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- OSB OF THE SC 3 UST PROOFS OP A BAD HEAEI is . the tnraing mto ridicule all that is good . By Coloxel Wakbfiked ' s report of the Colonv * t Jxovr Zealand , we perceive that the best place for a locations « Flat Fish Cove . " This must be interesting to toe gudgeons at home . —Age . in Qr T ? , 0 SS a * d Asswebs . —Whj is a race-horse like a k- 'ivpop i— The more it is licked , the faster v ' gtC * S " ^ are the " ^ " 2 Ministers not like lolly-• ;¦ pra : — The more they are licked , the faster they UO . ' ?;• ' ^ 0 . ^ C -k-UsxTi vi all Things /'—Two boys with CJay . - i -r fingers , both natives of Ohio , are now exlOurt in ^ ' at 231 , Broadway . Beat shis-Europe if you can . — _\ ac York Paper . T :: v . iDiTOB of the Times approves highly of the fo . ; G ^\ vuj maxim : — " If a cbil word or two will
xeaacr i msn happy , he must be a wretch indeed who vtLl not give them to him . "—Pity that he doea not caiTj out the principle . —Age . The State has no right to inquire into the opinions of people , either political or religious ; they liive a right only to take cognizance of their Actions . Mro . psrrH ' s Last . —Why is a hearse like a Turkish Cabbt-i?—Cozit ' s-a ' * Die-van "—[ Oh , Lord ! who will -ideriake to say that thi 3 is tolerable ? We are Kt' ! ,-. }—Age . The Barbadoes Liberal , of the 7 : h of December , contains the following advertisement— " A clerk wari ' .-i , for the sole purpose of making out bills , Tendering accounts , and dunning for money "
A i ^ aFECT Mai > ma > - ' . —A man has be « n confined In ihe Philadelphia Asylum for the Insane , for picki . s ; a printer ' s pocsetJ He must hare been berelX of his senses to undertake to rob a printer . E . i - -aT a > -d Waoxo . —An ill-natured cynic said , that I he charity of a beneficent neighbour was indeced by a wish to be extoked . " Ay , Sir , " replied the tb ? e-it of his charity , " if -we see the hanfe of a ¦ clock ^ o right , we are sure that the mechanism insde cannot be going very wrong . " Gf . vjixe Sessibilitt . —True feeling does not stay to ca l culate with weights and a balance the importance and magnitude of every object that excites a . It flows impetuously from the heart , without consuking the cooler responses of the understanding .
CaiKiSAL Statistics . —In the calendar of prisoners Tor trial at the late Maidstone Assizes , were eleven persons charged witn stealing trifles , amounting altogether to the sum of four shillings and threepence-halfpenny ! R : a .-rkt . —An habitual drunkard having found in a dr . a in a cup of excellent wine , set about wanning it , i ) enjoy it with more gout . But just as he was abou : to quaff this delicious draught he awoke . * V > i ^ i a fool am I , " said he , " Why was I not content : o drink it cold !" A raKPABAiosT Stcdt . —Before any man sets out to invent perpetual motion , we recommend his praei ;< iag the trick of getting into a basket and Ufung uimself by the handles . When he- succeeds &t that he can go ahead with perpetual motion with some prospect of success .
A ruBiiAS Sabbath . —Article 17 . No one shall -Wn on a Sabbata day , or walk in bos garden , or elsewhere , ^ accept reverently to and from church . 18 . 2 fo oue shall travel , cook victuals , make beds , sweep houses , cut hair , or shave , on the Sabbath-day . IS . 2 \ o husband shall kiss his wife , and n » mother kissiier child , on the Sabbath-day . —Blue Laics of Connecticut . Sociawtt . —We are but passengers of a day , whether it is in a stage-coach or in the immense ttacbine of the universe . In God ' s name , then , why * jbould we not make the way as pleasant to each pShtt as possible ! Snort as our journey is , it is loDg enough to be tedious to hint who skulks in his corner , -. fits uneasy himself , and elbows his neighbour to Stake him anaasy also .
. Pei 3 Utivb Illttmisaiios . —At Tucuman , on oc-• Casioua of public rejoicing , Bquare thick pieces of agave leaves are hollowed out , filled with tallow , £ nen set on fire , and placed on the window-Bills , in pUce of lamps and lanterns . Three Attractive Names . —At a wretched looking public-house in the neighbourhood of Clare Market , where an article called " Butter of Gin" is sold , is a bill in the window , stating that on Sunday evenings a " Judge and Jury Society" will be held , When the Lord Chief Justice will take the chair , supported by Mr . Adolphus , Mr . Clarkson , and Mr . Platt .
The Nestob of the French army , Antoine Delpuech , lately died at St . Corain , in the 120 th year of his age . Delpuech had served during the succession war of Austria , under the orders of Marshal de Saxe . On the 11 th of May , 1745 , he fought at Fontenoy , where hia entire company , commanded by Jean de Calonne , was destroyed , with the exception only of himself and four , others . Walking is the best possible exercise . An Indian goes on foot nearly as far in a day , for along journey , as enfeebled white does on hi » horse , and he will kire the best horees , A little walk of half an hour in the morning when you first rise is advisable . It shakes off sleep , and produces other good effects in ; &e animal economy . —Jefferson ' s Memoirs .
A Covscasnovs Husbasd . —A Portuguese used - to give hie wife a sound thrashing once a month , beiore he went to confession . On Deing asked the re £ ? on , he replied , " Why , 1 have a very bad memory , &ad should be T « y apt to forget my sins at - confession , which you know wonld " be a shocking afair indeed . Hence I apply this wholesome discip-- line to my wife , for while the castigation goes on she 8 sure to bawl out every fault I have in the world , and thns my memory is refreshed . "
It was a test fine _ thing to be a lord some hundred years ago . Nobility was then at its pitch of pride . But tunes are considerably altereu . Something more than mere accident is now required to make a man generally respected and admired ; and , though an illiterate lord may still be a great lion at a watering-place , the world at large will be apt to " . prefer the noble of God ' s making to the privileged puppet of a patent , Pbkachixs . —To preach to Bhow the extent of our ¦ readiojr , or the subtleties of our wit—to parade it in the eyes of the vulgar , with the beggarly acconnt of . a little learning , tinselled over with a few words which glitte ? , but convey little light and less warmth —is a dishonest use of the poor single half-hour in a week which is put into our hands . Tis not preaching the gospel , but ourselves . —Sterne .
Destitutioh amoxgst the Workxsg Classes . — On Saturday last , a baker , in Calton , thinking that his beggar customers were on the increase , fell on the following plan to ascertain the number who ¦ visited him in one day ; He put one hundred small biscuits in ' . o a basket , and gave each beggar one as they came in . He opened his shop at seven o ' clock in the morning , and by six o ' clock in the evening only thirty-six biscuit * out of the hundred put into
the basket in the morning remained . Ajtecdote of Akpbbe . —Of Ampere ' s absence of mind a droll anecdote is related . Being out one day at dinner , be completely forgot where he was , aad imagined he was at home . Not happening to like Bome of the dishes of which he had partaken , he eselsimed aloud , under the supposition that he was addressing bis wife or his sister , ** I never sat down to a more execrable dinner . ; Why do you not get a better cook V—Polytechnic Journal .
