The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-11 00:00:00

DREADPUL MURDER RY MERINO AT
DUNMOW.

A most extraordinary and sudden affair tool,
place here late on Saturday evening ; and, as an it:mance
the cowardly effect of the concealed knife, end its &auk'
consequences, has seldom been paralleled in this coantr
About 11 o'clock a few wrangling words in *rather a
tone were heard coming from near the gas-lamp, ,iiiprecp
the doctor's pond, and when two or three young
went to the spot, they found that a man was atandit,,-
there who had just been wounded in some way with
a sharp instrument, and at that manent two men web,
escaping across the Downs as fast as they could; Ardor.
innately the persons alarmed were so occupied with their
attention to the sufferer that the offenders made thci
escape. The person thus desperately asaulted walked oak 4
few yards across the road before he fell, and being taken ie.:,
the Star yard, died almost directly. It was man found thit
the deocesed is named James Barnard, from Cophill,
near Medford, in Bedfordshire—a young married ro.m,
about 27 years of age, who travelled the country
a hawker of umbrellas, broom, clothes' lines, &c. Yr •
what can be learnt at present, it appears that he had
out in his calling, and was going home to his lodguies
the Bell, at Church-End, where his wife was ; no nue seems
to know whether he had had any quarrel worth nainitz
with say one ; and he is said, by parties who knew him,
to have been a quiet inoffensive person, and therefore the
fear is that the dreadful deed was done in a moment of
make and spite, but by whom is at present involved in
mystery, which the police are sedulously endeavouring to
unravel.

MONDAY MORNLNO, 10 O'CLOCL
When I emote to you last night the polioe were 'count;
the neighbourhood, and bad been hither and thither bat
without success; however, early in the evening Superinten-
dent Rogerson obtained a clue, and forthwith, and-
ing a Dunmow man, named John Button—who sag
said to be one of the two seen to hasten Otto.,
the Downs just before Barnard fell—he (Button) ie-
hurtarily confessed that he was present when the
assault took place, although he did not touch the de.
ceased, and that a man nerved Henry Eagle, of Little betel,
eau the person who had blows with the deceased, and mute
have been the perpetrator of the dreadful deed. Buttoa
further willingly and earnestly detailed the conversation
be had with Eagle as they were going home. The superi,-
fendent immediately took two constables with him (know-
ing that the accused, from previous circumstances, ware
most desperate fellow), and succeeded in finding him at tie
dwelling of a relative. While the superintendent and
police-constable Day went in at the front door, the accused
attempted to escape from the back ; but police-constable
Johnson was ready for him, and after some resistance he
was secured, and immediately brought to the Dunmore
police station. The inquest will be held to-morrow
(Tuesday.) in the forenoon, and the probability at
present re that the prisoner will be committed by the
coroner in time to be forwarded to and tried at the
present assize. This dreadful OLIO has caused much more
consternation at Dunmow than any occurrence it the kind
for many years, and although it was Sunday evening a
great concourse thronged the aides of the cart when Eagle
was brought into the town. The prisoner has bees quiet in
the cell all night, but be is watched most narrowly, mod
police-constable sat up with him for that purposa—Errs
Herald.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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