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The Sun. — 1835-11-11 (London, England)

MURDER. A man named David Sicor, and his sister, Isabella Cannon, were yesterday charged under the following circumstances : Sarah Grant, who appeared labouring under great excitement, resided in the village of Whitton, in the parish of Tstickenhurn. On Friday list the female prisoner came to witnesses house, and wanted to fight with her. Witness derAned the challenge, on which she- followed her throe-gh the village, and struck her, and also said if it was at Brentford she would beat not for fear of being had up witness's ____ brains out. Witness has for a length of tirne been abused and threatened by both prisoners, and by ether persons who have as yet evaded the warrants issued against them. Thomas Haylock considered Mrs. Grant as bad as the prisoner Cannon. Being much pressal by the Bench ' state why lie considered they were both alike, he cause they called each other the vilest names. Mr. Pownall knew the witness to be r' bitant of Whitton, and he considere'l resayritttble under great fear. The Benet .P!'t his evidence him if he• told all he knew. --* 1t4i414, however, protect respecting zt murder?- • 44.44 'he heard anything said tion, said he had. witness, after a slight-hesitaGrant- of being AtA I;risoner Cannon had accused Mrs. ;it Heston, with the murderers of the man. 071 low, some years having l';ds, ina the bit)" since, and also of the shirt of her husband, whom She: rAii-Was brie of tl-le mtfderers. PctiONAu.----What did Grant say in rer3-' witnessfs. ;le .n Mrs. quirediftbe prisoner,Cannon,harl r•Y r the coach she had robbed ;and said she ecr.;,.,. forgotten of the things which Cannon had given 6; s" Pr"-hloo some 41410. e 7 Airs. Grant here said the Upbraiding her about the murder. prioon; F os euntinually Thomas Aikido, the Whitt 4A constable, peered to give evidence- ver?y'reluetenty wn°' also  ..,dad be The murder in question, which. was committed about five years since, was that of a man named Charles Pink, in the employ of un Isleworth carrier, who was found barbarously murdered one morning near the residence of Mr. Cook, the indefatigable high constable of the Heeton dred, for whom, it. is supposed, he was mistaken. For some time no clue of the murderers could be obtained, but about twelve months afterwards, in consequence of information received by Mr. Cook from a woman named Kite, whose husband had shortly before been executed for a burglary at Teddington Lock, it was ascertained that Kite and two men named Weakley and King, who were hung with him, had "been concerned with others of n gang of desperadoes, called the " Brave Twickenham Boys," in the perpetration of the murder. A man named Young (since transported), husband of the woman Grant, was at, the time suspected of being one of the murderers, and it is anticipated, from the schism between those who appear to by acquainted with the whole particulars, that disclosures will shortly be made, by means or which the resi•olthe murderers may be brought to justice.
The Sun. — 1847-05-31 (London, England)

ROTHERHAM, FRIDAY.—The qu et town of Witherhaw has to-day been thrown into s state of great exciteMeta by the perpetration of an atreci,us emir er, vvidelt has been committed this forenoon, between ten and eleven o'clock, on the turnpike-read leading from R, therhaul to lta.wmarsh, a vilage about two miles oft, on a s,‘ ocean who was passing on the ro,id. From inquiries wade on the spot, it appears thaf Samuel Linley, a joiner, left his lodgings at the Fourlane-ends, near Raw marsh. between ten aid eleven, aro was proceeding to the Park gate Iron Works, belonging to Messrs. Se:ndetield and (Jo, to his work, about three huntirea vards off. He hid Hot gone tar betibre he me, the decersed, Suaarinnh Jazger, the wife of Benjani.n Jagge,, or Masbarougn common, shopkeeper, who was 401:e a stranger to hun, going to Rawinarsh with snit cerieN Linley held out his hand to the deceased. foul a6ked her to snake hand,; she roused, and passed him. lie tuined roend, followed her, and struck httr with Its fist over the back of her head, knocked her down, and got upon her, and when she attempted to rise he strut k her s..veral severe blows on the head. He then got her shoulders between his knees, and kept bealieu her. She scream:A out, and some persons who reside near an t were p :ssing ran to her assistance ; but before the could get to the place, Lintey was seen to take a clasp knife out oc his waistcoat pocket, open it, and cut ,he woman's throat on its right side. Joshua Stewaid, of Rotherham, a cow keeper, who was passing, and saw Linley commence his attack on the woman, ran to them, and when he got up the ruffian was cutting at the woman's throat with the knife; he did not even desist when Steward got there, but the latter pulled hit!) off the woman, and some other persons coming to the place the mail was secured, and the knife taken tram him. The poor woman was bleeding profusely, the assassin having separated the jugular vein. Medical aid was immediately sent for, but long before any could arrive the poor woman had breathed her last, she having died a few minutes after receiving the injuries. Linley on being asked why he did it, replied, " I have made a bad job of it," and that drink had done it. He was not, however, drunk at the time, but had been drinking for some days previous. Information of the occurrence was immediately con veyt d to Mr. Badger, of Rutherham, the cot oner for this district, who went and inspected the scene of the murder, and ordered the man, when he found in custody, to be removed to Rotherham gaol and carefully watched, where he now iemains vo await the coroner's inquest, which is to be held on the hod) to-morrow forenoon. The murder having been committed in the middle of the forenoon, and within one hundred yards of several houses and a very public highway, and without any provocation or apparent motive, has caused the utmost consternation, and leaves no doubt but that the perpetrator of it must at the time have been labouring under insanity.
