The National Register. — London, England, 1813-06-13 00:00:00

THE NATION,U," ton acknowledging !dope:lto be the murderer. The following par ticulars may be relied upon AS authintie He states, that on Sumlay night, after the groom I: ft hiin. he fel asleep upon a form in the servants' hall. the room where he w.s accustomed to lie : that he AWCke at three o'clock, ht' diaTnala from the tom : Ircjumped Hp, and was :mustily seized with au hich he could not resist, that he would marder his master and mis tress: he was at this time half undressed; be flora' oft his waist coat, and polled a sheet from his bed, with which he wrapped him. self up; he then snatched a poker from the grate of the servants' hall, and rushed up stairs to his master's room ; he made directly to his mistress's bed, and strnek her two blows on the bead; she 'wither spoke nor moved : he then went round to his master's bed, and struck him once actors the lace; Mr. Rolex %cos noised, and tiom the confasiou produced by the stuuning vio lence of the Wow, imagined that ilonar was then coming to bed ) and spoke to that effect : thud when he immediately repeated the blow, Mr. liewar sprung on: of bed, and grappled with hicu for IFteen minutes, and at one time was nearly getting the better of Lim; but being exhausted by logs ut blood, he was at length over pow( red : Nicholson then left him groaning on the floor. Ile went down stairs, slant himself naked, and washed hier klt all over with a sponge, at the sink in the butier's pantry. lie next went and opened the windows of the drawing-room, that it might be supposed some person had entered the house that way : he then took bis shirt and stockings which were covered with blood . (the s?:: - .et he bad left in his master's room), went out at the i'g—r; (loot., and con. eealed his bloody linen in e taiga covering it with haves: the bush was opposite the door, and not mammy pods from it ; he then EC turned without shutting the outer-door, and went to the servants' hall ; he opened his whitlow-shutters and went to bed (it was not yet tour o'clock): he did not sleep, thoneh he appeared to be asleep when King came for the purpose of waking him at halt past six o'clock. He shited, in the most solemn manner, that no person whatever was concerned atilt him in this horrid *geed: and to a anestion put to him, whether he had aey associaita answered, ' How could he, when he never in his life, before the moment of his jumping up flow the ton entertained the thought of murder.' He can assign no 'native for what he did lie had no enmity or ill will of any kind against r. or Mrs. lionar " This deple.ition wilt regale:ly given be:ore the magistrate, attested by Mr. A. Cooper, Mr. Herbert 3enher, the Rev. Mr. Lockwood, Mr. Mott, and Mr. !lunar. It appears that Nieeolson had been drinking a !great quantity of the bete of the house Maher Smola" . ; amid Clough it is not stated that lie wasintoxicatcd, yet :he quantity - might have had some effect 011'116 senses. In consequence of Nieholsoa's irformation, search was made for the linen, and it was found ia a lunge!-bush close to the home, wered with leaves, except about two inehes : the eie.:kings were very bloody, and the shirt was also rent almost to rags anion tile .Peek amid tilniN Nicholson, w hn, before the confession, tool: rd gloomy and tierce, and malicious, liag, since that period, been perfectly ceeo, and has e% en an air of tatistactit n iu his countenance, He appears to re peat his attenait suittide,and it is not apprehended that he wouhl .now repeat it, tleagli the watchfulness of his attendants is not on that account at all wernitted. He is at present in a tole' -iefe way, hut his recovery is somewhat donotful, hte;e:A: is is feared that it may he ni eussary to re-open the Ns :01 operation which inay be foilowed by dam:elan., cooseipances. Leery thin.: which may tend to agitate him is studiously avoided,_and as few persons as possible me admitted to sec him. Mr. Bonar rode to town early in the morning, with the intelli gence of tle confession to ilow-stivet, and afterwards minu t ia cited the eame to the Secretary of State. ANOTHER MURDER. A very decent elderly widow woman, who kept a small ehand lerki shop within two hundred yards of the C.tstle Ire) at Woodford, was on Monday moruiug found mardered bthind her counter. She rapt earl to have been sitting en a wooden chair at the back of the •cl'inter, eastivg up. on a slate', ei:lier the receipts of the day, or tivie amount of some artieles which the perpetrator of this horrid si ed had pretended to pmehase; when, it is conjectured, she must li se reCt ived.a violent ilkw between the eyes, after which, a large ife, with which site was in the habit 'ot cutting the cheese, We. as plumed into her throat, whereby the jugular vein and the wind '. ~e wet(' botti eat. When tli.covered, she was lying upon her face aa• . the floor bellia; the counter, and the bloody knife deposited tuna kind at woudeu bench ‘sithiu-a yard of the place where the • "71STEli. JUNE