Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-12 00:00:00

"IlYm-sietTteedil I'l
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since a crime of such magnitude has been
district, iu which the excitement increases h
supposed murderer was well
sidered a steady man, and has been some years in
Militia, and for his good conduct promoted to the
corporal.

own m the town, and/c,

MUR DER OF

HUSBAND BY cUTTI
THROAT.

horrible murder w

s committed at I

one and two (

y mornir

a journeyman Mad;

36 years of age, T

second wife

some y(

a woman h
s Ellen. S

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had -a son, now -a young
evening last he was le

morrow's dinner, whey.

whoinsisted upon ha
she said, " she knew

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was stopped by hi's step
he money given to her,

with it

why she should no

between his father

id his step-mothe

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a the same evening at the S

house, in Dursley, tut not drinking together. Ellen ilior
is sitting apart from her husband, and with two me (IV
whom she pours cider from a jug into their glasses.
husband complains of this conduct on the part of 145,i
mild asserts that he married her to wait upon him-
filthy oath she repudiates the marriage ; and nu.-
her to drink some of his cider. Late in the evening
said to one of the men with whom she was sitting
will go home and. cut Tool's throat." She se°
greatly excited, and her husband had by that time.,
Sidney Wood, the man referred to, tried to prevail ;II
her to renounce so- shocking a determination. The
riated woman replied, "You don't know what I hori!
in my mind ; if twenty people'were to persuade we',
determined to go and do it Finding that he coulap,
move her from an intention which, not only to him hilt to,
to others in the house—revolting- and dreadful as the,lll,iiiel

tion might seem—appeared about to be carried out, Sje4
Wood sent wife part of the way home with ti'
Rutter. Wood's wife now renewed her husband's eutreog
that Ellen Rutter would go home and live comfortably
her husband, even as Wood and his wife lived. BY otit
time Ellen Rutter promised that she would not earr:bott
her previously-expressed intention. This took •plaee se oft
half-past eleven o'clock. About twenty minutes past °IIS
SUnday morning, Ellen Rutter knocked up a nei.'lllo,
named Hancock, who lives twenty-six yards from her
saying, " Tom has made away with himself," and a" ft)
See how he has served me." A sleeve of her dresso4
covered with blood, and she appeared as though her Wl' Oe
had wounded her. She had, however not been injure"' 001
reaching Rutter's house, Hancock and his son found the tilt
lying in bed surrounded
,rith a large quantity of 11..;.` ght
which was flowing, from a large wound across the P°ool
temple and down the right cheek, and from a still
frightful one in his throat. The unhappy man AO!t he
dently gasping his last. It was clear to Hancock t"p
had been murdered, and Hancock therefore said to he
Rutter, " Who did this ?" She replied, " I did." At the
inquest a verdict of "Wilful murder" was returned; the
surgeon' deposing that Rutter could not have inflicted jo,
injuries upon himself. The excitement in DursleY 0!
mense. Thousands thronged the house and the e%"00
the inquest, clamouring to be allowed to " pull her nesfrool
her." The police had great difficulty in protecting her
their violence.