The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-15 00:00:00

MURDER 2,7,) SUICTD7 AT BRADFORD

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.„,•:.,-green, near
Bradfeed Was thro:yn hue. a state 0: g..eat excitement, by
ittrrninSP d,
nneerf-mn [-der en 1- stilcifle. The
murderer, was. ;Satpuelge,€-Itharlym,o,aged , 511., lately an
assistant bailiff; and' his' victim was Hannah Holroyd,
idn!3ph.ainxtelielilessides,
ed 42, ci, sinall..shopkeqieTlT Lidget-green. Charlton
AiefilleielleW,r3,--I.4itti detkr,s.l children. and Mrs. Holroyd
e-tii:4l Vidow;`(With fiVer children. Lie had sought for a
Sengih of tiale past to pay his "addres,,,eq to Mrs. Holroyd,
but as -his character wa,severy indifferent, her friends
anotherpretensions.
Antl3,, the murderer eNild , his vial n' „went together. to
It temperance rneetingeO!Moliday night; and as they re-
Riilecte,Normaw on Janet thPtn, and stepping 31,•5• Holroyd.
Nomor,wen4zuornaig
the ttn'entered into conversation together, Charlton
walking. forward, Ho prop-eded to Holroyd's residence,
rits4uX7dnah:, re
aft
and waited Until she came. All her family went to bed
about a qa3fter past eleven p.m., leaving the intended
murderer in the house. Maieut a quarter past twelve the
eldest daughter of,Mrs. I-iolroyd was awaken 3cl by hearing
the closing of the outer eloorieShe, was aikrmed, and arose.
Ongoing down stairs she found,that the door was merely
on the latch, and unlocke4- 09.P.eited it, and was then
turning round, wheo, to har lmreA.,,:she discovered her
mother On the gi.o.l49Cl'w..ltering,, in blood. She raised
a piercing, terriblegereana, whiCh drew the attention
of Policeman Biting', whe was on duty in the neigh-
botirhood Oft his corning to the door she admitted him,
Iwhen'he found that the poor woman Was just on the point
of death. Heat. once informed the sergeant who has the
charge of the district, and•together they went in search
of Charlton, who was. at lance suspected' of being the
erpetrator of the fearful :deed. They first visited his
"hOuse, which was in. the neighbourhood. They found
that he, had beea at home some time, before, and that
he had again left. Befero going, however, he kissed all
his children, saying to them " Farewell, I shall
never see lon again." With a presentiment of what had
occurrerPthe tivoipolii36menPriec.?.e.-Lei towards a body of
deep still water, In-which manY,guici ies have' lost their
lives, called Niw Miller's , DaM, distant from Bradford
about one mile. They searched`that and found the body
of Charlton at a short, (distance from the side. Ile was
quite dead. The poor woman only lived ten minutes after
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recorded above, is at present known. •
JNQUEF.T oil THE Honriee. —The inquest on the body of
tbe vVomanmurclered liqana4; Uulroyd, bye Samuel Chad-
ton4,_,on Tithidatqtoi.fihre.4 ivAlifld on,-Wednesday after-
noon qttl •IthTWOUMsitl" , Xldiger Green, before G.
DVVllsAcit.•`.°abißke 'cia c . 5,1 o 111 c inquest on the
baY",tsf,." liesifht la_s g Ala s'n9le afternoon at the
I,,rew. milleiMarliflie; V% liploll. The principal
f.
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'..Witaesies who- AVe'evitions ere Martha .Eloilroyd,
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Tclgtiglitei of the dec'eatgd,, who eposee to finding her
iiittfher murdered: it 4 reo the fir,,, her heots on,eand
k,
ejliile-lea 1. She had tver:Ae,
jen Canton angry with her
reetber for speakine"th gOlineliton. Jeremiah Burns, the
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policemar, atad Ellen -Dysine litehter of Charlton, were
also examined ; aft( r whiph, the Cerone,Teshortly summed
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up, pointing out the. pjecdpel paps of:j the evidence, and
showitrig,lly thes,iii?Atkiyu Cf alodducld, that, Charlton,
and he alone, ej4ifehe N4pae,ruci*• Aibe jury, without
retiring, coesidark
.a.ey contereorne to no other con-
clusion, but thiß veyepet Of" Wilful twirler '' should be
returreJ againge:Sliallel tharlten.
