The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-22 00:00:00

CONCEALMENT OF BT

Tn.—Mary Malone, servant, who
charge of concealing the birth of
Ii she had been delivered, was sentenced to

had pleaded guilty
a child of wh

a month's imprisonment.

TOR-incorn-LTivs.—Edward Brooke,
dieted for having, at Ashton-under-
Lyne, on the 25th of September, 1853, forged and uttered
an accountable receipt purporting to be signed by one J.
Lees. The prisoner was found guilty of uttering the
document knowing it to have been forged, and he was
sentenced to six years' penal servitude. _ _

per, was

.t rose at ten minutes to seven o'clock

FRIDAY.

Asserrrs.—Robert Price, 59, a grey-headed seaman,
was indicted for a felonious assault upon Jane Winn, an
infant only nine of years. The prisoner was sentenced to
twelve calendar months' imprisonment in the House of
Correction, and to be kept to hard'labour.—John Last,
was indicted for having, at Hindley, on the 22d of April,

be evidence was

sufficient, and the r

equitted.

FORGERY.—Jane Taylor

was in-

ed for f

lig, at

Manchester on the 3d of January,
ent of and upon a certain Bill of Exchange,

g to be the endorsement of Edward Moore, with
itent to defraud William Haigh. It appeared from the
evidence that the prisoner's husband for the last 13 or 14
years carried on the business of a grocer and confectioner,
in Cooper-street, Manchester, and during that time he had
become acquainted with a Mr. Haigh, an accountant, and
falling into difficulties, he requested him to be permitted
to accept some bills, which he did. The bills were for-
warded, and Mr. Haigh conceived the signatures to be

..nine. ,arse of time the prisoner's husband
again became involved, and he finally accepted a bill for
£7O. Prior to its becoming dne, Mr. Haigh accidentally
met the husband in the street, and he borrowed a sovereign
enr the purpose of enabling him to go over
-4-nds ; and from that time to the

In the c

to Elles:

igh had

her s

heard anything

tee was called as to tE

and, or

prisoner it was urged, that she had
ch she acknowledged herself guilty
purpose of screening her husband,
The

she not

of the crime.

Tdict of not guilty

STABBING CAsEs.—James Ryan, 37, was indicted for
having feloniously stabbed and wounded Henry Wilson.
The prosecutor, with his brother, was at the door of his
house, 26, Regent-street, Liverpool, waiting for admission,
when the prisoner, with two other men, came up, and
jostled himself against the prosecutor. On being remon-
strated with, he drew a knife from his pocket and stabbed
the prosecutor in the breast. This was the statement of
the prosecutor, but there was some difficulty in corrobo-
rating it, and the jury acquitted the prisoner.—The same
prisoner was then indicted for having stabbed, in a similar
manner, and under the same circumstances, upon the same
night, Thomas Wilson. At the time the offence alleged in
the previous case was committed an altercation tookolace
between the prosecutor's brother and the prisoner, and,
whilst they were quarrelling, the latter plunged the knife
into him. This charge was proved, and the prisoner was
- _ _
'ears' transportation.—Robert Bloom, 22,
having, at Liverpool, on the 27th of May
id st

sentenc

bbed George Brown, with intent to
do him grievous bodily harm. The parties were in a
public-horse drinking, though unknown to each other,
1, whilst so engaged, a quarrel arose, and they went into
the prosecutor was struck in the br
nri...Pr. The jury fou-A 4-

risoner
guilty of unlaivfully wounding, and he was sentenced to
12 months' hard labour.—John Buckley, 19, a youth,
guilty, to having, at Warrington, unlawfully
William Holcroft. The prisoner was strongly
aded to the merciful consideration of the court,

wounde

and he had received a good character. He was sentenced
to six weeks' imprisonment without hard labour.—John
Delap, 36, was indicted for having, at Liverpool, on the
30th of May, feloniously stabbed and wounded Ann Bar-
low, with intent to kill and murder her. The prosecutor
in this case did not make her appearance, although vigi-

steel. He was

and guilty of
y harm. Sen•

Lt to do grievous bodil,

SAAB
A Mid(

—Josiah Crook was indicted for having,
29th July, broken and entered the
's, and having stolen therefrom four
ileces of brass, one stone bot-

church of St: Leonard

brass c
tle, an

d one pewter cup, the property of the churchwar-
dens. Previously convicted.—Twelve months' imprison-

STEALING GLAss.—Benjamin Lithgow pleaded guilty
quantity of glass, the property of his
Robinson and Co., at Warrington.—Six

to stealing a larg

STEALINa

John Gorton pleaded
at of a house at Warring-

.—One montf

's hard lal

THEFT AND INTIMIDATION. -- Henry Boothman was

welling-house of John Hilton, stolen
having in the said dwelling-house, by
put Elizabeth Hilton in bodily fear.

menaces an

The prison

was found not guilty

SATURDAY

OF MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS,

William Henderson Horner, 33, and Thomas Chadder-
ten, 33, were indicted for having, on the 4th March last,
on the high seas, feloniously murdered one Manuel
Gonsales. They were further charged with having, on the
23d March last, on the high seas, feloniously murdered
one Henry Foster ; and further with having, on the 29th
March last, on the high seas, feloniously murdered one
Pedro, otherwise called Angelo Paraiso. The third indict-
ment was proceeded with first.
Mr. Blair appeared for the prosecution, assisted by Mr.
Conway.

Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Aspinall appeared for
Horner, and Mr. 'Bridal Atkinson for Chadderton.

The prisoner Horner was the captain of a vessel called
the Mangerstein, which sailed from Singapore in Novem-
ber, 1853. for Liverpool. Of the original crew which the
vessel had when she quitted Liverpool on her voyage to
China and the islands, only the first-mate, the steward,
and a boy, named Goodridge, were on board when the
vessel sailed from Singapore, the remaining eight seamen
being natives of Manilla. In such cases there was gene-
rally shipped a "gunner," whose duty it was to communi-
cate the orders of the captain to the foreigners. There
was no gunner, however, on board this vessel. The ineffi-
ciency of the crew, and their ignorance of the English
language, no doubt, by tending constantly to irritate the
captain. led to the cruelties afterwards perpetrated upon
Angelo Paraiso. Some time after they left Singapore, the
men were treated kindly ; but, five or six weeks afterwards,
a series of great cruelties were commenced upon the per-
son of Paraiso on the part of the mate and the captain.
To some extent, more or less, it would be found that the
mate was acting in many instances under the orders of
the captain, and it would be for the jury to decide
how far this would justify the mate's acts. Among
other inflictions put upon Paraiso, the captain stopped
his allowance, from time to time, by way of punishment
for inefficiency, and he said to a person named Evans, the
steward, that he was going to starve him for the purpose of
making him work. The result of the ill-treatment of
Pedro, and of the frequent stoppage of food, was to
increase his inefficiency, and he became so weak previous
to his death, that he was not able to dischaege his duties
about the ship in the same way as he did when he first
came on board. The captain and the mate beat him &e-
-1 cluently; the mode of punishment adopted WIT Wows