The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-11-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER AT WARRINGTON.—OR Monday cutive days, and showed a most dangerous example to the last, an inquest was held at the Ring of Bells, Warrington, other apprentices, by inciting them to acts of disobedience before John lieges, Esq., coroner, to inquire touching the oulds and insubordination. Whenever he took it into his head he death of Sarah M in Ki ,aged 47. The deceased was a lacewalked away, bidding defiance to his master, and was eviworker, residing ng-street, Warrington. She was fordently acting under the impression that the Lord Mayor had merly in good circumstances, but had been reduced. On Sunday Morning, as William Savage, the sexton of the parish no power to act in such a case ; that the indentures were a mockery, upon which no punishment would be inflicted. church of Warrington, was busied in the churchyard, he saw After some further conversation the Lord Mayor said, 1 a reticule basket in the adjoining field. He went to pick it convict the apprentice, and sentence him to hard labour in up, when he saw the deceased lying near the ditch, on her the house of Correction for one month. Defendant.—Oh, face, with her head covered over with a shawl, and one of her Lord ! what for ? The Lord Mayor.—For fl in in the face legs, which was discoloured, uncovered. She was covered of your indentures. I see how it is ;you have acquired a good deal such with mud. The surgeon who made a post mortem examinea knowledge of the business as to be able to ear lion of the body of the deceased, testified that her shins exof money, and now, instead of servingour master,-y hibited marks of violent bruises, and that from the appearabandon him. It is in my power tosentence ou to mpr ante of the lungs and brain, the deceased must have died of i youisonaient and hard labour for three calendermyonths. The drowning or suffocation. On the side of the ditch were defendant was then sent to the treadmill for a month, and marks, as if a person had struggled violently. It appeared his Lordship stated, that if any case of the kind should come that the deceased, who occasionally took intoxicating drink, before him again, the defendant, if not able to show good had, on Saturday night, purchased some tea, coffee, &e., reason for objecting, should most certainly be sentenced in which were carefully packed in the basket. In the basket the extreme penalty. which was found in the field, the articles were put very ' The sentence had wonderful effect roughly, and some of the coffee had been spilled. It was upon several lads who were said to be apprentices, and who proved that the deceased had been at a public-house till ten cut off to their day's work the moment they heard thh decio'clock, spin a man named Gill, with whom she had two sion of the chief magistrate.—[This decision is irectl in the glasses of spirits and water. Gill was in custody. From the teeth of the resolution come to by our stipendiary magistrate. evidence of Mr. Jones, the deputy constable, it appeared, He has, we believe, refused to interfere between masters and. apprentices where no premium had been paid, but we hope that a book which was known to have been in the possession that after so high an authority and such a respectable examof the deceased on Saturday night, was found at Gill's house ; t pie, he will consider it right to review the grounds on which that a pair of trousers, spotted with mud, similar to that on he has based the opinion he has arrived at, and redress a the clothes, were likewise found, and that his shoes filled grievance under which a great number of persons have for a fain footmarks found in the field, and in the path. The long time laboured from refractory apprentices, who treat the jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased was sh remonstrances of their masters with the most undisguised found suffocated, without assigning any means by which the thestrates. contempt, under an impression that the latter have no recame to her death. The accused was disci, nag but medy against them in the Poilce.court.—E. L. S.] whole case is to be thoroughly investigated by the