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

111U.RDFR IN LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.
Bally this morning, one of those cases unfortu-
nately beco:ning of too frequent occurrence, took
place in the town. Paul-street, near the docks, a
most respectable locality, was made this morning
the scene of death, an i at least maiming for life, by
an American cb•sperado. The fellow, in a drunken
brawl, drew the too-ready knife, killed one man out-
right-, and wounded another most dangerously,
They were all under the influence of grog at the
time when the de Nis were perpetrated. It is hoped
that the llvin4 victim will recover, but ho is badly
wounded iu the thigh.

SUICIDE OF HUSBAND AND STRPSON.

Some time since we gave an account of the death
by suicide of a man c tiled Hyde, living at
Lindley, near Huddersfield, whose death was,
there was good reason to suppose, hastened by
the wretched character of his home, superin-
tended by a second wife. Since that fatal close of
his career one of the children, a boy of lf, 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 coroner, held
their inquisition over the body of John Hyde, the
youth io question, who on the previous Monday
morning was found hanging on the bough of a thorn,
in a field near the high road. Three members of the
family, a brother and two sisters, wore 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 the conduct
which had made their poor fithere and brother the
victims of despair. Hannah Hyde, a sister, deposed
i
to having seen the deceased about a week since. He
said he dark. d not stop to speck to we, as ho would
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would take a saucepan into a neighbour's house, pute !s
haver bread and 41,y bread in, and scald it, and
sometimes the milk was tippered (sour), and some-
times sweet. He said she was selling the things in
the house, 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 Ole stepmother
be.ng there) turn it down. He had to wash his
shirt and smock himself, and sometimes on the Sun-
day morning. When site left him on the day spoken
to, he said his 'nether had never given him any-
thing, not a halfpenny, since his father died. "We
cried," she said, "for we were Loth in trouble. I
gave hint twopence mysel,."—Harriet Hyde, the
stepmother, was called. She denied having punished
rho lad since they had lived at Minh, except by a
tap with her hand. She ha 4 spoken rather harshly
to himbecause he would net cl,,an himself. He never
hinted at destroying 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
i shirt with linen wris.bands having been
taken off. Why he had hung himself was a mystery
Ito her. The coroner having carefully summed up
the evidence, the jury, after a few minutes' consi-
deration, returned a verdict, "That the deceased
had hune himself while depressed in his mind,"
and added, " That the conduct of the stepmother
was very repreherndble in the treatment of the
whole of the children." At the request of the jury,
the woman ores called in, and the coroner addressed
her in grave tee ma 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 wh-t had tekeu
place, and thet she hod brought it all en herself.
When she married her late husband; she took the
children to hung up and cars for, and she had
driven them all from their home. The father, sad.
now the son, had made away with themselves. That
a lad should do this when life was buojaittcnamned
cheerful, proved that there must hive boefe
protected
cause for it. He hoped that for the rest
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this would be a lesson to her, and that
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her own sex in the neighbour •

Ingraham, who
the Austrians, occurs in a
procured the
racc:liaehlsee:oaalynig:iaflorflindCrkaL m'Laatainofnromthe Indian war, now being
y great EitiCCOSS at New Yolk. An American,
tikan
prisoner by the rebels, is brought before Nana
Spalbeiehd wb
, who orders him to be impaled, or somethirg
equally horrible. The Yankee, not the least dismayed,
coolly remarks, " You can kill me, I guess ; but, mime."
Captain Ingraham vv i 1 settle with you afterwards.
Whereupon the knees of the fiendish rebel begin to
shake, and amidst thunders of I pplause from tto specs
tat)ro, Its hurriedly sits the American free.