'INQUEST ON THE 1366 '_OF CHARLTON.—The coromr
-then procee 'ecl to t'W New Viler aim Inn, to hold an
inquest Pil the body o` th 3 miiVerer, Samuel Charlton. A
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new -.wry was empanelled,
,ajni t ?„ corotter having br'efly
recapitulated the' evidcno:
,vjetAdat the former inquest.
called upon Sergi& ;I.trioti Arls4nid the body, about
four o'clock, vi,hcA in. W:ol9‘pdriAitb Superintendent
egi..
Burniston, The "'hat Of: ehe
iiMd73 first discovered
floating near the &qre-`Ol4l edertow Ipt the body was
found fliating in9firliP • i,scilif manner, near the south
nwe,
de the t:.!wdiehilair-etYhh :off
[side of tlig dam. 'lli' 'T,''bfifap3c,t fk boat, hook .from the
ridjoining oorn mill, a aivP lift ToAs, do and then con_
veyed itrrei-the'NeVq‘g lYngtiqii,
lig
ere to await the
7asi7flYoh?3:l6tneloe 1.;
afterthe
the
if:aeccietdesa,l46saendPdl:pTaosillieletvilld;ritiitytrhalatict
some resistVlCe treffi ore jurytn.jn; Was returned as a
verdict. Tice coroner apaintrd the body to be interred
between nine and twelve o'clock, observing that this was
the pule c Ise of the Mid whiobi he ittgd h;e4 brought bofore
him ortt of 3,000 cases. , ~,,,e eetu - ot I '
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TAR .SCHOOLMASTER An aonn. A clnininnication
reached the Greenock Pt-Aim:oat:to lately, frdm the west
country, addressed,Oltitwthe Centeiatetill poles' offes in
Grur;ock." the contents, which relate to a stolen watch,
arc still worse, there being scarcely a single correc,lv spelt
word in two pages of MS , the first sentence beginning
with " cind" for "send."

Thy; DR. 13traNs, LITE OF PAISLEY.—The Rel.
Dr. Robert. Burns arrived by the Glasgow, on Monday
morning, frinn New York, on a mission, we understand,
in connection with the Coliega at Toronto. We hail big
arrival in this country, and wish him success in the object
be has in view. As many of his friends in this neighbour--
110,1 ,v!il glad to licar his voice again, we may mention
that D:. Barns will preacii next ,Sabbath to his old con-
zregation at Pdisley, and on the follc,wing Sabbath, the
'24th M-av, he will preach at Finnie-Aonenrch, in Glasgow
—Guardian.'

PASONAL RENCONTRE.—The Launceston Examiner, of
the 21st, gives, the following pirticalats of a frac is between
'the ex-Solicitor General and the new Prernierof Tasmania :
—Ou Wedriesdny nialit, on leavane the lure, after the
debate ow the governor's .salary, Mr. Rogers, the Solicitor
General, and one of the rtietn'Jers for Launceston, threw
out some remarks ah mt.ti the gentlethen who repteli ded
etareeemeats.” Mr. J, C. Gregson, member for Not ft lk
took them to himself, and tapping Mr, Rogers on
the shoulder tad bins to consider that as a blow, upon
Which Mr. Rogers knocked him down.
