The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-03-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—At Monday, Thomas Johnson, alias the Leicester assize!, on for the wilful murder at ' Henry Hensev, was indicted of Elizabeth Evison. We Croft, on the 12th of February last, at the time, but, as the circumstances a brief statement of the case we give the particulars as mstances are peculiarly atrocious, peared that the deceased they transpired at the trial. It spat the time of the occur was an aged person, about 70, living of the same age, in a occurrence with her sister, who was nearly village of Croft. lonerOncottage, a short distance from the Sunday, the 12th of February, they were both well and w ' aiking about as usual. They slept in the same room up stairs •beds, in separate and retired to rest about eight o'clock. They were disturbed not very long afterwards by a man breaking in at the windows of their chambers. He proceeded to obtain a light by means of a lucifer match, and then with some marlin to tie together their hands and feet very tightly. and to fasten their arms under the shoulders equally tightly to the bedsteads, so that they cld not move hand or foot, or at all help themselves. He then tucked the clothes closely over their heads, and took ss. out of the pocket ot the surviving sister, and rather more out of that of the deceased. He also took some silver spoons and some handkerchiefs, and then decamped by, he street door, which he left open, leaving the poor women in the state described. This was on the Sunday night. They remained in this condition, both being almost suffocated, until the forenoon of Monday, when the deceased, who had been moaning all the interim, and frequently said that she must be suffocated, expired- The sister could undertake to mark the time of the death by the cessation of tbe moaning end the breathing as being in the course of the forenoon of Monday. St, r. herself remained in this horrible state, almost momentarily expecting the same fate that she knew bad awaited deceased-, until the Tuesday morning, when she heard some one near, and cried out for help. This was a poor boy going about with a live seal from door to door begging, and he gave an alarm, and fetched a rasa named Hill, who found the door open, and the poor women in bed with their hands and arms end feet tied rand manner extremely exhausted. deceased being stiff and cold, her sister extremely exhauated. He released the survivor, and unfastened tbe marlin which bound the body of the decease& and then went and brought Mr. Dewsont the surgeon. The latter gentleman stated tbst he had heard the evidence, and had no doubt whatever but that the deceased had died, of suffocation from being smothered in the wa e scribed. She appeared to have been dead about twenty-fourhours. There were wounds upon the wrist from the tightness with which the cords had been tied. The prisoner was apprehended, and. from the evidence adduced, edty of the offence; and the judge sentenced was found wawa m the slightest hope of no. him to death  England  Do A t The An(  wish to s  but three a a, and Lori  Jrities reign— ?—You omit the Insane! whom no statute controls,  s in their souls. have only to play  asylum'd a month and a day— ape from the mad-doctor's keys, ver they please.  1 or stab whom&  deny a poor doe or man  crime is no cr  creation  generation  th impunity,  noble immunity  LG e --when the mind is unsettled