The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-10 00:00:00

MURDER Of TWO CHILDREN AT BOLTON.

The town, but particularly Bolton Moor, has been in a state
of great excitement since, Friday, owing to the prevalent ru-
mours that. two 'children, who died suddenly in Commission-
street, had been poisoned br their own father. An inquest was
held on 'their bodies at the Three Arrows, on Monday, before
W. S. Rutter, Esq., coroner, and a highly-respectable jury.
The following is a sketch of the evidence given touching the
mysterious and melancholy end of the poor children. Margaret
Pincock, an old woman, stated that she resides in Commission-
street, Bolton Moor. About seven o'clock on Sunday morning,
the 22d February, witness was called upon by Orrell's uncle,
and desired to go-and lay out the boy, who he said was dead.
She went to Orrell's, and laid out the corpse. On the Tuesday
following the child was buried at Deane church. On Thursday
morning' last, witness was again sent for between one and two
'o'clock in• the mot ning, tolay out the girl, who had died, but
she did net go until after six o'clock, when she found the dead
child was placed-on the bed. Orrell said it had died of sick-
tiess and relaxation of the bowels. Witness laid out the second
child. The witness also stated that the daughter was observed
on the cellar steps, the day that her brother was buried, and she
then looked very ill. Witness had no suspicion that anything
was wrong, nor did she know of any information being given to
the police. . •
Christiana Seddon said that on Wednesday last she called to
see Orrell, having discovered that his late wife was her cousin.
The deceased -child, Elizabeth, was in bed, and was sick—she
vomited much. • Orrell was taking tea out of a cup and saucer.
Witness inquired after the other children, and he replied that
two of them were with his mother, and the other two with his
uncle David. Witness left the 'place, but called a third time;
the child •was still vomiting, and very sick. It cried out for
cold water, and Orrell said she should not drink so much cold
water, as it would make her ill Witness asked him to fetch a
doctor to the-child, but he answered that it was of no use, for-it
would not-take good stuff, and therefore it was not likely that it
would take -physic.. The child cried out frequently, "Oh, my •
belly," and witness, at the request of the father, examined the
'child's belly, and he remarked that "it almost clung to its
back."
Richard Daly, Esq., boroughreeve of Great Bolton, stated
that in consequence of information which he received, he went
with Messrs. Flamers, Burrow. Rollinson, and Lee, tv Orrell's,
but found the door locked. They waited till three o'clock, and
'then sent for a man to picl( the .lock.. On entering the cellar
they found the corpse of the child laid out upon the beeL A.
very particular search was made in the cellar, and Burrow die_:
covered a small paper package. On opening it, Mr. Heap,
surgeon, who accompanied witnesses, judged it to be arsenic.
Mr. Heap then proceeded to open the body, and about twenty
minutes to four o'clock Orrell entered the house, and witness
'then ordered Rollinson and Lee to take him into custody.
John Burrow, deputy-constable of Great Bolton, corroborated
the statement of Mr. Daly. • :I
Mr, Joseph Lomax Heap, surgeon, deposed that on Friday
last he saw the contents of the parcel which was found in Or-
rell's Cellar, and had since ascertained that it was arsenic. Wit-
ness on that day examined the body of the girl. In the stomach
of the ,child he found arsenic, add found that portion of the in-
testines which communicate with the stomach highly.inflamed.
The liver, lungs, and heart were in a healthy state; there was
sufficient inflammation .to cause death. The contents.of the
stomach had been tested. On Saturday examined the body of
the boy. Found the same inflammatory marks as in the
stomach of the girl, but not so violent. The inflammation was
such as would be produced by taking arsenic. • -
At the close of the inquest the jury returned :the following
verdict—" We find the prisoner, John Orrell, guilty of the wil-
ful murder of his two children, William and Elizabeth Orrell."
He is accordingly committed to LanCaster Castle, to take his
trial for the offence.. ..
• . •
It was then unanimously resolved—That the thanks of the jury
be given to Richard Daly, Esq., boroughreeve of Great Bolton,
and the other officers of the town, for their great zeal and acs
tivity in fully investieating all the circumstances connected with
this inquest.—Jobu Lomax, foreman of the jury. -

