The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-30 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

LANCASHIRE.

Si tcroE BY A REJECTED LOVER —An inquest was
held at Manchester, on Thursday, on a young man named
John Ashmore, who had committed suicide under circum-
stances arising out of disappointment in a matrimonial
alliance. The deceased was a factory operative, and hail
conceived an attachment for a young women working in the
same factory, named Isabella Hudson. They wore on the
point 01 marriage, when some dispute broke off the match.
On the 21st inst. he had an interview with her at the
factory, and told het he would destroy himself unless she
consented to receive kis addreaes again. He said he should
write to her a letter in Mae ink, and bearing three bLselt
seal, intimating the time when he should put his threat into
execution. The young woman remonstra•ed with him, but
was firm in re'isiog his condition., and on the following`
morning the received a letter of the description mentioned,
stating that he would poison himself, and that his body
would be found in one of the railway arches. It appears
thst be put his threat into execution so far as taking the
poison was cancsrned, but after ening during Friday night
out of doors, returned home. He told his father that he bad
taken poison. but refused to take en emetic. He wu sub.
sequently removed to the infirmary, where he died on Tues-
day. A verdict of insanity was returned.
EMBEZZLEMENT BY A POOR-RATE AND Tax COL-
LECTOII.—The examination of Thomas Curtis, late collector
of rates for the overseers of Salford, who lately absconded to
America, and was robbed of his ill-Lequired wealth there,
and whose ease, as a supposed honest English farmer-
emigrant, etched sympathy there, toed: place before the ma-
gistrates of Salford on Thursday evening. Mr. Charles (lib-
son, town clerk -I Saloord, appeared for the overseers, and
stating his cos-, said Mr. Curtis was engaged in 1841; sod
April last, in consequence of an inquiry by the
overseers into the conduct of their collectors, who were
thought not to be sufficiently active in the di,charge
of their duties, it was discovered that Curtis had .I,V-red into
business es a publican. Some remarks were made to him
upon the incompatibility of the two businesses he bad to
attend to, and he handed in his resignation. A person
named Samoa was appointed to struted him, but Curtis had
taken his collecting books to his own house on the plea that
he had not made them up, but would do aby the dote
(24th June), sibsn his notice expired. After subtequen,ly
giving up two of these books he absconded, and the
third, containing the collections on the last rate,
was afterwards obtained from his servant. The charge upon
which he would now be proceeded against was one where he
had called on Mr. Hall's agent on the 30th June, and whet
he was no longer the sery int of the overseers, and obtained
151. from him for rates—a charge which, if sustained, would
resolve itself Into one of false pretence.—Mr. R. B. B. Cab-
bett, for the prisoner, contended that the misdemeanor had
been compromised by the overseers having obtained the
6 amount of his defalcations from his sureties ; and that as to
the particular item of 151 , though it was collected after the
24th June, yet it was whilst be still retained his books, and
was virtually collector.—Mr. Trafford, the megiatrate, was of
opinion that no misdemeanor could be compromised, and
i after adjourning the examination till yesterday morning,
that the depositions might be reduced to writing, committed
• the prisoner for trial.
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WARNING TO PRINTERS.—At the petty sessions for
the borough of Braiford held on Wednesday, n printer of
that town, named John Parkinson, was heard on an infor-
mation filed against him in the name of the Attorney• General,
for having, in the tconth of June Put, print-d &certain papa
without having inserted on the face of it his name and plane
of abode. Copies of the document were produced. It was
a series of ehartikt dogrel verses calculated to excite to acts
of violence against some members of the polies force. The
information contained six counts ; and the magistrates con-
victei the defendant in the penalts of Si. upon one count.
Mr. Hodgson appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Terry for
the defence.
COMMITTAL OF A QUACK DOCTOR FOR MAN-
eL&COIITEB..—An old man, named Thomas Whitehead,
who has foe many years been imposing upon the
ignorant and the credulous in Sheffield and the
vicinity, by pretended skill in surgery, has been com-
mitted for manslaughter, in causing the death of a young
man, named George Taylor, slim George Booth, aged 19, a
razor grinder. At the inquest on the body, it appeared that
some months ago the deceased became afflicted with pain in
his left arm, and gained admission on the books of the Shef-
field Dispensary as a patient. The visiting surgeon discovered
a small tumour connected with the covering of the bone, and
prescribed leeches and fomentation No danger was appro.
heeded, but the case was expected to be chronic. Three
weeks or a month afterwards Taylor discontinued his atten-
denim at the dispensary, and put himself under the treatment
of Whitehead. who said it had been miktreated at the
dispensary. He pulled off some loose skin that had been
raised by poulticing and ordered ointment to the wound,
s. to bring it to geed." A witne's thus describes what
took place at one of deceased's visits to the privner
4, On the following Saturday I was present when Whitehead
again dressed the wound. It appeared very bad. He got a
pair of scissors and began cutting the flesh round the outside
of the rim of the wound. He was cutting the bad flesh off.
The deceased cried out much. His mother had cone out,
having first asked me to go in, because she could not bear to
stay. When Whitehead had cut round the edge of the
wound a piece of the fleshy rim, as large as my fist, fell off
upon the floor. It appeared putrifiect. Whitehead then
took his atissors, the point of which ho put into the wound
down to the bone, and prised bits off. This continued about
ten minutes. When he had done that, be told him he MUM
go into the infirmary directly and have his arm taken off, or
else it would kill him very soon." On that day, the 19th of
August, the sufferer was received into the Sheffield Infir-
mary. Everything which could he dune was done, tint
Taylor died on Friday, the 22ud inst. After the coroner had
summed up, the jury returned a verdict of " Manslaugto,r
against Thomas Whitehead, and he was conveyed to York
Castle, by virtue of the coroner's warrant, to take his trial
at the gaol delivery in December.

TUE SUIsPECTED POISONINOS.—Yesterday, Mr.
Codd, the ceroner for North Essex, received a report from
Mr. Professor Taylor, the lecturer on chemistry at Guy's
Hospital, in the cue of the man Nathaniel Button, whose
remains were exhumed last week fcr chemical analysis. The
result of the analysis of Button's stomach and its contents
shows that there is no foundation for the belief entertained
that he lad died from the effects of arsenic.