The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-30 00:00:00

PROSECUTING THE]
ssions, on Tuesday

Coleridge thereupiM interposed, and said that le should
receive with the greatest reluctance, if, indeed, he should
not reject, evidence so obtained, for it was impossible that
a jury should not suspect, and perhaps disbelieve, all the
evidence of a 11(.1,nn whn hna

means of gaining information. -The inspector then urge
that he had often been blamed for not having, on similar
occasions, listened to what had been said. Mr. Justice
Coleridge said that if such a course of proceeding was sug-
gested to policemen it could no longer be
wonder that an ill opinion of them was entertained, and
that their a matter o

cestimony`was received with distrust. It must,
however, be obvious to every person of good sense and good feeling, who 'night be discharging the duties of I
liceman, that such a mode of obtaining evidence agamsfs
044:
man accused of crime was most improper. The eli.
- - —osecution deferred to the opinion- of 'file
.11.11te,.
The jury, however, were. ,,t-

and witlid
tisfied

the wan

ith the other evidence

and found

WANTED.—One of two na.

ators sen.

life for an atrocious crime, has addressed a letter to

don, March 7, 18,0, or which the following is a literal
—" Dear Friend,—l take the pleasure of writing
to you, hoping to find you and all your fa-
mily in good health has it leaves me at present, thank God
for it. The other three has gone away above four months
.

copy
these few lii

• 1. AlcaDV Lk/ 6Lvs,
;i respects to John Bridget, and to John Tate, and It
,thud hapen to see my Brother, tell him that I am in
-ith, Bless the Lord for it. And I thud like to
some of them, So that I could write to some of
a few shillings, to get a little Prayer Book, to
ay with me when Igo away. This his sr
riting, and this his but the second fink
JU ake the writing
you an, and I h-ope you will send me a letter ha.

hear from

own W

writ on paper. And you must r

me of my

hat I have
out as well

ny how you are all getting on
—WILLIAM SMITH.-1)

has you can, to let
I will send you another letter

the writer of this letter, in the summer of 1846, was com-
mitted for trial, he did not know the alph
of course, unable to write. He must, the!

Id was'

v e beenk
and it

nu apt pupil of thi
hey had been con

ter while in 1 ,
ipaniens, as teacher and pupil, when the
latter was a lad, he would, in all probability, have now
been a virtuous and useful member of society.
TERFIELD MUILDER.—On Friday week, John

THE C
Plat ts, tv

-six years of age, a butcher, was tried before
?atteson, on a charge Of having murdered

a man about the same age, with whom ha
in business, at Chesterfield. It appeared
leceased had had a

risoner

quarrel about money, ant that, on the night of the mur-
der, Collis was brought to the shop, stupified with drink:
by a man named Morley, and another man unknown, and
there killed with a hammer or a cleaver. For some months
after the murder it was supposed that Collis had abscoT

sere cleaning

Lscovered the remains of a human body, WI
.fined' to be Collis's, by the clothes. Pk
r were apprehended. Morley, almost imm

seized with brain fever, a.na
been found of the
iblishea
was

Lies ye

fhe ca: