The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-21 00:00:00

THE PENRITH MURDER.

Tho
urou:taB goWerby, alias Gray, was on Wednesday egoist
Charier „UP in custody, charged with the wilful murder.i of
lila Abraham alanintso, at Penrith, on the 7th inst. S nce
bodvah—.4,earing of the case a post mortem examination of the
—„,"'s been made by Dr. Pearson and Dr, Galloway, of Pen-
loWin.'n.: evidence given. by those gentlemen was to the fol-
d
on te-
ia-utet The murdered man had been seriously bruise
Veilet„ead ; the wounds were very numerous, many of them
itakeZog the skull ; but those wounds, with proper care
cleath--"itelY after their infliction, were not sufficient to cause
stand.' the heart of the deceased showed indication of long-
keen iwi.sng diaeasa. He had been exposed for many hours to the
Itrrn``„,l on a frosty night, when there was hoar-frost on
At ni,—"Ati, and the ground itself was frozen in the morning.
tepre-° aPPears that the deceased was a Jew and that be had
Facts "Med himself 0,5 a convert to Christianity. The only
are ti7°rtbY of note brought out at the inquiry on Wednesday
1404ie following :---Deceased had taken lodgings at a coin-
noinegiog-houae, at Penrith townlead, kept by a man
'4llO w-`°lBleY• He wore a white apron, and a fellow lodger,
teatea" 8 Scotchman, coked him what trade he was. De-
bee
n 4:Was offended, and told the landlord that he lead
lotd :esulted. He took out a knife and told the land,-
atter at he would be revenged upon the Scotchman. He
ei,veWards went away, and returned after hours, about
thou 4 o'clock. The landlord refused to let him in, as he
140:1Lt,there would be a row, and deceased went away,
4Por ti.."'g to summon the landlord for not opening the
had previously paid for his lodgings. After thia the
..z;4: terea Gray was seen by two witnesses walking arm-in-arm
Se d towards the back door of the Grey Bull Inn.
go Was afterwards, at a quarter-past twelve o'clock, seen to
lilen•'r
stile leading direct to the scene of the murder.
4teWlsean by two witnesses, and something peculiar was
41 Al
endmannerhave been . The leggings
sent to, which
Professor are bespTaylor
to attere
for
d
e,
lL:laillation,
pg with a fellow aervant to Patterdale. Heat told a man
tterdale that he had found a person nearly dead that
tirivarOonineig..niTdlie m
„, asked if deceased had any money, and
...
bad plenty. ,rtilh—an
LlYalop, of the Grey Bull Inn, said he
telling the poile:.,n,kati said,
do with nae ~ "Thei will bring thee up for not
Phis
said, 44 Nay, they'll have uppght to
asked the witness whoas just before he was arrested. Prisoser
of the leggings , wnen
ne gave evidence respecting the taking off
Monday. Witness coulahad seen him have the same on before
tot remember. Prisoner said, " A
man, 'when he comes here
but you can only hang ree "wear, ought to swear the truth,
ti"--•" The prisoner was ren% by the neck, I don't col) a
for a week.
T -

, - lIE LIME LlGHT.—Westrainster Bridge is now lighted
the Universal Lime Light Company, arrangements ",:ing been made for permanently continuing it. The
give general satisfaction.
—tet appears to
o fewer than eleven actions for seduction were
°ecently tried before the assistant barrister, at Belfast,
e„11
ialPro °lle day. Some of the cases were dismissed, others
were a wardraised, while decrees ranging from £lO to £4O
vved.
41"YsnrEas POP. FRANCE.—The French national pad-
baeo-boat Chamois, Le Roy, commander, arrived at Fal-
-4 tilth, on Monday evening, from Brest, in order to load
4,e4g0 of oysters purchased there through the consular
estulls' For the purpose of being laid down in the French
attei;e2the cultivation of this particular fishery being
ziaelravelf
looked to just now by the French G'overn-
of detpol,l,‘, arseilles is understood to be one of the ports
"

A MAN ATTEMPTING TO SHOOT HIS WIFE,

At the Bradford West Riding Court on Thursday, a man past
middle age, named John Brooksbank, a collier, at Allerton,
near Bradford, was charged by his wife, Ann Brooksbank, a
decent-looking woman, with attempting to shoot her on
Monday night last in their own house. The man was at
times intemperate, and had gone home drunk that night, when
his wife showed him the utmost kindness, and as usual handed
him a pint of home-brewed beer. But, not satisfied with this
he at length grew outrageous, and threatened to shoot her.
She rushed with her boy to the chamber stairs to avoid his
fury. This enraged him still more, and he in a moment seized
his gun, which was loaded with shot, and fired at her as she
was going up the first steps of the stairs. Fortunately both
she and the boy escaped, or the consequences might have been
fatal to one or both. The prisoner attempted to deny that the
gun contained shot ; but as the perforations are plainly to be
seen in the chamber door and walls of the house, the evidense
could not be doubted. The poor woman did not wish her
husband to be criminally prosecuted, and simply begged that
lie might be bound over to keep the peace. This was accord-
ingly done, himself in £lO and two sureties in £5, or in
default to be imprisoned for six months.

THE MURDER AT STAMFORD-SUICIDE
OF THE ACCUSED.

The excitement occasioned by the horrible murder of Miss
Elizabeth Pulley was on Thursday brought to a climax by its
becoming known that Henry Corby, the man charged with
the foul crime, had committed suicide in his cell at the gaol
at Stamford. It appears that the conduct of the prisoner,
whilst in cuatody, had been such as to disarm suspicion that
he was likely to make any attempt upon his life; he was
therefore allowed to sleep alone. Corby was visited by the
governor (Mr. Hewerdine) several times in the course of
Aredifesday, and was last seen alive in the evening, when he
was locked up for the night. On Thursday morning it was
discovered that the prisoner had hung himself ; he had
improvised a halter by tearing up one of the sheets of his bed,
and with this he had suspended himself to an iron stanchema
in the windows of his call. When found the body was not
quite cold, but it was supposed by Mr. Howard, the gaol
surgeon, that life had been extinct about six hours. On a
slate the deceased had written, in a tolerably bold hand, the
following letter to his family :---

"My dear Wife wad Children ---I hope the Lord will pre-
serve you through these trials and troubles, and pray to him
to assist you. I hope you will all of you be friendly one with
another. Joe, be sure you stop with Mr. B. as long as he
wishes for you. You may be a help to your mother, aad she
to you. I hope you will all look to your mother. Tell her I
think she had better go to the board, and see if they will allow
her anything to assist her. Now, above all, try to forget me
as soon as you can. Sell all that I wore, so that it may not
put me in remembrance. If anyone mentions say you do
not wish to hear anything. Asti the mayor if Mr. Ward
(superintendent of police) should not give up the money and
things he took from me. Joe, my dear boy, keep from public-
houses. Ask Mr. Law (solicitor) if he has got any money in
for you. May the Lord preserve you all from sin and Satan.
"Adieu, my dear wife, from your unfortunate husband.
"Adieu, my dear children, from your unfortunate father,
"HENRY CORBY.

"May the Lord rest my soul. Amen."
The other side of the slate the prisoner had covered with
particulars of work by him and of money due to him.
An inquest was at once held ou the body befure Mr. John
Totkington, the borough coroner, when the jury returned a
verdict of felo de se. . .

Although the wretched man made no admission of his guilt,
little doubt exists from the e‘idence that was to bo brought
forward at tae adjourned examination, but that he was the
perpetrator of the dreadful crime..