HATS IN AMERICA.—No nation on earth (says a modern
traveller) uses a hat. fur so many,. purposes as a Yankee.. It
serves at once for a head-covering, a writing-desk, a larder, and
a portmanteau. In it the merchant:deposits patterns of various
doctor uses it as all apothecary's shop-2 the
descriptions; the
married man, returning from market, converts
,it into a depo-
sitory for his lighter purchases; while to the traveller it serves
fora knapsack. Latterly, fashion has diminished the crown of
the hat, and with it its usefulness.
Married, on Tuesday last, the 3d .instant, William Owen
Zrigstock, Esq. to Miss Webley Parry.
II ow happy ihe lot of the fair,
The amorous stock to entwine;
His caresses to port o with care,
And say, dearest William, I'm thine,
Theo' life may he pleasantly swim,
And the ocean of happiness gain,
With his frigate in excellent trim
And 4.,convoy of Brigs in his train

IRELAND.

STATE- OF - TEE COUN TR Y

, HORRIBLE amp APPALLING OUTEAGE.-011 Sunday night
last an outrage of the most appalling character was perpetrated
!on the lands of Clough-Prior, near-the town of Nenagh. We
:shall simply state the- facts, for we cannot trust ourselves with
a word of commentary. On that night, between the hours of
ten and eleven o'clock, a merciless 'banditti,, arnied, broke:in
the door of a man named Con. M`Nainara, a pour struggling
farmer of the Must peaceable and industrioui habits; and two of
Ithe ruffians having succeeded in-dragging the ill-fated mfln from
'his bedside, they placed him in a kneeling attitude on the centre
,of the floor; one of the miscreants then cocked a pistol. at 'his
I 'head' .while the other tendered him' -a• book; adding, with a
dreadful imprecation, that if he (lid not swear to giye him up the
!land which he' held, his brains should bespatter the spot Whereon
he kruilt. M'Nainara,. with an-almost unprecedented resolnte-
Uess and courage, notwithstanding, refused, and some more of
the party rushing in, they dashed him prostrate, and so unmer-
cifully beat him,•thab not unly, his small clothes, stockings, and
shoes were saturated with blood, but blood oozed from the
wretched victim's eyes and ears ! Mrs.' M`Namara, the wife,
on recovering • hum theisenseless state into which she had been
thrown by the horrible scene enacting before her, and seeing
the body of her huiband all over gore, lung herself, with a baby
pf six weeks old clinging to her hosoth, between her husband
ancl.his murderers. Upon this, and as she covered her husband's
poisonwith her own, one of the inhuman miscreants, who was
called," Niunber Seven," with a blow of a har/seirered her cheek
entirely from her face, which now, presents the most dreadful
spectacle. After otherwise exhauiting their fiendish vengeance
on • their devoted victims, these demons in the form.of men, re-
gularly retreated from the dwelling of the nearly murdered pair.
Dr. Dempster, One of the Nenagh magistracy, having early
intimation of the-outrage, immediately drove from his residence-
to the scene of bloodshed. On his arrival at the house he found
poor M`Namara a mass of mutilated flesh 1 He humanely and
promptly performed the-necessary operations, declaring that
uch a disfigurement of the human countenance as the female's
ace presented he had riot witnessed fur the last eighteen years !
ntertaining some, though remote hopes, that.thepoor man may
ecover by great care and attendance, the medical gentleman
already mentioned very benevolently had him and his affection-
ate wife removed to a house opposite his own mansion in Nenagh.
Since the above was written we have been informed by very
credible authority, that four men have been arrested on suspicion
Of being concerned in this murderous affair. Three of them are
brothers, residing in Finoe, near Burris-o'-Kane--the fourth
prisoner is named Darcy, and lives on the commons of Carney.
f--Limerick Times.
i THE BEST TITHE PAYER IN KERRY !—WhO do you think
this is ? Do you give it up P—Daniel O'Cbnifell, of Derrynane
Abbey, has paid th-e tithe upon his property up to November
last. There's for the dupes to whom he bellows aloud that he
Would never pay tithes..—Kerry Post. . .
At the petty sessions of Kilfinan on Saturday a priest in the
•teighbourhood of Mitchelstown was fined in a penalty of £2O
or shooting on the estate of Lord Kingshorough without license.
The rev. sportsman was proceeded against as 'a poacher by one
Of the gamekeepers in.the service-of the noble lord.—lrishpaper.
• There' are 202 persons for trial at the Tipperary assizes, in-
cluding SIXTY FOR MURDER !! ! ! • .