The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-08 00:00:00

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prosecutor's, in the house part. Four men entered through
the door; two came into the house. One of them "baulked"
(presented) a pistol at me. The other man stepped behind,
saying "We are hard up; money we want, and money well
have before we go." I said there is no money here. but you
may have a pancake if you have a mind. He then struck me
with a pistol. I got him down. They struck me with the
bludgeons, and we were struggling some time and I got him
down again ; but I was struck several times, and I lost my
senses for a bit, and could not get up. Thomas Goulburn
is
one of the men who " baulked" the pistol at me. The gun was
taken from my master's house that night : 1 missed it the next
morning.
By Mr. Pollock : I bad not known Goulburn before ; I am
positive he is the man. I have always been as positive. I know
nim by his countenance, and height, and appearance. I made
a statement before the magistrates, and signed it. (The depo-
Sition was lucre put in and read, and in the dwenteut the words

were, " I believe Golburn is the than.") I might have said so.
By Maher : I have known you three or four years. I will
not swear it was you who wrestled with me.
By the JUDGE: I did not see much of the men in the back
kitchen. I just saw them come in at the door.
Thomas Meyrisk, a policeman, .vho found a ball in the kitchen
of the prosecutor, here produced it, but nothing depended on
this point.
Ann Tyrer : The prosecutor is my brother. I was with
him on Tuesday night. I was in the house part when the men
came in. There were two of them. They 'had pistols and
bludgeons with them. One presented a pistol at me and said,
"That's for money; money they wanted and would have, for
they were hard up." They then struck Hurst, and both men
beat him very much. This went on about ten minutes. They
then came to me and demanded the keys, and told one to go
up stairs and find the money. They bad before taken 2s. 6d.
out of my pocket. They opened the drawers of a chest up
stairs, and took a purse with money in it. There was one they
could not open, and they said they would make me open it.
They found another sovereign in another drawer.

By Maher : I cannot say you were one of the men. I was
too ill frightened.

John Scedden FI went to John Tyrer's house on that night,
and saw some strange men there—the face of one and the back
of the other. My brother Edward pushed me out to fetch
some arms. I saw Thomas Headley there: he was loading a
gun in the house part.
By Mr. PoLLocx : I was there about half a minute altogether.
I recognise him by his dress and appearance together. I saw
him at Ormskirk at the station after that. I was brought
there by the police to see if I could recognise any others.
Richard Pickering: I was present when the prisoners were
taken into custody. Maher was taken at his lodgings. Ros-
common-street, :Liverpool; Jackson in Dryden street. Liver-
pool; Goulburn was taken in Kew-street, Liverpool ; and
Headley at his own house, in Burlington-street. When Jackson
was taken there was a cotton coat found, which I produce. [lt
was a very common.loOking garment, much torn, and a mark
of blood on its back.] Jackson said it was his coat. Goulbnrn,
when apprehended, said, "You are on the wrong scent; we
are the wrong parties, but we know who did it."
By Mr. Pollock : That was not the morning of the apprehen-
sion ; about an hour afterwards : they had then been informed
of the charge. Simonswood is about eleven mites from Liver-
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Robert Fanwin : I was present when Maher. Jackson, and
Goulburn were apprehended. Maher wanted to 'know what
we we-e taking him into custody for. I said I would tell him
when dressed. He said he supposed it was for those robberies
yonder. I then told him he was charged with robbing' Tyrer's
house, and firing at the inmates, with intent to kill them. He
saht we were on the wrong scent ;he was innocent of it. His
wife observed—yes, he was innocent of that. and she could
prove it, because lie was not out on pancake night. I then
went to Jackson. but lie said nothing. When I told Gonlburn
what he was taken for, he said it was all right. Before that
he had been asked his name, but he gave no answer. Inspector
Rimmer knew him. There was an enquiry about a jacket
there. Murphy asked whose coat it was ? He said it was not
his, twice; but when Murphy was going to ask the landlord
Goulburn said,—What nonsense, it is not a coat, it is my
jacket.
By Maher : Tour wife did not say she knew where you were.

