Widnes Examiner. — 1883-10-20 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

VOO. Between that time and the Saturday or Sunday before the murder nothing unusual seemed to have taken place. His will was made in favour of the prisoner under circumstances of pressure. Prisoner had nothing to gain by the will, but if the old man had changed his mind and made another, prisoner's interests would have been seriously injured, and if any quarrel took place between prisoner and deceased or prisonees relatives and deceased an alteration of the will was imminent. In putting the will into his pocket deceased made a remark that he might alter it, but he would see how they (his relatives) went on. Prisoner was therefore not altogether safe in considering himself the old man's legatee. On the Saturday or Sunday before the murder a quarrel took place between the old man and prisoner's wife. It did not seem a quarrel of much consequence, but an undoubted rupture of some kind took place. I They had no very definite and certain evidence as to the nature of the quarrel, and prisoner's wife could not be celled. About seven o'clock in the evefiing of Monday prisoner's wife left the farm and went to her father's house and informed them of her intention to stay during that night. That same night deceased appeared to be in his usual health. He seemed to have gone to the Jolly C trter, where he had a little drink. He left the publicabout 10-30 and went home. Prisoner stated that this was the hour his uncle arrived. About that time prisoner made 'his appearance at his father-in-law's house. They were all in bed, but prisoner's wife and mother-in-law got up and went down stairs. A conversation ensued, of which practically the prosecution could not get particulars from Mrs. Bent, except that Mrs. Gibbon complained of ill-usage from the deceased. Prisoner remained until midnight, and then went back to the farm, and he remained there until the following morning, when the murder was discovered. It was upon evidence on prisoner's own admission that during that night no persons occupied the farmhouse except the deceased and the prisoner. About 4-20 on the morning ef Tuesday, Sep. 18, a man with a cut saw a light burning steadily in the kitchen or houseplace, showing that some person was tip and about the house. Prisoner, on his own statement, got up at five and went about his work in the ordinary way. This was important. Prisoner occupied the front bedroom, and there being no doer to the room of the deceased he must have discovered the condition of the old man, if he had not known before, when he got up at five o'clock, the two doorways being exactly opposite each other. Prisoner called at his father-in-law's house for a cup of tea at 5-45, stating that he had a headache. There were 11 injuries n the body of the deceased, and the throat, according to the medical evidence, had been cut after death. Some of the injuries on the body were of the same shape, and he thought it would be pretty clearly established that some of those wounds corresponded with the shape of the nails on the toes of the prisoner's boots. Though prisoner had made a statein(•nt that he had very little money on him, when searched he had over LIO on him, and had possession of the will of the deceased, bankbook, and other papers. Some evidence was called, and the hearing was further adjourned until this day week.  REAIARKABLE DISAPPEARANCE! Of all Dirt from everything By using