Microscopical SociBTr . —The third meeting of this . newly-formed Society was held last Wednesday evening , at the rooms of the Horticultural Society , Begent-street , Professor Owen , President , F . R . S ., in the chair . There waB a large attendance of members , and amongst several new ones elected were . the Marquis of Northampton , J . G . Children , Esq .,
F . R . S . A Loxg Nosed Editor , —It is staged that the » oee of the editor of the Baltimore Clipper is so large , .. that he has to cat bis straps and let himself up before he can see oyer H . —Gin . Paper . We have a tolerable nose , that every body knows ; but we know a eertun editor out-west , whose nose is so long that it takes him an hour to smell , fixing the Telocity of scent at a medium rate . —New York Paper .
A Lazt Dog . —One of the American papers reflates that a farmer , finding a dozen of his men idly v -Stretched oat on the ground , offered a dollar to the one who was the laziest of the lot . Eleven jumped - np , asserting their claims to the reward , each declaring himself ** the laziest dog in the universe . " However , the fanner gave tie dollar to the twelfth , who had slothfully kept his position , and who , when the reward was assigned to him , murmured out *• Can ' t yes pot it in my pocket I' '
Tanfos is Axerica . —They take things coollj in the Slates , —fighting governors , smashing steamers , nothing- comes amiss -. —Fights —Ex-Governor Runnels , of Mississippi , recently assaulted Thomas Kearney , at Jackson , with pisto s and a bowie knife . On the 19 th instant , H . D . Cross shot George E . M'Daniel , at Benton , Arkansas . Singular . —The steamers Hugh L . White and Hermitage smashed in each others ribs on the 14 th- inst ^ Bear Harpeth shoals . The Hermitage sunk in ten feet of water . Only one life lost . Blown Up . —The steamer Brazil , somewhere in the lower part of the Ohio . She was totally destroy *! .
A Modkrm Cikciksatus . —The following statement , with reference to the future President of the United States , appeared in the Louisville City Gazette- — The warmer of North Bend . —Some gentlemen , a few days since , visited the veteran Harrison , at North Bend , and found him , flail in hand , thrashing out wheat in bis bam . This is the mitn whom office-holders and destructives affect to despise . He jb the people ' s man , for he is of them . . He will thrash the little magioian out of hiB magic » ext November . "
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¦ — SENTENCES UPON THE CHARTISTS . Saturday , March 21 st , 1840 . The Crown Court was opened at nine o ' clock this morning , and the Right Hon . Justice Erskine immediately proceeded to pass sentence upon the Chartists and other prisoners convicted during the assizes , whose sentences had been deferred : — Samuel Holberryf sedition and conspiracy , at Sheffield—Four years imprisonment in the gaol of Northallerton , and totlnd two sureties to keep the peace in £ 10 each , and himself . £ 50 . . .... . Thomas Booker , similar offenci—Three years in NorthalJerton gaol , and enter into recognizance , himself in £ 30 , and two sureties in £ 10 each , to keep the peace . Wm . Booker , ditto—Two years in Northallerton gaol , and to enter into bis own recognizance to keep the peace for two years . James Duffy , similar offeuce—Three years in Beverley gaol , and enter into his own recognizances of £ 20 , fj keep the peace for three years , with two sureties of £ 10 ear . n . SENTENCES UPON THE CHARTISTS . _ . __ . .. _ .
Wm . Wells , similar offence—One year ' s imprisonment hi Beverley gaol , and enter into his own recognizances for £ 20 , to keep the peace for twelve months . James Pring ! e for forgery at Sheffield—Fourteen years transportation . John Marshall , Thomas Penthorpe , and Joseph Bennison , riot , &c , at Sheffield— E-acn to be imprisoned in Northallerton gaol for two years , and enter into their own recognizances of £ 20 to keep the peace for two years . John Copley , sheep stealing—Transported for ten years .
Robert Peddie , Wm . Brook , Thomas Drake and Paul Holdsworth , conspiracy with indent to create riots at Bradford , were sentenced , Peddie to imprisonment in Beverley House of Correction for three years , and to enter into his own recognizances for three years , in the sum of £ 30 , and find two sureties of £ 10 each . —Brook , three years in Northallerton gao ] , and euter into his own recognizances for £ 30 to keep the peace . —Thomas Drake , Beverley gaol for eighteen months , recognizances £ 3 (> , three years . Paul Hold ? worth , tbreo years in Nortbalierton House of Correction , and tho sarte rocoguizances as Brook .
John Walker , Joseph Xaylor , John Riding , Phineas Smithies and Francis Rishxeorlh , convicted of riot at Bradford , were sentenced to imprisonment , Walker , Naylor , Riding , and Rishworth for two years in Wakefield House of Correction , recognizances £ 30 each ; and Walker and Smithies iu Wakefield House of Correction for eighteen months , recognizances £ 30 . Peter Hoey , James Crabtree , and Wm . Ashton , unlawfully assembling at Barnsley—Two years imprisonment in Wakefield House of Correction recognizances £ 30 each . John Smith , highway robbery , two years imprisonmeut . William Brook , highway robbery , fifteen years transportation .
John Appleton , for attempt to violate a child , two years imprisonment . Wm . Martin and Charles Fox , for conspiracy at Sheffield , were sentenced—Martin to twelve mouths without labour , in the gaol at Northallerton . Fox to one week in York Castle , from commencement of Assizes .
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EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ABDUCTION FROM A BOARDING SCHOOL . NORFOLK CIRCUIT . HUNTINGDON , Wednesda y , March 18 . ( Be / art Mr . Baron Parke . ) Frederick Barratt was indicted for having taken away , and detained against her will , Mary Ellis , a young lady entitled to certain moneys ia the funds , and other property , from motives of lucre , with intention , as some counts of the indictment stated , to ruai / y , and , as it was alleged in others , to detUe her . Mr . Biggs Andrews and Mt . Btles conducted the prosecution , Mr . Sydney Taylou and Mr . Gunning were counsel for the prisoner .
The prisoner Barntt , it ho u a music-master , in very considerable practice as a teacher of the pianoforte and singing , in Stamford , has a rather handsome person , and a gentlemanly exterior . He appeared at the bar like one who deeply felt the situation in which he was placed , though collected enough to make frequent communications to his solicitor and counsel . Mr . Andhews , in a very able and temperate address , stated the case for the prosecution to the jury . Miss Mary Ellis was then called . She appeared in court in deep mourning for her mother , -who has died since the event which led to this trial took place , and who was dangerously ill at the time . As she was allowed to wear her veil down , her features were not very distinguishable . She . s said to be very handsome , and is only in her seventeenth year , but , to judge from the manner in ¦ which she answered in court , her intellect is considerably riper than her years .
