The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-23 00:00:00

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Thomas Rveroft, of No. 9, Edward street, in the Park,
said : On Monday morning about twenty minutes to six, I
was passing up Prince William-street, when I heard a
woman making a great noise. It appeared as if sho was
making' a noise with some person. I went on and did not
heed what was going on- About a quarter past six, I was
at the corner of Wolfe-street, when I saw a little boy, and
he said, " Master, master, come here." I went and saw
a woman lying on the pavement. I thought she was in
drink, and shook her, and bid her to get up. Another
young man came up and said, "let us lift her up and
place her on the step.", We were doing so, and in Aiming

William Hull, stated : I am a bar-man at the Ruthin-
castle vaults, kept by Mrs. Hardman, at the corner of
Wolfe-street. The deceased was in the habit of coming
to the vaults. I know the prisoner, as he was also in the
habit of coming there. The vaults were opened between
four and half-past. The prisoner came in and had two
glasses of ale, and then went out ae.ain. In a very few
minutes after, he returned again. He was alone when he
first came, and remained there an hour or an hour and a.
half. The deceased came in with a Miss Hughes. They
got half-a-gallon of ale, which they took away with
them. This was before the prisoner had been in for his
two glasses of ale, but while he was there, the deceased
and Hughes came in with another man, named John
Thomas, to return the jug they had taken with them
before. The prisoner was then drinking his last glass of
ale.

The Coroner

What was the-commencement of the

quarrel between the deceased and the prisoner ?
Witness : They had some angry words about a coat, but
did not appear more excited than usual. Tho prisoner
wanted the deceased to go to the house about a coat he
had challenged her with having. H. went to the door.
and she followed him. About ten minutes after they had
left the house together, -the prisoner returned alone.
When he returned, he made some remark to John
Thomas, which I did not hear, as he was at the end of
the bar. The first word he heard the prisoner say. was—
"l have cut her head half off." I replied, " I can't
belieie it." He said, "ifit is not true, I wish my two
"is it a fact ?"
ieve it. Thom as

I said,
could 1

eyes may drop out."
I asked Thomas •if h
said he could, not. I th,n went out of the door and
heard the • policemen's sticks knocking. He had made
some observa'ion to Thomos about having done, or killed,
his wife. The prisoner left the house, and I have not
seen him since.

-The prisoner: Was not I in your house at ten minutes
pant four ?
Witness : I can't say the time.

r : Did you not draw some ale ?
t tell who had ale.

Witness :
Prisoner: Don't you know the

company that come to

Witness : No I don't. How should L
.Ann Hughes said she lived at No. 4 Court, Prince Wil-
liam-street. She was a friend of the deceased, and knew
the prisoner. The two latter had for some months past
cohabited together. The deceased was intimate with a
man named John Thomas. She was not aware that there
was any jealousy existing in consequence of that intimacy.
Between two and three in the morning, the deceased and
Jack Thomas came to my house. The deceased said, " I
wish it was opening time that we might have a quart of
ale as Jack has a shilling." After sitting some time she
said the house (public-house) was open, and she asked
Jack for the shilling, and he gave it to her, and they went
and got half a gallon of ale at the Castle. That ale was
drank, and we all went together to return the jug. The
prisoner was there then, and some very angry words
passed between them about a jacket. She asked the
prisoner if he was going to turn up the jacket. He said
it was sold. She replied that she would have fun for it ;
and then she left the vaults, followed by the prisoner. It
was between five and six o'clock when they went out
together. The prisoner returned alone in about half an
hour, when he said to John Thomas--" I have killed your
wife." When he said that, I have no doubt but that he
meant the deceased; and, turning round to Jack he said.
" and I would not care to do the same to you." Jack
said, "never spoil a good mind." I then left the house,
and found that the deceased was dead, but I did not think
it was so at the time.
By a Juror : The barman was present.
By the Coroner : I was sober at the time I heard the
prisoner make that observation,
Police constable Swindle, 282. stated that he was on
duty on Monday morning in Bedford-street, in the Park,
when he was told by a 'man, apparently going to his
work. that there was a woman lying dead in Wolfe-
street. He immediately went there, when he found the
de'ceased lying there with her throat cut. He had the
body removed to the Southern Hospital.
Police constable Pharoah, 39% stated that he was on
duty at about twenty minutes to seven o'clock, when he
heard what had happened, and went to the deceased.
From information he had received, he went in search of
the prisoner, and found him in Prince William-street.
He came out of a cellar as he (witness), was inquiring for
him, and said, " Here I am; lam the man that did the
deed." I took him into custody, and I asked him where
the knife was, and he replied, " Feel if I have it in my
pockets." I did not observe that there was any blood
upon his clothes, bat I lifted up his chin, and saw a
wound, and I said to him, " So Toll have baen nicking
your own throat." While in the bridewell, he said he
would not be done by them; he would suffer his
neck to be off first.
James M'Culloch, one of the Liverpool detective force,
stated that from information he received, he made a
search in the privy connected with the house where the
prisoner lived, and there found a knife with marks of
blood upon it.
Detective officer Povey was next called. He said, I
know the prisoner. (The knife was here produced.) I
know that knife; it belongs to the prisoner. T

