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MURDER OF A CHILD , AND ATTEMPTED MURDER OF TWO WOMEN .
Sheffield , Thursday . Sheffield is again the scene of one of these horrif ying murdeig which startle a whole country . An illegitimate child , nearly two years old , hrd its head cut off by its father , who also attempted to murder its inothe rand another young woman . The man ' s name is Alfrad Waddington , a grinder , residing in
Lord-street , Park , Sheffield . He is about twenty years of age , the associate of notoriously had characters , and he has been tried for highway robbery . The murdered child was called Elizabeth Rlater , the daughter of Sarah Slater , of Brown-street , Park , and was about a year and nine months old . On Monday , the mother took out a summons—which was to have been heard to day—against Waddington , for neglecting to maintain the child . He saw her in the street on Wednesday , and swore
he would never pay another farthing towards the child . On Wednesday evening , it was left in the care of a little girl called Barlow , while the mother went to attend the females' evening class at the Mechanic ' s Institution . About half-past eight Waddington appeared at the door of the class-room , and called out , " Sarah Slater , you ' re wanted ! " She went out to him , and ne asked , " Whathave you done with the child ? " She told him , and he then said , " You must go with me : it has fallen off
a wall , and broken its neck . " she immediately ran out of the room with Mm . On arriving at Sylvester-lane , he said she need not trouble herself , for he had murdered the child . He pulled out a large clasp-knife , and he said , "Here ' s some of its blood . " The monster then fiercely attacked her , and atteput to cut her throat . She guarded her neck with hea hands , which were shockingly laeeiated , and a little boy who saw the scnfle called out " Murder . " Waddington then ran up Erie-street
and the poor woman was taken home . He was shortly afterwards met by a young woman , called Sarah Dobson , who residss in Dyke-Lane , Sheffield-moor , a companion of the young woman Slater . Having heard rumours of the murder , and the attack upon Slater , the young woman asked him what he had done with her and his child . He at once , without answering the interrogatory fiercely attacked her with his knife , and wounded her severely about the face . Her violent screams caused Mm to run away . About two o ' clock this morning ,
however , he gave himself up to a night watchman , and at the Town-hall he described the exact place where the murdered child might be found . He said he took it from the little girl Barlow , carried it into Cutter ' s-wood , Heeley , near Sheffield , and there cut its head off . At daylight this morning two policemen went to the place mentioned , and there found the body of the cMld . Its head was lying several feet from its body . The prisoner was brought up at the Town-hall to-day at noon .
The prisoner , who was in his sMrt sleeves , on being placed in the dock looked round on the spectators with great unconcern . When Mr . Raynor mentioned the charge Ms firmness for a moment forsook Mm , and he coverec his face with his hands .
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HORRIBLE DEATH AND MUTILATION AT LEEDS . A dreadful death has occurred in Leeds , of which the following are the facts : —The deceased was named Thomas Nicholson aged 48 , who was employed as engineman at the brewery of Messrs . Spong , Hunslet-lane . On Saturday last he was employed in tending the malt-grinding machine , and whilst alone in the room met with a frightful death . He had not been seen for two hours , and no idea was entertained of anytMng being
wrong untila person entered the grinding-room , and washorrorsfruek at seing a portion of the poor fellow ' s body whirling round with the shaft , and the place like a slaughter-house . The machine was stopped , and then it was discovered that Nicholson was quite dead and cold . Both his feet had been cut off , Ms left arm wastornfrom the body by the shoulder-joint and Ms right arm , leg , and body , were frightfully torn and man
gled . How he became entangled with the shaft is unknown but there is reason to believe that the mangled remains of the unhappy man had been whirling round upon the shaft for two hours , unseen and unknown . The supposition is , that he had been engaged at the shaft , wMch caught Ms jacket , and carried him ronnd . A verdict of " Accidental death" was returned by the coroner ' s jury at the inquest on Monday last .
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RIOT AT WYMONDLEY .
