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

knew what she was doing,

Walker is my brother. I saw Walker's
wife come in, but did not see her strike the woman. My
brother followed his wife out and scolded her for doing so.
The wDman went in with me about half-past nine, and
remained till eleven, Sne followed Jerry Jones and me out
of the house into the shrubbery. Neither Jones nor I gave
her any money for what passed there, and I do not know
whether she had any. I left her in the shrubbery with
Loon I Joseph Acton, Edward Acton, and Watkins

her with a stick.

I do not

knoN-v whether she had a weau‘.„,
minutes past eleven I went home and left them. I never saw
the woman alive afterwards. At the time I left her no one
else was present except the above-named three. There were
several others going towards her, but I do not know how
many, or who they were. I have not seen the woman's
clothing since her body was found. When I left her she
appeared to have some drink, but she could walk straight.
The next witness called was Robert Bates, a collier,
living at the factory, Tipton, who deposed as follows :
About half-past eleven on the Sunday morning referred to,
I saw a woman in the Moat Colliery. I saw Watkins
and Allen follow her down the road. I had been at the
Sycamore Inn with James Priest and Thomas Pardon.
I 'was passing the Moat Colliery when I saw the two men
in the brick kiln with the woman. They were walking
towards the iron bridge, and both had hold of her by the
arm, helping her along. I believe she could not walk by
herself, as she did not appear able. I was about two
yards from them, and I did not hear them say anything,
neither did either of us speak to them. "We watched
them to see what they were going to do to her • but after
they had turned over the iron bridge I lost sight of them.
I saw Edward Acton, Richard Catstan, and Edward
Fereday, in the brickyard, in addition to Watkins and
Allen, but only the last two went with the woman along
he canal side. About half an hour after I lost sight of
After I came back froM Summer-hill I heard a

.inz, on.

