The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

led with that whole

Forty-five gentlemen dined at the
paying all due honours to the wedded pair, both in toast
and sentiment, the party all mounted on horseback, joined

couple on their arrival, when they took t'
the carriage and drew them in, the
—" See the conquering hero come

,nd playing in front

MAI%iTHEST

it cold-blooded

ler was commit

T on Tuesday, by a

The victim

man named William Adam
who was employed in a factory in Loud°

. .
on the way to her work on Tuesday morning at 5 o'
when she was murdered. Some time ago she ha,

married to a man of the name of Thomas, who, soon after-
wards was convicted of felony, and sentenced to ten
years' transportation ; she then, more than three year
ago, married Adams, but left him a few wee-
went to reside with her father, a m;
ding in Oldham-road, Manchester

.dams, it would

seem, was much disturbed in his mind_by their separ

and made several fruitless efforts to effect a reconciliation.
The woman, however, was resolute, and refused to live
with him again. He rose early on Tuesday morning, de-
termined to meet with her, and took out with him the

two pistols found in his possession. He saw her in New,
ton-street, on her way to work, and urged her to go home
with him. She declared she would not go with him,
when he took a pistol from his coat-pocket, and levelled
it at her head. It missed fire, but he pulled out another
pistol, pursued the young woman, and fired at her, when
she fell. A police-officer, named Cm.
ately on the spot, and apprehended Adams

yen, was immedi-

ner,it is discOvered, is also married to another woman,
who has two children by him, and who is living in Chorl-
ton-upon-Medlock, an adjoining township. He had been
employed for several years as a weaver at a respectable
small-wares establishment in Manchester, but for some
time past had been out of work. The coroner's jury
returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder."
LOVERS FOUND DROWNED.-011 Monday morning, the
bodies of a young couple were taken out of the canal be-
longing to the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and
Canal Company, at Whitacre Bridge, about two miles
north-east of Huddersfield. Their names are, respec-
tively, David Carter, aged twently -four years, soh of and
employed by John Carter, of Caine Bridge, who carries on
a whitening mill, near Whitacre Bridge; and Elizabeth
Sykes, an orphan girl, who was employed at one of the
cotton mills at Colne Bridge. An attachment had existed
between the two for sonic tine pnylou§, and it hack been

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arranged last week that their marriage should take Plea
on Sunday five weeks hence. They spent some time t°'
gether in company at the Peacock Inn, on the Leeds'
road, about one third of the distance between the Plca
where they were found drowned and Huddersfield. 13!e
landlord states that, whilst there, they were in good slo'
rits, and the youn man in paticular was in a joking 1111'
mour. They left there aboutr a quarter to eleven o'clocs+
and it appears that they had intended to take the roof'
home to Colne Bridge by the towing path of the ennel4
that being the nearest way. The father of the young man
was surprised to find, on Monday morning, that his 6°3
had been absent all night ; and on inquiry, he found.als°
that the young woman had been absent from her lodging_j
and it was supposed from this circumstance that they had
gone to be married. On Monday morning, a hat and a
bonnet were found on the banks of the canal, near to the
place above stated ; and on drags being procured, the
body of the young woman was drawn out of the water,!
and sliortly afterwards also that of the young man, hot'
from the same place. The arms of both were egtencleclla
a position to indicate that, previous to the drab beings
used, they were clasped in each other's arms. The bath
were taken to the White Horse Inn, a short distance from
lesf
the place, when hundreds of persons, especially fetne
visited the house to view the bodies. It appeared ti'°.e;
the evidence at the coroner's inquest, that the par
lived on the best terms, and had no quarrel with anY.°llei
The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a
" Found drowned, without any marks of violence. vag
Wednesday, they were coffined—both coffins being heir
near alike as possible—and one grave received both thela
remains. They had kept company for four years, and theh
ordered the wedding dinner to be prepared at
Peacock Inn. verdictcia,