She was examined by Mr . Byles , and the following are the principal points of her evidence as it bore upon the charge against the prisoner . She stated that she had firet known the prisoner Bstratt in the beginning of the year Ib 38 . when he taught music at the school of Mrs . Wilson , at Stamford , where she became his pupil , and -was instruct ' d by him to play on the pianoforte and sing . He subsequently paid his addresses to her , which she favourably received , but her guardian and relations were adverse to the match , and insisted npon her breaking off the intimacy altogether . To remove her from the neighbourhood of Stamford , where she had so many opportunities of keeping on the intercourse , they sent her to school at Miss Focock'B , &t Somereoam , in Huntingdonshire .
There he contrived to hare & stolen interview with her by means of a servant , but the thing having come to ; the ears of Miss Pocock , that lady wrote to her i friends , who , upon receiving the information , in-I sisted that Miss Ellig should address a letter to Mr . Barratt to say that , in accordance with the wishes of her family and friends , their I correspondence and intimacy mast cease for ever . That ' ¦ letter was addressed to the prisoner on the 10 th of February last , but within a few days afterwards Miss ! Ellis availed herself of an opportunity to write a letter I in pencil to the prisoner , to remove from his mind the impression that in -writing the former letter to break ; off all further acquaintance she was actuated by any I chacge of seutinusnt , or by any . other motive than a
dread of living under the displeasure of her family and friends , who had givea her the alternative either to renounce all correspondence with him , or cease to have any share in their affections . That last letter was written only about a fortnight before the 3 rd of March , on which day the act of abduction took place , under the following circumitances : —Miss Ellis was walking with her schoolfellows , accompanied by the governess , Miss Teale , and Miss Maria Pocock , daughter of the mistress of the school , a litiie way out of Somerahaui . The young ladies were walking in couples , Miss Ellis and Miss M . Pocock being together in front , and Miss Veale , with another young lady , in the rear of "the column , " which consisted of nine or ten couples , when Miss Ellis , who hod been speaking to Miss M . Pocock
respecting her discarded lover , Mr . Barratt , happened t « turn her head , and , on looking behind , saw Mm driving np with another person in a gig . She immediately exclaimed to Mis » M , Pocock , " There he is , I declare ; let me take hold of your arm . " Scarcely had she pronounced these words , when the prisoner came np behind her , placed bis hand on her shoulder , and then , taking her in his arms , carried her to the gig , out of which he -had jast before alighted—she straggling and » creaming , and all the young ladies screaming in unison . On placing her in the gig , he held her back in it while the other prisoner drove off at arapidrate on the road toward St Ives . At St . Ives the other prisoner , Mayle , got out of the gig , and B&rratt himself drore to the Taunton Inn , in
Huntingdon , where they alighted , and he transferred her to a post-chaise . H » told her , before he left the inn , that he was going to take her to her mother , who was then very ill at Peterborough . She expressed some doubt about the truth of his statement , when be said , " If she doubted it , she might order the post-chaise for Peterborough herself . " That induced her to believe him —bst when he had banded her into the post-chaise , she heard the landlady say , " It is 33 miles to Thrapstone , " and from that die inferred that he had not told her the truth about going to Peterborough , for she knew Thrapstone was not on the road to that place . He did drive her in fact to Thrapstone , the blinds of the chaise being down all the way ; there they changed
to another chaise , and thence he drove her to Wellingborongh , where she stopped at the inn for a few minutes . He terrified her by producing pistols on the way , and at one time threatened to shoot himself . From that be took her in another chaise to Northampton , and passing through that town he drove her to the railway station at Weedon , where her brother , who resided in Northampton , suddenly rode np , accompanied by a pslice-offieer , and pat an end to the farther progress of this adventurous lover towards Gretna Green ., by depriving him of the beloved but persecuted object of his desperate attentions , and leaving him in the situation of a successless and lamenting " Coelebs in search of a wife . "
The cross-examination of the prosecntrix by Mr . Sydney Taylor lasted four hours and ten minutes , having commenced at ten o ' clock , and ended ten minutes after two . As the charge of felony mainly rested npon the evidence of this young lady , as to her not having been a consenting party in any way to the alleged abdnetion , great efforts were made to break it down , and obtain from her admissions favourable to the supposition that she was not altogether so adverse to the proceeding of the Lothario of this romantic drama of Somersbam , as she affected to be . With this view , the
whole course of her intimacy with the prisoner , from their first acquaintance down to the time of the abduction , as well as all that took place afterwards , from the " gig and pistol scene " near Somerahain , to the melancholy denouement at the railway station at Weedon , was minutely gone over , and certainly the whole of the narrative , as it came out , by working in various ways upon the temper , disposition , aad feelings of the witness , afforded as pretty materials for a sentimental novel , or a" romanee of real life , " M we hare erer seen . There were many proofs of affection for the prisoner ,
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which the lady denied , many ^ that she , did , not remember , and many which / he ' admitted / and v ^ ich being admitted , were sufficient to prove that npjto a few days liefore the " alleged abduction her attachment * to him , as well as that ofblm to her , of which freqnent mutual « ywrs hftd been registered in Heaven , " remained * unaltered : M the beginning of their intimacy she had offered him a pair of " white gloves , which she taid she had lost to him in abet , but he declined to accept them , taying it would be an impropriety whieh would draw observations upon them . 8 he had also worked him a pair of slippers , asked for a lock of his hair , and accepted of him a ring , " which , up to the moment when she was under cross-examination , was still in htr possession , being deposited in her which the lady denied , many that , did , not re- mPinW and manv wh&h Am hdnHftAH r anW -M , l ^ i
dressing-caso at Peterborough . When at ichool at Stamford she had gone to toe theatre to « e the performances of a celebrated conjurer , named Festo , » lth Mrs . Wilson and her pupils . Mr . Bairatt came there and sat beside her . During a part of the perTormances the theatre was darkened for the purpose of giving a more striking effect to some of the conjurer ' s necromantic exhibitions , and Miss Ellis admitted that , though the prisoner did not actually kiss her while the gloom of incantation was npon the senses and faculties of the audience , he attempted to snatch a fciss , and , though he failed in that , was allowed to sit ' for r > me time with his arm round her waist . She never s "id a ¦ word of the prisoner ' s conduct to Mrs . Wilson , or any of her relations , though she told some of her
