The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-11-26 00:00:00

MYSTERIOUS CASE.

On Saturday week, and by adjournment on Wednes-
day, an inquest was held at the Lowther's Arms, Swil-
lington, before Christopher Jewison,. Esq. coroner, on
the body of Mary Townend, a young woman, twenty-two
years of age, who died on the`Thursday- morning previ-
ous, under very suspicious circumstances. It appeared that
a young man, named James Prince, a coal-miner, resid-
ing at •Seacroft, had been acquainted with the deceased
for several years, and had latterly paid his addresses to
her. He had visited her at her own home, until the fa-
mily objected to ling, and used threats towards her in
consequence of her keeping his company. On the Sun-
day previous to her-death, he and the deceased had agreed
that they should be married on Christmas-day, or sooner
if possible, and he gave her 13s. 6d. in silver to buy such
things as she Might want for the wedding. He also mea-
sured her finger,'m outer to buy the wedding ring. Be-
fore they parted, tier brother William came up to them,
and threatened to strike her if she did not go home ; and
in consequence, they separated at that time, and he ne-
ver saw her afterwards. She had told him, that in con-
sequence of her connexion with him, she had no peace at
home for some time. Indeed various witnesses proved
that the brothers of the deceased were much embittered
against her in consequence of her determination to keep
company with Prince. In the afternoon of Wednesday
week, the deceased was taken very ill with vomiting and
sickness. She appeared desirous of concealing what she
vomited, and expressed a hope that she would be dead
before morning. Her death took place in the course of
the night. Mr. Edward Tinsdill, of Halton, surgeon,
stated that he was called up between one and two o'clock
on Thursday morning by William Townend, to attend
his sister, but in consequence of engagements he did not
see her till eleven o'clock in the morning, at which time
she was dead. The brothers, in consequence of the ex-
treme violence of the symptoms of the disease of which
she died, requested him to open the body, as they sus-
pected that she had taken poison. He accordingly open-
ed the body, and found the stomach in a state of inflamma-
tion, but did not examine its contents, as he was satisfied
that she died from a very high inflammation, though from
what cause it proceeded he did not attempt to ascertain.
John Townend, one of the brothers of the deceased, stated
that they had been in the habit of keeping arsenic in
the house, and on the morning of the day on which his
sister died, he observed that the end of the drawer in
which the arsenic was kept had been knocked in, and
the paper which contained the poison was loose, but he
could not say whether the quantity had been lessened.
He found a sauce-boat, with some sediment adhering to
the side, which, he thought, resembled arsenic. He had
assisted Mr. Tinsdill in opening the body; and his bro-
ther William had got him a shoemaker's awl, to make
the holes in the skin to get the needle through to sew it
up again. In answer to a question from Thomas Ikin,
Esq. of Lenventhorpe, Mr. Tinsdill said that the brothers
of the deceased had not assisted in opening the body of
their own accord. A quantity of arsenic was found on
the deceased's stomach, on a subsequent examination, by
Mr. Mitchell, surgeon of Bothwell. The coroner
charged the Jury in a very lucid manner, and after a
short consultation they returned the following verdict—
" That the deceased died in consequence of taking a
quantity of arsenic, but how or by whom administered no
evidence appeared."—Leeds Intelligencer.

The following lamentable scene occurred a few days ago in
the police-office at Moulins :—A woman having been ditreated
by her husband, summoned him before a magistrate, when a
violent altercation ensued, and the wife became so enraged that
she denounced her husband as the perpetrator of a murder
committed in the year 1815, on the high road, near Chalons.
Upon this the man, who has been long established at Moulins
as a porter, and who was in great repute as worthy of trust,
was immediately committed to prison, and the woman, who
had been urged 1)), her passion to divulge a clime of which she
alone was cognizant, endeavoured to retract her declaration,
and finding that unavailing, fainted in the office.—French paper.

OPINION IN `VALES OF LORD ALTHORP.—The noble Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer's candour, for which he was once so
much bepraised, is now at an awful discount; he whose word
was as much relied on as " proof of holy writ," is now not to be
trusted after the equivocations of last session—is now politically
in that comfortable state of degradation which Rochester painted
Charles, when he penned his epitaph :
" H ere lies our Sovereign Lord the King,
Whose word no man relied on."
We all recollect the facility with which Lord Althorp turned
round on the majority for the repeal of the malt tax, last session,
after saying that ministers would respect that vote; and with the
aid of his rank majority reimposed that duty, which he said, a few
nights previous, he considered as finally repealed. With the
experience of such notable feats of " candour" before them, it is
not matter of marvel that the public should be sceptical and
mistrustful, and determine to illustrate the Whig lesson " that
the way to relief hes through defiance of the law."—Carmartheu
Journal.

