The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

BURGLARY.

Joseph Hughes, aged 27, was placed at the bar charged
with having broken into the house of Mr. Austin, at
Manchester, on the 13th September last, Kith intent to
steal.

Mr. Milne appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Whigham for the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence, that about two o'clock
on the morning in question, the police-officer on duty in
passing the house of the prosecutor found the guard of
the coal-cellar removed. He alarmed the inmates, when
the prisoner was found lying on the coals, having removed
some soda, soap, and clothes from the front cellar to near
the spot where he was fourd. The defence was that the
prisoner was drunk, and had fallen by accident into the
cellar.

The Jury found the prisoner guilty.—Sentence deferred.

STARBING CASES

• William Bridge, 20, was indicted for maliciously stab.
bing his brother, Richard Bridge. with intent to disable
or do him some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Cross appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner
wat not defended.

It appeared from the evidence that on the 7th Septem-
ber, the prisoner, his brother, and father were drinking
together at a public-house at Wardle. near Rochdale.
The prisoner quarrelled with his father, the prosecutor
interfered, and the prisoner was turned out of the house.
On their moving home, the prisoner ran after his brother,
and stabbed him with a pocket knife in the left side.
Tho jury found the prisoner guilty of a common assault.
His lordship, after a severe reprimand for getting intoxi-
cated, sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprison-
ment.

Thomas Parkinson, 32, was charged with stabbing
George Hall, at Westhoughton, with intent to disable or
to do some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. CROSS appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner
was not defended.

The brief facts of the case were these :—The prisoner
was a hawker of fish, and on the 7th of October last, was
at Westhoughton in a state of intoxication. The prose-
cutor and another person went up to the prisoner's cart.
He accused them of stealing his cockles, which they de-
nied. He then ordered the prosecutor to march off,
and the order being disobeyed, the prisoner stabbed him
in the chest, inflicting a wound, but not of a dangerous
character. He was found guilty of stabbing, with intent
to do grievous bodily harm. His lordship sentenced him
to nine months' imprisonment, and hard labour.
William Shetcell, 20, a respectable looking young man,
surrendered in discharge of his bail, on a charge of stab-
bing Jeremiah Pooley, at Much Woolton, with intent to
maim, to disable, or to do some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. MONK appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Jo-
SEPH POLLOCK for the prisoner.
The prisoner is the son of a retired Liverpool trades-
man, and the prisoner the conductor of an omnibus. On
Tuesday, the 2nd November last, the prisoner was at the
house of Mr. Warburton, publican at Woolton, in a state
of intoxication. He became quarrelsome. and was turned
out of the house by Warburton. Shortly after the pri-
soner returned with the prosecutor. whom he had asked
to have a glass along with him. The person in attend-
ance refused to supply him with any liquor, and he was
again turned out. The prisoner again attempted to enter
the public-house, when the prosecutor took him by the
arm to persuade him not to go into the house. The pri-
soner told the prosecutor to let go, and immediately
stabbed him.

His LORDSHIP said the jury would hardly find the pri-
soner guilty of the felony, as there did not appear to be
the slightest motive for stabbing the prosecutor. There
had been no quarrel between them : but, on the con-
trary, tLey were on friendly terms. He therefore recom-
mended the jury to take the most lenient view of the case.
The jury thereupon found the prisoner guilty of a com-
mon assault only.

His LORDSHIP admonished the prisoner to refrain for
the future from exceeding the bounds of moderation, and
sentenced him to six weeks solitary imprisonment.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY:

William Beckett, 21, Charles Lee, 23, Gerard TDer-
molt, 21, Joseph Green, 18, and John Marmon, 19, were
indicted for robbing James Edwards on the highway, at
Manchester, and putting him in bodily fear.
Mr. Monk appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Joseph Pollock for the prisoner Beckett. The rest were
undefended.

It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor that on
the night of the 19th August, about half-past twelve
o'clock, he was on his way home, when the prisoner Green
stopped him and asked him for sixpence. He told him
he had no money. One of the other prisoners then
knocked him down with a spade, and the rest rifled his
pockets, but all they could find was a knife and comb.
He identified all the prisoners as being present at the
time, but some doubt was thrown on the evidence as to
presence of M'Dermott, by a witness who admitted he
was present, but swore M'Dermott was not.
The Jury acquitted M'Dermott, and found the others
guilty. His Lordship sentenced Beckett and Green, who
had been previously convicted, to be transported for 10
years, and Lee and Marmon to 7 years' transportation.