The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-19 00:00:00

MURDER IN LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.
Early this morning, one of those cases unfortu-
nately becoming of too frequent occurrence, took
place in the town. Paul-at►e:>t, near the docks, a
most respectable locality, was made this morning.
the scene of death, and at least miming for life, by
an American desperado. The fellow, in a drunken
brawl, drew the too-ready knife, killed cne man out-
right, and wounded another most dangerously,
They were all under the influence of grog at the
time when the deeds wore perpetrated. It is hoped
that the living victim will recover, but he is badly
wounded iu the thigh.

SUICIDE OF HUSBAND AND ST.OPSON.

Some time since we gave an account of the death
by suicide of a man called Hyde, living at
Lindley, near Huddersfield, whose death was,
there was good reason to suppose, hastened by
the wreteh;d character of his home, superin-
tended by a second wife. Since that fatal close of
his career one of the children, a boy of It, has fol-
lowed his unfortunate father's example, and on
Wednesday, at the Globe Inn, Lindley, a jury,
presided over by G. Dyson, Esq., the c 'toner, held
their inquisition over the body of John Hyde, the
youth iu question, who on the previous Monday
morning was foundhanging on the bough of a thorn,
in a field near the high road. Three members of the
family, a brother and two sisters, were called in suc-
cession before the jury, and in the presence of the
stepmother gave evidence of the unceasing ill usage
which had driven them all away from her house to
live in lodgings with kinder relatives or more
humane strangers, and now testified to theeonduct
which had made their poor father and brother the
victims of despair. Hannah Hyde, a sister, deposed
r e;
to having seen the deceased about a week since. Ho
said he dared not stop to speak to me, as he would
61,1ai he
ettnleirdast.hhaedt She asked ansokteadlwhaoyc vs
phoerrwilge sfe.dni Hsrae° e
would take a saucepan into a neighbour's house, put
haver bread and dry bread in, and scald it, and
sometimes the milk was tippered (sour), and some-
timessiceos. He said she was selling the things in
the how°, and had told him he would not have
long to stop with her. Last night the witness went
to the house and saw some bedding on the floor (the
brother's bed), but she did not ( ,he stepmother
being there) turn it down. He bad to wash his
shirt and smock himself, and sometimes on the Sun-
day m When she left him on the day spoken
to, he said his mother had never given him any.
thing, not a halfpenny, since his father died. "We
cried," she said, " for we were both in trouble. I
gave him twopence myself."—Harriet Hyde, the
stepmother, wascalled. She denied having punished
the lad since they had lived at Marsh, except by
tap with her hand. She had spoken rather harshly
to hirn because he would not clean himself. Re never
hinted at des'royiug himself. He was very ditty.
The shirt the body was found in had been put on on
purpose to disgrace her through the country, a
good shirt with linen wris• bands having been
taken off. Why he had hung himself was a mystery
to her. The coroner having carefully summed up
the evident', the jury, after a few minutes' consi-
deration, returned a verdict, " That the deceased
had hung himself while depressed in his mind,".
and added, " That the conduct of the stepmother
was very reprehensible in the treatment of the
whole of the children." At the request of the jury,
the woman was called in, and the coroner addressed
her in grave teems of animadversion. He regretted
that the law gave no power to punish her, but her
punishment, as it was, would be great enough, for
her neighbours would all know what had taken
place, and that she had brought it all en herself..
When she married her late husband, she took the
children to bring up and care for, and she had
driven them all from their home. The father, and
now the son, had made away with themselves. That
a lad should do this when life was buoyant and
cheerful, proved that there must have been Font
cease for it. He hoped that for the rest ofehervilnifg
this would be a lesson to her, and that
future,b her
with greater kindness to her children in.
her
awakened consc:ence might in thetoe D
be protected
peace of mind. The woman had_ _
b— the pom 50 violent
to and from the jury-room y
was the demonstration against o f
her by members
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her own sex in the neighbourhood. L ditfercurg.

procured the
- _—
he AustrianP, occurs in a
rneolveselseway,
in a drama on the Indian
war, now being
played with great success at New York. An American,
t ken prisoner by the. rebels, is brought before Nana
The name
o 1./nert Captain
Kost
flronmgratharn,. who
Sahib,h who orders him to be impaled, or something
equally herrible. The Yankee, not the least dismayed,
000lly remarks, " You can kill me, I guess ; but, sirree.
Capta'n Ingraham will settle with you afterwards."
Whereupon the knees of the fiendish rebel begin to
shake, and amidst thunders of spplause from the- epee•
tators, ke hurriedly vets the American free.