saner on

within the last three
on of havi

searched the r,
lusp p committed robberies. The knife pro-
duce] was then in his possession. There are marks upon
the knife by which I can identify it. On Tuesday night
last, I and other officers were watching the prisoner's
house. I stood by the door to listen, and I heard the
prisoner and the deceased having some words. I heard
him repeatedly say that he would have her life, and that
he would cut her b---y throat. He wanted to get at
her, but the people in the house prevented him.
The Prisoner : It is false what he says. They will
swear to anything.

Mr. Charles RO3ston, surgeon at the Southern Hospital,
was next sworn : He said on Monday morning the de-
ceased was brought to the hospital. She was quite dead,
She had a deep gash in her throat. The wound was 6i
inches in let Nth, extending from about an inch or an inch
and a half from the middle of the neck, nearly to the right
ear. At its commencement it was superficial, but increased
to the depth of 13 to two inches. The arteries were
divided. The wounds caused the death, and much force
must have been applied, as the wind-pipe was completely
divided. A person could not have inflicted such a wound
herself. Such a knife as that produced would inflict the
wound I have described. There is no doubt but that two
attempts had been made, as th re were two distinct cuts.
A person with such injuries as I have described, would
be able to walk a few yards without assistance before

The Coroner then cautioned the prisoner in the usual
legal form, when

The Prisoner said : What I have to say, I will say on
my trial.

The Coroner then summed up the evidence, observing
that the jury had heard the statements of the witnesses
touching the death of Sarah Drummond, and he wished
the task devolving on him had been more difficult than the
evidence permitted. On the minds of the jury there might
be some difficulty, but oa his mind there was no such
doubt, but in order that they might not ho guided by his
opinion alone, he would explain the law of murder. The
Coroner then proceeded to do so, and also to recapitulate
the evidence given by the different witnesses.
The Jury, after a brief consultation, returned a verdict
of Wilful Murder against the prisoner.
The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute, and
the prisoner was committed to take his trial at the next
assizes, for the murder of Sarah Drummond. Before the
prisoner was removed, a most affectinp. 'scene took place
in the court, The prisoner, who had throughout the
investigation, avoided as much as possible looking towards
his mother and his sister, suddenly rose from his seat,
and with an imploring look, beseeched the coroner to per-
mit him to shake hands with his mother, who was then
about to sign her deposition. He did so, with tears
streaming down his cheeks, and hoped that God would
bless her. The mother was deeply moved, while his
sister, (his own sister), entreated him in the most implor-
ing accents, to allow her to take a parting adieu. He
extended his hand to her, and immediately after, she
made a bound across the court, and they were locked in
each others arms. After they had separated, the prisoner
burst into a flood of tears, and he then evidently felt the
dreadful position in which he was placed.
This scene moved the whole court. The prisoner was
then removed in a air to Kirkdale gaol.
The populace in the street, expecting to see the prisoner,
was immense.
This investigation occupied the time of the court
upwards of six hours.

