The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-05 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30.

A FEMALE ROBBER.-13ridget Johnson, aged 32, was
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard la,
bour, for having, at Liverpool, feloniously stolen a bill
of exchange for the payment of £4, the property of Robt.
Russell Holmes. The prisoner was domestic servant with
Mrs. Holmes, in Burlington-street; the prosecutrix was
the wife of the steward on board the Sir John Harvey,
Halifax mail boat, and was in the habit of receiving re-
mittances from him. Johnson happened to answer the
postman's knock one morning, received the letter with the
bill of exchange, and on some sham pretence left the
house, cashed the document, and bolted to Rochdale,
where she was apprehended.
SACRILEGE.----The prisoner being ill of typhus fever, it
was agreed to adjourn till next assizes the trial of Charles
Seddon, alias William Derbyshire, aged 24, indicted for
having, on the Ist of March, at Little Hulton, broken
and entered St. Paul's Chapel, and stolen five bronze can-
dlesticks ; also for having, on the 23d of February, at
Farnworth, broken and entered the Independent Chapel,
and stolen fifteen gas pendants and burners and a piece of
green baize.

GARROTE ROBBERY AT WlGAN.—Thomas Riley (aged
20), and John Mahon (aged 22), were found guilty of
having feloniously and violently assaulted Thomas Myers,
and robbed him of 10s., and a tobacco box. At midnight,
on the 31st of January, the prosecutor, who is a tack_
maker, near Wigan, was assailed by the prisoners while
wending his way home, on a piece of vacant ground, and,
while one of the villains seized and held him by the throat,
the other ransacked his pockets. Sentence deferred.

FORGERY BY AN ATTORNEY'S CLERK. - Richard
Woosey (aged 30), formerly clerk to Mr. Taylor, attorney,
was found guilty of having, at the Liverpool court of pas-
sage, feloniously forged a receipt for the payment of £2 2s.
with intent to defraud. Sentence deferred, to consider
the objection raised by the prisoner's counsel, that the
forgery was not committed with any fraudulent intent.

joh;z M`Nulty (aged 27), and Margaret Donnelly
(aged 54), pleaded guilty to an indictment charging them
with having unlawfully conspired to obtain a policy of
assurance from the British Industry Life Assurance and
Family Friendly Society, with intent to defraud the
society of £l2 10s. Ild. on the death of Catherine Mitchell.
Sentence deferred. John Bowden (aged 38) pleaded
guilty to having, at Manchester, on the 2nd of February,
feloniously forged a paper-writing, purporting to be an
order, signed by William Haxwell, for the delivery of
twelve feet of water pipe, value 125., the goods of John
Winder, with intent to defraud. Sentence deferred.
Thomas Bailey {aged 20) pleaded guilty to an indictment
for having, at Preston, uttered a forged request for a suit
of clothes, with intent to cheat and defraud Joel Abraham
Moss. Sentence deferred.

WHOLESALE BIGAMY.—The following parties pleaded
guilty :—Darid Jones (aged 47), to having, at Manchester,
married Jane Fairbrother, his former wife being then
alive.—James Chadwick (aged 29), to having, at Prest-
wich, married Mary Bromley, his former wife being alive.
—Ellen Hampson, alias Ellen Stephenson (aged 24), to
having feloniously married Joseph Hampson, Nicholas
Stephenson, her former husband, being then alive.—Ellen
Wilson, to an indictment charging her with bigamy at
Pres to n . —Sen ten eee deferred.