schoolfellows of it the next day . No impropriety of conduct was imputed to the prosecutrix hoyond recehlng attentions sach as those which showed that she entertained a very strong attachment for the prisoner at the bar . She admitted that he had advised her to inform her own relations of her attachment for him , and the result of the disclosure was a refusal on their part to sanction the engagement which had been formed between Miss Ellis and her lover , and which led to all the unhappy consequences that followed . It was quite certain , irom the young lady ' s admissions , that she was devotedly attached to the prisoner up to the very time of the attempt to carry her off in the way described . In all other respects her conduct appears to have been perfectly blameless ; and , indeed , until
the desperate course of resorting to . an act of abduction by the prisoner took place , neither party had acted in any other way than according to the allowable indulgence of lovers looking forward to a future and honourable union . A grtat portion of the cross-examination turned upon her conduct in the journey with the prisoner from the place where he put her in the gig until theycame to the railway station at Weedon . She admitted that when passing through the turnpike-gate on her way to Huntingdon , where the prisoner stopped to pay ton , Bhe made no attempt to let the toll-maker know thatshe was carried off against her will , nor did she make any communication of the sort to the landlady or landlord at the inn at Huntiugdon . She said the prisoner told ker he was taking her to her mother's at Peterborough , and she did not believe him until they got to Huntingdon ; and yet she made do attempt to 1 st her situation be known to
two gentlemen who rode by the gig on horseback before they got to that town . She wow hut veil down during the journey , but denied it , was because she feared to be known . At Northampton she passed through the street in which her brother lived , and gave no alarm there . But what was a most extraordinary part of this strange afiair , the brother , when he took her from the prisoner , allowed them to have a private conversation together in a room at the inn , while he retired to the window ; he als * drank part of a bottle of sherry with the prisoner , who kissed his sister , with one arm round her neck , before they parted ; made an agreement with her to correspond , which she said she did not mean to keep , being disgusted with his conduct , and yet shook hands with him , and bid him " good bye , " when the chaise in which her brother had placed her was about to drive off
The usual legal proof of the prosecutrix being a lady entitled to property was given . It was proved that si « would , when of age , be in possesion of £ 2 , 100 partly In the funds and partly out at a mortgage , under the will of a Mr . Whitwell , a relation . Jt is understood that she will be entitled to more than doable that property , but the prosecutor ' s counsel had not the means of giving the necessary formal proof * of IV It was proved that the prisoner said he bad seen the" wfll of Mr . Whitwell , and that he knew Miss Ellis would be entitled to £ 220 a-year . The case for the prosecution having closed , Mr . Sydney Taylor addressed the Jury for the prisoner . His speech occupied an hour and three quarters . Two or three times during the address of the Learned Counsel expressions of sympathy burst out from the audience , but were of course instantly repressed .
The editor of a Northampton paper , a gentleman connected with the Stamford Mercury , and some other respectable persons , spoke to the character of the prisoner , and said that they did not believe him capable of a dishonourable action . Mr . Baron Parkb summed up the evidence , and explained the law to the Jury in a most luminous and able manner . In the outset he stated , daring the whole coarse of his professional and judicial experience , which was not a short one , he had never met with such a case as the present . The Jury consulted , without leaving the box , for about twenty minute * , and returned a verdict of Not Guilty of felony , but Guilty of" the ' common assault , with a recommendation to mercy on account of the inducement held oat to him . i Mr . Baron Parke then ordered the prisoner to be imprisoned in the county gaol for tie term of nfteen calendar months . , '
This singular case occupied the Cottrt from halfpast eight o ' clock in the morning until eight at night , and terminated the business of the Huntingdon Assizes .
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DIABOLICAL MURDER IN A BOAT ON THE ROCHDALE CANAL , MANCHESTER , AND APPREHENSION OF THE SUPPOSED MURDERER . ' An inquest was held on Monday afternoon last , * at the Infirmary , Manchester , on view of the body of a m&n named William Che ^ tham , who was found murdered in bis boat , on Sunday evening last . The Coroner , in addressing the Jury , briefly stated the case into which they were called to inquire as follows : In stating the nature of the inquiry which they were now met to investigate , be would just observe that this would involve a serious charge against some peiaon ox other , and the probability was , that the prisoner , James Hanson , would be the man they would hare to commit .
The circumstances of the case were shortly these : On Saturday afternoon last , three men were drinking together at the Brownsfield Tavern , BeftTor-street , Port-street He believed they were fellow-boatmen , in the employ of Mr . Shepherd , the owner of . tiieJooat in which the deceased was afterwards found . It appeared that they got together in this -way . A man of the name of Clayton , captain of the boat , and the priioner were together at an eating-house in Tibb-street , whenoe they went to a house in Port-street , and , after drinking a quart of ale together , they went to their boat , which was plying npon the Rochdale canal , and was being loaded at Brawn ' s Fields . The boat not being loaded , as they expected , they adjourned to Brownsfield Tavern , where they met with deceased , and drank some more
beer . They all continue 1 together till about half-past six o ' clock , when the deceased left them , the two others continuing there till about a quarter before eight o ' clock , when Clayton left the prisoner at the public-house , saying he was going to the Leeds railway to take his place to Mills Hill , bat would return the next morning in time for their boat . On returning the next morning , as he passed the Brown's Field Tavern , he saw the prisoner standing at the door , and immediately on going up to him , the prisoner said , " Poor Will is dead ! " ' Nay , " replied the other , "surely not ; " and they both went together to the boat . On opening the cabin , Clayton ( the captain ) perceived the deceased on his knees on the floor , and the other part of his body on the bed . He called him by name , but he not answering , he went up to him and shook him ; but still he did not answer . This excitinc
his cariosity , he took hold of him by the hair of his head , and on looking at his face he perceived that be was dead , that his lips were , blue and swelled , and that he frothed at the mouth- He was also mam braised about the face , aad there were several marks of blood upon the floor . Clayton also further deposed that there was a broken slate upon the floor , bat nothing el « e transpired except that they Went for a policeman , and having found one near Ancoats Bridge , he and they , in company with one or two others , proceeded to the boat , where they discovered the body as already described . They had the deceased conveyed immediately to the Infirmary . One of the policemen , when the body was got on shore , found a part of a briek which was covered with blood . These were the circumstances of the case , so far as he yet knew ; and it would be their duty to enquire who had committed the awful deed .
