The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-07 00:00:00

THE MURDER NEAR WINDSOR.

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B ALBERT. BUCKS, SATURDAY NIGHT.
The inhuman atrocity perpetrated here his excited
the inhabitants of the district for miles arcittad, end from
an early hour this morning up to en advanced period of
the evening, Burnham Abbey Farm, the scene of the
murder, has been virited by hundreds. Indeed, since the
murder committed by Towel' some eight yam ago at
Slough, about two miles from here, nothing approximating
to the horror now entertained has been witnessed, or could
base been anticipated.
It has been already stated that the groans, Moses Maddo,
was yesterday apprehended on suspicion of being the mur-
derer, but it yet remains to be explained upon what grounds
his arrest was decidrd on by the police, inasmuch as the
facts were not elicited before the coroner. _

It appears from the &terminal of Superintendent Perkins,
of Eton, Superintendent Thomas, of Slough, and Superin-
tendent Symington, of Banshees, in whose hands the ea-e
has been placed by the magistrates, that, notwithstanding
the perfect freedom which fladdo had enjoyed subsequent
to the discovery of the burning body of the deceased, their
Arnagieioas of the man's guilt were strong, and as they
saintly, yet minutely, investigated the circum-tances at-
! Wading the awful occurrence, they became further fortified,
the result of whieh was their decision to arrest him on the
Ghee,' yesterday morning Upon taking Haddo into
flautody at the farm, he deported himself in a manner which,
their experienced judgment in criminal matters, betrayed
tho insolence of a person studying to play the character of
Imo innocent of the crime, yet betraying in the boldness of
the embodiment the
ssiouness of innocence might have made. The primer
wee not t►en aware of the matter is possession of the police,
as,, indeed, is he at this moment, and consequently he pre-
serves the same insolent bearing in the police station at
Ztoa, where he is now under remand.
The three superintendents, acting upon the information
furnished by Mrs. Dunce, wife of the foreman of Mr.
Goodwin's farm, of the deceased's complaint to her a few
hours before the murder, of the offensiveness of Haddo in
his language, gleaned the fact of the young woman having
ea the night prior to her unhappy death, been to Burnham
village to post some letters, and of her being accompanied
a portion of the distance home by a former fellow servant
named John Marsh, of Mills Farm, at Brittle, who had
been paying her some attention, and whose regards were
reciprocated. This, it appears, had considerably augmented
the dissatisfaction of Haddo, who also had been manifesting
an affection for the deceased, who, so far from encouraging
his passion, repulsed him, and, indeed, treated his advances
se emansung from one beneath her in station, she, in fact,
holding the position el housekeeper, while the prisoner,
though celled a groom, in point of feet only performed the
duties of stable-man, and was of a disposition far from cal-
'Belated to impress with favour a young woman of taste,
each as undoub•edly the deceased was for one iu her
walk of life—a fact amply testified by the little matters
found in the unfortunate girl's bed room subsequent to the
hatchery inflicted upon her. The police, haying satisfied
!themselves of the jealous feeling of the prisoner, then
closely examined the premises, and found, from the state-
ment of Mr. Goodwin, the deceased's master, that her
coasts nt custom, prior to retiring to bed, was to take what-
ever plate might have been in use during the day from the
sideboard drawer, in the parlour, and lock it up in an upstairs
room. On the night of the murder the plate was not re-
moved from the ground flour, nor was it at all disturbed, a
fact fully convincing the officers that no burglar bail com-
mitted the atrocity. It was also perfectly clear to them that
the few rings and two pencil caste mimed by her master had
been taken, not for their intrinsic worth, but merely to give
a colouring for a suspicion of robbery, whereas, if plunder
had been the object, there was a valuable quantity of plate
easily removable. They then closely examined the spot
where the first traces of blood were discovered, awl where,
beyond the possibility of doubt, the first violence was in-
flicted. This spot is the doorway leading from the kitchen
ea the right wing of the dwelling to the centre of the
house, and immediately over which door is the bed room of
the prisoner, and the head of his bed actually lying di-
rectly over the place at an elevation of only ten feet from
the floor of the passage. The polies feel assured that if
' Haddo had been in his bed room (as he asserted to the
nenemer) when the girl was here attacked for the first time,
pat have beard the deadly struggle evidenced by the
OWN of blood on the wall, the door, and the flooring of the
pew to have ensued. Further, there are spots' of blood
up Nis stairs from this passage, in which Mr. Goodwin
Mud the tooth and hair pin, suggesting the probability
that when attacked the poor creature fled up stairs with an
halation of gaining her room for the purpose of raising an
deem from the window looking on to the lawn; but being
pursued by the assassin and overtaken, her chance of rescue
was cut off. All this, say the police officer, could not pos-
sibly have occurred without the prisoner, who acknow-
ledges to have heard a fall, being considerably alarmed,
even supposing tbe deceased had been by terror deprived of
the power of screaming out. Arai', there is in the room
where the deceased was found burning fearful evideace of •
desperate straggle with her assassin; and so, indeed, is
there in the narrow gallery leading to the apartment, and
on the walls of which are several impressions of, from the
size, a female hand stained with blood. This very wall sepa-
rates Haddo's bed room from the door of the deceased', bed
room, and, es the police observe with some force, he, if there
end awake, ought to have heard that which, to all appear-
ance, was a dreadful struggle on a level with his apartment.
Subsequent to the violence here used the last and MOH
desperate effort of the deceased is presented; by the appear-
ance of her bedroom. The body was found lying befbre the
fire-place, the head in the direction of the window. Marks
of blood are in various parts of the room, a complete splash
being as far up as the mantelpiece, while on one side of the
floor, near the bedstead, are drops of blood, as if they had
trickled down, while the poor woman was flying about in
the hope of escaping with life, or at least prolonging exist-

