Glasgow Courier. — 1857-10-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FRATRICIDE IN LIVERPOOL.  The neighbourhood of Brownlow Bill, Liverpool, was on Monday morning thrown into a state of great excitement in consequence of a report that a man, named William Jones, a butcher, had murdered his own brother in Trowbridge Street. William Jones, a man about 40 years of age, resided with his mother at 48, Trowbridge Street, and another brother, Robert Jones, lived in an other house in the same street. 'William, it appears, returned home on Sunday night, about half-past eleven o'clock. Shortly afterwards, Robert Jones entered his house; a discussion ensued, and subsequently a fight took place between them, during which the deceased. Robert, received a stab in the breast, which caused almost Immediate death. The alarm was given, and William was promptly taken into custody. He was brought up at the Police Court on Monday before Mr J. S. Mansfidld, the stipendiary magistrate, charged with the wilful murder of his brother Robert Jones. Police-officer 20 said that he was standing at the corner of St A ndrew Street, about a quarter to twelve o'clock, on Sunday night, when he heard shouts of ' Murder!' He. with another officer, went to 48, Trowbridge Street, where he saw the prisoner standing with his back to the room wall, with a knife in his hand. The officers seized him, and removed him. The deceased, who was lying on his face, they turned over upon his back, and discovered a great deal of blood issuing from his breast. They carried him to the Royal Infirmary, but he expired before they reached it. When taken into custody, the prisoner said the deceased 'deserved what he had got, and it would be a lesson to those fast gentlemen.' Elizabeth Jones, the mother of the men, 76 years of age, stated that the prisoner returned home on Sunday night between eleven and twelve o'clock. In reply ton ques. lion as to where he had been until that hour, the prisoner I said it did not matter to her. He asked for something to eat, and she gave him some supper. She was afraid of him, as he had not been sober for several days, and she therefore went out of the house. She did not sae the prisoner stab Robert. John Jones, a brother of the prisoner and the Ale, ceased, said he went into his mother's house 011 Sunday night, and saw the prisoner in a room with a plate before hint. Witness asked where his mother sae, and the prisoner replied that she was out. There was no light In the room, and witness said, 'You have not been turn_ lag her out again?' Ile attempted to get a light, but could not, and the deceased nest came in. The prisoner then asked,' What sort of behaviour is this; do you want i to frighten me?' The deceased asked, What do yon ; mean by turning my mother Out?' One word led to , another, and the deceased said,. 'Come out of this; if , Jack (witness) is not big enouah for you I'll try; al, though Jan, awav from home, I think of my mother for all that.' They then got to fighting, and the j deceased ahouted out, • I'm stabbed.' Witness  seised the knife in the prisonei's hand, but ! had to drop it, as it cut his hand. Ile was afiaid of the prisoner, and ran up stairs to the attic to escape from him. He shouted all the time, and the police soon rame.—Mr Mansfield: Which of them struck tug ?. Witness : The deceased, I think, struck first.—Witness, in reply to a question, said he thought the prisoner stabbed the deceased with the knife he was eating his supper with. The prisoner, which was not customary with him, had his butcher's knife and ateol on on Sunday night. The surgeon of th Royal Infirmary stated that when lie examined the deceased he was quite dead. There was a wound on the breast about an Lich in length, but he did not know the depth. He could not say what was the cause of death, as he had not made a post-mortem examination of the body. The prisoner was remanded till next day.