The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-20 00:00:00

MANSLAUGHTER-GLIGEN,T DRIVING.

Thos. Iroosey, 36, was indicted for.the inanslaUg hte r of John
Aspinall, a child about eighteen months old, by driving over it
with his cart on the road between Kirkdale and Altcar, on Sa-
turday afternoon, the 4th of October last. ' It appeared that the
prisoner was. riding in the cart with his baek.to the horses at the
time the accident occurred, and there-was;no doubt that a child
was killed, but there being no witness to ,speak to,its identity
excepting the surgeon, who had only heard from the parents of
the deceased that it was their child, .he learned judgedirected
an acquittal.

ANSLACGIITER-,BOYS -WARRING.

John Lawless, 12, was charged-with killing and slaying Saint.
Bibby, .a:lioy of about the .same age,•at -Warrington, on the
2A)th.October last. It appeased that two parties of boys hadbeen
fighting or Marring, as it is termed, -in the streets. The party
to-which the deceased belonged was beaten by the other, and
fled. They were pursued by.the victors, and she prisoner, who
was one of them, threw a stone, which hit the deceased on the
head, lookketihim down, and injured him so-severely that he
died a few hours afterwards. The prisoner was found guilty,
and sentenced to.Oue day's imprisonment, be having been in
custody already since the Ai.h of October.

.!II.ANS f... 1 UG HTER A,TILICIDE,

il:orra,llyias charged withlilliugand slaying John Wor-
rell, his hrother, At Warrington. The pi isoner andthedecoased
were shoemakers by ,trade; and their.father f.illowed the same
occupation. About twelve o'clock on Saturday night, the 30th
August:last, they were drinking along with .thoir.tfather and
Other persons at a heershop in.Warriugtua, wikan-a dispute arose
between
.the deceased and.his father as to which could make the
best shoes. It ended in a quarrel. The .prisoner stook his fa-
ther's part, which so much exasperated. the. deceased that he
pulled off iris coat and challenged him to fight. Prisoner at
first refusad, but after some squabbling they wont..out -of- the
house and fought, the father.eneouraginglhe.prisoner. In the
course of the battle the.deceased •received • a ,blew from the pri-
soner, which knocked him 'down,
,and did him. such severe in-
jury that he died the following enorniug.—Guilty—six,niunths'
ittprisonment in Lancaster Castle, and hard labour.

BRUTAL AND NATAL ASSAULT.
13 et,r. Higgins, 23; was cliargetd with killing and slaying Rich.
Rylance, an 'Old 'man between •sixty and ,serenty years.of age,
at NVigan, on the 11thll-arch,-18311. About Av
a the:eyening
of the day in questiod w th# prisoner as seg wilt; the old „man
n
tinder him in the street. )n finding that be Was observed, the
prisoner got ii and Left the deceased; who got up and was going
away, when the prisoner maxi) to. him
.again, knocked:him
down, 'and- kicked him •violentli, when ou the ground. 'co a
woman who begged him for God's sake to have mercy .on old
age, the prisoner.
said, if you make ajy noise I will do as much
for yoti." Nothing transpired as ,to the cause of quarrel be-
tween "the prisoner and the,deceased, ,who died next day in con-
sequence of the injury he had received. The p6sonerabsconded,
but was subsequently apprehended in Irelatid, of which country
he was a native,—Guilty—seven years' transportation.

CARELESS DRIVING.
Samuel .Smiih, 12, was charged With killing and .slaying.'fbo.s.
Rianer, at Rainhill, on -the 6th October last. .The prisoner
was gOing with a cart, walking a yard or two behind it, on the
way to Presce4 when the ,deceaSed, a child nineteen months
old, ran across the road, was knocked down by the horse, and
one of the wheels pasSing.o:ver the head it was killed on the spot.
-L=Guilty—one day's irripnsonment, the pristine' biv-ing•be,'n in
custody since October. -
Geo.. Styles, 40, and Win. Bancroft, 33, the former the captain
of a bOat plying on the. Leeds and Liverpool Canal,- and the
latter the driver*f the 'towing horses, were Charged with the
manstanghter of Isaac Ilaslain, at Nova Scotia, a place near
Blackburn, on the'2lst October last. It _appeared that at the
place in question there is a bridge over the canal, so narrow es
not to admit of a towing path 'under it, so that on coining up to
the bridge it is necessary for the flatmen to detach the rope, and
take the towing horse over the bridge. By ayegulaticua of the
canal company they are required to throw the rope on the boat
in paSsing,•instead of making the horses drag it after them across
the road. On the day} named the prisoners refused to attend to
this tegulation, thotigla required to do so by the canal keeper,
and the consequence was that the rope caught the' breast of the
front horse in a waggon, which was passing at the time. The
horse reared and became unruly, and the deceased, .who.was
standing by, endeavoured to catch hold of its bead, and in so
doing the ,rope caught him and threw hint under the wheel,
which passed over his head, and killedhim on the spot. It ap-
peared that the prisoners had been in .custody. since .the 28th
October, and as the prosecution was instituted not so much tnr
the purpose of punishing them as to prevent others from follow-
ing' the -same dangerous practice, the learned judge directed
their acquittal.