The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-30 00:00:00

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FATAL AFFRAY IN SIR THOMAS'S BUILDINGS.

A Coroner's jury was on Tuesday afternoon sworn before
Philip Finch Currie, Esq., to inquire into the circumstancea
touching the death of Thomas Molyneux. John Molyneux,
son of the deceased, stated that his father was a pipe-maker,
and worked for Mrs. Morgan, in Sir Thomas's-buildiugs. On
Sunday morning last, at about two o'clock, his father was at
work there. He (witness.) was standing at the end of an entry
which lad to the kiln, smoking his pipe and waiting for his father
to go hothe sylph him. The prisoner Michael Grant, with whom
was the prisoner Moreland and another man, came up to hint
and asked him if he was one of Steel's men. He said "No,"
he knew nothing about Steel and had never worked for bin.--
The prisoner bad at this time placed his hand in his (witness's)
pocket, and was taking his tobacco box from him. Witness,
raised his hand and threw away the prisoner's arm, upon which
the latter immediately knocked him down. Ile got up again,
they hada short struggle, and both fell. His father hearing the
noise came out. The prisoner,the moment the father appeared,
knocked him down also. The prisoner did not again touch the
deceased, nor did his companion Moreland strike at all. The
latter helped him to pick up his father and to curry hint into the
kiln. His (witness s) father was a little in liquor, but not
much. Witness went home to his mother and sister, and sent
them to his father. Ile did not himselfgo back, because he was
afraid. Ile did not think the blow was struck maliciously, but
through intoxication. Elizabeth Molyneux deposed, that on
Sunday morning her brother ca-ne home and told her and her
mother to go to the kiln to their father as he was lying dead
there. They went to him and found him lying there nearly in-
sensible. Witness raised him up. lie requested her to take
off his shoes. He then became quite insensible, and never
spoke more. He died at a plea ter before one o'clock on .Moa-
day. The prisoners were at the kiln when she got there. She
asked the prisoner Grant if he had struck her father. He said
he would not tell, but if he had, it was not with the intention of
doing him any injury. The prisoner Moreland was questioned
by the Coroner as to his share in the transaction. Ile said he
was not with Grant in the first instance. He came out of an
adjacent public house and saw the first witness and Grant fight-
ing. Grant had his coat off. but he did know whether the other
was stripped or not. They were, however, engaged in a regu-
lar einnhat. The old man came out of the entry and advanced
towards Grant who struck him a blow which caused hint to fall
haaeily un the parapet. The Coroner expressed his regret that
he was not in a situation in which he could make the evidence
of Moreland availai.de, as he could not discharge hint till he
had received the verdict of the jury. (It had become pretty
evident that Moreland bad no share in the matter.) William.
Owens, an Officer of Excise, stated that he was on duty at Mr.
Steel's soapery, on Sunday morning last. At about two o'clock
Le heard a noise in the street, which induced him to go and
open the wicket gate to see what was the matter. He PM seve-
ral persons in the street. He had known birth the prisoners by
sight from attending the places where they worked. He saw
Grant and the first witness squaring at each other and engaged
in a regular combat. The son of the deceased knocked Grant
down. The latter immediately pulled off his coat and waist-
coat, and the combat was renewed as before. Both Parties
entered upon the contest willingly. Grant knocked his oppo-
nent down twice. The deceased came out of the entry. Wit-
ness thought he appeared as though he wanted to pacify them.
Grant asked him what business it was of his, and struck him.
He (the deceased,) fell heavily to the ground. It was a dread-
ful fall. One of the jurors. who appeared to have sacrified too
freely at the shrine of Bacchus, had for some time annoyed the
witness with a number of irrelevant questions. The witness
heing now under examination by the Coroner did not imme-
diately answer the juror. The latter appealed rather vocife-
rously to the Coroner. The Coruuer quietly requested, that at •
that moment he might not be interrupted. The juror, whose
name is Daniel W ells, persisted ; upon which the Coro-
ner said, addressing the beadle, " I adjourn this inquest till to-
morrow, and perhaps by that time you can furnish me with a
sober jury." The inquest was accordingly adjourned till half...
past teu o'clock. Betore the Court broke up, Mrs. Morgan, in
whose employ the deceased had been, was questioued with the
view of ascertaining how far her evidence would bear upon the
case. She stated that when thedeceased came out of the entry,
he had exclaithed three or four times to his son, who was
fighting with Grant,—" Strike high, Jack !" 'The decease& •:
and his son, she stated, were both intoxicated, and had caused:
her considerable annoyance during the day. These points will
tell considerably in favour of the prisoners as they give the
affray the aspect of a drunken brawl, though it was supposed at
first to have been of a more serious nature. The prisoners were.
remanded.—The inquest was resumed on Wednesday, when
the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Michael
Grant. Moreland was acquitted.

