The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-01 00:00:00

CROWN COURT—
thooe was indicted for cuttinz ar.d stabbing

SATURDAY

Alice Jones, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The
offence had originated in a family quarrel, the particulars
of which transpired at the time the case was investigated
before the magistrates. They returned a verdict of
guilty of common assault. Sentence deferred.
Charles Stansbury was indicted for uttering a forged
undertaking for the payment of £3 153., with intent to
defraud George M. Johnson. The forged instrument was
a shipping-note. Verdict, not guilty.
John Jones, a boy, was indicted for breaking into the
dwelling-house of Thomas Smith, at Liverpool, on the
12th of January last, with intent to steal therein. The
particulars of this case, like those in the previous one,
have already been published. The prisoner was found
guilty. Sentence deferred.

CROWN COURT—YESTERDAY.
The court was opened at nine o'clock precisely this

morning

PRISONERS PLEADING GUILTY

inn Bowker pleaded guilty to having, at Manchester,
.glariously broken and entered the dwelling-house of

Thrriet Beswell, and having stolen therein two dresses.
one pair of boots, and other articles, her property. Wm.
Collier pleaded guilty to stealing fowls, at Tarleton and
Lathom, the properties of James Dandy and Wm. Clay-
ton. George Dennerley likewise pleaded guilty to the
charge of burglary in the dwelling-house of Wm Abson,
of Heaton Norris, and stealing a work box and various
other articles, the property of the said Wm. Abson. The
sentences on these prisoners were deferred.
The names of the common jurors summoned to attend
the court this morning were called over, and several who
did not answer to their names were fined £5 each.

THE MURDER AT WARRINGTON

It half-p,

nine o'clock, the prisoners Bridget Lyo:

and Patrick Lyons were placed at tl
several counts set forth in legal terms

ith the murder

The male prisoner is only twenty-one

years of age, whilst his wife and accomplice is forty year,
old. Neither of the offenders can read or write. They
advanced to the bar with somewhat unusual confidence,
and denied the charge boldly and rather impudently.
The male prisoner was dressed in a blue small jacket,
without waistcoat, and had on a blue striped shirt. He
leant his arms unconcernedly on the front of the bar
during the opening of the learned counsel's address
to the jury ; and from his appearance
been thought that he was only a spectator, inst
being - life or death depended on a
The female prisoner, on t'

it might have

erson who:
trial

of a few hours

Le con-

y. looked anxious, rather wildly so, and seemed to re-
-1 Mr. Monk's opening speech with the most intense
!rest. She was dressed in a rather handsome cotton

chequed blue,_white, and red. with a common rec

r her shou
lc_ her lef

IRIOSt E

out the trial immediately underneath her left eye. Neither
Of the offenders took notice of the other, and to all
appearance were perfect strangers to each other. Whilst
Mr. Monk was describing the house in which the murder

was committed and explaining the model of it to the jury
Patrick Lyons smiled, and indeed there was a smile of
his countenance throughout the whole of the trial. Th,

female prisoner, on the 01

miserabl

unhappy ; and, if there be any truth in phy
lesponding looks evidently betokened guilt

It is worthy of remark, to show the caution any care
with which the judges of our land watch cases of this
ription, that whilst Mr. Monk opened the case to the
, a policeman handed a paper to a person sitting in
t of the jury box, and was sharply reprimanded by
istice CRESSWELL.