The Warrington Examiner. — 1870-06-18 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

THE SHOOTING CASE AT POYNTON.—On Tuesday Thomas Warburton, against whom a coroner's jury last week f(sund a verdict of wilful murder for his having caused the death of Daniel Eccles a collier at Poynton, on the 20th May, by shooting him in the back with a gun loaded with a marble, was brought before the county magistrates at Macclesfield. It appeared from the evidence of William Oldham, farmer, of Poynton, that he lent the prisoner a gun on thq 27th of March last to shoot birds with. The sun was an old weapon defective at the lock. On thel2oth of May he was awake early by Daniel Eccles, who said that young Warburton had shot him in the back. Deceased said, "I don't know how it has been; there was never any ill-feeling between us in our lives." Prisoner the same day said to witness "I did not do it on purpose, I was shooting at a shepster upon thy stable. The first time the gun did not go off. I was putting another cap on and it went off."—Mr. Schofield, surgeon, of Poynton, who attended the deceased, said a post mortent examination had been made, and a circular gun-shot wound found an inch from the spine, which caused death. A marbre was cut from the wound.—When the prisoner was apprehended he said, "I had a marble in my gun to shoot a shepster. I never saw Daniel Eccles until I had fired and shot him."—The magistrates committed the prisoner for trial at the assizes.  It is stated that Mr. Sholto Vero Hare will be the Conservative candidate for Bristol. An official of the Ancient Order of Foresters at South Shields has decamped with £240 belonging to the Widows and Orphans Fund, of that society. Sir Morton Pete is in Hungary, superintending the construction of lines for the Austrian Government.  Fine mackerel were selling at St. lye's, Cornwall, on Sunday week, at is. per 120. One man purchased 3,600 fish for rs., at the rate of 30 a penny. It is Almoured that Mr. Wykeham Martin, Liberal member for Newport, is about to accept the Chiltern Hundreds in consequence of unfavourable health. About 3,000 of the Liberal party in Norwich have signed a dezlaration pledging them to support Mr. Tillett. The Conservatives have not yet brought forward a candidate.  The Government intends to send an English officer with the presentation copies of the official record of the Abyssinian campaign to the different crowned heads of Europe. At Sheffield, on Tuesday, four unionist colliers were convicted ot. having attempted to intimidate non-unionists. Two were sentenced to three months' and the others to two months' imprisonment. ___ _ _ •  To look after Canadian interests, two more British war vessels, the Royalist and Philornel, were, on May 27th, ordered from Halifax to cruise on the fishing grounds. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the first Napoleon, and the son of Jerome Bonaparte by his first wife, Miss Patterson, of Baltimore, is very ill at BaltiMore. He is aged 64. His mother is still living in that city, and is 90 years of age.  DASTARDLY OUTRAGE rt•T Drain.—Some miscreants scaled the wall of a slaughter yard in Sampson's-lane and battered the skulls of a large number of valuable heifers. The dastardly ruffians have, we regret to say, up to the present not been arrested.  The John Bull hears that there is every probability of the Marquis of Bute returning to the Anglican Church. Doubtless this statement will be received, as was his secession to Rome, with indignant denial, but the information, in both cases, is from the same quarter.  The Fenianfiasco has not intetiere with the movement of the Canadian expedition ter Winnipeg. The Sault Ste Marie Canal difficulty is avoided by marching the troops and transporting the military stores over the portage. The Umted. States Government permits the transports when thus unladen to pass through the canal. The subscribers to the North Lancashire memorial to the late Earl of Derby met on Saturday at Preston. It was reported that the subscriptions amounted to £1,560. On the recommendation of the committee, it was resolved that the memorial should take the shape of a marble statue' to be placed either in the town of Lancaster or Preston.