The magistrates of Hertford have been engaged during the past week in investigating a singular case of riot which occurred on Sunday and Monday week in the parish of Wymondlcy . At Titmur-green , in a dwelling suitable for the residence of a gentleman of moderate means , lives , and has lived for some years past , Mr . James Lucas , the possessor of a small independence . For many years Mr . Lucas has lived in a state of seclusion , more op less absolute . From his domicilo have at times been excluded
not only friends , relatives , and guests , but also those domestics which are essential to the comfort and convenience of a gentleman . His apparel appears also to be of an exceedingly simple character consisting merely of a blanket or horsecloth , which , he wraps about his otherwise nude figure , and the barber is not a frequent visitor to an establishment so exceedingly primitive in all its arrangements , and thus the solitary of Titmur-green has a long beard and locks in profusion . Not long back he was wont to follow the harriers with naked feet , torn and bleeding from the briary path along which he went . These and other peculiarities
have made him an object of curiosity in the nei ghbourhood . His relatives , also , with whom he had had disputes about property set him down as insane , and a lew years ago a commission de hnatico inquirendo investigated his case . The inquiry resulted in the full vindication of his sanity , on the basis of those tests which the commission applies in such cases . The decision seems to have been justified by the facts , for the hermit of Titmur-green keeps a banking account at Hitchin , and manages his balances with more prudence than many gentlemen whom the world would not suspect of insanity ; and , although reserved and solitary he is benevolent and kind . '
The riot , indeed , seems to have been occasioned by this perhaps mistaken philanthropy . His charity is general ; but it appears that he gives most to persons of the Irish nation . The labouring classes of the neighbourhood . put their own interpretation on his conduct . The Irish are Roman Catholics , and Mr . Lueas is indulgent to them . Therefore the rude peasantry of Ippollitts , Wyinondley , and the adjacent places , conclude that he is a Roman Catholic also . Upon this belief the wondering rustics have erected a superstructure of romance ; and , from " being a Roman Catholic and a recluse , Mr . Lucas has in their eyes become a Romish penitent , practising self-imposed austerities in atonement for some unknown offence . Hence he has become the object of ignorant persecution , which has been kept up for some
years . About twelve months ago a mob , composed of the labouring classes of the neighbourhood , assembled round his house and broke ail the windows , which , since then , have been protected by iron bars . These unjustifiable assaults have been repeated on recent occasions , notwithstanding the attempts of the police to prevent them . A staff of constables cannot of course be always kept at Titmur-green , and Mr . Lucas has consequentl y retained the services of an Irishman named Perry , who resides in the house , to protect him . During the first week in August the popular antipathy was , however , aroused to such an extent , bv a
circumstance which certainly did not justify it , that the presence of the buvly Celt was insufficient to restrain it . An Irishwoman applied at Mr . Lucas ' s for aid and lodging , being ill , and the recluse ordered a bed to be made up for her in the stable , it being found impossible to remove hev to the wotkhouse . In this place she was confined with a child , which had been dead for six weeks . A report was immediately circulated that the woman had been neglected and improperly treated , and that the child died in consequence . There appears to be little doubt that this report was the immediate cause of attacks made on the house of Mr . Lucas on Sunday and Monday se ' nnight .
