The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-02 00:00:00

EINLADUNG FUR FRE.AIDE

liL HAUSBURG hat das Vergnugen den zahr-
• reichen Fremden, zur zeit in dieser Stadt, die freuri-
liche Einladung darzubieten, sein Etablissement mit einem
Besuche zu beehren, indem er sich schmeichelt, dass eine
Besichtigung seiner enormen Sammlung von.
ENGLISCH EN UND FRENIDEN FABRIKATEN
KUNKSTGEGEDSTANDEN, &c. &c.
Sich als eine Quelle gressen Genusses herausstellen und die
Mahe eines Besuchs reichlich vergilten wird.
Die ausserordentliche Reiehlialtigkeit der vorhandenen Ge-
,genstrinde, das Arrangement des grossartigen Waarenlagers
und die ausserordentlitla billigen Preise haben dem Etablisse-
ment den Ruf erworben, "das Einzige seiner Art in Europs"
su rein.

F. L. H. erlaubt "sich die Versicberung hinzuzufilgen dams,
sei der Zweck der ihn mit einem Besuch Beehrenden new
Geschaft oder Vergnugen, eine gleich zuvorkommende, artige
Behandlung wird Allen zu Theil werden.
F. L. HAUSBURG,
24, CHURCH-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

INVITATION.
IFL. HAUSBURG, OLD POSTOFFICE-BUILDINGg,
• _ 24, CHURCH.STREET,

Respectfully invites Strangers and Visitors to an examination

of his immense Collection of

HOME, BRITISH, and FOREIGN MANUFACTURES.
The Sroca comprises.
WORKS OF ART,
JEWELLERY AND PLATE,
CLOCKS AND WATCHES,
DESKS, DRESSING-CASES. WORK-BOXES, &C.,
nd all descriptions of useful and elegant-Articles of the most

CHARGE AGAINST AN EX-POLICEMAN FOR MURDER,
NINETEEN YEARS AGO.
Thomas Threlfall was charged with having at Halsall,
on the 16th of October, 1832, killed and murdered his
ALLEGED MURDER AT MANCHESTER. ' wife, Elizabeth Threlfall.
His LORDSHIP took his seat at ten minutes past nine This case excited great interest from the fact of the
o'clock this morning, and immediately commenced charg- alleged murder having been committed in the year 1832,
ing the jury in the above case. His lordship remarked and also because the prisoner has since that period been
that he had no doubt both himself and the jury would married, has a large family, and has conducted himself in
be better prepared, after the relief of a night's rest, to a most exemplary manner, both as a father and also as a
consider the evidence which they had heard on the pre- I policeman, in which force he was a constable for twelve
vious day. The case was a most mysterious one, and he years; he is now a respectable Lrmer at Preston Gab-
hoped they would pay particular attention to the charge bald, in Shropshire, where he is much respected. His
he was about to make. There was no question but that a first wife was, on the 16th of October, 1832, found
large quantity of poison had been administered to the de- drowned in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. A coroner's
ceased, but by whom, when, or through what vehicle, inquest was held, the prisoner was examined, and no
there was no direct evidence to prove. The different Sc- charge was made against the prisoner, who was separated
coun's given by the female prisoner to several of the wit- from his wife. She was engaged at the time as a servant
nesses, as to the circumstances attending the child's at the Black Bull in Walton, he being servant to his
death, might lead to the supposition that she had some uncle Edward Threlfall, of Halsall.
motive for concealing the real facts. A quantity of arse- Thomas Ball, farmer at Halsall, stated that a good
nic had been found in her possession after the child many years ago, as lie was going to his work to get pota-
died, for which she had not very satisfactorily accounted. toes, with a woman named Jane Bradshaw, who is now
She had stated that on coming into her house she found dead, he saw a woman floating in the water of the canal,
the deceased lying on the floor vomiting, and in a state near the Hill-bridge. Robert Shaw's boat lay there, and
of unconsciousness, and that next morning she was dead. the body was 10 or 15 yards astern of the boat. He got
An important point was, that small doses might be given a pole off the boat, pulled the body to the side, and got
to produce unconsciousness, during which further doses her out. William Bradshaw and several others were
might be administered to produce death. He directed the. present. He did not know the woman. A handkerchief
jury to pay particular attention to the remarkable evidence or a shawl was tied twice or three times round her neck
of John Skirrow, and the singular scene which he described with two or three knots. One of the eyes was rather
to have taken place at the prisoners' house on the morn- strangled with blood. Took her to a building, which he
ing of the 23d cf April. The expressions then made use thought belonged to William Martin, and left her there
of by the prisoners appeared to attach a guilty knowledge till the night, when she was removed to Halsall ware-
of the causes leading to the child's death to them. As house, machine-house. Richard Shaw helped to carry her.
regorderl the plea set up that the girl might have taken the James Kirby, farmer, on the 16th of October 1832,
arsenic as medicine, instead of the carbonate of magnesia fetched the coroner, when he heard a woman had' been
afterwards found in the house, the evidence went to prove found drowned, he being a constable at the time. The
that on the evening previous to her being found dead, the next day .he fetched the prisoner from one of Edward
deceased was in the enjoyment of extremely good health, Threlfall's fields, and asked him to come and see whether
and not likely to require the aid of medicine. The evi- the woman found was his wife, as they had got to talking
dence, however, was merely circumstantial, and it would that she was his wife. He objected to go. Witness said
rest with the jury to decide whether the unnatural conduct he would make him go, and then they went to the
exhibited by the prisoners, particularly the female, towards machine-house, and as soon as he saw the body the
their child, would lead them to commit an act so abhorrent prisoner exclaimed that she was his wife. Prisoner did
to the dictates of humanity. The charge occupied up- not come in ; witness invited him in. Prisoner did not
wards of an hour-and-a-half and was most impressive appear troubled; did not see any difference in him.
throughout. At five minutes to eleven the jury retired, Robert Rimmer. labourer, had known the prisoner 23
and after an absence of nearly an hour-and-three-quarters years. Had not seen him for 18 years, when he rode with
returned into court with a verdict of " not guilty." him from Liverpool to Edward Threlfall's. On the road
Charles Hogarth, who was brought up for the man- they called at the Black Bull, and asked for some refresh-
slaughter of his wife, in this town, a short time since, was
ordered to be discharged, no evidence being offered in

