The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1879-05-17 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE BOLTON MURDER.—The condemned man, During an aft', ay between some English and Willi .m Cooper. now under sentence of death in Irish labourers at Sherburn, near Leeds, on Sirmagew ye Gaol, Manchester, for the murder of Saturday night, an old man named Wilkieson was a barmaid at Bolton, was on Saturday knocked clown and kicked to death. visited by his brother and sister-in-law and by six A heavy thunderstorm passed over Birmingham of his friends. On the departure of his friends the on Wednesday morning. The lightning streck a fortitude ot the condemned man gave way, and he hut in which some men were sheltering, kitting wept bitterly. His wife and family will have their two of them, and injuring a third, final inter view with, him this week. The date of Owing to the depressed state of trade and the execution has not yet transpired, but it will pro. consequent paucity of crime in the burgh, the town Way be al oraday or Tuesday next. council of Inverkeithing, Fifeshire, has resolved to A POLITICAL Iteritosracr BY Loan Geerevirtex.— dispense with the borough police. Earl Granville, speaking on Tuesday, at the Another meeting of representatives of the annul meeting of the British and Foreign School ' Durham coal, wners and the miners was held at Society, sail ait Was now forty-three years since he Newcastle on Wednesday, when it was agreed to himself had entered the House of Commons, and refer the dispute to arbitration. there was a marked contrast between the state of The five poachers in custody at Leeds on the education DOW and then. During the last forty charge of murdering Peter Hill, one of the game- years so ma, y grievances had been redressed that keepers in the employ of Colonel Gascoigne, were they had not now so many clients clamorously on Tuesday com.nitted for trial. h wling, he might say, for support. Of this he James Mudhearn who was attacked by John was CVitiCOli, that so bung as men were will ng to Branner, on Saturday OD night, near Newcastle, ex- do good work there would be plenty for them to pired on Wednesday atternoon. Blamer was do, both in social and political life. charged with wilful murder at Newcastle on THE RICRSIOND Mtateett.-0 .the hie Webster Thursday. was ;again brought up before the Richmond Bench Ihe Prince of Wales has consented to open free on eaturda), charged with the wilful invader of time remaining toll bridges across the Thames, on Mrs. Jule Martha Thomas, at Park-road, Rich. Saturday, the 24th inst The bridges are known mond, on or before the '2nd of March last. The as Lambeth, Vauxhall, Chelsea Suspension, Albert, prisoner, who has suffered somewhat of late from and Battersea. ill health, was brought into court at half-past ten The Scotsman publishes a list of names of faggot o'clock, and took her seat in front of the bench. voters, by which, it says, the Tories swamp the She maintained her usual composure, though legitimate electors of Peebles and Selkirk shires, during her incarceration she has shown considerIn the former county alone, the constituency of able agitation. The prisoner listened attentively which numbers 859, there are 149 faggot voters, to the reading of the depasitions, which was proA young woman named French was charged ceeded with. 'After some further cross-examinabefore the magistrates' of Ottery St. Mary Bench, tion of the witness, the remaining depositions were on Monday, wii,h the wilful murder of her illegiti- read, aid the tourt stood adjourned. mate child. The prisoner said she was '.mazed "