SUSPICIOUS CASE OF DEATH AT

BOOTLE

The inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Bank-hall
Cottages, Bootle, were, on Monday night, and in the
early part of yesterday, in a state of considerable excite-
ment, in consequence of the prevalence of a report in
reference to the death of a woman named Mary
Burrough, the wife of a shipwright, who, it was said,
had met her death by foul play. There were a variety
of rumours in circulation, but as nothing certainly
authentic is at present known, we refrain from giving
publicity to any of them. It appears, however, that the
husband of the deceased, whose name is William
Burrough, reported to Inspector Grace, between eight
and nine o'clock on Monday night, that his wife had
fallen dead in an apoplectic fit while she was in a state
of intoxication. A medical gentleman was called in,
who said the woman was dead, but did not give any
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together in a public house during the evening, and that
both were drunk. S•me time after, the report got
abroad that the worn=
had been killed. A large crowd
soon collected, and, of course, as in such cases, many
versions of the affair ran through the people. A gentle-
man who resides in the neighbourhood having heard of
the circumstance, entered the house, and saw the woman
lying dead on the bed, and the husband at the other
side of the body, in a state of helpless intoxication. On
being questioned, he could give no information with
regard to the deceased. An investigation will take
place this day before the Coroner, and we trust the
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deceased.

Yesterday morning, detective officer Cozens, brought
up two persons named John Flood, and William John-
ston, on a charge of being concerned in the robbery of
several hundred pounds worth of jeweller*, belonging to
a French gentleman, named Louis Sancan. From the,
evidence of the police, and also of Mr. Sancan, who was
examined through an interpreter, it appeared that he
arrived here from New York on Friday evening, by the
ship Driver. He had seven trunks containing his pro-
perty, and amongst these, one containing several hun-
dred pounds worth of 'jewellery, and eighteen silver
forks, eighteen silver table spoons, sixty gold pieces (f
twenty dollars each, fourteen gold pieces, doubloons, of
the value of £4 each, the coin being worth about £3OO,
independent of the property. The trunks were put into
the tender, that waited on the ship, and taken to the
Custom-house depot in the usual way to be examined.
After this, they were ordered to be taken to the Vic-
toria Hotel, where the owner went to stop. On the way,'
in some mysterious manner, the trunk containing the
valuable property was 'missed. Every search was trade
for it. but to no purpose. On Monday, a police officer
and Mr. Sancan proceeded to Me.ncliester, and in the
house of the prisoner, John Flood, situate at No. 7,
Henry-street, in that city, they found the missing trunk,
and a portion of the property. The prisoner was there,
and as he could not give any account of it, of course he
was taken into custody. In the meantime, the prisoner
Johnston was stopped, by Mr. Richard Washington,
pawnbroker, Old Hall-street, where he was offering cer-
tain broken jewellery. for sale, and as the property had
been described, Mr. Washington had the 'man arrested.
Cozens said, when Johnston was questioned about bow
he got the property, he said, his mother found it in the
sand at the George's Pier Head, at low water-mark. In
reply to the magistrate, the officer said thejewellery was
broken when it was stolen, as it belonged to the proe-
cutor's lady in Mexico, when it had been broken. He
asked for a remand, as he should be able to produce ad-
ditional evidence, which he had not yet time to collect.
The prisoners were remanded accordingly.

POLICE COURT
(EF,FORE ate. G. MAXWELL.)
PLUNDERING A SHlP.—Edward Wood, Patk. Hamill,
Thomas Hanratty, and William Woods, were brought
up by officer 92, for having 'stolen two hundred-weight of
ropes from the ship Isabella, Brunswick Dock. The
first-named prisoner was the ship keeper, and the others
were employed to clean out the vessel, and, while se
engaged, they took the property. The prisoners -were
ramanded to produce witnesses in their favour.
CHARGE AGAINST A SHOPMAN.--A respectable-looking
young man, named David Roden, was brought up b‘r
detective officer Scott, on a charge of hiving embezzled
2s. 6d., the money of his employer, Mr. Rawle, chemist,
of Lord-street.. Mr. Bluck was for the prisoner. Mr.
Rawle said the prisoner was in his employment in the
shop for about four months; and during' that time be
suspected all was not right ; but his suspicions did not
fall on the prisoner, but on other persons, whom he
discharged. On Saturday he met a gentleman named
Dale at the shop door ; and, front a conversation
he had with him, he found he had purchased
half-a-crown's worth of brushes and two bottles of tooth
tincture, and on looking to the entry in the book he
found only one bottle, 'so that there was is. short, Ile
spoke to the prisoner, Avho said, " Oh, yes, I sold him
two," and he then made an alteration is the figure. The
witness said, he could not retain him in his employment,
and also that he would expect him to return the Is. 110
found afterwards at night, that the money did not car'
respond with the entries, and from subsequent matters
that transpired, he gave the prisoner into custody.
reply to Mr. Block, Mr. Rawle said he owed the prisoner
£3 15s. Would you have been satisfied if the prisoner
had put back the shilling? I doubt very much if it
would have satisfied me. The magistrate said lie must
have the gentleman (Mr. Dale) who paid the prisoner
the half-crown, before he could proceed further in the
case. The prisoner was then remanded to this day.

