Glasgow Courier. — 1847-04-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

PRICE FOURPEN  OLA.IIOOW SPRING CIRCUIT. TIVISDAT, 22. this morning at 9 o'clock. -4 guilty to three sots of stealing chaos., -ow, and was sentenced to 16 muiv,he  _ _ and A.— flewhis pleaded guitty to acts of theft in Gliterces, aggravated by previous conviction. They were each sentenced to 7 years' transportation. Jame iliddeen was accused of two oases of uttering hese coin In tit WO It He was found guilty and sentenced to 16 immie jpbooIIDISIAEY CASE 01 SORIMILL Jaw Slid Jane Livingston were accused of having, on the Mb of? last, induced John William Black, one of the district surgeons in Glasgow, to visit their house In High Street, on the pretext that a sick person lay there; and Dr. Black having done so, and discovered the deception practised on him, and baring attempted to leave it, he was seized by the pate* assaulted, had his clothes torn, and was rubbed by them of 3a in liver, and two small keys. Panels pleaded not guilty, and the ogee went to trial.  _.eis guilty to breaking into the and stealing some money, sod was  =  Dr. Black called—On coining out of Mrs. Lynch's house in High Street, where he had been paying a profeseiooal visit, about half-past one o'clock on the afternoon, he was met by a woman, who requested him to come into her house and see a sick woman. Be hesitated to do so, and said he was not in the habit of visiting without a written order; she entreated him earnestlt however, and he was induced to go in. The woman said the sick person was lying ma small room off the kitchen. Ongoing the: e he found no patient, when the female prisoner shut the door, and stood with her back against it to keep it close. She their attempted to put her hands into his trousers pocket. Witness pushed her aside, and got into the kitchen. The female prisoner rushed after him, and shut the outside door, and called some person, when the male prisoner and a woman entered. The kitchen door RIM then shut upon the whole party, and the male prisoner held wham the arms, while the female prisoner rifled his pockets. "- struggled out, gave the alarm, and two ot 'n to the Police-office from the spot. The Mrs. Lyn eir lived tem the same "land' with Ford the prisoner. Remembers Dr. Black paying a professional visit to her house n the 11th February, at half-past one In the day. When he went out ihe heard some One say, while he was on the landing, that there was a sick patient in the next room whom he was desired to visit. It was a woman's voice. Immediately after heard a number of feet, as if they were walking on boards with sand strewed oil them. Soon after heard murder cries, and her own name called ror. Witness stepped out of her own door and into Ford's door. Dr. Black was half in and half out of Ford's door, and the fen a;e prisoner had him by the arm. She was pulling him in, and he was struggling to get out. His hat was off, and under the left arm. It looked as if it had been on the floor. He called witness to go for the police. She did go for the police, and on her return Dr. /flack said he had been robbed. Panels yere taken into eustori3. The doctor looked as if he had been roughly used, and ore of 11.0 buttons was torn off his great coat. The evidence was corroborated by other witnesses. The Jury found the prisoners guilty, and they were sentenced each to transportation for 14 years, after an impressive admonition from Lord Cockburn.  (L/ )  t t, , li .al -GLAs.; 1 0 , .-,,., - . •,-, I. ~ , , 1 . _ . ____ . ____