The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-28 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22:

BURGLARIES AT MANCRES7BR.— William More; tailor,
andfohn Dent, shoemaker, were charged with having, on
the 10th of December last, burglariously entered, the
dwelling house of William Todd,. of Manchester; and stolen
two dresses, a parasol, a shawl, and other articles. Moore
pleaded guilty. Dent was found guilty. Both prisoners
had been previously convicted of felony. They were
sentenced to 4 years' penal servitude.
William France, factory operative, and fames Eagnall,
tapper, were charged with having,. at Manchester, com-
mitted a burglary- in the house of Jane Moore, Charles-
street, and stolen three shirts, a child's jacket, an overcoat,
a flannel jacket, and a pair of shoes. They were found
guilty. Sentence, four years' penal servitude.
William Milner, cabinetmaker, wair indicted for having
burglariously entered the dwelling - house of Thomas
Crompton, with intent to steal. As the prisoner's object
in being in the house was not clearly shown, the jury
gave him the benefit of the doubt, and returned a verdict
of acquittal.
Julia Cosgrove, stay-maker, was charged with a bur-
glary at the dwelling-house of Francis Smith, Longsight-
house, Stockport-road, Manchester, and stealing three
pairs of boots, a shirt, a sheet, three tablecloths, and other
articles. She was found guilty, and sentenced to 12
months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
John White, slogger, was charged with having bur-
glariously entered the dwelling-house of John Parkinson,
at Manchester, and stolen three bottles ot spirits.. The
jury found the prisoner guilty. He- had been previously
convicted of felony. The judge sentenced him to 15 years'
transportation.
George Little, Joseph I ewis alias Little, and Patrick
Nearney, all shoemakers, were charged with a burglary in
the house-of John Birtles, at Manchester. The money
drawer inthe shop had been broken open, but nothing was
taken, the only property which the thieves had an oppor-
tunity of securing being a glass of sweetmeats,.valued at
3s. The prisoners were found. guilty. Previous convic-
tions for felony were proved against them. His lordship,
after a severe admonition to the prisoners, who, he thought,
were bey and the reach of anything that could-be done to
reform them in this country, sentenced them to 15 years'
transportation each. 'Lewis, while leaving the dock, re-
plied, It's only a cheap trig,"
BURGLARY AT BOLTON.—JO/4n Taylor, carter, was in-
dicted for a burglary on the premises of John Hallspike, at
Bolton, and stealing a box, containing £5l in. gold and
silver, on the 25th of January last. The jury found the
prisoner guilty. Sentence, four years' penal servitude.
BURGLARY AT LIVERPOOL.—John. Cavanagh, labourer,
was chargedwith a burglary at the house of Benjamin
Elves, licensed- victualler, Liver street, on. the 24th De-
cember last. He was found guilty and sentenced to 12
months' imprisonment, with hard labour. The court rose
shortly after five o'clock.