The Sun. — 1847-07-29 (London, England)

WESTMINSTER.  Yesterday Joseph Sykes, a man about fifty years of age, described as a copper-plate printer, was charged with having attempted. to strangle his daughter, and with other conduct of a most atrocious character. _ _  Catharine Sykes, a very genteel-looking girl, about eighteen years of age, said that on the previous day she paid a visit to her parents at No. 6; Lewisham-street, Westminster. Between one and twoVelock in the afternoon her father. came home intoxicated and lay down for three orfour hours. On getting up he declared, with horrid imprecations, that if her (witness's) mother or brother, who were from home, came in, he would murder them. He then commenced throwing the things about the place, during which.time complainant sat motionless, fearful that he woul I attack her; nor were her apprehensions in this respect groundless, for after having broken a quantity of glass he seized a chair and was about hurting it at her, when she rose from her seat and took it out of his hands. He then declared in the most violent language that .he would be.. the death of her, grasped, her fereciousiy, by the throat and dragged her across the room. At first she screamed for assistance, but he ihen held her so'tightly that.she was unable any longer to do so. She felt.that she could scarcely breathe, and would have been strangled but that two persons, who had been attracted by her screams, broke into the apartment and 'released "her. • " ' Mr. BURRELL inquired what were-the general habits of the defendant ? The daughter, whose throat bore evidence of the extreme violence with which she had been treated, with tears in her eyes, replied, " It was hard for a child to speak against her parent;; when sober her father was extremely irritable ; when drunk, which she was sorry to say was of frequent occurrence, exceedingly violent." . The police constable who took the prisoner into custody said, he appeared to have been drinking, but evidently knew very well what he was about. Defendant, who appeared to have. much difficulty in restraining himself, even before the magistrate, said, he had been drinking on the previous afternoon, and he had no doubt his daUghter must hive provoked him by preventing his taking some glasses out to pawn., to procure more liquor, which he- had a right to .do if he liked. A good deal had been said about his habits, and he should like to have his son called. • Mr. BURRELL acceded to his request.  A respectable looking young mail, with evident reluctance, stepped into the witness box. In answer to the inquiries of Mr. Taylor, the chief clerk, he said, that his father, who had been in the habit for years of drinking very freely, was extremely violent, and frequently ilttreated his mother. When sober he made use of the most disgusting language in the presence of his young children, and had been for years the terror of his family. It was only a .few days since that he beat his wife severely, .and repeatedly took up knives and threatened to murder his family. Mr.
