The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-04-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BRANDT.-My father keeps a public-house in Dukinfield. The Saturday before the murder four persons came to our house about eight o'clock in the evening. They went into the tap-room. The door was closed four times, and I opened it that I mi*ht see that nothing wrong was going on. I took them a pint of ale at. first; they were three-quarters of an hour in drinking it then I took them another pint. Two of them were sitting on the form, and two on the table. One of the two who sat upon the table was the prisoner. One of them on the form had a paper in his hand. After I had taken the 2d pint the door-way closed again, and I opened it. Cross-examined.—The paper in the man's band was like a long sheet of letter paper. Samuel Beckwith, father of the last witness, said that when he came home he found four men in the tap-room. One of them was Williams—he was not sure whether Hulme was one—and the others were Hardwick and Davies. After staying an hour they went away. Williams, Davies, and one of the Hardwick 's. came back in twenty minutes afterI was taken I wards.  Cross-examined.—Davies appeared rather intoxicated. William Dobson.—l am an excavator at Ashton-under• Lyne. On the sth December I went into Beckwith's house  with a soldier. There were there Hulme, Williams, Davies, and Hardwick ; Davies and Hulme were to my right. Hulme was kneeling between Davies legs. He had with him a basket : he was dressed in a round jacket. Cross-examined.—l mean to swear that Hulmewas there; but at first I was rather in doubt of it. James Whitehead.—l was landlord of the King's Head in Ashton-under-Lyne in December. Hulme has been there several times with Williams. He was there last on a Sunday  morning, tnree weeks or a fortnight before the murder, and asked for a pint of beer which, he said, Williams authorised him to get. I refused to give it to him. On the 11th De• cember Williams was at my house, with Davies and the two Hardwicks. The latest time I saw him then was between 4 and 5 o'clock. That was the last time I saw him. Cross-examined.--Other clubs 'met in the same room as the sawyers' club. He passed the bar to go first, and Davies went out with him.  Samuel Cowley said he was assistant overseer of Ashton. He confirmed the statement of Kenworthy having applied to him togethis wife out of the Lunatic Asylum.  Ann :Marshall.-1 am the wife of Joseph Marshall. I remember the day Cooper was shot. On that day I was at Ralph Kenworthy's house, which is a quarter of a mile from Mr. Whitfield's sawpit. Williams and Davies came in.  Ralph was at home. bne of them said they wanted to speak to him, and they all went out together. Ralph was out about ten minutes : he then got his tea. I saw no more of Williams or Davies.  Joseph Gill.—l was in the Ashton market-place on the afternoon of the 11th December. I saw the prisoner Williams and Edward Davies pass through the market together. Betty Travis.—l am a widow, and live at Ashton. On the 11th December last, I was coming from Stayleybridge to Ashton, when I saw Williams at half-past four in John Kershaw's field. He was going towards his home. I watched him go over the cut [canal]: _ This is rather more  than a quarter of a mile from Mr. Whitfield's sawyard. I went forward into the town, and passed Mr. Whitfield's saw-yard. I do not know what time that would be, but it went half-past four when I was in Kershaw's field. I heard a loud report about half an hour after I had passed Whitfield's yard. I saw three men standing in the road, on the same side as Whitfield's yard, but I do not know who they are. One of them was very low and slender. I heard the report exactly at 10 minutes before six o'clock by Ashton church. Cross-examined.—The last point at which I saw Williams _  was by flab Hole's swing-bridge, which is a good way from Whittleld's saw-yard. The three men I saw near the yard were outside of the yard. I did not know them. I have known 'Williams thirteen years.  iy the