The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-03 00:00:00

RIBC.FIESTER MURDER.

pprehension of five living
CONFESSION EimSpSrleOssNionOoPf
yesterday
OFwTeHpEubPIiRshIeSdONERS.
men
of the a particulars
their remand until to-day, on the chargeat oßflmacukrbduernnnganMdrosf.
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Benjamin
eirn,onthe morning of the 11th of
prisoners were removed from the
nartleY
see Mr. Superintendent Higgs. During expressed a desire to
g the day Mr. Higgs
waited on him in one of the
cells of the Blackburn police
office. Hartley then made a confession of all the cir-
cumstances of the tragedy. He entered into full de-
tails of the various acts of brutality that were inflicted
upon the old woman by M'Phail and his fellows,
and showed that her death had been one of
extreme suffering. He also named the person by whom the
fatal blow was struck and the suffocation produced, explain-
ing that the old woman was thus treated because she per-
sistently refused to tell them where her money was secreted.
Hartley also told Mr. Higgs what amount of money they
had found in the house, and how that money had been
divided amonst the murderers. Some other facts of great
importance to the police were also given to the Superin-
tendent, which will enable the authorities to support the
evidence of Hartley, who will be allowed to turn ap-
prover, he, it is believed, not having inflicted the fatal
blow. The police are now actively engaged in collecting
evidence necessary to support the statement of " Chorley
Tom" (Bowling). It is stated that it will show that Wil-
liam Woods, joiner, one of the prisoners, took no part in the
planning or carrying out of the burglary or murder, that ho
was working at Burnley at the time, and that on his return
to Blackburn at the end of the week in which the murder
was committed, he joined his brother George and the rest
of the prisoners. He will be charged as an accessory after
1 l tla
the fact ; and not Hartley, as stated in yesterday's report.
The prisoners Carr and M'Phail, are returned convicts, and
one or two others are poachers. M'Phail has several times
during the past two months visited Mrs. Walne's house,
when hawking cheese in that part of the country, and has
frequently had te
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By the author of "John
delight" another of Miss Mulock's
' Mistress and Maid,' the characters,
Al2D.volsß.---" An lovers of a good
ncho
Halifax,avcharming
mIMISTRESSiwngi
Il
Gentleman.n novels.
va
ei
liAs .Nw Di with
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like all Miss Mulock's, are ably sketched and well sup-
ported. The gentle elder
the fretful beauty whose ill-temper is
sister, so resigned for herself, so
the little household ; the energetic,
careful for the sister chili she has nurtured with all a
strong-hearted, loving, and loveable Hilary, the bread
winner of the family; and the good angel of the house, the
tho mother's
canker
serving maid of the sisters, Elizabeth Hand, are so natu-
rally and vividly pourtrayed, th t they seem like old
lovivinogrnicaroef;
ficquinta,ueeo.',.....johg Budd