The Sun. — 1847-06-09 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. The man whose name is said to be Hill, and who was remanded to this day from the 28th of Ma), upon the charge of being concerned, with Ann Cleveland, in the murder of a male infant, her offspring, was again brought before Mr. Jardine this morning, and Mrs. Cleveland herself was placed at the bar with him for the first time. She appeared to be exceedingly weak, and was therefore allowed to sit down during the whole of the examination. On being asked by Mr. Burnaby, the chief clerk, whether he still persisted in his refusal to give his name, the male prisoner replied that he did. The evidence given on the several former examine Lions was repeated at somewhat greater length, and taken down in the form ce depositions. Mr. Brooking, in cross-examination by Mr. Wolff, said that the death of the child might, as tar as he could judge from the appearance of the body, have been occasioned by the pressure of the bedclothes, &c., ii placed over the face. Anything that would so cover the mouth and nose as to prevent respiration would, of course, produce suff 'cation; and there was nothing in the appearance of the body to show that the cause was other than accidental. The witness Harriett Swan, who on former occasions gave her evidence with great clearness and distinctness, now hesitated very much, and on being asked the reason of this change, replied, " Why I feel so queer this morning—l feel as if I could hardly speak." At one part of her evidence she became so confused that she was obliged to stop to collect herself, and it was some time before she became sufficiently composed to go on with her evi. dence. One of the witnesses (Jane Johnson) said that after giving her evidence at the inquest she remembered a fact which she had not before stated, viz., that on one occasion when Mrs. Cleveland was speaking to her about the child (then unborn) she observed that she was sorry she had not killed the child, and that she would have done so had she not feared the consequences. On the conclusion of the examination (which lasted for four hours), Mr. Wolff addressed the magistrate, endeavouring to show that there was no sufficient case against either of the prisoners to justify their committal. Mr. JARDINE said, that as there was nothing against the man but the fact that he was seen to leave the house with some appearance of concealment, which could easily charge h be accounted for under the circumstances, he would disim. There was much force in Mr. Wolff' s observations on the case as it referred to the female prisoner, but he considered the case required investigation, and he would commit her for trial. On hearing this decision the male prisoner immediately left the dock, pushing rudely by the female prisoner, who looked imploringly in his face, and said something in a low tone,:of which he took no notice. Mrs. Cleveland, who appeared very mush agitated, was then ,removed, the witnesses having been bound over to prosecute at the Central Criminal Court.
The Sun. — 1847-04-19 (London, England)

EXECUTION OF CATHERINE FOSTER FOR POISONING HER HUSBAND THREE WEEKS AFTER MARRIAGE.—HER CONFESSION. BURT ST. EDMUNDS, SATURDAY.—The wretched convict, Catherine Foster, condemned to death by the Chief Baron Pollock at the late Suffolk Assizes, for the murder of her husband three weeks after marriage, by poisoning a dumpling with arsenic, expiated her dreadful offence this morning on the scaffold adjacent to the county gaol in this town. ThoSe persons who have perused the evidence adduced at the trial have doubtless been at a loss to conceive the motive that could have induced her to destroy her husband, whom she had apparently loved from a child, and now that her life has been justly forfeited to the law, and her confession is published to the world, it will be found that it contains nothing that can be construed into a motive, and the reasons, therefore, which tempted her to commit the murder must remain enveloped in mystery. Earnest were the solicitations ot those whose duty it was to attend her after her condemnation that she should divulge the whole of the facts connected with the crime for which she was about to suffer; but although she made a frank avowial of her guilt, she studiously avoided alluding to any circumstance which might lead to the motive fur which she perpetrated the horrid deed. The following is a copy of her comfession:— " Bury Gaol, April 12, 1847. "To the Governor,—First of all I must confess th :t I am guilty, and very guilty ot this awful crime, and well deserve the death that I am condemned to die; and as I am soon to stand before my Heavenly , Judge, I wish to speak the truth. I am sorry to say I ebhoeumghistt, stluiedbuproyi,sotnhrenet d styhse beforeab()P lomf i xMe dr. it I:1111E1y; dumpling which I gave to my husband. It was served to me by a young man in the shop. Mr. Ely was not present ; had he been present he would have known me, as I had been frequently at his shop on errands for my mistress when I was at service. The act was.'entirely my