The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-18 00:00:00

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Execution of the St, Helen's Murderer,

LIVERPOOL, Saturday.

James Clitheroe, the culprit in this remarkable case,
suffered death this day (Saturday) hi front of the Rirkdale
gaol, near Liverpool, though efforts had been made to
secure a reprieve. The circumstances in connection with
the crime are of a somewhat peculiar description.
Clitheroe was a married man with a family, but his
affections appear to have been divided between his wife and
Mary Woods, a poor paralytic woman, who earned a living
by keeping a school, and selling small beer. The prisoner
was in the habit of sharing the murdered woman's bed, and
as his neighbours knew of this he was twitted by them, in
the intensely acrimonious manner peculiar to vulgar and
uneducated people, as to " the poor cripple Mary Woods"
being enceinte by him. This seems to have annoyed
Clitheroo very much ; and, his mortification and
chagrin acting upon a morbid temperature, prompted him
to murder. On the night of the 28th of December last he
visited Mary Wood's house, and went to bed with her as
was his wont, but early next morning he cut her throat and
her own too, though the wound was only fatal in the case
of the woman. Later in the morning the school children
were unable to gain admission to the house as usual, and,
as no one answered to the door after repeated knocks, an
entrance was effected at the rear of the premises, and an in-
vestigation took place. In an upstairs room the police found
Mary Woods and the prisoner in bed together—the woman
quite dead and with her throat cut, and the man in an ex-
hausted condition, with his throat cut also. The blood upon
the woman's throat was dry, and she had evidently been
dead for several hours, whereas the blood upon Clitheroo
was fresh, and his wound must have been recently inflicted,
because the blood was flowing freely from the arteries of the
neck when the police first entered. The prisoner, when
asked what he had been doing, stated that he and Mary
Woods had agreed to cut their throats, saying, " We made
it up to cut our throats. She told me that the razor was in
the drp.wcr under the looking glass. I fetched the razor,
got into bed, and first cut my own throat." The prisoner
never deviated from this account of the transaction, either
before or after the trial, but it must have been untrue in
point of fact, because the strong and irresistible probability
is that the woman's throat was cut at five o'clock in the
morning, and that she was dead several hours before the
prisoner made the attempt upon his own life. When the
prisoner was on his trial Mr. Justice Willes directed the
jury that if the prisoner counselled, assisted, or directed the
woman to destroy herself he was guilty of murder.
The culprit, who was pinioned by Caleraft in the usual
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