Double Murder in Shropshire 1883

[allans]

Local newspaper this week carried a copy of an article originally printed in the Timaru Herald, New Zealand, 9 Apr 1883, a copy of a home newspaper article dated Feb 17.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=THD18830409.2.16&srpos=1&e=-------10-THD-1----0double+murder+shropshire--
They editor wondered if any readers could add anything to the article - what happened, was there a trial? Now as that is just round the corner from where I live I thought I'd have a dig.
From the article the dead girl is Mary Elizabeth Mayers aged 10. - But I cant find any entry in BMD for her birth or death. I tried many variations of the name Myers, Myers, Mears, Miers, Mires etc.
The article says 'stepmother' so I figured the parents, Thomas and Eliza Mayers, married after the girls birth - so between 1873 and 1883 - again nothing found.
I also tried using Ancestry's criminal records - couldn't spot anything.

A puzzle - and I know you people out there love a puzzle.

What can anyone find?

Allan

[Daisy123]

I read the surname as Mayos.

[allans]

Good spot - I shouldn't have taken the reprinted transcript as gospel - I'll give it a try

[Daisy123]

There is an update:

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZH18830707.2.63

I took out my 1881 census findings as like you I thought it was wrong but this article confirms one of the other childrens names:

So 1881 census
Thos. Mayos - 44 - Gardener
Eliza Mayos - 37
Wm. Mayos - 11
Mary E. Mayos - 3 - Scholar  - Born Grafton, Hereford
Miriam Mayos - 5
Wm. Hy. Mayos - 10 - Stepson

Living at New Street, Shrewsbury St Chad, Shropshire

Piece:2654
Folio:8
Page Number:11

[JJen]

There was a trial which according to The Dundee Courier & Argus and Northern Warder (Dundee, Scotland), Friday, April 27, 1883 -

Eliza Mayos was found guilty of manslaughter sentenced to twenty years penal servitude.
Thomas mayos was found guilty of accessory to the fact and sentenced to eighteen months hard labour.

JJ

[Daisy123]

In the 1891 census Eliza Mayos is a convict in Knaphill, Woking, Surrey womens prison.

Piece:556
Folio:138
Page Number:6

[allans]

Haha - a start
Thomas Mayos & Eliza Williams married St George, Shrewsbury Q4 1878, Atcham district
and i found them in the criminal registers Apr 1883
she got 20 years
he got 18 months

Thanks

[Daisy123]

Could Miriam in the 1881 census be:

Mira Ann Mayos ? born 1876 in Hereford?

[allans]

Its certainly possible
and Death WIlliam Mayos, Atcham, 1890 age 20

Funny I cant see a DC reg for the murder, or when Eliza/Thomas died