Northern Times. — 1857-06-30 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER FROM JEALOUSY.  At the Worship-street Police Court, on Saturday, Liam Mann, a journeyman shoemaker, of dwarfish ats and miserable appearance, was charged with cutting wounding a young woman, named Mary Ann Inwood,: intent to murder her. The prosecutrix, a fine.loo young girl, whose face and neck were enveloped in me( bandages,•stated that she was a shoebinder; in the era of Mr. Freeman, of Westmoreland-place, Kingsland-r About nine months ago she became- acquainted with prisoner, who professed a warm attachment, to her,, subsequently proposed to marry her. Having ascertat however, that his intentions were not of an honour character, she discouraged his addresses, and studio voided his company. On Thursday evening she dentally met him in the street, when he 'addressed in an impassioned manner, - in the course of which told her that unless she consented to live with she would have the blood of both upon her head he was determined to kill her, and afterwards to dee his 'own life. The prisoner then abruptly left her, and saw no more of him until the previous evening, when was informed while sitting at work in her masters 10 that he was anxiously. waiting to take leave of her. be he left the country. Witness accordingly proceeded ti to see him, with the consent of her mater; and on elate the room, the prisoner advanced towards her pressed her cordially by the hand, with the observe "That they must part on friendly terms, as he was 0 far away." Witness was in the act of shaking be with him, when he rapidly passed his left round her neck, and at the same moment' she felt he had stabbed her in the left side of thiy throat, which the blood streamed down her dress. She strugl desperately to release herself from him, and her sere( for assistance attracted the attention of her master,' rescued her from further violence. ,Mr. 17illiam 11! Freeman, the complainant's employer, stated, that er engaged in his workshop on the preceding evening, prisoner entered and requested his permission to see, last witness, as he was going a long way off, and will to bid her "good bye" before they parted for Witness communicated his request to the complainant, from the excited demeanour of the prisoner, he kept we at the door and had scarcely been a minute there when heard the noise of a violent snuffle, accompanied by of " Murder," from the prosecutrix, which induced to burst into the‘room where he found her struggling a the accused, who had a shoemaker's knife in his 111 which he was in the act of drawing back from her the Witness grappled with the prisoner, and, after wreel the knife from him, he flung him down upon the IF where he held him fast until the arrival of a policelg Cox, 60 N, stated that the prisoner was given into., custody under the circumstances described, and on LI way to the station-house he voluntarily declared that had made up his mind to murder the woman on heal that she was about to be married to another man. lb Henry Coward, the divisional surgeon of police, ell 6 that he had attended the prosecutrix, who had receive' superficial cut down the left cheek, together with an ink wound of about three-quarters of an inch, extending iOl diately over the jugular vein, and but for the point of knife having been previously broken off, it would inevitS have been attended with a fatal result. The prisoner, ei exhibited extreme excitement during the proceedings, declined offering any defence, was ordered to be remetiv for the formal completion of the depositions.