The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-03-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CASE. comrade wished to take a trip toAt comrade's name is Keating, and the Provinces. His "Hue and Cry."—Carlow we fired he is tted in the Sentinel. gaze Monday, Thomas Johnson for the wilful murder at Croft, Henry H ensev, was indicted of Elizabeth Evison. we ft. on the 12th of February last, at the time, but. as the cir gave a brief statement of the case we give the particulars as circumstances are peculiarly atrocious, that the deceased was they transpired at the trial. It appearedat the time of the occ was an aged person, about 70, living of the same age, in Frrencc with her sister, who was nearly village of Croft. 81n lonely cottage, a short distance from the were both well and Snnday, the 12th of February, they the same room up stairs walking aboutt as usual. Ttheydstlept int about eight o'clock. _hen separate beds, and re ire o res terwards by a • bed not very long afterwards T. y were disturbed . man breaking in at the windows of their chambers. He proceeded to obtain a light by means of a lucifer match, and then with some marlin to tie together their bands and feet very tightly, and to fasten their arms under the shoulders equally tightly to the bedsteads, so that they could not move hand or foot, or at all help themselves. He then tucked the clothes closely ove sister, heads, and took ss. out of the pocket of the surviving and rather more out of that of the deceased. He also took some silver spoons and some handkerchiefs, and then decamped by the street door, which he left open, leaving the poor women in the state described. This was on the Sunday night. They remained in this condition, both being almost suffocated, until the forenoon of Monday, when the deceased, who had been moaning all the interim, and frequently said that she must be suffocated, expired. The sister could undertake to mark the time of the death by the cessation of the moaning and the breathing as being in the course of the forenoon of Monday. She herself remained in this horrible state, almost momentarily expecting the same fate that she knew had awaited deceaseo, until the Tuesday morning, when she heard some one near, and cried out for help. This was a poor boy going about with a live seal from door to door begging, and he gave an alarm, and fetched a man named Hill, who found the door open, and the poor women in bed with their hands and arms and feet tied in the manner described, the deceased being stiff and cold, and her sister extremely exhausted. He released the survivor, and unfastened the marlin which bound the body of the deceased, and then went and brought Mr. Dewson;the surgeon. The latter gentleman stated that he had beard th evidence, and bad no doubt whatever but that the deceaseda had died of suffocation from being smothered in tb . e way de_ scribed. She appeared to have been dead about t hours. There were wounds upon the wrist fromwenty-four nese with which the cords had been tied. The the tightapprehended, and. from the evidence adduced,Prie was guilty of the offence; and the judg• was found sentenced without the slightest hope if navy. him to death theb ei I: ge i c se ls at ce korew,f°BhhE assizes, eesmniaz neei removing ef 1 eori fell suddenly  a human-like  wit—in creation  ..sembles most nearly our own generation : Then if madmen for murder escape with impunity, Why deny a poor dog the same noble immunity? So, if dog or man bite you, beware being nettled  For crime is r  wind is unsettled