Widnes Examiner. — 1888-09-22 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THI PLE MURDER. THREE BROTHERS FIBED AT. Shortly after noon on Sunday, the town of Worksop was thrown into a state of great excitement by the report that a triple murder had been attempted in the public Itreets. It appears that Messrs. Mark, John. and Thomae nollety, three brothers who carry on business at the %ton Works, Canal-road, Worksop, as timber merchants and wood turners, were returding from the tnorning serviee at the Westeyan Chapel, and had reached a street known as Church-walk, *hen they heard a pistol shut fired behind therm Turning round they saw an old man named 'John Caudwell with revolver in his hand from which smoke was issuing shot fired had passed through Mark finitely's' left coat sleeve, just above the elbow, and also through the body ,of his coat, on the same side, without, however, 'doing nirn any serious injury. immediately Mark finitely turned round Caudwelt.fired a second shot, which struck hitn on the right shoulder. • The injured man fell to the ground, and John Hollely seized Candwell by the arms. AA Soon as he got hold of him Caudwell fired a third Shot, which struck :Rho flolleiv in the centre of the forehead. Owing to the man's axiom being pinned, however, the hall glanced upwards, and merely grazed the skin 011 the forehead in its upward course. John Hollely then succeeded in tal,ing the pistol away from Can& Well. police-constable Reeves arrived on the scene and took Gaud well into custody. Mark Uollely was conl'eyed to the house of his brother John, and placed under medical care. Dr. Casson, who was called in, • found a bullet embedded in the right shoultler. He endeavoured to extract it, hut failed to do so, as the ball had penetrated into the shoulder bone, tracturing it Severely. The injured man now lies in a most dangerous Condition. inn. Caudwol I was for many years in business 11.8 a timber merchant and wood turner at the works now „oecupied by Hollely liras. About five years ago he lailed, and the Doliely Bros. bought the business from the trustees of the estate. They, however, retained Audwell as manager until about two years ago, when he recommenced Int.iness on his own Recount. The Works were under a Mr. Parkin, who absconded, whereUpon the mortgagees lacked the works up, and Caudwelt was thrown out of employment. Latterly he has been working as a labourer. He is about 70 years of age, and resides within a few yards of the attempted mur (lets, Caudwell leis been in a depressed state for a long tirne, the lot,e ,‘' his business having, it is believed. l'erion9ly pre- d :rein his mind.  1  CADBURY'S COCOA is absolutely pure and untampered with. 4t, has stood the keenest analytical tests, and consists solely ?is the concentrated extract of the Cocoa bean, the flavonr bebig and the aroma improved by a special process of I,oEisting. —Ad vt. liettry Thomas, a labouring man, has been remanded bitil Saturday by the Bootle magistrates, charged with 4ttempting to murder his wife by throwing her out of the ndow. The Rome correspondent of the "Irish Catholic" ,Writes that the Pope has addressed a strong remonstrance ‘OO the English Government on their present policy toVards Ireland. , On Thursday the memorial stone of the new Wesleyan t.,nurch and schools about to be erected as a memorial to 4olin and Charles Wesley were laid at Epworth with con'siderable ceremony. II At Greenwich Police Court on Wednesday, Thomas of Donne Place, Ir Rotherhithe, was committed for a' for the manslaughter of his wife, who was found ead at the foot of the stairs after a quarrel with him. .