The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-10 00:00:00

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preserver, and the before-mentioned hammer : the latter was
covered with blood. The injured policemen were taken to
the Infirmary, and Dr. Braridreth, after examining their,
wounds, certified that they were in considerable danger.
Mr. Dowling, having heard of these transactions, proceeded
to the house for the purpose of examining it. He found an
immense quantity of property, and a number of implements
for housebreaking, some of them of very ingenious construc-
tion. The following is an inventory of the mere articles of
jewellery found in the house :-42 gold brooches, 7 bracelets,
2 gold clasps, 17 links of beads, 46 gold rings, 11 gold pins,
8 gold lockets, 40 seal and brooch stones,, 3 silver watches
and 1 gold watch, 1 watch-guard, 2 gold chains, 4 gold seals,
3 gold watch hooks, 7 gold watch keys, 107 silver spoons, 5
silver knives and forks, 57 forks, 3 pencil-cases, 3 vinai-
grettes, 1 silver vase, 1 silver coffee-pot, 2 silver thimbles, 3
gold eyeglasses, 2 snuff-boxes, 26 foreign coins, 3 silver cream
jugs, 2 pairs of silver sugar-tongs, 24 pocket knives, G silver
candlesticks, and snuffers and tray.

The implements for the pursuit of business are 107 skeleton
keys, 311 keys of various descriptions, 81 blank keys ready
to be made to fit, 17 latch keys, 41 files, 12 small saws, 25
punches, 2 vices, 7 centre-bits, 10 pick-locks, 3 crucibles for
melting metals, 49 pieces of piano-forte wire, I breast-plate
as a rest for a centre-bit, 1 pair of compasses, 1 plate for

There was also found an ingeniously-constructed machine
for forcing doors. This instrument, which works by a strong
screw, will noiselessly exert a force of several tons, and open
the strongest docirs, It has been examined by Mr. Chubb,
of this town, a son and agent to the patentee of the cele-
brated detector-locks, and he states, that it is similar to a
machine called " Jack-in-a-box," formerly taken from a
notorious and successful housebreaker in London. The
machine was submitted to the inspection of Mr. Chubb, sen.,
and he took measures in the safes which he afterwards con-
structed to guard against its effects. The instrument is of
no great size or weight, but it is beautifully fabricated and
strongly put together.

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When the prisoners were placed before the Stipendiary
Magistrate, on Saturday. a large chest of goods was produced,
which wzs stated to contain property stolen from the house
of Mr. Forsyth. Mrs. Forsyth was examined, and she gave
evidence touching the robbery, and afterwards identified the
camel-hair shawl, before-mentioned, and several other ar-
ticles. Mrs. Parkes also gave testimony which substantiated
the circumstances above related, so far as she was concerned
in them. She knew that Mitchell resided in the house, and
she swore that she had repeatedly seen Stevenson go in and
out of it. Evidence was also taken as to the dangerous state
of the two officers. Mr. Rushton asked the nrisnnpr.

the witness

ustiea tne witnesses generally, if they had seen
him at the house on Friday. Mrs. Parkes made the same
reply as before. She said she did not know that he was one
of the three men whom she saw, but she had frequently seen
him at the house. Pollee-officer 512 stated, he was sure he
saw the prisoner coming over the wall with the hammer. The
other prisoners declined saying any thing, and Mr. Rushton
remanded them all for a fortnight.

CORONER'S INQUESTS

(Before P. P. CURRY, Esq.)
An inquest was holden yesterday, on view of the body of
Anne Carroll, an infant five months old. It appeared from
the evidence that a disturbance had taken place in a court in
Newman-street, arising out of a quarrel between the father
of the deceased and a neighbour, on Friday evening last ;
and though no evidence was adduced which led to the sus-
picion of any violence being offered to the child in the con-
fusion, it exhibitedi when taken to Mr. Harboard, the sur-
geon, on the following morning, several marks of external
injury, and died at noon the same day. The jury returned
a verdict of " Died from external injury, but by whom in-
flicted there was no evidence."
'4ELANCHOLY DEATH OF A GIRL BY A SHOT FROM A VERY

