Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-25 00:00:00

A MOTHER MURDERED BY- HER CHILDREN:

About one o'clock yesterday the residents of Griswelo.stree, be-
t't een diarrison and Folk. were startled by hearing a great noise and
disturbance in the rear of a donbleframe house which stands a few
fet back from the sidewalk. The house is oecupied by seveld.
German.families of thepoorer chases. Two a nail rooms in the back
part, one of them a sort of outside kitchen, were occuploi by an
aged acrman woman- named Deicitieh, together 'with her son ant
daughter and two erns!, grand chi dren—five persons in all, living in
two roosns not either.: of which is more than tan feet Kaye. It was
from these rooms that the noise Blinded to appeared to proceed.
Knowing that the son, George Deklrich, was a drunken and quarrel-
somErfellow, and that the daughte,, El z %ben Doidrich Sharp, was
litt:e better, and also having heard frequent noise and disturbance
thereprevionslv, the neighbours gave little attention to the matter.
kir hoer or two afterwards, a litt e eon of the womaa who lives over-
head told one of th neighbours that old Mrs. Daiirich was dead
that George Deideich had killed her with a knife. The neighbour'
started Immediately to go to the house, and in the yard mrt Mary.
the daughter of MTS. Sharp, a girl about eight years old, who made a.
oimilar F tat ement in regard to her grandmother's death. The woman
antercd the house, and found Mrs. Deidrich's dead body lying on the
miserable bed in the second room. She thereupon proceeded Inane-
.diately o give information to the pol ce, and officer Daniel M•Carthy
`,`proceeded to arrest both the saspected parties, wh• ware taken
to jail. Prior to this, it appear/1 the woman, Mrs. Sharp•
had been to Mr. Foot, the- county Superintenden`, to whom she
stated that her mother was dead, and desired he would give her an.
order for a cane, as she was too poor to ply 'or one. The, order was
given, the co din was procured, and the bother and sister were
making pupa etlona for the funeral when they were arrested. At
five o clock., a visited the house where the corpse still remained. It
is one of the most filthy and pestiferous localities iii this stinking
metiopolls. The gutters, ya-ds, areas,in fact every foot of ground,
are reeling with filth and decaying garbage; every breath of air
which finds its way among the miserable tenements is rank with foal
and ungholeaome odous. It is diftletalt to remain for many minutes
in the neigh'• ourhood,, so heavily is the a mosphere laden with cor-
ruption.. The great wonder is, not 'hat the people should die there.
but how is it possible for then to live in the midst of so much filth
and unwholesome stench. Several of the neighbours who were present
stand that about a week previous the deceased had been severely
beaten by George, her s.m.and that since then the had been confined
most of the timee,to her bed. One woman said th,t three times on.
attempting to get up she hal fallen to the floor. Others stated that
George Deidr.ch had beaten her seve-al times, and all concurred in
saying that both,he and his steer had treated her shamefully. In,
,view of all the facts which we ware able to learn, it was difflcult tee
cone ude that the woman had. been murdered, yet nut di!'ficelp,ll
Ibelieve that bar death was caused by the inhuman treatment of he
offspring, united with, the miserable manner in which .she existed.—
Chicago TA-a.s,