The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-08 00:00:00

TILE MURDER 01A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER

IN WALED.

ARM! 07 71112 LLLEGED XCHDEII.I3B.
SHREWSBURY, Seri:timer.
This afternoon, at the police-office, Wellington,
nett Shrewsbury, two men, named George Harris and
Biased Hart, were brought up in custody, citamethwith
the wilful murder of Sweet! Ziemer% on the 16th NOTgan.
ber, 1867. The particulars of the remarkable crime with
which the prisoners are, after so great a lapse of time,
charged, are briefly as follows:—On the Lith November,
in led year, Barnett Zuanan, a travelling salesman in
the servioe of Mr. Cohen, watch manufacturer, Birming-
ham, left the Rose and Crown Inn, Trowbridge, when he
had been staying for some days, with the avowed intention
of going to Hawley and II orsehay. He left at 10 o'clock
in the morning, and took with him a case containing
watches and jewellery of the estimated value of 4201, He
bad ordered dinner to be ready for him at 3 o'clock, but
did not return that night, or on any subsequent day, and
as no clue to his whereabouts could be obtained, his em.
pleyer arrived at the conclusion that he had absconded
with the valuable property entrusted to him for sale, and
the police being communicated with Emmen was &dyer-
tived in the Mies Gamete and similar publications.
Ti..Actly a fortnight after his disappearance a gentleman
was out shooting at Stuckley, when his attention was
drawn by his dog to a ditch in the field through which be
was paring, and here, partly buried in the mud, he found
the murdered body of &amen. At the time of the cis-
covery of the body an impression prevailed that the un-
fortunate man had been killed by u blow on the head, but
the poet mortem examination made for the coroner's in-
quest moved that he had been shot, apparently by a person
approachinig from behind. The pockets of the decemed
were cut away, and the box in which he had carried his
;ample, was found hidden in the hedge at a short distance
from the body, where it had been placed after being
broken open and its contents abstracted. An inquest was
epened and several times adjourned, but no evidence was
foilliceming sufficiently definite to justify an arrest, and
on the Bth of January a verdict of " Wllful murder
against some prron or persons saknown" was recorded,
and on the Truitt of the inquiry being communicated to
the Horne-office a reward of 1001. war offered for the
discovery of the murderer. But though the inquiry was
thus doted us far as the coroner's inquest was concerned,
the police have since been quietly following up a due of
which they became poteesved in the course of their Ind
investigation. The eeee was placed iu the hands of
tinperinteneent Baxter, of Church Stretton, an active
and intelligent fairer. who took up hi+ residence
near the scene of the murder, and kept a
watchful eye upon the several parties upon whom
ens • u alighted on the discovery of the minder eeing
llrst made. The circle narrowed till Baxter's attention
was fixed upon a young man named Harris, who lived et
Hawley, and followed the occupation of a chain mm.
eaceun,e. Harris is a person of resperable connection,
and till recently occupied a good poet on in the district,
he father. who died a little more than two years ago,
having left him property worth 4.0001. and a buglers,
which brought in about 4001. a year. The young man
however. got into bad society. and notably contracted a
close int:mace with a gang of well-known poachers who
info-t the neighbourhood. and of the time of the murder,
though hr still kept on the works, had succeeded in driv-
ing away nearly all the burins hie father had
commanded. According to his own evidence,
given at the adjourned inquest, held an the
4th of December, Harris had had dealings
with the murdered man, and had seen and spoken to hen
on the 'naming of his dsaUt. He had, he stated, bought
a e etch from Wm for 271. 12., paying a small aim on ao-
-00114 and promising payment of the balance by inetal-
manta. It was socertnined by the pollee that Barre had
on the fdlowiw, duy gone over to Shrevnestry aid there
pawned the watch for 81. A few days after the inquest,
and nearly a month after the murder, the police obtained
a wanted to .catch Harris's house, but they found nothing
'hat tended to connect him with the crime. and their am-
pieions were apparently withdrawn. On Wedneeday
week ISupseintendent Baxter received certain inform-
Um which took him over to Dewey again, sad
in the mule ui is eel. he obtained evidence which
led him at a late how last night to arrest George
Haire without waiting for a formal warrant. Of
the pyrrhic c heractex of the evidence in the poiesseita
of the police. information is, for obvious reasons, at me-
ant withheld. let it is undseepod to be very oonehmiecv
The sliest of the other person has taken the public by
cut price. as his mime hes not been previously mentioned
in maw :ion with the murder, bat he is well known in
the Hawley dietria as an incorrigible poacher, end as each
her hteu several times convicted. No ecidenc ; was taken
by ti's mach-trete. this afternoon, and upon the applica-
tion of 14uperintendent Baxter the nriessere were re-
minded. A se!icitor appeared on betialf of Harris, and
mkt() that he might be admitted to bail, but the request
ins.- et rouse rented. Hart was undefended.

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