text:  The reader may recollect a most picturesque murder near Manchester about thirteen or fourteen years ago perpetrated by two brothers named McKean where a servant woman whose throat had been effectually cut rose up after an interval from the ground at a most critical moment (so critical that by that act and at that second of time she drew off the murderer's hand from the throat of a second victim ) staggered in her delirium to the door of a room where sometime a club had been held doubtless under some idea of obtaining aid and at the door after walking some fifty feet dropped down dead