The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-12-23 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

WAS- beard in the street by a grocer, Mrs. Brown, whose shop is opposite the court in which . decoased Bred. Ou healing the words "Yon a-- maw," Mrs. Frown and her essistt ran into the street, and saw a man renting us list as he could down the strict ; and the (leen-A leaning against the wall, at the ter of the ent.y. The deceased crossed over the ,tr.. r.1,11:!....1 ul, his slop and showed A stall retar his hearr. and. said " Artier," or " Albert " Brew!' had "stabbed him in the heart in the dark entry." He WiF sure he said Browe, but not whether he said Arthur or Albert. On saying this, the decessed added "I on dying." To Mrs. Brown, 's-he, asked who bad 4abl,ed hire, he replied, "That scamp" (Pointing to the nem running down the street) " has stabbed 1113."—Anu Feel, a weaver, who bad been working with the deceased and the prisoner at the Leigh Mills, arrived at this time on tile op .1, and deceased said to her, "I have been Btkilibed to the heart. Arthur Brown did it." When Peel asked why he had stabbed him, deceased replied, "Brown said it was through rue that he had the sack front the Leigh Mille." He told her he had rot had any words with Brown. Thu deceased died about ten minuses after having bean stabbed. When appreheeded by Sergeant Sheashy, of the Coventry police, who said -" I want you for stabbing John Millward in GoZard-street." prisoner replied, " I am sorry; I did it in a passion, he taunted nue se." When Sheasby asked him for the knife the prisoner pointed to a shelf, and upon it was found a two-bladed clasped pocket knife, on the point of which Dr. Hill, analyst, of Birmingham, found fresh human blood. The prisomr asked Sheashy, "Is he seriously hurt 1" and he told him he was. On being charged with the murder he made no reply. In order to show v•alice pnpense, the prosecution called several witnesses to whom the accused had made statements showing his animus. The first of these witnesses was Jane Hewitt, ' a fellow-worker with the prisoner, who had told her in the presence of Alice Haneox that the deceased bed told the chief overlooker that he had been to a magic ball, and added," 1 know it was Millward. I have had my knife itto him for some time. I'll have my receive yet." Henry Benson, another weaver, stated , that the prisoner lu,d said to him, "I am not ' coming back at all, for John Millwarcl bat gotten me the sack, and I will kill him for it. I have owed him a grudge a long tune. and I mean to pay it." A letter written (oboe wife of deceased on the 15th was put in in which prisoner said, "I write to ask for in, for killing my last companion John. I have repented eve:. since I did it. I pray night and. morning for 'my sins, also for John and for you, and fo the Lord t.> keep you in your trouble. have your feelings as Ave'l as my own. Idid not think whst I was ..ifilig when I done it. Forgive me, forgive me. 1 ask you again, or I shall it rest happy." The defence was that of manslaughter. The jud..a, in his summing up, said that the midence would not warmnt a verdict of manslaughter. The jury found the prisoner guilty, with a recommeudation to mercy on account of his youth and good character. His Loidship pas..sed sentence of death in the usual form.