The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-26 00:00:00

CROWN Y COURT.- - ESTERDAY.

His Lordship took his seat on the bench precisely at 9
o'clock, and proceeded to pass sentence upon several pri-
soners who had previously pleaded guilty.
George Heaps., who had pleaded guilty to three distinct
charges of felonious thefts at Ashton-under-Lyne, Gor.
ton, and Pendlebury, (an old offender,) was sentenced to
be transported for life.

Josep4 Worrall, aged 21, charged with having, at
Warrington, stolen certain letters, the property of the
Postmaster-General, together with certain monies, the
contents of the letters. He was addressed by his Lord-
ship at some length, and with much kindly feeling. His
Lordship's remarks will be found in a paragraph in another
column.

John Toohy, 40, and Thomas Jackson, 28, who had
pleaded guilty to respective charges of bigamy at Man-
chester, were brought up. His Lordship said that in
both cases the prisoners had stated that they were single
men, though they were married, and they thus obtained
possession of the persons of the females who had appeared
against them. The sentence was that they should both
be imprisoned for six months.
Mary Ann Barber, a rather good-looking woman,
aged 20, was charged with having delivered a forged order
for delivery of three sets of books, including two novels,
from a circulating library, in Hume, Manchester, with
intent to defraud Samuel Ashworth. The prisoner made
a long address in defence, stating that the prosecutor had
injured her, and that she had received the order from
himself. Her story, however, was improbable, and, the
case being proved, she was sentenced to one year's impri-
sonment.

GROSS ASSAULT.—SamueI Leah, (42,) was charged
with having, at Houghton, feloniously cut and wounded
John Axton, his brother-in-law, on the night of the 18th
February, with intent to do him some grievous bodily
harm. The prisoner and his wife lived at the house of
the prosecutor, and some family quarrel having arisen
between him, and the prosecutor, and another brother-
in-law, the prisoner, in an infuriated state, seized an axe,
and made a blow on the left eidc of the head of the pro-
secutor, so as to inflict a dreadful wound, causing effusion
of a portion of the brain, and paralysis of the right side.
He was still so ill that he had to be assisted into court.
The defence was, that the prisoner wished to leave the
house with his furniture, but being resisted, that he
struck with the axe, which was at hand, at a table, to
break it, and that the blow unfortunately fell upon the
prosecutor's head. The main question was, whether he
intended to strike the prosecutor, or his brother, or merely
the table, the prisoner being drunk at the time. The
prisoner was ably defended, but no witnesses were called.
On being apprehended he said he had no intention of
striking the prosecutor. His Lordship carefully summed
up. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the
prisoner was guilty of the assault with the intent charged.
His Lordship—The assault was a most grievous one,
amounting to almost murder. The prisoner ought to be
grateful to God that the poor man whom he bad so dread-
fully injured was still living, though still in a precarious
and incapacitated state. His lordship hoped he might
survive; but if he died within a year, the prisoner would
yet be amenable to be tried for murder. The sentence
was that he should be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
for two years. •

BURGLARY AT MANCHESTER.—MichaeI 2111Dertnott,
(28,) Bridget Patton, (25,) and Ellen M'Guire, (25,)
were charged with having, in January, burglariously en-
tered the house of Noah Carrington, at Manchester, and
having stolen therein, four shirts, and other articles of
wearing apparel. The case was of no interest in this
locality. The male prisoner was found guilty of the
burglary, and both the females acquitted. It was stated
that there was another charge against the man, but it was
not entered into. lie was sentenced to be transported
for ten years.
SINGULAR CASE OF WOUNDING WITH INTENT TO
MURDER. &c.—John Grundy was indicted for having on
the 22d of January last, at Worsley, assaulted Mary
Farnsworth, and feloniously cut, stabbed, and wounded
her, with intent to murder, disable. or do some grievous
bodily harm. Mr. Fowler prosecuted, Mr. Pollock ap-
peared for the prisoner. The prisoner is a collier, and the
prosecutrix, at the time of the alleged offence, was in the
service of Meyars, Clarke, and Co-, cotton-spinners, at
Worsley. The urisoner had for a lengthened time soli-
cited prosecutrix to marry him,, but she refused to receive
his attentions in the character of a lover, and positively
refused his suite. At a qyarter after sic o'clock, on the