The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-06 00:00:00

Sept. 3. To reaping Ga. Ir. 30p. of wheat, at I Is.

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per acre
3 1.1 71
To half surveying
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10

3 13 94-
Thomas Boot, jun. £1 2 34
On the other side of the paper were written, in a wretched
hand, the words; " Newark, Mansfield, Chapel-en-le-Frith,
Chesterfield, Warrington;" most probably being a descrip-
tion of the route intended to be taken by the party on their
way back to Ireland. No person could, for some time, be
found, who appeared to leave the slightest knowledge of the
name or business of the deceased; but at length Mr. John
Robinson, one of the chief constables of Howard Town,
stated, that he believed that the deceased was the Titan who
had called upon him a day or two before, and represented
himself as being a bricklayer who bad been working at Staly-
bridge, and had been compelled to give up working because
he had refused to join the bricklayers' union; and, in conse-
quence of the threats held out to him, he dared nut stay there
any longer. He certainly bore the appearance of a brick-
layer more than of a reaper. Inquiries were made respecting
persons who had been seen going to or from the moors, but
to no purpose. Amongst the parties who came to view the
body, before it was removed from the spot where it was ori-
ginally found, was a man named John Biocksage, who came
down the Sheffield road about nine o'clock on Wednesday
morning, and, after just looking at the body, walked off.
Shepherd, the constable, noticing that this man had got
black eyes, and several other tokens of having been recently
engaged in alight, asked where he had been lighting. Block-
sage replied, that he had stayed late at Sheffield the previous
night, and had been beaten by some bricklayers because he
would not join the union. Shepherd, suspecting that the
man had not told the truth, asked where he had slept. The
man replied, that he bad slept at the Snake Inn, a public-
house about five miles from Cold Harbour. Thinking it
strange that the man should be in such a condition, and
thinking his account of himself suspicious, Shepherd ordered
him to be detained. He was afterwards liberated, but was
again taken into custody; and it was determined that a mes-
senger should be sent to Sheffield to inquire into the truth of
his statements. Blocksage stated that he was not a member
of a trades' union, but this is doubted. Gatley, the deputy-
constable of Stalybridge, went to view the body on Thursday,
and declared his conviction that he had seen the deceased at
Stalybridge; and in this opinion he was confirmed by two
other persons from Stalybridge. In the deceased's cloth
cap was found a red and white printed handkerchief, which
looked as if he had been in the practice of tying it round his
head; and under his shirt was found an old-blue striped cot-
ton shirt, which had been stained by the blood which had
flowed from his neck. The shirt was patched at the shoul-
ders with white; but there are no initials marked upon it, or
any thing at all calculated to lead to a discovery of the name
of the murdered man. We understand that an inquest was
held on the body yesterday, and adjourned to a future day
for further evidence.—Manchester Guardian.

SUPPOSED I‘IUIIDER
AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT BIRMINGHAM

A man named Abraham Holyoke, a file-cutter, in the em-
ploy of his father, in Meriden-street, Birmingham, about 20
years of age, is now in custody, on suspicion of the murder
of a young woman of respectable character, named Anne
Maria Evans. about 23 years of age, and who, up to the time
of her unfori.orate death, resided with her mother, in Milk-
street, in this town. The circumstances of the case, as far as
we have been able to ascertain them, are as follows :—Holy-
oake and the girl Evans, as we are informed, kept company
"oft' and on," for the last two years ; and for two months
past, he is said to have been constant in his attentions. On
Monday evening, they went in company to a dance, at
the Malt Shovel, in Miik-street ; and it is said that, in
consequence of Holyoake bestowing more notice upon some
girl in the room than was pleasant to his intended, high words
ensued, and the following day Evans forbade him visting her
at the house of her mother. The quarrel, however, appears
to have been but of a short duration; for, in the afternoon of
Tuesday, an apparent reconciliation took place, and they
spent the greater part of the evening together. Holvoake
remained at the house of Mrs. Evans until near one o'clock
yesterday morning, when, in consequence of the remon-
strance of the mother, the daughter left the house with the
intention, it is supposed, of seeing him part of the way home.
They were last seen together at the entry col, in Milk-street,
about two o'clock in the morning. A little before three, pro-
ceeding along Great Barr-street, he heard a cry for help,
apparently proceeding from the banks of the Warwick Canal.
The officer, in company with Wood, the watchman, imme-
diately hastened to the spot from whence the cry proceeded,
when they found Holyoake standing on the bank of the
canal, drenched with water, and apparently, from some
cause or other, quite exhausted. When Jones inquired bow,
and under what circumstances he came there, and was found
in such a condition, Holyoake, in the first instance, replied
that he had been in company with a woman, but that she had
gone home. The reply was, naturally enough, very unsatis-
factory to the officer; and he determined, for the sake of
having the mattes- cleared up, to take Holyoake to the resi-
dence of the woman in whose company he stated he had
been. Accordingly, Jones and Wood proceeded to accom-
pany Holyoake to the girl's home; when on the way, the
prisoner, without promise, threat, or any inducement to make
a confession, voluntarily stated that the woman was dead—
that he had drowned her—and that her body was to be found
ou the Birmingham side of the bridge, over the Warwick
Canal, in Great Barr-street, near the spot where he himself
was found and apprehended. After ascertaining from the
girl's friends that the parties left the house in Milk-street
together, Jones, accompanied by the watchman and others,
returned to the place where Holyoake directed them; and
having procured Ara-gs, the body of the unfortunate girl was,
in the course of a few minutes, brought to the surface of the
water, and shortly afterwards removed to the house of Mrs.
Jackson, the Sailor's Return, in Great Barr•street, where it
now lies, awaiting the result of a coroner's inquest. Upon
his removal to prison, Holvoake, who had previously given
various accounts of the circumstances under which the girl
came by her death, stated that they bad mutually determined
to drown themselves, and that, in furtherance of this purpose,
she jumped off the bridge, and he afterwards followed her;
and it appears that when Holyoake was first seen by Jones,
there was abundant evidence that he had been over head in
the water, and had lost his hat. We understand, however,
that evidence will be brought forward at the inquest, which,
from present appearances, will go far to implicate Holyoake
in the charge of murder. A boatman employed upon the
canal states, that for at least a quarter of an hour he heard a
considerable bustle upon the banks of the canal near where
the body of the girl was found ; and the very circumstance
of Holyoake's giving various accounts of the circumstances,
and himself being saved from the death which be says was
mutually agreed upon, is at least sufficient to excite suspi-
cion, and to call for the most searching investigation.—Bir-
mingham Advertiser.