About ten

" skriek " as I was going over a pit mound. I could not
tell whether it was from a woman or a man. I ran
Acton,there landsasv
EdwardTlioin at-erlierciaatykinvsi,th
down to a corner of a field, Pardon and Priest going with
h:oAml laenn.
niEde,waardnalothseep
The woman was lying on her back, and I saw
Watkins with her, Joseph Allen holding her down by the
head. She screamed out twice while this was taking
place. Allen struck her twice with his fists somewhere on
the face. I did not hear him say anything. I then saw
Allen with her, Watkins holding her down, and striking
her twice, and she "skriking" out at the time. When
one left her she struggled to get up. I did not see any
one else interfere with her. The others—Acton and
Feredey—were standing about two yards off. While this
was going on I was also about two yards off, but neither
I nor my companions said anything to the men, because
we were afraid. We remained about ten minntes, and
when we left there were six men with the woman, the
other two, in addition to above-named four, being
William Actan and Catstan. We left the woman lying
down, Allen and Watkins sitting down, and the rest stand-
ing up. I have never seen any of them since. The place
where the woman was found in the Canal is about 200 yards
from the spot where I saw her with the men. William
Acton and Catstan came up to the place at the same time
as I did. The Coroner and one of the jury men expressed
their strong sense of the very disgraceful manner in which.
this witness had acted in standing by and witnessing
such an outrage without attempting to offer or obtain
assistance. Mr. Waterhouse : How came you to go to
the brickyard where the woman was ? Witness : Be-
cause Pardon had asked me to go home with him, and
that was the nearest way to .'iirnmer-hill, where he lived.
George Hickmans, living at Prince's End, working in a
mill as a bolter-down, deposed as follows : On the night of
Sunday, the 29th of May, I was coming home from 'Dudley
with Samuel Harper, William Nickliss, and Henry Taylor.
It was about half- ast eleven when we got to the Sycamore
Inn, and there saw a woman lying on the footpath, about
twenty yards from the house. Edward Acton, Allen, and
Watkins were with her. The woman appeared to he intoxicated,
and the men were trying to lift her up. I saw Allen strike her
somewhere on the face, and when they lifted her up Watkins
struck her in the face also, saying, " Take that, you —, and
now come on." Then Watkins and Allen laid hold of her,
one by each hand, and led her off. They went in the
direction of the Factory Bridge. Edward Acton followed
behind. Just as they got over the FactOry Bridge, a lot of
chaps came up, and they all went in the direction of the
Moat Colliery. Watkins 'and Allen were still supporting
her. We watched them for about ten yards, and then wa
told the police. We went home afterwards. I work with
Foreday, and saw him on the following day. [This wit-
ness then gave some details of a conversation he had with.
Fereday, which is too disgusting for publication.] The
next witness was James Perry, living at Summer-
hill. He stated : On the Monday following the Sunday in
question, I saw Fereday. He worked with- me, and while
we were on our night turn he came to me, and said,
" Jem, we had a nice game last night." I said,
" Did you ? " and he said, " Yes." I asked where,
and he replied, ~ up_ the fields ; we had a nice young
woman with us." 11 o told me there were others with
him, but he did not say who they were. He said that when
they began to ill-use her, she hooted "Murder," but Edward
Acton put his hand on her mouth, and swore that if she
hooted "Murder "he would murder her. He proceeded to
say that they, took her down to the Old Wharf and the
Old Hovel, and that they left her at half-past two o'clock.
He did not say where they left her at that time. On Tuesday
night I heard of a woman having somemen up for a rape,
at Tipton, and I spoke to Fereday about it, and said
I believed 'it was the one he was talking about,
and he said, "Oh it is not her." On the Thursday,
when the body was found, Fereday came again to me,
and told me that a woman had been found in the
canal with a brown worsted jacket, White stockings, and
lace up boots on. I said to him, " What do you think of
it now ?" He said, " I can hardly tell." On the following
Monday, he said to me, " I hear you have talked all about
what I said to you." I replied that I had told one or two,
and he asked me if I had told the police. I told him I had
not, and he said they would soon know. I have had no
conversation with Acton or Fereday since. The spot where
the woman was found was about four or five yards from the
Old Wharf. Thomas Mason, a miner, living at Summer-
hill, deposed : I know the Joseph Allen mentioned by the
witnesses, but I have had no conversation with him about
this affair, nor with Acton nor Fereday. I saw Allen on
1 suriday
morning, the 29th of May, and I did not see him
again the same day. On, the following day, while I was
smoking my pipe at my door, he was talking, to some people
standing round, and Pheard him say, " I held her for six-
teen, and then I lanced her eye." The police not
being prepared with any more evidence, and the jury
expressing a wish to have the men who are in gaol present
1
before the inquiry closed, Mr. Hinchliffe adjourned the
inquest till,Saturday.

