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SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT ST. HELENS

... Saturday, about midnight, a moat atrocious murder and an attempted murder and robbery were committed near St. Helens. Adam Mather, collier, between fifty.five and sixty ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... tiverpool police courts, yesterday. (Before Mr. Raffia-.) a.*p Fmincsr.r Dmroro.-Michael Goulding -S with being drank and furiously driving a spring cart ...

Domestic Intelligence

... SCOTLAND. Three Children Birth.—The wife of Mr Charles Margacb, tenant of the farm of Gnrlinebeg, the parish of Kuockando, gave birth on Monday to two boys and girl. Mother and children are doing exceedingly well. Alleged Poisoning hear Dumfries.—A girl named Kinnaird, aged sixteen, a farm-servant Frankland, near Dumfries, underwent examination last week, on a charge of having administered ...

DEAD VIOLETS- Let them lie—ah, let them lie Plucked flowers—dead to-morrow ; Lift the lid up quietly, As you'd lift

... the mystery Of buried sorrow. Let them lie —the fragrant things, All their souls thus giving : Let no breeze's ambient wings, And no useless water-springs, Mock them into living. They have lived—they live no more ; Nothing can requite them For the gentle life they bore, Which up-yield in full store did so delight them. Yes, I ween, flower-corses fair ! 'Twas a joyful yielding Like some soul ...

SHOCKING MURDER AT ST. HELENS

... Shortly after twelve o'clock, on Saturday night last, a murder was committed near St. Helens. The murdered man is Adam Mather, about 60 years of age, and lives in a detached house at Greenleach, about half a mile from Carr Mill, on the St. Helens Boad. He was man in easy circumstances, possessing a good income from household property, but, fill up his time, worked at the Girewood Colliery, as ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1867
Newspaper: Morpeth Herald
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 480 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: adam mather murder 

POETRY. APPEARANCE. When our comfort Bcrews, Part with whatever else we choose, What from no motive must we lose ?

... Appearance! What chills the heart to pleasure strung, And binds the childish prattling tongue, Making old people of the young ? Appearance ! When the bell tolls the hour of prayer, With measured tread and solemn air, What brings, alas ! too many there ? Appearance! What makes the empty fool deemed wise, What virtue's vacant place supplies, Winning soft looks fiom dove-like eyes ? Appearance! ...

HORRIBLE MURDER IN ST. HELENS

... HORRIBLE MURDER ST. HELENS. Adam Mather a collier, between and 60 years of age lived with his wife and son in a cottage lonely spot known as Greenleach, near the residence of Mr, D. Bromilow. On Saturday night the son had uot returned home at the usual hour for retiring, so the father and mother went to bed, leaving the door unsecured in order that the son cright get in. Between twelve and ...

General News

... Fifteen of the American soldiers tried by courtmartial at Buffa o, for having paraded at the Fenian picnic, have been convicted, and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. General Prim has published two manifestoes, calling on all Spa riards to take arms against the despotic authorities of the provinces, the camarillas of the town*, and the tyranny of Madrid. A considerable number of the ...

MURDER, AND SENTENCE OF DEATH

... At the Chelmsford Assizes, on Saturday, Jas. Bacon was indicted for the wilful murder of his wife, at Dagen- ham, on the 28th March last. The prisoner, a labourer, 24 years of age, had been married only three years to a woman rather younger, by whom he had two children, and to whom he appeared to have been tenderly at- tached. He was, the witnesses said, doatingly fond of his children - and ...

SHOCKING MURDER AT ST. HELEN’S

... Shortly after twelve o'clock, Saturday night last, murder was committed near St. Helen's. The murdered man Adam Mather, about sixty years of age, who lived in a detache ...