The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

tag. 17, 1847.

son, his former wife, Elizabeth Parker, being alive. The
first and second marriages were proved, and a witness de-
His Lordship took his seat on the Bench at half-past posed to the fact of Leather having lived with his first
eight o'clock, and the business opened by the arraignment wife in 1844 and 1845. Mr. Cobbett, who defended the
of a numh.zr of prisoners, charged, for the most part, with prisoner, called two witnesses, who showed that the first
.I,llansir-ghter, or inflicting grievous bodily harm. His wife, Elizabeth Parker, had been guilty of various acts of
I°l'd"--Alp then ordered all the prisoners who had been ac- adultery and had left her husband. Guilty To be im-
Ppted, or against whom no bills had been found, should prisoned. and kept to hard labour, for eighteen months.
b lischarged.• To one of them, in the undress of a Elizabeth Leatham was then indicted for having stabbed
soldier, his lordship gave a kindly
admonition, to beware Charles Rowland, on the 28th of June, in Salford. The
of bad company, late hours, or other conduct that might prisoner pleaded not guilty, and was undefended. From
nccite "I - +l-^ 't -.d

CROWN COURT, YESTERDAY

..6uspicion against him. The prisoner said _
my
Amongst those discharged was James Davies,
aged 18, charged on the coroner's inquest with killing and
slaying Daniel Ayr,— A , T .

tne evidence it appeared that the prosecutor was going up
Jackson-square, Salford, on the night in question ; the
prisoner was standing at her own door, and that a row

DOING GRIEVOITS BODILY HARM.
Margaret King, 24, was charged with having, at Heaton
Norris, feloniously thrown boiling water upon her husband,
John King, doing
him grievous om y b '1 harm. It appeared
that the

It was urged for the defence, that the prisoner was the
first to commit an assault on the prosecutor. \ erdict—
Guilty of a common assault. Sentence-10 be imprisoned
for three calendar months.

MANSLAUGHTER

ler and her husband lodged in a house in
red, neaten Norris, and that they: lived
Aher, owing to the prisoner being jealous of
• On the night of the 31st of May, prisoner
et with another female, the daughter of the

James Ball was indicted for the manslaughter of James
Duckworth, an old man, at Southport, on the 19th of July
last, by driving over him with a bathing machine. The
evidence for the prosecution showed that the machine
which went over the deceased was driven without due pre-

le prose

saw the prosecutor in
ds took place be-
, and the prisoner uttered
,m, went home, and about

Some wor

caution, and that his death was the result of injuries re-
ceived. The evidence for the prisoner went to show that
the prisoner had called out when he saw the deceased, and
that he pulled up his horse ; but that in consequence of
the horse being backed against the steps of the machine,
he started, and in spite of the prisoner's efforts ran over
the deceased. Verdict, Guilty, with a recommendation to
mercy. Imprisonment and hard labour for four calendar
months.

Frederick Short and Thomas Buckland were indicted
for stealing a gelding and a black mare from the premises
of Mr. Tyson, of Bicicerthwaite, in Cumberland. The
case, as far as regards the possession of the horses by the

ers, and their inability to give an account of them,
!early proved; and the jury returned a verdict of