The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-04-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CROWN COURT.-YESTERDAY.  His Lordship took his seat shortly after nine o'cloc'' and proceeded to pass sentence upon several prisoners. Daniel O'Brien, aged 27, and Michael Connelly, 26, who had been found guilty of assaulting Nicholas German, at Prestwich, and robbing him of a watch, a crown piece, and other money, were first brought up. O'Brien mad e a strong protestation of his innocence, appealing to his Maker, were it his dying day. His LORDSHIP gently rebuked the prisoner for calling on the Almighty to judge him everlastingly. On the last day his innocence, if he were innocent, would be made manifest, and it would be well for him to suffer quietly. The prisoners had both been found guilty of a violent assault. with pistols, in the middle of the day, and the sentence of the court was that they be each transported for fifteen years. Charles Henry Coupe, 27, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of forging an order for goods, and who had been previously convicted, was sentenced to be transported for seven years.  IVilliam Edward Davies„ aged 37, who had pleaded guilty to forging a bill of exchange with intent to defraud Messrs. Percival and Yates, of Manchester, gnd who had received strong recommendations, from one of his employers and other parties of respectability, of good previous character, was sentenced to be imprisoned for six months and kept to hard labour.  William Longbottom, 35, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of having forged the indorsement to a bill of exchange, at Rochdale, and also with having uttered a bill of exchange for £29, with intent to defraud another party, was sentenced to be imprisoned for eighteen months with hard labour.  Richard Jackson, 44. found guilty of a violent and almost murderous assault on a woman at Newton, on the 12th February, was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for eighteen months.  Henry Meadows, 27, for stabbing a man, and nearly killing him, (as reported in our last week's paper,) was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one year. His lordship said he deeply regretted that the crime of stabbing had become rife in this country, and he was determined as far as he could to suppress it.  THE MANCHESTER BOILER EXPLOSION CASE  Thomas Riley, a respectable-looking man, was then put up. He had pleaded guilty of having, through careless conduct with regard to a steam boiler, at Manchester, by which, as already recorded, no fewer than thirteen unfortunate men had lost their lives through the explosion of the said boiler. His lordship remarked, that the prisoner had by carelessness and negligence been the unhappy cause of sacrificing life to a large amount. He had been equally careless of the lives of his own children and wife, permitting the former, who lived close by, to play about the premises while the boiler was in a dangerous state. The sentence of the court was, that the prisoner be committed to gaol for three months. Thomas Barrett, 50, and William Mawson, who had each pleaded guilty to the respective charge of bigamy, were sentenced, the former to nine months, and the latter to three months' imprisonment. John 112` Kee, who pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary, at Manchester, was sentenced to be imprisoned and put to hard labour for four months. Thomas Ostick, 13, who had been out on bail, and pleaded guilty to forging a receipt at Manchester, with intent to defraud, was sentenced to six montsh' imprisonment and hard labour. William Thomas, charged with having stabbed,. at Liverpool, Thomas Halliman, was proceeded against; but the prosecutor's testimony and manner raised a doubt of his veracity, and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.  - •