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The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1849-08-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

APPREHENSION OF MRS. MANNING IN EDINBURGH.  _ received on the 11th c. ay add, that we -.A regarding other lying in London. he utmost credit is due to Precision with which he has ^vi, he having  (Prom the Scotsman We are enabled to announce,' -every reason to'  The been make On tion •  Maria Moxey cased of but Mr.  posseesion I belief of  the murder, Possession documents the wife of Frederick Bums in money :-73 e of England notes—one I. Si! ten pound nc Nos. 67,376, and 78,378. She was at her luggage, ek paratory to her Information to the police au the notes, &c., Moxe that five ( had been himself, m We may obtained r  now Tni , and pre( unfortunate woman,  a person who, there  as we ha advisable  consequent induced  A inquiries . ___4l information as Fallon, criminal officer, at in Haddington Place yr there for Mrs. Smith ( - Mrs. Manning had a room in which he found a - a copying of the in which is given an of the parties supposed <trance of this per, N had found the  e party murderess  some conversation -.ion of that name This -' she denied, d searched  , along with to prison p  believe information has also been • luggage belonging to the prisoner, Mr. Moxey for the celerity is effected the capture of this received the message from  of Wednesday.) that a person believe, is one of the parties "concerned this atrocious murder, was apprehended here yesterday by Morey, our active and intelligent Superintendent of Polio ^ circumstances of the apprehension, as far able to learn, and as far as it is deemed them public at present, are as follows. Monday evening Mr. Morey receive/ Jn per electric telegraph from Inspector London, and in the course of his thereon Mr. Morey received such' him to Call, along with John V respectable lodging-house in forenoon. Upon inquiring which it was understood he was shown into a rouse dressed female reading newspaper of the 20th inst., )f the murder and a description ave committed it. From the appearance 'r. Morey at once concluded that he had whom he was in search, namely, the supposed de Rue or Manning. After some cony charged her as being the person of ' . the murder of Patrick O'Connor. Ar. Morey having taken of, -r luggage, had his previous her identity confirmed, by finding among her wearing apparel the scrip described in the advertisement regardii besides other scrip, &c. Ile also found in h proving beyond dbubt that she w George Manning, and the followb sovereigns, and the following Btu —one fifty-pound note, No. 11,037, notes, Nos. 67,372, 67,373, 67,374, 67,31 378, and one five pound note, No. 20,061. once taken to the Police-office, alo” and will to-day be committed ' ter being removed to London. .n of the capture was immediately telegraph authorities in London, with a description dm., found in her possession, subsequent to whi Mosey received notice from the London police authoriti of the identical Bank of England ten-pound noi it the Bank of England by Mannii current.
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1849-09-12 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.  FURTHER PARTICULARS.  Yesterday, another iinportant link to the evidence connecting the Mannings with the murder of O'Connor was discovered. It is well known that on Saturday, the 11th of August, Mrs. Manning hired a female to clean the lowar part of the house, No. 3, Minver Place; but although every exertion has been made by the police to discover the party they were unable until yesterday, when Burton, after considerable (difficulty, ascertained that a young girl was in the habit of attending several of the houses in the vicinity for the purpose of washing the steps and assisting the servants. He also heard from a neighbour that she was seen to enter Manning's at an early hour on Saturday morning. He accordingly made active inquiries about her, and yesterday he succeeded in finding her residing with her relations in Bermondsey. Her name is Harriet Fermer, and she informed the authorities that about 9 o'clock on Saturday morning, the 11th of August, Mrs. Manning called her into No. 3, Minver Place, and engaged her to clean the house. She cleaned the upper part, and found several spas like blood on the wall of the passage leading to the kitchen, which she endeavoured to wash off. After she had cleaned that portion of the place, she proceeded to the back kitchen, and was about to clean it, when Mrs. Manning came up to her and pulled her away, exclaiming, "I cleaned this place yesterday, and it don't want scrubbing any more." The girl says she saw a square basket in the back kitchen, covered with lime, which Mrs. Manning told her to wash. While she was performing that office she found that there was not water sufficient. Consequently she left it as discovered by Burton. During the time she was in the house that day Mrs. Manning went out two or three times, and about 12 o'clock at noon Manning came down stairs, and stamped his foot violently as if in a passion. He called out to his wife, "Give it me directly." Mrs. Manning replied," Yes, I will directly ; " and she went upstairs; and she could not tell what afterwards passed. Manning remained in the house while his wife returned to the back kitchen and fried some beefsteaks for dinner. The girl said that the back kitchen was extremely wet, and that the stones in the passage appeared to have been recently rubbed with a brick or stone. She also found that the dusthole was fun of mould, dirt, and some mortar mixed with it. The girl was taken to the Home-office last evening by the police to make her statement to the solicitor of the Treasury. Her evidence will be given on Saturday, the next examination. The cholera has suddenly attacked some of the witnesses since the last examination. Mr. Bassett, clerk to Messrs. Killick & Co., sharebrokers, Bank-buildings, to whom Manning disposed of O'C.'s Eastern Counties shares, was suddenly attacked on Friday night with cholera, and expired on Saturday morning. His corpse was interred on Sunday. Mr. Hammond was also attacked on Sunday, and is not expected to live. Both gentlemen were in good health and spirits on Friday afternoon when at the police court.
