The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-21 00:00:00

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Bernard Rickey, 35, was charged with unlawfully having-
in his possession 828 pieces of false and counterfeit pennies,
and 530 counterfeit halfpennies, he well knowing the same to
be false and counterfeit. _ _

Police-officer Moneypenny said;z4 was on duty at the
Clarence Dock, on the 2d of Augusi,in the morning. I know
a porter named Richard Bryan. He was carrying a &oz.
I asked him who owned it. He said, " this man," pointing
to the prisoner. I asked the prisoner what it contained, and
he said " copper." I took it to the hut. The prisoner gave
me the key of the box, and I opened it. I found copper
money made up in papers. I sent for the inspector, and took
the prisoner to Bridewell, where he was searched. Some
silver was found upon him and some bad copper. The cop-
per was produced.
The JUDGE asked the witness how he knew it was bad.
He said he did not know, but it was not like the usual money.

One of the jury remarked that such money was current.
The ATTORNEY..GENERAL said it was base notwithstand-

ing.
The porter, Richard Bryan, said he carried the box, and
was to receive sixpence from the prisoner.
Inspector M`Gill said he asked the prisoner what the box
contained, and he said, " bad copper money." He said he
had bought it; Lad not given halt price for it, and that he
intended to sell it. He added, in reply to questions, that he
was going to take it to a Mr. M`Neil's, where a man named
Martin lodged, who would assist him to get shut of it. He
was taken to the Bridewell.
The prisoner said he was a stranger in the town, and that
Martin would assist him. The witness admitted that the
prisoner had said so.
Mr. Dowling said—l received the money. It consisted of
pence, halfpence, and tokens. There were 138 pence of Geo.
111., 386 of Geo. IV., 7 of William IV., 228 Irish pence,
of different reigns, 19 halfpence of Geo. IV., 108 of Geo. 111.,
8 pence made of lead, and 1 halfpenny. There were many of
what are termed harps. The whole of the coin was not pro-

duced.
The Inspector of the Mint said they were base. They
were cast in loose moulds, of what is called pot metal. About
28 of them (the pennies) to the pound. Of the genuine there
are only 24. The counterfeit ones are filed and redened.
The metal is worth only 6d to 7d. The Mint pays lid a
pound.
This was the case for the Mint.
The prisoner said he bought it as old copper, and brought
it here on sale.
The JUDGE summed up, and the jury immediately returned.
a verdict of guilty against the prisoner. •
The learned JUDGE then, • without remark, sentenced the
prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in Kirkdale
House of Correction for 12 calendar months.
John Watson, aged 40, Francis Pullen, 23, Denis
Rogerson, 28, and Mary Richmond, alias Lawlor, 28, were
indicted for having, on the 19th of July, at Wigan, unlaw-
fully uttered and put off eight counterfeit sixpences, knowing
them to be so. They stood further indicted with having, at
Ince-in-Mackerfield, feloniously had in their possession a
die, or mould, having the impress, and apparent resemblance
of both aides of a sixpence.
The case presented no features of peculiar interest, though
the evidence to prove the several acts of uttering was neces-
sarily gone into minuteness. The three male prisoners and
others, had gone to several public-houses, in each of which
one or other of them, in payment for ale, &c., of which they
all partook, gave sixpence, which in each case was found to
be bad. In the house of Rogerson, a constable found the
mould together with a slow cinder fire and a small pot, in
which was a quantity of white metal. Pullen, on being taken
into custody, was told the charge against him, and cautioned
that he did not say anything unless he liked. He then stated
that he had met Richmond and Watson at Preston on the
Monday before ' • and that all the bad sixpences he had paid
he had received from Watson. He also admitted that he had
passed some of them, and that he was present in a beer-shop
in Standish, and at a public-house there, when others were
passed by the other prisoners. The inspector of coins of her
Majesty's mint- proved that the-coin-was counterfeit, and
cast in the same mould. In reply to questions from the
judge, he explained the process of moulding and the peculiar
marks by which he identified the sixpences to be from the
same mould. The metal was a composition of tin, bismuth,
zinc, &c. The prisoner Rogerson said that Pullen came to
his house in company with the other two. Pullen was his
brother-in-law, the others he did not know. In the after-
noon, Pullen and Watson, he said, asked him to go and
drink with them, which he.did, and Watson paid a sixpence
for it; but he (prisoner) did not know it was bad,—and that
the mould found in his house, he added, might have been
brought there by' Watson and Pullen. He called Isaac
Crusha, who had worked for him as a shoemaker. The
witness spoke to knowing the prisoner, but nothing affecting
the case. There appeared to be no evidence of the presence
of the female prisoner at any of the utterings charged. The
case as against Rogerson was not very strong ; nor did it
appear that Watson was so strongly implicated as Pullen.
The jury found.a verdict of guilty against Pullen of separate
utterings on one day, which is felony ; Watsou guilty, simple
larceny—and Rogerson and the woman Richmond—Net
guilty.
The learned JUDGE, addressing the female, said she had
been properly acquitted ; but that she had in all probability
been aware of ter° of the sixpences being false, and he
cautioned her as to her future conduct. She was then dis-
charged. His Lordship then addressed Pullen, who lie said
had evidently been dealing in a wholesale way. He sentenced
him to imprisonment and hard labour in Kirkdale gaol for
two years. His Lordship said he vas not sure whether, if
the truth were known, he was not the more guilty of the
two. He then sentenced him to imprisonment and hard la-
bor in the same house of correction for twelve calendar
months. •

• MANSLAUGHTZIL
Thomas Fletcher, a stout man, aged 45, stood indicted for
having at Manchester, on the 21st of April last, feloniously
killed and slain one William Wallworth. It appeared that
there were several fights on a hard piece of ground, and the
prisoner and deceased were fighting together. In the end
the deceased received a severe kick and other injuries, of
which he soon afterwards died. The deceased was in the act
of rising after a fall when he was kicked. He died in ten
minutes or a quarter ,of an hour afterwards.' The prisoner
afterwards appeared to be greatly distressed. A surgeon
stated that the deceased died from apoplexy of the spine.
The vessels of the spinal marrow in the upper part of the
neck. It might have been occasioned by a kick rather than
a fall. As soon as the frenic nerve was pressed upon, the
party would die. Mr. Brandt defended the prisoner. •