The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-25 00:00:00

TILE MURDER IN SOMERSETSIIIRE.

The particulars of the horrible murder committed
upon the person of the unfortunate mull George Bush,
whose throat was shockingly cut on his way Luna l'ristun to
Timsbury, on the night of tho Ist December, have, already
aprcured in the Express.
We are sorry to say that we very much (ear the perpetra-
tor of thu shocking transaction will escape justice, the whole
affair being, notwithstanding the efforts of the Bath police,
and the inquiries of Mr. Thornton, a detective officer from
London, and who is still located in the district, enshrouded
in impenetrable mystery.
The proceedings already taken may be briefly slated as
follows woman with whom the deceased lodged, to-
gether with her &milder, her son-in-law, and another
man, were the parties first suspected by the police, and they
were accordingly apprehended, and underwent several ex-
aminations before the magistrates. Front the evidence
produced, and their own prevarications when accounting
for their time on the night of the murder, a pretty strong
circumstantial case was made out against them. Notwith-
standing their apparent guilt, how. ver, the police, in the
course of their investigations, became co ,vinced that
they were not the murderers; and James Evans,
a butcher, living at Furmborougli, and who was drinking
with the deceased at Priston on the evening of the murder,
was taken into custody. The other pri-oners were at the
next examination discharged, and the police then succeeded
in adding such evidence as made out a very suspicious-
looking case against Evans. According to the testimony of
the witnesses, he was drinking in company with the de-
ceased Buah on the evening of the murder at the Ring of
Bells, at Priaton, and upon Bush leaving without paying
for his beer, HUD, became exasperated, and made use of
several threats towards hint. He immediately after-
wards left the house, and was away wane time.
A person who had icen drinking with them went
outside, when he saw Evans come from the direc-
tion of the corner of the lane leading to the field
where the liody was found, and he then appeared anxious to
go on home, notwithstanding that his brother-in-law, who
lived in the next Ileum: to him at Farnborough, was still
drinking at the Ring of Bells. Ile was ultimately, how-
ever, persuaded to go in and have some more beer, but he
looked ill, and was very fidgetty tend desirous of getting
home. Several other suspicious eircuirstances were ad-
duced against the prisoner, who was remanded fur further

"its' terday (Wednesday) Evans was again brought up
before the county magistrates for the Bath division of
Somerset, but, notwithstanding the efforts of the police,
Mr. Hughes (chief of the Bath force) stated that neither
himself nor Mr. Thornton were prepared with further evi-
dence against the prisoner. The leggings belonging to the
prisoner, and upon which blood was found, have been, we
understood, submitted to Professor Taylor, of London, and
to Mr. Herapath, of Bristol, for analisation ; but their in-
vcstigation did nut carry the case any farther against the
prisoner. The magistrates having expressed their desire
to have the court cleared, Mr. Slack (solicitor for the
prisoner), said he gathered from the coarse adopted
by the magistrates at the last examination that they
would to-day, if no further evidence wee adduced,discharge
I and not commit the prisoner. Ile hoped, however, that
the bench would either allow him to call witnesses (with
whom he was prepared) to prove that it was impossible the
prisoner could have committed the shocking murder during
his absence from the Ring of Bella, or that the magistrates
would intimate to him and to the public that he left the
bar without that stigma which must otherwise be attached
to a man once charged with murder. The room having
been cleared, the public, after a brief consultation by the
magistrates, were again admitted, when the prisoner was
told that the magistrates bad resolved to discharge him,
but that he: would be liable to be re-apprehende4l at any
moment should further evidence be adduced against him.

ANTI-DRY ROT COMPANY.—The aeeretary of thin
defunct undertaking has sent in a claim for aervicei
' amounting to COI.