The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-03-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

APPREHENSION BY A FEMALE.—On Tuesday a fellow was seen near this town to go up to the cottage of a poor woman, and soon after a shirt was missed. Suspicion falling upon the stranger, a woman named Martha Bartup, living next door, immediately started in pursuit of him, and after a two-mile chase came up with him. Sh 'tared '  She then .natelv on  ,ne immediately coi, mm, and having unbuttor coat, found the shirt concealed on his person. led her prisoner back to Takely, but unfc arriving there found that. the constable was at attending the sessions. Determined not to giv, captive until she had safely handed him over to the law, she started with him for Dunmore police-station, a distance of four miles, and had marched him a great part of the way, still holding him by the collar, when a waggon came up, and the driver put the fellow into it. The woman, with meritorious perseverance, walked behind to prevent him from escaping ; but before they reached Dunmow, a police-officer drove up, and the thief being given up to him, was safely lodged at the police-station. I  On Friday he was committed for trial— A MAN MURDERED BY HIS SISTL__ week a man named Harris, along with a r named Mary Hoom‘r, went to Honiton-n  cartload of hay to sell. This.they effected, and then went to a public-house, where they partook of some refreshment. and deceased became inebriated. Instead of taking the cart home themselves, they sent it home by another person, the deceased imagining that the walk would enable him to get the better of the drink he had taken. The moment after _he commenced walking,  however, he stumbled and fell down in ihe-road.  sister came to him and persuaded him to get up, but he was unable to do so. She then flew into a violent passion, struck him several times with her fists without being able to rouse him, when at length she kicked him in brutal manner over the head and face. I  )es havii caked m  and the head terribly mangled ; so much so, that death ensued. A neighbouring farmer found the unfortunate man deluged with blood, and scarcely able to articulate. Mary Hooper was committed to the Devon county gaol on the capital charge. An extraordinary degree of excitement has been produced at Aberdare by a report of the state of society in that parish, written by the Rev. J. Griffith, the Vicar, and printed in one of the Blue-books of the Commissioners on Education. The report states that drunken ness is very prevalent at Aberdare, that the men are destitute of decency before women, and, vice versa', the women of feminine modesty before men, morality being at a low ebb with both; that workmen in many instances live in dwellings too expensive for their station in life,  On Wednesday night a crowded meeting was held in Siloa Chapel, Aberdare, when, although it was admitted that there was drunkenness and immorality in the parish, it was contended that the general body of the inhabitants had made as much progress in improvement as those of other places. The statement about the luxurious dwellings was also denied ; it was complained that Mr. Griffith had made his report within one short month of his coming to reside in the parish. Resolutions to this effect were agreed to ; the objectors, however, disclaiming any personal towards the Vicar, or hostility towards the Established Church.