The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-13 00:00:00

THE RECENT MURDER AT BASSALEY,
MONMOUTHSHIRE.

On Thursday, at Newport, oommenced the exami-
nation of the two Irishmen, Maurice Murphy, aged 21, and
Patrick Sailing, aged 23, who staid charged with the will.
ful murder of the old woman Lewis, who was so shockingly
murdered on Wednesday, the 3rd inst., on the high road
leading from Newport through Bentley.
Ann Lewis, a daughter of the deceased woman, deposed
that her mo her, who was aged and in poor circumatao es,
receiving half-a•crswn a week u pay from the parish, left
home at 11 e'cluk on Wednesday week. She went into
Newport to buy some worsted to feet some stockings, and to
purchase berm for brewing. She had a shilling with her
and a sixpence, and a tin-can, and a sacking to match the
worsted. She wore a sort of worsted plaid shawl (a shawl
was shown to the wither, which no ineatifled as that worn
by her mother on the day of the murder.) Deceased did not
home as expected, and alum being felt, a se►rch was
made for her.

Ann Jenkins deposed that she wee a married daughter of
the deceased, and kept a beer house, calkd the Carpenters
Arne, in Cues street, Newpnt. Oa Wednesday her mother
ealled upon her. She wore her wonted 'bawl. At about
four o'clock that afternoon she mid she would make hate
home, u she wished to get there before dark, not liking to
be on the road at night. Witness gave her sixpence, and
she west away on her reed home.
John Lewis, is the employ of Sir Charles Morgan, de-
posed that he was the son of deceased, and receiving tofu.
mivias that his mother was missed from her homy, ;he went
in sea:ch of her. Knowing her to be subject to giddiness
in the head, he thought that she might have wandered off
the road, and looked for her in the fields At. When by
Sowell's gate, he thought he saw somelleg dark in a
brook by the roadside, near Neateck-wood, and on going
to look at It, he found it was the dead body of hie mother.
He was very much terrified. Her lac* was bloody, and she
had been much beaten about the head.

Hr.imgaik.aagasiatendent of pollee at Newport, deposed
to mks to die mod, and subsequently removing the body
of tieirti to • public house fur the pnrpotes of an inquest.
Whoa ha first me her in the brake she was lying on her
back. The frost pert of her dress was torn, and the back
pan of it looked as Oohs had bees dragged along the ground.
Her pane wars turned inside sat, and about the spot were
twe thimbles and ninepins, also ins stories, and some other
things. 5114 kid a wooed near her kit eye, and her bead
and lea appeared ae if abs had bass beaten with Vela
'Ways. -On • briar by the brake won two piea a of shawl
fringe. Oa Saturday witness obtained the shawl produced
from a girl awned Calliaau, who lived at au Irish lodging-
home. Two pieces of fringe had been tore from it, sad
Mom found ois the briar corresponded with it. It appeared
as if ono part of it had been washed. The pollee subse-
quently wont in punuit of the supposed murderers, and
tracked them he Newahma and afterwards to Cheluit.hane,
where they beaded the prinmen at a lodging-boric
Who. ho that they were is custody on a chime of
mardsring as old woman, they said they were lawman of
it. They attrerards said it was s good jtb that no one
amid make egsidirlas of them. On one of their cluthts were
Maine of bla/.. . .

maaifigandiss, assistaat to a pawnbroker, at Newport,
staisded He:F.6
slams. 6 had 7 o'clock on Wodassday even.
height a wonted plaid shawl to kir shop,
a.dlre Ms hoe of a shilling upon it, bat the sham
belie met et the des she refused to receive it in ply dg..
1)r. LI& iisipsesa to Inveighed. spoil Norton swains-
tio• Sifts boil, ea described to iajuriis of the bead, from
whisk &milli& ansassel. Thai tvem •of th• orbit of the eye
awl task% sod the seed hoses beaten to pieces. A piece
of tho trassend bow had ..erred A. brain.
Mary NW, who resided at th• Irish lodging bons* in New-
port, doped to the two piteous wising Wee ea the @m-
iff Of this day la question. One of them were g bat and the
wr,,, asp. Th., bad a shawl with them, which they
Arend for sale. They at Ant wasted 6e. ler it, but WU-
highly sold it foe h. 54. to the woman Csllioau.