The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1855-10-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CHARGE OF MURDER.—On Friday, an inquest was held f4oonrotitehl-Foess ti trlbiebdoe deasoytyfb. yolt fi Johanna, Johnl leToe lahlp:dr jo nm!aah:Nsaeprisoner's,. Cahill,,ilso etaeCahill,ialodltf2ahtmbBeho3,3av ,:u• teriafier sier childrens, oorfcef residing Idedhieldadl,ggeoe}oaeu2ldioad: c o said— Last duir Court, fallplaying hurt his forehead. The same day the prisoner came into our ,house and said, " Is this not.a nice situation for my child to be in with your son P" and added, if he did not get satisfaction for it, he would have as much blood spilt for it as had been spilt of his child's ; and:that he would have my child's puddings if he did not get satisfaction when his father ,(the deceased) came home. He then went out. About half-past seven, o'clock on Saturday night the deceased came home from his work, quite sober. Ile had his supper and then went to bed. I then sent out my daughter to get a little butter, and I remained up till she came home. Soon after she had gone I heards,man shouting in the court, and at once recognised the volee to be that of the prisoner. I heard him rattling and making a great noise in his own house, the door of which is next but one to mine. I immediately took the poker and fastened the door as well as I could, .as there was no key to the lock. Soon after the prisoner came opposite to our window, and called for either of the Cahills to come out. I understood him to mean by that for my husband and brotherin-law, who lodged in our house, to come out. Neither of them went out, and then the prisoner began to knock at and break in the door. I went up-stairs to my husband, and found him looking out of the window into the court. I put my head out of the window, and said to the prisoner, " Go into your own house, and have nothing to do with my husband -" that he had been working hard all day and knew nothing Of what had happened between the children yesterday. The prisoner then said, " You —, come down, and I will run you through as well as them," The deceased then went down stairs, and I followed him. The deceased took out the poker which I had used to fasten the door, and laid it on the table. He then opened the door. The prisoner was standing outside, and the moment the deceased opened the door the prisoner struck him two blows with his clenched fist The deceased moved a little into the room from the door. The prisoner stepped in a little, but I did not observe anything in the prisoner's hand. There was a lighted candle on the table, which the deceased took up to see what the prisoner had in his band. Directly after I heard the deceased cry out, "I am stabbed." He had his hand on his left breast, and said, " Hand me the poker." I did not see the prisoner stab the deceased, but, directly after I heard the cry " I am stabbed," the prisoner ran out of the house. When I heard that cry I went out also, as I was so frightened. When I came back the deceased had been carried up-stairs, and placed on a bed. He was not able to speak.-IVlary Cahill, daughter, and Michael Cahill, brother of the deceased, corroborated the evidence given by the wife.—Sarah Healy produced a knife, which she deposed to finding in front of the prisoner's door, on the morning after the occurrence.—Inspector Haynes, who took the prisoner into custody, said the man resisted very much, and kicked him so severely that he had been off duty since.—The Coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder, and the prisoner was committed for trial at the assizes. The Coroner said the deceased had left his widow with five helpless children, and he believed the widow herself was now in a state of pregnancy. It was a case for the charitable. The jurymen subscribed amongst themselves the sum of £l3 155., which they ordered the Coroner to distribute to her in such instalments as he thought proper.