The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-23 00:00:00

THE DERBY.

7 to 2 asst Mr. Scott's iot:(take 4 to 1)
12 to 1 „ Lord Jersey's brother to Bay Middleton: (t)
20 to 1 „ Mr. \Vreford's Westonian. (off)
25 to 1 „ Sir G. Heathcote's lot. (t)
25 to I „ Mr. Bowes's Accelerator. (take 30 to 1, and
afterwards offered)
25 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-Bragb. (do.)
27 to 1 „ Mr. Allen's Fitz-Ambo. (t)
S(X) even between Epidaurus and Accelerator.

lIDER AT Laans.—A cruel and deliberate murder has
been committed at Leeds, by a man named Gilpin, who, hav-
ing been separated from his wife, went to the house at which
she resided, and, having first knocked her down, kicked her
on the head, thereby occasioning her death. The cause of
this violence appears to have been a note sent by the deceased
to her husband, requiring him to apprentice one of his sons,
of whom two lived with her. At the coroner's inquest, the
murderer, who was present, made the following admission of
his guilt :—" She sent me a note on the day that bad heels
spoken of, on a Wednesday, I believe, the 24th of October.'.
The note requested me either to take both the lads, or else to
take James, and get him put apprentice, or otherwise she
would take them both to the workhouse. When I readthat,
1 went to her house, but I did not alter my voice, as bad been
stated by one of the witnesses examined on the first day. I
rattled the sneck : the door was fastened, certainly: she
said, Who is it ?' and I said, It is me:' she said What do
they call ?' and I said, 'Thou knows; open the door.'
There was no knocker at the door : I rattld the speck: she
opened the door, and I said, What is it thou means? which
of these lads is it that bothers thee?' and she said, is
James,' and that if 1 did not take them both, or otherwise
get James apprenticed, she said I should have to go to Wake-
field again. So with that I was grieved. She said she would
take care that I did go too. With that I was grieved, andl
up with my fist and struck her, and then she fell, and Lkicked
her two or three times; but I never thought it would be her
death stroke. It was not my motive, 1 assure you. I was
not sober: I had been getting a good deal of drink that day,
and I had been drinking two days previous to that." A ver-
dict of " wilful murder" was returned against him, and he was
committed to take his trial.

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REVOLTING MURDER. —A most barbarous murder took
place at Itlyshall, county of Carlow, on the morning of Fri-
day the 9th instant, in the house of Lawrence Nolan, who,
with his wife and several of his children, went out in the
morning after their breakfast to dig potatoes, leaving in the
house his daughter Bridget, a girl of eight, with her grand-
mother. Catherine Donohoe, a woman eighty years of age.
John Nolan, cousin to Bridget, went into the house, and
with a shovel, which was found in it broken and covered over
with hair and blood, first killed Catherine Donohoe, and then
Bridget Nolan. The monster threw them into the fire. A
smell, like that of pork frying, reached Lawrence solan,
who was two fields off; and he sent a little girl, sister of
Bridget to find out the cause. On entering the house the
girl saw her sister nearly consumed by fire, and nothing re-
maining but part of her neck and head, and
.about three
inches over the ancle of each foot. Her grandmother was
burning on the fire. The girl gave the alarm; and when tha
family and neighbours ran to the house, they found the door
of the sleeping-room of the victims broken open, and a chest
also opened, which had contained a purse with two pounds
ten shillings in it. The purse and money were abstracted.
There was a large sum of money in the chest, wrapped up in
linen, that escaped the murderer's eye. lire police arrested
John Nolan; and a thirty shilling note, part of the contents
of the purse got on him, was identified. A coroner's inquest
was held at Alysha 11, and a verdict of wilful murder was
brought against John Nolan. The doctors, who opened the
heads, proved that the fractures were sufficient to EMUS
death.—Dublin Packet.

In a coal mine in the environs of Charleroy, it was re-
cently found necessary to empty the waters of a new tosse
into an abandoned fosse, by taking away the plug which re-
tained them. As the workmen shrunk from undertaking so
perilous an operation, the director of the coal mine promised
'a reward of 6000 f. to any individual who would accomplish
it. A needy workman accepted the offer, and acquitted hini-
self of his task in the following manner :—He descended into
the fosse with a thick cable passed around his body, and took
with him four dogs trained for the purpose. On reaching -
the bottom of the fosse, he attached to the pluga cord by.
which the dogs were held fast. He then gave a signal.tk#,....i4
had been agreed on by his comrades to drag him up from 0,4
fosse, and on ascending rapiily called his dogs. Thelattpr,,,,,
by the efforts which they made to follow their ,maliter,_rp.7.7
moved the plug, and the water immediately.rashect witit :
greatest.impetuosity into the abandoned fosse. Three of_th:
dogs were taken out alive, but the faith was drowned. Thit
ingenious workman i4.,:0.fte.4 the promised rewardo..