The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-05 00:00:00

MURDER

Thomas Hetherington was arraigned for the wilful mur-
der of Peter Jackson, at Manchester, by striking him down
and kicking him. He pleaded not guilty.
Dr. BROWN proceeded to open the case, when his LORD-
sun, inquired whether the prisoner had counsel. Dr. B.
said he had not, and that he believed the case would turn on
the questi6n whether the prisoner were sane at the time of
the assault.

His LORDSHIP appointed counsel for the prisoner, and
postponed the case, so that he (the counsel) might have time
to look into the depositions.

MANSLAUGHTER CASES.
William Shaw, aged 27, was charged with having, at Ash-
ton-under-Lyne, killed and slain a child, named Martha Og-
den. The prisoner was a carter, and, while his cart, which
was loaded with clover, was passing along the street, one of
the wheels knocked the deceased down, and she was so much
injured that, after sobbing once, she expired. The deceased
was a year and nine months old, and was the daughter of
Mr. William Ogden, a butcher. She had been in company
with her sister, who was four years of age, and who had left
her and gone across the street. The prisoner had been talk-
ing to another man, and the cart went on a little way, he
moving towards it backward while he talked. He ran after
it, and immediately after a scream of some women was heard,
just as the cart was turning a corner of the street. The wheel,
however, passed over the deceased, who got into the way, be-
fore he reached the horse's head. The prisoner, on being
apprehended, explained to the head constable, Mr. Newton,
the whole of the circumstances as they appeared in evidence,
and expressed great sorrow for the unfortunate catastrophe.
The prisoner had borne a good character for carefulness and
humanity.
He was ably defended by Mr. Brandt.

The jury, after sitting some time, were allowed to retire,
as they could not come to a decision.

John Davies, 23, stood indicted with having, at Manches-
ter, killed and slain Joseph Lawson.
Mr. Chapman conducted the prosecution.
Patrick Starkie said he lodged at the time at Dooley's
house, Cornwallis-street. Witness, on the 21st Nov., went
to bed, and Lawson was also in the room. Davies came up
into the room in a quarrelsome temper, and he challenged
the deceased, and they had a struggle together. The land-
lord came up and separated them. The prisoner, however,
attacked the deceased again, and in the struggle the deceased
fell upon a peculiar kind of candlestick, used by shoemakers,
on which the socket for
.the candle moved up and down to
any required height, on an iron rod, about two feet long, and
fixed in a stand formed of a block of wood. The point of the
rod stood perpendicular, and the deceased's head, when he
fell, struck the point of it, and it entered his temple, and pe-
netrated the brain. The deceased died soon afterwards from
this injury. The prisoner was drunk at the time, and was
the friend of the deceased.

The jury immediately returned a verdict of guilty, with a
recommendation to mercy.
The learned JUDGE said that the prisoner did not, cer-
tainly, intend to take away the life of the deceased, but was
culpable, inasmuch as he had got drunk. Considering that
he had been in custody since the 23d November, be should
only remand him to gaol for one week, at the end of which
he should be discharged.

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say. They (the prisoner's friends) were persuading Frances th,
Stockton not to tell what she had seen. I said I could bring Coop,
witnesses to state what she had said. The prisoner cried out had wr
in a loud tone, "Where's my knife ?" and told him to go. the ba
but he stood still. The prisoner and my husband were both
on the ground. but I did not see them fall. They were stand-
ing close together a minute or two before, but I did not notice
what they were doing just then. lore,
don't remember seeing
blood on the prisoner's cheek, but it might be so. The pri- he
goner, when he went into the house, put his hand round the substantially couns
deceased's neck, and said he was very sorry. I never said and, both having g
that I was uneasy at what I said before the coroner. I said volve others in it a
I was vexed at the prisoner's mother. That was for her by Thomas for thf
treatment of me and my mother. the bp-

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1 continued to attend him till his death on the totiowing present predicament,) they n... - at to recover. AS Lo
Monday. The deceased had had a rupture; an& if be had Mr. Cooper, a greater part of the debt due to the bank had
not had a rupture, Ido not think the wound would have been been incurred before he had anything to do with the company;
mortal. He was alto in bad health, approaching to delirium the account began in 1837, and he did not join the company
tremens. The wound produced inflammation, and that till November, 1838, or even later. He, therefore, was not

death.
By the COURT.-1 have no doubt that the wound pro-

one, false