James Clayton was then called , and * in addition to what is stated above , further deposed that the deceased was without his hat , which was lying on the floor , broken in pieces . In other respects he was dressed . He had two black eyes : the upper lip was much swollen , and the end of his chin was scratched , and the left cheek -was much scarred , as if he had been , dragged along the ground . His nose was also bloedy . Did not look at him so as to speak further as to the injuries , bat blood was upon several parts of the floor . One of the marks was about the size of half-a-crown , and appeared as if it had been occasioned by repeated dropping . It was not dry but stiffi There was a broken slate in the cabin , which witness had not seen before that morning . He did not notice the prisoner ' s clothes , or his appearance , and did Mot suspect him . Did not notice any marks of feet ox aouffllnK on the deck , or other parts of the boat - " ?""» v ""
James Bold , a boatman , in the employ of Messrs . Thomas , Boothman and Company , of Brown's Fields deposed that about a quarter before eight o ' clock on Saturday night , as I was drawing up one of the paddles of the Brown ' s Reid locks , for my boat to pass , I observed a man jump from the wall of Mr . Bridge ' s yard , adjoining , upon one of the balance poles of the lock . He cried oat after he had jumped upon the pole , " D—n your eyes , I'll cut your bloody head off" He then stooped as if to pickup some stones , and then ran to the stern-end of Mr . Shepherd ' s boat , which ,
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jras tten ta j ^ e c"n 4 l . I then perceived a manhaving his l ^ pd ^ tat ' tfrf the ' cabin , and the first man began to 1 * " ^ ^^^ ^ Jwiefc « at him , and - wm *<> tlM >» j which he picked off the ground . After he had done this , for about two minute * , he jumped upon the stemend of the boat ,, and turning towards me > said : " D—n his eyes , Jem , what iaust , l da ; with him , —m kill him . " The other man was : calling ouf " watchman . " I answered . " leave him alone—I think thou ' s done enough at him . " jU 8 t before this the man who had been throwing the stones had been leaning over the other , and had given him a kick which ssemcd . to be a heavy one , and , I think , must have been was then . in , &hec"ttal . J then perceived a man having { . l a W < 4 >* A , *> Ar * iwii . _ ii £ ' / i . *__ i . ^ r . J *
the cause of the m » n '| i death . I did not hear him cry out again , and all vras still afterwards . But I observed the first-mentioned man , immediately after the kick , jump into the hatch-way , and throw the stones out of the boat upon the ibank , which I thought was curious . I then left my boat , and returned to an empty boat at the Ancoats end of the' canal On my way I called at the boat-housei and told the woman there what I had seen , and that I thought the man was badly hurt . About an hour before I hod seen the deceased approach his boat and eater the hatchway . He appeared to be fresh , but at the time I could not d ' Btin&aiBh the man so as to know him .
Toe prisoner , James Hanson , Oldham-road , Rochdale , was then esked whether he had any questions to pskthe witness , to which he answered " No . " Tho witness said he thought the prisoner was a great deal bigger than the man whom he sawthroTring stones , and wore a pah * of light-coloured trousers . A pair of fustipi . trousers were produced marked with blood , which f ' ie prisoner admitted he had worn ; but the ¦ w itness could not swear to them . He did not know the prisoner ,- and his voice seemed to be different to that of the man who threw tho stones . John Clayton was Again called , and further deposed . I am captain of this boat ; the prisoner said he had that night been robbed of some corn , and a sr k , and some bread , and that two other boats had been robbed besides , which had been done ^ as stated by the deceased , by four men and a woman . The prisoner also stated to witness that the deceased told him that the four m&u and the woman had followed him and beaten him .
The prisoner had no questions to ask the witness . George Rose , a private watchman to Mr . Binns , of Brown ' s Field , stated that about five or six minutes ppst seven o ' clock on Saturday night , wfiile on duty , he heard a cry of " murder" two or three times , while he was sitting in the boiler-house hear to the canal . He went into the engine-house , and opened the window opposite to the place ¦ whence the cry proceeded , and perceived a man jump out of one of the boats , and go into a slate yard . When this man had jumped out of tho boat , witness saw the head of another man from the top of the cabin , upon which the man who jumped out of the boat with an oath swore that if he could find a stone he would cut his d—d head off . He said he would make him remember for throttling him . The
man then went and got two or three stones , which he threw at the man in the cabin , and went and picked up others which he also threw at him . ' The man then went down the yard and got some more stones , and on returning threatened to murder the man , saying , "D—n your eyes , I'll murder you , " and then threw the stones . He again brought some more stones from the lower end of the yard , and on his return said he neither cared for them nor their boat , for he could get another to-morrow . He threw those stones into the boat also , and afterwards he got other stones , and jumped upon the top of the cabin , and threw them into it ( as witness thought ) upon the man . Witness did not see the man ' s head at that time ; but shortly
afterwards , he saw him put it out of the cabin , and the man who had thrown the stones was sometimes half in and half out of tho cabin , but he ( witness ) went away , and took no further notice . It was just about dusk when all this happened . The man had trousers on like those produced . He could not swear that the prisoner was the man . Witness did not say anything to the men , because boatmen are often fighting , and witness was afraid they would throw atones at him . On the following night , having heard that a boatman was dead , he then told what he saw . The man who was throwin the stones appeared to be sober , but the other man appeared to be about three parts drunk .
James Howarth , boatman , of Coarshaw Clough , near Middleton , deposed , that on Saturday night , about ten minutes past nine o ' clock , the prisoner shouted out to me to know whether I hod any matches , but having none he went to Mrs . Jackson ' s , which is close by , where he got a light and made a fire in the cabin of William Shepherd ' s boat . I observed Wm . Cheetham , the deceased , sitting on the bed . He was very bloody about his shirt sleeves , which hung over his hands . One aide of the deceased ' s face was blojdy . He said he had it done in the cabin , but the prisoner said he had had it done in Manchester . When the fire was put oti I went on board of my own boat to bed . The deceased said there had been men on board who had done it 1 am sure the deceased spoke to me , but cannot 8 wearwhether he said it was " men" that had done it , r " a man . " Next morning , about six o ' clock , I went
into the cabin to the prisoner and the deceased , and asked for a ' rope which Hanson had promised to lend me . Hanson was in bed . He got up and dressed him , and then went to the deceased whom he called " Bill , " and on his not answering he punched the deceased on his shoes to awaken him . The deceased was laying on a different bed from that on which Hanson had been laying . He then got hold of his jacket sleeves and shook him , shouting out " Bill ! " He then pulled him off the bed , seeing that he did not answer . Tam not sure whether the deceased hod a hat on or not I then asked Hanson for the rope , which he gave me , and I went away . I was not surprised to see that the man did not move , because knowing he had been drunk the night before I thought he might still be drunk . I did not notice the deceased any further , and did not go into the boat afterwards . I saw nothing different in Hanson ' s appearance or his dress .
In answer to a question by a Juror , the witness deposed that when he went into the cabin in the morning he thought he heard the deceased snore , and said to Hanson "he ' s asleep yet " The prisoner being asked whether he had any questions to ask , replied that he had not , that the deceased rolled into the bed again after the witness went away , and said he would have another hour ' s sleep while Hanson went to seek for the Captain , who had not been aboard that night The Jury , at the suggestion of the Coroner , retired to look at the boat , which was not far , distant from the Infirmary , and then adjourned until eight o ' clock .
