The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-04 00:00:00

ANOTHER SUSPECTED CASE oP mrsimous

MIIIIDER.

BRIGHTON, Nov. 2.
On Thursday morning last, between eight and
nine o'clock, as Sergeant James King and Charles Bartlett,
gunner of the Royal Artillery, stationed at Langley Fort,
near to Eastbourne, were strolling on the beach, they saw a
box lying • little below high water mark. Thinking they had
got • pram they sprung a board, when they discovered the
hand of • human body. The box and its contents were then
taken to lAngi” Fort, and infomietion of the discovery wee
given to the The box wee then opened, and the body
was found to be that of • boy of from thirteen to fourteen
years of age. It was wrappk in six pieces of canvas., new
and old, and • new table cloth, and on the body was •
coarse shirt, • cotton handkerchief being tied round
the neck. On the heed was • black cloth cap,
tamed up with plush velvet and a gold tassel. Tho box wee
In the term of a hexagon, and strongly made of deal, with
pieces of rope at each end ti form handles. In the bottom of
the bag were some shavings and a kind of pillow formed of
the name.

On Saturday an inquest was held on the body, before Mr.
F. H. Geli, county &Avner, and in addition to the evidence,
of which the above is a !seriatim, Dr. Jeffery gave the smelt
of aped mortem examination. He was of opinion that the boy
had been almost starved to death and then struck on the
left Oen* with a heavy blunt instrument, which had caused
death. The body was most emaciated, consisting of only skin
and boas. The skull was indented. The organ, of the stomach
woe generally healthy, but the stomach was completely
empty. He was of opinion that the body had been dead
from six to ten days. The inquest was adjourned for the
police to make inquiries.
It le the general opinion that the boy was murdered, and
Woo that the box was placed at the spot where it was found,
and had not been washed there. In favour of this supposi-
tion la the fact that at this point (Langley Point) the current
it No strong that nothing his been known to wash Nabors;
and further, the boo itself was scarcely saturated, nor
were the shavings discoloured. The body, too, ins not
decomposed, and had not been subjected to the action of the
water.

A photographic likeneas has been taken, which it is pro-
bable may lead to Identification. The body was buried on

DOUBLE MURDER IN Partis.—A double murder
was committed on Monday morning in the house No. 69,
Faubourg St. Antoine, which is occupied by • number of
small manufacturer. and tredeemen, and during the day the
home is frequented by very newly persons who have business
relation. with it. different omi,onts. Among them was •
man named Butel, • hawker of jewellery, who had melded
there for about four years with a woman named liug6nie
Liotard. These two Lave been the victims of this horrible
crime. Betel has two illegitimate children, one of whom,
aged 13, wee apprentice be the neighbourhood, and the other,
some years younger, lived at home. In the morning,
about seven o'clock, the (Meet boy, who had got
• holiday, came home to spend the day with his
father. Hs knocked several times at the door, and
called to his father by name, but without receiving any
mower. Surprised at finding no ene at home at that early
hour, the boy went down to .peak to the porter, by whom he
was assured that his father had not gone out. He then went
up wain, and on the italrs trading from the third to the
fourth floor, where his father resided, met two men coming
rapidly down. On reaching the apartment of his parent he
found the door ejar, and on entering the nom was
horrorstruck at finding his father Ding dead on the floor,
having only his shirt and trousers on, and with a com-
plete pool of blood round him, which had flowed from
two large gashed on mho head. The woman was lying
on the bed, also weltering in blood. The cries of
the boy brought • number of the people in the house to the
spot. Some of them said that they bad heard • noise in the
room a short time before, but imagined that it was only a
domestic squabble, to which they had been scenstemed, end
they therefore took no notice of it. Information was Inane-
diately sent to the oommi-vary of police, and a rigid invevti-
gallon has hem commenced. It is supposed that the minter
Ms been oommitted from motives of personal vengeance, as
no robbery appears to have taken Owe° ; and from the state
of the dres of Butel, it is thought that the murderers came
while he was in bed on pretense of wu.ting to buy. some of
his merchandise, and that he Itiwily got up and slipped on
his trousers.
SERIOUS STABBING AT BRIGHTON.—A case of
this nature mauled at en mealy bout reeterday morning at a
place of 111 fame In William-greet. this house is next door
(on the north side) to the Artichokednn ; and it appears that
several French tailors, portion of the crew of the Palleme.
now lying in Shoreham Harbour, were there in the company
of some Brighton men. A quarrel ensued between the
Brighton men and the landlord of the how*. whom they
threw out of the lower room window, but, lutkily, did not
injure him. He mattered the lime., and, on the men pur-
eeing him upstairs, celled for aveletance ; and at this Waged
the proceedinp it was that three of the sailors (the others
had left) Interfered, drew clasp Mine (ordinary pocket
Mims) from their pockets, and fell upon two of the landlord's
weal cis, whom they cut severely. The man Sr. two
Inhestren, named Steers and Sin..; and one of them ham live
Womb In the head, and one weed in the thigh, and the
saw his a stab through the cheek. The three Eremitism
Tin taken Into eletod_y, wad will be brought Wpm the
togisiratis this 4117.—Brighton Examiner.

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