The Lancaster Herald, and Town and County Advertiser. — 1832-03-10 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

JUDGE—The prisoner watched the constable through the small opening between the door and the door-cheek. Mr. Davies: I am the constable of Warrington, I got information of the murder on Saturday the 29th of October, and Arent to Dallam-lane, where the murder'was committed. The  1001rWhere the body was found was pointed out to me; I obi: Isnot quantity of blood in the cart-rut, and several marks ,#loge to where the blood was. They were about from four to *-*ix inches in length, and rather deep. I searched the pockets of the deceased, and found threepence in his pocket. His boots were off, and one of them appeared to me to bare been Ant off, as there was a slight incision on his leg. I then went to Burtmtwood to the house of Mary Pownell, the prisoner's sister, and there found two potatoe-forks, upon the prongs of one of them there were some marks of blood, and also upon the handle. I took the fork with me, I we; then in search of the prisoner. I saw him in a small garden near a pig-sty, and I took him into custody. I told him that I apprehended him on suspicion tof murder, and he did not say a word. I then took him into *house and asked him where he worked the day before, and he -.liaise did not do any work the day before. He said he went VW about ten o'clock the night before, and that be had not "Wgiiiiilatcliffe the day before. I then took him to Dallam-lane, ..irrhere the body was found. I then observed the impression of .a shoe within three yards of the blood. The shoe which was an the prisoner's right foot fitted into the shoe mark. One of he prongs of the potatoe-fork fitted exactly into one of the long rb whieh were near the blood in the lane close by the body. 11IIVIten I got the prisoner to Warrington, I searched him, and *NW upon him the pocket-book (now produced) with a lock if red hair in it. After the inquest, I sent, at the prisoners's + **quest, for the wife of the deceased, and she said that she had Oren him the pocket-book. Cross-examined—The spots of blood upon the fork were very *tight and might have easily escaped a man's attention; the marks of blood upon the handle appeared to be finger mar-s, but there was no mark of a bloody palm; the long marks appeared to be the marks of one prong of the fork, and were within an inch or two of each other; in the shoe marks the nails in the heel of the prisoner's shoe did not fit exactly ; before I examined ahe marks there had been a great many people to examine the place, but I did not compare the shoes of any of thme persons with the shoe-marks; the mirk which the shoe filled was three yards nearer tit Warrington than the blood in the cart-rut near gbe body.  Edmund Pierrepoint, another constable, was present when Davis compared the oboe with the footmarks, and they corresponded exactly. The distance between the house of the deceased And that in which prisoner lodged, is about 300 yards. Mr. Kellet, a surgeon, examined the body, and found several incisions, about four or five above the ears, on the sides of the bead; the wounds were about four inches long, and penetrated through the bone; The skull was fractured on both sides, such an instrument as the pitchfot It, now produced, might inflict such wounds, those wounds were the cause of the deceased's death. Croas-crantked.—The wounds might have been inflicted by blows of a spade. Ily the