The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-24 00:00:00

THE SWELL MOB PEOPLE.

I)thefe."s daY
Week, gave the full details of a charge
•-•ljorteted against three persons, named Martha Lawler,
eteetb, Quaile, and John Rivers, who were
.arrested by
Pllh.e,Oncers Patrick and Eaton, on suspicion of being
.5), (1:1°U People. The prisoners were brought up ye.ster-
rfenderniand. Mr. Block, and Mr. M'Donnell, barrister,
i"erlee r,e prisone.rs. Patrick repeated his former eat;
Zncl. was cross•ex4nined by Mr. M'Donnell, a
4ar• e t out the facts were not altered in the least degree.
foligh said: There was was a very valuableh gold _
`eat it wand
with the man, and it was strongly suspected
:lieertaZas stolen. He had written to the watchmaker, to
rePlv fortrilom he made it, but he had not yet revived
4 edit '• 'le had now written to the police, in London,
eu th it. Eaton and
e watchmaker, in reference to
sail ‘'vre examined, t... 4 the latter repeated his evidence,.
Pleite:', that he saw the three ette.mntinz to pick
tl'lrchs °llend ....Surldav night week, at the Rev. H. S. B2owns
14.4 *Donnell : Was there a ovowd there:l.Yaep.;
p)ekets at was the man doing ? I saw him soundin,,onfing
Ihreu Mr• M'Donnell :If you saw me there,. I
'aide! the crowd, and that you saw me putting my handsu.
,t 411,1 rtantly
on
ladies pockets, would you take me per_
leaßji e I would, decidedly if I knew you. (Shoats f
tideitter) Mr.
M'Donnell You would?? I would,. de-
thief, Y ;, and lock you up if I knew you to be a Prot t3sionatl
toqle (Renewed laughter.) The officer was examined a
tvide,,.ength, but there was no deviation (rein his former
the th arse),
liorne, and Mrs. • Seddons (the lady who lost
e": 88), were also examined, and their evidence was just
4`4lrBe;" 48 that already published. Mr. M'Donnell then
llNeeha.ed the bench on behalf of the prisoners, in an able
(If the ' and contended that, however suspicious the conduct.
might be, there was no legal evidence
thetn, and that, therefore, they should be dischargede.
6%111'r:111.n, Lawler, was twice before convicted. Th
months
Saab ere were sent to giol as vagrants, for three
i.
ester' 4781 r. Bluck said, he was instructed by the male pr
"° give notice of appeal. •

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RED MURDER NEAR ACCRINGTON

et ju
" eloeh.r was summoned and met on Monday, at two
eingt."o, 4y
at the Whittaker's Arms, Huncoat, near
AliAc-
ce
.1.0.n' for the purpose of inquiring into the death of
_
pri J•luttall, 14 years of age, who was droned
nieit last, in a pool in a field adjoining
e- "Way rake
,_ Mill, Huncoat. A rumour prevailed on
1-41iicirer-glat that the girl had been murdered;
.and
e excitement was the consequence. A little
!lowever, and a little reflection gave a different
;I'°ll to the fatal occurrence. The story told by
lter :on!nith. a companion of deceased, and a few years
hard ao:l9*, was, that she and deceased were standing a
h"r of deceased's house, one of a row. of cottages
Just oOY, at a little after six on Friday night, having
lanie ° from their work in the mill, when two men
where "P and carried them, gagged, into the field,
bothand. thetheY attempted to take liberties with them.
to rob them , and, as a climax, threw them
far ,;'.‘o the pit of water.
ater. That she was not thrown so
hems her companion, and managed to get out and crawl
led t and give the alarm, which caused a search, and
in
lthf) ° the &ming
lead ten or of Alice Nuttall's lifeless body
fifteen minutes aster the alleged barbarity
tO adders Perpetrated. To this statement Smith ventured
that the men wore white coats, and appthlaeared. tot
v:nns. The probabilities are very much agains
;Last tr}B`°o of the occurrence ; and it seems more likely
.
Wet the now prevailing belief will prove correct, viz.,
tall le two girls, after leaving work, rambled into the
IIY fro`, a " lade). that while frolicking Nuttall acciden.
hhlon -ell, or was accidentally pushed in by her compa.
as iisiThe motives which would suggest the tale Smith
thebr.".l"' are sufficiently obvious. The only marks on
these"..q of deceased are thorn scratches on the arm, and
in such a way as to lead to the belief that she lead
ea iiieuaekwards over a thorn bush which grows
Peer Margin of the pond. There are no ap-
t'i
„be of violence ; and, indeed, it is hardly
"„r expected that two men, however hardened
aiirr,"ng, would venture to lift, from the front
irons ,"," of cottages and in the full blaze of the gaslight
„.14,1a .`"e two cottages,
girls, and carry them into a
'llr near, and atgsuch an early hour of the evening,
the b-r Poses eithei vile or cruel. It appears, also. that
alaoo,°°kkeeper of the works was on the road at the time,
noise thittY yards from the pond, and heard such. a
Plai as led him to believe there were some children
lee I ngnin the field • but the night was so dark he could
*unrile.° -00, and could not say whether there were two or
sum But to the coroner and the jury. The jury was
alirceled in accordance with a precept of Mr. H. IT
" eleek
"res, fixing Monday, 22nd December, at two
Slate as the time for holding the inquest. The jury,
and passe good men and true," were duly in attendance,
theo;ntly did they wait till it got a little dusk, and
Prace`e°, save time when the coroner should. arrive,s they
erin
teode_c_ted to view the body, accompanied by up -
44,4)7 Carswell and the sergeant of police. They
eora ed to the Wbittaker's Arms, and still the.
thiltnenr
bad not come. They waited under the belief
Phu c'hir.- nargreaves was engaged at an inquest
. at
'ookr-,,-;,_and that he had been unavoidably detained
Aoliee; than he expected. At length, about six o'clock,
*he constable Marsden was despatched to Church, and
that- "a returned, about seven, the jury were informed
courQ the inquest at Church was not till next day, and of
taat the coroner was not there. The dissatisfac-
useleuf the jury at having thus spent five precious hours
thorsslY at a roadside inn, and at being obliged to make
'Nth waY home at half-past seven, on a cold raw night,
euron,a Prospect of being next day, or the day following,
asoie"l°ned from their work and engagements on the
thankless and unprofitable errand, may be imagined.