sue,.
To-day, however, the polies (Monkeys gleaned from the
foreman Dunce a material coatra diction of a statement made
by Haddo on the first day of the coroner's inquiry. The pri-
soner stated that hearing the dog barking he alarmed Bunce,
bat the latter most positively asserts that he was net called to
by him. Ills statement is, that ►earing the dog bark,he got up
and went to the window of his bed room, which he opened and
looked through for the purpose, listening, his wife observ-
ing that no doubt some bird-catchers were about the ad-
joining hedges. At length hearing footsteps in the yard at
the rear of his master's dwelling, he called aloud, and for
some minutes received no reply. Calling again, however, '
while in the act of dressing himself the prisoner came to
the yard wall separating his (Bane's) cottage from that
area, and said " It's me. The colts have got out, and I've
come to tell you." It this statement be correct, the police
consider that their prisoner ought to have answered when
Ant challenged by Banc*. The statement of Mn. Banes is,
that she heard Haddo call to her husband, bat the latter
persists that she was asleep when he first cried eat " who's
there ?" and that she only awoke at the moment when the
secured applied to his repeated summons.
Such are the grounds of suspicion upon which the
officers are acting, but it is right to observe that they have
just become neaten of grave facts. which they do not cut-
eider themselves at present justified in disclosing.
During this afternoon, the pollee, assisted by the farm-
labourers, have been searching the water-closets and other
places about the premises, in the hope of discovering the
rings and two pencil cues stolen from Mr. Ooodwin's
dressing table, but as yet their search has not proved suc-
cessful.

The clothes worn by Haddo on the evening of the murder
were taken by Superintendent Symington to London, to he
submitted to Professor Taylor fur analysis.
It is quite clear that the body of the unfortunate woman
must have been burning for nearly two boors prior to her
mutar's return home.
It is a singular fact that the doors separating the stair-
case of the accused's room from the centre of the house
should, on this night, have been bolted, for Mr. Goodwin
states to the police that the deceased always left it unbolted,
so that ii during bis absence burglars should attempt an
entrance sho might have an opportunity of at once having
1 the presence of Ilivido for protection.

NEW TIIRESUING Mechi has
imported the American threshing machine, which weighs
only 14 cwt., threshes easily and without waste at the
rate of one bushel in forty seconds, turns out the grain
perfectly clean and ready for market, and is manufactured
in Americo at a cost price of 231. It is driven by a six-
horse portable engine. An objection taken to the machine
is that it does not give off the straw and the chaff separately
in the most convenient and economical form. Taken
altogether, however, this " separator " is a highly creditable I
specimen of the mechanical ingenuity of our cousins. It I
promises none of those startling results which drew such
attention to the reaping machines in 18.51; but it may
prove of the highest value if, through the formidable com-
petition which it foreshadows, our implement makers are
induced to bring their scale of charges more within the
reach of the practical farmers' means, and to combine light-
ness of construction with the greatest passible efficiency and
economy is the work done.