The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-16 00:00:00

prisonment

John Grindrod and John Eastwood were acquitted of
assaulting and robbing Edward Sheppard on the highway
near Rochdale, on the 4th instant.

James Stone, aged 22, pleaded guilty to a cha
larceny. The facts were rather singular. The prisoner
went to a woman in Liverpool, named Moon, who had a
son in Jamaica, and told'her that he had brought a parcel
from bin,, whichl was detained at Plymouth by the Cus-
toms, and that if she would give him 16s. 2d., the amount
of duty for which it was detained, he would forward the
parcel. He received the money, and never forwarded it.
Other cases of a similar character were proved.—Eighteen
months' imprisonment.

Thomas Hayei was found guilty, and sentenced to 18
months' imprisonment, for breaking into the dwelling-
house of Mr. Griffin, at Leigh, and stealing a box con-
taining twelve sovereigns. The prisoner, who was a tai-
lor; availed himself of the knowledge obtained while
working at the prosecutor's house to get in during the
night at an unfastened window.

John Muddiman, 26, and James Fielding, 27, were
charged with assaulting and robbing George Shawcross,
at Salford, on Saturday night week. It appeared that
the prosecutor was rather tipsy, and 'gave the money to
his daughter, who was with him, to take care of, leaving
in his own pocket 20. In going down Liverpool-street,
they saw the prisoners, and Muddiman knocked the old
man down, kicked him, and emptied his pocket,of the
20. He said, " He's not worth robbing, he's only two-
pence-halfpenny in copper," and kicked the old man in
the ribs. The girl screamed out murder, upon which the
ruffian hit her a blow which knocked her down. Fielding
stood close by all the time, but did nothing. The jury
acquitted Fielding but found Muddiman guilty, who was
sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

BOTTLING A VOTER.—John Lyon, John Radeitife,
John Halliwell, James Badder, James Greenwood, and
Edward Briggs Bradshaw, were charged with the' false
imprisonment and assault of John Holden, at Bolton.
The prosecutor, it appears, had been with the prisoners
on the 29th October until midnight on the 31st, and was
plied with liquor and carried about from place to place,
as was elleged by the counsel for the prosecution, to pre-
vent him frog► exercising according to his conscience his
elective franchise at the municipal election at Bolton, on
the Ist November last.—His lordship directed an acquit-
tal for Greenwood, Badder, and Bradshaw, there being
no.case against them. He then summed up the evidence

as regarded the other prisoners. His lordship remark&
that if it was the opinion of the jury that the prosecutor
was kidnapped for the purpose of preventing his exercis-
ing the elective franchise, the offence was a most serious
one; but if they only went out for a trip, although they

might during their excursion interfere with his liberty, or
even assault him, the case was more trivial. It was a
strong point for the defence that the prosecutor was
brought back early on Friday evening, and that he was

tion was, then, was he taken with his own consent, and
on that point the evidence was very contradictory. On
that point there was the fact, that at the time he was
being taken into the Hand and Banner, at the beginning
of the transaction, he told the woman who laid hold of
him and wanted him to go home, that he was coming di •
rectly, which implied that he went willingly. His lord..
ship thought there was a case of assault against Lyon, and
a ease of false imprisonment against the others, but not
of kidnapping. Atter a few minutes' consultation, the

jury found the prisoners guilty of the minor offence; and
not of kidnapping. His lordship then fined the prisoners
Is. each, and ordered them to be discharged.
(Before Mr. Justice Williams.)

Patrick O'Connor, 16, pleaded guilty to the charge of
having, at Liverpool, feloniously stolen one mare, the
property of William Scotson, and also one gelding, the
property of William Lyon. The prisoner was sentenced
to ten years' transportation.
Mary Pkythian, 32, pleaded guilty to the charge of
having, at Liverpool, feloniously killed. Robert Ltiten.
In sentencing the prisoner, the Learned Judge observed
that it was possible, and that was the reason, he did not
sentence her to transportation, that she was not aware
that 'death would result from the pouring of the boiling
coffee upon the deceased, and, therefore, the sentence of
the court was that she be imprisoned two years.

Thomas Sheazel, 21, John Copplestone. 21, Herman
Hinka, 23. Thomas Boyle, 28, Joe 111`Cann, 25, and
Henri/ Matthews, 39, were charged with having, on the
high seas, on board a vessel called the Champlain; felo-
niously made, and endeavoured to make, a revolt, and,
in another count, with having feloniously damaged the
barque Champlain, with intent to destroy the said vessel.
We gave the particulars of the case on this day fortnight.
Matthews, the carpenter, said in his defence, that he had
b een 23 years a carpenter, and he never saw such a ves-
sel. During calm weather she was perfectly free from
water, but when the sea became a little rough, she made
water to a considerable extent, and, as the captain ad-
mitted in evidence, made 23 inches in an hour and a half.
Their only object was to save their lives.—The Learned
Judge summed up at great length, and, after a verdict of
guilty had been found by the jury, said that they had re-
volted was perfectly clear, and it was his impression that
Boyle was ringleader in the affair, and Matthews had
associated to a great extent. Boyle was sentenced to im-
prisonment and hard labour for 12 calendar months,
Matthews nine months, and the remainder six months.

Samuel Thicker., 19, William Kelly, 18, Edward
Rodgers, 18, and Thomas Parker, 19, were charged with
having, at Manchester, bm:glariously entered the dwel-
ling.:house of Edward Thomas Birch, and stolen one
writing desk, one carving knife, one bundregl gold rings,
one hundred brooches, and venous !:other articles, .valued
at £l2O. The prisoner Kelly was an apprentice with Mr.
Birch. Kelly and Thickers were found guilty, and sen-