The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-16 00:00:00

ROBBERY BY A POSTMAN

Daniel Eyre, a well dressed young man, was trans-
ported for ten years, on an indictment for stealing, at
the Borough B-ink, in Manchester, on the 18th May last,
a post letter containing a Bank of England note for £5,
the property of Joseph Coward and another.

A SOLDIER CONVICTED OF ROBBERY

Daniel Gannon, 19, a private of the 28th regiment, was
sentenced to seven years' transportation, for assaulting, in
Manchester, on the 17th October, Michael Keeney, and
robbing him of £2 12s. 6d. The soldier had assailed
Keeney, while the latter, in company with his brother,
was counting his money in a public-house, which he had
entered for the purpose of inquiring his way to the rail-
way station. Gannon, aided by another soldier, tripped
Keeney up, and then made their escape. Search, how-
ever, being made, the money was found concealed in the
prisoner's bedding.

WEDNESDAY.
STREET ROBBERY AT MANCHESTER

Maria M'Clean, Henry Johnson, and Henry Leary
were indicted for having, early on the morning of the
12th November, assailed Mr. Wrigley Barton, a Man-
chester cotton-dealer, and robbed him of a parse contain-
ing twelve sovereigns. From the story of Mr. Barton,
aided by the evidence of a police inspector (Harper), it
appeared that about two o'clock on the morning in ques-
tion Mr. B. was returning home from a party. with whom
he had been drinking at the Nag's Head. He was a little
elevated. but. not tipsy. and was crossing Ducie-bridge,
which spans the river Irk, and communicates with the
Cheetham-hill road, when he was seized by the throat,
nut by whom he could not say, pulled down, and ren-
dered insensible. Harper, who beard some scuffling in
the street, came up to the spot just when two men were
running away in the direction of Long Millgate. He
pursued them for a short distance, springing his rattle to
call the attention of the other constables in the neigh-
bourhood. He lost sight of the chase, however, in Long
Millgate, and, returning, he captured a female (M'Clean),
who was also endeavouring to escape. Mr. Barton, who,
at first insensible, had now come to himself, was meaning
deeply, as though in pain. He had been robbed of his
purse. Shortly afterwards Johnson and Leary were ap-
prehended in Charter-street, along which they were
running. by a constable on duty there, aided by a second
officer. At the station-house the men were searched, and
16s. found upon Leary ; and upon Johnson, in the lining
its coat, were found two sovereigns and a half sove-
Johnson professed the most complete innocence
said he was not aware he
:Jon the woman. The latter
was acquitted, but the jury convicted Johnson and Leary.

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FORGERY BY

A BANK CLERK

John Dutton, a slender, well-dressed man, of 32,
pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with forg-
ing a cheque upon the Bank of Eauland for £2B 95.,
purporting to have been signed by his employers, Sofeans
Brothers and Co., of Manchester. Witnesses testified to
the prisoner's previous good character; but Mr. Baron
Parke said it was necessary to repress such a dangerous
offence, and sentenced him to ten years' transportation.