RIOT AT CANTERBURY.
Censiderable excitement prevailed in the city of Can-
terbury clUring the whole of Sunday, and in the evening
strong picquets paraded the streets; -and it was feared there
would be another collision ; but happily this was averted
by the arrangements of the military and civil authorities.
On Monday an investigation in -connection with the affair
took place at the Guildhall, before the Mayor and other
justices, when Henry and William May, Henry Austin,
and 'Henry Brice, were charged with feloniously as-
saulting James Lucas, of the 64th Regiment, and George
Smith, of the 90th Reolment. The hall was.. crammed
with spectators. The following evidence was taken :
Geoge Smith, private of the 90th Regiment, deposed
thathe was-walking near the end of Knott's-lane, shortly
after twelve on Sunday morning, when Henry ay came
behind him, took his stick out of his hand, and knocked
him; down with it. As soon as he was doWn three or four
other civilians joined May in kicking. him. The latter also took
off witness's waist belt and struckhim over the head with it.
Witness attempted to get up, when he was immediately
knocked down again. He subsequently ran for the police.
The bruises and cuts on witnesses face were done by the
blovis he received; he was sober at the time. Corporal Fore-
man, who was behind witness at the time, was also knocked
down. Corporal Foreman proved seeing the previous witness
knocked down' and also being knocked down himself. There
was a general fight going on between the soldiers and the
civilians, but lie could not identify the parties, Solly Solomon,
marine store dealer of Palace-street, said he was standing
at the corner of the street shortly after twelve o'clock,
'when "there was a cry of a fight in .linott's-lane.. Pri-
vates Smith and three other soldiers were standing by.
Dis6ctly they heard the cry they all took off their belts
and made for Knott's-lane, witness following close after
them. Smith knocked a man named Faulkner down. with
his belt before he had been touched at all. Smith was then
kmicked down in return, and a regular/ fight ensned. When
the picqr..et came up witness gave the ringleader into cus-
tody, the corporal of the pickt remarking, "What need
you fear. for three civilians, you have your belt with you, hav'nt
you'," ? - Henry Leach, who lives at the corner of Knott's.-
deposed that he saw a number of soldiers with their
beltsrand civilians with large sticks, fighting in the lane be-
tween twelve and one on'Sunday morning. One of the soldiers
struck James Faulkner with his belt, and.the latter then
kn6cked him down. A regular fight ensued, the civilians
forming a line on the one side of the -road,. and the soldiers
on the other. A bundle of thick sticks and pieces of
palings taken from the civil combatants was here pro-
duced by the police, and also a pair of twigs found
in the road, evidently having formed one .of
the implements of warfare used on the occasion.
Private J. Walker, 64th, . said : I saw two. of the 17th
Lancers and several of the 90th Regiment fighting with
civilians, when private Lucas of the 64th came round the
corner. The accused, Heny May, said, " Here is another
soldier coming," and no sooner were the words uttered
than Lucas wat knocked down by May, and the other three
prisoners joined in brutally beating and kicking him
while he lay on the ground.- Some one used a knife, but
I cannot say who it was. I ran off for the picquet, asl was
afraid there would be murder committed. Lucas . did
nothing to the civilians before being knocked down.
John Down, grocer's assistant, said he saw the fight going.
on about half-past twelve on Sunday. morning. The
prison-Ors May and Henry Brice had sticks in their hands.
Lucas came round from Kine.t'-street, and when he saw the
Lancer lying on the ground he kicked him with kis foot,
and said, " Come, get up old fellow, or they will kill you."
TIM two Mays and Brice then struck Lucas, who retreated
a short distance, and they followed and knocked him down,
and while on the ground they repeatedly struck him.
Henry Robert Ashton deposed to trying to advise Lucas
not to go towards Knott's-lane, because there had been a
quarrel with the soldiers, but he would go. Witness followed
cloSe behind him. Lucas went up to the 17th Lancer, who
was on the ground, and said, "Get up man, I will clear-the
lot." He then took off his, belt, but before he had time to
use it he was knocked down and beaten by six men with sticks,
including the prisoner.. While on the ground 'one of the men
struck him with a knife, but witness could not say which.
Lucas was very drunk at the time, and did not appear to
know what he was about. Another witness, named Powell,
a resident. in the neighbourhood, swore that the Lancer and
Lucas were going quietly along, when they were severally
attacked and knocked down by the civilians. More than a
dosensblows Eere
_given to Lucas while he lay on the ground.
It W 33 like thraSising in a burn._ A-mcdicnl ccrtiechte Was
here produced stating that Lucas would not be able to- attend
for at least n week. The accused were therefore remanded
for a week, bail being accepted for their appearance.

On the 14th inst. there were two disturbances at Venice,
but order was soon restored. Two men were killed, and
three wounded. .

