The Northern Daily Times. — 1856-04-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FURTHER SENTENCES.— John Jones was sentenced to six years penal servitude, for burglary. William Jones, four years penal servitude, for the same offence. Thomas Green, six years, for the same. Jonathan Shaw, four years, for the same. Robert Henry, four years, for the same. Elizabeth Siddall, found guilty of accellerating the death of her step-child, was sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve months, and kept to hard labour. John Nicklin' convicted of manslaughter at Ashton. uniler-Lyuc, by stabbing in the belly with a knife, was sentenced to be transported for life. SENTENCE UPON THE Eirazs.—Robert and Henry Eyre  were then placed in the dock. His Lordship said : Robert and Henry Eyre, you have pleaded guilty to an outrage which, so far as my experience goes, is perfectly unparalleled, It appears that upon the 24th of January last you both went into the office of Mr. Durandu, who is a bullion broker in this town,Pand is a person, I presume, who carries on business in an extensive way, for the box, which I suppose it was your object to secure, contained no less a sum than £1,500. Upon going into the place, at ten o'clock in the morning, the younger knocked down the boy in the office with a life preserver. The moment this had been done the other seized him by the throat, and held him up against the wall, beating him on the head with a poker. The senior clerk came in, and you attacked him, struck him with a life preserver, knocked him senseless, jumped upon him, and struck him with the same poker. Were it not that, by God's mercy, aid came in you would have murdered that man. All this was done to a man you had never seen before, a perfect stranger. Such an outrage as this I have never heard of before. Appeals have been made to me this morning, and witnesses called to show that you had been in a state of very great poverty. It is stated that you were living with your parents, and some of your neighbours have stated, that, so far as they could judge, your conduct has been that of peaceable, well.conducted young men. Ido not, however, sit here to act according to my feelings, but, as far as I can, to protect the public from outrages of this kind. It is not to be tolerated for one moment, that men in an office, in a town like Liverpool, are to beattacked in this way. It would have been bad enough if you had robbed the place, but to beat those persons as you did, seeths to be more the act of savages than of men. Ido not knuw how far application to another quarter may be of any advantage to you. I feel that I sit here to protect the public from outrages such as this, which only falls short of murder—if, indeed, it be short of murder, for I dare say these persons might as likely have been killed as not ; there is little distinction between you, one is as bad as the other ; and it is, therefore, my duty to pass such a sentence upon you as will bo an example, I hope, to all the people of Liverpool that such conduct is not to be tolerated. You are respectable looking young men, and it has been urged in your defence that you have been driven to this act by poverty. I dare say most people aro driven to acts of similar outrage by poverty, for men do not commit such acts without some cause. If I were to listen to such an excuse in, this case, I should listen to it in all. It seems to me that this is the most atrocious case I ever had before me, and that it is my duty to pass upon you the heaviest sentence which the law admits. The sentence of the court is, that you be transported for the period of your natural lives. The prisoners, who were deeply affected, were then removed.  BlTlNG.—Michael Wilson, a man of colour, and Mary Anne Douglas, convicted of biting savagely a man and a woman, were sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment, each, with hard labour.  In the case of the boys Mulraney and Conolly, convicted of burglary, his Lordship intimated that he would recommend their being taken into the Parkhurst Reformatory.  The court then rose. The Toxteth•park murder case will he tried this morning,