SMALL CANNON, ON THE FIFTH NOVEMBER.
Yesterday an inquisition was taken on view of the body of
Martha Frewin, a fine young girl, who came to her death
icier the extraordinary circumstances explained in the fol-

lowing evidence

William Lovatt, superintendent of police, being sworn,
said—On Thursday afternoon last, about minutes past four
o'clock, I was on duty in the neighbourhood of Ashton..
street, in Toxteth-park, when I was informed that a child
had been shot by a small cannon in that street. I imme-
diately went there, and proceeded to the house where the
child was lying, and found her quite dead. I made enquiries
whether any one had seen the cannon fired off, and a woman
of the name of Mary Morgan informed me that she had seen
the cannon fired, and could identify the boy who had fired
it, but she did not know his name. I was then told that I
would most probably find him at some stables in Parliament-
street. I went there, and found the boy now in custody, and
who calls himself Thomas Calligan. I asked him if he knew
who tired the cannon in Ashton-street, and he said it was a
boy named John Davis. [The cannon is a very small brass
one of about 3* inches long, and the bore would just admit
the handle of an ordinary steel pen. The jury and all pre-
small an instrument could have
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Jae witness continued—Thehich boy told me hein hand
loaded the cannon with powder and paper only, and the way
he had charged it was by a wooden ramrod, and then pushed
it against the wall. I was soon after shown the place where
it was fired, and also the place where the deceased was shot.
I stepped it, to ascertain the distance, and found it to be
about 15 feet.

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Mr. John Leech, surgeon, being called, said—l was called
to the deceased on Thursday afternoon about four o'clock,
and found her quite dead. There was a very small wound on
the nipple of the left breast. I did not make a particular
examination of the wound, as the child was quite dead. I
have since made a post mortem examination of the body. I
found that some solid substance had penetrated both the
lobes of the left lung, pericardium, and heart, and had struck
against the eighth rib, behind, on the left side, and which
caused death. I made a very diligent search, and have not
been able to discover what made the penetration. It could
not have been a very large substance from the size of the
wound externally; the wadding of a pistol or small cannon
could not have produced it ; but a shot fired from the cannon
now produced might have caused such a wound.

This being all the eTiCience,the Coroner proceeded to com-
ment upon it. He said, that the manner in which the de-
ceased had died was clearly shown in the evidence before the
jury. She had just risen from her tea, and was going out of
the cellar, when the cannon was fired just at the moment her
breast was on a level with the street. One of the boys was
identified, and admitted that the cannon was his, but that
another boy had fired it. He then explained what consti-
tuted manslaughter in such cases, and illustrated his positions
by several cases in point, and decisions of the higher courts.
The deceased was shot through the heart, with some solid sub-
stance ; but that had not been found. Had it been found, the
case would have been complete, and the jury must have found
a verdict of manslaughter. A question might be raised as to
the moral responsibility of the prisoner, M consequence of
his youth ; hut lie must remind them, that that responsibi-
lity commences from the time a child can distinguish between
right and wrong,—as was exemplified in cases of pocket pick-
ing. Had a party of lads been firing the cannon, and it had
burst amongst them, it would not be manslaughter, inas-
much as all of them had taken a part in loading it and setting
it off. In the present case, the deceased was not amongst
them and was going out, as it was to be presumed, on a law-
ful purpose. But as the shot or substance could not be found
by the surgeon, who could not discover what it was, he
thought they should find a verdict to the effect that a mortal
wound was received, but from what cause was unknown,
The jury then found a verdict to the effect that the de-
ceasee, while in the act of coming out of the cellar, received
a mortal wound in and upon the left breast, of which she
there and then instantly died ; but how or in what manner
the said wound was caused, no evidence appeared.

-LSB Watson f Zoar-street, Trowbridge, was sitting
, the fire on afternoon last, with the front door of
her dwelling open, to her surprise she had a visitor of the
feathered tribe, in the person of a beautiful partridge, which
walked up to her with as much assurance as if domesticated.
The lady took up the bird, and while admiring its handsome
plumage, it suddenly died in her hand without a struggle.

by the fire on ThursdaN,

, _
_. s. Mitchell, " Is
that the woman who'gave you the things?" She replied in
the affirmative. There were three men present, but she was
unable to say who they were, as what followed gave her great
alarm. One of the men hearing the question, seized a ham-
mer, and raising it, exclaimed, " Do you mean to say that?"
He immediately aimed a violent blow ; but whether it was
intended for the woman or the policeman, Mrs. Parkes could
not say. It, however, fell upon the head of the officer, who
was Immediately covered with blood. Mrs. Parkes conceiv-
ing that they would murder her if she remained, ran out of
the house and gave the alarm. As the policemen have not
yet been examined, there is, at present, no certainty in the
evidence as to what occurred within the house. A great noise
and scuffle were heard by the persons outside, Francis rush-
ed out, pursued by Kirkham, who was bleeding
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