The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-22 00:00:00

v 22; 1834

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LONDON POLICE REPORT.

PrIARLBOROUGH-STREET —TuEsDAY• oedo
A. PAUPER.-A little old woman bl`i , yeti, comforfa urc;-the
named Tomkins, came before Mr. Conant, to complaie tout
parish officers of St. James's had turned her out of the pour
house.

Mr. Bryant, the overseer, having Caused her to be sworeitt'e
following dialogue ensued.
Mr, Bryant.—Have you been receiving relief twenty Yea's
from this parish ?
Pauper,--Q6, more than twenty years. I have had relief
since 1811.
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Mr. Bryant.—How long have you been in the_workil"s'
Pauper. —About ten years.
Mr. Bryant.—What sum of money have you in the flinde
Pauper.—Only £l4B.
Mr. Bryant.--Vill you swear it is not £218?
Pauper.-1 don't think it is so much. Mr. Bryant.—Does not your relations allow you £lO ale
besides-?
Pauper.—Not so much. I get one or two sovereigns at "ft
Mr. Bryant.—You are one of the money-lenders to the p
pens, for which you get large interest, I think ?
Pauper.—l don't know any thing about that.
Mr. Bryant.—Are there not several persons in the workbag.
now who have funded
.property ?
Pauper.—I don't trouble my head with other people's busid
ness.
Mr. Bryant said he would not take up the magistrates' 6'l:
by going further into the case. He would re-admit the old ►r
ry.
man, and take the sense of the parochial board as to the P
propriety of retaining her in the workhouse.
A BaBRIDESMAID.—Among the night charges brought ht the
Mr. Chambers was a young female, who placed herself at the
bar like Niobe, "all tears, adorned with a splendid blue sa.:h
bonne', pink feathers, and white muslin robe, trimmed
added
pink and blue, to match. To this attractive exterior she accb,
the taking name of Miss Julia Arabella Divine, agaiust
in the police sheet, was placed the unpleasant words of
and incapable of taking care of herself."
Mr. Chambers.—Why, how is this, Misr Julia? Y" were
found drunk last night.
Miss Julia.-1 vas invited out to hact as bridesmaid at
friend's nuptial vedding.
Mr. Charnhers.—But that was no reason wh you should get
drunk. y
Miss Julia (looking down and blushing)— Unfortunately I
took too much Vito vine on my wittles.
Mr. Chainbers.—What are you ?
Miss Julia.-I'm assissant ironer at a laundry.
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Mr. Clianhbers.—Well, get Iloilo, Miss Julia, aad don '
me see you here.again.
Miss Julia di it'd up her tears and tapped out of the bar rata
a very graceful movement.

.MURDER AND .SVICIDE.-LONDON.

