The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-07 00:00:00

APPAILINO MURDER IN LIVIRPOGI.

LIVERPOOL, Nev em
The most painful excitement was produced it, the
neighbourhood of Limo-street, and the streets sd" •
consequent upon the report that a man named John Gibteir.
a butcher, residing in Four-court, Bolton-street, Copper',
bill, had attempted to murder his wife and several er tid
children by cutting their throats. The following sppid ti
'ba the facts of the case. Gibbons occupies a etch d,
qt
John's-market, but owing to reverses in butanes' had '
been in a state of mental debility. Ho came down etelid
usual this morning to breakfaat, followed shortly etteredr„
by Ms wife. About eight o'clock the latter was C4Miag deers
Stang with sense tea things, when her husband put his id
round bees iik and ddid, Como, Mazy, let me give ph,
kiss" and Irbile in the act of kissing her he cut bar thrd
with a razor, inflicting a severe gash. she rut to,
diately to the street, crying Murder," with her rice di
clothes covered with blood. A policeman was promptly ai
the spot, to whom she stated, as well u she was Mk, ski
had occurred, and he hastened to the house, and LA rtes
unfortunate woman, then nearly itiounible, had
off to the Infirmary in a cab. Meanwhile the era
of murder was going on inside the house. This arecki
man, after the attack upon Ins wife, went up to the b,
room where his five innocent children, the eldest o.Jy
did., were dieping, and cut the throats of
bur years, and Joseph, aged one year and a half. Be 4-
a desperate attempt upon the throat of his eldest dud*
Margaret, but she, after a powerful resistance, got swayed"
him; and his eldest son, John, aged 11 years, wrened sit
razor one of his father's hand and succeeded in makieg
escape and giving= abuse. Upon the arrival of medic:4We.
once, the boy Thomas wee found quite dead, and Jeerph mt
very precarione state. Hie wound was sewn up, end he int
taken to the Infirmary, but no hopes are entertained et
recovery. The cries of the two surviving children, ea kid,
ing of their brother's death, were heartrending, the lad kit
having during the day had frequent convulsive fits.
bona was at once captured and taken to Bridewell. He cis
fared to having done the horrid deed and made nu reline%
A largemob of people followedhint to time Bridewell. The hour
occupied by the prisoner is now in the charge of the peke,
' It has since an early boar been surrounded by a large au
• of people. The prisoner is 46 years of age.

ZIATIMATION OP THZ peutotern.
The pri John Gibbons, was brought before lb
Newfield at the polite court, at one o'clock. He await
ditieeted and depressed, and gazed vacantly MOH the OH*
Yr. Cb h, superintendent of police, amid the Own
with the murder of In. son Josephthat warmieg
It appeared that the father and mother and fleet:Jl:bee dot
is one bed in a single room; the mother got up we",
morning at half-peat tight o'clock, and wee followed has
diately by her beaband. He walked to the stainemehl
leading down into the cellar kitchen, and he kinibt
After he did that witnesses would prove that he drow s
acmes her throat. Immediately after be tinsel Wilk
daughter Margaret, and he laid her mos 1,, lib
cut her throat, end the throat of his mit Jsar
who is now dead. The others were In the
Margaret wee very likely to die. Whether theVlitil
recover wee uncertain. He stated that the prism hi,
stall in St. John's-market, but business had hem imp*
able, and be had got into elifficulties, and been driven red
the market. His wife had taken care of the smile Is
last two or three months. During that taw cis ptfna
had principally remained at home. The wourdoipsion
others of the primmer 's family spoke in high uraemia
kindness of his disposition towards them, and of his pm
good deportment. fie wee a perfectly sober mo, sly
been • teetotaller for 23 years. A surgeon bad said
himpo in liridesceU, and certified that he wee labour* on
prisoner
inaanity.
The prisoner was remanded for seven days, unbitten*
of the injuries should be known.
It is since reported that the wife died thie afternoon
Infirmary of the wounds received.

