The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-12 00:00:00

BRUTAL MURDER lx MUM

A brutal murder was committed on the South-
downs on Friday night last, apparently with the very
matry obect of robbing • poor old man of the sum of
2/. I Is. it appears that a farm labourer, named David
Baldey, aged nO, in the employ of Mr. Hudson, farmer, of
Kingston village, near Lewes, received from that gentle-
man on Friday nighti the sum mentioned above, being a
fortnight's wages for himself and his two sous. He left
Mr. Hodson's house about six o'clock to go, as was
supposed,, to his own dwelling, • solitary building known as
Newmarket-cottage, and situate at the summit of one of the
aouthdowna known by that name. Nothing more was, so
far as is at present known, seen or heard of him that
night, and singularly enough his family—a wife, two
eons, and a daughter—went to bed without inquiry or
searchindafter bun. Next morning, about six o'clock, as
the two eons were proceeding to theft 'work, they dis-
covered, lying across the beaten track, about 600 yards
from the house, the murdered and mutilated body of their
father. They raised an alarm, and the corpse was removed
to the cottage. 'Die police were called in, and Dr. Smythe.
police-surgeon, who examined the body, found that the
poor fellow bad been shot through the back with
a gun or pistol, the bullet being found in his breast,
and that his nose and teeth had been regularly
smashed, apparently with the butt of the weapon
which had been used to shoot him. The money
which he had received onthe previous night had been ex-
tracted from his pocket, and the latter, when the body
was discovered, was found to be turned inside out.
The surgeon had no doubt, from the appearances which
he found, that the ruffian who Brad the fatal shot
was at the time of doing so within a few feet of his victim.
The deceased is said to have been • steady, hard-working,
inoffensive man, and, as stated above, he leaves an aged
widow and three or tour children. Suspicion has fallen on
a man who formerly lodged with the deceased, and who is
said to have left his house on Friday night with a gun,
which he has not since brought back. This man was seen
iu the neighbourhood on Saturday, and the police were in
search of him at the time our parcel was despatched. Mr.
Fullagar, the county coroner, will, it is believed, open the
inquest to-day (Monday).

GREEN PEAS FROM TIIIS YEAR'S SEED.—A cor-
respondent writing from Hythe, Bent, says:—" In a
garden, a short distance from the sea, green peas from
this year's seed are now growing in perfection. Some are
in bloom, and others fit for picking. Potatoes are being
dug fit for the table from a sowing of this year's produc-
tion. The ground in which they here grown us largely
composed of shinvle."
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