The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-22 00:00:00

MURDER BY A PAUPER LUNATIC AT HINDLEY.

John Grundy, 67, described as a wheelwright, was
indicted for the wilful murder of James Underwood, a boy
eleven years of age, at Hindley, on the 4th of July. Mr.
Monk prosecuted ; the prisoner was undefended. Both
parties were inmates of the workhouse, at Hiudley, and,
according to the evidence of several witnesses, early on
the morning in question, the little fellow commenced
playing with the prisoner, and stroked down the side of
his jacket. The prisoner made some remark to the effect
that it was "-Sweep;" (ttite nickname of another of the
boys,) robbing him, .and Jaygpg hold of the deceased by
the right Al7ll avA leg, claßlke4 peven or eight times

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and he then laid the deceasv,,
An alarm was raised, and the prisoner .
but the little boy died on the Sunday even,
soner, on being asked why he had done the
the boy had attempted to pick his pocket. 1_
was in a very wild state, and appeared to be• out of his
mind. He walked about humming tunes, and apparently
pleased at what he had done. He had only returned
to the house on the previous night, after -
seven days. He had been a peaceable t,
vionsly, and bore a good character ; but it api
on the 24th of July, 1852, the surgeon of the Wit,
law Union had pronounced him insane, and he has U.
confined for some short time in an asylum. Under tilt
circumstances, the jury found the prisoner not guilty, up
the ground of insanity, and he was ordered to be confir
during Her Majesty's pleasure.

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ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER IN LIVERPOOL.
John M`Donough, 22, labourer, was indicted for killin
George Hickey. Mr. Simon prosecuted, and Mr. Aspina
defended the prisoner. The prisoner, who was connecte
with the deceased by marriage, went to the house of ti
latter, on the evening of the 30th of May, and pushed h
foot through a picture. This led to a quarrel, and tt
deceased and prisoner went into the yard to fight. Prison(
got the worst of the battle, and went away, but came bac
with a poker. The deceased's wife chased him, as did als
the deceased and his step-daughter, and as he was runnin
up stairs they all laid hold of him and pulled at the poke
which struck the deceased a backward blow on the hea(
The deceased subsequently had his wound dressed at th
dispensary, went out, got drunk twice, took to his be(
and died el le course of Hi

.even days afterwards. In .t 1
widence for the prosecution the case broke down, and t
prisoner, at his lordship's direction, was acquitted.

- Wallace Eaton, 21, carpenter, indicted on the char
of causing the death of his sister, Mary Ann Eatoi
Hatfield-street, in this town, by beating her on the '
of February last. From the evidence it appeared tha
the day in question the deceased asked t-

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sixpence for a noggin of rum .in return for sor
kerchiefs which she had hemmed for him
her. A deposition of the deceased, taken before _
death, was read in court, which stated that the prisoner
had knocked her down, kicked her three times, and
otherwise abused her. One of the witnesses, Ann Kelly,
a girl nearly fifteen years of age, who had deposed before
the coroner that she had seen the prisoner kick the deem.
three times while she was on the floor, to-day stated
she had told a lie then, at the instigation of Mrs. Eaton,
the mother of the deceased and prisoner. She added, that
both mother and daughter were intoxicated at the time
of the alleged ill-usage, and that three days previously
the deceased had shown her (witness) some blows on the
breast, stating that her mother had inflicted them with a
poker. Witness had before heard the mother threP4
to beat the deceased with a poker unless she P-
up to fetch a pint of ale. The deceased was Fite,.
playing in the street, and did not die for several weeks.
Mr. Leather, surgeon at the Workhouse, stated that
the immediate cause of deceased's death was rupture of the
spleen, the result of a fall from the bed ; and that hp,
liver was in such a diseased state that she conn
lived long.

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