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The Sun. — 1852-04-19 (London, England)

MOTHER AND SON CONDEMNED TO DEATH FOR POIRONING.—At Inverness, on Thursday, before Lord Cockburn, Sarah Anderson or Frazer, aged 40, and her son, James Frazer, aged 17, were arraigned for the murder of William Frazer (the husband of one of the prisoners, and father of the other), by administering poison to him. The deceased was an innkeeper at Inverness, and was upwards of sixty years of age. In the course of last September he was suddenly taken ill with violent vomiting and purging, and in a few days died. At the time his death did not excite surprise, The body was buried as usual, but in a few days certain reports got in circulation as to the deceased's fate. The body was then disinterred, and the contents of the stomach being analyzed, it was found that he had died from arsenic. Inquiries ascertained that the femalehad obtained a quantity of that p tat oison about the period h i of the death of the deceased, on the plea d wellwas to kill a swarm of rats, which infested he ing. About this same time she remarked to eareighhour that she had the whole burden of everything person in and that if she were a widow there would She h added, that she Ross-shire happier than she would be. 5 and that her busere due, was distressed about debts that w that if she was a widow lenito to herself, bunds did not know of them; p his mother, having with bis father, and in his people would be more ready tOB spoken of as being on bad termsdto befriend her. The son was the to hear that he hEL, b following passages:— , box were found letters addsruieleon7 "II yto Heaven that 1 ' e. but Pra wi andon hayed so ill too ou, pr to release you from the tyrant to have it in my Pciii, kindness." "I wish the' world were repay him for pall of such a persecutor of women." rid of such a men ished my father' others have W s death as well as I, Many ve any spirit, you will not be lona in your present ,if Y I"seeing you have - --t, -condition, every adva r " ntai,e. After present bened trial, they wQre very lengt foundguilty,a to mercy. His Lordship „ but recommended p passed the usual sentence, holding out no hope. PORTLAND 13REAliNVAT ER, APRIL, -. 185'1 —The works are proceeding in a most • tend 1,900 feet from the satisfactory manner, and extend Shore • the stage erected for the urpose of depositing the stone has' P a frontage of 240 feet, the piles composing It afeet in length, an re 82 and the iron shoes affixed to the end for screwing them into their places, weigh upwards of halt a ton each. The piles are required of this length, the depth of now reached being 10 fathoms. The stone water at the part rat. of _,_ _ is deposited at the ra • 1290 to per day, such is the stupendous nature of the works in Fro. greas And now amiTely dimplayQd hi their MCltti9ll.
The Sun. — 1852-07-01 (London, England)

DREADFUL MURDER AT SAWLEY. (From the Derby Mercury of yesterday.) On the eve of our going to preps, we have received information of a fearful crime which was perpetrated yesterday (Tuesday), at a lone cottage in the neighbourhood of Sawley. The particulars which we have at present been able to obtain are necessarily very meagre; but, from what we can gamer, the following is something like an outline of the facts i— t,: appears that an elderly couple, of the name of Waters or Walters, lived in a solitary cottage upon Mr. Thompson's farm, in the laEe between Sawley and Wilne, and about midway from either place. The husband, a labourer, was employed in hoeing turnips on the farm, and his wife—a woman of about 60 years of age—had been, in the morning, to Dreycott, shopping. See must, on her return, have found the culprit in the cottage, for the flour and other articles which she had been purcitaeing were found on the door-step outside; and the supposition is that she had found the murderer in the act of plundering the house, and that he mint immediately have commenced the attack upon her. Some boys were in the neighbourhood at the time, and one of them, about 14 or 15 years old, hearing a noise, went to the cottage, where he saw a strange man beating the poor old woman with a hatchet or some other heavy weapon. Thu man caught sight of him, and said ho would stick him; and the boy immediately ran off to Wilne Mills to give an alarm. A number of people immediately hastened from thence, and on their arrival they found the windows and furniture of the house had been smashed, and the strange man was still inside. A woman had also seen him beating the poor creature, and had gone away alarmed ; and another boy, who had turned back from his associate, had seen him carry the body across the yard. He had, however, found time to bury the body in a dung-heap, but