The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-30 00:00:00

his own daughte

Peter Coulon, 23, was indicted for a rape on a child,
ten years of age, named Martha Rooney, at Liverpool, on
the 30th day of January last. He was found guilty of an

hard labour, and at the end of that time to find security,
himself in £3O and two of 420 each, for his good behaviour
during two years longer, and be further imprisoned till

urity be found

CONCEALING BIRTH

Sarah Manse was indicted for having- concealed the
birth of a child at Manchester. It appeared, that, on the
4th of February, the prisoner prematurely delivered her-
self of an illegitimate child, the dead body of which was
afterwards found secreted in a box in her bedroom. The
jury found the prisoner guilty ; but his LORDSHIP, from
the nature of the evidence, which was altogether uninte-

took a lenient view of the case, and sentenced

prisoner to a fortnight

imprisonment only

FALSE REGISTRATION

.Tohn Heywood, for making a false entry upon the
parish register of marriages, at Eccles, in this county,
was acquitted upon a point of law, no evidence being sub-

mitted to t

ae jury

BIGAMY

John Howarth, of Manchester, indicted for feloniously
intermarrying with Ann Brunt; well knowing her to be
'mit, was found guilty. Sentence

31 Thomas

deferred,

NISI PRIUS.-SATURDAY

YATES V. FENTON

Knowles and Mr. Crompton were for the plaintiff,
r. Martin for the defendant. It appeared, from the
statement of the case by Mr. KNOWLES, that this. was an
action brought to recover the sum of £l7O, or of
which the plaintiff, William Leigh Yates, claimed
to him from the defendant, John Fenton. The defendant
is a surgeon at Liverpool; but before he commenced prat •
tice as a surgeon, or simultaneously with it, he carried on
business as a chemist and druggist, in St. James's-place,
Liverpool. In order that he might be enabled to confine
himself to his practice, he was desirous of disposing of his
business as a druggist. The business was accordingly ad-
vertised for sale, and the plaintiff, who was a gentleman
living at Dartmouth, in Devonshire, and had been brought
up to the business of a chemist and druggist, seeing the
advertisement, wrote to the defendant on the subject.
Eventually an agreement was entered into between the
parti

by wh
give the sum of :f

ecliit was stipulated that the plaintiff should
`£3oo for the stock in trade, goodwill, and
that the plaintiff

fixtur(

It was at ti

ime time a

4th of

ng, altogether, a sum of £l7O.
tiff became ill, and was unable

and of Xl5O,

£l3O necessary to makeup the £300: 'The defendant

ness. In March, 1847, the defendant sold N4liat remained
of the stock to a gentleman of the name of Blythe for £llO.
Thus the plaintiff had paid the defendant £l7O for some-

thing which the defendant could not give him. It was to
recover this sum, or, at least, the £l5O which was paid in
August, allowing the defendant to retain the deposit of

£2O, for which the action was brought. The plaintiff was
nonsuited, with leave to move to enter a verdict for the
plaintiff for £l7O.

BIRD AND OTHERS V. UNSIVORTH
s an action, brought by William Bi

liam Lunn against the defendants, John and Z 4 m. Uns-
worth, for the recovery of money had and received. The
defendants pleaded non-liability. _ _ _