The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-07 00:00:00

BOROUGH SESSIONS.

Yesterday the Midsummer Quarter Sessions commenced in
the New Court-house, South Chapel-street, before James As-
pinall Esq., Mayor, James Clarke, Esq.. Recorder, Ambrose
Lace and James -Pownall, Esqrsi., bailiffs, Sir Taos. Brancker,
and Peter Bourne, Esq. The calendar contained the names of
122 prisoners charged with felony.
The usual formalities having lieen gone through, the follow-
ing gentlemen were sworn upon the grand inquest :—James
Crickibott, Esq., foreman; Thos. P. Ackers, P. W. Brancker,
Thos. Bold, Richard Butler, Chas. Booth, lt. C. Dawson, Get.
Drinkwater, George C. Duncan, Richard Griffith, Edward
Gibbon, Francis Haywood, John Houghton, Thomas Irlam,
John Audley Gee, Was. Mather, Edward Daniel Maddock, T.
W. Molyneux, W. Neveu, and J•din Shand, Esqrs.
[The charge of the learned Recorder, owing to an accident
whlth we do not choose at present to explain, must be altoge-
ther omitted.] .
STEALING Yowts.—John Lawler, a young man aged 17,em-
ployed about the markets, was indicted for having stolen eight
dead fowls, the property of John M'Keonn.
Mary M'Keoun stated that she is the wife of John M'Keoun,
a poulterer in St. John's Market. On the Bth of May witness
purchased some fowls ready plucked, and hUng them on the
standing. At nine o'clock the same night saw them safe, and
on the following morning, on going into the market, she missed
them. Did not sell any of the fowls.

Prisoner (to the prosecutor.)—Did you see me take the fowls?
Wituess.—No; but you were the first person in the market.
Margaret Griffiths, a woman in the employ of another poul-
terer, stated that she sold the fowls to the last witness. She
had known the prisoner about four years, ana spoke to him on
Friday night, the Bth of May, at a quarter past eight. Prisoner
followed the occupation of a fowl-dealer. Could swear to the
fowls stolen, and saw them before the magistrates.
Isaac Westgat, a market-looker, sail that he heard Mrs.
M'Keoun had been robbed of sonic fowls, and from information
he received he went to the public•house of Mr. Thompson, in
Deane-street, when some fowls were put into his possession.
Saw the prisoner near the house, and took him into the`public-
house, when Mr. Thompson said that the prisoner was the per-
son who brought the fowls to his house. Prisoner, in reply to
a question from the witness, said that he purchased the fowls
from a man who came front Newry. Witness took the fowls to
Mr. Graham's office in the market, and Mary M.Keouu identi-
fied them.

Mary Griffiths, who was recalled by the Recorder. sail that
she saw the fowls at Mr. Graham's office, and identified them.

, As the case did nut appear clear against the prisoner, he was
acquitted.
ROBBING A Sa trort.--Two women named Catherine Johnson &
Jane Montgomery, were indicted fur stealing a watchand chain,
the property of Christian Lawson, a mariner. It appeared fr
the evidence of the prosecutor, that on the evening of tae Mt)
of May last he wa.sproceedinz:4lQng,LlTßlCvstroo he
tell in with the prisoner Montgomery, whom lie was induced-17i
accompany to a disorderly house, where she and-the prisoner
Johnson contrived to rob hiin of the property named in the in,
dictment, which they pledged with Byford. a pawnbroker. The
prisoner:: were found guilty, and sentenced to six month's im-
prisenmeut each.
ROBBING A CAR Int.7.li.—An elderly man, named Pritcharl,
was indicted for having stolen a i'eal box, containing six: y
books, and six snaps, the property of James S. Tenge and whi-
ther, carriers. •It appeared from the evidence that, in March
last, the property stolen was received by the prosecutors &Tsui
Messrs. Darton and Sons, booksellers, London, directed to Mr.
Lee, bookseller, of Duncan-street, St. George-square. It was
sent by the carter to be delivered; anu whilst he was absent a
few minutes from his cart, near St. George-square, it was stolen.
Information was given to the police, tiesether with a descrip-
tion of the property, and Roberts, au officer, discovered a por-
tion of it pledged with a pawnbroker in Park-lane. A clue was
then obtained to the thief, who was apprehended and identified
by the pawnbrokers as the person who pledged them in. the
name of Geo. Hughes. The prisoner was found Guilty, and
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment in Lancaster Castle.
'Weimar BY A Still.VANT.—.Margaret Ann Carr, a domestic
servant, recently in the service of Mr. James Wells, a fruiterer,
in the market, was indicted for stealing a silk ehawi, a blanket,
two aprons, and other articles, the property of her master. The
prisoner, it appeared, entered the prosecutor's service on the
19th Of May last, and had not beets three days before she de-
camped with the articles named. Two days subsequently she
returned in a state of intoxication, when a constaule was sent
j fur, and upon her was found tickets of the property, pledged
with a Mr. Wright, a pawnbroker. She was found Gutty, and
sentenced to six months imprisonment in the Preston House of
Correction. From questions put by the Recorder to the pro-
secutor, it appeared that he had not been sufficiently minute in
inviring into the prisoner's character prim to taking her lilts
his service.
JUVENILE TIIIEVES.—TWO girls, named Sarah Anne Burke,
and Mary Hayes, one twelve years old, and the other thirteen,
who have twice before been convicted of felony, were indicted
for stealing two gowns, and a quantity of other wearing apparel,
the property of John Green.
The prosecutor, who lives in Great Howard-street, on the
evening of the 28th of April left his house with his wife, leaving
the windows and doors secure. After an absence of an hour the
wife returned, and found that a pane in the window had been
broken, and the fastening undone. One of the prisoners was
I coming out of the door, and the other was in the house. On
examining the premises, it appeared that the boxes and drawers
had been emptied of their contents, and property to the amount
of £4 or £5 packed up ready to carry away. (unity—sentence
I seven years' transportation each.
Disc H A 12GE OF A CONSTABl.R.—JohnDerricks was found guilty
' of stealing 50 lbs. of ropes from the ship Comet, the property of
Marcel,. When asked by the Recorder if lie had any per-
son to speak as to his character, Butler, a police-officer, stepped
into the witness-box, and said that he had known the prisoner
seven years, and never knew any thing wrong of him. One of
the jailers was then asked by the Mayor if he knew any thing
of the prisoner, and he stated that he had several times been
committed by the magistrates; awl it farther appeared that the
prisoner had been no fewer that eleven times before the magis-
trates fur offences committed near the docks. The Mayor said
it was. evident that Butler had been telling a deliberate false-
hood, and he should make an example of him by immediately
discharging him.
The following were the sentences:—William Owens, one
rear's imprisonment in Preston House of Correction; Andrew
M'Andruse, transported for life; rencee-Boyers,tvalve mouths
in Lancaster Castle, K. Davies, twelve months in--Lancaster
I Castle; John Gillig in and John Jones, to be twice whipped
and imprisoned twelve months in Lancaster Castle; Robert
Rogers, four months' imprisonment; Mary Pendleton,_four
months' imprisonment; John Whitten, fourteen years' trans-
portation; George Clarke, eighteen months in Lancaster Cas-
tle • Catherine Johnson, six months' imprismumeut ; Hugh
Mkinley, one month; Mary Lee, twelve months in Lancaster
Castle; Strati Williams, six months' imprisonment; and Mar-
tin Cunlitle, six months' imprisonment.