a portion of one leg remained uncovered, which led to its discovery. The murderer had placed an inverted trough over his head. He resisted for some time boy threw a stone all ingress into the cottage; but a throughand one hit Chime window-panes which had been broken, over the eye, caueing a severe wound and knocking him down. He was at once seized and placed in safe custody, The body of the murdered female was quite cold when found. She appeared to have been dreadfully beaten about the head and face. The murderer is an entire stranger to the neighbourhood, and he refuses to give his name, hbeigahh.ouHt 2eshyadeanrso ocioda,tr waistcoat, though he says he comes from Suffolk. He appears to five fe et shoes,eeven ororei but he wore a checked shirt and trousers. The dreadgs ht ot ciknienhgess, Ail occurrence seems to have taken place about half-past one o'clock in the afternoon. A hatchet was afterwards found in th© yard. The floor of the house was covered with blood, and some human hair was found on the wall. He refused to say anything about the crime, but appeared to the byatanders either drunk or insane. We understand that Mr. Whiston, coroner for the district, received information of the off offence in the evening,and that he at once proceeded to Sawley.  A
The Sun. — 1852-04-12 (London, England)

APRIL 19. bacon and pudding. On the way coming from the qu,ry t,o flour, but holders station-house I noticed blood on the prisoner's hands sent quotations. under the nails (the blood was still visible on the prisoner's hands when he was in court). He said. " I have only partially washed them, but if you wish it I shall wash them cleaner." Charles Toms, 1, Durham•place, carpet bag manufacturer—Before Mrs. Phillips came down to me this morning I heard a great noise. That was about half-past or a quarter-past eleven. I was then in the shop at work. Immedimely afterwards Mrs. Phillips came down, and rfquired nie to go up, and said she thought something would happen, as there was a great noise upstairs; but I did not go up then. I ran down to my brother and he said, " I shall go up and pull the lx-11 violently." He did so, and then prisoner carne down, and went out. Then my wife went up, and called out, "He has murdered her !" and I then made off after him. I saw him crossing by the cab-rank at the time in the Lambeth-road, and followed him until I saw a policeman, near Kennington-lane. I told the policeman of it, and charged him with the murder. I then went home and saw the body. His mother was always very kind to the prisoner. The prisoner is well educated. At times he is rational, but at other times he is not. I think he must have listened when his mother was talking about removing him, ani think that was the cause of it all. He frequently talked to himself.  e. d , e. d  Wheat, per 701 b English, white ,• 6 6 to 6 8 Do. red .. 6 0 —6 3 Irish • • •• 5 6 5 8 Manx, red and wh. 5 8 6 0  Dantsic, high mixed 6 10 7 0 Do., mixed • • .. 6 4 6 6 American & r white 6 6 6 8 Canadian, tred 5 8— 6 0  Rostock, &c: .. 6 4 6 91 ilmnburgh, &c. •• 5 8 5 10  Rhenish  6 0 - 6 2  French  5 10 -f; 2  Danish & ,tein 5 6 5 107  Odessa, Polish •• 5 6 5  Do., common. .. 5 2 5 4  Do, hard • • 410 5 2  Egyptian • .. 4 6—4 16 Flour, English &  Irish, per 28011 28 0 —3O 0 Do., extra line 31 0 —34 0 French, fancy •• 33 0— 36 0 Do., superfine . 30 0 —32 0 Ricl.mond, choice 2'2 0 —24 0  Philadelphia, &c. 20 0 —2O 6 Canadian •• 20 0 —2l 0  radian corn, per  ....._ The prisoner—l have been in the habit of talking to myself. The witness—His mother was a beautiful woman, and stood sft. 10in. or Mc. 1 lin. higb. She was always very kind to him. When he has been very bad she has threatened to put him away. He has been in Bedlam eleven months, and seven months in an asylum at Wandsworth. He has been in Brazil, and had a sun-stroke as he was crossing the Line. He had a salary of 3001. a year, and he can speak three or four different languages. (A letter found amongst the prisoners papers contained several allusions to poison and madness.) The case was then remanded till Wednesday, when the prisoner will be brought up again ; but before then a coroner's inquest will be held on the body. The proceedings, which occupied upwards of two hours, terminated shortly before five o'clock.  "if
The Sun. — 1852-06-17 (London, England)