Henry Murphy: I am one of the Liverpool cetective police-
force. I found a jacket which, at first, he said was not his,
but afterwards owned it. I found a pair of light cord trou-
sers, and some skeleton keys at Headley's. He said he did
not know whose trousers they were; he did not know how they
came into his possession.

Thomas Meyrick, policeman : I heard Headley say to his
wife that a witness had sworn to his having a pair of white cord
trowers, but you know how I got them ; they were made for
another man, it did not fit, and that's the way I got them.
By Mr. PoLLocK : This took place at the Police-office. I
was standing clase by the prisoners.
Peter Thompson, policeman :—I heard the prisoner Goulburn
speak to Maher, when at the Ormskirk Police-stat►on, " How
could you do with a pancake, Will." I did not hear the
answer.

Maher observed all he said was, Tyrer was born on a Pan-
cake Day ; and Maher made answer, he is a cake.
Edward and Richard Sedden, and Glynn, on being recalled,
said the man who robbed and shot the pistol wore such a coat
as the one produced and found at Jackson's.
Mr. John Tyrer then stated that Simonswood was about
11 miles from Liverpool. He was not at home on the night in
question. When he returned he missed a woollen purse, viith
10s. in it.

Mr. PoLLocic then addressed the jury for the prisoners.
The only question he troubled them with was, whether those
for whom he appeared had, beyond all doubt, been made out
to have been the perpetrators of this daring outrage. He con-
curred in the feeling which he was sme every one in the bnx
must feel, that this was an offence which it was highly
desirable should not go unpunished; but then he called u
pon the jurors to take care that in their feelings of indig-
nation they did not punish the innocent. As it was his
intention to call witnesses in defence of his clients, to esta-
blish their plea that they were elsewhere on the night in ques-
tion, he did not comment at any very great length on the
evidence that had been produc"

He Censured strongly tLe
practice that prevailed at Orrnskirk of marching prisoners
along a lobby singly, and then placing those who were reqn red
to identify them on the other side of a door, through which
witnesses were enabled to have s full view of the men, and, if
necessary, confer with each other before they were brought
before the suspected offenders face to face. This was urVair to
• ••••,1 it was the most proper and honest plan to brine
f.ee to face, that there might be

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no chance of collu;ion or unfairness. lie then went thrcuzh
the whole of the evidence, and urg= d upon the jury how unsafe
it would be for them to convict the prisoners for this offence.
ave clear and

ntity it was impart

distinct testimony, since experience showed how often mis-
takes in this respect did occur; and it therefore behoved the
jurors to guard carefully, as far as they could, agOnst the
commission of like errors for the future. He then proceeded
to call his witnesses in support of an alibi.

Maher, in his defence said he had a witness to prove he was
so elsewhere on this night ; and, bPsides. he wished them to
oscrve that no one had spoken positively to his person.

ALIBI FOR ./ACRSOIV

Elizabeth Rourke, a fruit-dealer, said Jackson had lived with
M'lntyre for some time. I was with Mrs. M'lntyre at Sea-
forth on last pancake Tuesday. I returned home about half.
past six to Dryden-street, Scotland-road. When I got there,
Is w Robert Jackson and Philip Malone in the house. I went
out for about a quarter of an hour, and when I returned Jack-
son was there still. I remained there about half•an-hour, and
I left Jackson when 1 went away.
Ely Mr. Monk : Malone is not here to-day. I saw him last,
last nizht. Nl'laityre's is a cellar. When I went out I left
Mrs. M'lntyre there, but when I returned she was gone out to
get some supper. ' I first heard of Jackson's being taken on
the (lay he was apprehended, and was then told of the charge
against him. I gave my evidence in favour of Jackson, at
Ormskirk.

he last wit

Tuesday, and when we returned home about half-

past six, we

found Jackson and Malone in the house. My own little girl was
there also. Jackson slept there until about ten, when we went
to bed, Jackson not having been out all night. My husband
was taken up on this charge and liberated.
Catherine Lee, who lives within two doors of the last wit-
ness, went into the house with a frying pan on Shrove Tuesday
night about halt-past seven, and saw Jackson there then with
M'lntyre.