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CROWN BAR-TUESDAY.

alias Ellis, at Manchester, on the 12th July, was sentenced
to twelve calendar months' imprisonment, with hard
labour. The prisoner and Ellis had quarrelled in a pub-
lic-house, where they were drinking, and the former be-
came so excited by the taunts of the latter that he struck
him on the head with his shoemaker's hammer. This
blow led to death.

James Wick, a labourer, was indicted for murdering
Margaret Weldon, a woman of the town, in Manchester,
on the 20th July. Wick had beaten the woman so vio-
lently (because, he said, she had robbed him of four ha!f-
crowns) that she died before she could be removed to the
Infirmary. Guilty of manslaughter. Three months'
imprionment.

James Ogden, charged with the manslaughter of Josiah
Walker, at Rochdale, on the 2d July, was found not

guilty and di

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Fielding pleaded guilty to the forging
vote for £4 17s. 6d., at Rochdale. Six

months' imprisonment,

Jones, and John Bramner were found guilty of
- ay robbery upon James Eglin, at Man-
ht of the 9th of August, and sentenced

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to be transported fer ten years.
Thomas Erly, indicted for having stabbed John Wrig-
Manchester, on the 16th of August, during
ivarrel, was sentenced to ten years' tra,--
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not known in England until the last few years. It had
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private in the 2d Regiment,

'near, wnien was brought, and the prisoner as,. . the ser-
vant if Elizabeth was in. Shortly after Elizabeth (the
deceased) came into the room and asked what he wanted

with her. Prisoner said that he wanted her to go and
live with him again, and that he would be as good to her
as ever he had been bad. She agreed to come and live
• with him if he would take a cottage, and they might live
by themselves. He said he had done so, and had taken
one at Churchtovvn in Halsall, and asked if she would
come on Sunday night. She said she could not come on
Sunday, as she had washing to do on the Monday, but
that she would get up early and get it done and come on
Monday night. They made it up to meet at Lydiate- hill,
but she was to keep on the left bank of the canal, and if
they did not meet at Lydiate-hill she was to keep on, and
he would meet her. On the Tuesday after witness
heard that she had been found drowned in the canal.
John Beckett, potato dealer, said he knew Richard
Shaw, who had to go on the canal. That he did not re-
member hearing of a womnn being drowned in the canal
at Halsall-hill, and that to the best of his knowledge
Richard Shaw never mentioned such a transaction when
lying at Halsall-hill. Witness was captain of one of
Kenworthy's flies on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
James Wignall, police-officer, apprehended the prisoner
on the 24th of April, and told him it was on a charge of
murdering his wife. Hesaid " neverheard of such athing."
At the close of the case for the prosecution, Mr. POL-
LOCK asked his Lordship if he should address the jury,
and several witnesses—among whom were two clergymen,
the bead of the police, and the chief superintendent at

