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... [ C o COURT, SATURDAY, APRIL 15. PERJURY. S Neeviacro was indicted for perjury. The de- fendant was clerk to Mr. Edward Allen, solicitor, of ; Manchester, to whom Mr. John Lowe, who kept a boot and shoe shop in that town, entrusted the defence of two actions against him in the Manor Court, for slander and for wages, brought by a dismissed servant, named Ebenezer Benson. It was alleged that in ...
... CRIMINAL COURT.-FRIDAY, AUGUST 18. BIGAMNY CASES. Joseph Massey, 25, pleaded not guilty to a charrge of having, at Manchester, feloniously married one Ann Wood, his former wife, Jane M issey, being still alive. James Sumtner, 36, was found guilty of having, at Stock. 'port, feloniously married one Hannah Johnson, his for- mer wife, Elizabeth Sumner, being then alive. George Walker, 38, pleaded ...
... *: SOUTH: LANCASHIRE. ASSIZES.i-'.-i- j ' ' ; ' ' , , -} l . - CROWN -COURT.-PRIDA:Y. . CHARGE; O.F M.-k-URDER.-t ' TRIAL O' CAST.MXtAL JACk.l,- John Hulme, alias Cast-metal Jack, was indicted for the wilful murder of Thomas Gerland, on: the road . between Ashton and Manchester, on the 31st of October, 1840. zMr. Brandt, Mr. Hilton, and Mr. Townsend, were a Counsel for the prosecution: Mr. ...
... ASSASSINA'ION OF EDW. DRUMMOND, ESQ. SIR ROBERT PEEL'S SECRETARY. In a second edition of our last paper we published a statement of tile diabolical attempt, on Friday after- noon, to assassinate Mr. Drummond, the private secre. tary of Sir- tobert Peel, on his return from his hrotherts bank at Cliaring-cross. Wheit between the Admiralty and tile Horse Guards, a respectable looking man ap- ...
... ETH LATE:SILK ROBBERIES. - ?? .t E'XTRAOBDINARV iCAPRGES'YiGSA- NST.JM4STrXRI SILK-MANUFAC2'VRT R.-g 7,; . In econs'equenee'ofa- runiour in cirenilatich 'that. certain| maste manfactu&'s'eie onibienitd in;aimna'iff factihad planhecfand directed' several of the' iitensive 'ilk 'rolbI berie'siin'this neighbdurhood whi'ch have taken' plice within the. last few, tears, the 'police have bleen ...
... ASSI ULT-OOZlIzITZONf-PUNISRENT. We gave an account a few weeks back of a brutal and cowardly assault committed by Mr. Molesworth, solicitor, of Rochdale, son of the Vicar, on Mr. Hall, the printer and publisher of a periodical entitled The Vicar's Lantern. The case was brought before the magistrates at the time, and the offender was bound over to answer the charge at the Salford sessions. ...
... ILlVEH0POOL WINTER ASSIZES.' Mr. Justice WIGarTMAN arrived in Liverpool on Satur- - day afternoon, and immediately afterwards repaired to the Judge's lodgings in St. Anme-street, where he was *hmet by William Garnett, Esq., the Higlh-sheriff of the county. From the lodgings, after having robed himself, he proceeded to court in the High-sheriff's carriage. He It entered the Nisi Prius Court at ...
... OUTRAGES AND RIOTS BY -THE MILITARY, - X ~ IN ΒΆ1ImANCHESTER. ''This town has been the scene during ;theipast week of7 severe collisions between the military and polce forces of a very serious nature. It appears that ithe only provo- Cation-to ithese outrages given by the police was in having apprehended several soldiers of the 10th Infantry, who had broken the peace, on Monday. The ...
... VICE.CHANCELLORS' COURT, AUGUST 5. I (Be/bre Sir J. K. Bruce.) NORTH UNION RAILWAY COMPANY V. THE BOLTON AND PRESTON RAILWAY COMPANY. The argument of the motion reported in our paper of last week was resumed. Mr. Rolt was heard for the Bolton and Preston Com- pany, and contended that there was nothing in any of the acts to restrain them from carrying any part of the traffic from Preston to ...
... SALFORD COM SSIOERS OF POLICE. LY- The annual general snjeetin-g of thle Salford commiti- ts, sioner of puiedwasc ou'\\rdisieday evening, o et- the purpose of c 'eceivirh etmteo xpenditure for '-te en suing e4n faigart to disburse the osame. There 'bu ~r eiisoespesent. Wi'X. Locekot, Es. logre5o ~lod cuied the ?? chair. The ?? oftepeeigmeighvn see becic read, the following accounts aeroepse: ...
... HAIR-BRf ADTH 'SOAPES. The Excise, upon whose ' remissness-or imagined re- missness-we presume the governnient have been eharg- Ing some share of the alarming defalcations in the revenue, have -of idte beti: extremely active, and fews weeks pass over nowv in which one'or two excise informa. tions at least are not tried in our police courts. So lone as such taxes as are imposed by these laws ...
... I~~ ~ ~ _ We lament to have to place upon record another of those agrarian crimes of the deepest dye, which have for some years disgraced this end of the county of Chester, in the lawless murder of Matthias Bailey, the game. keeper of George Wilbrahsam, Esq., of Delamere Mouse, near Northwvich; and under circumstances which are likely to baffle the ingenuity of the most experienced of the ...