SCOTCH LEGAL CHANGES.—It is said that Alr.l‘lollCrieff,
11. P., is to be appointed Lord Advocate for Scotland, and
that Mr. Melville, the Lord Provost. of Edinburgh, will be
the new Crown agent.
CHURCH RATES.—A return has been, issued of the ratea-
•ble Value of the property assessed to the poor-rates in those
parishes in which, according to .uturns already issued, no
church-rates were made. For England and Wales the
whole rateable value of such property. is £21,01.4,382. The
largest return is that for the diocese of London,. £4,1,57,516.
The return for that of Manchester is £2,711,827 ; for
Chester, £2,035,705;' for Ripon, £1,611,563; for Win-
chester, £1,508,524; for Worcester, £1,453,900; for
Litchfield, £1,3M,889, In every other diocese their value.
is under a million.
DESPERATE CASE OF &maw,. On Monday Mr. Wakley,
coroner for West Middlesex, held an inquest at the Grey-
hoUnd, New Compton-street, Bloomsbury, on William
Bnckwell, pattern card maker, aged fifty, who committed
self-destruction by mutilating his body under the following
circumstances :—lt appeared from the evidence that the poor
folloW was mentally affected, as he had been some years
before, temporarily deranged, and his mother died a lunatic.
How ever, there was nothing in his acts at any period to lead
to a presumption that be would commit suicide, and on the
Wednesday morning -t.he last time he was seen alive—he
proceeded to his work as usual, without exhibiting anything
particular in his manner. In the course of the day his
non:appearance attracted attention, and Mr: Flag, the '
landlord's brother, entered the deceased's workshop, when a
hOrrible spectacle met his view, as the unfortunate man lay
on.the floor in a large pool of blood, with a wound in his
throat and a fearful ge,h across his abdomen, through which
the intestines protruded. He had apparently b cell dead
some time. The jury returned a verdict of "Insanity."
THE WESTERN B.ANX OF SCOTLAND-- PROPOSAL BY
THE Dllturrons.—Mr. Dunlop, one of the directors of the
W. stern Bank, has issued to the shareholders copies of the
. folloWing proposal, and relative letter, which have been laid
before the liquidators of the bank and their advising coni:
mittee " I beg, on behalf of my friends and myself, to
submit the following proposal for the consideration of the
shareholders of the Western Bank of Scotland, viz.: Pro-
vided all the shares of the • bank are made over to us, and
that all the rights and claims connected with the
shales are also tuade over (or in our option discharged),
se as to put us in the right and place of the holders
of these shares, and relative claims: we will—l. At
one and the same time with being placed in that
peeitien, pay to the shareholders who have settled,
and thereafter, from time to time, .to -those who may
settle the calls on their respective shares in full, the suns
of o per share. 11. Consent that the surplus proceeds
(if any) of the liquidation of the bank, after payment of
its debts end reimbursement to us of the said sum of £3O
per share aua interest, be divided among the said share-
holders—it being, understood that the liquidation under
the Act is to continue. (Signed)
JAMES DUNLOP."
The, letter to the ricieiaatotsis as fellows Glasgow,
June , 17, 185.2--Gentlien—ln submitting • the fore-
going. proposal,' I beg to state, for obviating
miseonstruction, that it- Proceeds from the, desire of
my friends and myself to the liquidation of .the
bank, by allowing . the concentrate their
undieideil energies upon its prol,er <:tl'airs • and„at the same
time, to give the share. holders payment. of the utmost value
of their remaining interest in tl:e hank - aml•theniateriel
amount thereof immediately --in place of subjecting them to
the. ~Iselveetaae • e• an indefinite time to.
reeeiee, are ;. ; ~:.; then be, a diminished
sttifi,. To t; ; explayi ,1) is hardly. necessary to add,
tha thp `ll,. ' ) infer any relinquiehment of
, reete it.',4ar, any change in their
the right.; or
end :protection of these; should
continued resolute deeee:
the ~preposal net be use to.—l am, gentlemen, your
verv-',ohedieut servanl'. JAmE.S DUNLOP."
•14*narecezpEns.—The . coffee sold- by Thompson
Brothers, 5. Elliot-street, at., Is. 4d., 13 better than. yon
pay Is: Bd. lore, any other establishment, .
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