The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-25 00:00:00

Mr. Starkie and Mr. Murphy were for the proaeciition.
The prisoners were undefended.
;The prosecutor lives in Preston-street, Liverpool. On the
2th of June, Lacy lived at his cellar ; Cain, on that day,
went to see her, and threw herself on the bed where the
prosecutor was lying. He got up and sat on the table, and
hks wife would not let Cain lie there. • She went out very

much provoked, but soon afterwards returned. Lacy went
to the door to wash some linen, and Cunningham desired her
tci do it inside. She was much irritated, and threw hot water
and mud over him. At last she told Cain to get a knife from
the cupboard and stick it into him. Cain did so, and in-
flicted one wound in the cheek, another in the neck, near to
the jugular vein, and one in the breast, which penetrated a
considerable depth. Cunningham deposed to these facts, and
cross-examined by the prisoners as to whether he had
acted improperly in his house, and ill.used Lacy because
would not comply with his impure solicitations. He de-
I all the imputations.

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Carr,a.neighbour, corroborated some parts of pro-
secutor's statement.

John Carney. a provision dealer, living in the same street,
deposed that he met Cain with a woman named Careful, a
few hours after the occurrence. Cain was very tipsy. Care-
ful said that Cain had stabbed Cunningham. On going to
Cunningham's house, he found him wounded and tainting
from loss of blood.. A knife was produced by a man in the
cellar, but witness saw no blood on it.
Cross-examined.—Cunningham's is a lodging-house where
women of the town live. He saw Lucy drunk at ten.
Nicholas Bowman, a police-officer, produced the knife.
He saw Cunningham on the bed, bleeding from the wound in
his breast, and apprehended the prisoners. They had been
drinking, but were not then drunk.
Mr. Thomas Brandreth, house-surgeon at the Infirmary,
said that Cunningham was brought there about seven o'clock
in the evening. He was in a very exhausted state, and his
pulse very feeble. He gave him stimulants. There was a
wound an inch and a quarter in length and scarcely half an
inch deep on the face, extending nearly to the mouth. All
the muscles were cut. There was another superficial wound
in the neck, near to the carotid artery ; and one on the left
side of the chest. The latter was an incised wound, over the
cartilage of the third rib. It was dangerous to life. There
had been a stab and cut in the same stroke.
The prosecutor, on being recalled, said the knife was usu-
ally kept in the cupboard or knife-box. It had been left
there about two hours previously.
Cain told the jury that she merely struck the prosecutor in
self defence, after she had interfered, as he was ill-using Lacy,
and he had attacked her with the knife.

The Junoir having gone through the case, the jury retired,
and were absent an hour, when they returned with a verdict
of " guilty of cutting and stabbing, but not with intent to
murder. They considered it to be something more than a
common assault, but not to that extent."

His LORDSHIP explained that the intent to murder was
not laid in the indictment, but the intent to do some grievous
bodily harm. They must therefore reconsider their verdict.
They might find the prisoners guilty of the felony, of common
assault, or acquit them altogether.
The jury again retired, and returned in about forty mi-
nutes, with a verdict finding Lacy guilty of the felony, and
Cain of misdemeanour.

The JUDGE told Cain that her offence had been one of a
very bad description, and he had his doubts whether he ought
not to transport her for the term of fifteen years ; but, con-
sidering her sex and other circumstances, be was not disposed
to deal hardly with her. The sentence of the court, there-
fore, was, that she should be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour in the House of Correction for three years. Address-
ing Lacy, he said she had not been found guilty of so aggra-
vated an assault, but she had used very improper language,
though she had not struck a blow with so dangerous a wea-
pon. She would be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in
the House of Correction for six calendar months.
The costs of prosecution were allowed.
RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS.

Joseph Armfield, 40, was indicted for having in his pos-
session, knowing it to have been stolen, a decanter, the pro-
perty of John Dearden, of Houghton.
Mr. Ihiss stated the case for the prosecution. The pri-
soner was undefended.
A burglary was committed in Mr. Dearden's house on the
night of the 13th of May, 1839, and the decanter, which was
a part of the property stolen, was sold by the prisoner to Mr.
Vl hitehead, of the King's Arms, in Ashton•under-Lyne, for
six or seven shillings. The prisoner told Mr. Whitehead
that he had been employed to sell it by a respectable neigh-
bour who wanted money. Mr. Whitehead kept it until May
last, and then gave it up to Newton, the constable of Ashton.
The prisoner said he had it from a man named Slater, who
was transported for ten years, at the last Chester Spring As-
sizes, for the burglary, and he did not know it was stolen.
He had washed the jugs and glasses in the bar, at White-
head's often since. and might have destroyed it had he enter-
tained any suspicion. He had no witnesses but Mr. White-
head, who gave him a good character, and said he had his
perfect confidence, and was allowed to go into any part of
his house at the time he employed him.
The jury, after a short deliberation acquitted the prisoner.
The JUDGZ allowed the costs.