Inspector Butcher f-aid , I went to the boat , and first asked the prisoner if he knew what had occurred ? He told him he had gone to the boat between seven or eight o ' clock on Saturday night for a feed of corn , that he had got it and went to the stable for the horse , and returned to the boat ; that he then saw the deceased , who told him that he had been followed on board by four or five men and a woman , who had beaten him and pummelled bis head . He said he had asked deceased if he had known any of them , and he replied that he did not , and that they had followed him into the boat , and served him in that way , and had robbed him . He ( prisoner ) said that after that he went to a public house where he got forward in liquor , and remained there till between ten and eleven o ' clock , and he then told
the waiter that Bill had got a good beating . He said that he went to bed and lay till six o ' clock , in the morning . He then awoke deceased and told him that he was sleepy and would lay half an hour longer . That he ( the prisoner ) then left the boat , but found him almost dead . That he then went to the Captain , met with him , and took him to the boat , and that afterwards they came to me . On going into the boat , I saw the deceased lying on his back on the bed , and I ordered him to be conveyed to the Infirmary . The body was quite ¦ worm , but dead . Part of the brick now produced was found in the yard . [ It was marked with blood on one edge , and on two of the aides . ] There were three distinct marks apparently newly mode on the door of the cabin , as if by stones or bricks .
Mr . William Smith , House Surgeon to the Infirmary , had made an inspection of the head and body that morning , and stated that there were two or three slight lacerations ion the scalp , and effused blood under the scalp . There was a fracture of the skull extending from the top of the head to behind the left ear . Inside the skull there was a very large quantity of blood effused , which pressed to » considerable extent on the brain , and caused death . There was nothing in the chest of abdomen to account for death . There were appearances in the stomach as if the deceased had been drinking . A fall Or a blow might have produced the injuries on the skull , but not from the fist The injuries might have arisen from more blows than one . Deceased could not leng have retained his censes aftei having received those injuries . There were no other external appearances except slight bruises on the face . The inquest wa * adjourned until Friday .
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Cam . Con . —At the Sheriffs' Court , Norwich , an inquiry came on before Mr . N . B . Palmer , to assess damages in an action brought by Mr . Trafford , of Wroxham Hall , against Xieut . Ellis , of the 9 th Lanoer e , for adultery with plaintiff ' s wife , the defendant having suffered judgment to go by default . The Attorney-General , Mr . Austen , and Mr . Evans , appeared ;; for the plaintiff ; Mr . Thesiger and Mr . Bodkin for the defendant' The Jury , after about ten minutes' deliberation , returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages , £ 500 . The damages were laid at £ 3 , 009 .
Lacby and Witts' Dsfence Fund . —The committee for the defence of Lacey and Witts request all persons holding subscriptions for that purpose to transmit them on or beforo tho 28 th of this month , to Mr . Rowland Lacey , Secretary , Combe Road , Wotton-under-Edge . The committeo hope this request will be complied with , inasmuch as the assizes will commence on the 30 th instant . The committee likewise tender their thanks to Mr . John Siddaway , Gloucester , for his exertions on behalf of the two young men , and hope that the appeal recently made ia the Northern Star has not been lost sight of by our friends in other parts of the country . They beg to acknowledge the receipt of 11 s . from a few friends at Ulcey ; also from London various items to the amount of £ 1 . 16 s . ; and from Chippeuham , various sums amounting to 10 s . 9 d ., after deducting postage and post-office order .
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.,, W WHS EDITOR OF THE NORTBKEN STAB .. ( , , >; Sib , —I dare say you have heard somethTnf of the > nan who does the , LeedsMetCm >—y < M moat have heard of him ; because his illimitable and peerless function of fabrication has crowned Win with imperishable a&d ever-to-be-remembered eelehrity . ¦ That matchless limner , f the latfr William Cobbatt , delineated his character with such sccuraoy that none save the Whig-blind , can err with respect to the man , if they murder their time by wading through the least portion of the lucubrations of Le Grand Meitteur du Nord . . ; ,, . ' .. . .. .. . .: . - ¦ ' , :: . ' ..,. ¦; ,: ¦ . . . - . ¦ . I should : not trouble you at this time , by noticing the Great Hatchet-bearer ( I don't allude to the btoody \ axe affair , ) did I not think it right to correct an error into which his " respectable correspondents t ! /•' sometimes falL - ;¦ . ¦ :. ., '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ... ¦;¦• . ¦ . -. ' , . - - ¦ - ¦ -. ... . .. - -
The public , or rather the readers of the oracle of Truth , are informed , at . certain periods , when the lying mania is at its height , that your paper has bees hawked about some distant town or Tillage , ami disposed of at a price much belowthe specified charge . Now , Sir , ! think those respectable correspondents must have made a mistake with reference to the name of the paper , or else some dirty printer ' s devil , or some queen-groaning saint has erased the words Leeds Mercury , and insei ^ ed
the less vulgar ones—Northern Star . I will tell you why I think so . On Saturday night last I took a Btroll through the Free Market , and you know in a market there are a variety of articles ,. and a variety of caterers to the public taste . ! There are things worth picking up , and things not worth picking up . I picked up the thoughts I "now send you ; but the article that created them was not worth pocket-room , so others thought as well as myself . *
One of the caterers wasengagedinhanding forth food for the mind , which he disposed of on the Dutch ' auction system . He had publications issued by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge—but three pennyworth of useful knowledge would not draw forth a single penny- —four penny-worth of Monkey History was then offered for the low sum of one penny , but that was no go . Now , something else must be tried to draw the ' browns "—and what d « you think it was ? Why , the celebrated Leeds Mercury was offered for the low , shameful , and scandalous price of one penny and no buyer—just the price of the stomp , and " no one have it ; " no , none would have it , and it was passed away to its resting place with this epitaph uttered by a by-stander , " wodn't hev it geen . "
I need say no more than sum the matter up thus ; the Leeds Mercury was offered for one penny , within two minutes walk of the Emporium of Truth , but it was put on the shelf .
" How nave the mighty fallen !!" Yours truly , William Rider ? ¦ Leeds , March 24 th , 1840 . P . S . When it is stated in the Mercury that some of his contemporary ' s papers have been offered at a reduced price , be sure it is the Mercury itself ihat is meant A thief sometimes joins the pursuers , ; and is the loudest in his cries of' stop thief . ' ^^
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TO THE PEOPLE OF YORKSHIRE . My Friends , —May be you are anxious that J should proceed with my narrative—so am L My earnest desire is , as soon as possible , to make yon fully acquainted with all the circumstances , of my case . I wish you to be my judges , you who have been first selected , and afterwards most insultingly rejected , by my wealthy and poweuul persecutor . Yes , my friends , I am indeed anxious that you should not only know why I have been banished from my native country , and why the gentlemen of Yorkshire have been , en masse , so grossly insulted to serve the cowardly purpose
of one of their " own order ;'' bat I am also wishful to lay bare before you the cunning contrivances of those individuals who have so successfully duped the Squire and made him believe , not only that I am bis enemy , but also , that all the gentlemen of Yorkshire , who are liable to serve as special juries , are not to be believed on their oaths ; nay , that they are all of them so terribly afraid of—who do you think ? why , that they are all bo frightened of me , that Mr . Thornhili could not hope for justice at their hands ! When yon read the affidavit of the Welshman , which you shall
soon see in print , you will then know that I am justified in what I have said ; and when I have taken you into his parlour as he took mo , ( after introducing himself tome in the Ceurt of Common Pleas ); and when I have told you all the strange things that passed there between us , and the manner in which be reported the same to his confiding client—when , I . say , I have communicated all these facts , with a few others about the Welshman , the Vicar , and the " monstrous clever fellow , " you will be enabled to judge between the Squire and myself .
