The Potteries Examiner : — 1877-03-10 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THE ROCHDALE MURDER.—It the Manchester paragraph should be worded.—His Honour said he at in the future, denounce, disapprove and discourage all Aesirea, on Monday, before Mr. Justice Manisty, John first thought that it would be sufficient to say that Major attempts to injure person or property, and point to our , McKenna was charge 4 with the murder of his wife, at Smith had not been duly appointed trustee by Sir E. record in the past as proof that we have never been Rochdale, on the 24th of February last. Mr. Leresche Beckley, and it would probably have been done had it identified with disorderly proceedinee." Mr. Hill prosecuted and Mr. Blair defended. Evidence was not been for the importent fact that during the time he having addreseed the meeting, the following Wws given for the prosecution that the prisoner, who was a acted as co-trustee with Sir E. Bnekley certain convey- I adopted:—" Whereas, our bosses are employing mem plasterer, and his wife had been married for some time, maces of prelperter were made, and they mist take care to bands, in order to show to the merchants that they can and there had been several children born to them. On , do nothing in this Halt toinvalidate the title of property produce ware and fill their orders ; therefore, be it , the 24th of February the prisoner had been drinking, so couveye Iby the two trustees. His Honour thought I resolved, that the delegate committee be inetrueted to and he went to a house where his wife was, used foul . that Major Smith had been fully exonerated by the terms draft out a circular to the merchants before the great I names to her, and, after getting her home, kicked and ,of the minute—The rest of the minutes related mainly sale of crockery in New York takes Place, setting forth , beat her in a most brutal manner, notwithstanding the . to enquiries into legacies, to the exercise of powers oh the inferior quality of goods they may expect from frequent interference of some of the neighbours. The ?, I appointment for raising jointures and portions, the Trenton, as the result of employing unskilled labour in medical man who was called in to see the deceased mid t taking of accounts. payments made, Ac—ln the coulee I the Trenton potteries." she was bruised all over, and her head was so fearfully s of the discussion. his Honour etiquired whether Sir E. Wedneselar, February 21, 1877.—Another rousing injured that the br sin was " pulpified." The prisoner, r Buckley wee represented by conocel.-31. Maberley said meeting of 'the locked•out and discharged potters was after committing the murder, absconded, and was he was not, but that he had been served with notice by held at Freese Hall yesterday. Mr. Brammar in the arrested on the quay at Liverpool, being about to take the plaintiffs' solicitor, Mr. G. W. Fox —His Honeur . chair. The roll of potteries showed that one farmer the steamer to Celaegon. For the defence, Mr. Blair remarked that he would have been better satiefied if Sir ape two bummers had been set on at the shops. Songs contended that it was a ease of manslaughter, and that • E. Buckley had been renresentee.—The minutes as , and addresses were given by one of the Executive Corn' the deceased's death was partly attributable to her conr announced will come again before the Court in a fort- ' mittee, Mr. Ellis. Mr. Haddeley, Mr, Goodwin, Mr. , dition of health. The jury found the prisoner guilty of night, and will then, probably, be finally settled. Morris, and the chairman I murder, and he Wail eentenoed to death.