The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-20 00:00:00

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES.

CROWN .COURT.—Tumn AY

Robert Reed, 33, was charged with killing his wife,
Eliza Reed, at Liverpool, on the 9th instant. He was
found guilty, and recommended to mercy. Witnesses to
character having been called, his Lordship said he would
consider the case before passing sentence.
John Booth Pearson, aged 16, was charged with having,
at Manchester, stolen a post letter, the property of John
Wood Fletcher, and also with stealing eight post letters
from the Manchester Postoffice, with the intention of
robbing his employers, Messrs. Wood and Westhead.
The prisoner pleaded guilty. Sentence deferred.
John Davis, 25, and Sarah Kelly, were charged with a
burglary in the dwelling-house of Mr.' William Redfern
Watson, a boarding-house keeper, in Waterloo-road, Li-
verpool. The prisoners were both found guilty of re-
ceiving the property, knowing it to have been stolen,.but
acquitted of the burglary. They were sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
Thomas Dickinson, 43, was charged with having been
instrumental in killing James Joynson, in June last. On
the 15th June the deceased was in a wagon, at the ware-
house of Brown, Shipley, and Co., discharging cotton
from the wagon into the warehouse. The prisoner was a
warehouseman in the employ of Messrs. Brown, Shipley,
and Co., and it was his duty to see that one or more per-
,,ms were at the door of the warehouse ready to receive a
bale of cotton, when hoisted. On the present occasion
the deceased had slung a bale, and it was then hoisted up,
being intended to be deposited in room No. 6. When the
bale was on a level with the floor of room N.). 6, there
was no one to receive it, and the men who were hoisting
it drew it up as high as the cathead at the top of the
building, when it came in contact with a large hook on the
cathead, and the bale then fell out of the rope, striking
the deceased in its descent, from the effects of which he
died. The jury, by direction of the judge, found a verdict
of acquittal.
Elizabeth Gillespie, aged 27, was charged with having
uttered a forged shipping note with intent to defraud Mr.
Thomas Lunt, of this town. The prisoner was acquitted.
Richard Fallows, 38, was charged with having, at Man-
chester, feloniously married Sarah Layland, his former
wife being then alive. The prisoner was found guilty.
Sentence deferred.

Sylvester Collins, 26, and Peter Rogers, 26, were
charged with a burglary at the house of Mr. George
Hardcastle, Manchester. Collins pleaded guilty, and
Rogers not guilty. They were both found guilty, and
Rogers (having been convicted on a former occasion) was
sentenced to seven years' transportation, and Collins to
twelve months imprisonment.
William Bottomley, 23, was charged with having, at
Manchester, together with two other men, assaulted and
beaten Thomas Thompson, and with great personal vio-
lence robbed him of several articles of wearing apparel and
money. His Lordship having summed up, the jury, after
a few moments' deliberation, returned a verdict of
acquittal.
William Gould and John M`Ginn were charged with
having burglariously entered the dwelling-house of Mr.
Abel Hunter, at Bootle-cum-Linacre. The prisoners,
who were undefended, were found guilty, and sentenced
to seven years' transportation.