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which the slide found in Mr. Shaw's house after the robbery
exactly fitted ; the key of Mr. Shaw's front door, ladles for
melting metal, with silver dross in one of them, lucifer
matches, two saws, a vice, some files, and various other arti-
cles relating to other robberies. While in the house the pri-
soner Barber and another man came in, and were captured.
Mr. Jones afterwards went to the house of William Barber,
in the neighbourhood of Parkinson's houp. He there found
a crowbar, sundry keys, two boxes of lucifer matches, and a
piece of black calico, exactly corresponding in texture and
quality with the jackets found in Parkinson's house. It had
been a jacket, and had been recently taken to pieces. On
the 2d of April Mr. Jones apprehended Goodyear at his
house at Salemoor. The person who answered the knock
at the door denied Goodyear's being in the house, and Mr.
Jones on going inside found him standing behind the door
naked, with his clothes on his arm.
The most direct evidence against the accused was the tes-
timony of Thomas Sutton, the man admitted Queen's evi-
dence. He stated that he had lodged in the house of the
prisoner Parkinson for nearly seven weeks, and had often
met the other prisoners, Barber, Goodyear, and Ellis there.
On the 25th March it was agreed between him and the other
prisoners to go to Mr. Shaw's house. They left Parkinson's
house together, and it was arranged that Parkinson, Penning-
ton, and Ellis should go one way, and Sutton, arber, and
Goodyear another. Sutton and his party went through
Hulme, crossed the river at Throstlenest, then up a lane to
Eccles, and then along the turnpike road to the stile leading
to Mr. Shaw's house at Fearnhead. They there met the
other prisoners, at about ten o'clock at night. They left
Goodyear and Pennington to watch, while Sutton, Parkin-
son, Ellis, and Barber went to Blackbrook, to George Bibby's
house. After getting some buttermilk they went back and
found Goodyear and Pennington waiting where they had left
them. Sutton and Ellis remained outside while the other
four went in. They broke the door open with a large stump
they found at the back of the house. They fired a pistol
directly they got in. Goodyear stood with a pistol and
lamp, and Parkinson also had a lamp and pistol. He (Sut-
ton) threw three stones in at the window, when the girl
opened it, and, with Ellis, afterwards forced her back through
a broken window. After they had come out of the house
they all returned back over Rowlis-lock, past Twist's barn,
through Thelwall and Lymn, then down the Duke's canal to
Altrincham. When they got to Sale-moor, Barber, Pen-
nington, and Goodyear went to Goodyear's house. They
drank the rum in Thelwall-lane, and broke the bottle against
a tree. In a field near Westbarn, Pennington pulled out a
watch, which he said was a good silver one. Parkinson said
he had got some silver spoons, and Barber pulled out a
purse containing seven sovereigns and a half, and gave each
of them one sovereign, and the other, he said, must be divi-
ded when they next met. Sutton afterwards got Is. 3d. for
his share of the watch and spoons.
Evidence was produced to corroborate the testimony of the
accomplice.
The prisoners were all committed for trial at the next
assizes.

The next charge was preferred against
William Barber, Henry Ellis, William Parkinson, William
Woollaston, and Samuel Pennington, for a burglary com-
mitted at the house of Mr. Samuel Stubbs, a farmer, resid-
ing at Gorton, near Manchester.
On the 17th of February, in the night time, six men, after
firing a pistol, rushed up stairs into Mr. Stubb's bed-room,
and presenting a pistol at his head, demanded his money,
and threatened to blow his brains out. He delivered to them
his keys, and after that they went to his niece's, Ellen Hall's,
chamber, threatened her life in a similar way, and took some
dresses from her box. Some of the party then went below,
and rifled the house of a silver snuff-box, various articles of
wearing apparel, provisions, ale, and other property. A
shirt and a pair of stockings belonging to the servant-man
were afterwards found upon the prisoner Pennington, and
the inmates of the house succeeded in identifying the accused
as the persons who were present : they had all black masks,
and had their faces blackened underneath, and Mr. Stubbs
said the pistol presented at him in aprearance resembled
those found at Parkington's house.
The prisoners were committed on this charge also:.
The last case was one of a burglary committed at the
dwelling-house of Mr. Abraham Akers, of Bickershaw Hall,
on the night of the 7th of December.
The library shutters of Mr. Akers's mansion were forced
open on the night in question ; and next morning several
drawers in Mr. Akers's desk were found broken open, a
number of pocket-books and other papers were lying open
about the room, and Mr. Akers missed 30s. or 40s. in silver
and copper coin, about 170 old coins, a box of cigars, a brace
of duelling pistols, a powder flask, bullet mould and charger,
a pair of silver spectacles, a bunch of keys, a leather bag,
which contained the silver and copper, and a canvass bag,
containing the old coin. Mr. Akers identified the pistols
found at Parkington's house, together with the keys and
leather bag. as his property. There was no case against the
other prisoners, although from the number of footmarks
seen in the garden there is reason to suppose they were con-
cerned in the robbery. The prisoner Parkinson was alone
committed on this charge.
There are other cases, both of burglary and sacrilege, to
be gone into at a future day.