On Tuesday evening, at seven o'cluck, an inquest was heli,d,
m a long room at the buck of the George Inn, AldermalibuLje
before Mr. Payne, the city coroner, and a highly-respeetaed
jury, on view of the bodies of Samuel Holden, aged 72,,0010
Prances Ann Holden, his wife, aged 42; the former of lench,
was gravedigger lead the latter sexton at St. Mary's Cheu„:B,l
Aldertnasehury, botgeof whom were on the same morning i° ,
with their throats cut in a dreadful manner, in the vestry-0° be
of the church abote-named. The horrid at'". 'r has cause,'
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most intense interest in the parish, and the inquest-rooth
crowded almost to suffocation.
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The first witness examined was the daughter, Elizabeth • e
den, who was led into the room in a fainting state, and on bet%
seated she, in the' course of a few minutes,
her evidence, as follows:—I am the daughter of Samuel and
Ann Holden, with whom I resided at No. 28, Alderinanbtqi
was enabled t° We'd
This morning, about seven o'clock; after my father and mother
were gone to the Church, where some repairs had for some titil_7,
past been going on, I proceeded thither and found the ottletilt
door ajar ; I then went in, and walked on up the aisle with° ;
seeing any one. On arriving at the vestry door I discovered„„ly
to be shut;. I then opened it ' and entered; and there beheld ",,
parents lyiug in the manner in which the jury have seen Owl's
quite dead, and surrounded by a pout of bloo.d. (Witness pa
here so overpowered by her feelings as to be for some little time
unable to preceed; as soon as she could in some measure regain
her self-posseision she continued.) I rail out of the r(1,,,r.,
screaming for assistance, and fell down in a std e of insensiol ''e
in the passage. Menan came up soon after, and ceeeied me° .e
of the church. I didtot go in afterwards. her
The witness on' her cross-examination said that her Wear
had been married to his late wife only two years ; that her flt"i;
and mother went to bed about haltepast eight on the prerTee
evening, and appeared very comfortable together her fat De
had within the laehiortnight said many strange 'things' ah
often expressed an opinion that be should die in prison • con
tiered that his distress of mind was owing to the losses he oate.
sustained by the non-payment of remit by his lodgers; went td
the church for the Purpose of breakfasting with her father 70
mother, and to assist in cleaning out the vestry and other Part
of tire building.
Mr. Lenuiker, a surgeon, residing in Aldermanbere, ".3
examined. He said, "At twenty minutes after seven & ga4
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called into the church by a person who told me that a men
.sa.,.
a woman were lying in the vestry-room murdered. I itti",,h'e
diately went thither, and found the deceased woman lying 7.0
her back and bleeding from'a wound in the throat ; the in
was there also similarly wounded, by the side of his wife, le
head, hands, and knees resting upon the floor; they were rtn:ih
dead, but considerable warmth was still remaining in b(c.et
bodies. -On examining the woman I' found the winde
the
through to the spinal bone of the neck; the large vessels on
.right side of the neck were severed, as I imagine, by only on
cut from left to rightteette length of the wound was from 11" 1
six inches, and the depth an inch and a half from the front (;,
i,
the neck to the spinal column. I subsequently made an e/e.,
ruination of the man's wound, and found that the windpipe
k.
partly cut through, but none of the large vessels of the vete,
were divided. The wound was three inches in length, and I"
depth ni,t more than half an inch."
Cross-examined by the Coroner.—Did not discover any mark le
of violence on eitherof the bodies;
imagined that no Strtigg;
took place on the part of the woman fromthe appearance of the
pent of blood which sursounded her; believed that the marl if,,'
tlicted the wound on -himself with a carving knife found ill the
vestry-room while in a.kneeling posture; from the extent 0,, t"-
wound on the right side of the woman's seek he would decidediY,
say that she mild not have inflicted it on herself; thought I
wII
oman was sitting in the chair close to where she was faun
lying, and Chet the man came behind her, seized her by thtt
chin, and having cut her throat, she fell directly to the floor. ;
Mrs. Reynolds, an- aunt of Mte. Holden, said that her hill.
had been ill-treated by her husband, who very often return
home in a state of drunkenness. -
Joseph Russell, a journeyman painter and glazier, was next
examined.--I was this morning, at work in, the church, and ar-
rived there at five minutes
.past six o'clock, when I found the
door ajar, and no key in it. I went up the right hand aisle'
-facing the vestry door, which I saw was shuteand I then
Pro-
ceeded into the belfry tower; soon after this I went down u'i.
some purpose an went again; at a quarter-past sot"
heard a loud scree and immediatelv descended from the tower,
when I beheld afe •le ten distracted from the Yestry-rooin el.:,
Iti backclaiming "My God, my father and mother are murdered! ,
having uttered which she sank senseless to the floor. Another
workman, who was upstairs with me, also came down, and oh°,
our entering the room in q,nestion we found the deceased Ina"
and woman in the situations previously deferibede I also be-
held a htrge carving knife, covered with blood, lying by the
man's left hand, and directly sent my fellow-workman for a sur;
geon, who promptly arrived. The daughter in a few minutes
soinewhat recovered, and was removed to her home; in addi-
tion to what I have stated,A observed a silk handkerchief whir,
had evidently been recently worn round the neck hanging over the chair near the bodies.
Coroner.—When did you last see them alive?
Witness.—On the day before, in the church, and they Wl'
seemed en excellent terms with each other.
William Holden, the son of the deceased, and other witneorg
were examined as to the state of Holden'e mind; they 0'
curred in stating that for some time past he had conducted hinli
self in such a manner as to lead to a
reasonable supposition ilia
his intellects were impaired..
The jury returned the following verdict :—" We find that
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Samuel Holden 'cut the throat of Frances Ann Holden, I°E
wife, and afterwards his own, he being at the time in a state °f
temporary mental derangement."