The Maryport Advertiser March 31, 1882 The Workington Murder | The Workington Murder |
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| The Maryport Advertiser - March 31, 1882 | |
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Page 6 of 9 THE WORKINGTON MURDER MURDER ___ EXAMINATION OF HARRISON YESTERDAY. Part Six. Cross examined by Mr. PAISLEY: Was at Cockermouth for five weeks every day, or every other day for a long time. The first time I was there was on the twenty-first of December, my daughter's birthday. To the best of my recollection the 21st was on a Wednesday. The following Friday night I stayed at Cockermouth. Went right home from the station on the 21st December. Went right home on the following night. Could not swear the prisoner was lighting a pipe on the first occasion. On the second occasion he had a pipe. Could not swear that he had either a pipe or a cigar in his hand. It was not dark but I could not see more than two yards off. Never told any person that it was a pitch dark night. Have described the person that I saw on that occasion as a boy, with his hair parted down the middle. Have never told any person that he had his hair plastered on his brow. GIBSON's name was mentioned between us that night. This girl we were talking about had either been to GIBSON's with a parcel or for a parcel. Lived fifteen months at the North-side. Never heard of the name SCOTT at the North-side. Am quite certain the prisoner said that a man came up, but am not certain whether he said, "the man shouted," or "she shouted." Saw the prisoner in the cell. The prisoner was brought out, and as soon as ever I saw him, I identified him. Did not say I was not sure. Never saw the young man had an overcoat on. When the policeman came to my house the second time, one of them said, "Did the young man not refer to a ghost?" I said "No." Remember what passed between me and the policeman, and one of them did not ask me about a ghost. It would be your young man who asked me about the ghost, (referring to Mr. PAISLEY's clerk). It isn't a day of confession, it is a day of examination. That boy has represented me as being tipsy. (To the prisoner), "If Thou was my son I would have hanged thee, exposing a woman in this way." Samuel LEES deposed: I live at 62, North-side. On the last Wednesday in February I was in Workington. Met the prisoner at the new railway bridge which crosses the town. He asked me if I was going home. It would be about nine o'clock. I told him I was not going home till I had been at McALEER's for a pair of boots. The boots had to be ready at half past nine. I went at that time for the boots, and HARRISON went with me. The boots were not ready then, and Mr. McALEER said they would be ready by ten o'clock. The prisoner left me to go home, saying he might wait for me on the bridge. When I got there at ten o'clock he was waiting for me. We went along the road together. When we arrived opposite the ghyll on the North-side, nothing in particular was said, but he stopped. HARRISON had lost a dog, and he stopped to look after it. He whistled to the dog and it came up to him. He showed me a knife at the same time as we stopped. He took the knife out of his breast. It was a large knife - not a dagger, but a kind of sheath knife. He said, "Look here, Sam; if anyone assaulted us now, couldn't we make a mess of them?" He handed the instrument to me and I felt it. It was an instrument sharp on one side only. I handed the knife back to HARRISON, and he put it back again into his breast. Cross examined by Mr. PAISLEY: Nothing had been said about the knives or daggers before the prisoner took the knife out of his breast. Prisoner did not take the knife out of his belt although he had a belt on. The dog left us on the North-side about the stone heap where the body was found. The prisoner never left me. The knife had a guard to it - a cross piece - and was in a case. The length of the blade would be about nine inches. It would be about an inch and a half wide. Could not tell the colour of the case as the prisoner held it in his own hand. The handle of the knife was made of some kind of hard wood. The guard did not come round the handle; it was merely a cross piece. The handle was smooth. The blade was almost straight on the sharp edge, and on the back it was straight for about seven inches and then it tapered off towards the point. Could not say if the guard was a "pot metal" guard. Richard JACKSON deposed: I am a foreman moulder in the employ of the West Cumblerand Iron and Steel Company. On the 20th December I was in Workington at about a quarter to nine. On going home I saw the prisoner and spoke to him about twenty or thirty yards from the Cleator and Workington Railway bridge, on the North-side road. He told me he had been with Lucy SANDS that night. On the day the body was found I went to see the place. On my way back I met HARRISON. I asked him why he was not working and he said he was on the night shift. He then said, "I am going up here to see who this bloody woman is they have found." That was about one o'clock. I said, "They say it is Miss. SANDS," and he said, "If it is Miss. SANDS he was with her on that night." He asked me if I could not remember seeing him with her that night. I could not reply, and he said "On the 20th December." I asked him if she had been missing ever since and we parted. Cross examined by Mr. PAISLEY: Saw HARRISON with two or three girls on the road. Mr. DAVIDSON, the Primitive Methodist minister, and some others were with me. Had a conversation with PERCIVAL on the day the body was found. Superintendent BIRD objected to Mr. PAISLEY asking what the conversation was about. The Clerk: Which way were these girls going when you met them? Witness: To the North-side when we overtook them. ~ To be continued. |
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