The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-01 00:00:00

SUICIDE OF THE COLNE .111URDERE.R.

At an early hour on Saturday morning Walker
Moore, upon whom sentence of death was passed at
the Lancaster assizes for the murder of his wife, at
Colne, in April last, committed suicide in Lancaster
Castle. The murder, it will be recollected, was
committed with great coolness and determination,
and the
prisoner, during his trial and at the time
sentence
of death was passed upon him, showed no
signs
Whatever of compunction, and heard his fate
ced with the utmost composure and hardi-
Saturday was the day fixed for his execu-
tics
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by Calcraft. After Moore received his sentence
and when removed from the court, he did not seem
to care the least about his impending fate ; indeed,
he laughed, and at times joked; and it was shought
by many that the jealous passion to which he had
given way when he cut his wife's throat would
buoy him up and delude him to the end. At the
beginning of last week, however, a consciousness of
his sad career began to show itself, and Moore more
than once regretted what he had done, and devoted
his time to religion. On Monday last he was
visited by some of his relatives. The interview was
painfully affecting, and Moore was moved to tears.
On Tuesday he was visited by the high sheriff of
the county. Moore, it is said, was much affected
by this interview. At times the criminal com-
plained of not being provided with counsel on his
trial. On Friday night Calcraft arrived in Lan-
caster, and the gallows was erected at the north-
western side of the Castle, ready for the business
of the following day. One of the local newspapers
in speaking of Moore at this time, says :—" As the
last hours of this unhappy man draw near his mind
has become more open to the soothing consolations
of religion, and his demeanour more befitting the ter-
rible position in which he is placed." On Saturday
morning at six o'clock Moore awoke, after pass-
ing a tolerable night. Shortly afterwards he went
to the watercloset, where, strange to say, it seems
he was allowed to go alone. As, however, he did
not make his appearance again in a reasonable time,
one of the turnkeys who had been in charge of him
went to the closet, and there to his horror found
Moore lying with his head in the pan, quite dead.
Ho had evidently first inserted his head into the
closet, and then with one hand opened the water-
valve. Moore up to the time had been regularly at-
tended by two gaol officials, and why they permitted
him to go alone to the closet is a mystery. Their
conduct will form the subject of. a magisterial in-
quiry. Moore, if he had not thus put an end to his
life, would have received the eacrement at eir ht on
Saturday morning and have been hanged at noon.
A large number of persons had got to Lancaster
in anticipation of the execution before the suicide
became known, and in consequence of the event,
both they and Calcraft were deprived of the foul
and horrible scene of a public strangulation, and
disappointed."
had to return home totally

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like a printer's roller, c"313°664 of Molasses and glue ? Be-
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