The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-03 00:00:00

EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONER

On Friday afternoon the prisoner, who was apprehended
on Thursday evening, on a charge of offering a gold
watch for sale, and which led to his being charged with
the murders, was brought before Mr. Rushton and a full
bench of magistrates. From an early hour in the morn-
ing the neighbourhood of the police-conrt was densely
crowded. He was taken for examination into the Ses-
sions House, to which there was a simultaneous rush.
There were about seventeen magistrates present.
Mary Parr, the servant-girl, had previously recognized
the prisoner at the Hospital, where she and her mistress
were, and made a statementthere to Mr. Rushton, of which
the following are the heads :—The prisoner, she said, took
Mrs. Hinrichson's lodgings for a month, and came on
Tuesday night. When her mistress went out on Wed-
nesday morning, witness was cleaning the front /par-
lour. Mrs. H. had two children—Henry George, and
John Alfred Hinri chson,—the younger three years old,
and the other nearly five. Witness and they were in the
front parlour together, her mistress having shut them up
there. After Mrs. H. went out, prisoner opened the
door and drove them out with a newspaper. He asked
the price of the set of fire-irons, and the fender, and the
card tables. He hit the children on the head with the
newspaper as if in fun, and sent them out, but the oldest
opened the door again. The prisoner had the tongs in
his hand, and was cleaning the shovel. She could not
remember thdt be said anything more. He then struck
her with the tongs on the head, and knocked her down,
and she remembered nothing more except that she was
lying there. The children were in the room when. he
struck her, but where they went afterwards she did not
know. She did not see her mistress after that. She had
lived nearly five years with Mrs. H. The watch, chain,
and seals produced were her mistress's. The prisoner

had no luggage with him, but said ;:e expected it. A
note came to him that morning. He said it was from his
governor, and he need be in no hurry to go to work. The
prisoner had no money. He borrowed sixiitence from
Mrs. H. He had been one night in the house.
The prisoner declined to ask the witness any questions.
Mr. Yates watched the case on behalf of the prisoner.
A Mr. Hughes, of Berry-street, said that on Wednes-
day, soon after noon, he saw a young lady at the house
in Leveson-street, in great trouble. He looked through
the window, and saw a woman and child lying on the
floor, and blood about them. Witness broke the window
and got into the parlour, when the woman rose up on her
hands and stared at him wildly. The boy was lying close
to her. Witness asked the boy who had done it. He

attempted to speak but could not do so. Witness then
looked towards the parlour door, and saw another female
lying on the floor, with her feet partly in the lobby and
her head by the parlour door.
the head in the same way. Witn

then went down stairs into the cell

youngest child with its throat cu

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