The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-09-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND.  On Monday morning a young womannatned Catherine Green was murdered by her husband, Joseph Green, at the house of a person named Ogden, in, Back Biackley-street, in this town: The parties, we, understand. were monied in November last, since which time they have lived in a most miserable state, in consequence of the female's irregular habits. Two or three times they have been separated, and on one occasion the deceased employed a number of men to way-lay and beat her husband. On Sunday they met in the street, after a separation of some weeks, and on the female promising to be more circumspect in her conduct it was arranged that they should again live together. After passing .the night together in a double bedded room at Ogden's, about six o'clock on Monday morning, Honoria Rogers, a sister of the deceased, called her up to.get to work. She refused to get up, saying that she did feel inclined to work, and she should not go to the factory that day. As soon as the sister was gone, she got out of bed, and leaving her husband, went and laid herself down on the other bed. Her husband was offended at this and upbraided her with her conduct, telling her that he supposed she was going to do as she had done before, run away from him. Her only reply to him was " Let me alone, I want to go to sleep." The husband's rage now became ungovernable., He jumped out of bed, and seizing a rave- which he had bought on the Saturday night previous, with one stroke inflicted a wound on the left side of the neck and throat which divided all the vessels, with the exception of the carrotid artery. he unfortunate woman sprang from tbe bed, and thrusting the blanket into the gash prevented the blood from flowing for the moment. Her strength enabled her to reach the winduW when she cried out, "Murder, Mrs. Ogden, help me to cry murder ?" She then removed the blanket Irons her throat, arid instantly fell to the floor covered with blood, and in twenty minutes she was a corpse. Mrs. Ogden hearing the alarm ran upstairs, and found the deceased on the floor, her husband kneeling over her on one knee. As soon as he saw Mrs. Ogden,. he said " l have done the deed and I know I must die ; but her mother has been the author of it all, and our blood will be upon her head." To another woman who came into the room, alarmed by the noise, he said " Send for a runner, I don't care if I die now," The•alarm was speedily spread over the neighbourhood, and, 'before a police officer could be fetched, Austin one of the watchmen who lived nearly opposite, secured the prisoner, and he was conveyed in custody-to the New Bailey. Mr. Rutter held an' inquest on the body on Monday evening, when a verrliCt of " Wilful murder" was returned, and the prisoner was committed to Kirkdale gaol, to await his trial at the assizes. The prisoner and the deceased, we understand, were both about 21 years of age. The prisoner is a. Roman Catholic, and about ten weeks ago he made a vow, which he says he has religiously observed, not to taste intoxicating liquors. He is by trade a spinner, and we believe he bears a good character amongst his neighbours —Manchester paper. :0 •