Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-11-03 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TIIE MYSTERIOVS AIERDER AT LIVERPOOL.  Lewis Parry, engineer's labourer, 32 years of age, has been clawed on n-mood, at Liverpool, with the murder of Susannah Hutton, 18, on the canal bank. The prisoner WaS not defended. James Mq.luire deposed to prisoner and the murdered girl being in a public. house near the scene of the murder shortly before it was perpetrated, and partaking of drink. They were Iroth sober. Prisoner cross-examined witness, and denied that he was in the home at the time stated. Charlotte Wright gave corroborative evidence, adding that the prisoner called on the Monday after the murder, and asked had his friend been, as he wanted 'to see her. Prisoner cross-examined witness, and raid Ire was in her house on the Thursday prior to the murder, and on the Sunday following. Thomas Kehoe, an inaurance collector, stated that about twenty minutes ' past ten on the night of Saturday, the 13th inst., he saw a mall and a woman walking down Plum-street in the direction of the canal. The man had his arm round the woman forcing her along, lie could not recognise either of them, and followed them as far as a railway bridge across the canal. They entered a flag or stone yard near the c tnal, and shortly afterwards witness beard the woman scream. Witness changed his position, and saw the man moving about, and stooping as if to pick something up. Ile could hear stones rattling &out, and then the man disappeared, awl again screams were heard. Witness blew a whistle which Ire had, and then can into Plum-street, and fetched police-constable 785. The constable and he went back to the place together, but could find nothing. A fiatman said the man had gone across the canal. They went in the direction indicated, but could not find anything. Edward Martin, a pointsman on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, said that on the night in question he rearm l his cabin on the railway bridge crossing the canal, near Plum-street, when, about thirty-five minutes past ten, he heard a woman screaming in the stone-yard. About flee minutes afterwards he left his cabin to get some water, and then looked into the stone-yard below. Ile saw • man walking about, and then saw him drag a woman from behind the flags. Ile dragged her by the shoulders for a few yards, and then let her fall. into a sitting position, propped against his knees. He Ire-:t moved away, and she fell upon her back. After dragging her a few yards he threw her into the canal, and then, upon witness shouting, the man ran away. A police-conatable was informed of what bad occurred, the canal was dragged, and the body of the deconsed found and removed to the Prince's dead. moose. Eviance was then given as to the finding of deceased's hat on the spot where the struggle took place, and also to the prisoner, whose clothes were wet up to the waist, being seen running from the direction of the scene of the murder. Mrs. Hutton, mother of the deceased, deposed that her daughter at one time worked for Mrs. Parry, and had since visited the prisoner's house occaaionally, the last time being on the nth inst., the birthday of one of the prisoner's children. When arrested Parry admitted having been in her cons. puny on Saturday night, but said that he left her about nine o'cloek, and did not know what became of her afterwards. The prisoner was committed to the assias the charge of wilful murder.