The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-04-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

JUDGE.—Witness's house was broken into and the coat stolen.  Mary Dilworth said she lived in Manchester, about a mile and a half from the prisoner's cellar. On the morning of Sunday, the 16th of August, Jane Roberts came to witness's house, and again about eleven o'clock at night. She then gave witness some money wrapped in a paper. It consisted of a sovereign and some silver. The constables apprehended her in witness's house the same night. Edmund Harris said he lived with his mother in a room adjoining that occupied by the last witness. As witness was going to his work at half-past six o'clock on Monday morning, the I7th of August, witness found in the passage a number of pawntickets in a " uzzard," which was a sort of pocket-book. He found it about a yard from the door. There • were 19 pawntickets. Witness gave them to his mother. Mrs. Harris, mother of the last:witness, sapl her son gave her the " uzzard. She gave the pawntickets, which it contained, to Lipsett. David Lipsett recalled.—Received the pawntickets from the last witness, but had only retained one of them, as the others were wanted. Duckworth, the pawnbroker, here identified the ticket to be the one which he gave when the watch was pledged. Charles Jackson said, in August last he was an inspector in the Manchester police. On the 16th August he went to the prisoner's house, and found a key and seal in a tea-cup. He gave them to Lipsett. Lipsett, on being recalled, said that the key he received would fit the watch, but the other two on the chain, would not.  Margaret Colton recalled. She identified: thejkeys as having been worn by her late father. Mr. John Whittle, the constable of Wigan, was again called. He said that on Saturday, the 15th of August, the prisoner made some statements in the Town-hall, Wigan. He had been committed on another charge the day before. Witness had asked him the day before whether he knew anything of the murder of John Colton. The following morning he said to witness, " I was in Wigan that night, and Elijah Row and me had arranged to steal some mutton from a butcher's shop opposite the Dickenson' s Arms. We did not steal it, and what Haigh or Elijah did afterwards I cannot tell." The prisoner then deposed as to an intention on the part of Elijah Row, to shoot Mr. Part, to steal Mr. Whittle's horse, and that he (the prisoner) was to have shot a man named Fletcher, who was in the habit of going every Saturday with money from Wigan to pay the colliers, and rob him of his money, which was supposed to be at least £lOOO, and he and Row were to go to America with it. Frederick Taylor, clerk to Mr. Gaskell, clerk to the magistrates. Witness produced the statements of the prisoner taken before the magistrates. This document having been put in, it was read by the Clerk of the Court. It was of great length, but generally had little relation to the subject of the indictment. It repeated the account the prisoner had already given of stealing the horse, of receiving the watch and handkerchief from Row, and the account which he said Row had given to him of the murder of Colton. Jane Roberts was here ordered by the learned Judge to be brought from the dock, and again placed in the witness box. This having been done, The Crier said she still refused to be sworn. The Jong.—Take the book and be sworn instantly.  The woman again refused. The