The Express. — 1867-07-23 (London, England)

SHOCKING MURDER AT ST. HELEN'S.—Shortly after 12 o'clock on S •turday eight last a murder was committed near St. Helen's. The murdered man is Adam Mather, about 60 years of age, who lived in a detached house at Greenleach, about half a mile from Carr Mill, on the St. Helen's-road. He was a man in easy circumstances. possessing • good income from household property, but to fill up his time worked at the Garwood Colliery as fireman. It appears that the deceased and his wife, having been to St. Helen's on Saturday night, retired to bed shortly after 12 o'clock. They bad been in bed some four or five minutes when the attention of Mrs. Mather was aroused by hearing a drawer being opened in an adjoining room. She told her husband, and at the same time said it was not " Dan," referring to their son, who bad not then got home. Mather, having got out of bed, went to see who the intruder was, and seeing a man whom be did not know said, " What are thou doing here? thou had better be going." The man then made a rush at Mather, and with a razor which he had taken from a drawer cut a severe gash across the deceased's throat and chin. The wife hearing a scuffle went to see what it was, and seeing her husband on the Boor covered with blood, she rushed out of the house screaming " Murder," and went towards • neighbour's named Mort. Before she got many yards the murderer came upwith her and stabbed her in two places, and struck her in the face, which caused her to fall to the ground. He then made off. The man Mort, having been aroused, came out of his house, and Mrs. Mather told him the direction the murderer had taken. Mort followed, but was not able to come up with him. Ho immediately afterwards proceeded to St. Helen's and informed Dr. Jamieson, who at once proceeded to the house of Mather, and information having been given to the police, Superintendent Ludlam mustered his force and sent scouts through the county. The murderer was traced across several fields, but upon approaching the railway all clue was lost. He left his clogs at Mather's door, and his cap was found near to the deceased. He is said by Mrs. Mather to be about 40 years of age, light hair, under middle height, and had the appearance of a tramping collier. The clogs have duck-bill irons. two brass eyelet boles on each side, and two on each tongue, with brass tae-tips. Apiece is cut out of each hind quarter to give room for the ancle bone. His cap is of brown cloth, ribbed in three-inch squares, old and greasy. He was dressed in cord trousers, and had on • light coat, and speaks with a Lancashire dialect. The unfortunate deceased lived about belt an boor. Our Liverpool correspondent, writing last evening, says : A man named John Smith, a tramp, bag been arrested on the charge. When taken into custody he was without cap and shoes, and the right arm of his shirt was wet as though recently washed. There was blood upon the sleeves and other parts. Smith accounted for this by saying that he bad been in a " row" at St. Helen's on the previous night. The only money found upon him was some rippers. This evidence having been taken before the magistrates, yesterday, the case was remanded. The cap and clogs found in Mather'. house bare been identified as belonging to Smith. One man who has come forward states that the clogs were offered to him by Smith for Bile recently, but be refused them because they were cut in the sides. Another man states that the cap found is one which he himself lately exchanged with Smith for a hat. Front inquiries made yesterday our correspoudents learn that Mrs. Mather, though much injured about the face and neck, is in no immediate danger. HIALTH HISTORED BY Du BARRY'S FOOD TO TES sroat•en, nerves, Moss, and liver of old and young. caring dyspepsia (Indigestion), constipation. dlarrbsa, acidity, headache, neuralgia, hysteria, palpitation, sleeplessness, debility, wasting, sough, asthma, fevers, Drumm Don, low spirits. 60,000 annual cures which had resisted all ea. &Deluding that of his Holiness the Pope.—Tiss, at la led.; Ili., fa lid.: ; Silt., 40a—Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-strest, Lesion ; also at Gracec.hurchearest ; 4. Cheapsids ;61 sad 160, Oxford street; sad all grocers and chemists.- [Advertlasemat.l