The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-14 00:00:00

RIOT AND LA RC EN Y.

Edward Walsh, Patrick Mooney, Patrick Ferns, Thos.
Tinan. and John Calvert, were charged with having been
concerned in a rict at Manchester, and with having then and
there, with force, feloniously stolen from Thomas Snibsen
the sum of five shillings. The prisoners were found guilty,
but the sentence was deferred.

NISI PRIUS COURT.—WIIDNESDAY.
(Before Lord ABINGER.)
John Hickey, Hugh Cavannah, Nathan Dalton, James
Twesdale, and James Saxton, were placed at the bar to re-
ceive sentence. They were convicted, on Monday, of an at-
tack on the mill of Messrs. Stirling and Becton, at Manches-
ter. Saxton was sentenced to three months' imprisonment,
and the others were ordered to be imprisoned one month.
The following individuals, charged with conspiracy, pleaded,
and travel sed to the next assizes :—James Scholefield, Jas.
Leech, Christopher Doyle, John Campbell, Bernard M'Cart-
ney, Richard Otley, George Julian Hardy, William Hill,
Robert Brook, John Thornton, Thomas Brown Smith, John
Allinson, Samuel Parke, Thomas Railton, William Schole-
field, Richard Pilling, John Durham, James Fenton, William
Stevenson, James Crowley, Albert Wolvenden, George Jer-
man, Thomas Storer, William Woodruff, Thomas Pitt,
Frederick Augustus Taylor, James Wild, and John Massey.
They were ordered to find bail, themselves in £2OO and two
sureties in £5O each to appear at the next assizes, and to
keep the peace in the mean time.
John Bell, Andrew Pearson, William Forrest, Alexander
Braid, John Tootle, Leonard Boardman, George Grimshaw,
Edward Williams, Thomas Hodges, and John Eccles,
pleaded guilty to a riot at Eccles.
ASSAULT.
James Dunn was placed at the bar and acquitted on the
charge of assault. The prisoner was tried on Monday on
another charge, and acquitted, and the Attorney-General de-
clined to offer any evidence in this case.
PRINTING A SEDITIOUS PLACARD.
Thomas Turner pleaded guilty to publishing a seditious
placard at Manchester, and expressed his contrition for so
doing. He was to be brought up for sentence during the day.
PUBLISHING A SEDITIOUS PLACARD.
Richard Warwick was charged with having, at Oldham,
wickedly, seditiously, and maliciously published certain false,
seditious, malicious, and scandalous libels and placards.
From the statement of the Attorney-General and the evi-
dence, it appeared that on the 16th of August the prisoner
exhibited on a board at his door the address " of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the National Chartist Association" to
the chartists, and that on being requested to take it down by
the chief-constable he refused to do so. The Attorney-
General read over the placard, and at some length commented
upon the evil tendency of its contents.
Joseph Wild, the head-constable of Oldham, stated that
he saw the placard at defendant's door, where there was a
great crowd assembled. Defendant refused at first to pull
the placard down, but ultimately allowed it to be taken to
the magistrate. He had seen the placard on the 19th and
20th at defendant's door, and it was not taken down till the
22d.
Mr. Irvin, of the Manchester police, and others gave evi-
dence of the progress of the riots, about the time of the
riots, and the object of the rioters.
His LORDSHIP summed up the case at great length, and
the jury almost immediately found the prisoner guilty.
He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
Richard Warwick and William Walmsley Warwick, his
son, were then arraigned on another charge of publishing a
seditious libel, but the Attorney-General refused to prose-
cute, and they were acquitted.
Alexander Hutchinson pleaded guilty to publishing a se-
ditious libel at Manchester, and on the application of Mr.
WILKINS, approved of by the Attorney-General, lie was
held to bail, himself in £lOO, and two sureties in £2O each,
to appear to receive judgment when called on, and to keep
the peace and be of good behaviour for two years.

