Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-16 00:00:00

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a complaint at the police station, and
went with a police-officer to the north end of
town, and they got the pigs there. The pe
told him that two of the pigs died, which
to be correct. John Crelly, warehousema_
Messrs. Crossfield and Co., said he bought the pigs fron
the prisoner about four weeks ago, and gave hin
£5 12s. 6d. for them, which was more than their value
The prisoner made a long statement in his defence, in
which he said that he had been before his worship for
forty years, and had lost a great number of pigs by cho-
lera, the black sickness ; and all the diseased that ever
followed a porker had befallen his stock, and he thought
it might be as well to part with the captain's pigs,
they should meet with the same fate. This r&olntio
was the more strengthened by two of the p
died, and as he was in tiu
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for seven day

CHARGE OF MURDER

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A little girl, about fifteen years of age, named Mary
Ann Gibbons, was brought up on the charge of having
wilfully caused the death of a boy, named John Thomp-
son, a child about four years and a-half old, by drow
ing him in the canal. Mr. Cobb was for the prose(
tion, and Mr. Bluck for the defence of the priso
Mr. Cobb said : I

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the prosecution, and I am instructed by
.11Ir. Thompson
who is a police-officer, and the prisoner is charged wi
the wilful murder of 1

dinary case. The circumstances at,
extraordinary. The prisoner was
Thompson, _ and amongst her duties

It is a very extrao
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charge of the child. It appears that, on the 21st July,
the little boy, who was four years and a-half old, was in
the street (Conway-street, Everton), perfectly well, at
half-past eight o'clock in the evening. He was a deli-
cate child. He was seen by his mother in the street at
that hour, and it was then clear day. A very few
minutes after that time the child was missing, and Mrs.
Thompson told the prisoner to go and search for the child.
It appears that she did go in search of the child, and here is
a most remarkable and important thing. It will be
shown that she found the child, and no doubt hid it and
then returned to its mother, and said she
it. Mrs. Thompson then directed the cy

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say about her being in search of a child. She told
him that she wanted to go to Bankfield-street,
and that she was going to see her mother. She
was sent to Rose-hill station, and we find her on the
brink of the canal, After some little conversation with
Fox, she saw something in the water, and she called his
attention to it. It turned out to be the body of a child,
the child of Mrs. Thompson she was in search of. That
would bring us to about ten o'clock. The child was
taken to the dead-house. She knew the child, and could
give every description necessary. Now. siinnwa. that

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ihe had not been the guilty party, she would have gone tl
to the mother and told her that the child was found ; E
but she does not present herself to Mrs. Thompson till Iv
about three o'clock in the morning, when she told her bi
that the child had been drowned. When taxed with w
the charge, she makes an extraordinary statement. She tt
charges a woman named Leatham. But now she makes cc
a very different statement, and says that all she told at at
the coroner's court with respect to this woman was untrue; Al
and lam told that all she said against that woman was fi(
unfounded. I will prove that the child was alive at
alf-past eight o'clock ; that the prisoner was seen at dc
loncaster-street at nine n.,„1 . _ _