The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-26 00:00:00

ASSIZES

CROWN COURT,

-TUESDAY

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STABBING.
ustice Wightrnan took his seat at nine o'clock. John Wray, 24, (could read,) was indicted for having,
It NT CASES. at Liverpool, stabbed Hugh Dougherty, with intent to
Veifpooalf,e:
_Brannan, 40. was indicted for having. at Li- disfigure him, or to do him some grievous bodily harm.
The prisoner and Dougherty worked together in the ser-
keno I without lawful excuse, had in his possession a . ,
vice of the St. George's team-packet Company, guar-
mru for.. the purpose of counterfeiting shillings.
the •,roLLocir, on the part of the crown, said that since celled—fought—were parted—and foughth again, when the
whiersoner was committed circumstances bad arisen prisoner wounded Dougherty in t e troit with some
Plsee,a led to the conclusion that the mould had been sharp instrument. He was found gui ty of commonon
assault.--His Lordship, with some strong. cam Ten .
'to," M his house without his knowledge or consent. A
wet of acquittal was accordingly taken. the unfair, cruel, and unmanly practice of cutting with
sharp instruments in cases of this kind, informed the
Gen.
let --ge Atkinson, 31, pleaded guilty to a charge of hay- would have sent him oat of the country; but as the jury
liit;,tt,i Manchester. feloniously forged a banker's cheque, had taken so favourable a view of the case, he would only
'Latent to defraud Messrs. Richardson and Roebuck. sentence him to twelve months' imprisonment.
4 BURGLARY AT STRETFORD. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
114 v 4PY Ann Hulse, 16, pleaded guilty to a charge of John Walker, 23, (could neither read nor write,) was
su'eg, at Stretford, feloniously_ and butglariously broken charged with having at Manchester, in company with two
joie:Meted the dwelling-house of William Ledge, and other persons, violently beaten and assaulted Joseph
Pro therefrom one table-cloth, and other articles, his Leigh, and robbed him of five yards of flannel, one hat,
PertY. one knife, and fourpence in money.—M r.Sowler conducted
ihttii. FORGERY AT MANCHESTER. the case for the prosecution, On the 18th of October,
*arra `8 lifoaa Smith pleaded guilty to the forgery of a last, the prosecutor, who is a labourer,
toersiding at Pilk-
kurlit for £7i, with intent to defraud his employers, ington, near Manchester, had occasion go to Manclies-
t B*. Butterworth and others. ter to purchase some articles. When there, he went to
the Blue Coat public-house, where he met the prisoner
ekona,
Reed, BIGAMY AT. AII”WORTAI.
wasmgatrvreinedinonceha for having, at and two other men, and treated them to two pints of ale.
kerell.Wertht feloniously 9,
Marthae Low, his He left them whilst they were drinking the last pint, and
kir,wite, Ann Reed, being then alive. . proceeded on his road home. When he go. to Blackmore
Prile ' Cross conducted the case for the prosecution; the lane end, Bury New-road, the prisoner and the two men,
aer was undefended. . who had left the house immediately after, leaving their
Itif7.6 Prisoner was married at Glossop Church to his first ale undrank, attacked him and rifled his pockets. They
afterlP the year 1824 • they lived together for several years also stole a bundle, containing the flannel, and, after beat-
rieenitniyStockport where they had five children, and he ing him severely, made off. The prisoner was appre-
The . married his second wife at Ainsworth. . hended in a gentleman's garden in the neighbourhood,
115881,,P.risnner Paid that his first wife had been guilty of soon after. The bundle, with flannel was seen under his
dtfe ' unmoral practices—that her character had been arm. He dropped it when pursued, but it was picked up
do met at Staleybridge, and her effigy burned at his own and recognized by the prosecutor. The jury found the
147 i1-that between herself and him a sort of agreement prisoner guilty.
l'iitli ee.ll made that each of them might form intimacies Joseph Nugent, alias Newton, (not in the calender,)
CroßsiOt_hers, and that he obtained the opinion of Mr. was charged with bigamy. The indictment stated, that
thittifsea., barrister, who cited cases for him to show on the 2d of May, 1820, at Dublin, the prisoner married
aeve„,
_lle husband had been separated from his wife for Mary Bolger, and that, on the Bth of October, 1828, at
eire,‘"_Ystars he might marry again. It was
.under those Liverpool, he married Mary Francom, his former wife
The .ances that he had married a second t• me. being then alive. Mr. Hulton conducted the case for the
tote„, Jury found the prisoner guilty, and strongly re- prosecution Mr. Brandt and Mr. James defended the
miencled him to mercy. prisoner. The prisoner is well known in this town hav-
ing for some time occupied a shop in St. John's Market.'
At the last assizes he was tried and acquitted on the charge
of marrying the wife he at present lives with, and Mary
Francom, for marrying whom he was now arraigned, it

