Kendrew, the man convicted for the murder of Mr. Inchbald,
a farmer living near Boroughbridge, was hanged on Saturday:, at York; having previously confessed his crime. He said he committed it in revenge for a threat which Mrs hichbald made, that he would punish him for poaching.
Mary Gallop, who poisoned her father, was executed at Chester on Saturday. 12 notification was received on Thursday from Sir James Graham, that the Govern: ment could not grant the remission of the capital punishment in this case. The shock produced on the poor victim by the intelligence was at the moment distressing; but she soon rallied, and resumed the same calmness., almost amounting to indifference, for which she had previously been distinguished.
An inquest has been held on the bodies of the man and woman who were found. hPvel at Ashford near Bedfont. From the evidence, it appeared highly dtati 2.
probable that the man inid :trammed to poison his wife and children as well as himself; but finding that the won= had escaped, t2 suffocated her with the bed.; cloths?. during the night. In the woman's case a verdict s "Wilful murder was returned against the man; and of "Feb de Be" in his own ease.
John Towel, a Quaker gentleman residing at Birkhamste,ad, of which place
is the Town-Surveyor, is in custody on suspicion of having caused the death or Mrs. Hart, a woman who lived at Salt Hill, near Slough. The Quaker went to the woman's cottage on Wednesday evening; and before he left it screams were hearth A neighbour went into the house immediately after, and found Mrs. Hart' on the floor, dying, with her dress in disorder. An mquest on the body has beer adjourned, in order to a post mortem examination. The accounts of Mr. Tawell's relation to the woman are very confused; but he is supposed to be the father of her husband, who lives abroad, and whose marriage was disapproved of by his
Donahoo a tinker of Illverstone, has been committed to prison for the murder' of his wife.' The principal witness against him was his own son, a child twelve years of age.
A young man named Dixon has killed himself at Derby with pruesie acid; having previously attempted to poison a young woman by giving her some of the acid in beer. The woman had refused to marry him after the bans had been published.
A desperate affray occurred last week on the estate of Sir Richard Philipp,, M.P., near Ilaverfordwest, between Sir Richard's gamekeepers and a large number of poachers. Eight of the keepers were wounded, one so badly that his life is in dangers and one of the poachers 1f3 supposed to be in no better plight.
The provincial journals contain many reports of rural fires, said to be wilful. Athrief and vague account of an explosion in a coal-pit, at Bishop Auckland, has appeared: one man has died, and many are said to be much injured.
A sad accident occurred during the late frost, at Ghetwynd Park, near Newpals the residence of Mr. Borough, High Sheriff of Shropshire. Some persons were skating on &sheet of water in the park; and four young ladies ventured upon it, to, observe them. They went on to a weak part, the ice gave way, and all were immersed. Three were saved; but the fourth, bliss Chalmers, daughter of aa independent minister at Stafford, perished.
During a thick fog, on Monday, a singularly distressing accident occurred on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Some few days ago, a young lady; daughter of Mr. John Forsythe, died; and her funeral was fixed for that morning, Mr. Forsythe was one of the principal servants on the line; and his son was also engaged by the Company, and has care of the locomotive department. Mr. Thomas Forsythe, the brother of the young lady, in order to attend the funeral tf his sister, ordered one of the engines to convey him a alert distance on the line towards his father's house. While the engine was proceeding at the rate of ten miles an hour, Mr. Forsythe observed his father on the line a few yards in anvance, but not on the rails on which the engine was running: at that moment the old gentleman, who was deaf, and did not see the advancing engine, moved into its track, and was struck down. On the engine being stopped, Mr. Forsythe found that his father had been killed. He was on his way to his daughter's funeral at the time.
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