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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 15.

AT a quarter-past ten on the night of the 11th
of April last, a widow woman, SARAH Muscur
by name, housekeeper in the establishment of
Messrs. BLVINGTON, in Cannon-street, City, was
found lying with her feet towards the stairs and
her head towards the door, dead, near a pool of
blood, by the cook, her fellow-servant, whom she
had left upstairs an hour before, to go down and
answer the front-door belL According to this
fellow-servant, the deceased always answered the
bell, was often down stairs in the evenings, some-
times for an hour and a half at a time ; used to
write letters in the counting-house, received many
letters, and wrote many ; had borrowed of her •
sovereign or two on two occasions when a visitor
called in the evening. The night of the murder
was dark and rainy, all the gaslights were out in
the house except one, which was burning just
over where the body lay, and it appeared that the
poor woman's head and face had received several
wounds from a blunt and a sharp instrument.

Aftertwo days trial at the Central Criminal Court
this murder remains one of the undiscovered
mysteries of the London streets. The trial of
lere Sierra has resulted in his acquittal, the
Jury having, without a moment's hesitation,
returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The cumu-
lative evidence of the prisoner's absence from
London on the night of the murder was too
strong to be resisted. Several witnesses swore to
having met the accused on that evening of the
11th of April, walking between Eton, where
he resided, and Windsor, and others to
having passed a part of that evening in his com-
pany at two beer-houses at Windsor and Eton. The
evidence adduced by the prosecution to the iden-
tity of the prisoner with a man who had been seen
by a certain Mrs. Rosinsra leaving the door of
Messrs. Bsvnorrox's on the night of the murder
was of the flimsiest description. This witness was
also a widow and a housekeeper, who lived next
door to Messrs. Barrsoeox's ; and on her return
borne shortly after ten on the 11th of April,
she had been startled by the slamming of
Messrs. BEYINGTON'S door, and presently after
had seen a man go by, gis ing her a aide
look as he passed in a hurried manner,
but riot so hurried as to prevent her from
observing that he was thin-logged and flat-footed.
She " believed the prisoner was the man."
A few days after, when the prisoner was taken
past her door in custody, she was " too
" bothered and confused " to recognise any
one, and was in the same state when she
went to the Mansion-house to see the prisoner.
Such was the evidence to the identity of Wu,
raent SMITH. The materials of suspicion upon
which the police appear to have acted consisted
of a letter addressed to the unfortunate
SARAH MuAiiox and demanding repayment of
a certain sum of money, with the threat '
of informing Mr. BEVINOTON of the circum-
stances under which she had borrowed the money.
This letter, signed "GEORGE Teruel'," was
written by W 11.1,14151 SMITH, and delivered by him
to the deceased, and on the back of it was written
a receipt of 1/. by "WrLuisw DErrros, for Gloirox
TERRY." The prisoner did not deny having
written and delivered this letter, and having
signed the receipt under the assumed name of Lax-
lux because he knew that the money was not due to
TERRY. The witness WEBBER, of whom a sum of
331. had been borrowed, deposed to having given
it to Mrs. TERRY, to be lent to the deceased,
Mrs. MILLSON, and repaid by instalments of 10s. a
week. Two instalments amounting to 81. had
been paid, and, according to TERRY,
who deposed to having known the deceased some
years ago, and borrowed the 331. for her, Wm-
=tit Swan, to whom, as a fellow-lodger,
he had mentioned the loan, had offered to
obtain the money back, and had received, in fact,
five shillings on one of the instalments he had re-
covered. TERRY bad subsequently accused the
prisoner of receiving more money from the de-
ceaaed than he had accounted for. The de-
ceased had told Mrs. TERRY that she had paid
" a man," and had been warned not to pay "any
" more to such a person." All these vague
and loose depositions established a certain con-
nexion between the accused and the deceased,
sufficient no doubt to set the police on his heels,
but not sufficient to connect him with any pro-
bable motives of the murder. The poor woman
had, it was proved, been long in extreme dis-
tress of mind, pursued by a constant dread ;
repeatedly visited after dark by some
man whom she would go down alone to meet at
the door, and for whom she had repeatedly bor-
rowed small sums of money to satisfy and send
away. But the evidence did not prove any con-
nection between this unknown person and the ac-
cused, or between his demands of money and that
sum of 331. borrowed by the woman whom TIZZY
called his wife of Mrs. WEBBER for the deceased,
and of which instalments to the amount of 81.
only had been paid back. The prisoner did not
deny having applied to the deceased for these in-
stalments: his own loose and reckless habits of life,
and the manner in which he had become associated
with the deceased woman through her miserable
hidden difficulties, lent an air of probability to