' LV THE

The following ore some of the particulars of c
application made to a magistrate no longer ago the ys
ember last, by one "J. 8.," a respectable me, tuna
about forty acres of land in Hockharn, one of the me
parishes of England :
J. IL—Your worship, I come to ask your Adria*
corning of my wife.
" Mr. —.— What's the matter?
"J. 11.—Why, your worship, she'e harassed
night and day—continual worryng—like wind teasing le
stomach, and like a sow with all Ewer young pigs le
her to pleose.
" Mr. —.—l don't see what I can do for that
deal you send for a doctor ?
"J. B.—Doctor, sir? We've been to all the
about. We've spent every shilling to get remedy. M
holly know it, poor deers. We're wholly done up.
" Mr. —.—Still I don't see how I can help you.
J. B.—Well, air, it's thought by men, people is
that wife's bewitched; that it's put ups
-dispose persons through envy. There's • *
named' L—,l who got turned out when we worn pas
and we think it's through them that they met old Mrs. et
dolt
" Mr. —.—Who is Mrs. C. P
" J. 8.-She's an old woman, your woop, Ida
near the Lion, and she have the therein. ng yin
and I thought I'd step down and ask your worship eln
you would give me a grant to have her proved.
"Mr. ._—How is she to be proved
"J. 11.—WIty, sir, I thought you could have hrsea
I've heard say that, if they he witches, and if yea*
line (not to do than any harm, but just to swim 'en), ta
If they be whim, they won't sink. I've baud say Ile
there was •geademm at who had ono swam !alb
rem. I bait know exactly how it finishrd, but I
is Met Nwlm after it. He had it done right
Her arcs ems er. They tied her clothes shod
legs and veal harameat. She had • line pot round
waist, name ea nth side, to keep her from sinking V
we ea weight wanner, but if she e • witch they met
bar no how. Old L—, who done it, jumped ca
bat couldn't aka her no how • when her head was down
bath was up, =dahlia her heels was down her heed we
They do my, year worship, that sic folks are •
about to the wceid, end if you have so many as elm we
this or emg sem peekh, they do a sight of hum. Alwe
every ens Whis wee arywife says they Dever seed sock aim
plaint, and all out that she is certainly bewitched. h
fare (appears) bunted night and day. She fare &Mimi
a crisp. She say 'Will, I can't lie-still—l might as mil
to mink a bladder in water.' I do hope your washipel
grant the pollee to take old Mrs. C. all of a sudden—bye"
prise like—and take her to a pit, and swim her (itot tekr
her). If she's an upright woman, shell sink, raga
don't rink it'll prove her guilty."
(After an argument, in which the magistrate in Isia •
deavoured to combat the absurdity of the foregoing I*
went)
" ,J. B. (returning to the charge)—Well, your wenhipt
least I bops you'll take her toe room, and have her MO
said see if she have anything bed about her.
" Mr. —,—What she likely to have bad sheathe
"J. B. Why, air, some say that they have impede
than,, but I don't know.
Mr. —.—What is pn imp ?
"J. B.—l don't know, sir, unless it be SOM. bad *de
other from the power of old Satan, but I never seed moo
"Mr. —.—But now tell us why you tin ups he
old woman Mrs, C. in partieuler ?
"J. 8.-11.1 tell your worship how we tome silt M
witty* saved to mud for the woman —, of
wondesdal clever in three things. She came end tease
takesoomposilcular liquid end put it in shortie witherwel
the hi* oat of the noddle of my wife's neck, and tbr 102 W
of her gow. nab and toe nails (these we rut quite closeted
seernoid horseshoe antis. (These yet we 10
names width go from one generitiou to snothw, them
always menething to be learned out of the weakest and igir
rents Well, sir, we put the bottle on the* Oa
welts while V. boiling end burning, and what sot;
when it banes w looks out of the window, load the 000'
Nod lima Mende before us. Lad indsv Diodes,'
um& gat my wife did this; and after elle Iwo it Miff
oat elbed, es dm do sometimes, to take a drop athlete.
little magaseie, end she looked out of the window, el*
she saw Om Teem C— standing before the widow,
moat lossialahle hoar, in the moonlight, an WV"
state."
A Mrs. F—, a woman residing in the adjoisioll,
also bore the following testimony to the power of tie "5"
One The Lord he only know all about dues daff
bet I haw, this, air, that when I was a girl then
wild Need nest door to us, and afraid enough vs 110
1/r.
"Kr. —.—Whet did she do ? •
*Mee. !.—Her name we Betsy To Sbe
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drialle• ORS and pip and geese, and other 1;
lea, atom *I offended her. All the farmers Irma!:
bar and grewlser anything she asked for; if cot, dcuL
Mite all Mr things run wild over the r,
wild fill dim mull lice, which went and coo 811.0 r.
as she went pima or not. The first of my fair IT
kr oat was IMO blif when she cut up his (MU% NZ
Bair her sal he would 'spurn her? Be 60
yhis hi.6oooll
Mak bat ha vow nothing or toe;
SI 168 11111.11 OWs of nothing human ; and Yet ""
klebsd her, lag there old woman flew yard, Liu.
itlist who he went hone, my father found
nog ems barking sad jumping Idl.of
MOM_ Myhrher eat • pleas off their sera ani
ii
Nom Ibmi up is dr fro, mad Mid my aollw
ebbs, mg la beemenettoiptaktothewitchifika
ewes. The mile some hshaing to the door,
mother far sem p . She had her lingers natal
end bleedhigdta dish
" Mr. had eat her fingers?
" Mrs. F—. —Why, Fir, the enemy ealla4 WA!!
that herself when my father stirred the pigs; ads lonr,
in the fire, sad told my mother to go tedium VOL
upon her, and she cut her fingers is Oat 7,1
dcedlhl way. My mother was a mule-hauled 0002,,
as the witch stood remaining end begging for
mother looked out of the st;ndow and gore sr Sr_
and spoke to her. By so doing my mother moo u•,,,„1
out of bet own hands, and the witch got the Pe. TO
whereas, if may mother had not spoken to Lea she
have home and died. Ah I air, as I said WA"'
the speak to than."