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1849-09-19 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE MURDERER IN KIRKDALE GAOL.  Maurice Gleeson, alias Gleeson Wilson, continues to exhibit in prison the obduracy and obstinacy which he has uniformly displayed since the moment he was taken into custody. There are always, day and night two keepers with him ; one an officer of the gaol, the other a prisoner whose time has nearly expired. He displays a great deal of unmeaning cunning, frequently affecting to be asleep when, actually awake, and the officers, whilst reading to themselves, have often detected him watching them. Recently he has been removed to a new cell, in conquence of the other cells undergoing the process of whitewashing. On being disturbed, he inquired the cause of removal, and the officer told him it was to prevent cholera. "I wish," he said, "the cholera had come; why do. they not let it come? I should like it to take me off." "Oh, but," replied the janitor, "it might take me off also." " Well,' exclaimed the prisoner, with an oath, "what harmi7 it didrir Wilson had been for some time suffering from a severe cold, and one of the turnkeys observed, to him that hismeck appeared to be awry. "I suppose," he facetiously answered, "They will straighten it for me." On the culprit learning the general surmise, both out of doors mad in the gaol, that he was to be executed on Saturday, he exclaimed, "That is not fair: the thirty days have not elapsed yet" On Sunday week, a letter from the sheriff arrived, appointing Saturday next for his execution. This was corn' nannicated to the unfortunate criminal, "Oh, d—a them," Lhe said, "why do they not hang me at once: I'm tired of waiting." The Rev. Mr Duggan, of St. Jovph's tontholic Chapel, Grosvenor Street, attends spiritually upon the prisoner. Ills endeavours are indefatigable, but, so far, they ' hove utterly failed to bring the culprit to a sense of his melancholy condition. A few days ago he strongly urged upon him the necessity of repentance, and of making a full confession of his crime. He answered that he was not guilty. The priest replied, "Everybody believes that you are; and I also think so." On this Wilson became very violent in his demeanour, and cried with an oath, "Getout of the place : Ido not want y.oitat all." He perseveres in denying that he committed the murder for which he is to suffer; and declares that if permitted to visit the outer world he would be revenged on tw,o persons. Those two are supposed to be Mr. Superintendent Clough, through whose acuteness he was placed under arrest,and Captain Gibb, the esteemed governor of the prison. Now and then, however he is betrayed into expressions which show that he is consalami of' his guilt. Talking of his own family, he stated, "My mother was good, kind, and pious; had she lived this would never have happened. When she died, all went wrong." His eyes then moistened with tears, and he said no more. The execution will positively take place next Saturday, at the usual hour, noon.
