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

FORGERY

James Francis Bentley. 25, (could read and write well)
pleaded guilty to the charge of forging and uttering twu
letters of credit, in this town.
The particulars of the case are these. On the 6th of
September last, the prisoner went to the shop of Mr. J.
R. Isaac, engraver, In Castle-street, and ordered one
hundred copies of blank letters of credit. He obtained
them and left the shop. On the 18th he went to the Ex-

change-office of Messrs. Franklin, at the top of Lord-
street, and presented what appeared to be a letter of
t/oh BURGLARY AT ASHTON.
elq-,.4 Hargreaves, 23. was given in charge for having credit from the county of Gloucester bank, for £25,
drawn in favour of James F. Bentley. upon Sir John
alVe,asly stolen, in . the dwelling-house of Hannah Wm. Lubbock. Bart., and Co., bankers, of London.
tlothit,,lre, a watch, shillings, and several articles of
',ltt,"g, her property, and with burglariously breaking Here. the letter of credit was cashed, and the next day
Nt the said dwelling-house. the prisoner presented a similar letter of credit for £5O
ki„•l3randt conducted the case for the prosecution :the at the Exchange-office of Mr. Durandu, when he was
7„vner was undefended.
11',„',1e prosecutrix kept a lodging-house,apprehended.
Mr. JAMES, who appeared for the prisoner, after call-
er there. A few days previous to the anightnd theof
the
prisoner3o th ing a witness to prove that he was respectably connected,
ti:ertembrr., 1841, he
.decamped suddenly, taking with and that his family resided at Peterborough, Canada,pr?-
ceeded to state that according to his instructions the pri-
11,,,rtne articles named in the indictment, and was not
"4Oiended until November last. soner lately arrived from Canada, in company with a per-
he jury returned a verdict of not guilty. son of the name of Stone, for the purpose of settling
.41_ some money affairs for his brother ; that Stone bad de-
AQ "PTED HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT MANCHESTER. frauded him to the extent of £l5O. and in consequence
tiot:aue/ Hennis, 21, and Richard Rushton 28. were of not getting the money he expected, he had been render-
Nilt,l,e charge for having, at Manchester, feloniously' as- ed penniless; that he had applied for a passage to Canada,
blk, ",,alle John Smith, with intent to rob him. offering to leave his trunk on the other side, until the
lqtie''o6s conducted the case for the prosecution; the money was paid, but could not obtain a passage on these
klheh. was defended by Mr. Pollock. conditions, and that he had committed the crime merely
i'recerinsecator was an assistant to Mr. Hue] Smith, a for the purpose of getting sufficient money to take him
f,,er)ith:" Manchester, and that about ten o'clock on the home.
lietb hi °f the 20th of September he was returning home
tZ IltiB. employment, with £3O of his employer's money
-y) d i;io a little bag, the string of which was fastened
Oct h a thumb. While he was passing ,long.Duc'e-
blkedie observed that two men were following him, and
'izzately after a stone was thrown at him, which
Tat fo,,Past him, and struck apinst an opposite wall with
le ree• The ri-oners then came up and seized him.
1/411: them out hi:is island over his mouth while the other
1114,_, them
th. ' to detach it from his
litt„min; „c- bag and endeavoured
t.lee,,. the attempt, however, was unsuccessful. The.
tqgt t7,`°,,r, then cried out, and speedily several parties
li wri "'s assistance. The prisoners then knocked him
hetkled !Id ran off, but they were pursued and appre-
'l,titip In a short time and before they had succeeded in
1,_.4.1)5°..?95t af s glit. ' ,
I,7lsontlPin. oners were found guilty, and sentenced to ka-
t:l:l%B.4a and kept to hard !au our for twelve calendar

SHEEP STEALING.
William Itlolyneux. 29, and Isaac iWolyneux, 77, (who
could read and write imperfectly,) were indicted for steal-
ing a sheep, belonging to James Tempest, butcher, Bol-
ton, from a Field in Great Lever.
Mr. Holton appeared for the prosecutor, and Mr.
Brandt for the prisoners.
It appeared from the evidence adduced on the part of
the prisoners, that the sheep had strayed three or four
miles from the field in which it had been placed, and was
found by the prisoners in the midden, adjoining the
meadow, rented by their father, in a very exhaustedstate,
and unable to eat. It was kept till the following morn-
ing, and then killed, as it appeared to be dying. The
flesh was distributed amongst some of the parties in the
neighbourhood. The prisoners were the sons of a res-
pectable farmer near West Houghton, and had always
conducted themselves in a very becoming manner.
The jury immediately found the prisoners not guilty.
It carne out during the trial, that the principal reason
why the prisoners were put upon their trial was, that they
denied all knowledge of the sheep when applied to by the
officer.
His Lordsitp in discharging the prisoners, said "Let
the escape you have had to-day be a warning to you for
the rest of your lives, ever to be guided by truth and
candour. You will always find that honesty is the best
policy."

j~~HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT MANCHESTER.
4e"
1444 Ca'n, Wi/80.4 25 was given in charge for having, at
"vvitehster, violently one Jonathan Andrew,
kr
violence robbed him of £37.
has and °Nock conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner
tThended.
t4e,t4rmerllvas a case of a very serious character, and the
Otst."4(l been accompanied by more than ordinary cir-
as
ti7ett4
t,tfetwirnereig
ait:l'ces of violence, under which the prosecutor, wh
Manchester, suffered for a considerable
Viciltli°,ll.t of •As he was going down George's-road on
Or Neethe 3rd of October, he was struck down with
and robbed of £3O, consisting of three £lO Bank
titse4`,'!(l notes, and some sovereigns, which were in a
tittlithr'le was so much injured on the occasion that he
Ittitbie itftiegr'd be under the c're of a surgeon for some
ti the • Three men were engaged in the transactions.;
ii°tly „Prosecutor believed, but could not swear p
-'4%-nat the prisoner was like one of them in figure and
Ai he
reii4 to prisoner was moreover seen about_ the place
114 s‘ej,' as well as subsequent, to the assault , and on the
0(1,1'g Morning he went into a hatter's, and there ten-
got payment for a hat, a £lO note, which note was
ten-
fob `"
°se taken from the prosecutor at the time of the
ylll
.eO4" tls.llB°nsr was convicted, and sentenced to fifteen
,'4asportation.
`-outt adjourned at six o'clock.