The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-14 00:00:00

THE EiTgaidii

hfl inquest upon- the hinli of Aim Se*ell, 'servant- with
Mr. Fearon, of Embletoni -was resumed on Tuesday,' at the
.Blue. Bell Inn, Embleton, 'before coroner.
The following confession of the prisoner was then read:—
. " George Cass saith : How It was done you know ; she made
me mad, you know; and . I was coining front fighting -a eWe.
She was in the passage Of lou is e we idlite fol; coining
:out of the front door, leatlitkg into ilte fard'Obotitetheltable.
I bad been in ' the trAtira be the Buse righting the ewe.
•She wanted bogie thing with her caulkers ;and then, foil
ki.eir•• as I would not bother with her caulkers,'and then. she
began to bcther and call me. She had a knife in her hand, and I
was standing between the stable-door and the kouse-door, and
then she threw the knife at me, and the haftlast clitched me
on the left cheek, just below the cheek bone. Well, then,Ll
clicked ft up-in-my Madness aarll just took it up and threw it
at the deceased, Ann Sewell. She Sires then standing just
within a yard.from..the door in the fassage, end it struck just
about there---Lprisoner pointing to tto apph: of hip throat).—
somewhere about the part of thrOat Aeltichprojects out.
ran 'from there down to. the bottom
of the pa-Ssage. She , did not -scream out Oh, dear,'
'she says; Coma -here and put me • away 'altogether!'
She said . she could not find it of her heart to .
out again: Well then, I said, ,I did • not like. She begged
and prayed •of me either twice- or three times to do it,
and then. I just took up t'knife which I had in my hand and
just came a stroke across the left'side of her neck. 'When 1.
was coming a second time she put het hand tip to the left side
of her face, and she said it aia not seem to go far enough in,
' Give itigtheither.' I gavi like a second ene, when she asked
me, and then she stood a little bit and Wed she drthiTed. She
never said stout (nothing) moic after she drOPped; and she
laid there. When I garde up frila the kithhen,! and I took the
knife tip with itie and thought I would wash it and then I rued
—I *Ad net; and I just went and put it into her
kand, and there was just a' drop of blood about the size
of a halfpenny on here (pointing to his waistcoat), and
then just with that John Robinson came 'up to the
door. I was in the back kitchen at that time washing my
waistcoat breast with my hand. I.just stepped -aside' till he
went away, and be went into the stable, and then he came out
again and went away- home. When I saw nine Off 1 washed
my hands and waistcoat out, and then I 'went like down
into the kitchen and went out of the front window into
the orchard, and then I got My, mare out or the stable,
and then when I got her into the Reid she would not
sttnd until I got the gent en. She went galloping back into
the fold:. Then I went and brought her back and yoked her.
Abouit a quarter of an hour after that I saw Mr. Boys
going down. A little bit after that there was a young lad
went down on a cuddy (donkey), and then I saw nothing
more till Mr. Boys' girl came to take me home at night.
Then when I. got home Mrs. Fearon told Me •to •go in at
the front. window. and I said No, I could get in at theliack
door.' Ihad got in many a time at it, and then I opened the
door for the nk_istress. I opened the door with that piece of li
iron that Mi. Brown had there. (Casa was here cautioned a
iceond time, but said he only wanted to tell the truth.) Then
at night, after we had all gone to bed, I went up stairs into
Ann Sewell's room. Her and me was down at Cocke•mouth
one night before that a bit, and she wanted to get some things,
and she had forgotten-her purs and she askednie if I had any
money in my 'pocket, and I said I had half-a.crown if that
would do aught for her, and sO' I lent her it. So, as I thought
I had knit tier the hall'-brown, I thought.i would have it back
again. •Thea I ,lust looked into her box and there ayes a little
hag, you know; that they hang Over their arms; and I' opened
this and I found a purse in it,,and I just opeaed it and there,,
was jhatelghteenpenee in it,, and then I just put the eighteen-
pence in.niy pocket, and then I groped her freak pocket, as I
thought there might be something mote in it, and there was
half-a-crown in it. I put that in my pocket. In the morning
I was putting it into the purse W4th the eighteenpence, and at
one side of the, purse there was a little hole in-it, and a sovereign
in it. I did not know what to make of the sovereign, and I
owed our ftillt'a sovereign; and'. s I Was over heuie on Wed-
nesday night after I got the. sovereign, and I just left the
purse and sovereign with my mother. Then I spent the half-
drown, and got some drink on the road. And then I had
eighteenpence left, and then I ran ont of 'bacca. and sent for
another ounce. Then I had like Lfteeninnen left. Ilia Sarah
Dixon,: the person I sent for the 'hum, only gave me three-
half-pence, instead of threepence. • I had given her a sixpence
out of the eighteenpence. That is all, I think ; Id 6 not wish
to add anything-More to this'statement. I haveinade it volunz
tartly and of my own free will.'
After' hearing: the statement read over, the prisoner said,

