Murder At Ulverston Print E-mail
Carlisle Patriot - December 27th, 1844
 
    On Saturday morning last the inhabitants  of the proverbially peaceful
town of Ulverston, were thrown into a state of  greatest consternation and alarm
by a report that an itinerant razor grinder,  who is an inhabitant of that
town, had murdered his wife in the most brutal and  barbarous manner. On inquiry
the melancholy rumour was found out to be too  true.
 
    We have not learnt the name of the  murderer, but he is, as we have
already stated, a razor grinder by trade, and  resides with his wife and two
children in Heart Street, Ulverston.
 
    On Friday night last, the husband  returned home in a state of
intoxication, and a quarrel ensued between him and  his wife, which at length terminated
in blows. The enraged man eventually seized  the poker, and struck his wife a
formidable blow with it on the head, which  completely shattered her skull,
and must it is supposed, have produced  instantaneous death.
 
    Not satisfied with what he had done the  enraged murderer commenced
kicking the head of his victim, which he did with  such violence as to force one of
her jaws to entirely from it's place; he then  brutally kicked her on various
parts of her body, which he dreadfully  mutilated.
 
    Having thus wreaked  his savage  vengeance upon his victim, he stripped
the poor woman's dead body entirely  naked, and threw it downstairs, after
which he burned the whole of her clothing.  Having done this he left the house,
and went to his wife's sister, and cooly  told her that he was afraid that his
wife was dead.
 
    In the meantime two children (a boy and  girl) awoke, and the neighbours
who heard the noise, were first alarmed by the  screams of the boy, who called
out to them that his father had murdered his  mother. The wretched man was
secured, and a coroner's inquest was held yesterday  upon the remains of the
unfortunate woman, which had not terminated at the time  our informant left
Ulverston, in which the affair had created a sensation so  great as almost put a
temporary stop to all public business.
 
-Pachet.
 
 
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