The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-27 00:00:00

THE NOTTINGHAM ELECTION

The nomination at this election took place yesterday.
Mr. Walter was proposed by W. Roweth, Esq., ex-Mayor,
and seconded by T. W. Charltor, Esq. Lord Rancliffc
nominated Mr. Larpent, and Mr. Hart seconded the norni-

nation. Almost the whole assembly held up their hands in
favour of Mr. Walter, and our correspondent informs us
there is not the slightest doubt of his return.

EXECUTION OF BARTHOLOMEW MURRAY, FOR
THE MURDERS AT OVER-PEOVER.

CHESTER, Saturday night. —The last sentence of the law
was carried into effect upon the body of this unfortunate
culprit at the city gaol this morning.
He was locked up every night in the condemned coil by
himself, and is stated to have enjoyed up to Thursday night
sound and unbroken sleep. On Friday morning, the holy
sacrament was administered to him by the Rev. J. Carberry.
He then appeared quite resigned to his fate, and deeply ha-
pressed with the urgent necessity of making his peace, with
God. On Friday afternoon he expressed a wish to see the

prisoners who (up to the day of his condemnation) had been
confined in the same yard with him. He bade all an afree-

tionate and affecting adieu, and on shaking hands with the
man in confinement on suspicion of shooting a gamekeeper
at Huxley, near Tarporley, he said he hoped he would avoid
that fate which so soon awaited him. He made no other allu-
sion to his situation, further than a general expression of his
feeling both well and happy. Between eight and nine o'clock
in the evening he was revisited by the Roman catholic clergy-
man. He then went to bed, and taking his prayer-hook in
his hand, with the exception of some short intervals, read the
contents with marked devotion throughout the night. He
dressed about four o'clock, and partook of a hearty break-
fast.

The county authorities next conducted Murray to the lobby
adjoining the outer gate of the Castle. lie was there hand-
cuffed, and the city sheriff and his officers being announced
as waiting for the culprit at Glover's Stone (the city boundry
mark), Mr. Dunstan conducted his prisoner on foot in that
direction. The unhappy man walked by the side of the priest,
still repeating the prayers, and the gaze of a crowd of some
thousonds did not appear in the least to affect him. On th
arrival of the county procession at the boundary, a black-
railed cart without springs (provided by the city authorities)
was in readiness to convey the culprit to the city gaol. He
was lifted into it, and manacles having been fixed to his legs,
the Rev. J. Carberry took a seat in the cart by the side of
the culprit, both riding with their backs to the horse, ‘I hich
after the true Tyburn style was led by the hangman, a prac-
titioner from Staffordshire. The governor of the city gaol
headed the procession, and the sheriffs, under-sheriff, and a
large body of officers brought up the rear. The crowd was
was exceedingly dense, and the police constables had great
difficulty in keeping them back, so as to make a passage for
the cart. The number of females (many of them well dressed)
present was in a majority of at least two to one of the male
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The procession reached the gaol as the clock struck five.
The cart was taken to the back door of the prison, and
Murray's manacles having been removed,n he was conducted
at throughtefo
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The
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coffin nor drop appeared to affect him in the least. On en-
tering_ the' cell he directly knelt down, and continued his
devotions. The various services of the Roman church were
continued throughout the morning almost unceasingly.
Murray at no time lost that confidence for which he has been
so remarkable. On the arrival of the sheriff the room was
cleared of all persons except the chaplain of the court prison,
the Rev. J. Carberry, the schoolmaster of the county gaol,
the officers of the gaol, and the representatives of the public
countenance,
press. The Litany was then repeated, and by the time of
its conclusion the executioner commenced his preparations
The culprit remained firm and unmoved during the time th
fetters were adjusted to bis
in legs,
is andii his arms
visible change was Perceptible
continued fervently engaged in prayer during the whole cm-

and ht.

Mr. Eaton;Mutray at once
mony.
replied.., I have no declaration to make." He was then
dCed to the drop,. and having ascended the scaffold with
acoAirmu
step,
he knelt with Mr. Carberry on the drop. After
In answer to a question frotn
.e minutes spent in prayer, the executioner proceeded to
a few
adjust the rope round the neck of the culprit:. His pastor
then administered the sacrament of extreme unction, and
in an instant the drop fell, and he died with scarcely a
perceptible struggle. He was in the 19th year of his age.

