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

A IiORRIBLE ASSASSINATION.

One of those revolting assassinations at which the
heart sickens, and which have become so common, in
these days enormity, was committed in this county
n the
26th ult. The victims were Mr. A.
E. Moore, and a lovely orphan girl, years
o nighto
hisofwi theie,
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 stems of
althea 20 steps from the table, and in full view of his
unsuspecting 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 I"
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 shots in the head and' four in the right side of the
chest. Ilis arm above the elbow was much shattered
and the hand shot through. He lived a few minutes,
but never spoke. Mrs. Moore received four shots in
the face, and never seemed to have breathed after she
fell. A single shot struck the young girl a little to the
left of the spine, passed through the 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.
M 000 ref herwasthe moste x
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Mrs.
arivm io intelligent,.hoeraer warmhearted,
, n
amiable,o
pe r Worthy citizen,
Among s
womanly,superior,
and benevo-
lent
or. without
children herself, she had shown the goodness of tier
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 1
the police-court this morning a miserable-looking man
named Thomas Willetts, 4 barber, formerly living in
Liverpool, but latterly residing in Manchester, was
charged with attempting to murder his wife and a man
name Fisher. The wife said she had been married to
the prisoner 14 or 15 year, and during that period she
had had several warrants against him for illusage. About
12 months ago he left her, and he was subsequently re-
ported to bjdead. lii August, however, she had heard
that he was at Manchester, and she went there anc:
found him living with another worna,r,. He did not
come back with her. She had latterly been living in a
cellar 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 bold of ber, and commenced jobbing her throat T
with a pocket knife. young
prisonerman (Wm. Fisher)
went to her assistance,and the also out him
about the throat and chest. Inspector Dougal, and offi-
cer 477, afterwards came and apprehended the prisoner,
kie
who said, be was sorry he had not got the job done,
and cut his own throat too. The wounds, which were
fortunately not serious, were dressed at the dispenssry.
The prisoner was committed for trial,—Liverpool Albion.