The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-06 00:00:00

On my return from there I met a sawyer, who took me to
the club-house in the old square. I saw the prisoner
liams there, and 16 or 17 others. The man I had met
told them I had been at Higginbotham's. They used
some coarse language towards me. I promised that I would
go back to Manchester, and not ask for work in Ashton any
more. Williams said " You had better not, for there's some
that's here now who will not be here long." He also said
that two delegates were coming from Manchester, and they
would try to persuade those men who were now working to
leave their employment, and those who would not leave by
persuasion must be beaten that night; that they would try
what beating would do, and if that would not do they would
shoot one or two.

Cross-examined.—l have been in the dock at the New Bai-
ley, Manchester. I was convicted in 1826, for stealing a
saw. I never was indicted for perjury. I have beeti twice
convicted of stealing saws. All my misfortunes as to being
in prison having arisen from belonging to unions, I have
been in the lock-ups ten or a dozen times ; but only twice in
gaol. Sir Charles Shaw sent to my house to know if I knew
anything of this matter, and that was the way I became a
witness.

Re-examined.—l was in the lock-ups chiefly for being
drunk. When we are in a union we try to punish those who
do not. I took the saws to punish those who would not be-
long to it ; the saws were afterwards broken and thrown into
a pit.

Martha Bailey.—l am the wife of John Bailey, who is a
sawyer, not of the union. On the 24th of November my
husband was working for Mr. Stones, of Ashton. Whilst he
was at his work, I was in George-street. Williams, Tobin,
and Marshall (charged with conspiracy), came up. Williams
had a sack under his arm ; Marshall said to him " have you
had the bag ?" Williams said, " I have had the bag long
enough, and now I've got the sack." That means being dis-
charged from work. Marshall told him I was one of the
men's wives who saws for Stones. He said, are you ? and I
said—yes. He asked me what his name was. I did not
answer. He said, I know him ; it is Bayley, a d—d thief
and knobstick ; but I'll blow his brains out, and this sack is
to put his body in ; we have all their names down in the
black book.
Cross-examined.—l have been tried at Bradford about
some brass steps, I was acquitted, but I waa not acquitted
on the ground that I was insane.

Joshua Newton, a police-officer at Ashton, said he appre-
hended Williams at five o'clock, on the morning of the 12th
of December, and he asked him whether something was up
with the sawyers. Witness told him there was—that a man
had been shot.

Benjamin Cooper, sen. was then called. He merely
proved that the deceased was his son, and that his name was
Benjamin.
Cross-examined.—ls occasionally a sawyer and a wheel-
wright. Sawyers carry files to whet their saws.
Henry Bake, surveyor at Ashton, said he had made a sur-
vey for the purpose of this inquiry of the distances of the
different points from each other. The plan and table of the
distances were put in.
Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY said this was the case for the
prosecution. . .. . .. - .. _

Mr. WILKINS said, that the case of his learned friend
having been closed, he had to apply to his lordship for an in-
dulgence which was once granted to him under similar cir-
cumstances, by Mr. Justice Coleridge. It was that the
trial might now be adjourned till to-morrow morning,
(Tuesday,) as he felt himself unable, if he were now called
upon to proceed, to do full justice to the case for the prisoners.
The JUDGE asked the learned counsel if he apprehended
that the case could not be closed in three or four hours—by
12 o'clock for instance ?

Mr. WILKINS replied that that was his impression.
The JUDGE intimated that he would under the circum-

tances consent to the application.
Mr. Sergeant ATCIIERLEY said, on the part of the crown,
Le had nothing to propose or to oppose : he was entirely in
he hands of the court.

The jury having intimated their wish to adjourn,
The JUDGE explained to them that it would be necessary
for them to be kept together in some convenient place, and
that they must be content with such accommodation as the
county could afford them.
The UNDER-SHERIFF said he had sent out to ascertain
what accommodation could be provided for them. After a
short delay he informed the court that a room would be pro-
vided for them at the Queen's Arms Hotel.

Three bailiffs were then sworn to keep the jury in the usual
Form, and the trial was adjourned till nine o'clock this

morning,