Widnes Examiner. — 1895-09-28 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

TUESDAY'S POLICE PROCEEDINGS.  On Tuesday morning, the prisoner, Edward John Cartwright, was brought before Mr. R. Garnett, and Mr. J. B. Fleming, at the Warrington Borough Court, charged with being suspected of haying caused the death of William Green, the landlord of the Shakespeare Inn, Dolman's-lane, at a quarter past twelve the same moreing, by shooting him with a revolver. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. The Town Clerk (Mr. J.Lyon Whittle) who prosecuted on behalf of the police, said that the defenzant was charged on suspicion of having caused the death of the landlord of the Shakespeare Inn, by shooting him with a revolver. He was charged on the statement made by the deceased man himself. They had no evidence against him further than that. The police were called in a little after twelve o'clock to: the Shakespeare Inn, when they found the landlord lying in the lobby of the place suffering from bullet wounds from a revolver produced, which contained at the time three discharged cartridges. He was shot through the mouth apparently in three places. The defendant himself was the one 1 who gave information to the police and brought them to the Shakespeare Inn. When the deceased man was seen by the constables he made the following statement, "lam dying. I have been murdered. It was Ted Cartwright who did it." Cartwright was a compositer at the" Guardian "Office. On being asked why he did it, the deceased man said " I don't know. He did it." The man was taken to the Infirmary and died at two o'clock that morning. It was upon that statement, which was a very serious one, that they had ch ,rged the defendant upon suspicion of having done it. Everything pointed to it being a case of suicide, but he asked for a remand pending the result of the coroner's inquiry. The deceased man, the defendant, and a fellow lodger had been out for a walk together in Stockton Heath the previous night. The defendant had been lodging at the house for some months. P.S. Cheney was then called. He said that from a statement made by the prisoner and a fellow lodger,they bad been walking out from eight to ten o'clock. Prisoner had said that he was about to go to bed when he beard the shots. Witness was on duty about one oclock in the morning, when he met the prisoner in Buttermarket-street. He told witness that he had better hurry up to the "Bang Up," as the Shakespeare Inn was called, as the" boss "bad shot himself. He asked for a doctor and witness directed him to Dr. Carmen's. Witness then proceeded to the house when he saw Green,the landlord, being taken in the kitchen by a constable and three or four others. Dr. Cannel! arrived soon after and witness asked the doctor's advice as to whether he must take the wounded man to the Infirmary. The doctor said that ,he had better be taken to the Infirmary. Immediately afterwards, the deceased man clasped his hands and said "I am dying. I have been murdered, and Ted Cartwright has done it." Witness stooped down to him and and asked him why he had done it and he replied" I don't know, but he did it." One wound was on the lip, and there was a graze on the neck. Deceased was then taken to the Infirmary, and witness went in search of the magistrates's clerk and a magistrate, but before one could be got, the man was dead. The revolver produced was lying in the lobby four or five yards from the deceased man on the floor. It was a six chambered revolver with three discharged and three undischarged cartridges.  The Town Clerk : I apply for a remand for a week.  P.S. Cheney in repl.V- in a question said tht the prisoner walked down with him to the police station and showed no hesitation.  Mr. Garnett : It was an:extraordinary statement for the landlord to make.  P.S. Cheney : Ha also made the MIMA declaration in the Infirmary at the last moment, Dr. Bowden tells so.  Mr Fleming: ft might be a case of murder. _ Mr. _  The Town Clerk : It is. if the landlord's statement is correct. The statement is admissibly against the defendant.  Mr. Garnett : A man in his dying moment would not make such a statement unless there was something iq it. The Chief Constable (to prisoner). Have you any relatives in Warrington ? No.—A n pone who knew you before you came:to Warrington? No sir.—flow long have you been in Warrington P—Two years this September— Have you parents living ? A father. The Town Clerk who did not at first nhj.et to bailesaid that he understood that the two men who were probable sureties would now have nothing to do with it. The prisoner was eventually remanded until Friday to await the result of the coroner's inquiry, bail not being granted.