The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

FORGERIES AT LIVERPOOL.

Thomas Evans, 39, was indicted tor having, at tiver-
pool, feloniously uttered a forged order for the paynterit of
1:4 10s., wall knowing the same to be forged, with intent
to defraud Martin Cross.

Mr. Paget conducted the prosecution. The prisoner
was undefended.

It appeared that shipping-notes were in common circu-
lation at Liverpool, and that they were, in the nature of
promissory notes, payable in the event of the sailing of a
mariner. A short time before the 4th of April, the pri-
soner presented an instrument of this description to the
prosecutor, stated that he was the person described in it,
and that he was about to sail in the Jane Augusta, then
lying in one of the docks. He accordingly received 255.
from Mrs. Cross ; and it subsequently turned out that the
note was fictitious, that it was not signed by the captain
of the Jane Augusta, and that the prisoner had never been
engaed to sail in that vessel.

Tile prisoner was convicted.
William Cartney, 29, was indicted for having, at
Liverpool, felonionAy uttered a certain forged order for
the delivery of goods, to wit, seven yards of moleskin and
a gross of buttons, he well knowing the same to be forged,
with intend to defraud Robert Murray.
Mr. Ramshay conducted the case for the prosecution;
the prisoner was undefended.
It appeared that on the let of May the prisoner went to
the shop of Mr. Murray, a draper. and produced a docu-
ment for the goods, which purported to have been signed
by a Mr. M`Kenna, of Tithebarn-street. The goods wers
supplied, and shortly after it turned out that the in-
strument was a forgery.
The prisoner was found guilty.
MANSLAUGHTER AT LIVERPOOL.

James Price pleaded guilty to a charge of having, at
Liverpool, feloniously killed and slain one Elizabeth
Fairhurst. _ . _

The court adjourned at twenty minutes to five o'clock
to nine the following morning.

CROWN COURT.—WEDNESDAY.
Sarah Williams, 21, and Robert Jones, 20, were found
guilty of uttering base coin at Wigan. Williams twelve
months' imprisonment, Jones six months.
John Burgess, 34, was found guilty of burglary at Sal-
ford. Sentence, six months' imprisonment and hard
labour. _ _ _ _ _ _

Francis 0' Neale, 31, charged with a robbery and as-
sault at Manchester, was acquitted, no evidence being
offered, on account of the absence of a material witness.
Henry Hamilton, 21, charged with a similar offence at
Manchester, was acquitted on the same grounds.
James Wade, 18, John Kenyon, 18, and Thomas Leigh,
40, were found guilty of a robbery at Warrington. Sen-
tence deferred.

Michael Riley, also charged with assault and robbery
at Manchester, was found guilty, and sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonment.
Thomas Hirst, 17, charged with maliciously shooting
at Ashton-under-Lyne, was found guilty of an assault.
Sentence deferred.

William Jones, 25, and Edward Thomas, 32, were
charged with robbery and assault on Michael Riley, at
Manchester. They were both acquitted.
John Pilkinglon was charged with bigamy, he having
married Jane Rogerson at Manchester in 1825, and Eliza
Shore at the same place in 1842. The prisoner was ac-
quitted ; and the court adjourned.