The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-16 00:00:00

TATTERSA LL'S-MON DAY.

THE DERBY.—The betting to-day is confined to a small
number of the thirty to one class; Pros, Accelerator, Zim-
merman. and Fitzambo, being the chosen four ; they were
backed freely. Sir G. Heathcote's lot is still in favour, and
a small sum was laid out on Bulwark ; but the business ge-,
nerally was neither heavy nor important.

THE DERBY.
10 to 1 against Lord Jersey's Brother to Bay Middleton.
18 to 1 ~ Duke of Rutland's Flambeau.
25 to 1 ~ Duke of Richmond's Bulwark.
25 to 1 „ Sir G. Heathcote's lot (taken.)
30 to 1 1, Colonel Anson's Zimmerman (tk.)
30 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Accelerator (tk.)
30 to 1 „ Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers (tk.)
32 to 1 „ Lord Albemarle's Pros (tk.)
33 to I
~ Mr. Allen's Fitzarnbo (tk.)
40 to 1 „ Mr. Wreford's Wapiti (tk.)
14 to 1 against Erin•go-bragh and Accelerator (tk;) 30 to
1 against Erin•go-bragh, and the same odds against Epidau-
rus, laid in fifties in one bet.

It would seem that the patriotic family of Hutt are not
proof against the temptations of office. The brother of our
worthy neighbour of Gibside was, a few months ago, installed
Governor of Western Australia, and more recently he has
been dubbed " vice•admiral" of 'that proiimce.—Newcattle
Journal.

DREADFUL MURDER AND ROBBERY AT HOR•
WICH, NEAR BOLTON.

On Friday last, between twelve and one o'clock, one of the
most atrocious murders known in this neighbourhood for
some time past was committed upon-the highway leading
across the moors from Horwich to Belmont, at a very dreary
spot, about half a mile from a place called Five Houses,
about two miles and a half from Horwicb, and nearly the
same distance from Belmont. The unfortunate victim was
a travelling Scotchman, named George Henderson, a young
man, '2O years of age',"•and a native of Annan. He had been
in England about five months, and was in the service of Mr.
John Jardine, of Blackburn as an apprentice. On Friday

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service of Mr. John Foster, of Blackburn, having to pairs
over the same dreary waste of country, agreed with the de-
ceased to meet him on the toad, and afterwards to dine with
him at Belmont. Mr. Burrell arrived at the Five Houses at
ten o'clock, and waited at Mr. James Garbutt's, a beetseller
and owner of a colliery in the neighbourhood, about an hour
and a half; but as Henderson did not arrive during that
time, Burrell desired Mrs. Garbutt to tell him to make haste,
and that he, Burrell. would wait for him at dinner. About
twelve o'clock, the deceased arrived at Garbutt's; and hav-
ing received information that Burrell was gone forward, be
immediately left the house, and walked on at a good speed.
In about a quarter of an hour afterwards, a boy who had
been taking his father's dinner to a colliery near, hearing
some one groan, looked into the ditch by the road side, and
found poor Henderson lying shot through the head with his
pack under him. The boy screamed, and a young woman
who was on the road screamed also. They then ran to the
coal-pit, which is only about 300 yards from the spot, and in-
formed the banksman, who immediately came to the assist-
ance of the wounded man. The banksman sook him by the
hand, and said, " I think you are hurt, sir." The deceased
said, "I am robbed, Jamie, and I should have sent a parcel
off on Monday." He did not utter a sensible expression
afterwards. He had a companion called Jamie; and, being
delirious at the time, was probably alluding to him. Ou re-
moving the deceased, it was found that several slugs or shot
had entered below his right ear, and had passed through his
head, removing the left eye entirely. The right eye also lay
-upon his cheek. His pockets were turned inside out, and
the only money found upon him was ls. lid. in copper in one
of his waistcoat pokets. He was immediately removed to
Garbutt's, who, on hearing the tragical intelligence, got all
the workpeople out of the Fits, dressed and uupressed, just
as they were; and the Moors were scoured in all directions.
Four men were taken, but of three there was not the slight-
est suspicion. The other, Roger Horrocks, one of the Bol-
ton watch, was found in a "turf cess " with agun at bis tide,
certainly a very suspicious circumstance; but he was gene-
rally believed so be innocent. Immediate inquiries were
made at the instance of Mr. Wright. and Peter Ainsworth,
Esq. M.P., and from various circumstances which came to
light, it was deemed necessary to apprehend James Whittle,
a young man, 22 years of age, who resides next door to Mr.
Garbutt, and is employed as a collier at Mr. Ainsworth's
pits in Halliwell. Mr. Garbutt had immediately sent off a
man on horseback, to Belmont, for Mr. Burrell, who on his
return stated, that when he arrived at nearly time same spot
as were the event had taken place, a tall, white-looking
yoting man, dressed in blue clothes, with a gun in his hand,
came up to him and said, " Is there any game about here ?"
Mr. Burrell replied, " I believe there is." The man then
said to him " If you will go with me a bit, you shall have the
first that I kill." Mr. Burrell told him he had business to
attend to, and that be was bound to proceed on his journey.
He then walked on a few yards, and, on turning round to
look at the man, found him with his gun levelled as if to
shoot him, Burrell immediately asked the man what he was
about; upon which he lowered his gun, and pretended to
have been aiming at 'some birds. Burrell then proceeded,
but he kept his eye upon the man as he went along. When
this was related, suspicion immediately fell upon Whittle,
who was exactly the sort of person described, both in dress
and appearance. Whittle had been seen by several persons
with a gun on the moors that morning; and it was found
that be had borrowed the gun from Mr. Lambert, at Hor-
wich, on Thursday morning, and had returned it about half-
past one, on the day of the murder. He was also seen op-
posite Mr. Garbutt's house, without a gun, at the time the
alarm was given, and made off without rendering any assist-
ance, and did no: return home till night. He has also led a
dissolute life of late.