The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

CHARGE OF PERJURY

John M`Kenna, 27, was charged with wilful and car.
rupt perjury, in having brought a false charge against
George Greenwood, at Manchester. It appeared that
Greenwood is a sawyer in the service of the Manchester
and Leeds Railway Company, and on the 21st of January
some saws were broken intentionally, as it was supposed,
and a reward of £lO offered for the discovery of the
offenders. The prisoner went before the magistrates on
the 4th of February, and stated, on oath, that Greenwood
came and asked him to go and break the tools in question ;
that he did go accordingly, and they committed the said
damage. It was afterwards ascertained that the prisoner
had made a false statement, he not being in the town at
the time the damage was committed at the Railway Com-
pany's works. The prisoner was consequently taken into
custody. He had formerly been in the service of the
14..ilway Company, and had made the false statement out
of a spirit of revenge, for some supposed injury done him
by Greenwood. The prisoner was found guilty, and sen-
tenced to 18 months' imprisonment and bard labour.

CHARGE OF FORCIBLY ENTERING A DWELLING-HOUSE

Henry F. ulkes, William Ward, Thomas Coxon, the
younger, William Hill, John Falkner, William Worsley,
John Thornley. and William Coxon. (all of whom had
been out on bail,) were called upon, and immediately en-
tered the dock. The indictment charged, that on the 20th
of October, 1845, the defendants, with axes, and other
weapons, violently entered the dwelling-house of Robert
William Bennett, at Mincheqer.

Some conversation took place between the counsel on
both sideß, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins being for the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Pollock for the dtfence, in order that some
arrangen.ent mlght be come to, without bringing the mat-
ter before the court. and it was ultimately agreed to with.
draw the case, subject to an apology from the defendants.

CHARGE OF PERJURY

On tie application of Mr. Sowler, the case of Knowles
and Barlow, against whom there was an indictment for
perjury at Bolton, was postponed to the next Assizes, and
the recognizances enlarged.
This was the close of the Crown Court business.
NISI PRIUS COURT.—THURSDAY.
THE SPECIAL JURY CASES.

ORMEROD AND OTHERS V. THOMPSON AND OTHERS

Abraham, William, and Peer Ormerod were the plain-
tiffs; William and hichard Thompson, and William Sut-
cliffe were the defendants. The plaintiffs were extensive
cotton manufacturers at Todmorden, on the borders of
Yorkshire, and the defendants were corn-millers in the
same neighbourhood. The action was brought for the
purpose of obtaining damages from the defendants for an
alleged injury to a water-course, the effect of which was
to throw the plaintiffs' wheel into back water. The plain-
tiffs occupied a mill called " Buckley's Mill," and the
defendants occupied " Stansfield's Mill," both si!uated
on the Calder river, or as it is sometimes called, Todmor-
den water. The mill of the defendants is higher up the
river than thst of the plaintiffs. The injuries complained
of were, the raising of a weir, the improper cutting off of
a waste water-weir, and the putting down of flood-stones,
all of which acts prevented the water from running away
from the tail goit attached to plaintiffs' will. After the
examination of the first witness, it was agreed to refer the
case.