The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-03-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. On Sunday: last, James Younger, a boy about five years of age, son of Wm. Younger, hind to Mr. Laing, Fernyilats, lost his life in a very distressing manner. He left his father's house about nine o'clock iin the morning, and was seen for the last time alive, going about near the premises, about half an hour after. About eleven o'clock, a girl named Helen Laing, residing at the same place, while on her way to Letham, discovered the boy lying under a sowing-machine a short distance to the east of the house, with his face to the ground, and the box of the machine resting on the back of his neck. She instantly returned to the house, and gave the alarm ; and Mr. Laing and the mother of the boy hastened to the spot, which was reached first by the latter, who, having raised the box, lifted up her child, a lifeless corpse. It was supposed that the child had been creeping under the machine picking up the beans which were scattered about, and that, having touched the inner end of one of the limbers with his shoulder or back, had lifted them, and the points being thus raised, or at .least eased, from the ground, the support which had hitherto kept the box upright on its hinges was removed, and it fell forward on the back of the boy's neck while creeping below, and suffocated him by pressing his face into the ground.— Scottish Standard.  She stated before the coroner, that she was an unfortunate woman, was in great distress, and had no food nor milk for her child, which first prompted her to make an end of it, which was effected by throwing the innocent creature into the New River. The mother was the first person to give information of what she had done, immediately upon which the river was dragged, and the body of the child discovered. The poor woman appeared to have been driven to a state bordering on distraction by continued suffering. She had applied to the relieving officer of Marylebone, but was refused any relief, though she gave the age of the child. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" the mother.  against  EXECUTION 01  MATTHEW FOWLES .—The execution of this unhappy man, who was found guilty at our assizes last week of the wilful murder of Martha Keeling, at Newcastle, is appointed to take place on Saturday, the 3d of April. We learn that Fowles displays at present much indifference on the subject of his approaching awful fate assert'  -mg his innocence of the crime for which, on the most satisfactory evidence, he has been condemned to an ignominious death. He accounts for the possession of the ring of the deceased woman, by stating that he purchased it with a view of making a present of it to his sweetheart at Macclesfield ; and, when asked how it was he did not pay the tailor for the coat lie purchased the evening prior to the murder, he states that he bad the money, but the coat required some repairs at the cuffs ;• he also continues to affirm that the " tiddler," about whom he has said so much, and another man, were in the house during the night of the murder. The evidence,' however, is deemed so conclusive against him, that 3 it is not expected any effort will be made to procure a re prieve.—Staffordshiri Gazette,