The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-08-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ILL-FATED FAMILY.—One of the most cool- bridge is one-third of a mile. In height the three pie° blooded murders ever perpetrated in this neighbourhood, are, as already said, 230 feet. Measuring from low water took lace on the morning of Sunday last, at Langshaw mark to the bottom of the tubes, the height is 130 feet' Farm in Heaton ; Betty Pilkington, an aged and respect- the tubes being 30 feet on the side, and the pier 70 fee able female having been killed by her husband, Robert above the upper surface. As ornaments to the two wall! Pilking ton, an old man 56 years of age,. with a bar of iron which rise upon each shore, are four lions, two at each eod or poker, the particulars of which we give elsewhere. The of the bridge. The lions contain about 8,000 cubic fee' history of his family is a most melancholy one, and causes of stone. They lie couched, and yet the height of each amongst such of the inhabitants as are acquainted with it, is 12 feet, the greatest breadth across the body is 9 feet? horrifying thoughts. Piikington's father, in the middle the length 25 feet, the breadth of each paw 2 feet 4 incbe°' was hung for stabbing a fellow-creature ; The tubes are made of plates of iron of various thicknesseS; after that melancholy event, which ought to riveted together. The iron increases in thickness as ti ashtnaadvg eenaooctf long dfeis a warning to the remaining branches of the proceed towards the centre. The roofs of the tubes sv", family, his son—brother to the present monster in human formed of cells, and also the floors. These cells 1,„ shape—was transported for causing a man's death by formed of iron plates set on edge, the cells of the ruve, kicking ; and, to add to the catalogue, Orrell, who was being within a fraction of one foot nine inches square, Oa hung for poisoning his children some years ago, was cousin those of the floor being one foot nine inches wide, 61),,i to him. About three or four months ago, we had to two feet three inches deep. The rails on which the tral: record a lamentable event which occurred at Dockcocker, run are laid on these cells of the floor. The flat bottom public house, on the boundary of Halliwell and Heaton, the two upright sides, and the flat roof of each tube in which a man named Kershaw had been struck on the formed of plates, the thinnest of which is a quarter off,Z, head with a fire poker, by John Pilkington, son of the inch, and the thickest three quarters of an inch. owe present homicide, and which had well nigh terminated weight of each of the four long tubes will be about 19';10 his existence. Kershaw, however, (although at times tons; the weight of each of the four short ones labouring under an aberration of intellect) recovered, but 600 tons. In the whole there will be at least 7,6uu 'J. John Pilkington was committed for trial at the assizes, of iron used. The masonry was contracted for bYto and was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for the Nowell and Co., at £130,000 but from alterations in tb• offence. He had been out upon bail previous to trial, plans it will cost and on his departure left his mother in charge of the masonry by August, 1848, It will contain 1,300,00" , farm, which was the scene of the present murder.. feet Of Owe* £200,000. They expect to finish to  in October last, with most of her crew. The scene was unusually painful, from the circumstance that no less than seven poor widows, all relatives of the deceased, were assembled to identify the very articles which they themselves had made up for the comfort of their partners in life ; and on the spot, too, where, only twelve months ago, they took their last farewell. Such a scene_ as this can