The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-23 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
LITZIPOOL, AUGUST 22.
Comm Omar.
TIN LATI .—C
MCIDERS IN LEVEMON•STREZTONVICTION
OP THI MPRDZILIR.
Mr. Justice ratteson, having in the early part of yester-
day gone through the whole of the eases on the crown side,
with the exception of that of John Glees= Wilson, alias
Maurice Wilson, for the murder of Ann Menrichson,
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cue, which had been appointed to come on tint on Thursday
morning, shotild be taken in the afternoon part of the day,
so soon as it was practicable to collect the witnesses together.
Although it was attempted, for all purposes of convenience,
to keep the matter secret, from the time the arrange-
ment was come to, the information continued to ooze out,
and for two hours previous to the time fixed for the trial
(1 o'clock), the court continued gradually to fill, and at the
hoar appointed was thronged with pi rsons of most rupee.

table appearance.
There were four separate indictments against the prisoner.
He was put upon his trial on the one charging him with
having on the 25th of March last. at the borough of Liver-
pool, wilfully murdered Mary Parr (the servant to Mrs.
Henrichson) by striking her with a poker.
On the clerk of arraigns ordering the gaoler to " put up
John Gleason 'Wilson" ell eyes were directed towards the
dock, and the prisoner entered it amidst suppressed mur-
murs. He was attired as on the previous occasion of exami-
nation, and appeared to be in good health and spirits, not
manifesting the least trepidation. On being called upon to
plead, in a firm, shrill voice be answered, "Not guilty."
, Mr. Serjeant Wilkins Mr. Blair, and Mr. Paget con-
, basted the prosecution ; , Mr. Joseph Pollock and Mr. Brett
banded the prisoner.
The indictment having been re-read,
Mr. Serjeant Wilkins proceeded to state the cue to the
The prisoner then in the dock was charged byith
the
indictment upon which they were then trying bim, w
the wilful murder of Mary Parr. The deceased was a do-
mestic servant in the employ of Mn. Henrichson, the wife
of a Captain Henrichson, the master of a ship called the
Duman, belonging to highly respectable merchants of this
port. The family consisted of Mrs. Henrichson herself, tA 0
little boys, her children, the one five years olds nd the other
three, and the servant-maid, the deceased gi, into whose
melanchol death they were then inquiring Between 4
and 5 o' cloy ck in the afternoon of Tuesday the 27th if March
last, the prisoner at the bar called at the hone of Mrs. Hen-
richson, which was situated No. 20 is Levesonodrest, to make
inquiries respecting the apartments, and after mbed-room soe conversa-
tion he agreed to tale the parlour and top front ;
and after concluding the treaty he left the house, but re-
turned at eight o'clock, and at ten o'clock he went to bed.
The nest morning he got up early end went out, and at halt.
past seven o'clock he called at a tavern in Great Osorge's.
street and got a glass of ale. He then left the tavern, but
*eon after nine o'clock returned. He then wised for a wafer,
bat was told by Mrs. Parr, the landlady, that she had not
a wafer, but could accommodate him with black sealing w,x.
The prirooer accepted it, and with it a letter was sealed and
an impression of the thimble of Mrs. Parr plaited urn it.
The prisoner Unused he could not write, and requested Mrs.
Parr to place a direction upon the letter for him Mrs.
Parr's eyesight being defective, she called for her daughter.
and ?dim Mary Ann Parr addressed the letter, by direction
of the prisoner, t 6 " John Wilson, No. 20, Leveson street,
Liverpool." The prisoner got a boy named bi'Derutot to
follow him to the house, and deliver this letter to him. At
that time he was without money, and borrowed some half-
pence with which to reward the boy. About 11 o'clock in
the owning Mee. Henrichson went out, as was her wont, to
purchase the necessary articles for the house. She proceeded
to the shop of hr. Cos in St. Jams's-street, wizen she mode
a purchase of some potatoes, and a boy nedkeTiteth-eny
M'Carney took the potatoes to the house in Lumen street ;
and he (Serjt. Wilkins) would call the particular attention
of the jury to this c reuutance, because he thought they
would have no doubt, when they had heard the whole
of the story, that the murder of the servant
girl took plus whilst Mn. Henricheon was absent. When
the boy took the potatoes the prisoner answered to his
knock at the door; he partly opened the door, took the pota-
toes, and almost immediately afterwards returned the bas-
ket, having evidently thrown the contents upon the flu;
and the potatoes were subsequently found scattered about the
parlour. The boy was paracularlv struck with the appear
an of the man who opened the door, who he (the boy had
so doubt whatever was the prisoner. Oa turning to leave
the doorsteps the boy met Mrs. Henrichson, woo, there
could not remain a doubt in the mind of any rational being,
shared the same fate as the unfortunate girl, im-
mediately upon entering the house, as she was found
lying with her head in the pall-Ate and her feet in the pas-
sage, with her bonnet, mantle, and gloves oa. Whilst Mrs.
Hearichua was out she had occasion to go to the chap of a
Mr. Roebuck, in Bt. Junees-street, where she purchased
oung
two jugs, and young Roebuck was requested to take them
home. Ia about twenty minutes after the purchase
Roam& took the jugs to 'the hem, bat not bAng able to
get as 'Miaow, he pooped thr nub the key-hole, and saw
the legs end feet of a female lying in the lobby. Oa looking
throng% the parlour window, he saw the servant maid lying
The
OM flu M, and the eldest boy with his arms urges her.
Amerma away to give en alarm and as entrance was
, when the servant girl was found to be not qui.e
dead, sad was conveyed to the hospital, when she lingered
he NM UMW Her depoeitions were ta the effect that
while she was engaged in blickleadlnVe grate In the
pules!, the u
kase?came in with a new. per in hie hand,
with whist be drove out the children, as ought in a jocular
way. The prisoner then took up the tongs, aid asked whst
was the primed a set of fi-edrons, and whilst apparently ex-
arldsdni the tongs, he struck her a violent blow upon the
skull Wlll am. The two 14 le boys returned to the room,
sad to show the dreadful viols lee which had been used, no
fewer Men SO monads were found upon the head of the eldest
hey.Onweresearehinglod
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rimporr wcheinli
a innocent of three years of age) kad *ought to hide
there, end had been followed by the prisoner, for
those the body was taunt, the little creature's throat being
out from oat to ear, aid scarcely anything was left to attach