But , anxious as I am to proceed , I am bound by my duty to the enslaved Tactory children , to suspend my narrative , in order that I may call your most serious and solemn attention , and that of the Government , to one of the most extraordinary circumstances which I have ever yet met with . You are aware that my Lord Ashley has obtained a Committee of the House of Commons " to inquire into the working of the Factories' Act" That Committee is uow sitting . We all know that the " working " . of that Act is delusion , lying , fraud , and oppression—that we all know ; it appears , however , that there is' a
party in Yorkshire who wish to persuade the public that its " working" is murder , and that the Coroner and his Jury are so completely the tools of the system , that they are willing to burke investigation and enquiry ; and upon a case half heard , ¦ where a factory girl has been killed , to return a verdict of "Accidental death . " You will not suspect me of any too favourable ' bias towards the factory masters ; but , my friends , when I read the account of the " inquest" on the body of Martha Myers , a factory girl , aged fourteen years , who is said to have died in consequence of a blow upon the head , received from Isaac Roper , aa
overlooker in Mr . Addison ' s Mill , at Bowling , near Bradford , I felt convinced that . the ' " report , " although stated to have been drawn np , " afterpaying particular attention to the evidence , " was really published in the form which I have received it , for the purpose of convincing the " Select Committee , " that uuder the " working of the Factories' Act , " the life of a factory girl is considered of no moment , and that th « Coroner and his Jury only sit over the body of one of them , when she is killed , as a mere matter of form . I was so convinced , that this " report" was false , and that it was published with the evil intention of wickedly maligning the Coroner .
his Jury , and the factory system , that I instantly forwarded the newspaper to Lord Ashley , in order that he might , at once , officially put an end to the malicious slander , by moving for a copy of the depositions taken by the Coroner at the inquest I am happy to say that , yesterday , I was informed , that hte Lordship haldetermined to make a motion in the House of Commons ' on tha subject So far , then , I have done my duty . I cannot , however , meanwhile , allow this fabricated " report' * to obtain credit , to the injury of the Coroner , bis Jury , and the factory masters , but will , In this letter , shew you the reasons I have for believing it to be impossible that the " report" can be true . '
The gentlemen most interested in having this matter fairly stated , are the Coroner , George Dyson , JEsq ., and the Jury , which is stated to have been composed of" Mr . Edward Bipley , foreman , Mr . Joseph Clayton , Mr . James Petty , Mr . Benjamin Berry , Mr . B . Gomersal , Mr . Henry Sutcliffe , Mr . Benjamin Tankard , ' Mr . William Swain , Mr . Robert Seed , Mr . Edward Spnrr , Mr . David Sjpurr , and Mr . Robert Brownbridge . " In justice to them , I state all their names , in order that they may have the opportunity of defending themselves against the vile ; and slanderous " report" The " report" is headed , in large letters , for the purpose of attracting attention , " Inquest—Alleged case of Manslaughter : " and then , in order to make tbe ~ public believe that the statement and circumstances are correctly reported , it is stated that—
" A considerable degree of excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood , in consequence of a report having obtained circulation that A girl employed in Mr . Addison ' s mill , ; in . Bowling , had been killed by the overlooker . As this charge seriously affected the character of an individual , and perhaps his liberty , and as it was considered to affect the- overlookers in the factories generally , we 4 eemed it necessary to pay particular attention to the evidence adduced on the inquest , which took place on Monday last at the Wheat Sheaf Inn , in Bowling , on view of the body of Mauha Myers , aged 15 , daughter of John Myers , a woolcomber , residing in Bowling . " You see with what caution the slanderer pretends to have acted . You will now remember , my friends ,
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¦ .- - - ^ T ^ that what follows purports to be a solemn inqnjw into the cause of the death of one of hex Majeatyasafy jec ^~ miavcpirjf tefo ^ Vyu ^ -i ^ Birijirosm fL . people * and * Jury ¦ w fl * nto-do tfieirfaty—wnwmkgr that the " overlooker , " who isiBjfaifteue tneacea * ia said to have been present , ft it nWfitAttd to « u » tofy bat only as a witness of the proceedrnga . I The " report " states , that— . i ' "The first witness examined was Mr . Robert Klrby surgeon , of Bradford , who . deposed as follows : —I iW ^ called in to see the deceased on Monday last , the s ^ T inst My assistant had been to -visit her the day pit vious . When r I first saw her , ahe complained of AnJi that what follows mudoH . to te »< 1 LL- " - . it va * "A ** I 0 UOWS pW ^ 'OrU tO DO a tJOiamn inqaW
pam in her head . The symptoms at that time wereg feeble pulse , difficulty of respiration ; and some degr ^ of irritability of the stomach . i J 8 be was at that V ^ Z out of bed , but she crawle * to it while I was praiaf Her . parents ascribed her illness to a blow she rfca * received from her overlooker , some time previously ,. -aw by which she had been pushed or knocked dbw ? and falling against an i * oni > in « i , iMkd Injured lier -he « Thempther pointed out the place-whew the injury w been ,, but there was at that . time no external woub ? nor any mark of external violence . The pain continue * to increase , and other symptoms appeared which inS cated inflammatioh of the £ bnms membrane of tl » brainwhich
, symptoms gradually increased till Thurg day evening , when stupor cfime on , which was sot : ceeded on Friday by cohTolstens , which continued til Saturday Afternoon , when she died . I have this morn , ing made a post mortem examination of the deceased There was no fracture of the skull , but immediately oq removing the skull-cap I found the fibrous membrane of the brain presented marks of severe recent inflamma . tion , particularly at the point which had been namt 4 as the seat of the injury . On removing this membraae I found it adhering strongly to the brain , particular on the upper pait and near to thecentre , which cotre ponded with what the mother had mid about -the en .
