CONFESSION OF A MURDER AT ALSTON
... On Wednesday last, James Grisenthwaite, a gun- ner in the Royal Artillery, a man apparently about 28 years of age, was brought before the magistrates at Alston, in Cumberland, charged, upon his own confession, with the crime of wilful murder. The proceedings before the magistrates were conducted in private, but we understand that they were entirely of a formal character, the prisoner ...