Runcorn and Widnes Examiner. — 1873-08-23 (Runcorn, Cheshire, England)

LIVERPOOL ASSIZES. A LIVERPOOL MURDERER.  At the Liverpool assizes, on Monday, John Connor was found guilty of the murder of James Gaffney, in Liverpool, on the 11th inst., by stabbing, and was sentenced to death. The prisoner was beating a woman, when deceased interfered. The prisoner at once drew a knife and stabbed Gaffney in the neck, death ensuing.  In reply to some inquiries and a subsequent intimation as to the improbability of their agreeing, by the jury, the Judge said it is your bounden duty to agree to a verdict, and you will have to stay until you do agree. You will find that lam the last person in England to allow a jury, who are bound to decide aocording to law, to depart from the jury box without giving a verdict. You are bound to discuss the matter between you. Any gentleman who will not argue the matter grossly betrays the duty which the country has imposed upon him. It is the bounden duty of any gentleman, finding himself in a large minority, to discuss the matter fairly with the other jurymen, and he must be :very careful indeed before he presumes to say that his opinion must be right, and all the others wrong.  The jury again retired, and after an absence of about half an hour they returned into court, and the foreman stated that they found the prisoner guilty of murder.  The Judge, in passing sentence of death, said—The jury, by a conscientious, and a just, and a right verdict, have found you guilty of • wilful murder. Although they have taken considerable time to consider your case, they have conScientfously been obliged to reject that mitigation which was put to them—that you have been guilty of manslaught. They have found you 'gtiifty-of slaying a man with a deadly weapon, without any provocation whatever. You had brutally ill-used a defenceless woman, and when a man, doing simply his duty as a citizen, spoke to you on the subject, and endeavoured by mere speech to interfere, you, with a cruel and cowardly brutality—that brutality which has become the crying vice of this country—at one drew a knife and struck him a deadly blow. Not content with one blow, you were about to strike the man when he was on the ground again, and immediately afterwards you struck another man with the same deadly weapon, and it was nothing but the mercy of God that saved that man's life. You, therefore, have been found guilty of a wicked, a brutal, a cowardly, and an unpardonable murder, and you must meet your doom, and I tell you honestly and fairly that I can -ee no mitigating circumstances in your case, and I can see no hope myself for you. I can only recommend you to make w-e of the short time that is now before you to ask for that mercy which you refused to that man time to ask for himself. You must go to your account, after warning, and with time. His lordship then passed sentence of death in the usual form.  The prisoner, who throughout appeared perfectly unmoved, was immediately taken from the dock.  Eruptions of the skin, scurvy, bad legs, scrofulous sores, &c., are oured speedily by Jones's Heal-all or Every Man's Friend. The most wonderful applications known for every kind of sores. Bail legs of above twenty years' standing have been completely cured by it in two or three weeks. It subdues inflammation in a few hours, and soothes pain very quickly. Scury i y disappears as if by magic under its influence, and all eruptions of the skin. For sore nipples, gathered breasts, inflamed eyes, ringworms, ulcers, burns, scalds, boils, pimples, piles, and for wounds of all de,cnptions it is recommended with thorough confidence by the proprietors, who feel assured that one trial will convince the most sceptical of its value. In all cases of scurvy, eruptions of the skin, blotches, pimples, old sores, bad legs, &c., Jones's 8100d-purifying Mixture should be taken whilst using the Heal-all Ointment, as it will thoroughly cleanse and clear the blood from all impurities, assist nature to throw off disease, and consequently causes sores to heal healthily, purifies the blood from scurvy, pimples, &c., and promotes a healthy action of the skin. Prepared only by W. Jones, and C., operative chemists, 1;57, Great Howardstreet, Liverpool. The Heal-all Ointment, sold in pots' is. lid., 28. 9d., and 4s. 6d.; Blood-purifying Mixture, in bottles, 2s. 6d., 48. 6d., and 10s. 6d. Agents :—War: rington : Mr. T. W. Topping, Bridge-street, and Mr. Whitby, 123, Bridge-street. Widnes : Mr. Read, 36, Waterloo-road. Runcorn: Mr. Marshall, chemist. Altrincham ! Mr. T. W. TOWIIIIOa, BuivdonDow • /111 sad all olmnisti.