...arching about; some pieces of
and Halton being previously prepared with
they were not long in obtaining a light.
awhile M, Wheeler, having, been awoke by the noise,
''stely run - servants' bell, but that not being an-
''e °pet. - and rung outside a larger
had in the room, in the expectation that some
--though the house is some distance from
eto her assistance. The fellow outside,
..atenea to shoot her if she did not cease ring-
...twee thieves inside were, during this time, look-
., the several rooms, but found them tenantless.
ever, they got to Mrs. Wheeler's room door, which was
eked inside, and demanded admittance, promising not to
injure her if she immediately complied. The door was opened
and her money demanded, when she handed them her purse.
This one of the fellows took, and taking out the money, re-
turned the purse, but insisted on having more money. Mrs.
W. gave them her keys, but she was immediately told she
knew much better than they where the property was, and
hat it must be immediately forthcoming. • She then un-
',ld the drawer, and gave them, as she believes, ninety
is in bank notes. These they threw on the bed, say-
should not take them, but that they must have more
Ad ; and on her telling them that they were Bank of Eng-
and notes, and as good as gold, one of the gang pocketed
hem. They next visited the servant's room, and demanded
ler money, but on her telling them that she had none, one
of the fellows went to overhaul her box ; but he was told to
let it alone, for that she was only a poor girl, and it was no
use taking her clothes. Their next application was for some-
thing to eat, and they went down stairs into the pantry,
(making the servant accompany them,) and there demo-
lished a quantity of cold beef and bread, and some eggs,
-racking their jokes at the same time they were cracking
They then departed, and went into a field near
ton, and divided the gold and silver, Halton re-
- his share twenty-three shillings. The burglary
between twelve and one on Saturday morning,
-ne same was made well known during the day, in course
which one of the men again went to the Wool Pack, and
then offered to treat the brewer with a glass of rum, to pay
'or which he took out of his pocket some money, which the
sewer observed consisted of both gold and silver ; and he
,)n afterwards made known what he had seen, and also
suspicions which the conduct of the men excited. We
'^.e misguided men cannot urge any extenuation
t, inasmuch as they were all fully em-
at their respective trades, and as to Challoner, his
toyer stated that he considered him one of the cleverest
,rkmen in Preston. They were all at the conclusion
Jf the hearing committed to the House of Correction to
take their trial at the next sessions. On Wednesday a per-
son named Edmund Metcalf, retail beer-seller, Spittals' Moss,
was taken into custody on suspicion of having received some
of the stolen money, when he at once acknowledged that he
had two £lO. notes in his charge, which he said he got at
ouse of Moore's mother, by his directions, ou Monday
This Metcalf was brought before the magistrates at
Town-hall, on Thursday, and after the enquiry had been
ae into, he was allowed to put in bail for his appearance at
.e sessions. It seems that a £2O. note was found in a cess-
-4)01 in the Old Cock Yard, which Challoner admits to hay-
thrown there, and it has also been ascertained that the
t at the Spread Eagle public-house was sent by the
with a £lO. note to get changed at Mr. Helmes's,
grocer, on Saturday, which note Mr. H. subsequently paid
to a commercial traveller from Liverpool. The prisoner
Halton also confesses that there were seven sovereigns in
gold, and some silver among the property stolen. These
sums however only make a total of about £5B. while Mrs.
Wheeler is quite confident that she was robbed of nearly
£98., viz., in two £2O. notes, five £lO. notes, seven sove-
reigns, and nearly a pound in silver ; what therefore may
have become of the missing £2O. and two £lO. notes is at
present a mystery, for the men persist in saying that they
only brought away the four notes, and the gold and silver.
which they have accounted for. The apprehension of this
gang is a most fortunate circumstance, as there is too much
reason to believe that they have been connected with the
other robberies which have been committed in the neigh-
bourhood, indeed it has been stated by a person in the House
of Correction, under sentence of transportation, that two of
them were actively concerned in the highway robbery on Mr.
John Wilding, of Hankinson House, in Myerscough, which
took place a short time ago, between the Black Bull, in
Broughton, and Broughton Church, when he was robbed of
early £2o.—Preston Pilot.

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COMBINATION.—The Irish labourers employed in the
,ks on the Shannon have entered into a regular combina-
according to rule and under the Ribbon system, to wage
lainst the English workmen sent over by the company.
," says Mr. O'Connell, " I am anti-English."
shall we be at them, Counsellor ?" ask his follow-
present time is always the best, responds the Coun•
ereupon the Irish peasantry rise in a body, and
beat, and nearly murder the unfortunate Sassen-
is. An inquiry has been instituted under the superin-
idence of Neal Browne, Esq., stipendiary magistrate, and
Leis bad, the result of which has been that thirty-two of the
lest peasantry in the world have been committed to Gal-
ay gaol for a period of four months, and hard labour, and
ineteen to Tullamore, for a similar term, and with the like
ccompaniment.

