The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-28 00:00:00

ROBBERY.

Thomas Regan, aged 28, Sarah Haggett, 40, and Mary English,
aged 25, were indicted for having feloniously stolen £4 17s. 6d.
the property of Patrick Higgins. The jury found all the pri-
soners guilty. Sarah Haggett was sentenced to transpottatioti
for seven years; Thomas Regan and Mary English Were or-
dared to be imprisoned for twelve months each.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY. ".
William Crawford, aged 18, was indicted for having feloni-
ously stolen a silver coffee pot, value £lB, from the shop of
Louis Samuel, silversmith, Lord-street. Mr. Maunsall Lewis
Samuel, son of the prosecutor, stated that on the 9th of July,
at a little before ten o'clock, he placed the coffee-pot produced
on the counter of his father's shop, soon after which the pri-
soner rushed in, seized it and ran away. The shopman, who
happened to be on the other side of the counter, pursued him
and took him into custody. The jury found the prisoner guilty.
A previous conviction for felony was read and proved, and`th.e
court passed sentence of transportation for life.

BURGLARY.
Robert Welsh was indicted under a charge of having stolen a
watch, a chain, and two keys, and a pocket handkerchief from
the house of Thomas Rees. The latter stated that he was a
boatman, of Flintshire. On the 14th of August last, he left the
articles in question at his house. He went out of town for the
day. When he returned he found that a pane of glass had been
cut out of the window, through which an entrance had been ef-
fected into the house, and the property abovementioned athren.
The prisoner was taken into custody at• Liverpool, by officer
Thomas Ainsworth. The prisoner had been previously env-
victed under the name of Throgmorton. He was sentenced to
transportation for 14 years.

ROBBREY FROM THE PERSON.
Mary Ann Jenkins was indicted for baying stolen some-sove-
reigns from the person of Josiah Stokes. The jury found het
guilty, and she was sentenced to seven years' transportation.

•
WEDNESDAY.
EXCENSIVB FORGERY ON THE BANK OF IRELAND.—Geergt
Jackson, a middle aged man, was charged on three indictments
charging him with forging thirty shilling notes of the bank of
Ireland. The first indictment was for using two plates, on one
of which was engraved a certain part of a promissory note, Oure
porting to be a promissory note of the governor and company
of the bank of Ireland, and on the other of which was engraved
a promissory note of the said governor and company. The in-
dictment further alleged, that he used the said plates by deliver-
ing them to oue Edward Thompson, to the intent that he might
print them as part of such promissory notes. The other counts
laid the offence in different ways.
Mr.Tileofia se conducted the prosecution, and Mr.VENe Bees
appeared for the defence.
Edward Thompson deposed that he was a copper plate printer,
working at Ne. 8, Gorse Piazzas. About a month since the
prisoner called upon him at his shop, and repeated his visits on
six different days, coming twice a-day on some occasions. When
the prisoner first caine to witness, he brought nothing with him,
but asked if he would work for him for over time. He afterwards
brought two plates for witness to work. (The plates were bete
produced and indentified.) The prisoner then produced an
agreement wrote out on a piece of paper which witness signea.
l'he prisoner retained the agreement in his possession, and pro-
duced a bible, upon which the witness was to swear that he
would not divulge the nature of the work to any man living.
Witness refused to swear. It was then agreed that witness
should produce 550 impressions from the two plates. This.oc-
curred on the third day. Prisoner did not leave the plates in
possession of witness, hut merely tick them out of his pocket
and showed them to witness. He brebght the plates on the second
dey, when witness said he must have an impression from one of
them, so as to be able to print the others exact. This was on
Saturday evening about 6 o'clock. He (witness) then got a
plate and esruck off an impression in the presence of the pri-
soner. The prisoner came to witness again on Monday, bring-
ing with him the plates, and about 200 pieces of paper to print
the notes upon. Witness then struck off three impressions, of
which the prisoner took up two and the witness kept a- third-
On Tuesday the prisoner again called, when witness informed.
him he could not print any snore that day. On Wednesday be
was again importuned by prisoner to print the notes, but witness
made au excuse that he was going to Cheshire, and put the pri-
soner off until 12 o'clock, at which hour be again called, bring-
ing with him both the plates. Witness then struck off twelve
impressions in the prisoner's presence, and be put them one by
one into his hat. Witness and the prisoner then went out to-
gether, and were walking along Brunswick-street, when Ains-
worth the officer came and took the prisoner into custody. Ains-
worth tore open the prisoner's waistcoat, and took the plate 4
from him. [ The witness produced the note he hadetained•
It was evidently a beautifully executed forgery. Therates were
said to have been engraved in France.]
On being cross-examined, he said he bad lived two years in
Liverpool, before that he worked in Edinburgh. He bad net
been engaged there as a nose in the police. Witness wrote to
the bank of Ireland, and informed them of the application the
prisoner had made to him. Witness read the inscription of
the plate. He could not see the word " not" between these
" I promise" and "to pay." There was something, but it vias
so small as not to be discernable with the naked eye on the
plate.
James Ainsworth, a constable, deposed to his having take
the prisoner into custody on Wednesday the 6th instant, at 3
quarter past one o'clock in the day. Witness found tbe
plates produced upon him. Prisoner said they were pot.
property, but belonged to another individual. At the 13"tubee
well he found twelve copies of Irish thirty-shilling notes on
prisoner.
Cross-examined.—The prisoner did not tell witness
plates belonged to a company of players at Manchester.
deposed
Mr. George Sutton, clerk in the bank of Ireland, dep
that the engraving produced was an imitation of the b!‘n,l of
,he
Ireland thirty-shilling note. There was iso signature to it. •
plate.
genuine notes of the bank of Ireland are printed from
one plate.
"reads
The number of the note and the place where the note was
cated
payable was afterwards added with type aided by complicated
machinery. There was a word in the plate produced n°
were printed.
that die
the plates from which the bank of Ireland notes
Ireland, and was a forgery.
The note produced was an imitation of the notes of the
false plate was
Cross-examined.—The additional word on the . ,
word
additional
" Dublin." Witness did not see any other
else could, tic
upon the plate. He would not swear that
no
onievoukl not strike
would only answer for his own eves. The plate d
if the cord
bank of
off an imitation of the note of the bank of Ireland if
take
" not" wns upon it. The Irish people would not k
which had upon the face of it " I promise nut to p
be:said
to/ the indictment. He contended that a note c I
°than there was
of a note that had one word more in it
The prisoner's counsel submitted several ,technuiae
to be part
in the original note. the.con-
that point foT
The Reconeee said heovould reserve c
sidemtiosi of the judges in the event of a COnvi
behalf or the
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psisoner.
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