The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

REED V. NUGENT

This was an undefended action on three bills of ex-
change, the defendant being the acceptor of two, and the
drawer and endorser of the other. Verdict for the plain-
tiff for £lB5 ]ss. 6d.

CROWN COURT.

—Fnt DA

MALICIOUSLY SHOOTING

Charles Lvon, 29, was indicted for having, at Knows-
ley, maliciously shot at Jahn Wainwright, with intent to
do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Brandt appeared
to prosecute, and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins defended the pri-
soner. The nominal prosecutor is a gamekeeper to the
Earl of Derby, and on the night of the 15!h of April last,
along with another keeper named Birch, was keeping
watch on the preserves of the noble earl, and whilst doing
so they met the prisoner in company with another man,
named Lloyd, who were armed with guns and in quest of
game. the parties, but a

• No words took place between ~.„
gun was discharged, which was alleged to have been fired
by the prisoner, and Wainwright received slight shot
wounds in his knuckles and leg, A witness was called
who stated that on the evening of the night in question he
was in company with the prisoner and the man Lloyd, at
a public-house in Knowsley, where the prisoner said he
and his companion were goirg in search of game, and
that if they were " mislested by Birch or Wainwright,
he would do their business for them.
Mr. Sergeant WILKINS addressed the jury at some
length, and submitted, in the first place, that the question
of identity of the prisoner was not made out; and next,
that if the prisoner was the man who fired the gun, it was
not done with the intent charged in the indictment.
The jury, after retiring for about two hours, found the
prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to fourteen years'
transportation.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND ASSAULT.
Charles Greenwood, 20, Thomas Lawley, 21, John
Greenwood, 24, and Joseph Mills, 23. were indicted f
hlving assaulted and robbed James Greenwood. Mr.
Brandt prosecuted, and
i Mr. James defended the pri-
soners. The prosecutor s an aged man, and is employed
by Mr. Robertshaw to watch a mill at Todmorden, and
whilst on duty during the night of the 17th of May last,
he heard a noise, as though some one wab attempting to

force an entrance into the mill ; be went in. the direction
whence the noise proceeded, where be met with the pri-
soners, to whom be spoke. Angry words ensued, and
prosecutor was knocked down and severely=beaten, until
be became in a state of insensibility, and, upon recover.
ing, he found that his lanthorn and hat bad been taken
away.--Ilis LORDSHIP expressed an opinion that the
evidence was not sufficient to sustain the charge of rob-
bery, and this being so, the minor charge of assault could
not be proceeded with on that indictment. His lordship
left the court to consult Mr. Justice Cresswell npon the
point, and, upon his return, said his brother Judge agreed

could not be sust

cl, for if s

quitted the prisoners. and they were disc

CHARGE OF THEFT OR EMBEZZLEMI
James Butler was indicted for embez:
the property, of his employers, Messrs
and Francis James Gill. Mr. Hutton pros
prisoner was without counsel. 'I

William

vers at Leigh, and the prisoner was employed by them in
the eapac4 of clerk, and it was part of his duty to pay
the hands in the mill, and for that purpose, on the Ist of
August. he received .CIAI 72_ Ad__ sna after navinr wares

accounted for the balance in the " mill book
turned out that he had entered different items for greater
sums than had actually been paid. Mr.

ajor not being

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his lordship ordered an acquittal, and the recogni-
zances of Mr. Major were estreated, and his expenses
disallowed.---Before the court rose, Butler was again in-
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dieted on a similar charge, upon which occasion Mr. Ma.
jor, the prosecutor, gave evidence. The jury found him
guilty. He had been previously convicted, but owing to

prisoner was sentenced to six months' hard labour

EMBEZZLEMEN

Matthew Sherlock Hilton, 19, was charged with hav-
ing embezzled £7 9s. 2d. with intent to defraud John
Woodcock. Another account laid the charge with intent
to defraud John Newton and others. Mr. Brandt prose-
cuted, and Mr. Joseph Pollock defended the prisoner.—
Messrs. Keates, Newton, and Co. are the partners con-
stituting the British and Foreign Copper Company, at
Sutton, near St. Helen's, and the prisoner was employed
as clerk under them, and it was his duty to receive and
check the aczonnts of the bills dde from the firm, and on

money was given to the prisoner, and it was subsequently
ascertained that it had not been paid to Woodcock,
neither was the receipt to the bill that of Woodcock.—
Tne defence was, that the prisoner had not acted with a
felonious intent, but under the impression that he had the
authority of Woodcock to do what he had done. The
jury acquitted the prisoner.—The prisoner was then in-
dicted for having embezzled £4 lls. belonging to his em-
ployers, by representing that he had paid divers sums for
wages; which in fact he had not done. Mr. Pollock took
an objection to the indictment. The prisoner was found
guilty, but Mr. Pollock's point was reserved for the opi-
nion of the judge.