The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-20 00:00:00

here to their often-expressed and vehement Protestiti°
of innocence.

After having hung the usual time—one hour--abi,
cutioner (the well-known Calcraft) again Presenn bort
self at the platform to cut down the bodies. t'l'Arottr
pearance a slight manifestation of applause ran
.°
1" orS
the immense multitude assembled. The boa the
then cut down, and deposited within the precincts

gaol. Pie°
•
Thus closed a scene upon which none can bale
without being appalled ; and thus were ushered ini, eel'
tied is
nity two wretched beings whose deed will be rerora to
the annals of crime as the most striking approach waged/
which our great dramatist has immortalized in his tr.fariti
of Macbeth. For, mark how singular is the 51,c01i.
between the circumstances of the two. The man the
nor, like the king Duncan, was murdered bra' 5 Ilia

roof which he had entered as a guest. In both 0
victim had conferred obligations upon his rnurdere,

Shakspere's drama, the Thane of Cawdor was ""tioa'
to the deed, until impelled to it by the contelagioo
goadings of his more determined wife. We can ;ngt°
Maria Manning, as well as Lady Mr
her lord—

,betb, exclaiwob

" Infirm of purpose I
Give me the dagger." nd of
Here, however, the similitude ends. The strong IVilt of
Shakspere's heroine broke down beneath the weigno
guilty consciousness ; whilst that of the vvretched.w".,
who has just expiated her crime on earth, was, itfeel
much to be feared, deadened to the last by all
save bitter disappointment at the failure of her
and the uselessness of her deed of blood

MANNING'S LAST CONFESSION. 4, the
A most lenghthy confession made by Manning "wp-
m Mr. Rowe, the chaplain, has been published. roTiof,
ng states that the murder was committed in the '

ing manner:—
tso
" O'Connor came at ten minutes past five on Thu.,l the
the 9th of August, previous to which she had 1700-
table for five, with the dish-covers and everything when
Nothing had been prepared in the way of fond' JO
he entered the house he asked—' Where are Mr. 38 oirg
Massey ?' My wife answered that they were uP, tbel
dressing for dinner. He then inquired how I°n' oil
had been up stairs. My wife replied—' They, If; Oil
just gone up ; they saw you come to the door.' ester
time Massey was not in the house, nor was his siste'belie,
in London, for even to the present hour it is Irci elien
he has never been in London at all. My sc",.e.„b- be
nor to go down stairs to wash his hands, Wnl is
~:tined to do. She said, Patrick, Miss Nasse':o the
very particular young person.'—(he had been tin? inel
house twenty minutes)—' do come down, Patric hjeg
wash your hands.' I heard him go down stairs, inute
at the time in my bedroom washing. About '9o4
after I heard the report of a pistol after he had delitsel‘
the stairs. She then came up to me and said— be
God I have made him all right at last—it never —ll
0.1 e"
found out, as we are on such extraordinary good telactio%
uo one will ever have the least suspicion of my tour t yO,l
him,' to which I replied—' I am quite certain On ,t be
will be hung for this act.' She then said—' It 'o boot'
you that will have to suffer, it will be me.' After Os°
ing him she said—' I think no more of shooting hlie to'
the cat on the wall.' Upon her coming up stain€ '
sisted upon my going down stairs immediatelY,_tiog
upon my reaching the kitchen I fourd O'Connor Thiel
on the grave. He moaned, and, as I never like hirel„-
verywell, I battered in his skull with the ripping. 'OlOl
She took from his trouser's pockets the keys of loso3 ~tder
and cash boxes, and within ten minutes after the "
bon tot
—namely, twenty minutes to six—she put on her
and mantle, and proceeded to his house. I then sn! I
It will be impossible for me to stay in this hotel
went out into the garden and smoked a pipe on thee
and conversed with the landlord of the next bouse', fife
After stating at great length the proceedings of li:;010
and himself after the murder, with the whole pat
of which the public are already acquainted, the enu;bolo
went on to state that on theday 4x the murder, Wu' we
past nine, Mrs. Manning went down stairs into WI 91e,
kitchen after partaking of some bread and cheesean ,u:ttbe,
She took a large pair of scissors with her, and e"b en
clothes from off the body. She lit a large fire and the
them, an operation which was not completed tin tan
next day. The Albert slippers which the murdert
wore were also burned. Some strong pieces of ecu'',, tied
then procured by his wife, and between them the! ofee
the legs back to the haunches. They then put liowadia
the body, making it wet. They were engaged tre
clog
down the grave for a considerable time, and it SCSSOOI
upon midnight before they retired. Indeed the
beto
was not completed until the next morning. Rose ,
big
five and six, and completed it between ten and elecqeter
wife remarking at the close, " It is allright,nooties" v the
think of looking here for him. The lime will dettg'been
body in a fortnight." A pint of vitriol which ba aid
purchased at an oil merchant's opposite Bern'b°o.ried,i
Church was also poured over the body after it wag be br
His wife exclaimed that she was now happy, es She
put away one of the greatest villains that ever the
said she would live twelve months in the house; d hint
money out to interest in railway shares, and achigoi re",
to take the situation at Messrs. Gover's, as that 1,1,
siding in the house would lull suspicion. She seu',_, for
any one inquires after O'Connor I will answer tlien!fthe
I have a nerve like a horse." She assured him that,' ea!
murder was found out, he would be served the 'OO
her. She spoke at times of the French Revolution,tvd
of the fine fellows who had been destroyed, and ;art°
him what he had to live for if he had no money' After
live in the world without money was miserable; roere
the murder she said, " T regret I did not read ner,
over the body." He said, " what is the use of the
derer reading prayers over a murdered body—You st baps
ask God to forgive you." She said, " I should 110
liked to have seen his face after I shot him." lit