WIGHT MAN)  MURDER..—Guiseppe lienwrino, an Italian, aged 20, described as a sailor, and Emanuel Ant°la, another Italian, aged 22, also described us a sailc• were indicted for the wilful murder of llamas Marley. • Mr. Bodkin, with whom was Mr. Clarke, conducted the • prosecution; tied Mr. Parry appeared for the defence. It appeared from the opening statement of the Learned Counsel for the prosecution, that some few weeks ago, on a Sunday night, the 30th of May, the two prisoners and the deceased were at the Three Crowns public.house, in East Smithfield, near the docks, and while they were there the deceased accidentally upset some liquor, but he retired in ordei that . there should be no disturbance, as the two prisoners seemed disposed to quarrel with him. He therefore repaired. to the One Crown public-house, • which stands at the corner of One Bear-alley, it pi aea of a very low description, and occupied by neforiously-bad characters. Thither the two prisoners followed him, and some women coming upon the scene a row ensuiel in consequence of one of the prisoners having threatened to spit in the face of a female cohabiting with 'a men named Tenison. Tenisois, however,  who was drunk, was bodily carried into the • street by a friend named Connelly, assisted by the deceased. The prisoners were soon afterwards aeon in the street, and another disturbance takicer place, the police came up and drove them away. It was late at night, but, in,vertheless, • after the police had disappeared Tenison returned to the court and joined the prisoners again. They renewed the previous quarrel, and Connelly once more interfered to get him away, but the prisoner Antole, who had armed himself with a poker, felled him to the ground, as he was in the set of taking Tenisen with both arms round the waist. The deceased, Marley, who witnessed the terrible assault, rushed upon Antole, to prevent his repeatieg, the blow, and while he was restraining him the other prisoner, Remorino, advanced to the spot, when Antola handed him a huge clasp-knife, which Remorino opened and deliberately stabbed the deceased in the lower part of the abdomen. The prisoner then decamped, while the deceased fell senseless to the ground. He was, , however, taken up by some of his companions, and as he was found to be dreadfully bleeding from the wound which the knife had inflicted, he was conveyed to the London Hospital, where he lingered for a few hours in great agony and then died. It would seem that all the parties were drunk at die time of the occurrence, and in the early part of the night the deceased and one of the prisoners had a stand. up fight about some drink which had been given to a prostitute, and in the course of the encounter the prisoner received a severe punishment and a black eye. Counsel having addressed the jury for the prisoners, The Learned JUDGE summed up, when The jury, after deliberating for a short time, retired and returned into coast with a verdict of Manslaughter against both prisoners. ,7;;The COURT then sentenced them to two years' imprisonment with hard labour.
The Sun. — 1852-05-28 (London, England)

SENTENCING A BRITISH SUBJECT TO DEATH  BY A FOREIGN POWER. Lord DUDLEY STUART wished to ask the Noble Inrd the Under-Secretary for the Colonies a question of which ho had given notice, namely, whether the attention of Government had been called to the case of Mr. Murray, a gentleman of English descent, whose ancestors had served in the British army, and who himself had held a commission under the Crown. This gentleman, after being imprisoned for a period of two years in Rome, had suddenly been brought to trial before a secret tribunal, and sentenced to death for a political offence. Now, what he wanted to know was, whether the Government intended to take stops to prevent that sentence being put in force?—(Hear, hear.) Lord STANLEY said it was quite true what the Noble Lord had stated. Mr. Murray was a British subject, and had formerly served in the army of Rome under the Republic. He exchanged that position,huwever,for the office of-head police agent under the Republic at Ancona, and while he filled that situation several murders took place of persons who had been favourable to the cause of the Pope. It was thought at the time that Mr. Murray had connived at these murders, and he was arrested, but afterwards liberated. At the fall, however, of the Republic he was again arrested, and remained in prison two years and four months, at the expiration of which time he was brought to trial for the previous offence, and sentenced to death. This came to the knowledge of Mr. More, the British agent at Ancona, and he, together with Mr. Freeborn, the consul at Rome, sent home to the Government a history of the whole case. Instructions were immediately returned to them directing them to make an -effort to obtain his liberation in the event of their believing that he was innocent of the crime imputed to him, or, on the other hand, to plead for a mitigation of his sentence. The unfortunate gentleman had since been removed from Rome to Ancona, and efforts were now being made to prevent his sentence being carried into eff,ct.