The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-28 00:00:00

FRIDAY, Maicn 24,

STABBING AT LIVERPOOL.—WiIIiam Alexander Copp,
a seaman, charged with feloniously stabbing and wound-
ing James Kilroy, was convicted, and sentenced to four
years' penal servitude.
STABBING BY A COLOURED MAN IN LIVERPOOL.—
Bernard Shepherd, a seaman, having the appearance of
a Sandwich Islander, charged with stabbing Edward
Edwards, a shipsmith, on the night of the 26th January,
was convicted, and sentenced to four years' penal servitude.
MANSLAUGHTER AT HORWICIT, NEAR BOLTON.—Chas.
Gumbleton and George Chamberlain, both labourers,
were charged with manslaughter in a pugilistic encounter
on the 28th December. Verdict, guilty. Sentence
Gumbleton, one month's imprisonment, and hard labour ;
Chamberlain, fourteen days.
RESISTING APPRETIENSION, AT LEIGH. - Edward
Grady, Jas. Delaney, Timothy Higgins, Martin Walsh,
James Cahill, James Mahon, James Costello, James
Farrell, and ~john Mathews, were charged with having
assaulted John Halton and George Holden, two police-
' officers, at Pennington, on the evening of the 2nd January
last, with intent to prevent the lawful apprehension of
John Mathews. All the prisoners were found guilty,
and were sentenced except Mathews to fifteen mouths'
imprisonment, with hard labour, and Mathews to four
years' penal servitude.
MANSLAUGHTER.— Catherine Hughes was charged
with having, at Ashton-under-Lyne, slain William Hines.
It appeared that the prisoner and the deceased had been
cohabiting together for some time, and jealousy was the
cause of the fatal affray, in which the parties were much
abused. Verdict, guilty, but strongly recommended to
mercy on account of the brutal treatment she had re-
ceived. Sentenced to one month's imprisonment„ with
hard labour.
MiNSLAUGHTER AT Lvolr.— William Weare,
moulder, was indicted for having slain James Lee, on the
2nd January, at the Millstone public-house, Bedford. Ver-
dict, not guilty.
FORGING A REGISTER Or DEATH.—Joseph Roughley,
labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge of having, at Man-
chester, on the 27th January, wilfully forged a false state-
ment of the birth of Elizabeth Davies, and also of the
death of the said Elizabeth Davies, and also a false
statement of the death of Sarah Davies, in the district of
St. George. Sentence, eighteen months' imprisonment.
MANSLAUGPITER AT SALFORD.--John Kelly, a weaver,
was indicted for feloniously killing William Chadwick.
The melancholy occurrence took place on Sunday morning
early, the sth March. It resulted from a drunken quarrel.
Both parties were drunk. Verdict, guilty. Sentence :
three months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
BURGLARY AT LrvEßpooL.—Lawrenee Murphy, a
labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge of having, at Liver-
pool, on the Bth March, burglariously broken into the
house of Mr. Edward Henry Buxton, and stolen a watch
and other property.
GAROTTE ROBBERM AT MANCHESTER:—.Tabez Lloyd,
a labourer, was indicted for having, on the 20th February
last, together with three other persons, with great per-
sonal violence, robbed Thomas LeathwOod. of £4 ls. 6d.
Verdict, guilty. A previous conviction was proved. Sen-
t nice : transportation for 15 years.
The grand jury were discharged about five-o'clock.
True bills, on a charge of misdemeanor, were returned
against the Preston delegates.
A true bill, for murder, was returned against Jordan,
forthe wilful murder of William Oaheir, on board the
steamer Trafalgar. The bill against Flower, the sailor,
for murder, was altered to a charge of stabbing and
wounding, with intent to do some grievous bodily harm.
No-bills were found against Ann Laithwaite and Miles
Scan/an, from Manchester, on a charge of manslaughter.
Ara application was made to his lordship to grant an
order of habeas corpus, for the removal of Gowland,
implicated with Caitcheon, in defrauding the Landon and
North-western Railway Company, from London to these
assizes,. so that both may be tried together.
His lbrdship took occasion to comment upon.the care-
lessness manifested in some of the depositions brought
before him.
In reply to a complaint from Mr. Earle, the• foreman
of the grand jury, respecting the loss •of time- and irre-
gularity occasioned by counsel not attending punctually
with the witnesses and depositions, his lordship directed
that cosN•should be stopped in such cases, as it was quite
I inexcusable.