largement of tne integuments after the accident , b ^ which had subsided about a woek afterwards . TLt whole of the vessels of t '? . e brun were congested , andf found a quantity of coagalous fluid on the ventticit of the brain . I bare no doubt that the inflammation was occasioned by either a fall or a blow , aometiq * before I was called in , which concussion hadcansej * inflammation of the fibrous membrane . This disease it sometimes very insidious , and a considerable thai elapses before the symptoms deyelope themselves , Aa
inconsiderable blow will sometimes occasion < nO * nwn ^ tion of the fibrous membrane . The length of til * which bad elapsed between the accident and destfc was perfectly consistent with the nature of the dim * I have no doubt that the cause of death was < "fl » nv mation of the fibrous membrane of the brain . Is * of opinion that if a proper course of treatment had bees employed immediately after the accident , - life might have been preserved ; but at the time I was called is the disease was too deep rooted for medical skill to bt of service . "
Mark well how this gentleman , whose evidence is m » clear as to the cause of the child ' s death , is made ; bjf the " report , " to call the bruta ^ attack of the " owpl looker" upon the child , which had been described t $ him by " her parents , " a the cause of her illness—j mere ; " accident ; " as though it were an every day fie ¦' . tory concern , unworthy of farther notice . Mark alsc ^ that we are left to believe that Mr . R . Klrby , althougk avowedly attending a patient whom he wss infbn&ad " by her parents" had received her death wound trot " her overlooker , " was never asked by the Corontj what account the child gave of the attack of " . hti overlooker" to him ; there can be no donbt that In
would have inquired of the child every minute pu& cular of the transaction . Then again , it doea not appear , from this " report , " that the Coroner e > et asked the surgeon ; if , when he found that t | ti life of his patient was in danger , a \ thoa& well aware of the cause of the injury to whty "her illness was ascribed ; he had given notice to tS authorities , and had caused her dying deposition to | taken ? or whether he had caused the " overlooker " i be apprehended ? There can be no doubt that , and * such circumstances , the surgeon would feel it to beldif duty thus to act ; and that , if he bad failed to do iaj most assuredly the Coroner would have very sevefe ^ j reprimanded him for such a flagrant neglect of his duty But this garbled " report " would lead one to believe , that , because it was enly a factory child that had bee *
killed , neither the surgeon , nor the Coroner , n « r Um Jury cared one rush about the matter , thus exhibitinj the workings " of the Factories' Act" in a most murd * ous light There is , however , enough let out , ere * in this " report " of the surgeon ' s examination , to convince the jury that Martha Myers died in consequeno * of a "blow" or a "knock , " which had injured her head , " Her parents' * ( both of them ) are also stated by his to have " ascribed" that "blow" or " knock" to hd " overlooker . " The overlooker is not named by tt | surgeon , when this -witness has informed the pah | i wh « frwas the aecount given by the child to him , of ti | attack of the overlooker upon her—and when the dyik deposition of the child is pnMishedi'It ' ' wiflta . »* who or what gave the "blow ** e&th * " tape }? " whkjr caused her death ; this wilLjtedonbt be containediil the Coroner ' s return to the House ( ft-Commons . ,
Meanwhile , Jet va hear what thejuxt witness is"m ported" to have said ;— . , : .. j .. " Hannah Myers , mother of tt&Tdeceased , was mat examined . She said her daughter was in her 15 th yprj she had worked a few years at the mill of Mr . Georgi Wilson Addison ; she received an injury at the nS about five weeks ago ; she told her ( witness ) that laid Roper , the overlooker , had felled her against a piljir , and she asked me to feel the place . I did feel-it « a 4 she safdit had settled a great deal then . It wasttai about half the size of an egg . That settled in * few days , and she continued to attend her work for abort three weeks , but Bhe complained of that part of her
head all the time . She left the mill about a fortnigtt since to-day ; she said she could go no longer . 6 bi still complained of her head , and ~ was Eke as she in * ' goamless , ' and took no notice of ought that was old to her . Wei called in Mr . Klrby last Monday ; ** showed him the place where she had been hart , 1 h > M » lamp was then quite gone . She died last SatMV . about two o ' clock in the afternoon . I never num 9 complaint to Mr . Addison till after Mr . Kirby ffiflW in . I then went and complained to him . IsatoMjV had beat her once before , and she left the mffi , 4 came home , but my husband made me take heri * again . He said he would not have any contpli ¥ brought home . The reason why I had not eomplflfMJl before was , because my husband would not let Mitt
said he would see Isaac Roper , himself . He never " m see him about it , so I went myself to Mr . Adda * She was in good health before she was felled by Ruf and carried a good deal of colour in her face ; shrm never well after . " ; £ ' My friends , we must not dismiss this witness haw If what she saya be true , ( always , however , rem «( pl # ing , that this is , most probably , a false " report , ^ # factory system is still as "horrid" as I , who l * f < f . of ten been charged with " inadnesa , " ever reprwe ^ fl it to have been . If this poor mother ' s evidence be b [ i » and correctly reported , which , after all that has bjf said and done to ameliorate the condition of the & «* # slaves , can hardly be—but if it be true , then anxeuT factories still as "hellish" as they were when | jjp t raised the war-cry against their cruel tyranny . $ MJ
it cannot be true , my friends ; I know that there !• party , the members of which are how desirous of raft , ing to the House of Commons , that the Faetorio * ' V has done no good , hoping , thereby , to obtain Hsffpgi * repeal , and to leave the factory system unrestralwi law . The " report" of this inquest , I « m >* l believe ; has been drawn up to enable that P ^ $ ( W triumph over the friends of the factory cnttdaw ^ are now expecting to obtain a good and efflcieif jBji Hours BUL Thus , the " reporter" la heedletsmW characters of the coroner , the jury , the anige « i £ ir *
factory masters ; he wishes to sho * 'JNB&'U »¦ $ ** cruelties are the same now « bkoM ^ HPp ^ MM coroner ' s inquest , under the new ls « J 91 $ fp » ** an un-coronered funeral , iMKfte old system ^ ¦ - If I can , I will disappoS |» ni I have bo doA that when Mr . Dyson ' s report appears , the wbcie rfU » witt assumea Very different aspect m * , b 0 * vftsr , **!< fewremarkscmtheevidenceof the mother of pfldf M ^* Myers , asgiveninttiis " report ;" fluppO 8 ing , foTtleffl « argument , that ifc may be true . The mother ** # * observed , deposed that " Her daughter toft . ««' » Isaac Roper , the overlooker , bad felledtb ^ t «*>* 1 pillar . " Now ; there can be no doubt , thrtlte eBfl knew whether Isaac Roper had struck her of ^^ Jj " five weeks , " we are sure that the poor jflflA ^ fl have told her mother this fact so often , thaifl > ew * g
be no doubt , no mistake about that «* PW » " - ' " The swelling , " the mother adds , " had settled *|? deal then . It was then about half the 4 » o ? ** M A lump , not likely to have been rai » ea ,. 3 B she hi 4 , been driven with great force againat the " W > nf ¥ j " - The poor factory girl ia then stated to n * ve " « j ™ 2 to attend to her work for about three «*^» ****)" ing of that part of her head all the «** r- « J have left the mill , saying , " she «^ _ # *** JJ Ah , poor ehild , formerly , thine wm n # & ° ~ Z case-but I had hoped never to taw&eard V » £ again ! Now , my friends , is it possffito tb » t ««» account could ba given , hefow Cowne * «* » ( QmUnvtd m «» r tnenth fog * ' )
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Citation
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 28, 1840, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/king-y1kbzq92ze2677/page/6/
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