CROWN COURT—WEDNEsDAY.
(Before Baron ALDERSON.)
Richard Malloy, Michael Lynch, Thomas Scott, Job
Berks, Bryant Keavnan, and six others, were charged with
having on the 11th of August last, been concerned in certain
riotous proceedings in Granby-row fields, and Canal-stret,
Manchester. -

The prisoners were all found guilty.
Thomas Ward, 21, was given in charge for having been
concerned in a conspiracy and riot at Salford.
It appeared from the statement of counsel and the evi-
dence of the witnesses, that the transaction had occurred on
Wednesday, the 12th of August, at Salford, upon which oc-
casion a mob of two :thousand persons assembled and at-
tacked works belonging to Wilson and Co. The prisoner
took an active part in the attack, and, after the mob had ef-
fected their purpose at Wilson's, the prisoner directed the E
to proceed to the concerns of Mr. Langworthy, Mr. James,
and Mr. Greatrix, whither they went and directed the hands
to be turned out.

The prisoner was found guilty on both the counts of riot
and conspiracy.
Mr. Sergeant ARABIN informed the court that the pri-
soner had been convicted on a former occasion on a charge of
having been actively engaged in drilling the chartists, and
that he was then sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.
He had been convicted in that very court (the Crown Court
of Liverpool), and he had undergone the punishment.
His LORDSHIP then sentenced the prisoner to hard labour
for two years.
The prisoner, as soon as he retired from the bar, said,
" As soon as J come out, I'll start again."
Bold Ratcliffe and William Gorton were given in charge
for having been concerned in a riot at West Leigh, and pull-
ing out the fires from under certain boiiers in that town.
It appeared from the evidence, that the transaction took
place on Thursday, the 11th of August, and that the fires
were pulled out in the works of Messrs. Issuewood and
Hayes. _ .

The prisoners were convicted and sentenced to imprison-
ment and hard labour for three calendar months.
James Mather was given in charge for having been con-
cerned in a riot at Hindley, near Wigan.
It appeared from the evidence, that on Monday, the 15th
of August, a mob of several thousand people stopped the
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Jabez Birch, William natal, and William Bridge, were
given in charge for having been concerned in a riot at
Entwistle, near Bolton-le-Moors.

It appeared from the evidence, that on Saturday, the 13th
of August, the mills of Messrs. Roxborough and 'Bust were
attacked by a large mob, armed with sticks and bludgeons,
and that the prisoner, Birch, was the person who took the
weights off the safety-valve and let off the steam.
The jury acquitted Bridge and convicted the other two
prisoners, recommending them to mercy.
The court adjourned at a quarter after six o'clock.

MAGISTRATES' ROOM.—WEDNESDAY.
(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.I

Sentences of the prisoners.
The learned Judge took his seat at nine o'clock.
George Thornton, Joseph 'Webb, James Melbourne, and
Patrick O'Brien, convicted of having, at Manchester, begun
to demolish the mill and premises of John Preston, were
placed at the bar to receive sentence.
The learned Judge addressed the prisoners at considerable
length, remarking on the many evil effects resulting from
such disorganisations as the prisoners had taken part in. It
was impossible that such things could be permitted, and
those who thus sought to break the laws and to exercise
tyranical influence, would find the laws too strong for them.
Thornton, Webb, and Melbourne, were sentenced to twelve
month's imprisonment and hard labour.
John Cannon, George Thornton, James Harrington,
Edward Mitchell, and Barney Collins, convicted of having
been present at an unlawful assembly, and assisted in a riot
at Manchester, were next placed at the bar.
The learned Judge said, that Thornton appeared to have
been a ringleader on the occasion, a leader and exciter of the
tumult; while others were also very active. Cannon, Thorn-
ton, and Harrington, were sentenced to be imprisoned twelve
calendar months, and the others to be imprisoned six calen-
dar months with hard labour.

