The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-08 00:00:00

he vm uld buy it in, an make TomeitinS his' foieman". 1. The
'next morning Ashton and Cuff came together, and witness
then heard Cuff tell the officer not to obstruct the work, and
that Ashton was to have any thing that he wanted. The
plaintiff told witness to keep an account of the work done for
the good of the creditors, and he would pay him for it on the
following Saturday night. On another occasion he sent out
for drink for the bailiffs and the workmen. Ashton and
plaintiff used frequently to meet in the office. The sale was
to have been on the 14th of May [the removal took place on
the 13th] ; but about three o'clock on the same afternoon,
the plaintiff told witness he had countermanded the sale.
About six o'clock the same evening Ashton directed witness
to carry the paper to Jones', in St. John's Market, with
the assistance of the errand lad. Some type was re-
moved the same evening to Ashton's house. The value
of the papet taken that night was £3O. Four reams
of stamps for the Liverpool Guardian were also taken, which
was worth about three or four pounds ; the stamps • were
worth nothing. The removed was worth about £l2, in-
cluding the cases. The total value of the printing materials
would be about £2G. Cuff paid one week's wages during the
execution, and Ashton another. Cuff and Tompkins were
friends. Witness went to Cuff to get the balance of his
wages, when Cuff said to him, he knew where the property
was which had been taken, and the police were after it.
Joseph Ronald, an apprentice to Tomkins, corroborated
the last witness as to the interference of the plaintiff and
Ashton whilst the execution was in the office.

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Mr... Joseph Keane, manager for Mr. Trotter, auctioneer,
proved the countermand of the sale, which was fixed for the
14th by the plaintiff.
Cross-examined .—The Sale was postponed at the suggestion
of witness, because the type was " set up," and it would not
sell well in that state.
This was the plaintiff's case ; and the jury said they would
not trouble Mr. Knowles for a reply. They returned a ver-
dict for the plaintiff—damages, £129.
The court adjourned at half-past six o'clock.

EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSION.—In our last we stated
that Peter Pierce, who had been convicted at Mold for at-
tempts to poison his wife on Friday last, had committed
suicide on the following morning by hanging himself. The
day previous to that appointed for his execution, the convict
made a long confession of a most extraordinary nature, ad-
mitting that he was guilty of two attempts to poison hi§ wife,
but denying the third attempt—that on the 17th July—for
which he was tried and convicted. He denied that it was in
consequence of his having an attachment to another girl that
had caused him to do it, but stated over and over again, that
it was the fear of not being able to earn a sufficiency to main-
tain his wife—that was the sole and only reason. He bad
been promised work by a farmer in the neighbourhood, and
this promise not being kept, he determined to destroy his
wife, and had purchased the arsenic for that purpose, as
proved on the trial. The evidence given before the coroner
was of considerable length, all the witnesses, including the
surgeon and chaplain to the gaol, being clearly of opinion,
that the deceased was of perfectly sound mind. On this the
jury returned a verdict of felo de se, and the coroner issued
his warrant for the burial of the body, according to the
statute.