The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-20 00:00:00

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MANSLAUGHTER CASES.
Edward Stanton, aged 74, stood charged with having, at
Bolton, killed and slain Betty Stanton, his wife.
Ann Thompson knew the deceased. She was in the habit
of getting drunk, and she and the prisoner then quarrelled.
On the 14th of July witness saw her on the floor, and the
prisoner was leaving her. She assisted to put her on a chair.
He then kicked her, and struck her over the eye. She
groaned, and made a deal of noise. She was assisted up
stairs, and complained of pain in her side. She could not
draw her breath. A doctor was sent for, and bled her. It
happened on a Wednesday. On Saturday she appeared bet-
ter, but died on Sunday.
Cross-examined by Mr. WlLKlNs.—Deceased had not
been out on the Wednesday. She got drunk in witness's
presence, at home. Her husband said, in her presence, that
she was subject to fits. Leeches were also applied to her
side

Alridget Stothart saw them quarrelling, and saw the pri-
soner draw his hand at her, on the day in question. Saw
her assisted up stairs. She had difficulty in drawing her
breath. Saw her on Sunday morning. She still complained.
The prisoner seemed much distressed.
Cross-examined.—l have seen her in fits. They_ generally
came on after drinking. They were " stir-up fits."
Deceased's sister saw her before her death, and she wat

very ill.
Mr. Heap, surgeon, opened the body on the Monday after
her death. There were internal injuries that caused mortifi-
cation, and corresponding marks exteriorly, as of blows.
Cross-examined.—The marks might have been caused by
falling in a fit.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The prisoner
was discharged.
Frederick Wainwright was charged with having, at Li-
verpool, killed and slain Thomas Ball the younger, in a fair
stand-up fight. He withdrew his first plea of nut guilty, and
pleaded guilty. Sentence deferred, in order to hear witnesses
as to character.

Daniel Shields was indicted for killing and slaying George
Myers, at Liverpool. The deceased, it was stated, came to
his death by a blow from a brick, thrown from a house on
the day of the last election.

George Chesworth, a shipwright, of this town, said, I
knew the deceased who was enzaged as a flag bearer. At
about eight o'clock on the night of the election, I received a
blow from a stone on the arm, in Fisher-street. I saw the
prisoner go on the roof of his mother's house. He and
others commenced throwing stones from the roof. I saw a
stone pass by me, and deceased immediately fell. He was

carried away. Stones were thrown at us from the roof till
we got wit of the street. The blood was running down the
deceased's face. 1 saw him afterwards with his head on the
table, and afterwards saw him when he was dead. I did not
see the stone strike the deceased.
Wood, a ropemaker, saw the deceased after he bad re-
ceived the wound. He died some days after.

Edwards, a shipwright. said, I saw the prisoner on the
)p of the house with a brick in his hand.
(Mr. Murphy here voluntarily defended the prisoner.)
Cross-examined.—Stones might have fallen easily from the
Louses further off, from which other parties were throwing.
Ann Myers, widow of the deceased, said he was brought
come much wounded. He died on the Sunday but one

afterwards.
Mr. Pennington, surgeon, said, I was called in to see the
deceased on the 4th of July. I attended him until he died.
His death was caused by the violence of the injury. He was
trepanned and died soon afterwards.
James Patterson, police-officer, apprehended the prisoner.
He said Myers and his gang threw stones into his mother's
house first, and they were obliged to throw for self-pro-
tection. His brother, who had gone to sea, was, he said,
present at the time.
Cross-examined.—There were violent assaults made upon
houses, and many parties were injured. Several cases
showing this were tried at the last sessions.
Mr. MURPHY ably addressed the jury in behalf of the
prisoner. He contended that there was no proof that the
prisoner committed the violence that caused the death of the

-deceased:
The jury found the prisoner Not Guilty.
Edward Nickson was indicted for killing and slaying Mar-
garet Robinson. The case was pretty fully reported in our
police intelligence shortly after the occurrence.
John Nickson a boy, said, he lived at the time in Norris-
street. The prisoner was his father. On the 31st of Ma} last his
father came home tipsy, and lay down on the bed. His mo-
ther came home with some muscles. She asked him to get
up and have some. A quarrel ensued, and he got up and
kicked her. She tried to get out of the cellar. He pulled
her down, and struck her in the side with a knife. She
called witness to go for the police, and prisoner said, if he
did he would serve him the same way. She got up the
steps, and he pulled her back and she fell onside. She
got up, and he caught her by the breast and threw her on the
floor on her back. She cried, " Don't lick me !" She sat
down on one of the steps. She then endeavoured to get out
again, and he pulled her back and she fell with her head on
the lower step. She was afterwards put on the bed. She
never spoke afterwards.
Cross-examined.—She was not tipsy when she came home
that he knew of. His father kicked her about four times.
The knife bent when he struck her on the waist. There was
a procession that day. His father carried a colour, and his
mother went to see it ; she'was not drunk that he knew of.
A female, named Musker, said she saw the deceased lying
on the floor of the cellar. Shedid not appear to be sensible.