The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-21 00:00:00

THE HIGHBURY MURDER

LONDON CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, JUNE 18TH.
Saturday having been appointed for the trial of Thomas
Cooper, charged with the wilful murder of Timothy Daly, a
police-constable, the court was filled with well-dressed per-
sons of both sexes, although it was not so crowded as is

generally the case when the trial of any criminal who has
created great excitement in the public mind is about to take

At ten o'clock Mr. Justice Patteson and Mr. Baron
Gurney took their seats upon the bench, when Thos. Cooper
was immediately placed at the bar.
The prisoner, who is 23 years of age, and described as a
bricklayer, has very much altered in his appearance since his
incarceration in Newgate ; he is evidently still very weak,
and was accommodated with a chair in the dock.
Messrs. Bodkin and Chambers conducted the prosecution,
and Mr. S. Horry defended the prisoner.
After the circumstances which have already been before
the public had been detailed in evidence, Mr. Justice Patte-
son summed up, and the jury after consulting together for
about a minute Pronounced a verdict of Guilty.
The learned Judges having put on their black caps,
Mr. Justice Patteson addressed the prisoner as follows :
Thomas Cooper, after a long investigation of your case the
jury have come to the conclusion that when you shot the po-
liceman, Timothy Daly, you were in a state of mind to be
fully aware of what you were doing, and I think no person
who has heard the evidence adduced can have any doubt that
they have come to a right conclusion. With respect to the
facts of the case, it appears that on the sth of May you went
out and with loaded pistols—whether for the purpose of rob-
bing or not, I cannot say, but on two previous occasions you
did go out for that purpose, and actually committed two rob-
beries, and having done so, threatened to shoot those per-
sons if they attempted to give any alarm—whether you went
out with the same intention on the day
inquestion is known
only to yourself ; but on that occasion you met the policeman
Moss. You ran away as soon as you saw him, and upon his
following you and expressing his determination to take you
into custody. you threatened to shoot him ; and when he at-
tempted to lay hold of you,
_you fired a pistol at him and
1 wounded him in the arm. ou then attempted to escape,
but being ,overtaken and surrounded by a number of per-
sons, amongst whom was the deceased, you fired two pistols,
with one of which you severely wounded Moss, and with the
other you deliberately shot Daly dead. (The prisoner, who
did not appear to have been paying the slightest attention to
the observations of the learned judge, but stood looking
earnestly and gnashing his teeth at Inspector Penny,
who stood near the dock, here clinched his fist and
shook it at a menacing manner at him.) Mr. Justice Patte-
son having observed his conduct said,—Prisoner, you had
much better listen to me than keep shaking your fist at any
one. As I was saying, you wounded one of the parties who
attempted to apprehend you and killed the other, thus send-
ding him out of the world unprepared to meet his Maker.
There can be no doubt that you have been left to the com-
mission of the offence by a long course of dissolute habits,
Ind by a determination, at all hazards, to evade the end of
And when you were subsequently spoken to by
~other to pray to God for your soul, you replied, That
a did not want preaching to, you had had enough of that
ready." Whether since that period you have thought
!tier of it I cannot tell, but I most earnestly recommend
on to apply the short time you have to remain in this world
LO repentance and prayer, to obtain pardon and mercy of
God, through the merits of our Saviour. Your life is just-
1Y forfeited to the offended laws of your country, and you
cannot expect d in this world ; and I should be ver

-Ong indeed ifP I lad you to believe that you can obtain
pwaolodo hie re , but I trust you may obtain pardon in another
God wh again earnestl intreat ou to seek pardon of that
es
ol'ie.and knows all thingys.
form. rustuP then passed sentence of death in the usual

1 he pth„,
and mutterineartr then led from the bar, shaking his fist
threats of vengeance against all the witnesses

I see the villain in
ish prisoner at ‘Your face," said a Western judge to
ed Pat, " that runslM " May 't please your worship,"
Tits QUERN's /*also"' a Personal reflection, sure."
rounds of the newsPaperalla.7, e statement that went the
hors time ago, relative to the
Queen's Prison, is notexactl correct in one or two particu-
ars. It was stated that Abe prisoners residing within the
rules had been brought within
operation,
rules previous to the
for those prisoners who lived witbiuT_lll3. This is an error,
, will not be re-
Queen's Prison Act coming into
quired to remove within the walls of rules
tiiit all are corn-
No new prisoner can now claim the
ruiesve,m. months to come.
Prisons have not
pelled to reside within the walls as a matter
tocr
otoshmse.
prisoners from the Fleet and the other
course. The
in the course of a week or Poisons be
been received, but they are expected
h broughti_t e
Queen's Prison" ten days.
Fifty or sixty prisoners will, it is said, be r
Whitecross-street to. day morrow, but as
or to-morrow, b einc'ved fr
• on this removal does not t
street is the county pris , take place
in act. There are not very
in consequence of the
n n's Prison, but whe many
rooms now vacant in the ‘.‘tiee the re-
hall take lace e n
movals from the other prisons s in1) i Yen' room
most of them, fact in all, two
will be occupied, and in ma
ersons who object to occupy
Persons will be placed. Those h p
to ay him a few shil-
a room with another person willhave p
accommodation elsewhere.
lings weekly to induce him to find accommod
—Morning Chronicle, Monday.
The following details of
PALLING IN OF A THEATRE.—.
this lamentable accident are given in a letter from Jena, in
the Frankfurtur Journal .—" The performance was for the
benefit of the persons reduced to distress by the late fire at
H arnburgh. Permission having been given to use natural
instead of artificial decorations ; and real shrubs, flowers,
trees, and grass-plots, were substituted for painted scenery
ast is occasionally done at the Vienna Theatre. The innova-
tion so far succeeded, that the house was filled to overflow-
Ing..,yl:he reigning Grand Duke of Reuss Schleitz and his
family honoured the representation with their presence.
The
piece was the Czar
Carpenter), fro and Zimmermann (the Czar and the
In the second :act" episode in the life of Peter the Great.
cracking uf tinabe,rafter a discharge of musketry, a noise of
the pit with a terrific
heard, and the ceiling fell down upon
in this part of the honcraBll. The majority of the audience
buried under the ruins. Tide their escape, but many were
-was done with all possible hen these were removed, which
of the soldiery, twenty.ninremptitude, with the assistance
.eighty-seven more or less persons were found dead, and
Ducal family, and all the persons
injured. The Grand
galleries, escaped unhurt. Tills:who were in the boxes and
Duke's riding-house, and had theatre was the Grand
sion. M. Khristen been fitted
, the architect, h ed up for the occa-
:will be subjected to a legal prosecutiona.% been arrested, and