The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1866-07-28 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ASSIZES. These assizes were held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, before Baron Martin. 'the following is a list of the prisoners and their sentences : Thos Minnikin, was charged with feloniously, ravishing Mary Eleanor Pool, at the parish of Dalton, and Joseph Sharp, Edward Wilson, John Stainton, and George Stainton, were charged with aiding and abetting him in the said rape Minnikin 10 years' penal servitude, the other men discharged. Charles Thompson, letter-press printer, was charged with burglariously entering the dwelling-house of Thomas Storey, at Lancaster, and stealing therein 5 coats, a teapot, a coffeepot, 2 sugar-basins, a salver, a silver salver, a cruet stand, %cream jug a soup ladle, 2 sauce ladles, a grayy spoon, 4 silver table spoons, 12 dessert spoons, 13 tea spoons, 8 knives, 16f.grifs, 2 silver ' pickle forks, 2 silver salt spoons, silver sugar spoon, a silver sugar tongs, 2 pair of nut-crackers, a plate basket, a table cover, a travelling rug, ail umbrella, andfara Inverness cape. Five years' penal servitude'. Peter Salter, lamplighter, charged with bur!glariously entering the dwelling-house of Robt. . Champion, at Preston, and stealing therein 4.i yards of black cloth, 21bs. of sugar, llb of butter, a dish, 1 lb. of soap, an ounce of tobacco, a pinafore, a brat, and a towel. Also charged with burglariously entering the dwelling-house of Jane Threlfall, at Preston, and stealing therein a quilt, 2 sheets, a pillow-case, a flannel petticoat, 2 pinafores, a pair of stockings, a towel, and 3 keys. Also charged with burglariously , entering the dwelling-house of Samuel Black;ley, at Preston, and stealing therein 5 lbs. butter, 2 lbs of lard, a basin,a plate, 4 lbs of bacon, 6 teaspoons, 2 towelS,iind a jacket. 10 years• ' penal servitude. Thomas Cornwall, steam loom weaver, charged with feloniously marrying Elizabeth Jackson, at Preston, his former wife being then .alive. Six months' imprisonment. 1 Simeon Brown, blacksmith and fitter, chargod with burglariously entering the dwellingllouse of Joseph Longbottom. at Newchurch, and stealinc, therein a quantity of bread and butter, a Ica of bread, a pair of boots, half an jounce of tobacco' a comb, and a jar. Seven iyears' penal servitude. Lt Thomas Wedderburn, miner, deserter from Bth Foot, charged with wounding William 'Barlow with a reaping hook, at the parish of 'Dalton, with intent to murder him. 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour. Henry Sleddon (on bail), charged with wilful and corrupt perjury at Preston. Nine months' imprisonment with hard labour. Roger Wilding, steam loom weaver, charged ,with feloniously ravishing Ann Hull, at Preston. 18 months' imprisonment with hard :labour. Id, • , Robert Harrison, coachman, charged with assaulting, and carnally abusing, at Lytham, ,Emma Harrison, a girl under the age of ten years. 18 months' imprisonment with hard ,labour. Agnes Ryan* weaver, charged with the 'manslaughter of Thomas Ryan.ce, at Preston. Discharged. John tiowarth, the boy who was indicted for ,the manslaughter of another lad, of his own age, during a fight, was sentenced to three days' imprisonment. The judge remarking that no ,good object would be gained by confining him :for a longer period.