own. No person persuaded me to it, and my mother had no knowledge or suspicion of it. I had no cause for complaint against my husband. Ile was always good and kind to me, but I never had any affection for him, and wished to go back to service. Ido not wish to live, for I never could be happy in this world, and,l hope, through the merits and blood of my Saviour, and a sincere repentance of this and all my sins, to obtain forgiveness of God, and to be received into Heaven. • I die at peace with all, having no 'complaint to make of any witness that appeared against me on my trial, and full of remorse for the crime which brings me to this premature death. I wish to express my grateful thanks to the Rev. SWmy.p\larveastii, the ministerchaplain oandf thee giatoelv.; the tr. REeyv. rel rf 0. r 0 ttthl eir great attention to my eternal interest, and for the spiritual hope and consolation I have received from their instructions and admonitions, I should wish Mr. Eyre to attend me in my last moments, and earnestly request that he will do so. (Signed)
The Sun. — 1847-04-19 (London, England)

GENEVESE TRAVELLER.  EXECUTION OF CATHERINE FOS TER FOR POISONING HER HUSBAND THREE WEEKS AFTER MARRIAGE.—HER CONFESSION. BURY ST. EDMUNDS, SATURDAY.—The wretched convict, Catherine Foster, condemned to death by the Chief Baron Pollock at the late Suffolk Assizes, for the murder of her husband three weeks atter marriage, by poisoning a dumpling with arsenic, expiated her dreadful offence this morning on the scaffold adjacent to the county gaol in this town. Those persons who have perused the evidence adduced at the trial have doubtless been at a loss to conceive the motive that could have induced her to destroy her husband, whom she had apparently loved from a child, and now that her life has been justly forfeited to the law, and her confession is published to the world, it will be found that it contains nothing that can be construed into a motive, and the reasons, therefore, which tempted her to commit the murder must remain enveloped in mystery. Earnest were the solicitations of those whose duty it was to attend her after her condemnation that she should di% ulge the whole of the facts connected with the crime for whice she was about to suffer; hut although she made a frank avowal of her guilt, she studiously avoided alluding to any circumstance which might It ad to the motive for which she perpetrated the horrid deed. Thu following is a copy of her comfession:— " Bury Gaol, April 12, 1947. "To the Governor,—First of all I must confess th .1 I am guilty, and very guilty of this awful crime, and well deserve the death that I am condemned to die; and as I am soon to stand before my Heavenly Judge, Iwish to speak poisonspeaktt the shop of Mr. 11. Ely, truth. I am sorry to say I bought chemist, Sudbury, three days before I mixed it in the dumpling which I gave to my husband. It was served to me by a young man in the shop. Mr. Ely was not present ; had he been present he would have known me, as I had been frequently at his shop on errands for my mistress when I was at service. The act was entirely my own. No person persuaded me to it, and my mother had no knowledge or suspicion of it. I had no cause for complaint against my husband. He was always good and kind to me, but I never had any affection for him, and wished to go back to service. Ido not wish to live, for I never could be happy in this world, and I hope, through the merits and blood of my Saviour, and a sincere repentance of this and all my sins, to obtain forgiveness of God, and to be received into Heaven. I die at peace with all, having no complaint to make of any witness that appeared against me on my trial, and full of remorse far the crime which brings me to this premature death. I wish to express my grateful thanks to the Rev. W. West, the chaplain of the giatolv; i‘tihre REe.vr.eMrfo.rOttthleyi•, heir my parish minister ; I have received hope and consolation from their ingreat attention to m_yaleitderntialel inttre.st, 'and) for' the spiritualons and admonitions, I should wish Mr. Eyre to sattendtruc ti me in my last moments, and earnestly request nCht y'ek rr Te , finnEa Igovernor.ll llelsl leave
The Sun. — 1847-09-10 (London, England)

LOUTH, LINCOLNSHIRE, SEPT. S.—Yesterday the examination of a young woman, charged with e murder of her infant daughter, was resumed be a full bench of magistrates at the Town Hall. l'!:°, '' ' prisoner, whose name is Ellen Tuxford, aged years, is a fine, handsome looking female. VP° being plaeed in the dock the following adduced evidence 105 : fo Superintendent Tracey said—From inrtnation which I received respecting the prisoner I was?), duced to make inquiry at the Louth vvorkhouse, rirDer" I learned that the prisoner, who had for some timie been an inmate, had there been delivered of a felt child about five weeks before, and that she left t': house on the 25th of August, stating that eh° vhs,; going to Thol by. I traced her to Thorby, but 5 , had no child with her. Upon going to the hei,u6a where she was staying she denied that that l'ae had a