The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-11 00:00:00

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containing the stolen articles.--The jury,
liberation, returned a verdict of guilty of

Sentence, nine months' imprisonmen't, with

hard labour.
COUNTERFEIT COlN.—David Brown, 22, read and
• y7ted for havingpassedacounterfeit half
301 oh the 11th of October last, and fur-
.ving in his possession on the 16th of the
n six counterfeit shillings, with the intent to
me ; Patrick Hacket, Elizabeth Hackett, and
2mick, confederates of the prisoner Brown
indicted for having wilfully and feloniously
.:soon of a mould and other appliances for coining.
.ie prisoner Brown asked permission to have his case
postponed, to allow of his retaining counsel. Some delay
in the business occurred in consequence. Mr. Wigham,
in the absence of Mr. Cobbett, appeared for the prosecu-
tion, and from his statement it appeared that a mould had
been found in the room in St. Peter's-lane, Liverpool,
occupied by the prisoner Brown, and that the base money
taken from the prisoner had evidently been struck from
the mould so found. Serjeaut Storey, in consequence of
information, went to the house in St. Peter's-lane on the
16th of October, accompanied by Oecleshaw, a constable.
Upon seeing the officers, Brown's behaviour was zuspi-
',ey attempted to search him, when a struggle
-nately two counterfeit shillings were taken
_ another out of a fire grate, and in a
cupboard was found a mould, containing two pieces of
metal. This evidence was corroborated mainly by Occle•
shaw. This witness, and another named Povey, (a police
constable,) differed to this extent from Storey : The latter
stated that the prisoner, on being taken, said the mould
was brought to the house by himself; the other officers both
agreed in stating that he said a man had left it there.
More than one of the witnesses subsequently called to
prove tie " passing" bythe prisonerand klentifiedthe shil-
lings found by the officers as the same coin offered to
them, which they had disfigured and returned to the pri-
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Mr. Powell, an officer of the Mint, being called, stated
that four of the shillings, taken from the prisoner in his
room, had been cast in the mould also found in his room.

Verdict—Guilty. Sentence deferred.
The case against the other prisoners was then gone into.
Some amusement was caused by Mr. Atkinson, who was
retained for the defence, making an application for nine
shillings belonging to the prisoners.
The JUDGE inquired if they were genuine (mistaking
them as materials of evidence).
Mr. ATKINSON thanked his lordship for the suggestion.
He would look at them, as he should not like to take them
unless they were good. (Laughter.)
Mr. COBBETT appeared for the prosecution ; the case
was similar to the last; a mould was found in their house,
and counterfeit coins, corresponding with that mould.
The witnesses for the prosecution were the same officers
who appeared in the case of Brown. The seizure took
place at a cellar in Tatlock-street, which the prisoners
occupied. The case against the two females was, by agree-
ment with the counsel, for the prosecution, withdrawn.
The male prisoner, Patrick Hackett, was found guilty.—
Sentence deferred. The females were subject to another
indictment in the same case; they were formally acquitted
on this charge also.
The court rose at six o'clock.