Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-02 00:00:00

CORONER'S COURT.

Yesterday the Coroner held the following inques's :
on the bo 'y of a boy, 12 years old, named Thomas
Ellison Be was engaged at Mr. Vernon's ship-building-
yard, and on Monday he fell by accident into the hold of
a ship, and died from the effects. Verdict, "Accidental
death."

On the body of Ma-ga-et Ed wards, the wife of a carter.
She was 40 years old, at d was mach given to drink, and
whilst in a state of intoxication the jumped nut of a
window in Leeds-street, into the yard, and died from the
effect of the injuries. Verdict, "That she killed herself
whilst in a state of temporary insanitj, brought on by
drink."

On the Indy of a female child that WM found in a field
.n Chureh--treet, Everton:and the jary founl a verdict of
Wilful murder againt some one uukuJwn."

BURGLARY AND MURDER,

About two o'clock on Wednesday morning a shocking
murder took place at Braman, fmr miles south of Stock-
port. A farmer and grazier named James Henderson,
aged about 60 years, lived at a farm in Robin's-lane,
Brarnall, called trardy's farm, and about two o'clock in
the morning the faenily were alarmed by hearing the
discharge of a pistol or gun in his bedroom, and the
unfortunate man was afterwards found in bed with the
left half of the upper jaw shot away, nod lying in a pot
of blood. Hardy's farm consists cf about 200 acres of
land, rented from Colonel Davenport, of Bramall-hall,
Cheshire, about a mile distant The house is a god
siz,d tenement, fronting to a garden and small lawn on
the south, and wi h an entrance from the gar len, and also
a second entrance f.cm the farmyerd at the beck. Mr.
Henderson slept is a bedroom on the first floor, and over
a font sitting room, near the hoed of the stairs ; his
(Hest son, James Henderz,on, who is a cashier at a
whole ale grocery house in Maechester, slept in a
bedroom to th 3 lef, of his father's oa the settle Tor;
and Mrs. Henderson, the wife, who has been
some time in ill health, slept with a married daughter in a
bedroom on the right. A younger son, Thomas Hender-
son, aged 26, slept with a servant man and boy in an attic,
and a featele servant slept in an attic. Two Irish lads,
who had been working on the farm from June last, slept
in a granary over the kitchen, having an entrance from
stone steps outside the house, at the west end. The eldest
son says he was awoke at about two o'clock in the m ruing
by the discharge of a pis,ol in his father's room, and, get-
ting out of bed, he took down a doable barrelled gun that
was in his own bedroom. On opening his bedroom door,
which is opposi e the to of the stairs, he saw on the land-
ing, half way down the stairs near a window there, a tall
man, at whom he instantly discharged one barrel
of the gun. The man gave vent to an excla•
oration of pain or alarm, and immadietely ran down the
remaining six steps. Immediately after his, his father's
bedroom door was opened, aid a light being extinguished
at the same moment three men ru hod out and went down
the stairs. Tho whole family wore awake by
this time, and raised cries of alarei. The
younger son having come down from the attic then joined
his brother, and having reloaded the gnu they went down
stairs and thence outside the granary door, arousing the
two lads who slept there. They found no trace whatever of
the men who had been in the house, and there is reason to
fear th st the man shot at entirely escaped, as the charge of
small shot fired was partly fiend in the wall by the side of
the window, a small poruon of it only having struck an
upper pane of the window and broken the glass. As
far as can be judged, the shot was too high for any
portion to have taken effect on a man staeding upon
the landing. Oa the two sons re-entering the hoists they
found that a sitting room door hed base opened, and a
leather writing case be!ouging to the elder had been
f e.ced, or cut open, and from it £l4 103 in gold had been
abstracted. In the fedier's bedroom there was au order
on the Bank of Scotland for £lOO, and a receipt for £93
103. which had been lodged in the District Rink of
Stockport on the previous thy These were in the drawer
of a small dressing table, locked up, and there was no
appearance cf th t drawer having been disturbed. Mr.
Henderson had held his annual sale of a ock on Mondey,
and had sold 38 head of cattle, for which he had received
about £2lB, and it is supposed that the know edge of
this money hav:ng been received was the inducement
to the burglary. There a-e several very mysterious
circumstances about the robbery and murder, bet wlach
may probably by cleared up hereafter. One is that
no door cr window had been bro%en open, se that at
least one of the barglars must have been concealed
on the premises to have let the callers in. unless
by some accident one f the doors was left unfastened
Another of these circumstances is that a sheep d g kept in
the house, and which that night was in the younger son's
attic bedroom, did not bark or give any alarm. The third
is the motive for the murder. The deceased was found
lying on his pillow, and if the object of the burglars was
plunder the firing of a pistol was the surest way to alarm
the family and defeat their own purpose. It is possible,
however, that the old man opened his eyes while the men
were in his room bef ge they had time to break open the
drawers. and the murder was effected to secure retreat
before he could lay hands upon any of them.
The family, upon the discovery of the murder, commeni-
cate i as quickly as possible with the county police, and
Mr. Chief Superintendent Andrews, of Stockport, was on
the premises about 4 o'clock. Later in the day detective
inspectors Maybury and Buckley, from Manchester, visited
the house. A posl mortent exeminatien was made of the
body by Mr. Graham and his son, su-r ons, ofStock-
port, who extracted about a dozen No. shot from the
head, a portion of it having entered the. brain. Part of
a tooth had also been driven into the brain by the charge,
and several teeth had been forced through the left she• k,
and were found on the room floor. Mot of the family
state that they heard the noise of feetontheneso), andstaircase
afterthat
the firing of the second shot (that by the
there
"theme seodutnd to
bewas three f j ()_
ed r foonner,
as
though
persons by t
ht
eh
re noise,ren%
though
were without shoes, or had something tied over theta to
lighten the sound. There is at present not the slightesth
Atfirst
clue to the perpetrators of this shocking outrage.
suspicion fell upon a servant man dischhae wasdischarged
foundfror to
'the
house on Saturday night, but on enquiry
ahti eg
()booed ndiasttanhcoemfer
mallannyi goh th.
in custody
is situated at
for the
Henderson, the eldest
murder of his father. erT
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James Hender

At LtIVI3 & CO If PANT'S Ra
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BOTS are CLOTHED from the Ages of Six to Twenty Years

Sir E. B. Lytton and Mr.. Disraeli bath delivered
speeches on Wednesday, the one at St. Albans
and the other at Newport Pagnell. Sir Edward spoke
enthusiastically of what might be accomplished by the
military prowess of the South of England, and advocated
the formation of volunteer corps• Mr. Disraeli took a
gloomy view of the news brought by the last mail. Both
orators were agreed that there had been mismanagement
somewhere, and that the government were to blame.

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