Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-07-29 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

WEST RIDING SUMMER ASSIZES: THE EARBY MURDER.—The Summer Assizes for the West Riding Division were opened on Tuesday at Leeds Town Hail. The Commission was opened in the Crown Court before Mr. Justice Grantham. The following local gentlemen were sworn on the Grand Jury :  Messrs. F.. Beckett Faber Stray Lea, Harrogate (foreman), M. Amcotts Wilson (Eshton Hall), R. L. Hattersiey (Springfield, Keighley), Jonathan Peate (Newroyd House, Guiseley). In addressing the Grand Jury, his Lordship said that though, as far as the number of cases was concerned he was afraid ho could not congratulate them that they would have much less to do than on the last occasion on which he was at these Aasizes—there now being 67 prisoners for trial—he was glad he could congratulate them on the 1 absence of any difficult cases and on the absence of I any very serious crime. It was true there were two cases of murder, yet they did not present those revolt- ; ing details which were found in many cases. The I first case to which his Lordship alluded was that in which Moses Cudworth is charged with the murdsr of his wife at Earby. The prisoner was walking along rs lone with his wife, and apparently took up a stone and beat her with it until she died. What the than's motive was his Lordship did not know ; whether he was under the influence of drink he could not tell; but there did not appear to ba much evidence that the I prisoner did not know what he was doing. Havirg referred to the case of he man Chippendale, who I threw his two children out of a railway carriage win- ! dow and afterwards attenipted to commit suicide, his : Lordship said that as far as he could see there was . very little crime occasioned by drink. That was a source of very great satisfaction, and he was happy to say that he had noticed the same thing in the various counties on this circuit through which he had passed. The fact that there was an apparent diminution of crime through drink spoke well for the publicans of the county, because they might depend upon it that a great deal of crime that was the re ult of drink might be laid to their charge. When people ware euppied with drink after they had already had too much, they often lost control of themselves, and left tha publichouses only to commit crime Now there was apparently a great ireprovsinsnt, and it gave him very great pleasure to draw attention to na—No Bill.—The Grand jury threw out the bills against Mary Ann Holleran (17), spinner, and Mites? Ann Bogen (22), spinner, for larceny at Barnoldswick and Silsden.—Strange Conduct of a Father.—Edmund Chippendale (24), labourer, pleaded guilty to having assaulted his child, Albert Chippendale, thereby occasioning him bodily harm, at Memiton, on the 21st i July. Mr. Felix appeared to prosecute. The I prisoner and his wife and two children were travelling to Shipley in the train on the day in question. When near Menston, and while the train was in motion, the ! prisoner took hold of the children and threw them Out of the window. Fortunately one of the children ' escaped practically unhurt, and the other, though injured on the head, had recovered. While at the Shipley Police-station, Chippendale attempted to sseeetasit sui,,,; by liareing.— His Lordship, addressLe ing the prisoner Zwho appa....ea? to a very weak condition), said he must consider himself foitunroe that he was not charged with wilful murders He appeared to have suffered in health, and he could only suppose that it was in a fib of ungovernable temper that he threw the children out of the carriege window. The prisoner was committed to gaol for twelve months.