The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-01 00:00:00

BURGLARY AND MURDER OF 4 FARMER .IN
cassants.

About two o'clock yesterday morning a shocking
murder took place at Braman four miles south of Stockport.
A fanner and grazier, named James Henderson, aged about
60 years, lived at a farm in Robles-lane, Braman, called
Hardy's farm, and about two o'clock in the morning the
family were alarmed by hearing the discharge of a pistol or
gnu in his bedroom, and the unfortunate man was after-
wards found in bed, with the left half of the upper jaw shot
away, and lying in • pool of blood. Hadre fano cassia
of about 100 acres of land, rented from Colcoel Davenport,
of Brarnall.hall, Cheshire, about • idle distant. The
house is • god-sired tenement, fronting to a garden
and small lawn on the south, and with an m-
ama from the garden, and also • second entrance from
the farm-yard at the back. Mr. Henderson died
In • bedroom on the first floor, over • front sitting room, near
the heed of the etas ; his eldest sea, Jammu flesamewn
who is a cashier at • wholesale groesey hoar in Manama,
slept in • bedroom to the left of his son the ism Isar,
and Mrs. Henderson, the wife, who has been SIMS tine i•
111-health, slept with a married daughter in • bedroom en the
right. A younger son, Thomas Henderson, sped Id, apt
with a servant man and boy in an attic, and a fade anent
also dept in an attic. Two Isiah lade, who had ban working
en the farm from June last, slept ta a Emmy
over the kitchen, having en entrance from seta dope
outside the house, at the west end. The Wed eon ems
he was awoke at about two o'clock in the mom* by the
di charge of a pistol in his father's room, and getting oat of
bed he took down • double-barrelled pm that we, in his
bedroom. On opening the bedroom door (which is opposite
the top of the stairs) he saw on the landing, half-way down
the etas, neer • window there, a tall man, at whom he in-
stantly discharged one barrel of the gun The ma gave
vent to an exclamation of pain or alarm, and i
ran down the remaining six steps. Immediatair erierata
his father's bedroom dear wan opened, and a light
being extinguished at the same moment, three an
rushed out and went down the stairs. The whale
family were awakened by this time and raised cries of claim.l
The younger eon having oome down from the attic, this
joined has brother, and having re-loaded the gun they vest
down done, and from theme outside the home to al=
nary-door, arousing the two lads who slept them
found no trace whatever of the men who had been In the
house, and there is reason to fear that the mart eltat d en-
tirely escaped, as the charge of small shot fired was gaily
found in the wall by the ride of the window a are maths
of it only having struck an upper pane of window al
broken the glom. As far as can be Mdpd, the
shot was too high for any portion to have taken
effect on • moll standing upon the bean. On
the two sons re-entering the house they found
that • sitting-room door had been opened, and • leather
writing-care belonging to the elder had been forced,
or cut open, and from it 141. 10s. in gold had been abstracted.
In the father's bedroom then rue an order on the Bank of
Boatload for 1001 , and • receipt for 931. 10a., which had been
lodged fa the district bank at bddtport on the previous day.
These was la the drawer of • small dressing table, locked
24... ad there was no appearance of the chewer having been
. Mr. Henderson had held his annual sale of stack
on Monday, and had sold 38 heed of oda, for which
he had received about 218/., and it Is supposed
that the knowledge of this money having been ne-
ared had been the inducement to the burglary.
There are eevural very mysterious circumstances about the
robbery and murder, but which may probably be cleared up
hereafter. One is that no door or widow had been broken
open, so that at least one of the burglars must have been
otmesslod on the premises to have let the others in, unless
by some accident one of the doors had been left unfastened.
Another of the circumstaripmxis that • sheep dog kept in

