Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-03 00:00:00

N°°d's Asylu

Mr. Lei

TART TT

of North-

..ney he has
gentleman-4
in his habits and conduct, and
has never shown any symptoms of unsoundness of mind.
About six o'clock on Tuesday morning he knocked at the
servant's bedroom door and called them ‘,” -
a girl, named Louisa Cooke.
self quickly and went out.' In a -nit._
girt heard a scuffle on the stairs and a
. .

years, dressed. her-

or two the other
. cry of " Murder."
Stie looked out, but could see nothing, and having
called out, " Wliat is the matter," received no answer.
:gm returned into the roam to dress herself, leaving
tlin door partly open, and in a minute or two Dr
llownall, ix his shirt sleeves, looked into the room, and
said, " Make haste ;. get assistance ; some one, has
murdered her," and then re,-

hasgir 1
ml iltrad.
ired to his own room,
Serg,eant Pope, of the police, was
tely called in,'aud. on going to Mr. Leete's bed-
room.he found the poor girl Cooke lying dead upon the
floor, with a fearful.wzMid in her throat, from which
i!ranslahregae.
jilt:int
wM'eads.terl,'hhee
dered.ine • I must di,e;',' having repeated which two or
1 . • .
three times, she fell down dead. The policeman imine-
Aately proceeded to Dr_Pownall's bedroom, which was
;10ch,,-d, and as .he eOuld get-no reply on requesting that
htietyrooomf taelcofilairahaidn.gfl'o'
the. door might be opened, he burst it open. Ile found
Dr.. Pownall sitting on the bed, partly undressed ;ibis
shirt was spotted with.bleod, and lying on
.the dressing
table was a razor with blood on the blade and handle-
Pope apprehended. him on the charge of murdering the
girl, to which Dr.. Pownall made .no reply, but quietly
dressed himself and proceeded to the police-station.
At the inquest, Mary. Ann Fryer, fellow-servant of
the deceased, and policeman Pape, having deposed to
the above facts, Dr. Pownall,• who had not hitherto
spoken, but sat at the table shading his eyes with his
hands, said slowly, and in a deep voice, "I can tell
you; I unfortunately did it. I .can hardly assign any
I felt I was bound to do something, and I
resist it."

motive

The jury immediately returned a verdict of " Wilful
murder h and Dr. Pownall was committed for trial at.

the next assizes,

He was removed to Gloucester county prison this

mornIUZ

The Unfortunate girl is the only child of her parents,
who are poor persons residing' near Berkeley. -

---40.--

. .
TASMANIAN EMIGRATION:—The second party of emi-
grants despatched by the Tasmanian emigration agency,
consisting of 148 souls, chiefly single women accustomed
to domestic service, left Gravesend on Friday last, in the
ship Hooghly, for Hobart Town.

• GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—Her Majesty'ri emigra-
tion commissioners chartered, on Thursday afternoon,
the three following ships, for the conveyance to Madras
'and Bombay of the families of soldiers now in India,
viz:, the Statesman, to sail from PlYmouth, for Madras,
at. £l5 6s. per statute adult ; the Cossipore, from
Gravesend, for Bombay, at £l4 2s. 6d. ; and the Euxine,
from Southampton, for Madras, at £15.165. 6d.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT IDLE, NEAR BuAnron.D.---On
Thursday morning the engine tenter at Grimshaw's
woollen mill, Idle, near Bradford, but whose name we
have not learnt, was scalded to death. Re was in the
engine-house, and near the cylinder, when something
gave way, and a dense volume of steam escaped, which
instantly enveloped the deceased, he being at once both
scalded and suffocated, and died almost immediately.

GALLANT RESCUE.—The Aberdeen thurnai says:—
" Some days ago an elderly man went into the Dee, near
the Wellington Suspension Bridge, to bathe. Shortly
afterwards, Major Robertson, the officer in command of
the barracks here, whilst crossing the bridge, observed
that the bather had got quite beyond his, depth, and was

struggling ineffectually for his life. The gallant officer
hastened to the river side; and in a very brief time un-
dros.ied, 'and went into the water and TescuecT the poor
man, who must otherwise 11.4\T to peribhed."

A NARROW ESCAPE.—On Taesday mornuig, one a the
vans belonging to the, Great Northern. Railway Company
was conveying a load of silo from the Bull and Mouth,
St. Martin's-le-Grand; Ito the -King's7cioss station, and
while passing. through Cal thorpe-street, Gray's Inn-road,
owing to the lopes having become loosened by the )08d/-
dation of the.load--,-a towering one—seven of the bales
fell into the street, and were -Within a hair's-breadth of
crushing a lady and gentleman in a cab which was

passing at the moment. It is but a very short time
since an empty cask, in its fall from a similarly loaded
wagon, killed a gentleman in King William-street,
London Bridge'.

AMUSEMENTS IN LIVERPOOL—Open from ten in
the morning until ten at night. Allscip's Wax-Work
exhibition. All the kings and queens, from and in-
cluding William the Conqueror down to Queen
Victoria*; also princes
,and princesses, dukes, duel►esses,
lords, eminent statesmen; warriors, pets, divines ;
also all the most . noted personages 'of the past and
present ages, &c. Allsop's sculpture galleries, containing
upwards of 3,000 statues, selected from all parts of the
world, varying from five to twenty feet in height.
Allsop's dioranuc, panoramic, cosmoramie, .and stereo-
scopic views, of intense interest. Allsop's musical pro-
menade. The above attractions are now combined,
forming one large establishment, in the immense and
magnificent building known as the Teutonic-ham,
next door but one to the County Court, Lime-street,
Liverpool, and nearly opposite the Adelphi Hotel, and
is open to the public at 6d. each; children ander ten
years of age, 3d: each. - Mr. Allsop's- exhibition has
been pronounced by the press of Liverpool, Lsndon,
and elsewhere; to be the 'most perfect, superbly-

magnificent, and largest establishment in the wOrld-La
fact that cannot possibly be contradicted. Be' sure to
observe the name, "Allsop," at the -entrance. Sole
proprietor, Mr. in. Allsop.

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SIITPWRECK.-011
Thursday a meeting. of the Royal. National 'Life-boat
Institution *as held at' its house, 'John-street, Adelphi ;
Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., in the chair. A reward of
£6 10s. was voted to the, crew of the institution's life-

boat stationed of Arklow, on the Irish coast, for putting
off with the view of rescuing the crew of a vessel which
was stranded during stormy and foggy weather on Ark-
low Bank, on the 23rd ult. On approaching the vessel,
however, the crew declined to leave her, believing
that after the ship was lightened she would .be got
off. A reward of five pounds was also voted to
two constables and another man for ,swimming off
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and rescuing, at some risk of life, two monks who,with
their servants, had been capsized from their boat in a
squall of wind off Roundstone, on the coast of Donegal,

flora at t

boy were observe(