The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-07 00:00:00

MURDER AND SUICIDE IN SHAD WELL.

On Saturday afternoon, about half-pad two
o'clock, a horrible murder was committed by • Spaniard
named Remand Capon Ptlla Rom at 12, Mbert-equare,
High-street, ShadwelL His victim was an Irish girl, with
whom he had been cohabiting, named Honors &noel.
The event has created great excitement, more especially es
after his detection in the first crime he succeeded in nom.
mitting suicide. Roos arrived in this country from the
Havanna about six weeks back, sad then had 700
dollars in his =soe. Soon after he formed an
intimacy with and bad recent) y become very
taHof her. On riday they went to the Esbc.
os,na and were afterwards drinking in • public-house.
Oa Saturday afternoon, whilst cleaning out her room,
she wished him to leave, as he had no money. The land.
lady et the house also told him to leave. He flew into a
futons pinion, and threatened them both with death, and
as ke armed himseU with a pistol sad dagger, the girl, he.
comrag alarmed, ran out, and was hastening down stair.;
when attacked' her and stabbed her several times
the bark, and she fell to the bottom • oorpee. The Warta,
nut cat sereamaag " Murder," and oo a timetable arriving
and derneading admission, the Spaniard opened the door sad
presented • pistol at him, which he saw was !ceded up to the
muzzle. He shut the door upon the police, and rushed up
stain to the deceased girl's room, and immediately after.
wards a report of firearms was heard. Oa gaining ea "stream
the police found the body of the gel lying at the foot of
the stairs, quite dead, in • pool of blood, and bee murderer
on the floor of the room, with his bead and face blowo to
name. The pistol bullet had Pined through his bead, and
lodged is the ceiling, and the walls were bespattered with
blood. The bodies ware removed in shells to the vaults of
Shadweß Church, to await au inquest ; and the police have
taken pease ion of the premises where the catastrophe took
Another pistol and dagger were fouod under the bed
rilia:t.
e room, and &Rhos& so money was found on Roe%
there wen several Isom Exhibition medals in his pocks%

ADDITIONAL AND LATEST PARTICULARS.
(THIS DAY.)

(bawds of persons collected until a late hour loot even-
leg in front of the house in Albert-square, end the police
bad °medicable difficulty in keeping a free traffic.
After the bodies were removed to the dead-house, limper-
toe Allison prooseded to the room where the tragedy took
plate, end on en examination of the ceiling he found one of
the teeth of the murderer, and two teeth were also em-
bedded in the franiswork of the pictures. A portion of
the haste wee stettered about the wells, and there
wee • pool of blood on the floor just in
front of lieZ
fire-plaos. Upon removing the bed he
found on the maitre= a double-barrelled pistol, loaded sod
2L redie rtited a second dagger, about ten inches in length,
no doubt of the premeditation of the foul act
sad deed. The stairs from the landing downwards, where the
wretched woman fell, wore covered with blood, which still
rummies for the inspection of the ,jury. The officer likewise
found • ports- roonoaie, containing le. 6d. in silver, which
was tied up in a white h•odkerchird. This is supposed to
belong to the (email ScanneL
The upper portion of the murderer's body presented a
most sickening spectacle, the jaw boom being totally de-
stroyed by the violence of the explosion, and the pistol mut
have been Awed under the dammed man's chin. The police
found pieces of the jaw in several directions about the room,
which have been preserved for inspection. The front win-
dow, of the hoes* were broken by the crowd, who pelted
bricks in the room from the rarest when the cries of
"Murder' were heard.
The inquest will be held to4norrow at the Albion
Tavern, Hi&-streek by Mr. Jokes Humphreys.