MURRAY THE MURDERER,

(From the Chester Chronicle.)

The condemned malefactor has not yet attained the 19th
year of his age. His appearance most strangely belies his
act. He appears to have conducted himself extremely well
in his early employments, and to have obtained, and we
would fain hope deserved, the good opinion of his superiors.
Little is known in England beyond what is given in evidence
on his trial. The crime for which he will have to suffer the
most ignominious punishment of the law was perpetrated
with great coolness and decision. No visible evidence exists
that his hand did it. Not one mark or stain of blood has
been discovered on his apparel or person, nor any of the pro-
perty of the unfortunate deceased found in or traced to his
possession, excepting it be the money, which, being in coin,
cannot be sworn to. The rapidity of his movements after
the event were such as to baffle the case, had it not been for
the wonderful interposition of a superintending Providence,
which, by some agency, simple in itself, but almost incom-
prehensible in its operation, will rarely permit such deeds to
pass without detection and punishment.
The conduct of Murray, from his first committal to the
time of our writing, has been uniformly consistent—that is,
he has continued to asseverate his entire innocence of the
crime with which he is charged. In stating this, however,
we are bound also to state, that a prisoner named Samuel
Coates, charged with and found guilty of forgery at the pre-
sent assizes, stated that some time since Murray had made
a full confession of his guilt to him, detailing also the cir-
cumstances under which he committed the murder. The
character of Coates, however, is of that questionable nature,
that it was not thought fit that the prosecution should be en-
cumbered with his evidence, but that the case should be laid
before the tribunal of justice in its naked aspect as sustained
by noncurrent circumstances. We think a wise discretion
was exercised. Confessions and admissions, particularly
when dependent for credit on the veracity of men of criminal
lives and habits, are unsatisfactory. In this case, unfortu-
nately for Murray, no such aids were required.
• No witnesses were called for the defence ; in fact, none
could be. The cost of the defence was defrayed by an uncle
of the prisoner, who is a respectable yeoman, residing in the
county of Cavan. He attended the trial. The day after the
conviction he took a last earthly farewell of his criminal
nephew. Murray went through the trial with great firmness.
When the verdict was pronounced he was hut little moved.
He contented himself with merely saying, " Gentlemen, I'm
as innocent as a child unborn, and it's not right I should
suffer for others." His demeanour when under and after
sentence may be denominated obdurate. Since, however,
he has been considerably subdued. He has paid great atten-
tion to his religious duties, and is generally found by the
clergyman and turnkeys engaged in prayer. The day of exe-
cution is not yet fixed.

POPE'S ESSAY ON MAN.-Mr. Abijah Pope, of Juniata,
has been found guilty and fined 220 dollars for an assault
and battery on Philomel H. Mann.—New York paper.
" SOME HAVE GREATNESS THRUST UPON
The daughter daughter of a Spanish grandee having become enamoured
of a corporal of the Gustadores of the Royal Guards, her
father, the Conde de —, anxious to please his daughter,
applied to General Espartero, requesting that he would pro-
mote the man to the rank of a commissioned officer; but,
upon the lucky grenadier being
.made acquainted with what
was intended for him, he replied, ," That he felt greatly
flattered ; hut being determined to marry a young servant
girl he was much attached to, he declined all and every
honour intended him,"