Is. bodykiy. The nmrder must have been committed late gut Saturday evening, after the I , linp wan cloned ; stud was nut dkteovt red wail :‘Tra.flav morning, as her neighbours had heard tier say she was going out on the following day, which being no suspicion arose, front the Windows 'entailing elose43 until Monday morning; when entrance w;:s ob!eim.d by the wiralow. Her pockets were tirrited in•ide out, and the 6;1 emptied, but hone ilver.spoons were lying in the back parloor untouched, aud op‘Aards of 301. in a box in her bed-room. The door has a sprieg Lick, which was closed upon the heels of the murderer, Nan, no doubt, quitted the house by the front door. It is roar:ll:Cite that OK re i. a cottage, wi th a family, next door, which is iiierOy divided by a thin lathe and plaster par aod no noise was heard. On Wednesday, a C••roner's [ugliest was held at the casti.e before Charles Parker, Esq. Counter for the County, to take a view of the body. The .Imy, after a short coteultation, returned a ver dict of 11'i fist Herder, against a per ‘on or persons onkuuti. No trace is yet made of the perpetrators attic horrid deed. FURTHER PARTICULAP.S. Mr. Read and Mr. Stafford have been indefatigable in their exer timer durin,e., the week, in eadeavonring to trace out the niardever of ilq - ,..5.%'1111C1P:, ILE ‘VOOMOCti. In the putnished reports of his Horrid transaction, a great deal has been said respecting a joniney man tailor being suspected as the pet ',ignitor of the horrid deed, arising from what a Mrs. North, a neLlihnur Of the deeersed, said, viz. that on Saturday selmight she Wa4 in company %rid* the deceas ed, when she pointed to a Illan 1010 was tao;ling ner Ole clueciwca's house, warn Mrs. Stephen's said was a cumstomer of het's, but whenever he came to her shop sl:c felt afraid of him, and was fear- NI he would do her a mischief some day. Mrs. North did not know the man, bin understood him to be a journeyman tailor. Flom this statement, no less than three journeymen tailors have been taken into custody on suspicion; at least one has been confined in the pri son. Clerkenwell, and t•.ro have been examieed before Mr Read, who had erameetions at Woodford; they in.oved to he loose and un steady characters. but nothing criminal attach( to them ; and they proving, most unquestionably, that they erre ret at Woedford ht the time of the murder, they were not der disci( iu eu-te,tly. The one who was confined till Wednesday evet:ira: in the New Prison, Clef kenwell, oceasionaliy w raked at Wouthl.,u d. and in Londo: ; and when at Woodford, he was in the habit of purchasing, things art Mrs. Stephen '.• shop. Ile got into enstedy kiln a very extraorditwry cii-eunistanec.—He was in company with a person in Louden, a lu n the sulject of conversation was the nintilcr of Mrs. Stephens, awl that person reported that it was Sunday, by mistake, he had met the tailor, instead of Monday, the murder not having been diseo. verect till Monday ; and it being said that the tailor was talking ahout and describing the murder on .;tuiday, no donbt was enter tained at first hint he was tf;e murderer, or he could not have known the particulars a tlay before any body else. On these circumstances he was taken into custody, and com mitted by Sir David Williams. Mr. Read afterwards attended him in the pi isqn, and took his full narrative, wherein roily explain ed his business and connection at Woodford ; gave a full and parti• cular acennut as to where was on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and the nights of those days, which was very satisfactorily con firmed by the person at whose house he slept, and several other persons whose company be had been in. The man also acknowledg ed his error, in stating it to be Sunday, instead of Mondi.v, he was in company with the prisoner, when he told , him Mrs. Stephens was milli:red. The prisoner was, of course, discharged. Mrs. Stephens was seen in her shop on Saturday night, about ten o'clock, or a quarter after, sittitg behind her counter as usual, her shutters not being up. About eleven o'clock, a tetnale who omit. pies the adjoining house to the deceased, and is confined to her bed with the rheumatic gout, heard .Mrs. Stephen's door bane-to with very neat violence, so much so that it made her house shake, and immediately she heard some footsteps run away very fast, and there is no donbt but that it was the murderer. From the situation and position Mrs. Stephens was found in, when her neighbours en tered the house, it is supposed she was in the act of settling her .week's accounts, as she had got her slate in her hand. The half pence were counted up, which were left ; but the silver and notes, if any,. taken. It is supposed the villain attacked her over the counter, with the mallet. The Surgeon who examined the body is of opinion, the eats iu her neck were given after the blows with the mallet. No other &predation% were committed in the house. Bank notes to the amount of .SL. %%etc fvund in the drawer en the fir3t. floor.