Joseph Thomas, John Oldham, John Edwards, Ellis Hall,
John Lever, John Holmes, and Micheal Clarke, convicted
of having been present, at an unlawful assembly, and of
creating a riot at the mill of Messrs. Birley and Co. at Man-
chester, were placed at the bar.
The learned Judge having alluded to the evidence against
the prisoners, said all of them except one had been seen tak-
ing a very active part in the transaction. The prisoner
Thomas was said to be of weak mind, but he had a most
mischievous disposition, for not content with breaking win-
dows he had inflicted an injury on Mr. Birley. After allu-
sions to some of the other prisoners, the learned Judge said
Clegg stood in a different position from the others, he having
been an apprentice driven from his work by the tyrannical mob,
and, therefore, in his person an exception would be made as
regarded the measure of punishment. All the prisoners, with
the exception of Clegg, were sentenced to 12 months impri-
sonment and hard labour. Clegg was sentenced to three
months imprisonment and hard labour.
Abel Matley, James Ingham, Thomas Morris, William
Hughes, Thomas Leyland, James Harrison, James Ashley,
Samuel Sigley, and William Harrett, were convicted at
riot, putting out fires, &c. at Ashton-under-Line.
The Learned Judge, after recapitulating the chief offences
against the prisoners, sentenced Sigley and Harrett to impri-
sonment, with hard labour, for nine calendar months ; and
that alt the others should be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour twelve calendar months:
Edward Welsh, Patrick Mooney, Patrick Terns, Thomas
Tinan, and John Calvert, convicted of having been engaged
in riot, and stolen five shillings from Thomas Snibson, a)
Manchester.

The Learned Judge said the prisoners had been convicted
of a robbery, committed in company, under circumstances
of very great aggravation ; they had proceeded to acts of out-
rage and robbery, which were no part of the general scheme,
or else, not being mingled in the general design, they had
taken advantage of the confusion to plunder the shopkeepers
in the town. The law had pronounced against the offence of
which the prisoners had been guilty, the punishment of
transportation for life, or any period not less than fifteen
years, or imprisonment in England. He should not be jus-
tified in sentencing the prisoners to imprisonment in this
country. He felt bound to dismiss them from this land. The
sentence of the court was, that they be severally transported
beyond the seas, to such place as her Majesty, by the advice
of her privy council, might direct, for the term of fifteen
years.
James Ashley and John Hoyle were indicted for a riot and
conspiracy at Todmorden.
Mr. WORTLEY said▪ the prisoner Ashley was a chartist lec-
turer, and had been instrumental in creating a riot at Tod-
morden, and the ri▪
oters had gone to the mill of Messrs.
Hardman and stopped the works. Hoyle bad also knocked
out the plug from the engine at the time the riot took place.
The prisoners were both found guilty and sentenced—
Ashley to 18 months, and Hoyle to 12 months imprisonment.
Patrick Agnew stood charged with being present at an il-
legal assembly, but as no serious consequence had ensued,
he was bound over in recognizances to appear when called on.
John Woolstencrojt and Joseph Bailey pleaded guilty to
an indictment charging them with a riot at Manchester.
They were also allowed to enter into recognizances to ap-
pear when called upon. _ _

Joseph Turner was indicted for an illegal assembly at Dew-
hues mill, in Manchester, and with causing the hands to
leave their work. He was found guilty, and sentenced to
three months imprisonment.

Israel Cook pleaded guilty to an indictment, charging him
with being present at a riot in Manchester, and was bound
over to appear when called upon.
William Collins, who also pleaded guilty to a similar
charge, entered into recognizances to appear when called on.
Robert Taylor. William Marsland, Jo/in Travis, Row-
land Bealley, William Gartside, and Robert Warburton,
were indicted for assembling, along with other persons, at
Hartley's mills, in Oldham, and breaking the windows, as
well as endeavouring to force the hands to leave their work.
Gartside and Beatley were acquitted. The others were
found guilty and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment.
James Pitfield pleaded guilty to an indictment, charging
him with riotous assembly at Manchester in August last, and
he was allowed to enter into recognizances to make his ap-
pearance when called on.
The court rose at five o'clock.

NISI PRIUS—TEIURSDAY.
(Before Lord ABINGER.)
The ATTORNEY GENERAL proceeded to reply in the
case of Dyson and others, which was left unfinished on
Wednesday.