titling of May was at the hous

Liverpool—all gave theprisoner the best character possible,
:Thejuryacquitted the prisonerwithouthearing hiscounsel

THE MOCK AUCTION SWINDLE

William James Chew and John Smith were indicted for
conspiring together, along with others, to defraud Pedro
Wilson and others; and also for holding mock auctions,
and obtaining money from divers persons by means of
false pretences, more particularly from one William
Wadsley King. 'lt will be recollected that the prisoners
opened various auction-rooms in this town, and carried on
business by means of a number of accomplices called

described, amid the general laughter of the court, the va-
rious ingenious schemes and devices resorted to by the
prisoners to entrap the unwary.—Mr. POLLOCK, in a humo-
rous speech, addresset
ter

con-
ng that similar contrivances to enhance the value of
goods were used by all auctioneers and exhibitors of rari-
ties.—His LORDSHIP, in summing up, instructed the jury
that if they, thought the prisoners conspired, by false pre-
tences and representations, to cheat persons who attended
the sale by giving them rubbish instead of goods, which
they sold as such, then the conspiracy was made out; but
if they thought it was possible that the prisoners might
have opened the establishment to sell goods at a fair
price,'and had no intention to cheat, they ought to find
them not guilty; and, it they had aoy reasonable doubt
on these points, they must give them in favour of the pri-
soners.—The Jury, after a retirement from court of twenty
minutes, returned'a verdict of guilty against both priso-
ners of conspiring to defraud the three persons named in
the indictment, and all who frequented the sale-room.—
It being now ten o'clock, sentence was deferred until the
following morning, when they were sentenced each to six
months' imprisonment in Kirkdale Gaol, that they each
pay a fine to her Majesty of £2O, and be further impri-
soned till that fine be paid.

GRAND JURY ROOM.—TUESDAY.
(Before Mr. BLISS, Q.C.)
John Hughes, for a highway robbery, with violence, at
Manchester, was_ transported for ten years.

Elizabeth .Roberts, for bigamy, at Manchester, was
sentenced to imprisonment for three months.

Ann Lynn, charged with stabbing in Park-lane, in
this town, guilty of a common assault only, and sen-
tencedto imprisonment for twelve months.

William Barlow, also tried for stabbing, was convicted
of a common assault, and sentenced to a. month's impri-
This court closed at three o'clock.

sonment

NISI PRIUS COURT.—TUESDAY.
(Before Mr. Justice WlLLums.)

John Noble, convicted on the previous day of man.
slaughter, was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to
hard labour for six calendar months.

George Ryder, also convicted the previous day, was
brought up. His lordship said the prisoner's excuse was
that he was drunk, but it was of great public importance
that it should be thoroughly understood in the merchant
service, if an officer gets drunk, and by reason thereof
endanger, by his carelessness, the life of his shipmates, ho
would subject himself to the risk of exemplary punish-
ment; and he should be doing a great mischief if he were
to pass upon him a lenient sentence, notwithstanding the
excellent character which the witnesses had given him.
The sentence of the court was that he should be impri-
soned, without hard labour, for the. period of a year.
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This was an action, under Lord Campbell's Act,
brought by the widow of the late Mr. W. Saunders,
secretary to the Limerick and Waterford Railway Com-
pany, to recover compensation in damages for the loss of
his life, which was alleged to have been occasioned by the
negligence of the defendants' servants, on board whose
steam-packet he was at the time of the accident which
caused his death. The defendants pleaded " Not Guilty."
Mr. Roebuck, Q.C., and Mr. Cowling appeared for the
plaintiff; and Mr. Watson, Q.C., Mr. Crompton, and
Mr. Paget for the defendants.

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