The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-05 00:00:00

DREADFUL MURDER.

On Saturday night a young man named Henry
Farrington, whose residence is near Bedford Leigh
Railway Station, deliberately murdered his wife.
They have only been married about 18 months. On
Monday last the deceased woman eeparated from him,
and went to reside with an uncle named Peers Stirrup,
putting her youngest child, about a year old, out
to nurse. On Thursday he carried away the child
from the nurse while his wife was at work, and in
the evening she went to his house for it, when he
locked her in, and produced a pistol with which he
threatened to shoot her if she dared to leave
the house again. She succeeded in escaping,
but 'did not secure the child. On Saturday
night, about half-p:ist ten o'clock, he went to the
house of a person namedßiley, in High-street, Bed-
ford, and sent Mrs. Riley for his wife, when he de-
Imauded that she should return to her home. The
deceased refused, and wished to take her child with
her. He said he would not let her have the child,
he would swing for it first, and ii. followed her to
the door, pulled the pistol out of his pocket, and
shot her in the head. She fell on the doorstep quite
dead. The murderer had the infant on his left
arm when he elmmitted the fatal de;,,d, and ran
with the child down High-street towards the
brook. Ile dropped the pistol on the ground. A
bystander named Paul Stones picked up the pistol,
followed Farrington, seized him, and took him
to the police-station, Townhall, Leigh, where he
was locked up on the charge of murdering his wife.
The prisoner is 25 years of age, and is a collier, in
the employ of Messrs. John Fletcher and others,
Volunteer Pit, Atherton. The prisoner gave a clock
and 3a. for the pistol to a watchmaker named
Cheethlm, at Leigh, on Thursday last, and made
the bullet himself. Deceased was about 26 years of
age, and was employed as a silk weaver. She had
two children, the eldest born some time before her
marriage with the prisoner. When apprehended the
murderer stated that he did. not regret the deed he
had perpetrated.

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A Portland lady applied to the police authorities
on Monday, May 13, to secure her lost cat. She had
brought it from England, and valued it at $l,OOO. When
it ran away it had on a gold necklace worth $4O.
A series of experiments by Capt. Joseph Davis,
of Baldwinsville, has proved that barren apple trees may
be made to bear plentifully and an excellent quality of
fruit by girdling them when in full bloom. The bark
must be cut away in a strip two inches wide, care being
taken not to injure the wood. Trees treated in this luaus
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