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SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES

... WEST DERBY HUNDREB. CROWN COURT. Saturday. (Before Lord Chief-Justice Bovill.) BETWEEN COLOURED SEAMEN. James Munroe, a coloured seaman, 26 years of age, was indicted for hav ...

Accidents and Offences

... Accidents and @tiences at the Manchester police court, on Saturday, a | woman was placed in the dock for the 117th time charged with being and disorderly. She was sent to gaol fora | month. On Saturday morning Mr. L. J. an accountant of long standing in Leicester, attempted to commtt snicide by cutting his throat. He is not expected to recover, and is | in the Leicester infirmary. ' On the ...

MURDER NEAR ST. HELEN'S

... On Sunday morning, a murder of a very atrocious character was perpetrated near St Helens. The victim was a man between 55 and 60 years of age, named Adam Mather, a collier, residing with his wife and son in a cottage in a lonely spot known as Greenleach, St Helen's district On Saturday night the old man and wife went to bed at the usual hour, and the son not having then returned home, the back ...

LITERARY NOTICES AND REVIEWS

... Thb Childrin'b Houb. Edinburgh : Johnstone, \ Hunter, 4* Co. The style in wbich this little serial is got is very attractive, and the contents, which embrace Stories about Birds, Minnie's Visit, The Infant Astronomer, The Hare bell, Tables from the Farmyard, The Whispers the Leaves, Ac., cannot fail to both interest and instruct the youthful mind. Our Own Fireside.—London : W. Hunt and Co., 2 ...

WHY SCOTCHMEN GET ON

... HY SCOTCHMEN GET ON Mx Hutrs, fm some of his pleasant essays, says the first rule for success in life is to get yourself born, if you can, north of the Tweed, amd Americans seem to endorse his opinion. Mr Hewitt, a Pennsylvanian ironmaster, has publicly confessed that a Yankee, shrewdest of mankind, whose natural faculty for ‘ superintending’ is so great that if thrown ashore on a desert ...

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... iv-jRTHERN ClRCUlT. —Liverpool, Auo. 24. yj . PaiCS Coubt.— (Before Mr. Justice Smith and a Special Jury.) ?? ABBIGXEE, V. DICCONSOy AND ANOTHER, fas plaintiff in this case waa a Mr. Peacock, assignee on , J.ite of Mr. Thomas Evans, draper, Blackburn, and :, ndanu Mr. Thos. Dicconson.high sheriff of Lanca- ' Ox, and Mr. John SUfford, sheriff officer, Blackburn -won bemg ?? one between the ...

Published: Monday 26 August 1867
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2672 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: adam mather murder 

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

... Com*. Oar grain market exhibit* more firmness during the week, owing to the unfavourable change the weather, and at to-day's (Friday) market native wheat was 3d. per cwt. dear ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1867
Newspaper: Cork Examiner
County: Cork, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1638 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: adam mather murder 

ASSIZE INTTELLIENCE

... . THE ST. HELENS ML'RDER. the Liverpool Assizes on Friday, before Lord Chief •Justice Bovill, John Smith, thirty-three years of age, described as labourer, was arraigned on the charge of ' on tlle 21st of Jul murdered Adam Mather, afc Wmdle, near St. Helens. The prisoner, on being whether he was guilty or not guilty, replied, God forbid that I would be. It was alleged that l6 in question the ...

SHOCKING MURDER NEAR LIVERPOOL

... Adam Mather, a collier, between 55 and 60 years of age, lired with bis wife and son in a cottage Greenleach, near tbe residence of Brotnilow, J. P., St Helen's. Saturday night the son had not returned home the usual hour for retiring, so the father and mother went to bead, leaving the backdoor secured so that he might get in. Betweeu twelve and one o'clock the mother heard a noise below, and ...

Published: Thursday 25 July 1867
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 359 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: adam mather murder 

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Published: Saturday 27 July 1867
Newspaper: Kendal Mercury
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 988 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: adam mather murder 

LIVERPOOL ASSIZES

... CROWN COURT. THE ST. HELENS MURDER. The trial of John Smith, charged with the murder of Adam Mather, at Windle, near St. Helens, on the 21st of July, was opened on Friday moruing, aud excited great attention and interest, the court being crowded. Mr. Torr and Mr. Watson appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner haviug no counsel, his Lordship assigned the defence to Mr. Herschell. The ...

NEWS OF THE DAY

... LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1867. A interest being by the probable turn which the Reform debate ia likely to take the House of Lords. The GoverniMiitare believed be making every prepa ...