FORTY-ONS SHILLINGS WORTH OP KIND LOOKS.--011
Thursday a country girl attending. the fair seemed much
pleased at finding a young lad directing some very expressive
glances towards her, which she in the innocency of her heart
construed into "looks of love," and expected every moment
that the supposed lover would break ground. To her disap-
pointment, however, no advances, saving an occasional rub in
the crowd were made, and all at once the man of kind looks
disappeared. Unfortunately, at the same time, two pounds
one shilling of her hard-won penny fee disappeared also. In
this dilemma she applied to the police for aid, who assisted her
in searching the crowd, and who, after a long scarch, were for-
tunate enough to discover and capture the basilisk. Ire was
taken to the police-office and searched narrowly, but nothing
was found on him. On the principle that " k cat may look at
the queen," nothing farther could be due, and the sufferer
had nothing left for it, when she thought of the want of her mo-
ney, but to think of the kind looks that preceded its loss.—.
Paisleg Advertiser.

MURDER op A GAMEKEEPER.—OII Wednesday evening,
Richard Gripton, one of the game-keepers of the Earl of Brad-
ford, and an assistant, were inspecting one of his lordship's
covers, called Brockhurst coppice, near Ivetsea-bank, when
they separated. Soon after, the keeper was seen pursuing a
man down a field of wheat, adjoining the cover, and had got
very near him as they approached the gate. At that instant,
the flash and report of a gun were seen and heard in that direc-
tion by a voung woman passing along the footpath in the field,
as well as by the assistant, who happened unfortunately to be at
a considerable distance, but immediately hastened to the spot
from whence the flash and report of the gun had proceeded.
The body of the unfortunate keeper was found near the gate
lifeless. Upon a. post mortem examination, the surgeon dis-
covered a gun-shot wound in the chest, under the cartilage of
the ribs, and a number'of leaden shots in the cavity of the chest,
by which the.heart bid been so lacerated that instant death.
must have ettAted: ' rrtfin the small size of the exterior wound,
and of the hole made'in the unfortunate keeper's waistcoat,
which was also smeared with the discharge of the gun, there
can be no doubt that the muzzle of it was placed close to the
keeper's breast when fired off. The perpetrator of this act has
for the present eluded justice, An inquest was held on the
body on Friday, when, after a minute investigation, a verdict
was found of " Wilful murder, against some person unknown
to the jurors." A considerable reward will be offered for the
discovery of the murderer. The Earl of Bradford and his
brothers attended the inquest, and manifested the deepest in-
terest during the whole inquiry.—Stafibrztslare Advertiser.

A paragraph has appeared, stating that three members of
the Society of Friends have. gone on a voyage of pleasure to
the South Sea Islands. It is a fact that. they have gone; but
their object has been misstated. We have received communi-
cations on the subject from three respectable members of the
Society, one of whom says—" The three members of the So-
ciety of Friends who have sailed in the Francis Freeling (pur-
chased for the purpose) to visit the South Sea Islands, are not
gone on a journey of pleasure, but with the view of estab-
lishing a mission,. or missions; and the visit is altogether a
religious one, though too vagrant to meet my ideas on the sub-;
je:_q. The funds are not provided by the individuals themselves,
but by a subscription among a few members of the Society."_
A second states, that the voyagers will visit New Zealand,
Owyhee, Otcheuse, New South Wales, &c., and will probably
nearly circumnavigate the globe. It is intended to combine
religious instruction with the endeavour to promote civilization
amcngst the inhabitants ofthose parts which have been entirely
neglected, or hut little visited by missionaries. The whole is
at the expense of the Society, and will cost from £,1,000 to
£6,000, and the time calculkited fur the performance of this
mission from four to. six years. A third correspondent says:—
" Daniel Wheeler, of Russia, has gone on a religious visit, or
Gospel mission, attended by a companion and his son."—Lon.
don Paper.

The following is an extract from the speech of Kahkewa-
quonaby, alias the Rev. Peter Jones, a native of the Chippewa
tribe, who has been educated by the Wesleyan missionaries,
and who is now himself a missionary, among the uncultivated
natives of the American forests. Describing the early inter-
course of the red men with the whites, Mr. Jones said that whis-
key and ruin were called firewater by the former, and that when
they first tasted these pernicious compounds, they used to cry
out, in an ecstasy of delight, "0 kagait cab keche weshkoo-
balihameh menwahgahinepedamon ! Ah pakish ueensh
teba'bon equabegakebun ewh ningoodaligun chegegoodahg,ah-
mepedahinonbun dushgoo manhnuuzh." The literal meaning
of which is, "Oh how sweet and delicious it is. I wish my
throat were two miles long, that I might taste it all the way!'
Notwithstanding the sesquipedalian dimensions of some of the
words, the language, as pronounced, by Mr. Jones, is really
beautiful. Some of the Rev. Edward Irving's disciples had no
doubt heard Kahkewaquonaby, and stole. their best flights from
him ; but the rogues, being ignorant of his "tongue," made sad
work with the'harmony of the real Chippewa.

Inti3orto.

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