•YESTERDAY

YESTERDAY'S MARKETS,

LIVERPOOL CORN.—There was a good attendance
of millers and dealers at to-day's market, and, with less
depression, and more disposition to secure purcha.es at
the present reduced rates, a good consumptive business
took place in wheit, at an average decline upon the.weelc
of 6,1 per bushel. There was less pressure to sell fl I
Western realised 40s, and Ohio 423 6(1, in qua,v 107;
Spanish obtained 645; the reduction since this day weeX
being is 6d per barrel and 23 per sack. Oats in litivil-r1
request, at Id to 2d decline since Tuesday last. OatnVa;
almost unsaleable ; 31s 6(1 was accepted for common, and
34s for extra qualities. Beans Is to is 6d per qr on the
week ; Egyptian sold in small lots at 39s to 39s 6d. 13arll
2d to 31 per 60 lbs lower, with a slow sale. 39a, to-S9'
was paid for mixed Indian corn, in quantity; the decline
since this day week being 2s tid per 480 lbs..' The market
for this article closed with a much firmer feeling.
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been been sold at full rates ; the Madras offered Na
Coffee ; BSO bags native Ceylon, the sound portion was
bought in at 53s ; damaged sold in full proportions. Tea:
The demand has subsided; common Condon 90, quite
nominal. Rice: Dul!. Saltpetre: No charge. Popper:
536 bags Malabar sold at 58d, being rather dearer.
LEEDS CORN.—Wheat ; A fair amount of busines9
done at 5s decline. Barley is lower. Beans 2s cheaper'
Oats Is lower.

DURLIN CORN.— A small market; things extremely
depressed, and prices still lower. Wheat fully 2s 6d lower•
Oats and barley is lower. Very little business done, find none at all in Indian corn.
CORK BllTTEß.—Firsts, nil, 114 s ; Seconds, 80, 11 ls;
Thirds, 230, 98s; Fourths, 345, 90s; Fifths, 45, 825;
Sixths, 4,70 s.
CORK PROVISION.—Red wheat, 355; barley, 18s 6d ;
oats, 12i 9(1 ; park, 395.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
OUNDLE
ESTERDAY.
HANDICAP STEEPLE CHASE.
... 1 I Ploughboy . 2 Odiham
Eleven ran.
SELLING STEEPLE CHASE.
1 I Good Lad....
Eight ran.
FARMERS' STEEPLE CHASE.
1 I Cranbrook...
Four ran.
rFOXHUNTERS' STAKES.
York, You're Wanted 1 I Express
Four ran.

Torn Gurney

Lincoln.

Little Yeoman

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL, JANumtv 23.
WIND YESTERDAY—East.
HIGH WATER—HEMoA7II.2A2N—Morn.,—BHOIIINte ft. I i 5
Sappho, Paraiba.
•
ARRIVED.
Jan. 22.—Gleaner, Aveiro—Tamega, Lisbon—Boulta, Bilboa—""
Lavenia, Casablanca.

