The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-21 00:00:00

CROWN COURT.-SATURDAY.

Robert M'Connell, 40, was charged with having, at
Tyldesley, violated Catherine Astle, aged thirteen. The
particulars are unfit for publication. The jury found the
prisoner guilty of an assault, and he was sentenced to be
imprisoned a year and kept to hard labour. William
Workman was convicted of a similar assault on the same
individual. He was sentenced to six months' imprison-
ment and hard labour.

Robert Brook, 22, was indicted for an assault upon the
pereon of Isabella Greenhalgh, a girl between ten and
twelve years of age, at Tottenham Lower End, near Bury,
in June last. The prisoner was found guilty, and sen-
tenced to be imprisoned for eighteen calendar months.
Thomas Hallows, 18, and William Banks, 21, were
indicted for having burglariously entered the dwelling-
house of Margaret Hulme, at Westleigh. The prosecu-
trix is a'beerhouse-keeper and provision-dealer, and on
the night of the 27th of July last an entrance was effected
into the house by removing the bricks from the wall be-
neath the window, and various articles were carried away.
Banks was apprehended in the house, and Hallows was
found sleeping in an outhouse. Hallows was acquitted;
Banks was sentenced to one year's imprisonment.
CHARGE OF FOI G NG A BANK NOT] /Walt!,
21, and Joshua Whitehead, also a young man, were in-
dicted for having, at Manchester, forged and uttered a
promissory note for the payment of £5, with intent to
defraud Thomas Cresswick a'id others. The prisoners
are the same men who were on Friday tried and acquitted
of a similar offence. According to the evidence now
adduced, on the 13th September, 1847, the day preceding
Doncaster races, two men, alleged to be the prisoners
called at the Manchester station of the Manchester. Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire Railway, and took two tickets for
Sheffield, in payment for which they tendered a five pound
note of the Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company,
and, on paying the note into the bank, it was discovered
to be a forgery. Nothing was heard of the prisoners
afterwards until the sth of April of the present year :
they were subsequently taken into custody and committed
for trial on the charge in July last. Neales, as on the
previous day, called on Mr. Bromilow, of the Liverpool
Borough Gaol, to prove that at the time of the alleged
uttering of the forged note he (Neales) was a prisoner in
the Borough Gaol. It was proved that Neales was lodged
in the borough prison on the day when the note was al-
leged to be uttered. He was lodged there on the 28th of
August, 1847, and was committed to take his trial at the
borough sessions in October following. The witnesses
must therefore have been mistaken in his identity. Neales
was thereupon acquitted. Whitehead was found guilty.
The prisoner Neales was then placed upon his trial on
another indictment, charging him, in one count, with
forging a promissory note for the payment of £5, with
the view to defraud the Governor and Company of the
Bank of England ; and, in another, with uttering the said
note, knowing it to be forged, with the view to defraud
one Jane Chadwick. The jury found the prisoner" guilty
of uttering, but not with a guilty knowledge." This was,
in effect, a verdict of not guilty. On application being
made for the prisoner's discharge, his Lordship said,
" Yes ; after so much good luck, let him go." The pri-
soner was tried on each indictment by a separate jury.
The sentence on Whitehead was deferred.