Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-22 00:00:00

but between 9 and 10 she returned, with 1
rho, • all

nd sis

,r tattler, !nether,
sat in my room, and after a litth

while the prisoner's wife went upstairs, and burst open the
door, and brought 'some trinkets from the room, and asked
me to take care of them. About 10 o'clock the friends of
Moore went away, and'she remained in my room until

half-past one, When

,er husband cam

him in, and he went upstairs and came down immediately,
and asked who had broken open his door. His wife
nngworpd him. and said, "I did: and who had a better

right to do so than your wife

. The prisoner said, " Yes ;
you are in every sense of the word my wife. This -is the
last night you will be here. To-morrow the children are
going away where they will be well taken care of." Mrs.
Moore said nothing, but sat cryinm, and the prisoner,
after 'wrangling with my husband, bade us a good
night, and went up stairs. Mrs. Moore remained ,in
room, but the prisoner returned, and, addressing
said. Mrs

Moore, it'

s not

his wife, " Now.
I, am going to let you sleep in another person's .
while lam under the same roof. There is your bed to go

td;" and he said to me and my husband, " If yon eneourag(
my wife to stay, T consider you worse than her." He then
said to his wife, "Do you hear what I say ?" and she
replied "Very well ; I'll come ;" and she went up stairs
with him, and all was quiet till morning ; she then came
into my room, a little after seven, when she complained of
old, and said she had not had her clothes off all night, but
I slept on the outside of the bed in the front room, while
her husband slept with his children in- the back. Soon
the prisoner came down stairs a second time, and
,eking at my door said, " Mrs. Moore, come out of that
,oman's room; and if Mrs. Haile harbours you there, I
consider her worse than you." At my request Mrs. Moore
-went up stairs with him, and they were not there more than
eight minutes when 'I heard her shriek, " Oh, do if you
dare," and that was followed by a sort of hysterical
at if could not get her breath, and she came down into
my room directly, calling out, " Oh, my back, my back !"
and I found, as I before stated, she was stabbed. 'Directly
after Mrs. Moore left my house I heard one of the prisoner's
children —those by a former wife—say, " Oh, father, what
will become of you and us ?" Directly after, a man named
it came in and went up stairs, and he and the prisoner
down and went away together; and I did not see
the latter from that time to the present. Mrs. Denton
said that, on the 2 ith of last month, she saw Mrs. Moore
knocking at the door of a person named Frost, and, observ-
ing her in a stooping position, she went over to her, and
asked her if she was not well. She replied that she was
stabbed, and blood was flowing from her mouth at the time.
Witness took her to her room, where a doctor attended her,
and she was ultimately removed to the hospital. While the
doctor was dressing her wound, a young man, named York,
came in, and she asked! her (witness) to turn him out of the
room, and said he was the instigation of it all. On the
following Saturday she saw her dead at the hospital.
William Frost, a boot' and shoe maker, said he had
known the prisoner fifteen or sixteen years, and his wife
about as many months. . On the morning f the 24th, on
hearing what had happened, he went to the prisoner's room,
and on seeing him; said: "Bill, whatever have you been
doing ? " an he replied, "Don't ask me any questions.
I am parched with thirst ; come and have some beer."
They went to the Nelson public-house ; but finding they
had no money, the prisoner said he should get some; and
they went along East-lane, where he left him. Witness
saw the prisoner again in the company of his brothers-in-
law, and also his father and mother-in-law ; but the latter
refused to have anything to do in the matter, and lie (the
prisoner) went away. Sergeant Bell, 32 P, said that, on
the Tuesday morning, he saw the deceased at the hospital,
when she was so bad that she did not think she should get
over it. On that occasion he asked her who had stabbed
her, and she replied, "William Moore, my husband; and
if you will get my stays and, chemise, you will be able to
see where the knife went through." He asked her the
cause of his doing so, and she said, a young man who