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1849-10-03 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE MANNINGS' DEFENCE DEFRAYED BY  O'CONNOR'S GOLD.  (From the London Examiner.) _ _  We see it announced that Mr. Binns, Manning's attorney. has made application to the Commissioners of the Police for the remainder of the money found in the possession of the wife of his client, the whole amount of the booty being required for the defence of the prisoners. It not unfrequently happens with us that rules for fair play are turned to the uses of foul play. It is a principle that innocence is to be presumed till guilt is proved; and till the Manings are convicted of the murder of O'Connor, the money found in their possession must be supposed to belong to them honestly. The fact is notoriously the contrary, but they must have the benefit of legal presumption against the notorious truth. Meanwhile, assuming them to be guilty, they fight against retribution with the very booty of which they robbed the murdered man. They fee lawyers to make it appear they did not murder O'Connor, with the gold for which they slew him so treacherously. The victim's pelf is to be made the means of his assassins' impunity. It is to purchase the craft to distort evidence, to seize advantage of legal quirks and quibbles, and to baffle jastice. The defence, we are told, requires all the spoil; the expense being of course proportionate to the badness of the case, its difficulties, and exigencies. A counsel must be feed to shed tears, and to make protestations to Heaven of his fervent faith in his interesting clients' innocence. We offer these remarks upon the hypothesis of the Mannings' guilt of the murder. It is possible that they maybe inn acent, for it is hard to assign bounds to possibility; but that they committed the robbery there can be no shadow of doubt, O'Connor's property havingbeen directly traced to their possession ; and with the means derived from this source, they, as we see, are enabled to defend themselves with all the resources of the best skill and chicanery against the pursuit of justice ! Had the spoil of' the murdered been greater, the chances of escape would have been by so n nch the greater too, for there is no denying what may be done by gold, not only in commanding the best professional services, but in getting rid of material evidence. We point out the resources for baffling justice which the very crime has possessed the prisoners of in this case, merely as a matter of curiosity, for we see not how it is possible to guard against such an advantage for guilt without invading the rule protective of innocence, that innocence is to be presumed till guilt be legally established. It was obviously impossible to discriminate what money did, and what did not truly belong to the Mannings, of the sums found in their possession;—to have impounded all, waiting the issue of the trial, refacing them the means of defence, would not have been justifiable, or accordant with usage; and if this could not be done, as little could the line be drawn between the more or less that might be considered theirs, and devoted to their uses in meeting the charges against them.
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1850-05-22 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ROBBER SHOT.—On Tuesday two men, named Wakefield and Hayes, were examined before the magistrates at Cambridge under the following circumstances :—On the Friday, about midnight, Mr. Tofts, of St. John's College Farm, was awakened by the barking of his dog under his window. He sprang from his bed, looked out, saw nothing, and was about to retire to sleep again, when his shepherd, John Mathews, (who, with another man, sleeps in his master's house), came to Mr. Tofts' door and said, "Master, there are thieves in the hen-house; I heard them strike a lucifer, and saw the light proceeding from it." Mr. Tofts dressed himself, provided himself with a gun and a six-barrelled revolving pistol, and with his two men went to the henhouse. It was dark, and just as the three came up to the henhouse a report took place, and Mr. Tofts exclaimed, " I am shot," but instantly fired his gun in the direction he saw the flash proceed from. Brickbats were now hurled from the henhouse, and Mr. Tofts (though neither party could see each other) fired his pistol. The pelting then discontinued, and the thieves inside sprang up to the tiles, knocked them off, and were preparing thus to make their escape, when Mr. Tofts called out, "I have a six-barrelled pistol here, and the man who attempts to escape dies." At this moment a crash was heard, the portion of the building on which the men stood fell, and both were precipitated to the ground. Mr. Tofts and his men rushed in, the robbers were secured, and, a light having now been got by the women in the house, the men proved to be Wm. Wakefield and James Hayes, labourers, of Coton, a village three miles distant. (Wakefield has been implicated in highway robberies, and Hayes in incendiary fires.) Wakefield was found to be bleeding profusely from the head and face, one eye being entirely destroyed; Hayes was not injured. Mr. Tofts was shot in the breast and arm, but the thickness of his coat and waistcoat rendered the wounds comparativ,ly harmless. When seated in the house, the robbers asked to be supplied with beer and tobacco. Mr. Tofts refused them, and they got up, saying they would not stay; but Mr. Tofts, levelling his pistol again, said, "He who attempts to escape dies !" A messenger was sent to the police-station, and the men were eventually taken possession of by the police. Wakefield said, "I would sooner have been shot b— dead than lost my eye and punished in this manner; an arm lopped off would be nothing to it." Great excitement prevailed in Cambridge when the facts were known, and the Town-hall was crammed to hear the examination of the prisoners. They were both remanded. Wakefield is very ill, and, with his companion, is in a desponding way. In the henhouse were found nine dead fowls. The pistol fired at Mr. Tofts was found in the kitchen, the fellow who fired it having managed to get rid of it while in the house. The prisoners were both committed for the attempt to murder and fowl-stealing.— Essex Herald.
