The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-11 00:00:00

Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.)

The S

al Comm

this count 3
before Mr. Jus
light, when con
season of the y
Two of these were men of a superior education ; 22 could
read and write well ; 31 could do so imperfectly, and 25
could neither read nor write.
The following gentlemen were sworn as

or a general gaol delivery in
?,sterday, at the Crown Court,
an. The calendar was not
aat usually presented at this
were 87 prisoners for trial.
_ _

TAR GRAND JURY
Sir Thomas B. Birch, Bart., M.P.
Charles Ashton, Esq.
Thomas Bourne, Esq.
Thomas Bridson, Esq.

John Holn

Major, Liverpool

James Heywood, Esq.
J. P. Heyv;ood, Esq.
H. Harrison, Esq.
Alexander Henry, Esq
James Heald, Esq.

William Moss, Esq.
R. H. Norris, Esq.
Nicol. Esq

William Peel,Esq

The royal proclamation again
rality, having been read, his for
iury to the following effect :

four me

lemen of the Grand Jury
onths since the last assize

ver
the ealend

, foreman

vice, crime, and immo-
lip addressed the grand

—lt is now not quite
and general gaol deli-

d yet there is now upon
.ly short period, no fewer

than 87

rendering, no matter hoe

mission absolutely ne

of mal

sorry to find that not only was the

at of nt

upon r

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but the crime

t serious character

en ce bet
for the (

net charges of

ere alio a numbei

harm,

quarrel,
not reso

g to homicide, were
There were sixteen cases
. and attempts to kill—

Could not
to the crir

bodily I

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the per

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d that the injur:
it would be for t

murder. 'I

given wh

This rule

charge Nr

from vi
class ti

to this port, we]
with the death c

that robbery was the

There were thirty cases
distinguished from those
proportion of that class of
Ld could only be accounted
tiling vice of intoxication.
appeared to be the result of

atemperance acting
the slightest moral

.nstpyoperty

and i c

urglara

aurder it was difficult to
asy to define the differ-
daughter. The question
listinguish, as far as they
manslaughter. In cases

the prevailing causes

)n, and such aweapon.

or grievous bodily

y to tl

used occurred in a
ler whether it would
But if an

ito a ca
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death, or
amount to one of

rievou:

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for th,

s had been
vous bodily harm.

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ide of an adult • but in
infant, if the Child died

3 place it in any oth,

s a particular case of
He referred to that
er steamer, belonging

charged, upon a coroner's inquisifion,
by upsetting their boat in the
pon that subject might be thus

general law u

w some act done by

the person navigiting the steamer, to make it amount to
the crime of manslaughter; a mere omission on his part
would not be enough. A mere omission of not performing
the whole of his duty will not amount to manslaughter ;
but if these was sufficient light to enable him to see what
in such a position as to
and if, that being the

enable I

en ma

duty, or dicla

forgery on the c,

Comm.

fine, w

iery of this

was an lute

sioners had no
the fraud cod
effect of this fc

would not det
neral cl

.th, then it certainly

e view of having a
:flitted. To establish a
sary to shew that there
this case the commis-
) the fine, and therefore
!d by showing that the
to cause them to do an act
be their duty to do. He
sr comment upon the ge-
) be brought before them.
to them a prima fade
a bill. If at any time
quire any advice from
be most happy to give
ewer. With these few
ss them to their duties.

There was a charge of

non was charged with

the stipendiary magis-
xi, to a memorial to the

toms, with
en mfli

em by furtt

T the evidence I

stance in his I
would disc

STABBING CASES

STABBING CASE.
Joseph Fallow, 25, was indicted for having, at Middle-
ton, on the 14th of September last, cut and wounded Win.
Gilham. a county court bailiff, with intent to do him
bodily harm, by throwing a brick upon his head while in
the execution of his duty. The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Monk prosecuted. The prisoner was undefended.
On the case being gone into, it appeared that the officer
had not produced hin warrant when entering the home to
make a levy. The prisoner was discharged.