maim, and

ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—On Tuesday morning last, about
seven o'clock, as Mr. Joseph Wignall, butter factor, was
passing along the highway between Buckden and Hawes, in
the North Riding of Yorkshire, he met two men at a place
called Stake, about four miles from Buckden, one of whom,
whose name is said to be Dickinson, from the neighbourhood
of Grindleston, near Sawley Bridge, Lancashire, discharged
a gun, or gun-stick, at Mr. Wignall, and wounded him in
the forehead and face, but fortunately without effect. The
name of the second man is Briggs, and he comes from the
same neighbourhood as Dickinson. A reward of £lO has
been offered for the apprehension of both the men ; and
Dickinson is described as dressed in a light coloured round
jacket. Briggs, who is taller than the other, has a very red
face, and was dressed in dark clothes, his coat being of a
brownish colour, and made with pockets on each side. Both
the men are said to be desperate characters.

DISCOVERY OF AN EXTENSIVE BURGLARY.—It will be
remembered that at the beginning of last month the house of
J. M. Yeeless, Esq. of Bathford, was burglariously entered,
and a quantity of valuable property taken away therefrom,
consisting of jewellery, a double-barreled gun, clothes, &c.,
to the amount of nearly £lOO. Mr. Yeeless having been very
kind in rendering pecuniary and other assistance to the poor
in the parish, a universal feeling of sympathy was aroused,
and there was a general anxiety manifested to discover the
perpetrator of the robbery. Until Sunday- last, however,
the affair remained a mystery, notwithstanding the vigilance
and activity of Mr. Hall, the chief officer of Bath. Many
circumstances had come to his knowledge which threw a
shade of suspicion round several parties, but until the day
mentioned, nothing had transpired that would enable him to
fix the charge on any individual. From information which
he had received of the burglar whom we are about to name
offering for sale a portion of the property, it was discovered
to be one of Mr. Yeeles's own servants, named James Mizen,
who had been engaged as an assistant in his garden. Minn
occasionally slept in the house, but he had lodgings at a Mrs.
Crow's, in the same village. Great confidence had been
placed in the man, and he had been treated with much kind-
ness by Mr. Yeeles, which renders the act one of greater
atrocity. As a proof of this, Mizen, some time ago, told his
master, that on his return from Chalfield, where he had been
visiting, he had been stopped and robbed of his watch and
three sovereigns; and Mr. Yeeles thereupon not only gave
him money towards making good his loss, but Mrs. Yeeles
also got up a penny subscription amongst his fellow-servants
and others of his acquaintance for the same purpose. What
makes the matter still worse is, that since the discovery of the
robbery, this story turns out to have been a vile fabrication, a
duplicate of the watch having been found upon him, he having
pledged it for 10s. at Mr. Archard's, in Bath. From having
been in the house of Mr. Yeeles a great deal, Mizen had an
opportunity of seeing the disposition of the property therein,
and,finding that some of the more valuable portions were in
Mr. Yeeles's dressing-room, it appears that he selected that
as the scene of his unprincipled conduct. It seems that
Mizen came over the fields from his lodgings, and gained
access into the grounds of Mr. Yeeles through an out-house
leading into the green-house, and it was through this window
that Mizen effected an entrance. He bored a small hole
with a gimlet in the woodwork, and by that means starred
the centre pane of glass, so as to enable him to get his hand
in and unfasten the hatch. He then had easy access to the
iressing-room, which is on the ground, a passage only sepa-
'ating it from the dining-room. The more valuable of the
tolen property, such as a diamond ring, gold pencil-case,
31d studs, pins, &c., were on the tables in the room, where
had been left without the slightest suspicion. On
--h.msion, by Mr. II all, early on Monday morn-
ase was found upon him, and he told Mr.
wuald save him any further trouble about the
he would find it in a box at his lodgings. These
I in the course of the day, and in a large box
or
em
irly the whole of what had been stolen. A va-
: with hair, a present fronidn ellerrsti. Yeelesns
w e to Slr.ade
,owe ver, still missing, a
It turned out that Mizen's "ladye love"
as servant at Mr. Spencer's, at Chatfield, near Brad..
A, and it struck Mr. Hall that it was probable she might
He accordingly went over
on Monday, and saw the young woman. to whom Mizen was
the
her lover was
paying his addresses, who, on hearing
under the watchful care of Mr. Pike, gaoler of Bath,
adopted the course usual under such circumsta ncesenti acal
nd
fainted away. On her recovery, she gave up the
_id
Pin, which she said Mizen had given her as one which
has ad
his hair in it as a proof of his untiring affection. Thus
this extensive robbery been unravelled, and the thief cap-
tured, much to the satisfaction not only of Mr. Yeeles him-
self, but of his neighbours, who warmly congratulate him on
the discovery. Mizen has been committed to the assizes.—
Bath Chronicle.

to recover it
lived