The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-10-19 00:00:00

ATROCIOUS MUIIDER:

Cuinutittcri so the armlet a ]agar, cuntiguoua to Surat, in the
mouth of Ireure,el wt. (From th• Calcutta Moat,ly
Juuraal, for September.)

It appears that on the 7th of that month, a person
named Sunderjee Bounjee, while sitting at home at
B.bar, heard, that his son, Jetwanjee, a young
man about e 2 years of age, had been killed by one
Dadahhoy Prow., his body stripped of ornament,
tathe value of 180 supees, and thrown into an or-
chard'of date trees, outside the village. The first
developement of this unhappy affair was made by
five privates of the Colledin s &bendy Corps, who
were regaling themselves on the evening of the 7th,
in the house of Dadahhoy, the accused person, and
who kept a licensed liquor shop at Ralson Thew
men deposed, with as much precision as could be
canceled from persons whose senses must have been
in different degas of intoxication, that the said Dad-
abhoy, and the late Jeewanjee, made a sudden transit
through the oppcsite daor of the room in which
they were sitting, that they were in apparent scuffle
with each other, and that Dadahhoy had a naked
sword its bit hand ; but the mother of Dadabhoy
observing, that they were both going to the Chnkey,
they, the deponents. did not think of pursuing hit-
ther enquiry, until accidentally one of them dis-
covered, in lighting his pipe, that his own sleeve
WAS stained with same drops of blood ; upon this,
the party broke up in alarm, and went away to the
Chroki, whereihey reported what had passed be-
fore them ' • immediately upon which, as the parties i
described had not made their appearance there,
people were sent abroad to look after them. Mulik
Moortela, the Jemmindar employed on this errand,
Igave the following melancholy account, of his pro-
secution of it. viz. 4., That he proceeded first to
the house of Dadabhoy, where, not finding him, he
• been to explore the places contiguous to it; in
doing which, he observed, a few yards from the
house, marks of blood, and of a person being drag-
ged on the ground, and a little further on, in a
ditch, the body of a man, which, upon inspeCtion,
proved to be that of Joewanjec, with a cut across
his throat, another on his lett car, and one on both
hands." Th;s account was in a great measure cor-
roborated by eight other persons, whose testimony
only differed in a traliag degree as to the number
1 of the wounds.
The penetrator of the crime was not apprehend.
ed until the beginning of May. wt. as he was seat
i.OO Surat warier a guard of Sepoys, by the Raph
of Mandavie; having been found in a village of that
Pirgansa. The Prisoner, when informed of the
serious accusation which had Leen preferred against
him, pleaded thus far guilty, " that he had, in
anger, struck the deceased with tl.e sword in the
scabbard, and the latter flying, the stroke had 'killed
him, and he, thrrefore, had dragged the body Lac.
a ditch." The circumstances of the Prisoner's
guitareceived also additional confirmation from the
evidence of .a goldsmith w:.n had received jewels
tiaras the Prisoner, to melt dos n, which esaCtly cor-
'responded with the dea.tir.iaa of assate warm by the
de‘eassd. '

PRICK Or LIEATHER.
111.1111, !SO to :,41b. etch
Ditto, 60 !tt 624 b. each 164 to IN
Merch,iitii Socks 214 to tad
breviiiig Hides . ...!. . 221 ta 'lld
Fine C nth Ili4es 214 ,to 1:1
Crop Hairs fru cutting 4°d to 2
rat Ordinary 2Ol to 11.
Calf Mutes 30 to enib per Danon aid to Vet
Dino, 20 to 701 h... . 984 to 424) i
Dun, 70 to 8011, Voi to 39.1:- -
Small ',rola (Ur:49l4A) n t to 42d3 F
Large 4itto 110, Po 1901 pee dozen.
Tanned Horse Hides itle to SU per hide.
Gott Skins .wlri I• 1 ....•.• (I 1 t i

COAL-MARK 7: r. OCT. IS.
Ship' at at M trlt.t. Sold. Prim
75.. Newt-tie 52 43s GI • Ala
9..S..riderl tod 9 45. Gd a 491
1.. Smite Coal I 75s Od a ...a
I ..St paid's I 421 Od a —s

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Last week, a young ma• of genteel appearance,
was committed to Rochester Goal, on suspicion of
having committed a forget y. lle went into the shop
of Mr. Lvov BM/ A M IN, to purchase some necessa-
ries, and offered a note for payment, drawn on Mr.
WaAvaa, of Gravesend; a relation of that gentle-
man living n..ar, the note WAS carried to him to as-
certain whether it was good or not. It proved to be
a forgery, and the young man was stopped ; he how-
ever, by some means, contrived to get the note in
his possession, and tore it in pieces. The scattered
tragmust, were sought fur, and put together, hut
some snate.ial parts not having been found, it is
supposed the affair will end in his dismissal ; his
itiends are people of vrry high mercantile repute
' at Leith, and his cooneai4ns otherways perfettly re.
spadtable.