The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-24 00:00:00

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THE MURDER AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY

EAR ROTHERHAM

On Monday an inquest was opened before Mr. Badger,
'&ative to the death of Mr. Jahn Wh?tnkpr_

and cattle de

trg, who was attacked and robbed

of £2OO on the previous Thursday, at Dalton Brook,
near" Rotherham. The jury. returned a verdict of " Wilful
murder against some person or persons unknown," and' re•

commended that an application should be mai

Great excitement ha

een caused

urhooi b

!eatli,as ha was

known

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district, and was universally respected, Deceased was of in-
dependent means, and was probably worth £lO,OOO or
£20,000, though he still pursued his business. He was of
eccen!ric and somewhat penurious habits as regarded his own
household, but of a kindly „genexous disposition, always
ready to give his money or his services to any one in need.
He was unmarried, and his property passes to distant rela-
tives. The bludgeon with which he Was . assaulted has been
found since his death. It consists of a stick of ash, topped
with two pieces of square jagged iron and lead, firmly
rivetted together. There are marks of blood on it. Ch'ing
to the remarkable thickness of deceased's skull, the bones
escaped fracture, and the surgeon in attendance having been
thus led to consider the deceased as not in imminent danger,
his dying deposition was not made in legal form before a
magistrate, consequentlyi not a syllable of, all the important
statements made by deceased before his death can be brOught-

forward as evidence in the event of any persons being tried for
the murder. There•ara several circumstances known to the
police
.which it would not be prudent. to make public at

present.

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has offered a reward
of £6O for the -discovery of the murderers of Thomas
Ryan, caretaker of the Clonmel Luntatic Asylum.
AWE' car, IC SUDDEN DEATR.—Accounts from Limerick
bring the following account of a melancholy incident
which abruptly terminated a railway meeting held in that
city on Friday last large meeting assembled in
Newcastle for the purpose of promoting railway commu-
nication between the town and Rtthkeale. The attendance
was laPge. The Right Hon. Lord Menteagle was called
npon to preside. His lordship then clearly and forcibly
stated the objects of the meeting. Just as the meeting
was about to go on with the business for which it was
convened, Mr. Thomas E. Davenport, J.P. who was-to
have taken a prominent part in the proceedings, and who
was in the court-house, was observed to become extremely
weak and unable to articulate. He was at once conveyed
to a house in the neighbourhood of the court-house, and
those who were present nearly all left at the same time.
Restorative and all the appliances of medical skill were
used, but in about 20 minutes Mr. Davenport breathed
his last, to the evident dismay of many who assembled
and of those who regretted his awfully sudden demise.
Ho was agent to the extensive estates of the Earl of
Clare, of Mr. Pigott, of the Queen's County, and of Mr.
Caulfield's. The meeting was not held in consequence of
this very lamentable event:

THE POISONING CASE AT HACKNEY.—VERDICT or
WILFUL MunnFn.—Mr. Baker, the coroner, has con-
cluded an investigation at the runswick Arms Tavern,
Hackney, relative to the death of Elizabeth Gaylor, aged
30 years, who died from the effects of a large quantity of
Sulphate of potass, purchased for her by her husband,
William Gaylor, a journeyman carpenter, residing at No.
2, Camomile_terrace, Wells-street, Hackney. The evidence
given at the former investigation by the coroner was
merely a repetition of that taken at the Worship-street
Police-office on Friday last. Or. Letheby, to whom the
stomach, &u., of the deceased had been submitted for'
analysis, completed the case by deposing that deceased
died from the effects of a large dose of sulphate of potass,
a drug very little used in medicine in England, except in
the composition of Dover's Powder, but very popular on
the Continent, where it had often formed the subject of
legal investigation. The coroner, in summing up, observed
that the case was clearly one of wilful murder against
the husband, who had been engaged in a felonious act,
whereby deceased had lost her life, and if a woman took
poison to produce miscarriage, and fatal consequences
ensued, she was guilty of self-murder. The jury having
deliberated, said that they had unanimously agreed to a
verdict of " Wilful Murder" against William Gaylor, and
'also a verdict of " Felo-de-se " against Elizabeth Gaylor.
The coroner then issued a warrant for the committal of
the accused.to Newgate ; and a similar document was
placed in the hands of the summoning officer of Hackney,
for the midnight burial of the deceased (Elizabeth
Gaylor), whose body will be interred without the usual
funeral service.

HANGING A BOY IN SPORT, AT BATLEY.—At the West
Riding magistrates' court, Leeds, on Tuesday, three little
boys, named Joshua Firth, Benjamin Preston, and Abra.
ham Sharp, all employed in Mr. Jubb's mill. at Botley,
were charged with hanging a little boy named John Harris,
by which foolish and imprudent freak, the lad now lies in
e millo t
in wthaes
Friday, the 3rd instant, the four boys were working at
a most dangerous condition at the Leeds
cantafin‘rvemoraukrny.a.ei
J.Otin.
Mr. Jubb's mill, and had jest left off for breakfast.
is
Harris was taking his meal in the top storey of the mill,
in which there is a crane, when the three lads came up
andwoulsda ihdatnhgeyh i wmoiunl cpl
lialacengorlv Palmer.
11liam Firth
Palmer, olsal
nidi atriirri,st they
prisoners, heedless of the screams and struggles of Harris,
ntedidme the crane. was set going
purpose to draw up a pack of W- '
thacishihnogayt.he
Trhoep
nsequently drawn up to the beam
the floor. The prisoners became
The chain of the crane then caught Harris aiu
speak so as to give an alarm. The lad fell
and remained on the top of the lower storey,
him, and compressed him so tightly, that lie could
woo,, and the little boy
nsfafwoasaorinuwort
coal
nict(kmsaticheys, succeeded
.eosa
rionu nadt
about eight feet
affrighted, and ran
dreadfully
before he was discovered and rescued. He is now lying
in the infirmary, suffering from a fracture of the left arm,
remand the lads for another week, in
and a serious injury to the spine, which has resulted in
paralysis of the lower extremities. After hearing the
the beam for .an hour
evidence of Dr. Samuel Smith, the magistrates decided to
order to see how the
poor lad Harris would then be, and refused to accept bail
for their appearance.