The man Perry gave before the magistrate the following outline of the disturbance . He said that on Monday , the 2 nd of August about five o'clock in the afternoon , four men came to Mr . Lucas ' s at Elm Wood , and asked for some beer , and afterwards for some gin . He said they had had plenty , refused to give them any more , and told them to go away . They remained abusing him for about half an hour , calling him a hairy old thief , and an . old Papist , and other offensive names . They also threatened to break into the house , and pull him out . He then put a shutter to the window and they broke some panes of glass with stones which they pelted
at it . Some of the stones came into the room . They declared they had come to break the house down , and would either break it down , or have Mr . Lucas out that night ; that they came on purpose , and would not go away without . Another man came up and told witness to hold his jaw , at the same time throwing a brickbat at him . Witness pulled out of his pocket a pistol loaded only with powder , and fired it at him to frighten him ! The men then ran to the front of the house , where more were ' assembled , and they all began throwing stones as hard as they could at the front of the house . Several of the stones came in at the windows . After this Mr . Lucas and witness went up stairs and told the men that , if they did not stop throwing stones they
would fire upon them . One of them said " he came to be shot and that he would not go till we fired at him . " A shower of stones then came into the room , several of which fell very near Mr . Lucas . The witness and his master began putting the shutters to , and one of the men , named George Barker , threw another stone , which hit Perry in the mouth , and broke two of his teeth who then went and loaded a blunderbuss ' with powder only and fired at the man who , when he found that it did no harm laughed , and said he would have Lucas out . Perry then loaded the blunderbuss again , and put some small shot in it . Stones were being thrown all the while , and the people were using dreadful oaths . Perry went to the window and saw Barker with
a stone in his hand , and two or three others with stones in their hands , which they were in the act of throwing ; and so he fired the blunderbuss at them , and then Barker said ho was shot , and began swearing and blaspheming in a dreadful manner threatening that he would come again before morning and break the house down or else have Mr . Lucas and witness . Another volley of stones was thrown and the people went away . The chairman stated that the bench had determined on
convicting the prisoners , who had been guilty of a disgraceful riot , which it was the duty of the magistrates to punish aud repress . It was of little consequence who actuall y threw the stones , for all of them were concerned , and in the eye of the law the ; were equally guilty . The prisoners had nothing to do with the course of life Mr . Lucas pleased to lead—it was not for them to teach him how to live . They might have their opinionas manothers
, y had , that he was acting very wrongly , but they had no ri » ht to interfere with him . The bench had decided on fining the prisoners 20 s . each , including costs or in default one month ' s imprisonment . At the same time , he felt it necessary to caution Perry against using such weapons as pistols and blundei busses . They were always dangerous weapons , but especially in the hands of an Irishman .
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The Achili Trial . —A meeting of Dr Newman ' s friends was held on the 13 th inst ., for the . purpose of taking steps to raise a subscription , to be styled " Ireland's quota of the Newman Indemnity Fund . " Subsequently to the dissolution of the meeting , a letter was received in Dublin from a professional gentleman in London , in which he . stated that the costs of the trial would far exceed 8 , 000 ? . He believed that 10 , 0002 . would be nearer the real amount .
• The Potato Crop . —The Northern If Jug in its weekl y summary says : —The alarm which , by our reports of this day week , appeared to pervade nearly every district of the province regarding the potato crop , would seem , by those of this morning , to have subsided considerably . Cereals of all kinds look well , and are either at , or rapidly approaching maturity . The oat
crop is particularly fine , and promises to be above an average . We cannot yet speak with certainty relative to the yield of new flax : what has been brought to market was prepared hurriedly , and does not afford a fair sample , but the general impression i « that the crop will be excellent , both as regards yield and quality .
Emigration prom Ulster .---The Banner of Ulster has the subjoined statement : —For some time past emigration from this port has not been apparently carried on so extensively as during the earlier months of the year , as few vessels have sailed direct from Belfast . Crowds , however , still repair to Glasgow and Liverpool per steamer , there to take berths . Dreadful Calamity . —The following appeared in Saunden ' News Letter on Tuesday : —Yesterday morning a most
calamitous circumstance occurred in one of the islands of Arran , by which , fifteen unfortunate men have been swept from time into eternity in a single moment . All of them were fishing with lines on a cliff , when , notwithstanding that the weather was calm , a sudden wave broke over the cliff on which they were standing , and washed them out into the deep . Only four of
the bodies have beeii found up to last night . Many of these poor fellows have left large families to mourn over their irreparable loss . A subscription has been already set on foot , and it is hoped that a large sum will be raised for them , now that Galway is crowded with the nobility and gentry of the United Kingdom . '
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Singular Accident . —An accident of a singular character occurred at Chatham on Monday last to a postman named Bridge , while engaged in his dutios as letter-carrier , It appears that Bridge left the Post-office , Chatham , and was in the act of delivering a letter at a house on the Luton-road , when on reaching across the iron palisades to deliver the letter his foot slipped and he fell on the spike ? , two of which entered his bowels to a serious depth . Medical aid was instantly precured , but the unfortunate sufferer now lies in a precarious state .
