The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-09-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

COINCIDENCE OF NAMES.-011 Friday kit.: Ser Mr. Mori-. day, head constable of the tovru of Northwich, Wia'pasaing John's Market, he felt a tug at his pocket, and, turning round, saw an urchin running off in a way which excited Kis suspicion. Ile immediately discovered that his pocket had beeti picked of his handkerchief, upon which he pursued the thief, who took re fuge in a cellar. He searched him on spot, and discovered the stolen handkerchief on his person. Mr. Monday delivered his .plisontrAnto the custody of Police-officer Thursday, yrtio 'happened to be at hand. The prisoner, who gave his name:as. -Robert Gardiner, was produced befOre the maj.,ristrotes on Sant tday. It turned nut on investigation, however, that he had given in a false name, his real cognomen being Seeley, so that the case stood thui liked MI6 custody by Mo-nday, deli. vered over to thieharge'tif 117ifirsdaY,'brciught Ifore the-enagistrates on Saturday, for having on Friday picked the pocket of Monday. Here we have only five days, n otwi hstanding:which it was a weak case:- The prisoner was, however, committed to Kirkdale Gaol for three months P s a vagrant. I tsciors'r.—ati inquest was held on Friday before Arrihrose Lace, Esq., coroner, to inquire touching the death of Ellen Shaw, an infant aged six weeks. Margaret Shaw deposed that the deceased was her only child, and was of delicate health. On Monday night, during a visit • to a neighbour, the latter had remarked to her that the child was in a fit. She had taken it to hed with her that eight, and in the morning when she awoke she had discovered that it was dead. Philip (;leave, a hairdress'er, deposed that• the parents of deceased dwelt in a cellar adjoining his shop. At about seven o'clock on Monday he was itanding at the door, when he saw lifargaret Sinks', with her in•fant in her arms, pass .up the Street in a state of intoxication. • In going down the steps into her cellar, the head of the deceased struck with great force . against the iron rails of the cellar entrance. Sarah Seeger deposed'to having seen the mother in a state of inoxicatioe on the Monday evening, and to having obobseried the deceased in a convulsion fit. Surgeon Lockwood was of opinion, that the deceased had died by suffocation. Verdict—Accidental death.  MELANCHOLY AcutilaNT.---On Friday afternoon, at about five o'clock, as a labourer named Arthur Williams, was passing through Vine-street, he observed several lots playing on the ground-floors of some unfinished houses. He stopped for a short time to observe them, when, after a few minutes, all. of them, except two, quitted the building, and continued their sport outride. The two above alluded to had mounted the joists of the first floor, and were playing them. Williams, who had his infant in bis arms, had by tliis time advanced to the threshold of one of the houses, and was about to enter, when he heard one of the boys call out, in an alarming tune, t' You are done! " He instantly started back, when, to his great consternation, he beheld the walls totterin, and the next instant the whole building fell in with a horrible crash. On the first note of alarm. one of the boys had thrown himself from the window, and ha,d thus escaped being killed. The other, however, a fine little aged eleven years, named John Carroll, was buried in (hernias, By dint of great exertion his body was found is about half an hour after the accident had happened, It was shockingly mutilated, and qnite dead.  tig;:  -.-,  . .  rCi~ t  lIELANCHOLI SUICIDE AT THE BIRIiENI-ILALT :kI01'1;4  On Saturday last an intittisition was taken at the Birkeuheal Hotel, Cheshire, un v;ew of the body of F.yton, 'Esq., a partner in the firm of Beck, Dodson, and )Eton, BAukers, Shrews.' bury, aged 38, who destroyed himself in the aboie Aotel un Saturday morning last. 'lt appeared from the evidence that fbe. deceased had .recently been labouring uuder a depression of spirits, and his brother-in-law, Lieutenant Ward, bad brought bins from Shrewsbury to Birkeuheaid, in. order to try a change of air for his malady. They arrived on Friday uight, by- the Hirondelle Cheltenham coach, and occupied a double-, bedded room in the hotel. About half-past six or near seven. the following morning Lieutenant Ward was awakened by a: noise in his brother:in•law's bed, and on goingto him to ascertain the cause, found the unfortunate gentleman With his throat cut in adreadful manner, and weltering in his blood. lie imp , mediately sprang to the• door to give the alarm, and found, it. locked and bolted, and before he could undo the fasteniugs- hi 4. cries brought the inmates of the house to his aid, who burst openi the door. 'Mr. Stephenson, surgeon, of Birkenhead, was' promptly in attendance, and sewed utt the wounds; but the un-' fortunate gentleman died from loss of blood in afew hours, having. breathed his last at half-past 9. Mr. Bickersteth, of Liverpool, was also sent for, but the deceased died five minutes previous to his Arrival. It did not appear from whence the deceased pro; cured the razor with which he committed the khocking deed, as his clothes were taken by his servant from his room after going to bed. Having heard the whole of the evidence, the jury returned a verdict uf " Temporary insanity." The body was removed in a hearse, at five o'clock yesterday morning, with the intention of conveying it to Shrewsbury; when, however, it reached Wrexham it was met bY two gentlemen in a post-' Chaise, and they ordered it 'to he brought back to Birkenhead, for interment. The funeral will, we understand, •take there this day. Mr. Eyton has, left a wife and large family to deplore their loss.