The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-04-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30. A FEMALE ROBBER.—Bridget Johnson, aged 32, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour, for having, at Liverpool, feloniously stolen a bill of exchange for the payment of £4, the property of Robt. Russell Holmes. The prisoner was domestic servant with Mrs. Holmes, in Burlington-street; the prosecutrix was the wife of the steward on board the Sir John Harvey, Halifax mail boat, and was in the habit of receiving remittances from him. Johnson happened to answer the postman's knock one morning, received the letter with the bill of exchange, and on some sham pretence left the house, cashed the document, and bolted to Rochdale, where she was apprehended. SAcruLEGE.—The prisoner being ill of typhus fever,_it  was agreed to adjourn till next assizes the trial of Charles Seddon, alias William Derbyshire, aged 24, indicted for having, on the Ist of March, at Little Hulton, broken and entered St. Paul's Chapel, and stolen five bronze candlesticks ; also for having, on the 23d of February, at Farnworth, broken and entered the Independent Chapel, and stolen fifteen gas pendants and burners and a piece of green baize.  John Kerrington, pork butcher, Oldham-road, saw the parties near the Cheshire Cheese on the 21st Januar y. Prisoner said to Quin, " I'll stick you if you hit me." That was the first thing he heard. Witness went further, and on his return saw the parties again : this was five or ten minutes afterwards. Prisoner then said "If you hit me I'll stab you." Quin said he would not hit him without he showed him his hands. Quin said " I don't want to fight you ; I could mill you in two minutes, if I fight." He then saw them sparring at one another, and the prisoner stabbed deceased with a knife, right in the belly. He then stabbed him a second blow in the shoulder. Both appeared sober at the time. Saw no other blows given but the two he had just spoken of. Edward Wall, police-constable, stated that on the night in question, about half-past seven, he heard some cries, and Wilkinson, another officer, was with him. At the corner of Chadderton-street he saw Joseph Quin, with his trousers lap down, and his shirt lap up. He, said, " Look here, I'm stabbed." 'Witness saw part of his entrails hanging out, and the blood flowing. Quin was conveyed to the Infirmary, and witness apprehended the prisoner at the Trafford Arms, kept by Lang. When apprehended, prisoner said, " I know what you want ; but you can't find a knife on me." Witness told prisoner he was charged with stabbing Joseph Quin ; and prisoner said he would bring witnesses to the court tc tell the truth about it. Witness searched for the man Shannon, but could not find him. While being conveyed to Kirkdale, prisoner said that drink was the cause of it ; and if he got off for ten years he should be satisfied." Frederick Ashton Heath, house-surgeon at the Manchester Infirmary, stated that on the 21st January, Quin was brought in, with a small wound, about an inch and a half below the navel. It was a clean cut stab, and a portion of the bowels protruded. There was another wound on the left shoulder. Mr. Jordan, one of the surveyors at the Infirmary, attended the patient. This was on the Friday night, and the man died from inflammation on the following Monday. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. Overend addressed the jury for the prisoner, admitting that the death of the deceased was caused by his client ; but he argued that he was not guilty of the graver charge of murder, the facts of the case only amounting to manslaughter. The learned counsel then proceeded at length to detail the requisite facts to constitute the crime of murder, and reviewed the evidence in order to pi.ve his view of the case. He alluded particuTo the EDITOR of the