—(Hear.) Lord DUDLEY STUART asked if it was true that Mr. Murray was accused of a political offence only? Lord STANLEY said the accusation was that Mr. Murray had connived at murder, which was something greater than a political offence.—(Hear.) Mr. HUME asked if Mr. Murray was tried before a secret STANLEY said he was tried before a special Loibunal? HE wished to know if Mr. Murray remained soHOME long without any information of the fact beitnri xtbg tribunal. al . home STANLEY until sairecentlydaivtu ?ndoubtedly was so. trido nllt.o S T theUs4ulblitere g ingLoserdat Mr. ANSTEY said th e notice that he should call attention Lord the Secretary for again to-morrow.--(Hear, hear.) any actual co itoor.mFororroewignheAsfrhaoiurlsdwahskeththeer Government L Lord rd sT niannoduntilleation had taken place between the to the case of STANLEY considered would be better to Murray._ Governor of Ancona with regard Ydrcoopnstihdeersoudb siteheat.t for the present it In re 1
The Sun. — 1852-02-06 (London, England)

CRIMINAL COURT OLD COURT; 117- HIS DAY.) MURDER.—Jose Fur tozo Berdago, aged 30, described as a sailor, was indicted for the wilful Almon. murder of Junes Mr. Clarke and Mr, O'Brien appeared for the D prosecution; and Mr. Ballantine defended the prisoner. Mr. I;LARKE, having opened the case, proceeded to call the following witnesses:— Sarah Slater—l live at No. 29, Greenfield-street, Commercial-road. On Wednesday, the 7th of January, I went to the house, No. 109, New Gravel-lane, where I remained all day, and went to bed with a friend there. About two o'clock on the following morning two Spaniards and two women came in. One of the Spaniards was the prisoner. The woman did not remain long with them. I knew the deceased man Almon, and when they came in he was sitting by the fire. Besides the deceased there were two women sod my self la bed in the room which the Spaniards came into. There was also a woman named Mary Anne Smith there, but she was nor. in bed. She lived in the house with the deceased. Emily Willis was there, and Margaret D,movan and a man were up stairs. The man came down before the deceased was stabbed. As soon as the two women went away the. Spaniards spoke together and then gave Emily Willis two sixpences, making signs that they wanted something to drink. I went out and fetched some gin and beer, and the prisoner's companion asked the deceased to drink, but he refused. Atter that the Spaniards spike together in their own language and then went into the passage, whore they remained about two minutes. While they were there I beard some knives opening, and made an observation to that effect to the people in the room. In a moment afterwards the Spaniards returned with the knives in their hands, and Mary Ann Kerwin told the to go out and call police. I went to the street door and did so, but before I could call a second time the prisoner seized me by the hair of the head and dragged me into the room. The &ceased then got up with the intention of opening the windows, when kth., pprisoner raised h,, knee and stabbed him tn. the " . Almon cried "Oh dear, I am stabbed," and trunlc4c id over on his back. The two Spaniards then toil as their h' els, but I pursued the ptisoner, calling out Stop him ,k. hn'ek. P 'En," And he was ultimately seized and brought Cry ss-examined—l ra a maid of all work, out of a situation. I went to tahehout to see mid cousin Mary Ann Kerwin, but I did not know it was a brothel. I don't know what the girls wets who came to the door but they ea 4e wthieh house were unfortunate girls, by any of these peoplet a men. I saw nothing don, did I see any one raise at° provoke the Spaniards, nor that two of the girls, Smithpoker to them. Ido not know Who Om $9 ski d90;1 ctUcl Willis, were the two th, 441414 oulitb, who
The Sun. — 1852-07-20 (London, England)

MURDEROUS AFFRAY IN A ASYLUM. LUNATIC  death had died On Saturday Mr. William Bilker, the coroner, held a pro tracted investigation' at the Red House Lunatic Asylum, oCfa mvirbi rl iiidagme Clioerak, ,h -argoeadd ,4 3 Be, tah np an I;pgerre einu, n at otiucc, livii I the p errs der e e n afternoon,cai lcalling in that institution .from severe injuries which he had received from the violence of two other patients. etehe garden he disWilliam Davis. a keeper, shad thai on Thu ,a,ffrteirurtdoeurr,,,oa'cnidocokn, gwoiitnngesadownstairtshientko covered two of the lunatics (Price and Nye holding the deceased on the ground. One was kicking was striking him with his fists. Green, ilia', and the other the deceased, and was lying on the the keeper, was near bruised' about the bead. ground fit, and when witness first reachedeeased said, .. If it had not been for our assistance The de Ilde,haanvde was seemingly in a the spot the two lunatics been murdered