Thunder and Oysters ! the Pope on the Sprue !—At Mai'lbovough-street Charles Swanhlkli , an Irish Roman Catholic priest , was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Dean-street . The constable found the defendant in Dean-street about nine o ' clock on the previous night , surrounded by several hundreds of persons who were hooting and hustling him , in return for which the defendant was lustily asserting he was ' the
Pope , and anathematizing them all . in the plainest language . To the policeman the defendant accounted for his condition by saying that the thunder disagreed with some oysters he had eaten . To the magistrate the defendant ( in the morning ) said he was habitually a water-drinker , but having incautiousl y drunk soino brandy he became totally obfivions of all that afterwards occurred . " His Holiness ' was discharged .
An Inveterate Criminal . —A good deal of interest has been excited in Paris by the trial of the assassin Pradeaux . This miscreant , in the space of a single month , last May , assassinated three persons , two of whom were old women , and attempted a fourth murder . The resistance which he encountered in his last crime happily prevented its completion and led to his apprehension . The prisoner is 32 years of age . His parents were
connected with the manufacture of artificial flowers . Pradeaux before be took to assassination , had been three times imprisoned for robbery and swindling . As soon as he had obtained 2001 ' . or 303 C by some criminal means , he spent the money in a few days and then had recourse to a fresh crime for a new supply . His first victim was a cotton-manufacturer , whom ho murdered in his bed on the night of the 5 th of April , to rob his chest , which contained some 700 f . About the same time ho contracted an
engagement to . marry a girl named Dardard . To defray the expenses of the nuptial feast he committed a fresh murder . This time his victim was a woman of 60 , the widow Chateaux , of whom he pretended that he wanted to hire a lodging . He paid a visit at midnight , knocked down the old womanWh a violent blow on the head , and strangled her with a hankerchief . He then rifled her effects , among which he found a bag of savings amounting to 300 f . Henceforth this became the pattern for Pradcaux ' s assassinations . He sought out the weakest victims , stunned them by a sudden blow , and then strangled them . Having murdered the widow Chateaux on the 25 th , he proceeded to assassinate , in 1 . 1 n <¦ ™ / the
precisely same way , four days after , a woman of the same age , Suan , engaged in the artificial-flower trade . But he ransacked in vain the drawers of this poor creature , who , notwithstanding her industrious habits , was obliged to eke out her subsistence by the charity of the Bureau de Bienfaisance . The next day Pradeaux led his bride to the altar , decorated , perhaps , with some of Mademoiselle Suan ' s artificial orange-flowers . He passed the night wandering about the orchards , the walls of which he had scaled to murder the cotton-manufacturer , and at daybreak entered the cabaret of an old woman named Naudin . He asked for a glass of brandy , and , while she was getting it , he struck hev on the head with a bottle , and knocked her down . He then
attempted to strangle her with a handkerchief , as usual ; but the old woman bit him severely , and her screams brought the concierge to her assistance . The assassin fled , was pursued , and caught . The jury found a verdict of guilty upon all the charges , and tfie prisoner was condemned to death . The appearance of Pradeaux is insignificant ; his features are small , his eyes sunk , his complexion pale . His whole life seems to have been one tissue of crimes . As soon as he had strength enough , he knocked down his mother and trampled upon her , and nearly assassinated his father with one of the tools used in their trade .
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State op the Money Makket . —The English funds have ccw \ pSS $ P been firm , and on Thursday closed at a further advance of < ° *_^ Jw « gMhs per cent . The market for foreign securities has i ^ P * l ,: $ &&Men fyf a » d prices have shown a tendency to advance The L ^ J - ^ 5- ; ia ^ M ? iBmepcial intelligence from the United States is ' unim-% : ' . > :. . > ^ P ^^ RfA TIie markets are firm . pfe ? Sf 1 p 1 . ( 7- ' ¦>¦» - . , _ , « T . i- \ / . ...- . / ^ ms ife- ¦' n < . rc' « UA 0 U \ li 5
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22 THE STAR OF FREEDOM . August 21 , 1852 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 21, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1692/page/6/
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