BANDON RAILWAY EXTENSION.--=SeVeral resolutions ap-
proving of the proposed undertaking, and thanks to the Earl
of Shannon for his co-operation, were adopted, pursuant to
public notice, at a meeting of landed proprietora, ratepayers,
and others interested in the extension.of railway communi-
cation to Clonaldlty,.which took place oti Friday in the
court. house of that. town. - The utmost interest and
unanimity.prevailed among the inhabitants of Clonakilty
and its neighbourhood, and general anxiety was evinced
to secure for the 'town the benefits of railway com-
munication' upon fair and equ.itab!e principles.—Cork Con-
SPECULATION,-The folliekv J
in ,Joint Stock Companies,
'limited liability, have recently been formed :—Beniow-
sky's Patent Printing Process, capital £200,000 ; Thames
Graying Dock, ;capital , £lOO,OOO ; British Aviculture'
COmpany, capital £lOO 000 ; Shrewsbury and Shropshire
COal Company, capital £7,000; Whitby Iron Company,
capital £20,000 ; North Eastern Deep Sea Fishing Com-
pany, capital XlO,OOO ; the Leather Fabric Company,
capital £15,000; the Derrick Company, capital £lOO,OOO
Weymou.h and Channel Itsland.s Steam Packet Company,
capital £4o,ooo,;,British Improved Soap Company, 16G
chases ; Canadian Grain Company, capital 118,000
Selby Flax Rettery Company, capital £lO,OOO ; -and Haste
ings snd St. Leenard!s Hotel. Company, capital Z 40,000;
the aggregate capital about £660,000; and which, added
to the qi eat Welch Union: Slate Company, capital
£250,000 ; and the Great Barrier. Land Harbour and
Mineral Company, capital £50,000, make a total little short
of £1,000,000.--ilferning Herald ;. •
PLEASURES OF, JOURNALISM —.An article under this head
in the ~ttelbourne Arqus,witida up in the following truthful
and telling passage ee- if our laws and the administration
of pelelie:gffairs area° he kept pure, it is necessary that our
Parliament should be kept pure. But we confess that we
see little prospect of this if the struggle is to be left to the
press itlone. It may show a disposition to do its duty, but
may also, airn at too high thine's, and defeat its own object
by eltemrine too much. Were there but one or two
ohjectionah'e plop in the community, upon whose exclusion
from, pailiAPAP.t,lteeraild concentrate its energies, there
might some hope of a successful isaee. The press would,
biieve, come forward valiantly enough, could it but
cons'd!We itself the More of More Hall, and know that it
had but one dragon of Wantley to deal with. But the
community leans upon a broken.reed, if. it trnsts its libere
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ties to the spirit and patriotism of aprivate establishment
here and there. No _private establishment can stand the
brunt of such,attaeks, Earley, make great sacrifices in a
pertienler case, :but.we presume that it must be clear to
every body ,t,that,Parliament clear of scoundrels at a
thousand pounds a scoundrel, is too expensive a luxury to
belOne indulged in• 4 Abr.„.,sHEu.r-Durilg the heavy snow storm o4Monday week, and at the witching hour of
.midnieht, the
inhabitants of the farmhouse. ofeßisk, -Mintaigeff, were
so rtiich, oVhoiebein at serprisedct pciee by
daa unusual noise- about the door;
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wh,
e a •ewe mejastlQiillY Wall-
into
the housesand straight, up to the kitcha:e fireside, refusing
ti by di,lP:ii4ed therefrom, Tee ieeeewil,,,
with her usual
hosnitali,y.to strange:a, offend hiaillie a piece of cake,
which was to all 'appearance gratefully accepted and
vemped up, but nothing, short of
Physical ferce could
induce her to gott) Way she• came; aceordingly, after a
parley, she was allowed to reniain for'the night. About
ono o'clock she dropped a couele
fine healthy lambs.
When thee door was opened ' in the morning, the dogs
attempted tneject the intruders but in the scuffle which
ensued they were Alige. to beat a retreat, and Maillie
with her-progeny kept the
or rather kitchen, despite
the snarling tykes: As- the day Avore on, and the snow
disappearing, she went of her own 'accord to reconnoitre
appearances outside, and finding things pretty favourable,
she turned to the door, gase:one •loud bleat, as much as to
say, thank you for my lodging: and walkA off with her
lambs. What makes the circumstance more remarkable,
is the fact t'aat the ewe was never within doors at any Um"
previous to that nigh t.—Glasgow Cie izen.