The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-18 00:00:00

CROWN COURT.-WEDNESDAY.

Richard Fitzgerald, 55, was sentenced to 12 months
imprisonment and hard labour for bigamy at Manchester.
William Bingham was found guilty of assaulting and
robbing John Long in one of the streets at Manchester.
John Taylor was sentenced to twelve months imprison-
ment for forging an order at Manchester for the delivery
of two books. • _ _ _ _

John Scholes was acquitted of the charge of cutting his
wife's throat, in Seacorobe-street, in this town. The pri-
soner was undefended, and said that he had found his wife
drinking, and that she cut her own throat in a frenzy.
There having been a bill found against the prisoner for a
conspiracy to defraud, he was detained in custody.
John Robinson was sentenced to twenty years trans-
portation for feloniously forging and uttering a cheque for
the payment of £325 9s. on the bank of Sir B. Heywood,
of Manchester. There were two other charges of like
character against the prisoner. The prisoner had been
in the habit of obtaining clerks by advertisements in the
newspapers, whom he employed just as long as he could
make use of them to carry the cheques in question to the
bank, and get them cashed.
James Carr, engineer, and James Brisbane, seaman, of
the Birkenhead ferry steamer Fanny, were acquitted of the
charge of manslaughter, which was alleged against them
on account of having run down a fishing boat in the Mer-
sey, in which were two men named Wilson, both of whom
were drowned. At the close of the case for the prosecu-
tion his lordship said there was no ground for the charge.
Sarah Melvin was acquitted of the charge of attempting
to drown her sister, a little girl aged ten years, by throw-
ing her off the landing stage. The prisoner was in a very
desponding state of mind, and both she and her sister
would have been in the water but for the parties present
laying hold of them.
Ann Woods, who was apprehended in September, was
sentenced to three days further imprisonment for bigamy
at Ashton-under-Lyne. The prisoner's first husband

went to America, leaving her quite destitute, with two
children. He was absent fifteen months, and she hears
that he was dead.—Thomas Burns, of the same town,
pleaded guilty to the same charge, and was sentenced to
two months imprisonment.
Maurice Whaling was sentenced to twelve months im-
prisonment for cutting and wounding a young woman,
with whom he had been living, at Canning-place. The
prosecutrix stated that she had insulted the prisoner and
that she was intoxicated.
William Peach was acquitted (without the slightest im-
putation on his character,) of having feloniously killed
John Hamilton, at Wavertree. The prisoner was an om-
nibus driver, and in August last the deceased was knocked
down in consequence of being in the way of the omnibus,
and he died of the injuries received.

NISI PRIUS COURT.-WEDNESDAY.
A CEREMONY AT GRETNA.

Thos, Hardman, of Bolton-le-Moors, was charged with
marrying Jane Haswell, his former wife, Eliza, being then
alive. The second was what is called a Gretna marriage,
and it was held to be binding and good. A Mr. Murray,
who had married the parties, was called as a witness. He
said he married on an average four hundred couples a year,
having been in practice seven years. (Laughter.) He
was not the original blacksmith. His house was called
" Alison's Toll-house," and was nearer to Carlisle than
the house of Mr. Linton. another " blacksmith." The
jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner was
discharged.

CROWN COURT- THURSDAY

Ellen Scott, charged with having, at Liverpool, felo-
niously forged a warrant and order for the payment of
£lO, and for having uttered the same with intent to de-
fraud George Taylor, was discharged, no evidence being
offered.

Mary Heavy, 24, was indicted for having, at Prescot,
on the 25th October last, wilfully murdered her new-born
male child. The grand jury having ignored the bill, the
prisoner was discharged.