by cork.. nGdreinensewnsoiub was called, and pronounced Mr. Miller, the resident surgeon, keeper, Green, was carried intothe . deceased to be dead. The a quarter of an hour had the house, and recovered after elapsed and stimulants were administered. His left eye itness had great Was much swollen and blackened. off the deceased . ,difficulty in pulling the enraged lunatics James Green said that he had been keeper in the asylum seventeen years, a care during the t• and that the deceased had been under his me he was an inmate. Deceased had often Asked witness to I r the frequently tor keys, as .he wished to get out, and stealing eup his clothes, also having a propensity for articles 'afternoon la from the other .patients. On Thursday other st witness had charge of the deceased and two lunatics. The deceased suddenly turned round and w.am struck. R by the on .the side of the head and tripped him up .. e heels, wher -et. on the deceased fell upon witness and struck him in the face four times. Witness called "Murder," and afterwards became Insensible. witness had suffered considerably from the bruises on the head and loins from the violence of the deceased, and would have been killed but for the timely aid of the two patients. Th 6 witness, in answer to the jury, stated that he was 73 years of age, and usually had charge of about 20 patients, There were 520 insane persons in the asylum at the present time. The CORONER said it was a marvellous thing that events of such a tragical nature.were not more prevalent in such asylums. He bad not been, called into that establishment for two years, which was a great ln proof of the excellent ner in which the institution was conducted. an. After come consultation the jury unanimously -special verdict, reciting the facts. returned a  A welsh paper saes that during the last few days t?), withtb cocoa the beach has been covered nuts,which have been Washed ashore in great numbers. beach in the neighbourhood of Ten  T AE A R.M Y
The Sun. — 1870-05-21 (London, England)

DUNVILLE & 0.. Royal Irish Dis" tilleries, Belfast ; or at their London Offices, 4, Besaffort Buildingot strand, W.C.  That was the Frenchman who had called the  (Aber night. fly Mr. Self° —I could see a little difference' I picked the prisoner out. I picked the prisoner out as the nephe:'. -When be looked at me he bad his spectacles on, and myre),° sight is .not good. -He seldom looked at me. 'The Frenel man told me he was the nephew. Air.prisot rierms,haser rothperres e mt.ved. nclonntoanpluvthtali gthucesbtiocxn,LLeutehienrg the  Mr. Selfe was satisfied with the evidence. The evidence of Henry Piper the carman was read over. Cross-examined by Mr. Hutchinson—l noticed he vr:o3 little in liquor; he talked like a I renclonao ; le said , ra was a Frenchman. He did not help nie to lift the tried to cord it. He did not lift it ; I tried to do it without' He was close by the box; I got some blood at the corner °I my apron ; there was none till he put his coat an it. 1)0 Dr. llyder's evidence was read over relative to hutting body of Boss dead in the box. k  . Joseph Cole, 19 ; T, repeated his evidences Mr. John Carter recalled—l did not know ;here 11'0,3 will in existence. I called at Mr Heuliu's on the Tuesd".l. aft, r I bad beard information. The police were not thert:. I could not find him if he was murdered. I made curdle inquiries, and went with the police. I did not switch fexecutor:3 will ! (emphatically). I did not say I was the executor theihquest. I now know dime is a will ; that will is 11 ar missing ; I know it is found. Other witnesses were called but not cross-examined Atbi the legal gentleman for the defence, between whom andr cello en unseemly scene, occurred relative to the cent:nab: lion of the witness Myddleton from what she stated inquest. 6ergeant Large, 1 T R —Evidence read, and gave the, falf lowing additional :—Going up stairs I found a quantity oi .bed clothes tied up, pillows, bolsters, blankets, &C. 7 ili received a bunch of keys found on the prisoner, one of Iv '— unlocked the 1)3( in which the deceased woman was. his James Smith, the plumber, was called, and repeat, d 110 evidence of the prisoner expressing a desire to have money of the deceased gentleman and his servant. Cross-examined—l sa d I would like to have the botr; keei,er's money. Prisoner did not charge me With stetw'rt paint. About lid worth of whiting and size. I never did 1 but once. I didnot have 100 lbs. tie did not say v"s„ • stealing the property. I was not discharged, and 'vtli not angry. Mr. lleuline saw the size open, ant prisoner said I opened it. I did not hear It at the inque' to my knowledge. After the recalling of other witnesses, Mr. Selfe sad 11° should fully commit theprisoner on bothcharges. at tbe