The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-14 00:00:00

A h 0 RRIB I E ASSASSINATION.

One of those revoltin assaiSinations at which the
heart sickens, and which have become so common in
these days of enormity, was committed in this county
on the night of the 26th ult. The victims were Mr. A.
E. Moore, his wife, and a lovely orphan girl, 12 years
old, who was, by adoption, one of the family. They had
just seated themselves at the supper table in the entry
of their house, when the assassin, coolly fixing a rest for
his gun by propping a board between the two sterns of
althea 20 steps from the table, and in full view of his
uraiuspestine: victims, discharged at them a double-
barrelled gun. At the first fire Moore fell. His wife,
who sat on his left, exclaimed, "Lord, have mercy !"
and at that instant received the contents of a second
gun, fired in quick succession. She fell instantly, and
the orphan girl, who was seated on Moore's right, and
between Mr. Moore and the assassin, sprang into the
house and called for camphor, but before the servant
could get to her she was dead. Mr. Moore received
three stints in the head and four in the right side of the
chest. This arm above the elbow was much shattered
arid the hand shot through. Ile lived a few minutes,
but, nevi- spoke. Mrs. Moore received four shots in
the fac', and never seemed to have breathed after she
fell. A tingle shot struck the young girl a little to the
left of the spine, passed through tho heart, and, coming
out at the left nipple, lodged in her clothes. I have this
shot in my possession ; it is evidently a slug. Mr.
Moore was an intelligent, amiable, worthy citizen.
Among the most warm-hearted, womanly, and benevo-
lent of her sex, Mrs. Moore had no superior. Without
children herself, she had shown the goodness of her
nature in adopting from among the indigent three home-
less orphans, on whom she not only lavished all the care
and kindness of a mother, but by will has left them (now
but two—a young lady 16 and a boy 14 years) most of
her large estate. —Marion (Texas) Correspondent of the
New Orleans Delta.

ATTEMPTED DOUBLE MURDER AT LIVERPOOL.—A
a barber, formerly living in
the police-court this morning a miserable•looking man
Liverpool, but latterly iesiding ill Manchester, was
charged with attempting to murder his wife and a man
named ,Thomas Willett?,
named Fisher. The wife said she had been married to
the prisoner 14 or 15 years, and during that period she
had had several warrants against burn for illusag,e. About
12 :north, ago ho left her, and he ivas subsequently re-
ported to be dead. In August, however, she had beard
that he 'was at Manchester, and she went there anra
found him living with another woman. He did not
come back with her. She had latterly been living in a
collar in Tarleton-street, Everton. On Saturday night she
was serving a customer with a bottle of ginger beer, when
the prisoner entered. His.hat was slouched over his eyes,
and she did not know him, He went round the counter,
and she said, "Eh, Sir!" He repeated her words mock-
ingly, laid hold of tier, and commenced jobbing her throat
with a pocket knife. The young man (Wm. Fisher)
went to her assistance, and the prisoner also out him
abort the throat and chest. Inspector Dougal, and offi-
cer 477, afterwards came and apprehended the prisoner,
he was sorry he had not got the job done,
own throat too. The wounds, which were
awuhelo
csuati dh,
fortunately not serious, were dressed at the dispenssry.
The prisoner sae ColllMitted for trial.---Liverpool'iMion.