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BURGLARY AT MANCHESTER.—Thomas Goodier was
found guilty of having entered the dwelling-house of
Samuel Edwards, London-road, Manchester, and stolen a
watch and £5 in money, One year's imprisonment, with
bard labour.

STREET ROBBERY.—MarIin Neery was found guilty of
having stolen a watch from the person of John Kilton, in
Manchester, on the 7th Feb last. Two previous convic-
tions having been proved against him, he was sentenced
to ten years' transportation.
The court rose at half-past six.

WEDNESDAY.—MURDER AbWIDNES.—John Shea
(aged 21) was indicted for the murder of James Anderson
at Widnes, near Runcorn, on the sth November last.
Two other persons named Nolan had been committed as
accomplices, but the grand jury had ignored the bills
against them. It will be remembered that the murder
of Anderson, who was foreman at an alkali works, was
suspected to have arisen out of ill-feeling, created by
disputes with the men. The evidence of several witnesses
was gone into, showing that the Nolans and prisoner
were present at the finding of the body, and assisted in
carrying it to the deceased man's house. A bludgeon,
such as a medical witness considered might have inflicted
the blow which had occasioned death, was found in the
house where the Nolans resided. The evidence on the
whole was of an inconclusive nature, and the jury acquitted
the prisoner. The trial occupied 13,1 hours.

THURSDAY.—BIGAMY.— William Clarkson pleaded
guilty of having married, at Bury, Ann Collier, his former
wife, Ann Clarkson, being alive.—Six weeks' imprison-
ment, with hard labour.

CHILD MURDER IN LIVERPOOL.—Mary 211`Andrew,
(26,) indicted for having feloniously killed her new-born
female child in Bridge-street, and concealed its body in
an ashpit, was acquitted of the murder, there being no
satisfactory evidence that the child had been born alive,
out found guilty of the concealment.—Sentenced to three
months' imprisonment and hard labour.

FORGING A SHIPPING NOTE.—John Drummond was
found guilty of having feloniously uttered an advance
note for £5, payable on Messrs. Frose and Co., Bruns-
wick-street, and purporting to be signed by the captain of
the new Brazilian steam-frigate Amazonas, and procuring
from Smith, in Manesty-lane, £2 upon it, by representing
that he had shipped on board that vessel.—Sentenced to
one year's imprisonment and hard labour.
GARROTTE ROBBERY IN MANCHESTER.— William
Mitchell, (22,) William Jackson, (19,) and Sarah
Brown, (17,) were indicted for having assaulted Thomas
Taten, at Manchester, and robbed him of ss. The pro-
secutor did not appear; and the prisoners were found
guilty of assaulting with intent, upon the evidence of the
police. The female, who had been twice before convicted,
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