SAILED.
Jan. 2l.—Dina Immechena. Schiedan. Jan. 22.—ManIratifirt
Now York—Alciope. Africa—Kahmazo . Savanna—M. J. Ward,
Northern Ch ef. and Sir Charles. New Orleans—Amazon. Dunkirk.
—Lyra. and Wateree, Charleston—Velocidade, Buenos Ayres---
Sarah Park, Philade'piiia—C, R,th Brend, New York—Monoul‘r
Galveston—Capitol. Baltimore—Araxes (s.s.), Alexandria—Roscoe,
Aden—Adelaide, Gibraltar —Amazon, Constantinople—Sardinian,
Melbourne—Rosanna, Leghorn—Star, Figuera—Madrelino, ao' Bloomer, Havana—Mantura, Havre.

OUTPORT,i.
Queenstown, Jan. V.—Arrived—Robert Whiteway, Valparaiso."
Star, Callao—Denzenzano, Terceira—Sarah, from Leghorn tO
DOlin, windbound—Maria, Halden.
Greenock. Jan. 21.—Arrived—Vixen, Marseilles.
Sailed
Salecia, for Buenos Ayres.

Deal, Jan. 22.—Arrived—Incas, Liverpool. . -
MARITIME EXTRACTS.
Liverpool, Jan. 22.—The schooner Alma, of St. John, N,8,, wag
passed, Dec. 31, in lat. 3 N., lon. 37 W., waterlogged and aball^
doned, by the Sappho, arrived here.
Drogheda.sJan. 22.—The Independence (supposed Independence.
Marshall, trona Liverpool to New Orleans), was wrecked this mort34
ing near Drogheda. Crew saved.
Belfast, Jan 22.—The iron schooner Airdee, of and from Gng: gow to Oporto, when proceeding out of this Lough last nioll"
sprung a I,,ak and sank. Crew s: red.
Queenstown, Jan. 22—Duke of Bronte, from Moulmein. lost
mast, mizentopmast, boats, bulwarks, stanchioes, wheel, erc.,
hdeurcinheri
Christian
ivy.husoulottht.e. easfrtomra I
vet,
pool to Newcastle, whic t drove 0., shore at Colonsay, t as bees
canted over on her starb )ard side, and found much
~more dam . Cite
than exttv ted. tier 1 eel is o. t.
Constantinople, Jan. s.—The Arabat, from Liverpool which
waf
on shore near Tenedos, was destroyed by Are, Dec. 31, with a larl3"
portion of her cargo on board.
Ben Muica Dheu, from London at Lisbon, for Bahia, drove of!
shore during a gale on the night of the 13th of January, and well
have to be ightened to be got off. No serious damage had taken
place to the 16th. _

A q .antity of wreck. with some barrels IPParr ntly containiC%
tallow or lard. were passud.otf Tuskar, Jan. 20, by the Minh° (s.s.)
and Seville,
Falmouthwith loss of topmat‘t.l.—Arrwed—Leonor, from Liverpool for Cad'.
,

SPOKRN,

Fucasia, from Liverpool in tat. '''''' lon. 9 W., Jan. 15.-1;0°1.
net. from Mairas to Liverpool, in lat. 6 N.. lon. 23 W., Dec.
d (Ship), f.r Liverp9ol, in ht. 25 N., lon. 35 W. Dec :22'
James Armstrong, htnce to Calcutta, in lat. 3 s 6
Oct. 13.

FEIGOTS.
Forence Graham, hence R
a Nt
Rio BeP
ntoß.
William Owen sailtd from Rio Bento for Fernando Po and lA'ret.
pool, Nov. 10.

_
Oneida (s.s,), Morton, from Ma'ta at Constantinople.
Taman (s.s.), from Santander at Constantinople.
Governor, Beley, from Table Bay for Liverpool, Nov. 21.
Prompt, Roe;
Helen Lindsay, Barnes, from Moulmein at Table Bay, fo4repair"
bound to Liverpool.
Rajah, Robb; and Flora, Withers, all IfroulPi
cutta; and Anne Porter, M'Cann, from Mauritius—all at st. Helen
and sailed for Liverpool.
Gibson Craig, Ellis, from Calcutta at St. Helena, for London
Cluny, hence at Belize.
Surpass, Sherries, hence at Constantinople,

DEATH.
On the 20th instant, Eraanus Mullen, aged 25 years, after a 01 PO
and severe illness.

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Births, Marriages, and Deaths, are only inserted when se
t to
our Office duly authenticated.

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