The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

NISI PRIUS COURT.-`WEDNESDAY.

Jamesllrtnan (24) was acquitted on a charge of hav-
ing, at Manchester, killed and slain David Rooney.
Robert Lees (29) was found guilty o❑ a charge of hav-
ing forged a receipt for a post-office order, with intent to
defraud S. Seddon.

Ann Hunt (17) was convicted of a common assault at
Manchester, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
Bernard 111`Grath (26) was found guilty on a charge of
having, at Manchester, together with two other persons,
feloniously assaulted Thomas Lester, and with great per-
sonal violence robbed him of a watch, hat, and 10s. i❑
silver money. Sentence deferred.
William Hughes (25) and Mary Hoy were acquitted
on a charge of having, at Liverpool, feloniously and bur-
glariously broken and entered the dwelling-house of one
Michael M'Kenna, and stolen thereout three shirts and
three jackets, and other articles, his property.
Thomas Jones (45) was found guilty of having, at Li-
verpool, feloniously stabbed Aaron Tyson, with intent to
do him some grievous bodily harm.
Lydia Tyson (40) pleaded guilty to a charge of having,
at Liverpool, feloniously married Thomas Holmes, John
Tyson, her former husband, being then alive. Mr.
JAMES, for the defence, addressed the court in mitigation
of punishment, in consequence of the misconduct of her
first husband towards her. Sentence deferred.
Thomas Size, Michael Barry, and Nathaniel Alcock,
all pleaded guilty to charges of bigamy. Sentences de-
ferred.

CROWN COURT.—THURSDAY.
A young man, named Christopher Clark, was indicted
for stealing £5O from the house of Mr. John Lennan,
Crown and Thistle Inn, Preston. The prisoner had been
drinking in the house, and the money was missed from a
box in the next room to the one in which he had fallen
asleep. He had immediately afterwards left the town.
Guilty. Ten months imprisonment.

BURGLARY.
Andrew Brown; 26, and William Brown, 21, (could
both read and write imperfectly), were indicted for hav-
ing, at Warrington, stolen certain moneys, goods, and
chattels, to the value of £5 and upwards, in the dwelling-
house of Peter Wilson, who keeps the White Bear Inn, at
Warrington. They had taken lodgings for the night. In
the morning they were gone, after ransacking a drawer
down stairs. Upwards of thirty pieces of lucifer matches
were found, partially burnt, and a small box in which
money had been placed, to the amount of £lO, was also
found, wrapped up in the bed-room carpet. During the
day the prisoners were observed by Mr. Jones, the de-
puty constable, about two miles from Warrington, on the
road to Newton. Upon seeing Mr. Jones they ran across
some fields, and for some time they escaped, but ulti-
mately one of them was found secreted in a ditch, with
three sovereigns and some silver and copper upon his
person. In about half an hour afterwards the other was
found lying in an old pit, his clothes saturated with wet.
A bunch of skeleton keys was found near. Guilty. Ten
years' transportation.

NISI PRIUS COURT.-THURSDAY.

ALLEGED MURDER AT LIVERPOOL.

James Hunter, 37, was charged with the murder of
Charles Winslow, at Liverpool, on the 24th of November
last. Mr. Blair conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
James appeared on behalf of the prisoner.

Mr. BLAIR stated the facts of the case, which were as
follows :—On the night of the 23d ult., the deceased,
Charles Winslow, with two other persons, named Marley
and Bryans, were drinking at a public-house in Strand-
street,- neer the corner of Crooked-lane. All the parties
were sailors, and they were far advanced in liquor. They
left the public-house about midnight, and proceeded along
through Canning-place, towards Crooked-lane, where they
saw two men, apparently sailors, standing at the corner.
Some words of an angry character passed between the de-
ceased and the two men, hut how it arose did not appear,
and they then went up Crooked-lane together quarrelling.
A private watchman, named Seymour, went up the lane,
where he saw six or seven mendressed like sailors, and three
women, quarrelling and fighting. lie saw the deceased
near where the affray was going on, and immediately af-
terwards the prisoner came down from the forth r end of
the lane, and struck him a blow in the stomach, but whe-
ther with a knife or not he could not say. The deceased
turned round, made use of some exclamation, and then
ran towards Canning-place, in the direction where Bryan
and Marley had gone. Seymour followed the deceased,
who came up to Marley, and complained of being stabbed,
having at that time received the wound which subsequently
caused his death at the hospital.
The prisoner was found guilty of Manslaughter.
His LORDSHIP, addressing the prisoner, said, the case
indeed was one of an aggravated character, the act was a
most cruel one ; and, though the jury had negatived that
degree of malice which made the offence one of wilful
murder, instead of manslaughter, it was morally as well as
legally speaking, but just below that of wilful murder.
The use of such an instrument as that produced, was an
offence of the deepest aggravation ; it showed a cruel dis-
position, and a recklessness of human life and suffering,
and it was fit to make such an example as might be a
warning to all of the consequences of such violence, and
the use of an instrument capable of producing such fatal
effects. He sentenced the prisoner to be transported for life.
Simon Hickey, 40, pleaded guilty to an indictment
charging him with having stolen .1:38 in gold, and some
silver, the property of Henry James Russell, on the high
seas. Sentence deferred.

Richard Smith, 51, pleaded guilty to a charge of
having in his possession a mould for making counterfeit
coin.—Sarah Jenkins, alias Hannah Smith, 24, pleaded
guilty to uttering two counterfeit shillings at Great
Bolton.

William Hamby, 24, was charged with having at Li.
verpool caused the death of George Lockley, by neglecting
to attend an engine of which he had the superintendence,
belonging to the Liverpool and Bury Railway, which was
employed at the works near Walton-on-the-Hill. The
jury immediately acquitted the prisoner.

MANSLAUGHTER TN LIVERPOOL.
Owen Tulley, 38, was indicted for having killed his
wife, Catherine Tulley, at Liverpool.
Mr. Blair prosecuted ; the prisoner was defended by
Mr. Atkinson.

The prisoner, who followed the business of a tailor,
resided with his wife in Thomas-street, where they kept
a small hucks..er's shop. On the evening of the 21st of
September, while at tea, some words took place between
them, during which deceased got up and went into the
shop for the purpose of serving some customers. When
she came back, the prisoner complained that it was no
use keeping a shop while she neglected it by drinking.
Deceased asked if she was drunk then, and he said she
was, and gave her a blow on the head. A woman named
Murphy, a relative of the deceased, then came in, to
whom she related what had occurred, as regarded the
prisoner striking her. Mrs. Murphy said it served her
right, upon which the deceased seized hold of her by the
hair, and a scuffle ensued. The prisoner then interfered
to separate them, when deceased attempted to strike him,
and while she was stooping down he gave her a kick in
the lower part of her person. The deceased was then
placed on a chair, and a quantity of blood flowed from
under her clothes ; she shortly afterwards relapsed into a
state of insensibility, and died the same evening.
His lordship having summed up, the jury retired, and,
after an absence of three quarters of an hour, returned,
finding the prisoner guilty, with a strong recommendation
to mercy. He was sentenced to a fortnight's imprison-
ment (solitary).