The Sun. — 1846-02-05 (London, England)

MURDER NEAR MANCHESTER. MANCHESTER, MONDAY EVENING.—This morning Nathaniel Curry, a spinner, in the employ of Messrs. Murray, of Ancoats, who is in custody upon suspicion of having thrown a young woman named Ann Ellison into the Rochdale Canal, at Newton, near this town, was brought up at the Salford New Bailey for examination, before H. L. Trafford, and James Hayward, Esq... Mr. Beswick, chief-superintendent of the Manchester borough police, conducted the prosecution; and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Aspinall. The evidence was to the following effect :—On the evening of the 10th of December last, at about half-past nine o'clock, a man named Scott, who lives near the Rochdale Canal, at Newton, observed a young man and woman walking together on the towing-path of the canal, but on the other side of the water to where he was standing. The man had his arm round her neck, and had got one of her hands grasped within his own. After walking I together a short distance, the female called out " murder ; ' but presently walked on with her companion. In a short time they got out of sight of Scott, who again heard the girl call out. "Lord ! dear me; don't murder me; do save my life." This latter sentence he describes as having been ejaculated in a half-stifled voice. As he would have had to go a distance of a quarter of a mile to have reached the bridge which crosses the canal, he appears to have troubled himself no further in the matter, but walked quietly home. In the course of half an hour afterwards some young men, who were on their way home, saw something in the canal, and upon getting a stick from the hedge succeeded in getting to the bank the load body of a young woman. They &Int for the police, and upon searching her pockets two books were found in such a condition that it was quite clear she had only been a short time in the water. The body turned out to be that of Ann Ellison, and an inquest was held on the body on the following day by Mr. Rutter, the county coroner, and a verdict of "Found drowned" returned. From inquiries which were made by hr. Beswick, the prisoner was apprehended. The girl was a "big piecer" fur him at Messrs. Murray's mill; and as he had been known to be extremely lax in his conversawith her, at times, it was suspected that he had some band in the matter. Two young women, named Russell and Farrington, swore most distinctly to having seen the prisoner With a young woman answering the description of the deceased, in a field close to the canal, on the night in question, a very short time before the body was found; and upon the body being woman, who had always borne a good character for exemplary exhumed, it appeared that the unfortunate young conduct, was three months advanced in pregnancy. Other eircurnstancts were stated in evidence, tending, in some degree, to strengthen the suspicion against the prisoner, who was remanded until Tuesday next, for further examination.  that countdr. Earl and Countess Granville have left town for Staffordshire, the Noble Earl having gone to vi-it his estates in by Lady eorgiana Fullerton, has left Mount Felix, near The Dowager Countess Granville, accompanied Walton, to visit Lord and Lady Rivers, at Rushmore Lodge, Dorset. AN