The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-20 00:00:00

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afternoon. In ani,er to a question by Mr. Wright, witness
said that he had shot. a. bird that day, but witness could not
recollect the name of the bird. The prisoner said he was in-
nocent of this business, and as he was going along the moor
Matthew Lambert had said to biro. "Those that killed this
man ought to he found oat." Prisoner relined, that it might
have happened to Matthew .himself, that somebody might
shoot him.

James Fletcher re-Pxamin,l —.Said that he was on the
road from the stumps to the cabin when he heard the gun
tired, and no person, at'ter the tiring of the gun, could have
got into the cabin ivibout witness v.eing hiro. When he got
to the cabin he found the tramp lying asleep on the floor,
who, oti being diet tubed by witness, went towards Belmont.
This evideace exonerates the tramp from some suspicions
that had arisen.

Several witu,s.,el evidence did not

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bear strone:y upon the case, until
Joseph Haliiwell, in the emplev of William Gerard, cattle
dealer, Bolton, was called in. Witness said that on Friday
last he Was oeing over Horwich 000 r for the first time in his
life, on his way to Skipton, in Yorkshire, to buy cattle.
Whilst going over the moor be lost his way, and whilst he
was endeavouring to find it he braid the report of a gun,
about 460 yards from the place where the man hid been shot.
After he had proceeded about 100 yards, he met a man run
fling with a gun in his hand. As soon as he heard the report
of the gun, he made the best of his was to the place whence
the sound proceeded; he was on horseback at the time ; he
went there for the purpose of inquiring his way. When he
saw the man running be theUght of asking hint his nay, hut
the man shunned him, and held the gun down, as if endea-
vouring to cenceal it. Witness rode towards him until he
got within 30 yards of him, and asked hint his way, but he
didn't speak to him. The man made across the moor in the
direction of from which place witness had come.
Witness went straight forward in the direction from which
he had seen the man proceed, and arriving at a deep ditch
he saw a man lying in it. Witness turned back again, and
tried to fityl his way over the moor ; the man seemed to toe
dead. Witness went along it because the horse would not
go over the ditch. Mr. Ainsworth and several of the jury
asked the witness many questions ; in reply to which he
asked how it was likely tie should speak to ot dead man. Mr.
Ainsworth said that the mar, tnight have been in a fit. Witness
said a man looked very much like being in a fit. when he
was shot through the head. Witness looked at the deceased,
but did net offer to touch him ; he was all in a '• maze."
Witness had gone above 100 yards after he heard the gun
fire, before he met tits man running. The man was proceed-
ing in front, hut looked a, if he did not like to meet him ;
the nearest neint at which he approached the nun, he be-
lieved was less titan 30 yards. He was positive that the man
had a gun in his hand. lle was dressed in a blue surto ut;
troasers, and a blue plush waistcoat. The. roan_ was about 5
feet 9or 10 inches, and boa a gun with him. Witness was
fetched from his work yesterday (Thursday) by Mr. Perris,
the constable of Blackburn, and was taken to. Great Bolton
Dungeon, where he identified INhitele as the man he had
met on the moor. After he left the body, he met with an old
man, anti asked him which was the way to Belmont, who
directed him in the right way, and whilst he was getting at
the right trade, he passed the five barns a second time, and
called for a glass of ale. He dirt not tell them about seeing
the man in the ditch. The body of the deceased had then
been taken there, hut witness did not know it. It was about two
o'clock when he was at the five houses the second time. Wit-
ness was going to Yerkshit e to purchase cattle ter his master,
and had about 0.00 about hint at the time. The reason he
did not make any particular alarm was, that he was afraid
that people might suspect that he had committed the murder.
W hen he heard his master and some persons at Skipton
talking about a roan being shot, he stated then that he was
chose by when the man shot. -

We have nut time to give the evidence at length, as the
inquest teas nut over until half-past five o'clock. The evidence
of the last witnesa was very clear. In a short time the jury

returned a verdict of " Wi!ful Murder," against Ja-mes
Whittle. The coroner c(;inplimented the magistrates and
other pzentiemen of the tpti!rliboarbood for the attention they
had paid in investirzating this dreadful transaction.

A contemporary says that ‘• :he mlchinery orthe Great
Western wilt lust fin; ever;" and adds, that '`afterwards it
can be sold for old iron."

Digby Caley, Esq.', has declined to take upon himself the
duties of a Town Councillor of the Borough of Ripon, to
which he was elected on the Ist instant. It said that if he
had accepted office he would have been elected Alavor, though
all the Corporation but himself and another are Tories. This
would have been a very different specimen of "liberality”
from that exhibited by the Whig Radicals, who arrogate to
themselves the title of " Liberals" at Lee:ls. Leeds bitelli-
gencer.

-PiiTVATE LETTER FROM LORD D11:11AM.--We have been
favoured by a kind friend with an extract from a letter,
which he has received from his lordship, (Kited Quebec. 13th
October. This communication is highly interesting :—" All
civil government is now impiacticable here. I return home
to follow out the objects of My 111ISSinit in the House of
Lords, where, in truth, the gort.rninitnt of the Canadas is
now conducted. The post of diffioulty-0 action—is now in
that house, and these [ must reoair. Trust me, my good
ft lend, 1 abandon not one iota of 'the objects of my mission
—on the contrary, I hold to them at strongly as ever—and I
believe that, contrary to their intentions, my enemies have
unconsciously given me better meitns to carry them into
effect. I hope to he.in Erii;land by Vle yni,l4l4e ur end of De-
oemb'er."---DumfrEei Tithes.