,
"Thetis all, I think. It would be as near half-past three, as
near as I can tell, when this, happened.., There was no one.
with me. I have done it all myself ; and I was very sorry,
too, after I had done it. (Signed) " GEORGX Ckss."
The jury rettirned' a verdict of Wilful murder; and Cass was
locked up.

The retries hat realm. to believe that tlinvacant judge-
ship will be conferred on-Mr. Jas. Wilde, Q.C.
A DEATA BLOw-.—A very singular' case Veas the day
before yesterday submitted to the Tribunal of Correc-
tional Police of Pontoise. A gentleman lesidingdll-It'
villa: in the' neighbourhood of Montmorency had one
day in November last to come to Paris With his wife
_and family,' and, as was his custom, he ,waited for the
omnibus which isedy.to pass before bio door on its way
to the railway station ; but after standing along time
no vehicle, to his great surprise, came up. He then
went to the office, and learned that on that very day the
route. to the station had been changed. He rebuked
the keeper of the omnibusses, a female, for not having
told him of the change ; she answered angrily, and
violent altercation ensued. The.quarrel produced such
an ' effect on the woman that she had an attack of fever,
and was obliged to take for her bed. A week after she
died, and just
-,before she breathed her last she .excl aimed,
Ah ! the wretch!! he gave me my death blow !" The
gentleman was in conseqUence accused before' the tri-
bunal, under Art. 3.19 of the Penal Code, of hiving by
imprudence-caused the death of the woman ; but the
court held that, under the circumstances related, the
charge 'could not be maintained.—Galignani.
" HEAVING DAY."—At the Birmingham Police-court,
on Tuesday,, a young married woman, named Mary Ann
Jackson, living in Park-street, was charged with assault-
ing a builder, named Thomas Wigley, living in Garbett-
street, under the following circumstances. Complainant
stated that he was paging along Park-street that morning,-
about half-past eleven, when the prisoner naught hold of
him and lifted him up. She then placed him on his feet
Lagain, -and 'Saluted him with a sooner had this
_beep done than another woman caught hold .of:him, and,.
much to his annoyance, he bad to pass through the same
ordeal as in the fernier case. Luckily-Detective Palmer,
who was•passing at the time, observed what was going
on, and "rescued the complainant and.took the prisoner
to the station. Serjeant Teggins-said that on Easter
Tuesday-it was a custom among the Irish in the neigh-
bourhood to "heave'', persOni froM the groundand kiss
them ; and, being surrounded by twenty or thirty women
the party generally found that when he escaped from them
he was minus some article, but pf course was unable to
say 'which of the party took it. The bench decided on
remanding the prisoner.
DISTRESSING AND FATAL ACCIDENT -AT OXFORD.
An accident has just occurred at Oxford., by which an
aged female named Law, a widow, was killed, and two
more females and a child were very seriously injured, so
much so that it is questionable if one of the females will
survive it.. A farmer, living a few miles off, had occa-
sion to go to the railway station, to take some persons
to meet the train ; on his return, aad'when in the road,
the horse, which was attached to a spring cart, took
th shafts
struck and
fright and ran with unmanageable speed to the short
andthae owkiwavorsditto purnayneemareoStt t. rwehteerre-1,
it
Church,Bisaveileryynarrow a n d a
and on
to
rgepretatstsitohgoroautghthfae treimseerrthale people loef passing, one we'reof
struck the poor woman on the temple, and in a .few
minutes she .was dead; the other two females were also
very seriously injured, and a little girl had, her thigh
and leg broken. The horse righted. itself, and dashed
away at great speed up Queen-street, as far as Carfax,
where its dangerous pace was retarded- br Coming in
contact with, a, heaiily-laden cart, wherebythe spring
cart was dished
_to pieces,, and the animal being thus
freleasgdYrorn the vehicle, went-at a greater speed down
the Aigh-atreet, to near St. Mary's .Churoh,..whan lit
was fortunately stopped. The driver, who kept his seat.
to.Carfax, is i
also, we understand, a good deal njured.

