Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-04-06 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

PLEADED GUILTIES.  Joseph Clarke 04). boilermaker, pleaded guilty, on two °omits. one of stealing, at Barrow, on February llth, brass, to the val. of £2 75., the property of the Barrow /Bernath° Steel Company; and the other of thieving a cheese, at Barrow, on February 12th, value £l4s. belonging to Francis Dickinson.- -Mr. Slmrp prosecuted, and prisoner was sentenced to six months.  Thomas Clifton (35), striker, was indicted with breaking and entering the shop of Edmund Hol. royd, Lancaster. on February 11th. and stealing wearing apparel ;similar goods from the shop of James Pilkiugton. at Lancaster, on February 9th; and a piece of cloth from the shop of William Bradley, at Lancaster, also in the month of February. Prisoner was also charged with having been convicted of felony at Barrow, on February 22nd, 1889.--Mr. Overend Evans prosecuted, and stated that on the occasion of the robbery from Holroyd's shop, Police-Detective Jackson noticed the prisoner interfering with the door at midnight. He took obey and picklock out of his pocket. He noticed the policeman watching, and he there. upon walked slowly away. Jackson followed, and prisoner commenced to run. Ile gave chase, and ultimately captured him; and upon searching, discovered picklocks and skeleton keys in his possession.---The Chairman remarked that but for the signal smartness of Detective Jackson, a very bad offence would have gone undetected. Prisoner would be sentenced to 12 months' hard labour.  Hannah Airey (321, Lancaster. was charged with having, on February 10th. attempted to commit suicide, by taking a quantity of poison,— Mr. L. Sanderson prosecuted, and explained that on the day namqd prisoner imbibed a part of a bottle containing linament, composed chiefly of ammonia, which had been prescribed for the treatment of her husband's leg. The attempt , was a most determined one, for when the bottle' had been taken away she requested possesion of it again, in order that she might, as she said, " do ! for herself." She was a woman of intemperate habits, and when she was taken to the Infirmary she smelt of drink.. • The husband was called, and stated that his wife had always been very good to her children; there was no steadier and nicer woman before she became addicted to drink a few years ago. The Chairman remarked that but for the intervention of her husband, prisoner would have been comiderahly punished—The Bench considered it inadvisable to discharge her altogether, so she would have to undergo a further fortnight's imprisonment without hard labour. A SAD CASE FLOM BAUBOV,  Robert Thorn (19) out on bail, surrendered. He was charged with trying to drown himself in the Devonshire Dock, at Barrow, on the 27th ult.— Mr. L. Sanderson prosecuted, and Mr. Sharp appeared for the defence... The circumstances, Mr. *.nderson stated, were essentially mil. Prisoner lived with his mother, and had been a striker out of work for something like nine months, and although he had tried to obtain work he had been unsuccessful. That seemed to have prayed on his mind, and made him very low-spirited. He seemed to have been twitted by his friends and one of his relatives about not getting work, and some people had gone no far as to suggest that lie was not ' trying to get work, and that it was his own fault he WM unemployed. On the day named he was seen to jump into the dock, and if it had not keen for a man named Garstang, who pluckily jumped in and pulled hint out, he must have succeeded in drowning himself.. - Mr. Sharp expressed hie , thanks to Mr. Sandemon for the kind and sympathetic way he had Put the case. The prisoner wished to convey his deep contrition to the court. He seemed to be a very sensitive young r 11143, and seemed to have thought he wee a great burden npon hie mother and brother. To use a paradox he had committed that net out of a good motive. A place had since been offered the prisoner.--The Bench accepted the plea, and discharged the pri. Boner open his entering into his own recognisance of £lO not to offend again. They could not pans over the bravery of the man Garitang, which deserved public recognition.  - . A 1.1.F0E1.