Tho JUDc& recapitulated the evidence, and the jury is tired
to consider of their verdict. They returned in a short time
with a verdict of guilty against all the prisoners.
Lord MUNGER sentenced David Taylor, Thomas Dyson,
and James Smith, to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
for the space of one-year. With respect to Townley, he
could not make that allowance for his youth which he would
otherwise have done, and he could not do less, therefore,
than sentence him to ten months' imprisonment with hard
labour—he limited it to ten months solely on account of his
youth. With respect to James Taylor, he was glad to find
that the prosecutor was inclined to do that which he (the
Judge) felt much inclined to do. It appeared that he was a
hard-wt rking industrious man ;it was stated that his intel-
lect was not very strong, that he had shown great piety to his
mother and his family, and he therefore acceded to the pro-
position of the Attorney-General that he should be discharged
after finding sureties.
SENTENCE UPON BELL AND OTHERS.
The prisoners who pleaded guilty, on Wednesday, to an
indictment charging them with a riot and conspiracy at
Eccles, were brought up for judgment.
Lord ABINGF.R, in passing sentence, said the prisoners
had been indicted for a conspiracy and riot, and they had
pleaded guilty to the indictment against them. The sen-
tence upon John Tootle and William Forrest was, that they
should be imprisoned for nine months, and afterwards to
enter into sureties to keep the peace, and be of good be-
haviour for the space of two years—themselves in £lOO, and
two sureties for each in £25. The sentence upon Andrew
Shearson, John Bell, Thomas Hughes, Edward Williams,
John Eccles, and George Grimshaw, was, that they should
be imprisoned for six calendar months, and enter into like
recognizances, with sureties to the tame amount to be of
good character, and keep the peace, and to continue in prison
till they found the sureties. As to Alexander Braid and
Leonard Boardman, against whom the Attorney-General did
not pray judgment, would have to enter into recogni-
zances to appear and receive the judgment of the court when
called upon. They would have no sentence passed upon
them at present, but they would remember that that course
was taken from the leniency of the crown, and it was in the
expectation and hope that they would conduct themselves in
future like peaceable and faithful subjects; but they would
be liable, if ever they broke the peace or committed any
offence of the same nature, and would be brought up to re-
ceive judgment. They would have to find two sureties in
£25, and enter themselves into recognizances of £lO6 each.
ASSAULT AND RIOT.
Thomas Holt, 35, was indicted for riot, and with having
maliciously and unlawfully wounded William Cheetham
with a stone, with intent to do him some grievous bodily
harm.

--The prisoner said he was quite innocent of the job. He
was not nearer the place than Oldham market.
The Jury immediately returned a verdict of guilty.
Lord ABINGEIi said the priioher had been convicted on

evidence that could not be doubted of throwing the stone at
Mr. Cheetham. He might have been indicted for a much
more serious offence, and, in fact, he might have been the
cause of the loss of Mr. Cheetham's life, in which case he
would most assuredly have been hanged. The sentence of
the Court was, that he should be imprisoned for two years
and kept to hard labour,

John Brierly pleaded guilty, and was discharged on find-
ing bail, as was also John Avison.

-Robeit Faden and John Cheetham were discharged upon
their own recognizances.

CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY AND RIOT.

John Ward, 20, was placed at the bar, charged with riot-
ing and conspiracy at Staleybridge, and, by force and vio-
lence, compelling her Majesty's subjects to desist from
working.
MI. OVEREND appeared for the prisoner.
Several witnesses were called, who proved that the prisoner
had taken part in proceedings at 'riotous meetings on the
Cheshire side of the river, but not in Lancashire.
The JUDGE said, that there was no case against the pri-
soner, because the witnesses had only spoken to transactions
in Cheshire, and he must be acquitted.
Having ascertained that there was no other case for trial,
Lord AISINGER, addressing the jury, said he was happy to
inform them that they were now discharged, and he thought
it right to express the satisfaction be felt at the manner in
which they, and those who sat in that box, had discharged
their duties—for the deliberate and temporate attention they
had paid to the cases, and the propriety of all the verdicts
they had given. It must have given them very great pain to
have witnessed the transactions which had taken place; and
he must say that the prosecutions had been condncted with
as much leniency and forbearance as was as possible, consis-
tently with public safety.
His Lordship retired a few minutes before one o'clock.

