ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. [April. 



ner. The deceased came in and 

 set himself down in a chair by the 

 side of the dresser, near the fire, 

 and looked extremely pale; said 

 Mr. Anderson had stalibed him 

 with a knife, and requested wit- 

 ness to go immediately into the 

 room. He rantliere immediately, 

 and saw the other keeper, assisted 

 by one of the patients, putting a 

 strait waistcoat on Mr. Anderson; 

 saw a knife, which the j)atients 

 pointed out to t>e the instrument 

 with which the deceased iiad been 

 struck. Witness returned imme- 

 diately to the kitchen, and found 

 the deceased had been removed 

 into the parlour. \\'itness assisted 

 in putting him to bed ; sat up 

 with him the whole night. He 

 complained of his pain, and said, 

 " O, Anderson, you have murder- 

 ed me!" "I am going to my 

 last!" Deceased stated, that he 

 was at the cupboard-door stooping, 

 that Mr. Anderson had stabbed 

 him with a knife first in the back, 

 and \vl>en he got up stabbed him 

 in the belly. Witness attended 

 upon him till his death, which 

 took place on Saturday evening 

 about six o'clock : considered An- 

 derson as an insane person. 



Edward Bowdler confirmed part 

 of the testimony of the last wit- 

 ness ; was tlie person who had 

 left the room as above-mentioned. 



Evidence was then given by two 

 medical gentlemen to prove An- 

 derson's insanity. 



Several of the jury having ex' 

 pressed a wish to pui. some ques- 

 tions to Mr. Anderson, he was 

 brought into the inquest-room. 

 He is a young man of interesting 

 appearance, about t^\ enty-three 

 years of age ; he said he could not 

 recollect now why he so conducted 



himself to the keeper. That he 

 was more composed than he had 

 been, and that he wovdd not do so 

 any more. 



The jury retxuMied their verdict, 

 " That the deceased had died by 

 the violent acLof Owen Anderson; 

 but that at the time of committing 

 such act, the said Owen Anderson 

 was not of sound mind, memory, 

 and understanding, but lunatic 

 and distracted." 



2G. Murder and Bohhery. — The 

 house in which this audacious act 

 was committed is in Pendleton, a 

 suburb, and two miles from the 

 Exchange of Manchester, which 

 adjoins the turnpike-road to Liver- 

 pool, and is surrounded by many 

 houses, although none are par- 

 ticularly connected with it. It 

 belongs to a Mr. Littlewood, a 

 respectable grocer in Salford, who 

 was duly attending to the avoca- 

 tions of the market-day, and was 

 left in the care of an elderly woman 

 (liousekeeper) and servant girl. 

 The bloody business must have 

 been perpetrated before fiveo'clock, 

 as a nurse-maid of a neighbouring 

 family went at that hour to see 

 Mr. L's girl, with whom sh6 was 

 intimate. The doors were locked, 

 and many of the window-blinds 

 down; in consequence of which 

 tlie nurse-maid returned home, 

 having first attempted to open the 

 doer, and cursorily look through 

 the window of one of the rooms, 

 in which she iiidistinclly saw the 

 elderly woman in an arm-chair, 

 and whom she ."iupposed to be 

 asleep. The cu: iosity of the nurse- 

 maid induced her to return at 

 seven o'clock, when she still found 

 the doors locked, u hich alarmeil 

 her, from the siiigulaiity of the 

 circunistancc; and, on locking 



through 