prisoner drew a clasp knife, and inflicted various wounds narrow stair with only alight assistance. When witness
on the neck'and head of the prosecutor—exclaiming that first saw the fractures deceased had sustained, he thought
"he had now done the job.' Medical assistance being there might be injury to the lungs, but the symptoms did
procured, the prosecutor recovered. not denote such injury. [Dr. Trench read from kmork of
The prisoner alleged that he was so drunk at the time, the celebrated Mr. Samuel Cooper extracts to the effect
that he did not know what he was doing. That, in fact, that bleeding, and copious bleeding, too, was proper in
he was raging mad. the case of a fractured rib, or severe personal injury, espe-
His Lon,nsnir having recapitulated the evidence, the cially in the case of a previously strong and healthy indi-
fury, after a few minutes' consultation returned a verdict of vidual.] When collapse was set up by severe external
guilty. injury, the collapse took place almost immediately.
At the conclusion of the case, his Lordship, in most James Doran recalled.—l assisted my brother up stairs,
eloquent and feeling terms, proceeded to record the sen- when he got home. He was able to walk up the stairs
tence of death against the prisoner,—adding, however, with my help in front of him. Some one, I think, was
that as the unfortunate object of his murderous attack behind him, but Ido not know, who it was. I went for
still lived, the extreme sentence of the law would not be Mr. Thomas, and he came, examined his chest, and
carried into effect, but he might at least expect to be ordered a dozen leeches to be applied. He took the plais-
transported for life, or a very long period. ter off his breast himself. Mr. Hutchinson ordered wine
and spirits to be given to the deceased, and they were
given to him. Witness was not sure at what hour the
leeches were put on.
Winifred Jones, a widow, residing in Kitchen-street,
said she was called, and, by order, applied twelve leeches
to the breast of the deceased, between half-past twelve
and one o'clock on Tuesday. There was slight inflamma-
tion of the breast, which she observed to be much shat-
tered.
Mr. Evan Thomas being called to say anything on his
own behalf, and after being cautioned in the usual way,
" There was no bandage on the breast when I saw

At the request of Mr. Godfrey, on the ground that he
had further medical testimony to prefer, the inquest was
further adjourned to Monday (yesterday.)
Yesterday, the investigation was resumed. The court
was even more crowded than on Saturday, and many mer-
chants, surgeons, druggists, &c., were present. Mr.
Tindal Atkinson, barrister, appeared for Mr. Thomas.
He was assisted Mr. Godfrey, solicitor, and conducted the
examination of the witnesses this day.

William Trench, Esq., M.D., Of the University of
Edinburgh, was the first witness. He said he had attended
the post mortem examination. The fractures, of which
there were three lines, were extensive. From the appear-
ances, the plaster had not extended so far at each side of
the fracture of the breast bone as to give it a firm basis,
and he thought its removal did not cause death. He
defined the character and symptoms of collapse caused by
shock. He thought it impossible that a person under col-
lapse could have gone from the quay in a car, and then
walked up a stair with a slightassistance. He concurredwith
a writer in the Lancet, and also with Dr. Cooper and Dr.
Macintcsh, (whose opinions were quoted by Mr. Atkinson,)
that copious bleeding was good practice in such cases of
fracture of ribs, in which there was no reason to suppose
that the lungs were injured or disposed to inflame.
He would not have been deterred from bleeding by any
apparent debility in the patient, since a distinction was
to be made between actual weakness and the depression
caused by obstructed action. He would not have applied
eeches, but would have opened a vein to take more blood
within less time. It was a constant practice in the pro-
fession to bleed for fractured ribs, as a precaution against
congestion. He could not imagine that the removal of
the plaster, and the exposure of the chest to the air, in
the room where deceased was, would have produced the
congestion he witnessed
PI

Mr. J.._ .ip Dillon, Great George-street, Mr. Edward
Roberts. Upper Duke-street, Mr. J. Bramley-Moore,
Mr. Nevitt, Mr. Daglish, Mr. Smith, and several other
gentlemen stated, that they had been under the hands of
Mr. Thomas, for dislocations, &c., and had every reason
to be perfectly satisfied with his practice. He (Mr. Tho-
mas) had had great practice and experience as a bone-
setter. Some he had cured after they had long been
attended by regular practitioners.
The coroner, after some preliminary remarks, summed
up the chief points of the evidence, and explained the law
as affecting the case in a lucid manner. He also quoted
Mr. Justice Park's opinion in an analogous case, (that of
Rex v. Long Ist William 1V.,) from which it appeared
hat although an unlicensed practitioner might be liable
lin penalties for infringing acts or charters by prac-
- not more amenable to a charge of man-
.,an a licensed practitioner, as neither could be
,o charged unless guilty of criminal neglect, arising either
from the grossest ignorance or the most criminal inatten-
tion.

ticir
slaughter tt

The jury, after a few moments consultation, returned t
rtict of "_accidental death,"—adding to this finding

that they did net think Mr. Thomas was in the slightest
degree to blame in his treatment of the patient. The
verdict was received by some applause from parties in the