CROWN COURT.—YESTERDAY.
(Before Baron ALDERSqti......_ .

On the opening of the court, at nine o'clock, the prisoners
who had previously been convicted—upwards of twenty in
number—were put up to receive sentence.
His LORDSHIP addressed them at considerable length.
They had, he said, been convicted, on undeniable evidence, of
taking part in riotous attacks on property in Manchester—
an offence of a most serious nature, involving great loss to
parties who possessed property, and still more lamentable
consequences to that class to which they belonged, and whose
only capital was their labour. Ile then made allusion to the
result of similar tumults in France, commenced at Lyons in
1831, when the silk weavers in that town turned out for a
uniform scale of wages, of which they dictated " a tariff,"
beyond what the masters could afford to give. The leading
manufacturers, consequently, stopped their works, and strife
and animosity ensued, thousands being left without employ-
ment. The "tariff" was maintained by the workmen. The
consequence was that in 1834 an insurrection took place, and
the workmen were at first successful against the authorities,
both civil and military. But shortly after the insurgents
were begging for work, their leaders fled, and they were left
in a more miserable condition than before. The same re-
sult would follow in this country were such outbreaks to be
also successful for a time, and it, therefore, became neces-
sary, both for the sake of such offenders themselves as well
as of the public, that such offences should be severely
punished. His Lordship then proceeded to pass sentence on
the prisoners, beginning with those convicted of the attack
on the police station at Manchester. Lee and Sheridan
(tried on Monday last) had both been very active. Lee, in
particular, had stamped upon a bird-cage. He (Baron Al-
derson) hoped the bird was not in it, but the circumstance
showed that he took vengeance both on the animate and in-
animate—upon all descriptiong of property that fell in his
way. Lee must, therefore, be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour for fifteen calendar months, and Sheridan twelve ca-
lendar months, and six months additional for a second of-
fence. His Lordship then sentenced others of the rioters as
follows :
George Turner and George Shaw, for turning people out
their work-places at Rochdale, nine months' each and hard
labour.
Richard Stacey, an apprentice, for attacking the property
of his master, who had made no material change in the wages
given for the last ten years, nine calendar months and hard
labour.
John Abbott, John Smith, and James Sutcliffe, nine
months. Hill, Gillibrand, Walker, and Johnson, twelve
months each and hard labour.
John Tear, for twice leading a mob, and heightening the
offence by an attempted alibi; and being, moreover, secetary
of a trades' union, and the publisher of a placard headed
" Union is Strength," which, under the circumstances, was
rank hypoeracy—to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
for two years, with security afterwards to keep the peace for
two years, and to be kept in gaol till such sureties be found.
Morris Burns—imprisonment and hard labour for eighteen
months.
Lynch, Scott, Berks, the two Kearnan's, and Fitch, twelve
months ; Campbell and Collins, six months ; James Mather,
for riot at Ilindley, twelve months; Tootle, four months,
and Birch, six months, for a riot at Entwistle,—all with hard
labour.
His LORDSHIP concluded by hoping that the prisoners
would remember that the law was strong, and that what they
had attempted to do would be productive of no good.
The following prisoners were then brought up disposed of
as under :7 _

_John Hunt, Thomas Wilde, and Robert Whitehead,
pleaded guilty to a charge of riot at Manchester, and were
discharged on their own recognizances.
Richard Hardman, who pleaded guilty to a similar charge
at Rochdale, was dealt with in the same lenient manner.
James Hardacre, T. Bottoinly, Alfred Butterworth, Abel
Duke, Henry Hindley, Thomas Gerard, and David Minus,
who pleaded guilty to like charges, were similarly discharged,
some of them giving small sureties.
James Jones, William Bell, Ambrose Hurst, and Samuel
Yardley, pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy and riot at
Oldham, and were senteoced to be iml:r s med for six
calendar months, and the end of which to find sureties,
themselves in £lOO and two in £25 each, to keep the peace
for two years.
These concluded the cases sent before Baron Alderson at
these assizes, and his Lordship discharged the jury and left
the court precisely at twelve o'clock.