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1850-03-27 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER NEAR'PORTADOWN.—A most cold-blooded murder was committed on Tuesday night last, the victim being Mr. John Woolsey, a gentleman of rather opulent circumstances, who resided near Portadown, on the leading road to Armagh. Mr. Woolsey had gone to the Armagh market by the mid-day train, and having returned by the evening train, was occupied at his business, as usual, about the house, until a quarter before ten o'clock, when he retired to his bed-room. He had taken off all his clothes except a flannel shirt and drawers, and, after having left the candle upon the mantel-piece, was proceeding to take out, as is supposed, a night dress from a wardrobe, when a shot was fired from without, and a musket ball passed through a pane of glass in the centre of the window, entered the back of his head towards the left ear, and came out in front near the right temple. The ball then lodged in the wardrobe; but being spent in force no mark was fouad upon it, save a portion of the brain and splinters of bone in two or three places. The ball was found in a battered state, in the pocket of a waistcoat that had been hanging on a nail in the wardrobe, with a small piece of bone adhering to it. The inmates of the house were—Mr. Woolsey's mother, an elderly lady, who is in a very delicate state of health, a servant girl, and a little boy. The girl, on hearing the shot, thought her master had discharged a loaded pistol, which she was aware he had in his room; but on hearing a heavy fall on the floor, ran up immediately and found her master lying on his back, rather inclined to his left side, his feet towards the wardrobe and his head towards the window, the brains and blood oozing from his head. Medical gentlemen and the constabulary were immediately summoned from Portadown, and hurried to the spot, but deceased, although breathing when one of the doctors arrived, was altogether insensible, and he expired about three quarters of an hour after the occurrence. An immediate investigation was made as to the quarter where the shot came from. But from the evidence there is as yet no positive charge against any individual. The deceazed was at litigation on several occasions with his relations and others, and had been successful in ejecting them out of small portions of land. There has, therefore, existed bAween him and them so much coldness as to warrant the surmise that he was shot by some of those persons who may have supposed themselves harshly treated by him. His brother was apprehended on suspicion of being a guilty party in the dreadful transaction, but was on Wednesday liberated by order of the Magistrates, as there was no evidence to warrant their holding him. A great deal of excitement, as is but natural, has been created in consequence of the perpetration of this shocking murder, and the conjectures to which it has given rise, in a district hitherto so laudably free from crime and disturbance as Portadown and its neighbourhood.—Belfast News Letter.
