The Manchester Times Friday, October 24th 1828 Salford Michaelmas Sessions Tuesday: Jacob SALISBURY, was indicted for a theft committed at Bolton. It appeared that the prisoner on the night of the 12th September, slept at the Bank Inn, in Bolton. On his departure the following morning, two of the servants missed a great many articles of wearing apparel from the room in which he had slept. Among the articles stolen was a medal bearing an effigy of the late Duke of York. Nothing more was seen of the prisoner until the 18th, when he was found drinking at the Black Bull, in Bolton, and on his being searched the medal was found in his possession. The jury found the prisoner guilty; and as he had been previously convicted, he was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. John BONE, who was tried yesterday for stealing the two seals and key of John SHAW, but acquitted, was again put upon his trial for stealing a sovereign, five shillings, and sixpence in copper, from Joseph CALLAND, on the same morning on which SHAW was robbed. The prosecutor stated that about half-past two o'clock in the morning of the 21st September he was returning to his residence in Little Bolton, from his father's house, which is at some distance from the town. On his way through Deansgate, he was accosted near the Nag's Head by five men and a woman, who asked him to go and drink with them. This the witness refused. The prisoner, who was one of the party, then followed him, and put his arm under his, in a seemingly friendly manner. Immediately afterwards, however, he slipped his hand into the witness' jacket pocket, and took out a sovereign, five shillings, and sixpence, so being all that it contained. Witness felt the prisoner do so, but he was afraid to resist, or to charge him with the theft, lest the other men should fall upon him. They therefore seperated in a quiet manner, the witness bidding the prisoner goodnight! Witness then went in search of a constable, but not being able to find one, he called upon his brother; and having obtained his assistance, they sallied forth, accompanied by a boy named KENWORTHY, in search of the prisoner. On their way they met a watchman, who joined them. On coming to the top of Windy Bank they heard a noise, and on going a little farther they found the prisoner and his companions. The prosecutor, Joseph CALLAND, immediately laid hold of the prisoner, and he was secured by CALLAND's brother, and by the watchman. The boy KENWORTHY, the brother James CALLAND, and the watchman, severally corroborated the evidence of the prosecutor in several particulars. KENWORTHY also stated, that while they were taking the prisoner to the dungeon, he made an effort to get one of his hands out of his pocket, and immediately afterwards dropped a sovereign, which he, KENWORTHY instantly picked up. RAWLINSON stated that on searching the prisoner he found one shilling, and sixpence in copper. The prisoner said in his defence that he had received the sovereign which he dropped from his mother, for the purpose of releasing some clothes which were in pawn. To prove this he called his mother, his brother's wife Mary SMITH (who appeared in his behalf yesterday), and a man named Peter PHELAN, sho swore strongly in his favour. On the cross-examination of these witnesses, however, much discrepancy was discovered in several important particulars. Many of their statements were contradictory of wach other; and others were disproved by the witnesses for the prosecution. The chairman having patiently summed up the evidence, the jury immediately found the prisoner guilty. RAWLINSON said, in answer to the chairman's inquiry, that he knew nothing of the prisoner, but that Benjamin ROSS, who was stated to have been one of the party, was a man of bad character. The chairman, in passing sentence, expressed his approbotion of the verdict, and his belief that the prisoner had attempted to support his defence by perjury. It is now quite clear, said the chairman, that Mary SMITH was going about with you from time to time during the whole of the night, and that she was one of a party who were marauding through the town of Bolton; and instead of seeking he husband, as she pretended to be doing, she was there to assist you. I believe that she has been guilty of perjury both in this and the former case. You were no doubt justly acquitted in the former case, because the jury were not convinced of your guilt; but there were few persons who heard that trial who were not conscientiously of opinion that you were guilty of the charge. Your acquittal was owing solely to the circumstace of the prosecutor being mistaken as to one of his seals; but he swore positively to your person, and to the other seal and key. If you had ever before been convicted of felony we should have transported you; but as it is, your case is very aggravated, in consequence of the horrid system of perjury which you have set up to extricate you from the charge. The prisoner was then sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment in Lancaster Castle. The trial lasted about three hours.