The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-31 00:00:00

EXECUTION OF WICKS.

A large crowd assembled at an early hour yesterday in front
of Newgate, to witness the execution of this unhappy young
man who was respited from the 16th instant. The chaplain of
Newgate headed the procession, as the gaol bell began to
toll, and he was headed by Wicks and his executioner
The murderer ascended the scaffold with a firm step, and his
countenance remained firm and unmoved. His movement to
the fatal spot in front, whence he twice bowed to the spectators,
was easy and unceremonious.

Mean;vhile the prisoner was engaged with the chaplain,
and as the last words of the Church service died upon his ear
the drop fill, and he seemed to expire almost immediately.

he people be

an to disperse soon atter this

CHARGE OF THEFT AGAINST A BAILIFF AND lIIS WIFE.—
Yesterday, at the Police-court, a man, named John Shannon, and
his wife Margaret, were charged with having abstracted a quantity
of property fr m a shop in lark Lane. The male prisoner, it ap.
peered, by authority of the Borough Court, was put in possession
of the house to which the shop was attached, but not of the shop
itself, (of Mr. T. Grosvenor), the door of which was left fastened
with a stock lock and padlock. On the morning of Sunday. the
female prisoner was stopped by a police-officer on suspicion, she
having with her some bulky articles. These proved to be tea,
sugar, nutmegs, about 101 b of ham, and other matters in the
grocery line. They had been taken from the shop, the fastenings
of which had been broken open. •A question arose whether the
male was or was not the wife of the man in custody, as if so she
might have acted under the direction of her lord and master, and
would consequently not be amenable in law. The magistrate, on
hearing the case, sent both prisoners for trial at the sessions.

A "‘BstesnEit."—At the police court, yesterday, a rough-I. oking
man, in a worn-out suit of barragon, named James Dunn, was
brought before Mr. Rushton, charged with having, wilfully and
without provocation, broken a number of windows in Highfield-
street, on the previous day, with a stick, which was produced. A
host of witnesses, respectable persons male and &male, appeared
against him, and preferred their several complaints. It appeared
that the prisoner had broken an amazing quantity of glass, from 8
to two or three panes in their several windows, smashing right and
lelt, and in some instances breaking in the very window frames in
his route. We do not remember, indeed, to have heard a more
pane"-ful case. It appeared that he was in destitution, and had
acknowledged to the police that he had done the mischief for the
purpose of being apprehended and relieved. Mr. Rushton remarked
that an asylum was provided for the necessitous, who had but to

apply to the parish authorities for ;ler niereloreLO;iiitt
thus to destroy property in so wantont=l;"'a a way. The amount of
damage sworn to being .C 1 18s., the prisoner was ordered to pay
it with costs; and, in default, was consigned to prison for a month.
The Alethorama closes on Saturday.
AMATEUR PERFORMANCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' CHARITABLE FUND.—The
performances for this excellent institution took place last
night at the Theatre Royal;' and it is creditable to the
spirit and charitable feeling of the victuallers of our town
that a full house was the result of the appeal made to
their benevolence. The acting of the amateurs was very
far above mediocrity, and the whole went off with great
eclat.