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1850-08-07 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE GREAT TORTOISE.—The Queen has presented to the Zoological Society the enormous land tortoise recently brought from the Cape of Good Hope in her Majesty's ship Geyser. An inquiry is in progress at the instance of Government to ascertain the number and dimensions the boats for passengers attached to sea-going els at the different ports in Scotland. As this is the season when many of our country_ visit Paris, it is right they should know of a ' 'ous evil existing there. There are in Paris a ber of English quacks, some with continental lomas, who regularly bribe the waiters of the is, and when an unfortunate traveller is taken he is left entirely to the mercy of these charla. We are glad to state, however, that there are ral highly respectable physicians in Paris with nes from Edinburgh, and it would be well were traveller to see that he is attended by one of m.—Correspondent of London Examiner. Tun Aavvc ElPEMTlONS.—Lieutenant Power of Emma Eugenia t, arrived at the Ad)atohee Whale well,  I men visit  Jule, all  . The the American  , Abbey, ch. ' England, is with the es WANT OF of the late  votes, and he wished to know from they would be introduced this resumed its sitting. Lord I. RUSSELL, ~. _ ........ ne would le., resolutions upon the table at five o'clock, or at some late hour in the evening, or they would appear in the votes morrow morning (Friday); they would be taken into con eideration by the House at twelve o'clock on Monde that hon. Members would have sufficient notice of t,. The House then proceeded with the consideration of , Lord's amendment upon the Australian Colonies Govern ment Bill. The consideration of copied the House until half-past agreed to. . At five o'clock the House re-assembled, when DUDLEY STUART gave notice of a question to ti. vernment for to-morrow respecting the delivery to ok. the German Governments of certain political refugees a charge of murder. Mr. O'CONNOR asked Mr. Hayter, the Under-Secretary of the Treasury, whether Alexander Somerville, who WRE called the "Whistler at the Plough," had been paid by the secret service fund for having been occupied in evidence to be used on the Select Committee u.. • tional Land Company two sessions ago. Mr. Hayter"made an indignant reply, in which he stated that the pa quite as respectable as the hon. Member himself, he had paid him out of his own pocket. i In reply to Mr. Hume, __... v. oamages the , Lord PALMERSTON stated that the - .s. transport, it. ' . done to British subjects by the occupation of Leghorn, and ' ' mintlity on Thursday with despatohes which was required from the Government of Tuscany, had Austen. Captain Austen left Wl'been I been reduced to E 15,30, and negotiations were going its arrangement The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, ; Mr. Woodhouse, admitted the inequalities of the Land bat he added that the government was not i Wag in any measure upon the subject
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1850-08-28 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LYNCHING IN AMERICA.  Very remarkable records of crime are sometimes received from the' nether regions" of the Far West; but the subjoined narratives, extracted from the American Flag of the 17th ult., published in the district of Rio Grande, possess features of unusual atrocity :—" On the 11th instant our citizens were astounded with the meters choly intelligence that Justice Beacon, in consequence of the death of the coroner, had been called to hold an in quest on the body of Captain John Brennan, who had been murdered in cold blood by the notorious Bill Hardy, both recently from Galveston. It appears that the above two with a number of others, were at the Landango-houses, where they remained till between one and two o'clock in the morning, when Captain Brennan left for his place of lodging. He had not proceeded far when he was overtaken by Hardy, who drew his knife and thrust it to the bilt in Brennan'e left breast. Seeing Hardy's movements, he threw up his hands, and exclaimed Bill, don't cut me!' It was too late; the fatal stab came too quick and too certain for him to avoid It. He ran some thirty or forty yards, fell, and soon expired. After committing the outrage Hardy walked back into the house, with his knife in his hand, reeking with blood, exclaiming, ' I'm a tart, and that's the way I'll serve any man who will follow me.' Some of those who heard him, supposing he had got into difficulty with a Mexican, advised him to leave, which he did. As soon as it was ascertained that he had killed Captain Brennan men were sent to the several ferries to prevent his escape into Mexico, and others started in pursuit. He was arrested next morning about daylight near one of the ferries, ironed, and taken to gaol. The cause assigned for this brutal outrage is the refusal of Brennan to let Hardy have money while at Brazos, which is in all probability the true cause, as Hardy was heard to say on the way up to that place, that he had marked his man. The people resolved to mete out justice to the murderer, and they accordingly assembled and demanded her culprit from the deputy sheriff, who was obliged to delivet up the man into their hands. On reaching the spot for this tragic scene, be remarked that he knew he had to die, and intended to die like a man, but would rather be shot than hung. The crowd assembled to witness the solemn tragedy was quite large, but orderly and quiet, with a few exceptions. No one volunteering to shoot the guilty wretch, it was decided that he must hang. During all this time, and even while the arrangements were making for launching him into eternity, where he would meet a more dread tribun than any one on earth, he evinced the most perfect as to his' not 'f his 11. _ with.  lambs that ws how • of  betray _  fate, i. `-,e least  the . him