Three men charged with the murder of O'Donnahue, near Preston,
Live been apprehended, also the woman who was present while tire crime was committed. She is a mild-looking young person, with an infant in arms.
On the night of Friday-last, two robbers, with blackened faces, broke into the dwelling of an old man named Wrael, at Whittington, near Lichfield. They entered the room where Mrs. Wood was sleep-
ing with a servant-girl. They stunned the girl %%WI blows from a blunt instrument, and cut Mrs. Wood in the throat, but not so deeply as they intended. Leaving the two women, they went to Mr. Wood's room, arid compelled him to give up his keys. They ransacked his cup- boatds, carried off some money and valuables, locked the door, and went down stairs. Having eaten and drunk for some time, they piled some furniture upon the parlour. table, and set fire to it. They set fire to the house in two other places, and then decamped. Meanwhile, the servant-girl, who had recovered from the blows, went to her master's room, and found him nearly suffocated with smoke. The girl went down stairs and alarmed the neighbours. Mrs. Wood had managed to get out of her bedroom-window, and was found lying in a ditch, insen- sible, having fallen down in attempting to reach a neighbour's house. No person suspected of the robbery hiss been apprehended. Five men attacked a Mr. Thomas, who was returning, late on Thursday week, from Abergavenny to Romney. They robbed him of 70/., kicked and beat him brutally, and threw him into the river ; but he laid hold of the sedges on the bank, and after his assailants had gone, crawled upon the road. One of the robbers has been taken and sent to prison.
A murder, under extraordinary circumstances, was committed in the village of Monti tness i ng, in Essex, on Wednesday afternoon. Abraham Hilliard, a labourer between forty and fifty years of age, wished to marry Susannah Playle, a widow, with whom he was believed to have had intercourse during her husband's life ; but she had recently refused to have any thing to say to him. Hilliard several times threatened to kill her; and on Wednesday took his gun, went to her cottage, where she was making bread—her son, a man of thirty, being present—and deliberately shot her in the side. The son closed with the rinuilerer, and after a fierce struggle overpowertd him, and with the assistance of another man gave him itao custody. The o 0:DWI died in five minutes after receis log the shut. Thirty-two shopkeepers and bakers were summoned by Mr. :. Johnson, Inspector of Weights and Measures for the county of Hem, and all fined in various penalties by the Magistrates in Petty Sessions at Royston, for it-ing deficient weights and measures and false balances.—Herts Coolly Press. •
A collision between two trains on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, on Monday, occasioned :serious injury to some passengers, and damage to ths railway-carriages.
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