hot,11;01J,

A crowbar has been found, and there is very littlefbjcb
from the arpearance, that it is the insrrument by "
O'Connor'sideath was finally effected. It has
covered at the Lewes station. on the Brighton 0,3 titre,
where a parcel has been lying for some considerable, oid6
addressed" Mrs. Smith, Lewes," and had been P,u,:a for'
amongst ofher things which were expected to be mile std
The parcel was carefully wrapped in brown Paregiter
when opened it proved to contain a crowbar, withi „
0
hair and spots of blood plainly discernible upon t•
Calcraft expects to make at least £l5O by the %1.1.0;
of the Mannings. He expects (says the London t jeasj
pondent of the Manchester Examiner) to make netoe4
£lOO from Madame Tussaud for the clothes of the,ol ;rite,
culprits. He received seventy guineas from the ‘sePillte°;
proprietess" for the suit in which Rush was
The speculation proved a most successful one,„; 500
Tussaud having realised, it is said, upwards of
Ant,

her weaxs-uwb
joorikninaodsepleocifmßeunsho.
which was handed to Mr. Wheatley, one of the or, ofter
of Horhemonger-lane Gaol, by the convict shore, ejt°
his arrival from Newgate, after having been ncle°
co
death : f Manning's versitlltßie9.

" I heard the toll
Of the great, solemn Newgate bell

I said, a soul
IF gone to Heaven or Hell.
" FRED. G. MAN'I4I9I
" Newgate Prison, Oct. 24,
~e 1

MR. DICKENS ON EXECIITIONS.—Mr. Charles r to
visited the scene of the execution on Tuesday, 11,1%111drei
l
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horrors
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to,:eirtxhbeeecesulgitteihibvoubenset
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as the wickedness and levity of the immense 010
hich
could be presented in no heathen land under no the
T
the wretched murderers to it, faded in my ,nlihn, oFse;(1:
the atrocious bearing, looks, and language or "at
bled spectators. When I came upon the gee that "
night, the shrillness of the cries and howls fro the
raised from time to time, denoting that they ca rla ins pi
concourse of boys and girls already assernble..br
best places, made my blood run cold. As the
'n.,,,c1';:0,4,
on, screeching, and laughing, and yelling in 804 "PIO
of parodies on negro melodies, with substitutions 'oleo,
Manning," for Susannah," and the like. wereotit°oo
these. When the day dawned, thieves, low Trri t 0,41.•
ruffians and vagabonds of every kind flocheba'P'fb,
ground, with every variety of offensive and fool f Woe'
Fightings, faintings, whistlings, imitations. °rieceot.,ol4
brutal jokes, tumultuous demonstrations of in bee' el
lightb
the whenpolswooningice wth thweohm.
dresses
wsseerse
dd
irsaogrgdeedreodu.t ogfot !ri 1:051
zest
brightly—as
th the giet ndeirda—lietnt
gildedrta i ntronuts th°.r
rced
upturned faces, so inexpressibly odious in 1,1100,13 f sg
mirth or callousness, that a man had cause to r''„aiserlat;
of the shape he wore, and to shrink from ''t;co qod"
fashioned in the image of the devil. When the .cbt no
able creatures who attracted all this ghastly s'i."e
them were turned quivering into the air, 11',.e,
more emotion, no more pity, no more thougu'e' re9i e
t
immortal souls had gone to judgment, no o;°,,hre esti:ol;
in any of the previous obscenities, than if ther;
Christ had never been beard in this world, anceld 010:
no belief among men but that they Perisl! °l's"
beasts. lam solemnly convinced that norr:the
genuity could devise to be done in this city', rubli°_,Klv,
compass of time, could work such ruin as on t'tbe `.0,00
cution ; and I stand astounded and appalled °Y0002.00:
edness it exhibits. Ido not believe that sal dere°o7,6,
can prosper where such a scene of horror alhorgoltiteSio
tion as was enacted this morning outside cl 4,
lane gaol is presented at the very doors of ICJ 015
and is passed by, unknown or forgotten• .P.ason, 1,0
our prayers and thanksgivings for the se realty co'.",,
humbly expressing before God our desire Noe toolor
moral evils of the land, would ask your re rs one'
cider whether it is not a time to think of this
root it out."
.andWs uhpeonnthe ass°

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