The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-09-04 00:00:00

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MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND.

On Monday morning a young womannatned Catherine Green
was murdered by her husband, Joseph Green, at the house of a
person named Ogden, in, Back Biackley-street, in this town:
The parties, we, understand. were monied in November last,
since which time they have lived in a most miserable state, in
consequence of the female's irregular habits. Two or three
times they have been separated, and on one occasion the deceas-
ed employed a number of men to way-lay and beat her husband.
On Sunday they met in the street, after a separation of some
weeks, and on the female promising to be more circumspect in
her conduct it was arranged that they should again live together.
After passing .the night together in a double bedded room at
Ogden's, about six o'clock on Monday morning, Honoria Ro-
gers, a sister of the deceased, called her up to.get to work. She
refused to get up, saying that she did feel inclined to work, and
she should not go to the factory that day. As soon as the sister
was gone, she got out of bed, and leaving her husband, went
and laid herself down on the other bed. Her husband was of-
fended at this and upbraided her with her conduct, telling her
that he supposed she was going to do as she had done before,
run away from him. Her only reply to him was " Let me alone,
I want to go to sleep." The husband's rage now became un-
governable., He jumped out of bed, and seizing a rave- which
he had bought on the Saturday night previous, with one stroke
inflicted a wound on the left side of the neck and throat which
divided all the vessels, with the exception of the carrotid artery.
he unfortunate woman sprang from tbe bed, and thrusting the
blanket into the gash prevented the blood from flowing for the
moment. Her strength enabled her to reach the winduW when
she cried out, "Murder, Mrs. Ogden, help me to cry murder ?"
She then removed the blanket Irons her throat, arid instantly
fell to the floor covered with blood, and in twenty minutes she
was a corpse. Mrs. Ogden hearing the alarm ran upstairs, and
found the deceased on the floor, her husband kneeling over her
on one knee. As soon as he saw Mrs. Ogden,. he said " l have
done the deed and I know I must die ; but her mother has
been the author of it all, and our blood will be upon her head."
To another woman who came into the room, alarmed by the
noise, he said " Send for a runner, I don't care if I die now,"
The•alarm was speedily spread over the neighbourhood, and,
'before a police officer could be fetched, Austin one of the watch-
men who lived nearly opposite, secured the prisoner, and he was
conveyed in custody-to the New Bailey. Mr. Rutter held an'
inquest on the body on Monday evening, when a verrliCt of
" Wilful murder" was returned, and the prisoner was commit-
ted to Kirkdale gaol, to await his trial at the assizes. The pri-
soner and the deceased, we understand, were both about 21
years of age. The prisoner is a. Roman Catholic, and about ten
weeks ago he made a vow, which he says he has religiously ob-
served, not to taste intoxicating liquors. He is by trade a spin-
ner, and we believe he bears a good character amongst his
neighbours —Manchester paper.
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