child. I did not therefore at that VII' take her into custody. Finding that she had Aft_frA herself absented herself from the house and secre,7.., .er:elf in another, I gave orders for iier appreheult sion, and went in search of the child. The reifo, ofa this inquiry was, that I traced the prisoner!ni in s Houghton, on the Spilby road, with the uh'lild her possession, beyond which all trace of tbe e"or was lost. The prisoner was there seen, a pond with what appeared to be an infant 10 , arms. Upon the apprehension of the prisonte'tha asked her if she would state what had become 'own child, to which she replied that it had been Or opt into a pond by a man whom she had died,to that for which she said that the child had and oson, she was crying ; that the man asked her the red get she told him, upon which he said he WORld s°°- -WI over that for her, and then areal the child it!'te° ,na pond. I then went, continted the conetilui:t vas searched the pond, where. I found the child ~:onerig, quite naked, and I afterwards searched the Pr' were house, where I found the child's clothes ; 01 been WO hquididteenwineta, and spotted with blood ; they de A Psi Mr. Bogg, surgeon, of Louth, saidl !lid. One isrl,doertoenceietsxammoiuntahtiwonasocfutthieoebaoyd,y of the chlon f the in the abdomen, which had eviden tongue had been cut out. There were severs 0 by tiy been road the sc' scissors which were found 0° • the By the B h r enc..--... am quite certain _ ' I attribute the cut out while the child was alive' although the delmmediate cause of death to drowillngi the ininriee which it had received. ceased wou'il never have recov'eanredd bose tier Several other witnesses were e fxbalEirilietni:tueicribTige:°;ll:(l3e: timonyprisoe prisoner corroborated t remanded.he abo I e gr. before An inquest has been held on the bodit ; co well F. Gae, and notwithstanding. tbe uhcle 'f/1-4, Will° Murder orn to, the jury returned a verdict (:0 ~.0 against some person or persons thltillw facts, after Yi
The Sun. — 1847-04-20 (London, England)

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Saturday evening, about seven o'clock, two horsebreakers in the service of Mr. Wragg, liverystable keeper in Finsbury. were exercising a young and high-spirited horse in a gigbreak through Worship-street, when the animal became alarmed at the noise of a cab behind it and started off with frightful velocity. The men exerted every nerve to check the horse's career, as the streets were filled with people and children in the greatest consternation, but the frightened brute dashed on wholly beyond control through Worship-square and into Clifton- street South, where it verged from the road and whirled the break like a feather along the foot pavement the whole length of the street. The passengers rushed in terror across the road and into the houses, and a painter, who was upon a ladder, painting the front of a house had barely time to pitch himself off his ladder when the break knocked it down and went over it, sweeping its owner's clothes as it passed with the wheel, and the next instant knocked down a little boy ten years of age, the son of a labourer, and passed over his body. The poor little fellow was picked up seriously injured, with the blood pouring from his mouth and ears, and conveyed to his parent's residence, and the horse meantime continued its career along the pavement, the daiver tugging with all his strength at the rein to get him into the road, but uselessly, as the next instant it dashed is the corner of a baker's window, and, bounding off again, came into such violent contact with an iron post in the kerb, that the post and three large flagstones were torn out of the pavement and scattered about, and the two men in the break dashed out of it. One of them fortunately escaped with only a few bruises, but the other (the driver was raised up in a state of total insensibility, and apparently dead, and carried to the house of a neighbouring surgeon. The horse then went on down Cliftonstreet North, which is terminated by a high brick wall, forming the .back of ,some manufacturing premises, and on finding itself checked by this obstruction, turned swiftly round and dashed into a private house at the bottom, the door of which it burst open; and here, having got clear of the harness, which was broken in pieces, it ran along the passage till it finally fell upon the staircase, apparently without injury. But small hopes are entertained of the child's recovery. THE Boy D EA.N. —This ill-fated youth (only thirteen years of age), whose name is so notorious from his alleged participation in the murder of the " blacking_ boy; at Greenheys, was yesterday brought up at the New Bailey sessions, on a charge of obtaining, at Heaton Norris, On the 15th of March, by false and fraudulent pretences, a quantity of money, flour, and groceries, the property of Hiram Wakefield. He was found guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Lancaster Castle, and was ordered to be once whipped. He is also to be kept in solitary confinement for fourteen days.—Manchester Courier.