The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-25 00:00:00

4 rouhr KILLED IN SHEFFIELD.

A distressing affair, resulting in the death of a
LT&woman named Mary Bennett, took piece in Water-
Thursday night. The deceased, who is about twenty-
tin years of ago, has been living with her husband for a
little more than a week tt the Barrel Inn, a beer house in
Water-lanie, Sheffield. 11cr husband is • eawyer by trade,
and bed tome to Sheffield in reap h of work; but, failing in
his objei t, they had intended to leave the town in the course
of yesterday. It mem, that three. women bad been lodging
at the Barrel • few nights : but the landlord. George Love-
day, finding them more disorderly even than the usual fre-
quenters of the neighbourhood, told them they mu. leave.
They continued drinking in the house, however, till about
twenty minutes to twelve at night, when they had be-
maze so uproarious with the lige. they had imbibed,
that Love&y proceeded to drive them out of the house.
They turned and ahead bite, and ho seen., to have
sent them pell-mell along the paetnge leading from the
taproom to the front of the house. This paling° in quite
dark at night, so that no permon ran recogniee another in it.
It unfortunately hammed that while Loveday was driving
the women before tam, Mrs. Bennett entered the pamege
from the street, with came food oho had been fetching for
her own and her husband's supper. She became mingled
with the three retiring women, and in the confusion and
darkness Loveday struck her • blow which felled her to the
gemnd. The three women ran out of the hoe., and Love-
day ROOll discoverer] what a terrible mistake be had made.
The trot the other ininatoe of the house learned of the effete.
was by Kling Loveday bring Mrs. Bennett in his arms into
the taproom. He said to bee husband, who was Pitting there,
" George, it's a bad job, I have hit your wife by mistake."
Bennett took cheeps of his wife, whose lip war @woollen,
whose nose wee bleeding, and who was crying an if in main.
He carried her it the bock kitchen, where she exclaimed,
led, I believe I tun a murdered woman." lie
unloosed her frock and took her bonnet off, she
crying all the time and seeming to suffer greatly
from pain. She complained particularly of her forehead and
limbs& of her head. Her husband said to her, " What's
the matter r end she replied " I um losing my reuses."
He got some cold water and a handkerchief and bathed her
bad, in which Mrs. Lovedey assisted him; but aa she
seemed only to get conic, Mrs. Loveday went and fetched
her husband, telling him the woman was dying. Loveday
came and said. " What shell I do, George t Shall I fetch
a doctor k" Bennett told him he had better do so, and he
immediately left the holm, apparently for this purpose ; but
up to lied evening he had not returned to the house. Ben-
nett, not feeling satisfied, went out himself in search of a
surgeon, but, failing to get one, returned. When he got
back ha. about half-past 12, and hie wife was just dead.
It is supposed that Loveday only struck the deceased with
hie tint, se he had no weapon in his hand when he went to
turn out the women ; but no doubt he hit her a very violent
blow, he being a passionate man, and having, it war said,
drunk heavily during the night. The unfortunate woman
had been married to Bennett about two yearn.