THURSDAY, Mknen 23.
SENTENCES.—Richard Prew and. Thomas Malroy, con-
victed of robbery with violence at Manchester, were sen-
tenced to imprisonment, with hard labour, in the house of
correction, for 15 months.—George. Stone, Dennis Bennett,
and William Redden, for robbery with violence, at Man-
chester, to 15 years' transportation. Ann Vernon,
Anthony Leneghan, and John Leneghan, robbery with
violence,. at Warrington, four years' penal servitude.—
Rose Clark, burglary, at Bedford, one year's imprisonment.
—Samuel Lumb, burglary, at Manchester, four years'
penal servitude.
STARING.--William Boyd,, labourer, was charged
with having stabbed James Halton, shopkeeper, Aspull-
at-Haigh, near Wigan, on the 15th December last. The
jury, without retiring, returned a verdict of guilty.
Sentence, fifteen months imprisonment,with hard labour.
SulainpuL ASSAULT UPON A WIFE.—James Norris,
carter, Salford, was charged with a violent assault upon
his wife, on the 31st of December last. It appeared that,
about two o'clock on the afternoon of the day in question,
Norris brought home a woman whom his wife did not
know, but whom he introduced to her as his cousin, both
being in a state of intoxication, and desired her to make
tea for them. This she refused to do, and turned the.
woman out. The prisoner then went to bed. About 11
o'clock at night he rose and had supper, after partaking of
which he said to his wife that as she had turned his woman
out of the house, he would put her out, and proceeded to
do so. She resisted, and upon this the prisoner took a
knife off the table, and struck her twice over the, face,
inflicting a serious wound. She gave an alarm, and the
prisoner was taken into custody. The jury, without
leaving the box, found the prisoner guilty of unlawfully
wounding, and he was sentenced to 15 months imprison-
ment, with hard labour.
STABBING AT SALFORD.—Sarah Wortley, described
as a dressmaker, was charged with unlawfully wounding
John Smith, at, Salford, on the 31st December last, with
intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The prisoner
pleaded that she had struck Smith in self-defence. His
lordship, in his charge, leant to that supposition. The
jury immediately returned a verdict of not guilty. Smith's
recognizances were escheated, and costs allowed.
STABBING AT MANCHEsTEB.--WilliamLawson,packer,
Manchester, was indicted for having, on the sth Novem-
ber last, unlawfully wounded Edward Clarke, residing
there. From the evidence it appeared the assault was a
very ruffianly and unprovoked one, and that the injuries
inflicted were of a dangerous character. The jury found
the prisoner guilty. Sentence, eighteen months' impri-
sonment, with hard labour.
ANOTHER STABBING CASE ferMA.lircuzsm.—Patrick
Lealey, bricksetter, Manchester, was charged with stab-
bing Mary M'Ardle, the wife of a beerhouse-keeper there,
on the let of January last. Mrs. M`...krdle stated in her
evidence that she did not think the prisoner intended to
stab her, and that he was much excited at the time. The
jury returned a verdict of guilty. After a few remarks,
his lordship sentenced Lealey to three months' imprison-
ment, with hard labour.
STABBING AT SALFOILD.—James Curran, labourer, was
charged with having, on the 11th of December, feloniously
stabbed Hugh Lawler, nail-maker, Jackson-square, Sal-
ford. From the evidence it appeared that the prosecutor
himself was the first to resort to the use of the knife ; and
there was some doubt as to whether one of the wounds
was inflicted by a knife or by a blow of the fist. The pri-
soner was acquitted.
ASSA.ULT.—Williarn Wall, labourer, charged - with a
felonious assault upon George Coleman, at Upholland, on
the 22nd of January. The assault, which was an aggra-
vated one, appeared in some degree to have arisen out of
party feeling. The prisoner was found guilty, and sen-
tenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard
labour.
BRUTAL ASSAULT UPON WIFE.— Thomas Ellis, baker,
was charged with an assault, with intent to
Manchester,
murder, upon his wife, Mary Ellis. The prosecutrix, it
appeared, has been married to the prisoner for twenty-five
years, and has borne him fifteen children, three only of
whom survive. At the time of the assault the prisoner
was out of work, and living on the earnings of his wife
and three children. About half-past three o'clock on the
morning of the 21st of Februrary last, the prisoner got
out of bed for the purpose of smoking, and Mrs. Ellis, who
was in the habit of rousing the children, got up also to
ascertain what time it was. The prisoner approached her,
threw her on the bed, and attempted to strangle her, and
then inflicted a severe wound upon her neck. Her hand
was also much cut in the struggle with a knife. She im-
mediately gave an alarm, and the prisoner made his escape,
but was pursued and taken into custody. The jury found
the prisoner guilty. Sentence of death was recorded.
STABBING.—WiIIiam Walker was indicted for a fe-
lonious assault upon Thomas Clarkson, sergeant of police,
Ashton-in-Mackerfield, on the 3rd January last. Walker,
at the time of the assault, was a constable in the county
force, and Clarkson was his sergeant. On the evening
named, the prosecutor visited the prisoner at his station.
He was asleep, and the prosecutor had him awaked, and
asked him for his duty-book. From something prosecutor
saw in the book, he asked an explanation. Some more
words passed, when the prisoner rushed at the sergeant's
dog. He next assaulted the sergeant himself, whom he
struck twice With lug fat The jury returned a verdict

of guilty of the assault, with the view of resisting lawful
apprehension. His lordship reserved the point of law
raised as to the legality of the apprehension, and sentence
was deferred.

FORGERY. John Timpson, bankers' clerk, Liverpool,
pleaded guilty to the charge of uttering a forged cheque
for £1,500, with intent to defraud.
STABBING IN LIVERPOOL.—James Buckley, labourer,
was charged with stabbing Elizabeth Born, with intent to
murder her or do her some grievous bodily harm. The
prosecutria, a single woman, residing with her mother in
a court No. 10, Eldon-street, stated that she had known
the prisoner about five years. About two years ago the
prisoner charged her with having informed the police that
he was concerned in a plate robbery. On that occasion
he had threatened to stab witness. On the evening of the
2nd January last, while going a message for her mother,
the prisoner met her in Maguire-street, struck her twice
on the face, and then drew his knife and stabbed her
twice under the chest. The weapon was stopped by a rib,
otherwise the wound might have been fatal. The jury
found him guilty of cutting and wounding with intent to
murder. Judgment of death was recorded. His lord-
ship, however, intimated that the highest secondary
punishment would be inflicted.
The court then adjourned at half-past five o'clock.