Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-16 00:00:00

THE MURDERESS

neighbourhood of the Clerkenwell Po'
into a state of great excit
dreadful murder hac
St. Pancras. It ap
:the spot, that ajeweller,nf= the nam
there with his wife for seine time,
parlours. About two months sine
Craft, was confined, and since then sne

court was thrown

cl been zammitted

52, Swinton-,

that were made on

from ingot

ft. has

in the front and bac

desponding state, in consequence, as su.e
being able to take proper care of her two children.
Selwood, the surgeon, of P.ercy-street, has been atter
_ _

her, but since Saturday he has not s
stood that she was about paying a

the Country. Yesterday morning the husband went to
employment at the usnal hour, and after he had gone t
parties in the house not hearing the children cry, or Mr
Cruft moving about, became sornewi:at alarmed. After
lapse of some time they knocked at the door, and ni
obtaining any reply, brought a painter, who was
work. in the street, and got him to look in at tl
back parlour window. He did so, and pa.
that the woman was lying in.a very peculiar position, h,
once communicated to the police his suspicion that a

ctor -Allen of the, G- division
constable The

was not correct. Insp,
once, proceeded to thi hoifSe
Barley, 451 A ,
window.
French bed.
her two children, the blood at the time being quite wai
and oozing from the wounds. The children are bot
females ; one being of the age of three years, and namet
after her mother, and the other, as before stated, about tw(
months old. Both their throats 4-

A most frightful sight presented itself

.e cut from ear to c

p. Th

and the incision was very
to have two wounds in. the throat. The mother, it would
appear, cut the -throat of the eldest child first, and then
the youngest. 'After this she must have sat on the side of
the bed and' cut her throat with her right hand, and, when
shelell on the bed, with her left hand covered her face
with the sheet. The children were in their night el
'and the mother fully dressed, The razor with which
committed the dreadful act was found between her fe
The unfortunate woman, it is stated, is -very respectabi
3onneeted, and she is about 25 years of age. Mr. Allen at
once took possession of the room, and, information was
immediately forwarded to. Mr. .Wakley, the coroner. The
inquest will be held to-day. A large number of persons
surrounded the house, and were it not for the'police the
street would be.impassable:

THE RICHMOND MURDER

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

The °°Tana jury have returned a true hill for murder
against Thomas .Smethurst for the murder of Isabella
Bankes, but it is understood that an application will be
made on behalf of the prosecution to postpone the trial to
the next session.

MR. COBDEN.—A letter was received from Mr: Cobden
at •Manchester on Tuesday. from which we learn that the
hon. gentleman will leave Quebec for England on the 18th
inst.
PULPIT CLAP-TRAP. —lt.is not often that trickery in the
sacred desk has sufficient wit to save its author from con-
tempt. Perhaps the following is an exception :—The Rev.
Mr. Baylies of NeW Bedford, announced on a late SUnday
morning, that he should preach in -the afternoon with
reference to the " unfortunate affair of Brother Thomas ; "
but requested that meanwhile he should be asked no ques-
tions. This excited more curiosity than the glad tidings of
great joy-usually do. " What has Brother Thomas done ?"
He preached from " Bat Thomas, one of the twelve, called
Didymits, was not with them when Jesus came:" Subject—
Non-attendance at Church.
JUVENILE GALLANTRY. —A morning paper, disgusted
that the " British journals" should make a noisy boast
because "Prince Nicholas of Nassau has joined the Austrian
army as a volunteer," deniolishes those jOuinals by the
withering information that the said Prince. Nicholas "hap-
pens to, be the person who once challenged Prince Albert to
settle -at the sword's point a dispute which neither would
Care to drag beyond the private history of the regiment in
which they. were then both serving as, subordinate (or
rather insubordinate) officers." When the " British

journals" took up their i

why the 4‘'British journals" shoutl
'of themselves, merely because a pri

of the

Seidlitz-water has effervesced foto toe Au-strum al:iv1~1 arc
neither know nor cure to inquire. But if they. really did
imagine such vain things, we fear they sill not be. deterred
'from their evil ways by the rebuke of nor contemporary.
11

The Priam Nicholas of

nown in the. E

he is . still remembered as a b
good-natured, and rather blunde
of twenty-one yoars. .He .was
grace, 1832', and as Prince Alber
Englishman in January, 1840, and
year was joined in lawful Wedlobk, to the Queen of
britain. and Ireland, his " dispute " wifh the
Nicholas of Nas.shu mast have occurred before that illi
youth had' reached the mature age• of eight yearn,!'
Unwed to exult in t

bo-rn. in the

becaine a na4;ur

,rT of th

'advent4 to. bath

of a Paiedin whose icn