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that between 9 and 10 o'clock he 

 left the public-house for a short 

 time, and returned^ and remained 

 there di inking a considerable time. 

 He solemnly denies all knowledge 

 of the affair, and no other CA'idence 

 has transpired to implicate him 

 than the circumstance of his being 

 absent from the public-house, as 

 above stated, on the evening when 

 the murders are supposed to have 

 been committed. It appeared, that 

 his habits of living have been rather 

 dissolute, and occasioned great 

 uneasiness to his parent. The de- 

 ceased was well known to possess 

 considerable ])roperty, and that is 

 supposed to have been the object 

 of those who committed the mur- 

 der; but whether any property 

 has been taken from the house, 

 has not yet been ascertained. The 

 prisoner was remanded. 



Leeds Mercury of Nov. 1.5 : — 

 In our last paper we stated, that 

 on Monday, the 3d inst., four per- 

 sons were found dead in a poor 

 cottage, at a place called Dean- 

 house, in the parish of Stainland ; 

 that three weeks before they had 

 lost a daughter, who had died of 

 a malignant fever, in consequence 

 of which the neighbours had been 

 afraid to visit them ; and that the 

 overseer of Deanhead, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Halifax, to which 

 place this unfortunate family be- 

 longed, had neglected to afford 

 them either relief or assistance, 

 and that it was generally believed 

 that they all perished of famine 

 and disease. Since that time we 

 have leceived another letter from 

 our correspondent, in answer to 

 certain intjuiries we addressed to 

 him, in which the following fur- 

 ther i)articiilars, at the perusal of 

 which the blood cuidles in our 



veins, are communicated : — When 

 Joseph Tweed, the head of the 

 family, was found, says our cor- 

 respondent, " he was laid upon his 

 bed in a miserable chamber, with 

 an infant child two years old, who, 

 like himself, was a lifeless corpse, 

 clasped in his arms. His wife 

 lay dead in the lower room upon 

 the hearth, having divested her- 

 self of eveiy article of clothing, 

 Avith one of her grand-children, 

 who was still alive, stretched upon 

 her body. The daughter of these 

 wretched parents, who was 12 

 years of age, roused probably from 

 the stupor into which want and 

 sickness had phinged her by the 

 dying groans of her mother, ap- 

 pears to have attempted to mak« 

 her way down stairs ; but her en- 

 feebled limbs refusing to perform 

 their ofRce, she had fallen, and 

 when found, her corpse was laid 

 stretched upon the stairs with her 

 head downwards, and one of her 

 feet locked against the stairs and 

 the wall. Two days after this 

 horrible discovery, four coffins, 

 provided by the overseer, were sent 

 to the house, and the bodies of the 

 deceased being placed in them, 

 they were put into a hearse and 

 cart, and conveyed to Deanhead 

 chapel, where they were interred 

 without any inquest being held 

 over them, and without any in- 

 vestigation whatever having taken 

 place into the circumstances of 

 their death. " We have felt it to 

 be our duty to lay these heart- 

 rending facts befoie the public, 

 and we now call upon the magi- 

 stracy and the coroner of the dis- 

 trict to discharge theirs. 



18. Letter from Stockholm — A 

 dischaiged officer of a good fami- 

 ly, of the name of Drake, has ex- 

 cited 