There are now confined in Kirkdale Gaol 28 prisoners for
trial at the March assizes, viz., 23 males and 5 females.
Nrw Cu A eat..—ln oar advertising columns will be found an*
announcement of the opening of a new methodist chapel in
Chester-street, Toxteth-park, on Wednesday next, built by the
natives of the principality, in connection with the Wesleyan
body, whose numbers have of late been rapidly increasing in
this town. The services of Wednesday will be in English, and
three highly-popular ministers are expected to preach. On the
following Sunday sermons will be delivered in the Welsh lan7
gunge.
FATAL ACClVENT.—Yesterday, an inquest was held before.
Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Isaac Eden, a rigger, who
met with' his death while engaged in his occupation, at the
Prince's Dock. Charles Gile, stated, that he and the deceased,*
were on Monday employed on board the Reliance, lying in thu.
Prince's Dock. About three o'clock in the afternoon, the .de
ceased went up to ibe top of the mast-head. and witness, who
was on deck, saw him miss his hold—he fell head-foremost on
the deck, He was carried to the Infirmary, where be died
about a minute after his arrival. The jury returned a Vertherd
" Accidental Death." •
Noe-ARRIVAL or THE Lo:snow MAlL—Considerable incon—
venience was experienced during the latter part of the past_
week by the late arrival of the London mail. During sevetat
nights it did not arrive for four, five, and even six hours: after
the usual time. The reason for this was,.that a heavy drift of
snow had almost choked up the cutting at Chalk•hill, so t4at
passage had to be cleared by the use of spades and shovels be!7'.
,
fore the coach could proceed. On Tuesday night the mail' did
not mite at all. Yesterday morning_ the guard of the
rningham mail brought intelligence that the communication;
between Birmingham and London was cut off at Duncburch,.
where four mails and several coaches were snowed up. Amour 1/4.
those it was stated was the Liverpool mail from London, dueat
half-past four o'clock on Tuesday.—Goir's Advertiser..
Tint Wasicxs.—On Saturday, Mr. Dhwling, the suieriv...•
tendent of the Dock Pollee. went over to Cheshire, with an in.;
sperm'', two serjeants, and twenty men. A guard was place,'
along the coast from Leasowet Castle to Hoylake. The Sand •
bach is aground close to shore, between Leasowe Castle and
n
the Lighthouse. A number of riggers have been employed to
get her masts and rigging out, and carts are engaged to discharge,
the cargo, which is a valuable one, upon the bank. She is stork
hard and fast in the sand, and her hold is filled with water. I.".
Hers is deeply indiedded in the sand about four miles from 0!!
main on West Boyle, The lite-boat got off her passengers 014
crew. She had also a valuable cargo. An Italian brig, the
Phccbe,
awbaosn. Daringktnocked stopaiteucrdesayinsoHdotshleakfoe,lhan,nding the cargo
floc
floating
of it was no shore, and placed under a guard. Several other
vessels were aground in different parts of the river.
The Hey. Alfred Armstrong, Hector of the palish of 1%1°7
line, in the County Tipperary, is obliged to attend the duties."_
give ,
his parish church with loaded pistols in his pocket, having "
offence to his parishioners by committing one of them to gaol
for some trifling misdemeanour.
POPISH CRUELTIES.—II is stated by President Edwards, tekrat
in the reign of Charles IX. of France, 70,000 Protestants were
slain in a few days ; and that in the persecution which be_gatlila'a
1571, there were in the kingdom of France no fewer thaw
300,000 Protestants, who fell a saclike to P°l"h cruelty.
Within ill
Within the short space of thirty years, there were tnarty_„,
France for the Protestant religion, 39 princes, 148 courts,
weir"!
barons, 147,518 gentlemen, and 760,000 of the common
CTitliaersilitestnle.eolit.iiy,nenigitiaanu:tawbso,vlyes2,(txh)amot in
h viol{
cred in a few days, the Papists, by a secret agree eint,ofa bar_
risen all over the kingdom, intending thy one pitifeas act
,
rid cruelty, to put to death every suntiving Prote
(irk Otsespdiart. Ireland
oltest ani ssti•leererua—"Lns;