The Manchester Examiner. — 1848-06-24 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

TFIE ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER AT RADCLIFFE. At the petty sessions, yesterday, a tall, stout, ferocious-looking man, about thirty years of age, of the name of Walker Ellwood, labourer, Radcliffe, who has been previously convicted of felony, was brought up by county-police Superintendent Sellers, under the following extraordinary circumstances :—lt appears that Mary Pendleberry, a widow, about thirty years of age, who is a power-loom wea.er, resident in Water Lane, Radcliffe, and who works for Mr. Hampson, Went to her work at half-past one o'clock in the afternoon, on the 30th of May last, leaving a girl named Leah Siddall, eleven years of age, in charge of the house. About three o'clock the same afternoon, the prisoner went to the house, and asked the girl for a drink of water. There was none in the house; but the girl took a can, and fetched, from a well near the door, some water, of which he drank and went away. The girl here pointed out the prisoner, and said, "That is the man." He returned in about ten minutes, after he had had the water, saying, "Your Mary (meaning Mary Pendleberry) has sent me for a shilling." I told him I had none; neither did I know where there was ally. He then got hold of me, throttled me, and threw me under the slop-stone, saying, "I have done With you." I lay there, but do not know how long. I afterwards recollect creeping by the wall to the next door. The Marks on my neck, eyes, and other places are those made by the prisoner.—Mr. Thomas Grundy, solicitor, appeared for the prisoner, and cross-examined the girl, but she positively asserted that the prisoner was the man who had assaulted her, and that he had thrown her down, and placed his knee upon her breast. The prisoner afterwards robbed the house of Xll in gold, 2s. 6d. in silver, and an old-fashioned Watch, No. 66,91 j. The prisoner, who has been missing since the robbery, was apprehended in Bolton on Monday list. Re had upon him a pawn-ticket, from which it appeared he had pledged the watch in Liverpool on the 6th of the present Month. The watch was produced in court, and identified by Mrs. Pendleberry as being that of her late husband, and had been stolen out of her house on the 30th of May last. aseveral persons swore to having seen the prisoner near to Mrs. Pendleberry's house from two o'clock to three o'clock I n the afternoon.—Martin Finnigan, sergeant of the police force at Bolton, stated that he apprehended the prisoner in Bolton, and told him was charged with having, on the 30th of May last, irno gold, and of Mary Pendleberry, at Radcliff; of .£ll .n that he was also charged with attemptinz to strangle a little girl. The prisoner made no  reply.—Thomas Saunders, being sworn, said, I am assistant to Mr. Byford, pawnbroker, No. 81, Dale-street, Liverpool; the watch now produced is the one pledged at our shop on the 6th of June last, in ,the name of John Allen, Waterloo. The pawn-ticket nihkritodarted, which was found on the prisoner, is my handitritifigAut I am not certain the prisoner is the person who pledged the watch.—Mr. George Holmes," surgeon, sworn, said that he visited the little girl shortly after thes.robVerN the eyes appeared almost out of the sockets; she had been-nearly strangled to death. There certainly appeared 'to—have been extremely great violence used, and she had lost a deal of blood from her ears and nose. The prisonek was fully committed for trial at the next assizes. ~,,,:v2. \ a46.