Widnes Examiner. — 1881-01-01 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

MURDER AT MACCLESHIBLD.--All attnciqns , murder is reported from Macclesfield. William Stanwayitei broom hawker, and a woman with whom he lived, named Mellor, were drinking during Christmas Day, and at night ' Stahway, after threatening the woman with violence, thrust a red-hot poker into her side. • Though the woman's terrible condition became known to several persons, she.lValf (Weaved to linger in agony without surgical ,aid till, on Monday night, Stanway, seeing she, was dying, sent for a doctor. The poor woman expired before the medical man arrived. Statile-ay, who-ifin custody,-Isays he was mad- drunk -at the time he committed the crime. Ttua WALKING CnAzn.-=-The unfortunate man Gale, who ' had undertaken the task.of walking 2,500 miles in onb thousand consecutive hours,lroke down on Tuesday from the effects of fatigue and tempory illness, after he had walked 2,232.mi1e5, He resuniell his task after a short interval, and will probably finish the distance, hut not in accordance with the original programme. The spectacle of a miserably fatigued and worn-out Man toiling along a cindered path hour after hour, by day and by night, for six weeks, witbont! hope of benefit to any rational creature, mkt scarcely be paralleled. in the melancholy absurdity outside the walls of an asylum for the Insane. TERRIBLE FALL mold- A num.—A terrible accident occurred on Monday night at New Passage, on the Glotacester side of the &tern from which ferry 'Crosses a fer crosses to the Welsh side. The eightolcl,,re_ ir train was on Monday night stopped on the ferry bridge, as usual, in order that the engine might be tuined rontade- Li this train were two sailors, named-Mates and Hill, proneeding to Cardiff to join their ship. As soon as the train stopded they opened the door of the carriage eiti the opposite side from the platform, and instead of landing on the line, they fell over the pier A great depth on to the shore of' the river. Hill was picked up dead. Bates had a lig did and arm broken,and received other very setreteltlittries, and now Ilea at the Bristol hospitetitta precarious condition. ` tat s readers of the Little Folks, whose kindly efforfaWlahhelf of their poorer brothers and sisters have been conspicuous on several previous °Cession', are this Christmas again repeating their labour of love. Within the-At 'ferw• dais the ptoprietorsjof Little Folks Magazine-jive digriOnteil among the inmate* of. Children's Hospitals throughout the country a large number of illustrated and coloured 'Vial; -scrap albums, dolls, knitted articles, and plalfi iteedleittak the main portion of the gifts comprising copies of the "Little Folks blackand white painting book," and "Little Folks nature printing book," illustrated and coloured bf-ati-diren in competition for prizes offered by the Propriettlandintended by the young. artists to form at the 'gam's' thtistdiaa Presents for tuck and suffering little ones.  KttND±-- 13- -T. BO RIITAL —UNDER IN LiviartrOOL.---41 the City Police Com Von Tuesday, before Mr. Rafiled,',John Kelly, 69 years Waee, a !boulder in the employ of Messrs. Jack and Co., engineers, was charged with causing the death of kis wrile'Xlizaheth, also aged. 69, by beating her about the head 'with a, pair of tongs. The prisoner and his deceased irifeßied'at 11, Beateice-street, Great Holier-street. The :Noildng following the murder the prisoner, who bad been drinting heavily, went to the house of his married daughter —Lloyd by name, and living in the same street—and said, "Your mother is dead,.said I have killed her." Mrs. Lloyd afterwards informed Inspector Hook, and upon going into the house he found that the prisoner's statement was true, tho unfortunate womon being dead in bed, covered with blood, and with her head crushed in. A pair of tongs, likewise covered with blood, was found close by. When apprehended in a public-house in Great Hoiner-street,the prisoner said, "I did it; nobody else did it but me." On the application of Mr. Marks, the prosecuting solicitor, the prisoner was remanded for seven days. ALLBGBD "BOYCOTTIBD" me