The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-07 00:00:00

CHARGE OF ,MANSLAUGHTER.

Joseph Brown, aged 35, was charged with having unlaw-
fully killed and lain Heury Sephton, at Liverpool.
Mr. Pugh conducted thc prosecution, and Mr. Murphy
defended.

On the 26th of February last, the prisoner, the deceased,
and several other persons were at a beer-shop, kept by Thos.
Massey, in Vauxhall-road. The prisoner and the deceased
were both in drink, and they had a quarrel. The prisoner
knocked the deceased clown. The deceased, it appeared, was
very quarelsome, and provoked the prisoner exceedingly.
There was a broken tumbler on the floor, from which the
deceased, when he fell, received a wound. The deceased fell
of himself, without a blow, at the last round. He was taken
up, and died almost immediately. A post mortem examina-
tion was made by Mr. Black, surgeon. The deceased had
a wound in his chest, through which the finger could be in-
troduced to the cavity of the chest. Mr. Black, however,
could not say what was the cause of death. His lordship
said, as this was the evidence of the sur, eon, there was an
end of the case. The jury acquitted the prisoner.
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.
Joseph Barber was charged with having feloniously killed
and slain Francis Hully, at Chorlton-upon-Medlock.
Mr. Peel conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Brandt de-
fended.

The prisoner was employed by the authorities of Chorlton.
In Chatham-street, at that place, a sewer was being exca-
vated, and according to the contract the soil taken out of the
sewer was to be relaid upon the street. It was necessary,
therefore, that the soil should be kept at hand. By the pri-
soner's orders, it was removed and placed in Clarendon-street.
The deceased was passing in a cart, which came in contact
with the rubbish, was overset, and the deceased killed.
Before the case proceeded to the detail of evidence,
Mr. PEEL said there was room enough for two carts to
pass, and the prisoner had placed lights at first, but which
had been subsequently removed, but that they did not know
by whom.
Mr. PEEL said there was, in Manchester, a contest be-
tween the two coroners, and they had returned two very
different verdicts.
His LORDSHIP observed, that in such a case it would be
very hard to put a man upon his trial for manslaughter.
A verdict of Acquittal was consequently taken.

PERJURY.
William Dunn, aged 92, was charged with having, at War_
rington, committed wilful and corrupt perjury. The prisoner
pleaded not guilty.
Dr. BROWN conducted the prosecution.
It appeared that on the evening of Wednesday, the 27th
.of November last, the prisoner went to Mr. Jones, deputy
constable of Warrington, and stated that on the previous
evening when he was on his way from Staley Bridge to Man-
chester, he met four men whom he charged with having
robbed him. lie induced Jones to go with him to the road,
where they met the men and apprehended them. They were
Thomas Bryan, son. and jun., and the two persons named

Hogan. These men were brought before the magistrate,
Mr. Stubbs, the following day. Mr. Jones proved the de-
position of the prisoner on oath, before the magistrate, by
whom, and by the prisoner it was signed. In the deposition
the prisoner charged the men above named with having vio-
lently essaulted him on the highway, and robbed him of three
pound five shillings. The younger Bryan, and the female
with whom they had lodged at the time when the robbery
was alleged to have been committted, proved that they were
at her house all that afternoon and all that night, and that
they did not leave their home till the following morning.
A Mr. M'Cormick, a catholic priest of Manchester, proved
that the prisoner called on him a week before the time alleged
in the depositions, with his arm in a sling, and stated that
he had been robbed. He represented that he was in distress,
and Mr. M'Cormick relieved him.

Mr. Jones stated that the prisoner bad not his arm in a
sling when he called upon him.
The prisoner protested frequently during his trial the
Bryans and the Hogans robbed him.
The jury found the prisoner guilty. •
The learned Juno); remarked on the heniousness of the
offence, and passed the sentence of seven years transportation.

NISI PRIUS.-FRIDAY.

The court was occupied above four hours in trying the case

SEDDON V. SALKELD.

The question was merely one of the accuracy of accounts,
involving a dispute as to the sum of £lOO. Verdict for the
plaintiff for £5OO.

\VINSTANLEY AND ANOTHER V. KURTZ,
This was an action for the recovery of £2O 9s. for work
done. After the statement for the plaintiffs had been made,
his lordship, finding that the case was one which would lead
to long and tedious investigation into accounts, proposed
that it should be referred to arbitration. This was at first
refused by the plaintiff, when his lordship said it would be a
question, then, whether he should not suffer a case of that
kind to stand over until those causes of more importance, in
which a number of parties were concerned and witnesses de-
tained, had been disposed of. That this was precisely such
a case as ought to be tried by an arbitrator, and why, there-
fore, should witnesses in other cases be detained while the
court was occupied by the examination of accounts ? The
parties ultimately consented to a verdict for the plaintiff,
subject to a reference. The three following cases, which
were of the same nature, were similarly disposed of.