The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-01 00:00:00

HIGHWAY ROBBERY IN SALFORD

James Dixon, James Wroe, and James Shuttleworth,
were indicted, th, two former with having robbed one
William Jackson Birch, tailor and draper, of Manches-
ter, of a gold watch, a gold ring, and a sum of money ;
and Shuttleworth with having received the property,
knowing it to have been stolen.
The prosecution was conducted by Mr. James and Mr.
J. Pollock ; the prisoner Wroe was defended by Mr.
Monk, Shuttleworth by Mr. Brandt, and Dixon was un-
defended.

The prosecutor is a tailor and draper in King-street,
Manchester, and on the evening of the 30th of January
last, after being at the Star Inn, he went in a state of in-
toxication through Salford, towards his house in Brough-
ton. He called at Cox's liquor vaults, and in an hour
after leaving there he was found by the police lying on the
ground, robbed of the property in question; and totally
insensible from liquor. There was no evidence against
Wroe, and he was acquitted. As to the other two pri-
soners the only circumstance to implicate them was the
production of the prosecutor's watch, which was found
in the possession of Shuttleworth. Dixon was proved to
have been in Cox's liquor vault whilst the prosecutor was
drinking there, and he stated that the prosecutor wanted
money to treat two girls who were with him he lent him
20 shillings upon it, on the assurance that the money
would be repaid the next day ' • but the prosecutor not ap-
pearing to redeem the watch he sold it to Shuttleworth
for £3.

The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the pri-
soner was discharged.

BIG .MY

John Horridge pleaded guilty to an indictment for
bigamy, in having married Mary Ann Randal, at Stoke-
upon-Trent, his first wife being alive, to whom he was
married at Farnworth, in this county, in 1839. Since
the prisoner had been committed his first wife had died.
On the 11th instant he was committed for three months
for neglecting to maintain her, which would expire in
June next. He was sentenced to six months' imprison-
ment and hard labour in the House of Correction, the
learned Judge stating that he had evidently deceived his
second wife when he married her.

THROWING VITRIOL

Thomas King, ;gedl6,was indicted for having thrown
vitriol upon a child four-and-a-half years old, named
Mary Blackwood, on the 17th of March last, at Oldham,
with intent t.) do grievous bodily harm. The indictment
contained no count for assault, and the jury acquitted the
prisoner of the intent to do grievous bodily berm, and be
was discharged after a suitable admonition from the
court.

The Court adjourned at a quarter past six o'clock

NISI PHIUS COURT

The eleven cases relating—to the Isle of Man Joint
Stock Bank were fixed for Thursday next, to meet Mr.
Kelly's convenience.

HOLT V. LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY CO

A special jury case was fixed for to-morrow, (Wed-
nesday.

ALLEGED NEGLIGENT DEIVING

DENNETT V. LONGSHAW.—This case was then re-
sumed. Several additional witnesses were called to prove
that the defendant gallopped down the hill on the wrong
side of the road, and that plaintiff was on the right side.
Mr. Martin addressed the jury for the defendant, con-
tending that there had been no negligence on the part of
the defendant ; that five feet were left between the cart
and the omnibus ; that the accident waa occasioned in