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

HIGHWAY RCBBE FtY

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Hugh Piaharan, aged 23. was indicted,' for having',.st
Parr, feloniously assaulted Richard Potter, wit the In-
tent, of robbing hint. Mr. M'Oubrey prosectited. The
prosecutor wasreturcinghometo Ashton. from St. Helen'St
on the night of the 28 h of October, when the prisoner,
amongst others, attacked him and attempted to rob hito•
—The prisoner was found guilty.

CONVICTION OF MR. DEANE FOR FORGERY

The trial of Mr. John Deane for forgery excited cone;
derable interest, from the respectability of the accuse
and his long connection with the town as a tradesman.
The facts, however, some of which have been already
mentioned in our paper, lay in a small compass..
The prisoner was indicted for forging and uttering
hill of exchange for £154 103. 3d.. with intent to defraud
John Winter Moss, and others.
Mr. Simon and Mr. Rushton conducted the ease for
the nrosecution, and Mr. Tindal Atkinson and Sir George
Stephen defended the prisoner.
Mr. SIMON stated the case to the jury. The prisoner
drew a bill, dated July 20th, 1851, upon one John-Ainlel,
broker, of Leeds. The bill was rendered negotiable et
Glen's, London, and was paid to the prisoner's account
over the counter at Messrs. Moss and Co.'s, hankerg'
Dale-street, Liverpool. When the bill arrived at matu-
rity it was dishonoured. ant then the question arose as tO
who ws the acceptor; inquiries were made, but it wog
found that no such person as John Ainley, a broker, re-.
sided at Leeds. The prisoner was apprehended upon, the
charge of forgery, and, in answer to the charge, Deane
said that Ainley, the acceptor, had gone to America.
The learned counsel said that it was for the prisoner tO
produce the person named John Ainley, who, on the face
of the bill, was made the acceptor. He (Mr. Simon)
would produce witnesses to prove a guilty knowledge oe
the part of the prisoner in this transaction.
Mr. John Winter Moss, hanker; Sullivan, of the de-
tective force ; Mr. Thomas Green Robinson, teller at the
bank ; Mr. Richard Pemberton Williams, cashier of the
Borough Bank ; Mr. Richard Anderton, cashier at Nei'
wood's Bank ' • a gentleman of the name of John A.inleft
from Leeds •, Thos. Btebner, police constable, of Legde;
and Mr. Tudor, a Leeds sharebroker, were examined in

evidence.
Mr. TINDAL ATKINSON then addressed the jury °II
behalf of the prisoner. He said Mr. Deane was an old,
respectable, and respected tradesman of Liverpool. °vb.°
had been in business for upwards of forty years,—a tee'
of unblemished reputation, of an unimpeached and unite"
peachable character. His learned friend had appealed
them that it was their duty to guard closely, and to iv%
narrowly, anything like a transaction of tampering W'tect
negotiable securities. No doubt the law had- bedg
negotiable securities with heavy pains am: penalties, ae:
very necessarily so, too ; hut just in proportion as the
hedged this crime with heavy penalties, they must be
careful that a person lying under such a charge should 4
guarded against any matter being unduly feigned agsief
him. They would please to remember that the bill
question had been placed to the prisoner's credit with
those highly-respectable bankers, Messrs. Moss. It WT.
not a bill which Mr. Deane had got discounted for hi'
own purposes, but it was a bill placed to his credit as se;
curitv against an advance to the debit, within a very few
pounds;
and this had been done in consequence of sell
remonstrance offered to Mr. Deane in relation to WI
state of his account with the bank. The learned count°
proceeded to argue that the prisoner had no guilty Iteli
ledge of the forgery, and that the case was not established
against him. to
The following witnesses were then called to depose 4,0
Mr. Deane's character :—Mr. John North, soliciterjr.
the dock estate; Mr. John Greene, sharebroker_.;
Myers, secretary to the East India Association; Mr•dse
Kaye, proprietor of the Courier ; Mr. Thomas Se°
merchant ; Mr. Wm. Dalrymple, and Mr. Wm. Gore' er
The jury, after a short deliberation, found the prisoe
gu
Milty, but recommended him to merc
observations
art
Mr. ATKINSON offered some on the part
of the Messrs. Moss in favour of the prisoner.
The prisoner having been called upon in the o°l

manner to receive judgment. bee
°
Mr. Justice Ea have at John Deane, you havet of
convicted of a grievous offence against society, s_oo,
forgery, and the utterance of forged instruments to un,
siderable amount. It is impossible for me or any reas
bee°
able person to doubt for a moment that you have dog
pursuing those practices for some time, notvvithstan ges
the high character you have received from the vii.t°ehke
called on your behalf. In a commercial commuell the
this, the offence of which you have been convicted,
clearest evidence, is one of the deepest dye ; it Isiegie'
which, until a recent and merciful alteration of the esf-
lative enactment, was punishable by death upon tnltice
fold. This system must be checked ; and these ~bers
I am about to pass upon you will, I hope, det u•eer;
from pursuing a similar dangerous and fraudulent ft` bate
that sentence would have been heavier, and I 51°Itiearei °f
felt it my duty to pass upon you a much longer,
jitherto
imprisonment but for the good character you hall% Jon
borne. The sentence of the court is that Y°, logo °
Deane, be transported beyond the seas for the
ten years

NIGHT-POACHING. ; Oct°bef
er
Robert Wright was indicted for having, -n.,„„sliiP,
last, with other persons unknown, at the t°""" taloll°'
Bickerstaffe, been out armed, for the purpose efl
game, and with beating Peter Cropper,
authorised to apprehend him. The circumstance: fourol
case possessed no interest. The prisoner was? trails'
guilty, and the Judge sentenced him to ten year
portation. a person vo't, to

LaLEpGoEliDeemPEalin
John Whittaker A,
was indicted for wilful and The
c se
arose out of someevidence corrupt perjury: er iris ea s
of assault before given by the prison A dter
long
inquiry the prisoner
was acquitted, his Lorue, to hie
marking that not the slightest imputation attach "
character. A of
Thomas war'•s a
Boydell was convicted of stealing uP 0a
£2O from
Thomas Wilcock and others, at Lowton,
sentenced to three months' imorisonment.
joufiLtirbe Preston dicuilati;
The Court adjourned soon after six o'clock.
SATURDAY. _na pr:r
Mr. Justice Erie took his seat at nine eclock,* • list,
onb" b
ceeded to dispose
of the only cases remaining
the details of which Vies'
are unfit for publication. „t ._
William Groves, 21, charged with having, 'osheli
Derby, committed a felonious assault upongrg•
Howarth, was acquitted. A. for
1Y "1 ra
The next was a case of similar nature, the 011_0 pee.,
ence being, that the prosecutrix was a girl tbilrlmej 4(!
of age. The prisoner was named Henry Gotile`,1•0101,
and he was charged with having, at Rusholine, eitir.
as an j th°
ously assaulted Amelia Gould. There rr •to
" den ce , go,
absence of the customary corroborative evi , ~,, 0 ..
statement of the prosecutrix was contradictenavi/a 011;
Brassendale, to whom she acted as servant,
-tted•
a
house the offence was said to have been conarai j.,
their at! eat
prisoner was acquitted. el
His Low:lame then thanked the jury for ~.00
0
once, and the business of the Nisi Prius Cour' w
814ortly before three o'clock,