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

KNOWINGLY UTTERING

.Tolin Dickinson, 38, and Mary Brice, 38, were charged
with having, on the 29th July last, at Manchester, feloniously
uttered to Mary Bailey a counterfeit half-crown, and with
having had in their possession eight other counterfeit half-
crowns.

The Attorney-General for the county and Mr. Pollock
appeared for the prosecution. On the 29th July last, the
two prisoners went into the Bird-in-hand public-house, kept
by Isaac Bailey, Great Ancoats-street, Manchester, and pur-
chased three-penny-worth of liquor. They gave the landlady
a half-sovereign, and she returned them two half-crowns,
four shillings, a sixpence, and threepence. Shortly after-
wards the female prisoner called the landlady aside, and re-
quested her to return the half-sovereign, and she would re-
turn her the silver which she had received, -and make it up
ten shillings, as if she retained the change her husband would
spend it. She put the change into Mrs. Bailey's hand, and
Mrs. Bailey immediately discovered ttbad half-crown amongst
it. She, of course, taxed the prisoners with having substi-
tuted a bad half-crown for a good one. They denied it, and
the male prisoner seized Mrs. Bailey's hand, and, after a
struggle, he took from her the bad half-crown, which she had
marked with her teeth. He immediately produced another,
and protested that it was a good one, which was the fact. A
police-officer was Balled in, who took the prisoners into cus-
tody. Two good half-crowns were found upon the man.
The women, on being searched, threw away a bag, containing
nine half-crowns, all cast from the same mould. Amongst
them was the half-crown which the man had taken from Mrs.
Bailey, which she had marked with her teeth.
The jury, after a long consultation, found both prisoners
guilty.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, the male prisoner had
been four times convicted, the female prisoner once. They
were indicted only for a misdemeanour.

They were sentenced to two years imprisonment and hard
labour. .

MAKING EASE SIIILLINGS

John Fisher, aged 43, and George Barker, 25, were charged
with having, at Little Bolton, on the 31st May, feloniously
made and counterfeited twenty-eight pieces of coin, intended
to resemble and pass for certain of the Queen's current coin
called shillings.

Sergeant 'Atelierly and Mr. Pollock for the prosecution,
and Mr. Wilkins for the defence.

The police constables of Bolton having received informa-
tion that the prisoners were coiners, went, on the 31st May,
to the residence of Barker, where they found the two prison-
ers, one of whom endeavoured to make his escape. Another
man did make his escape. several materials and implements
used in coining were found on the premises. In a basin of
water, near the fire-place, were twenty-eight base shillings,
which appeared to have been newly cast. They had probably
,been put into the basin to cool, as both the shillings and the
water were warm. On each of the prisoners a bad sixpence
was found, and twelve counterfeit groats were found in another
part of the premises.
The jury found the prisoners guilty. Two witnesses were
called, who gave Barker a good character. His lordship
sentenced him to transportation for life, postponing the sen-
tence on Fisher, for the purpose of giving him an opportunity
of producing any evidence as to his former course of life.
His lordship deemed that there was some distinction in the
case of the last-named prisoner, as he did not reside on the
premises, and might have been unwittingly led into the
offence.