the boast, and which that night was in the younger ion's
little bedroom, did not bark or Ore any alarm; and the third
the motive for the murder. The deceased was found lying
en his pillow, and if the object of the burglars wee plunder,
the &mg of • pistol was the surest way to alarm
the family and defeat their own purpose. It Is
Feasible, however, that the old man opened his
ayes while the men were in his room before they had time
to break open the drawer, and the murder Irma effected to
secure retreat, before he could lay hands upon any of them.
The family, upon the discovery of the murder, common'•
eated as quickly as possible with the county police, and Mr.
Chief Superintendent Andrews, of Stockport, was on the
premises by about 4 o'clock. War in the day Detective
Superintendent. Maybury and Buckley, from Manchester,
tinted the house. A poet-niortem examination was made of
the body yesterday, by Mr. Graham end his eon, surgeons,
of Stockport, who extracted about a deem No. 6 shot from
the heed, a portion of it having entered the brain. Part
of a tooth had also been driven into the brain by the charge,
and wend teeth had been forced through the lett cheek, and
were found on the room floor. Most of the family state that
they beard the notes of feet on the atairthee otter thell
of the second shot (that by the son 1, and that there seemed
to be three or four persons by the noise, though the sound
was a muffled one, as though the penman were without Atha,
of had something tied over them to lighten the sound. There
is at present not the slightest clue to the perpetrators of this
',hocking out . At drat suspicion fell upon • eervant
roan, discharged from the house on Saturday night, but on
inquiry he was found to have been a. home all night.
The form is situated at a considerable diatanoe from any
other house.

(ET ILIICTIIO TILED/LPN.)
MANCHESTER, WIDNIIIDAT Minim%
James Henderson, the eldest son of the deceased, bee been
taken into castody on suspicion of the murder of his father.

FIREs IN LONDON YESTERDAY. —A tiro took
place about half-past 9 o'clock last night in the premises
belonging to Mr. Pigott, a tailor and outfitter, carrying on
business in the Mile-end-mad, near the gate. The fialllB6
commenced from some unknown cause in the front shop, and
rapidly extended to the upper part of the building. On one
side of the premiere stood Harvey's Coffee-shop, and on the
other side Messrs. Brooke's boot-shop. The flames mild
not be subdued until the premises were partly destroyed, and
the property contained in three adjoining damaged, especially
by removal and by the water.—Another conflagration broke
out last evening in a long range of carpenters' workabope
in Church street, Chelan, near the Royal Military Schools.
The workshops and the back atoms were consumed and five
er six private houses surrounding them were damaged.—A
Are broke out last night about 11 o'clock, at Dockhead, but
the damage done, owing to the timely arrival of the Brigade,
was confined to the destruction of one room and its contents,
and some injury done to the lower part of the house by
water.—A fire broke out yesterday morning in the premium
of Mr. Fuller, carpenter and undertaker, No. 11, Devosport-
street, Kennington-lane The whole of the manufacturing
weda of the property was reduced to ashes. The loss will
fell upon the Royal Liverpool Fire- office.—A fire broke out
In the premises of Mr. Tatham, a dealer in marine stores,
No. 91 St. Oeortre's-rowl, Southwark, which wart not ex-
tinguished until considerable damage was done. Insured in
the Sun Fire-office.

THE FALKIRK BANK Fnauos.—The trial of Reid
and Gentlee, late teller and accountant in the Falkirk branch
of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, far being concerned in
the frauds of the late agent, Mr. H. Salmon (who it will be
remembered committed suicide some months ago in Wale,
sad whose defalcations amounted to about 27,0001.), termi-
nated at the Stirling Circuit Court on Tuesday, after a trial
which lasted sir days, with a verdict of guilty, and they were
severally sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. The
vy
a penny
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d n d theete weirpressed
Ithemselvesso' m
money whichsfied that
the
hadet been
embezzled by Salmon, and to their strong recommendation of
leniency, no doubt, this apparently light punishment is due.
LONDON GENEILAL Chimps COMPANT.—Traffie
eszwipts for the week ending Sept. 26, 11.3611. 14e. 84.

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