tcpw. BURGLARY' AT .
Wa laM Slack, 14, was given WARRINGTON
in charge for having, at
iag.throniton, burglariouslv broken and entered the dwell-
fou use of. Alice and Lettice Gill, and stolen therein
shillinvs• •
Ar r
al
urke conducted the case for the prosecution ; the
it 'er rr,is undefended.
26th I,),,Peared from the evidence, that on the night of the
bed
ai;evember the Misses Gill, who are sisters, retired to
erfe Tit eleven o'clock, after having made the house
IllliissettY secure. About three o'clock in the morning
I,ass}s, Lettice Gill got up and went down stairs to let in a
ti)eer"man, and after she had opened the back door,
tier observed a truck lying against the wall in such a man-
She-r would enable a person to get in at the window.
tro44e,arched the house, and found a pair of shoes on the
°et 114 q and the prisoner under the sofa. On being pulled
broke admitted that he had entered the house through a
her:ll_,Pane of glass in the window, and he immediately
tot 'n"red one of Miss Gill's pockets, which contained
r shillings,
Itmea Prisoner made an affecting appeal to the jury. He
AI that the Misses Gill were his aunts, and that they
N:,
113)07:ten relieved him when his unnatural father refused
Zell: him a morsel to eat, and that he had broken into
use on the occasion mentioned thinking he should
fatalepPrehended, put into the lock-ups, and thus force his
t 0 administer to his necessities.
suds fury convicted the prisoner, and strongly recom-
' him to mercy.

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appears has been dead nine 'or ten years. The case, as
represented by the prosecutor, was that the prisoner and
Mary Bolger were married according to the rites of the
Roman Catholic Church, at Townsend-street Chapel,
Dublin, at eight o'clock in the evening. That they lived
together only for about eighteen months, after which the
prisoner came to England, and has not been seen in Ire-
land but once since; and that, during twenty-two years,
the first wife had been supported by her brother ; and
that on the day before mentioned the prisoner was mar-
ried to Mary Franeom. George Greaves, in this evidence,
said, that when he went with James Bolger, the brother
of the first wife, to apprehend the prisoner, Bolger said
Newton was a great villian, having married his (Bolger's)
sister, then a black woman, and afterwards another wife,
with whom he was at present living, and more than
once be said Newton was a great fool for not having settled
the matter before. Mr. Bolger, in his evidence, denied
that before the last assizes he knew of the prisoner hav-
ing beets married to Mary Franeom, and denied also that
he called the prisoner a fool, but he acknowledged that he
made a demand for £6OO, for the support of his sister for
twenty-two years. For the defence, it was contended that
the whole was a scheme of Bolger's to extort motley from
the prisoner, and that there was no proof of the validity
of the first marriage. The Judge, in the coarse of his
summing up, was interrupted by the jury, who said they
would not trouble him further, but return a verdict of
not guilty. The Judge : There certainly seems to be no
reasonable grounds for the institution of the present
prosecution, the wife having been dead for some years,
and there are othercircumstances in the case which have
been alluded to that throw some suspicion upon it. Mr.
ulton asked if his Lordship would allow the costs of the
case. He said the prosecution had been taken up in order
that all the facts might come out. The Judge : No, I
will not indeed.. It is a prosecution that ought not to
have been instituted. The witnesses will consequently
have to bear their own expenses, or be reimbursed by
Bolger, or the parties who instituted the prosecution.

0h BURGLARY AT MANCHESTER.
A Martin, 23, John Lidlow, 21, and Win. Shep-
.,feloni 40, were given in charge far having, at Manchester,
ulteelSly and burglarionsly broken and entered the
coat Ing-house of Edward Taylor, and stolen therein a
elk' a hat, a pair of boots, an accordion, and other arti-
AriMr
randt conducted the case for the prosecution ; the
T!er was undefended.
street prosecutor keeps a shop at the corner of_ Kennedy-
4iglit and Cooper-street, Manchester. and onthe
!hilt tc'nfhthe 6th of September he fastened the place and
- 'ed. About one o'clock in the morning he was
Pre .11P. and found that an entry had been made into the
lakilses through the grid-hole. Some of the property
Isalleeil taken by the burglars, and part of it had been
sane 19 the immediate neighbourhood of the house. The
Aetl„ri]Sht the three prisoners were seen walking don
(t th'`'Y•street—two of them on one side and the third
*sfke e other. They were also seen to examine the doors
I)ettyve,:al shopkeepers in the street; and some of the pro-
loner sae subsequently found on the person of the pri-
T ppard.
learl Prisoners were found guilty, and sentenced to ten
tranSPOrtatiOn.