Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-08-21 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

ALLEGED WIFIC MURDER AT LITERPOOL.—At the Liverpool Assizes, en Wednesday, before Mr Justice Archibald, Jas. For, a plasterer, 43 years old, was indicted for the murder of his wife. The ease was one of brutal depravity. The prisoner and his wife were drinking in a public house on the 6th July, and quarrelled about money. The quarrel was renewed, whoa they got home to the cellar in whieh they lived, and after roughly using his wife in various ways the prisoner took a hand-brnsla aud struck her on the back of tke head with such foroe as to break the brash. The woman died some minutes afterwards, her skull being fractured. In summing up, the learned judge spoke with great earnestness upon the necessity of improving the social condition of the people of the prisoner's C1(199. The jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to penal servitude for life.  A CHILD Losr FO6 Five Yeats. The other night, a widow named Roach, on her way from the north to Manchester, where she wes expecting to work as a seamstress, entered the tramp ward of the Preston Union Workhouse, at Fulwood. Next morning, prey ions to leaving the place, she charmed to say in the presence of a woman named Mansley and her children, who were also in the Workhouse, that five years ago she lost at Preston a little girl named Mary Ann Roach. Oue of Mrs hfansley's children—a little girl—noticing the name, said that a playmate of hers at the Workhouse often used to write her name down as "Mary Ann Roach," saying, whei doing so, that she had two names. Subsequently the porter at the Workhouse made some inquiries, questioning the woman Roach and the girl separately. The way in which each of them referred to certain names and events agreed so markedly that there was no loug-ir any doubt as to the girl being the daughter of the woman Roach; the latter was allowed to take charge of her, and they left the workhouse together. It seems that the girl was admitted to the house about five years ago, having been found in the streets. When admitted she was about eight years old, and that time she nave her name as Neril, that being her mother's maiden name. The girl had been taken out by a girl at Preston and lost. The mother, on recovering the child, stated that she had traversed the country for milmi round in search of the child. On two or three occasions the woman, who is the widow of a soldier, has stayed for a short time at the Preston Work. house, but owing 'to the child having given in the name of Nevil she did not hear of her.  attacked.  A. CLEIIGIN/N —The Rev R. S. years vicar of Moorwinstow, whc.. -.94 at Plymouth on Sunday morning, was rsoeived into the Roman Catholic Church on the previous evening by Canon Mansfield, of the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Plymouth. Before the Wesleyan Conferenoe closed its sittings at Sheffield, it adopted a resolution recognising " the had of god in the great work effected in this oountry through the instrumentality of Messrs Moody and Sankey," and directed that a copy of the resolution should be forwarded to those gentle. men.  I Roman.  ----A. correspondent of the Times writes:—" I think that it is a fact worth noting that only on the four following occasions since 1773 has the Bank of England niinimum rate of discount been so low as 2 per cent., at which it now stands—namely, April 22, 1852, to January 6, 1853; July 24, 1862, to October 80, 1862; July 25, 1867, to November 19, 1868; July 18, 1871, to September 21, 1871."