The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-21 00:00:00

BURGLARY.

George Weer, 19, was indicted, after a previous con-
viction for felony, for a burglary in the dwelling-house of
Martin Call. The prosecutor is a provision dealer in Lati-
more-street, 'Vauxhall-road, in this ,town, and between
the night of ,the 22d and morning of the 23d of June last,
his premises were entered and a quantity of provisions
stolen, which provisions were afterwards found in pos-
session of the prisoner--Guilty. Sentence : eighteen
months' imprisonment to hard labour.
Grace Wheeler, 36, for uttering a forged sailor's note
for £2, with intent to defraud Martha Markham, was tried
and acquitted, on the ground that she was not aware that
it was a forgery. The prisoner was then•placell upon her
trial on an indictment charging her with asimilar offence,
with intent to defraud Margaret Culcheth. :She was found
guilty, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment to
hard labour.
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CHARGE OF FE,I,ONY AGAINST A RAIIKRUPT.
William Jabez Davies, (the charge against whom is
stated above,) was again brought up.
Mr. Connerr, (for the prisoner,) addressed hs lordship,
contending on two points of law as regarded the indict-
ment, the principal of which was that the prisoner could
not be tried for feloniously concealing his books, until
after he had undergone his final examination before the
Commissioners of Bankruptcy, which the prisoner had
not ; and he quoted several cases in support of his argu-
ment, The offence was only inchoate, inasmuch as at a
last examination the prisoner might have delivered up the
books, &c. The other demur was to the effect that the
indictment did not aver that the articles concealed or
withheld were of the " estate" of the prisoner.
The JUDGE ruled that any one " adjudged" a bankrupt,
and found removing or embezzling any of the property,
was guilty of a felony, without reference to examination
at all.
It was finally agreed that the points should be reserved
and considered, upon application for arrest of judgment,
should that come before the court.
By advice of his counsel the prisoner pleaded guilty of
concealing, as charged in one of the indictments. The
prosecution for the other indictment, charging concealment
of property &c., was not pushed against him.
Mr. JAMEs, on behalf of the prisoner, said that the
Prisoner had for many years moved in a respectable sphere
of life ; that this was his first offence, and he therefore
implored his Lordship to deal with the case with as much
lenity as he deemed consistent with justice.
Severel respectable witnesses spoke highly of the pri-
soner's character over a series of years.
His LORDSHIP said be should consider the case, and in-
flict as lenient a punishment as he should, consider consis-
tent with holding out an example to others, and meeting
the ends of public justice.
The prisoner was then put down.
BIGAMY.
Robert Grundy, a respectable-looking man, was
charged with having married Alice Mott, at Eccles, in
October, 1849, his first wife, Elizabeth Grundy, whom
he married in April, 1837, in Bolton, being then alive.
The first wife behaved ill and left her home. In this case
the second female could have suffered no injury, for she