The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-17 00:00:00

FIVE PERSONS SHOT.

On Friday afternoon last a man named David Davies
was brought to Worcester county gaol on a charge of
murder, he having shot a woman named Pardoe and
wounded several others. The prisoner is the landlord of
the Seven Stars public-house at Lower Svvinford, in Wor-
cestershire, and the circumstances under which the mur-
derous outrage was committed were as follow :—lt appears
that on Monday evening last a number of railway labourers
from the works of the Oxford, Worcester, and 'Wolver-
hampton Railway,who had been drinking at the prisoner's
house, quarrelled and turned out to fight. On their
return to the house they continued to make a great dis-
turbance, and the consequence was that a crowd of per-
sons collected in front of the inn. At this period Davies
came home, and was much annoyed at the collection of
the crowd in front of his house, which consisted for the
most part of noisy boys. though there were some men and
women among 'them. He endeavoured roughly to disperse
them, and struck several with his vralkinc- stick. on which
they hooted at him and threw stones. The prisoner im-
mediately rushed into the house in a vioreut passion.
declaring that he " would blow their b— heads off,"
and went up stairs, followed by his son. The prisoner
had two guns, a single and, a double barrel ; these he
fetched out, and his son got out the powder and shot.
The guns were immediately loaded, and the prisoner went
to the bedroom window, and, leaning out, presented the
the gun and fired among the crowd in the street, exclaim-
' ng, " Here's into ye, ye—," using i a foul expression.
Immediately afterwards he exclaimed, " I've given 'em
a sweep; and I'll give 'em another," and he immediately
fired again. His son assisted him to reload, and altogether
four shots were fired and five, people were wounded • one
killed on 'the spot. The injured 'Persons were—Killed :
Mrs. Pardee, wife of a hallier and mother of six children,
one of whom she was looking for when -fired upon.
Wounded : William Woolridge, miner, wounded in the
neck, and not likely to recover ; Hannah Fletcher, a
bricklayer's wife, shot in the legs • James Haywood, also
wounded in the legs : and Mrs. lirentale, a middle-aged
lady, wife of the manager at the establishment of Mr. F.
T. Raiford, wounded in the abdomen, thighs, and legs,
while aiding Mrs. Pardee, who had once been a servant in
her employ. Mrs. Pardee, on being raised from the
ground, was carried into a house, but she appeared to
have died instantaneously. The guns, when found in the
house, wore both loaded with powder and shot, ready to
fire again. The affair has created intense excitement.
The son was also committed, but admitted to bail.

JENNY LlND._Extract of a letter from the Hague :
" The fair songstress, with
.her cara sposa, has been so-
journing at the pretty watering place of Scheveningen, on
the Dutch coast, within a couple of miles of this place.
She has much improved in health from sea-bathing, and
both will proceedimmediately for Gottenburg."
THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY has made anothcr,;but
again fruitless attempt to obtain from the Autocrat of
France the liberty of the Emir who languishes in the pri-
son of Amboise. Last year, when Louis Napoleon was sur-
rounded by difficulties which might serve as an excuse, he
was all readiness to release Abd-el-Kader, and lavish of
courteous and pleasant phrases towards the Noble Mar-
quess. Now that his will is law, and he has no excuse
for delaying the fulfilment of a promise to which we have
it under his own hand that the honour of France is pledged,
Mon Prince" is as deaf as a post and as silent as the
grave. Nevertheless, "le pouvoir n'a rien change de
mon cceur." The Noble Marquess seems to doubt this.
We believe it. The " cceur " of "Mon Prince" was
always the earae.lohn