The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-14 00:00:00

SHOCKING MURDER

The village of Box and the little hamlets of Kingsdown
and Box Ashley were thrown into a state of universal excite-
ment on Sunday morning week, by the report that a savage
murder had been committed on Kingsdown, on the previous
night. A man named Isaac Smith, a labourer, had been
living for some time with the deceased, whose name was Ann
Little. She was about forty years of age, and during the
time she had cohabited with Smith, she had borne him several
children, one of which was an infant at the breast at the
time the savage outbreak took place. They had been in the
habit of drinking together, and of quarrelling to a melan-
choly. extent for some time previous to this occurrence. On
the evening of Saturday last they had several pints of beer
together at the Grove public-house, which they left at about
ten o'clock, without any apparent ill feeling between them.
On their way home, however, they came to high words, and
Smith struck her a violent blow, and knocked her down.
One of their family, a lad of thirteen or fourteen years of
age, deposed to this on his examination before the coroner.
The quarrel continued until they arrived so near their house
as to attract by the noise which they made the notice of their
neighbours. Several of these were examined on the inquest,
and their evidence was to the effect that Smith repeatedly
struck and kicked the woman, and that, when she cried for
I mercy, the brute only struck and kicked her the more. The
horrid language made use of by the fellow towards his un-
fortunate victim was of a most brutal and disgusting charac-
ter. Not contented with striking and kicking her, he dragged
her for a considerable distance along the ground, alternately
by the legs and arms, in spite of her entreaties that he would
desist. Blood marked the spots where the cruel violence
took place. The poor victim at length became so weak and
exhausted as to be unable to proceed, whereupon the fellow
took her on his shoulder for some distance, and then let her
fall heavily on the ground. Soon after twelve o'clock, how-
ever, they reached home, and the unfortunate woman was
placed in a chair, the inhuman brute, who had so grossly
abused her retiring to bed with some of his children. About
four o'clock in the morning one of the boys stole out of
bed, and went to look at his mother, when he was horror-
stricken at finding her sitting in the position in which they
had left her when they went to bed—stiff, and cold ! The
man was aroused, and on the alarm being given, Mr. Gold-

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stone, the surgeon, was sent for, but his assistance was o
no avail—the vital spark had fled ! The man was soon after
wards apprehended, but manifested a sullen indifference
about the melancholy occurrence. He is a tall, athletb
fellow, possessing a remarkably repulsive countenance.

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE

PROMOTIONS

Rev. Edward Rendell, 8.A., of St. John's College, Cam•
bridge, to the Vicarage of Bampton, Devon, vacant by the
death of the Rev. Bartholomew Davey ; patron, T. L. S
Rendell,

Rev. John Clark, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Huns
let, Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Foster
patron, the Vicar of Leeds.
Rev. Edward Jas. Paget, M.A., to the Vicarage of Smith
land, Leicestershire, void by the resignation of the Rev. H
Campbell.
Rev. Matthias Foster, of Queen's College, Cambridge, ti

the Vicarage of Urswick, Lancashire.
Rev. John Daintry, M.A.," of Trinity College, Cambridge,
to the Rectory of Patney, Wilts, void by the cession of the
Rev. Thomas Patteson; patron, theßishop of Winchester.
Rev. T. Slack, to the Rectory,of Little Leighs, Essex
vacant by the death of the Rey..J. Porteus ; patron, Sir S
Stewart, Bart. . _ . .

Rev. Edward Taylor Seale, to the Rectory of Morleigh,
Devon, vacant by the cession of the Rev. John Bywater ;
patron, Sir John Seale Bart.
Rev. Frederick Vander Meuleun, M.A., of Trinity College,
Cambridge, to the united Rectory of Bow and Broadnymet,
Devon, void by the cession of the Rev. Thomas Prowse Leth-
bridge ; patron, F. Vander Meuleun, Esq.
Rev. Wm. Lee, M.A., to the Vicarage of Stanton-upon-
Arrow, llerefordshire • patron, the Lord Chancellor.
Venerable and Rev. br. Corbett, Archdeacon of York, to
a Canonry in York Minster.
Rev. Henry Calthrop, 8.D., Fellow of Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge, Chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield, to
the Prebend of Longdmi, Lichfield.
Rev. Frederick John Norman, 8.A., to the Vicarage of
Stoneby, Leicestershire, void by the cession of Dr. Etough ;
patron; Richard Norman, Esq. '
Rev. F. Jeffrey, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge,
to be Domestic Chaplain to Lord Moles worth.
Rev. James Sabben, 8.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge,
to the Incumbency of St. Dennis with Naburn, York ; pa-
tron, the Lord Chancellor.

CATHEDRAL OF COLOGNE.—The King of Prussia
granted his annual donation of 10,000 crowns towards ti.
completion of the cathedral at Cologne, on condition that the
public contributions produce the same amount.
The grandmother of a child named Trueman, in Nesham-
square, Sunderland, went into a room on Tuesday last, in
which, unknown to her, a child was asleep in a press-bed,
which she folded up without noticing the child. On the
return of the child's mother, who was absent at the moment,
the accident was discovered, when, on examination, the poo
little creature was found to be so far exhausted from suffoci
tion, that it shortly expired.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—An humble but
dustrious man, named Gallagher, who resided in Fade-sty
was on Saturday last seized with a sudden pain in one of
legs, when he fell down and expired. An inquest was
on thel body, when the following facts were elicited
man, it appears, was over fifty years of age, and ever since
he was a child he was continually annoyed and perplexed with
the thought or presentiment that he would die of a pain in
his leg. He often told his friends how much he suffered on
this account, as the idea hardly ever left his mind. In his
sleep he dreamt of it ; in his waking moments it was before
him ; the notion haunted him from the green spring-time of
life into the ripe summer of manhood, and thence followed
him into the mature autumn of his days; and when, at last,
the worst anticipations of his mind were fulfilled, and he was
seized with the pain, be exclaimed, " it is come, it is come !
all is now over. He fell suddenly down and died.—Dublin
paper.

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