The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-02 00:00:00

FORGERY

Edward Gilbert; aged 26, was charged with having, in
March last, forged an acceptance on a bill of exchange for
£2.3 165., with intent to defraud John Holmes Clementson,
of this town.

Mr. Ellis prosecuted, Mr. Wilkins appeared for the de-
fence.

The particulars of this case were recently published in the
STANDARD. The prisoner took the bill in question, which
purported to have been accepted by Charles Edward Warn-
ford, a clerk in the custom-house, to Mr. Clementson, a so-
licitor who had done some business for him, and, depositing
it as security, obtained on it the sum of £6 10s., with an un-
derstanding, however, that it was not to be negotiated. Mr.
Clementson subsequently discovered that the acceptance was
forged.
Th e jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended him
to mercy. His Lordship considered it an aggravated case,
and sentenced the prisoner to ten years' transportation.
STABBING WITH A SPRIG-BIT.
George Conroy, aged 27, was charged with having, in
January last, at Warrington, feloniously stabbed William
Acton.

Mr. Hulton conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was
undefended.
Acton and the prisoner were drinking together at a public-
house in 'Warrington, when they had a dispute about the
sawyers who had been committed to Kirkdale. This led to a
quarrel, and ultimately they had a scuffle, but were separated.
The prisoner ran out of the room. He soon afterwards
rushed in, seized the prosecutor round the neck, and jobbed
at him with a sprig-bit, wounding him in the belly and other
parts of the body.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sentenced
to six months' imprisonment.

MANSLAUGHTER BY CARELESS DRIVING

Robert Sore, aged 40, was indicted for having, at Manches-
ter, in December last, feloniously killed Charlotte M'Cutchen.
Mr. Chapman conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner
was undefended.

The prisoner is a car-driver, and was, on the 3d December
last, driving at a furious rate past Hulme Church, in Man-
chester ; as he approached, two children were crossing the
street ; the foot passengers called to him to stop, but being
drunk he did not heed them. He drove at the children,
taking his horse and car over one and knocking the other
down. The younger one of the two being very greatly injured
was taken to the Infirmary, where she died in twentr-seven
days. The other was very severely injured.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty. The learned Judge
strongly condemned the prisoner for his drunkenness, and
sentenced him to four months imprisonment.

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.
John Gore, aged 26, was charged with having, in March
last, killed John Mawdsley.

Mr. Green prosecuted:Mr. Wilkins defended.
It appeared that the prosecutor and Mawdsley, who was an
old man; 76 years of age, were drinking together at a public-
house in Burscough. The old man was speaking on some
subject, when the prisoner mocked him. The old man was
vexed ; he got up, stripped, and challenged the prisoner to
fight him. At length he pushed the prisoner, who gave him
a blow on the back of his neck. He fell to the floor, and the
people in the house believed him to be asleep. He had been
drinking a considerable quantity of liquor, and was at length
discovered to be insensible. He was carried home, where he
soon after died. The surgeon who examined him, said, he
believed the fall had caused his death, though, if he had not
heard of his having been thrown down, he would not have
been able to discover anything to account for his decease.
The jury acquitted the prisoner.

AFFRAY WITH GAMEKEEPERS

Henry Orritt, aged 24, was charged with having, in Ja-
nuary last, wounded Henry Halsall, at Scarisbrick.
The Hon. Mr. Wortley conducted the prosecution, Mr.
Wilkins the defence.

It appeared that, on the 27th of January last, about one
o'clock in the morning, Henry Halsall and two other game-
keepers in the service of Mr. Scarisbrick, of this county, were
out in the preserves of that gentleman, when they heard a
report of some fire-arms in the vicinity of certain ponds on
the borders of a preserve of pheasants. They went to the
spot, and a man named Reynolds was captured with a gun in
his possession, as he was searching for a couple of pheasants
which he and his companions had shot, and which were af-
terwards found in the pond. The prisoner, it was alleged,
was seen crouching, with his gun in his hand, and it was pre-
sumed he was coming up to rescue the other. Halsall rushed
upon him, when he attacked him with the butt end of his
gun. Halsall parried his blows with his own gun as well as
he could, but the prisoner succeeded in giving him several
blows, one of which inflicted a severe wound on his head. The
prisoner's gun was broken. The two went down together,
when Halsall took the prisoner's little finger in his mouth,
and bit it severely for the space of twenty minutes. The in-
jury inflicted was so great, that the prisoner was compelled
to have the finger amputated.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty under the second count,
that of wounding, with intent to do some grievous bodily
harm.

The Judge took into consideration the sufferings of the
prisoner in losing his finger and in his long imprisonment,
and directed, that he should be further imprisoned for four
calendar months.
The court rose at six o'clock.