The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

INQUESTS YESTERDAY.

DEATH BY DROWNING.—:AB inquest was held before
H. H. Statham, Esq., deputy-coroner, on the body
of a man named William Wright, who was accidentally
drowned near the north bridge of George's Dock, on Sa-
turday night, about twelve o'clock. The deceased was a
fisherman, aged twenty-seven years, but how he fell into
the dock did not appear. He was got out in a few minutes
and removed to the receiving-house, where every means
were used for his recovery, but without effect.—Verdict,
found drowned.

ANOTHER CASE.—An inquest was held on the body of
a boy, named John Hampson, aged eight years, of 12,
Fraser-street, who, on Saturday afternoon, went to bathe
in a pit above St. Anthony's Chapel, and got out of his
depth. The body was recovered in about ten minutes,
but he was quite dead. Verdict, accidentally drowned.
BURNING.—On the body of a child, aged three years,
named John Marlow, who lived in No. 3 Court, Whitley-
street. Three weeks ago on Friday last, the mother of
the deceased went out, and left him in the house alone.
During her absence his clothes caught fire, and he was so
burnt about the breast and arms as to cause his death on
Thursday night last. Verdict, found burnt, but how it
happened no evidence appears-before the jury._

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ttoNSLAUGHTER.—Ori the body of Grace Jones, aged
57, who lived in No. 13 Court, Hornby-street. The ac-
cused was a person named Thomas Yates, who lived in
the same house with deceased and her daughter. On Sa-
turday night the prisoner went home drunk, between ten
and eleven o'clock, and, addressing the daughter of the
deceased, said—" You bloody faggot, have you no supper
ready for me ?" She replied', she had no means ;on which
he abused her and knocked her down. After that she
escaped out of the house, and the prisoner went out also.
About twelve o'clock he returned and knocked at the door.
The deceased opened it, on which the prisoner hit herwith
his fist on the side of the head. She fell down inside the
door, and the prisoner tried to throw her down the steps out-
side, but she caught hold of the door handle and struggled
with him some time. He overcame her and threw her
down the steps, and her head came in contact with the
flags. She then lay with her head in the kennel and her
feet on the bottom step, there being four steps up to the
door. The prisoner seeing what he had done, came out
and assisted to carry her into the house, and she was
placed on a small bed in the parlour, where she died
almost immediately. Mr. Twiss Riordan, surgeon,
said he saw the deceased about half-past one o'clock
on Sunday morning. She was then dead. He had
since made a post mortem examination of the body
and found that the base of the skull was fractured, which
was the cause of death. The prisoner made a long state-
ment to the jury, the chief point of which was, that the
deceased fell down the steps accidentally and not by any
force of his. The jury, after a brief consultation, returned
a verdict of manslaughter against the prisoner, and he
was forthwith committed to Kirkdale, to take his trial at
the next assizes.

THOMAS COWLEY, aged sixteen, living at No. 93,
Limekiln-lane, was walking with his companion, Joseph
Mosley, near St. Domingo-pit, Everton, on Sunday
afternoon, when another lad, who had an old quarrel
with Mosley, rushed up to them and stabbed Cowley
severely above the left hip. He then ran away. Cowley
was conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where the wound
wasdressed, and he is now progressing favourably.
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pears in the Droit:—" The tribunals will, without doubt,
soon be called upon to try a case which, from the rank of
the accused person, will excite a great sensation. The
Countess , belonging to a princely house of one of
the small states of the Germanic Confederation, mani-
fested warm passions at an early period, and to prevent
their producing disgraceful results, her family hastened
to get her married. Marriage did not subdue her pas-
sions, and after a few stormy years she became a widow.
Her misconduct now knew no limit. Forgetting her
education, her rank, and all respect for propriety, she had
a succession of lovers and gradually descended in the
social scale until she went off with a traveller for a com-
mercial house, whose character was bad, and who had
been attracted as much by her large fortune as by her
beauty. After an absence of some time they returned to
Paris, and took up their abode in a splendid hotel of the
Chaussee d'Antin, where the clerk caused her to put her
signature to bills which he got discounted, and paid his
debts with the proceeds, The Count of —, being
informed of the degrading life that the countess was lead-
ing in Paris, endeavoured to effect a change by causing
her separation from the man with whom she was living,
but this did not suffice. She took one lover after another,
until at last the man chosen was a low Jew, who treated
her with cruelty, and robbed her of her property, and then
abandoned her in a state of destitution, when in an ad-
vanced state of pregnancy. Soon after this the external
signs of pregnancy had disappeared, and rumour was cur-
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justice, an inquiry was instituted, and it was ascertained
that a child had been born alive, and immediately
strangled and thrown down a water-closet. The Countess
has been arrested, and is now in the prison of St.
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