The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-10 00:00:00

STEALING A BARREL.

John Ryan, aged 24, was charged with having stolen a
barrel, the property of Henry Copeland.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced
to four months' imprisonment, the last month in solitary
confinement.

CHARGE OF THEFT FROM THE PERSON.

Henry Fisher, aged 23, was charged with having stolen a
watch, the property of Leonard Smith.

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The Jury found the prisoner guilty of larceny, and he was
sentenced to six months' imprisonment, the last mouth in
solitary confinement.

ASSAULT AND ROBBSRY.-DEFINITION OF THE TERM
DRUNKENNESS.

Agnes Cartwright, aged 49, Ann Clifford, 30, and Sarah
Williams, 24, were charged with having assaulted Thomas
Glasco, and robbed him of his purse, containing 20 sovereigns,
a half-sovereign, and a half-crown.
Mr. Henderson conducted the prosecution, Mr. Murphy
defended the prisoners.
Glasco is an old man. It seems that, on the 17th Decem-
ber, he was passing along Byrom-street, when he was ac-
costed by a female, who called herself Jones, who told him
that she wanted to get into service, as she had ran away from
her father and mother a few nights before. The conversa-
tion ended in her taking him to a house in Lace-street, where
he sent for six pennyworth of whiskey. • They were sitting
drinking it in an apartment where the prisoner-Williams was
in bed. He thought she was a decrepid old woman, till, sud-
denly, she started up. This was the signal for the others to
seize him. They held his arms fast while Williams thrust her
hands into his pockets, and robbed him of his gold. He re-
sisted as much as he could, but ineffectually. The prisoners
all made off, and he went and informed a police-officer. The
girl Jones, who had lured him to this den of infamy, was not
captured, but with the other prisoners the officers were more
fortunate.

Mr. MURPHY caused great merriment in the court by his
cross-examination of the principal witness, who, it appears,
is a married man, but who protested that he went with the
girl Jones from mere charity. He gave her the very best of
advice, he said, and advised her to return to her father and
mother. She said she had no money, but she had a neat
furnished lodging, for which she paid 4s. a week. He said
he would see in a few days if a little money could not be
raised for her. She requested him to go and see her lodg-
ing, that he might know where to find her. " Upon this
hint" he went, and, as he himself remarked, he " paid dear
enough for it."
The officers detailed the course of circumstances leading
to the capture of the prisoners. The officers all said the old
man, Glasco, was intoxicated. Bonfield said he was intox-
icated, but he knew what he was about. At this point Mr.
Murphy cross-examined him, and when he found the officer
persisting in his opinion that the old man was not insensibly
drunk, he said

War; he sober ? No.
Was he drunk ? No.

Pray what is your definition of drunkenness ? I call a man
drunk when he has had so much liquor that his recollection
cannot he depended upon.
The RECORDEB--It is generally considered that a man is
not drunk so long as he can stand.
Mr. Ylugniiy.—The usual definition, sir, is that a man
is not drunk so long as he can lie down and hold by the
ground.
The RECORDER, in summing up, made some severe re-
marks upon the conduct of the old man, dwelling upon the
fact of his having been intoxicated.
The Jury retired. In a quarter of an hour they returned
and delivered a verdict of not guilty.