LIVE 40 OOL POLICE_ C9URT.:-YzsiERDAT:

6foke

THE CHARGE OF INDECENT ASSAULT.--JOhla M 4Cluno,
charged on Thursday with indecently assaulting the girl,
Ann Lythgoe, was dismissed.
_ _

_ .
FRATID.—Robert Readen• and Michael Nevin were
brought up on a charge of defrauding John Joyce of
Bs. The money, it appeared was
.obtained from • the
prosecutor by 'Nevin,- who promised to return it shortly,
but, instead of doing so, he refused to give it back.
The other prisoner had nothing to do with the money,
therefore• he Was' disaharged,--Mr. Raffles considered
that the ritoney was. obtained in a frattdttlent manner
and toinniitted Neirin to gaol fof *a fffffffff

, -
A ettAndn STV:LiNG Sohn-
son was brought up on a charge ,of stealing leather to
the amount of £6. The prisoner was foreman in the
employ of John McGibbon, boot and shpemaker, Moor-
fields. , The leather was found in the prisoner's house;
the evidence, however, did not cast any blemish on his
character, and he was discharged, the leather beino.
. 0
returned to him.

STEALING • A VEST.--Jamcs Johnson WaS charged
with Stealing a vest from the W. S. Lindsey. The vest
was the property of a seaman on board, and the offence
was committed on Thursday. He was sent to gad for
a month.

STE/Mica A WHIP.-Mark Coelatarie was_Coriiinitted
,to goal for a month, fat stealing a *hip, Worth Is Sd,
froth Wllliain!Ardn'S: cati. TboArrate *as committed on
Thufsday night, iii•BAfterigrtittdr
Griirivone ..4-Sskuri.—Mary Dugnall was brought up
.on a charge of .assaulting Ann. Burns. The prisoner is
a brothel-keeper, residing in Bannister-street; and •the
piospeu,tor lived with her. On the 11th instant, both
being drunk, they quarrelled, arid the prisoner threw
nitigful of boiling water over her antagonist, scalding
her head. In consequence of defects in the evidence the
piSerlefVons diiniiked. •
(Befofe 'Messrs. Booth Mid toiiri.)
BthtiiiritT4 C45t4..--,llenry Moss; ptiblicliouSe keeper,
Secitialid.foad, rifled Jibs and cngtc, aruilel Moore,
Granville-street, 5s and costs. James Gregor, beer-.
house keeper, Birkett-street, was fined ss. and costs.
Thomas Harrison, beerhouse keeper, Moon-street, was
fined ss. and costs. James Cotterall, beerhouse keeper,
Iford-street, was fined 60s and costs. John Riley, beer-
house keeper, Standish-street, was fined 20s, and costs.
Ann Machen, beerhouse keeper. element street,, -was:
fined 206 and costs for permitting drunkenness. Wm.
'Wilson, beerhmise keeper, Athel,street, was fined 5s
and costs. William Wilcock, beerhorise keeper, Trow-
brike-iireet., fined As }trophy,,
beerhOnse keeper, Henry Edwahl-street, was fitted Os
and costs. Ed. Holines, beerhousekeeper, Back knight,
street, was fined lOs and costs. John Leary, beerhouse
keeper, Scotland-street, was fined •6s and costs. Win.
Brown, beerhouse keeper„ Essex-stree.t, was,fined Os and
costs. Ma,ry beerhouse keeper,:Hill.ltreet,. was
bed. 5s afid -'m: ApPreten; tieeiheYise keeper,
Back Statiley-stivet, was fined lOs and costs. Acquitted
Charles Gibson, Highfield-street -; Robert
Williams, victualler, Highfield-street ;- Francis Lawrence,
beerhouse keeper, Harbord-street; J. Clive, victualler,
:Prince dwin-lane; George ShaW, beerhouse keeper,
Clare-street ; Henry M'Cormick, beerhouse keeper,
'Wolte-itreet ; Sarah Ellen Stockton beerhouse keeper,
ti,:tstieet ;, AtitaB M 'eeetho keeper; LowerHHarrington street ;
.Charles Leveson, beerhouse keeper,
Harding-street,. . ' •