was keeping company with her sister, of the name of Fred
York, said he could do as he liked with her ; but this was
false. He asked her if she should like to see her husband,
and her reply was, she should like to see him in custody,
for she could not account for why he ran the knife
into her. The witness here exhibited the stays and
shift worn by the deceased when she received
the fatal wound, pointed out the cut through both,
and the latter on the back part was saturated with blood.
Tha knife with which the wound had been inflicted.
was also produced. It is a black-handled table knife,
and rather sharp and taper -towards the point. Inspec-
tor Holloway, T division, said that on Saturday night,
while on duty at Notting-hill station, lie received in-
formation which induced him to take the prisoner into
custody. On first telling him he was charged with the
murder of his wife, his reply was " Oh, ridiculous !" but on
his way to tha station, he said he knew witness when he was
a sergeant in the C's; that business was business ; that his
name was William Moore ; and that he was the man lie was
looking fo-. "London, June 14th, 1859.
" My Dear Mother,—For the last time I beg leave to
address a few lines to you, hoping that you are more re-
conciled in mind than I anticipate ; but it would be a great
:release to you if -you did but know my bodily sufferings,
'day and night. I have walked with a broken heart. God
only knows what I have undergone. It was not the lash of
the law I was afraid of, but a conscience of mind which
never would have left me had I lived a hundred years.
Thank God, I do not die a murderer in heart, and I
am sure had I gone before a jury of my own . country-
men, and the real facts clearly laid down, which I
am in possession of, things would have had a very dif-
ferent aspect ; but to avoid the pain of a disclosure,
I am determined to live no longer. It would be much
better for me to. die than to live the unhappy existence I
have It was always my bounden wish to. do as I have
hitherto done, my duty to my wife and children, whom I
loved and cherished. Bat, mother, lam sorry to say this,
niy_poor unfortunate - God rest her sonl---was not so dis-
creet as.to appreciate that kindness that is owed from man
to woman ; but I hope God will forgive us both. My days
are cut short, for many years I thought to live, from
enjoying those comforts in life which the Almighty
God has endowed me with. God forgive me in
sayino. that I should have been provedin myi to lavehma s t
cowardly, dirty scoundrel, with a pistol n
to
have blown his brains out. He will not go rinrewardbd.
I need not care for what has been reported in the papers,
Had I gone before a jury, the truth must have been revealed,
and then the world would have been the best judge who
was in the right or the wrong. I forgive my enemies,
which, lam glad to say, are not many. Dear mother, do
not fret for me. Knowing the position that lam placed in
you ought to think it a blessing. lam no more. The only
sufferers in this world are my poor fatherless and mother-
less children. These words come from me with tears,
but God is always good. I acknowledge with grati-
tude their present benefactors, and I hope. God will reward
them. I have bad many well-wishers, and the only way I
can repay them is to thank. them.. Dear mother, should I
be no more, my last dying wish is, to lay by the side of my
poor, but I hope happy, wife. Pray keep up your spi
and don't fret fur one wholes done wrong in the eyes of
rits,
God, but not otnayself. I wish you to keep my liksuess in
tGhoedfabmieisls ou
y:yGiavlel: N
myko more from your affectionate. but
"
ind,love to the family on both sides.
unhappy-sari; " W, Moou.u..!'
The-prtioner. was-remanded to afuture day..
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ATROCIOUS CASE OF
01' [RAGE AND MURDER.

adjourned inquiry touching the death
found in an arm of the
'ore G. H. liincheliffe,
n's name was Hughes,
nan, but this supposi-
ind the body still requires
-1 to watch the
1 by the

mu who V

iam7Canal, was resumed

nined was police-

ial particulars to
stated that about

unday, the 29th

•e saw two per-
Acton asked

had not seen

Id close

darkness of the

canal, near where

)bserve any indica-
lthough he thought
would have been
When he appre-
-ie.knew all

witness

a I was in

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