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London, England, 1826-10-16 00:00:00

MURDER NEAR LEATHERHEAD.

INQUEST ON VIEW OF THE BODIES.
On Saturday evening, at live o'clock, a Jury was empanelled at
the Hell public•house, at letcham, two miles from Leatherherel,
foe the purpose of investigating the cause of the deaths of John
Akehurst, aged 91; years. sod Elizabeth Ila:nce, his lionst keeper,
aged 74 year., who had been barbarously moldered by some per.
sum or persons unknown.
The Jury, accompanied by the Coroner and several Magistrates,
went to the cottage of the deceased persons, to view the bodies.
Th: house stands surrounded by fruit tr.-es, and is so much con-
cealed thereby, that only the chimney-lop could be discerned by
those who passed down the lane adjoining. The Jury examined
the bodies very minutely, and ft was their opinion that a hammer
had been used by the murderer in his attack upon the poor unlor.
Innate neatens. The out wan, though nearly 100 year. of age,
and so debilitated from decay of nature as nut to be able to raise
himself from his bed, wits in poesessien of his mental faculties till
the last. He was constantly t isited by the Clergyman of the parish,
who read to him and prayed with hint. He would at times converse
freest' upon public events; and his memory was so good, that lie was
a living historian, and could narrate the beetles which had occurred
from the time when the country was thrown into *ouch a state of
alarm by the Pretender, in 1745; he was then a tine young man,
new twenty years of age. The poor old woman, who hid been
faithful to him even unto death, was of short stature; but her form
was moo delicate, and In her youth she must have been a very
prat :y little woman. She had a remarkably small foot and hand.
The deceased persons hail lost all their teeth ; and very slight force
would have been sufficient to destroy such feeble creatures. Th:
Jury. having inspected the bodies. house, and grounds, returned to
the Jery.rann, and the following evidence was taken :
Mr. Wets& (of tiodahning), the Coroner for that division of the
count►, having ►worn the Jury, towed to them that they were as-
sembled on thie n.clancholy occasion fur the purpose of discharging
a matte importart duty. It was necessary that they should be par-
ticular when viewing die bodies, to ascertain if any marks of via.
letee were thereon. It was net for him to anticipate facts which
wot.kl most likely come out in evidence before them, and he knew
they would dacharge their duty to their country conscientiously,
and cooronant with the ends of justice. .

Thomas Beweri-1 live at Fetch:km, am a labourer, and am 21
I years of ages 1 have known the decetrod persona from my infancy,
loving lived in a cottage with niy tnotlier not ISO yards arum the
Jeer t.ed ; I saw Althorn' on VI ednesday last, the Ilth instant,
abute. eleven **dock in the morning; I had finished gathering
apples fur him in his orchard. Akehuot ass in bed; he was very
'Worm I went to hrn, and told 111011 I had finished gathering the
apple.; the housekeeper assisted ire in getting the fruit; he said
I !hit tie houseceper and myself might have the swan.cgg pears
tram one Ives as a romp:motion fin my trouble; 1 rate the house.
keeper on Thursday morning, about nine o'clock; she came into
Ilr. stioloek's to borrow a tub; 1 never said that the deceased had
marry. I roared lour abillimo front the housekeeper, on Friday
wash. los work; at brought the money down stabs in her hand ;
an Pratt, morning lase, about a quartet past six. 1 went to the de.
mimed% tsetse* to borrow a bugled of the housekeeper; on arriving
at the door, 1 saw II was Fatly opeired ; I pushed it open and en.
Wed t seeing so este lemur I ealkd to the housekeeper, but re-
ferred se Yawns en geese set of the front door, I rnw that the
naele.lenee winder woo open. and that a pane of glass In the centre
ei the wintlew bad been tabor not, and id.ll an iron bar, wlitri
tam •nrol Ilse wittlww-fester troth the top 10 the bottom o( it. The
wash, that.* erannutotartes with the kitchen by a door. 1 picked
tap the Wan bar. on van:heow, a for yenta from the window, round
taw her., el the hors.: I aim no Fod.rmarks that I partkulaly
14•41444 AM I °Ls. rod vitro I lust.. stated, I wart to my
inethee. Drown, and told hersSe runt to the deceased's
tweet* binamdr. and nest up Nairn. I ken: J her 447,1143 out. and she
tiohrowsd. M &Irk Haim. the hecorkeetere. is murdered." I was
~awe *butts three ulna a awn t I ha 1 sot so moth Coinages.
wry weemee; 11M le fits. eheeleek, end tolerated hee of whet my
tititaliw Wel said 4 and thheldeg that more Anelstanee use r ail,.
I vent to • nelghtiowrlng twiner. named Gibbs. ane hiss of
ohm had Imppeweel t I mid to leaks, • that Master ALehutst and
bin bumarbeopet were metelered." My mother did not tell me that
Abetment Imo mentmod 5.1 my buoy I said set I returned
I with r•riot men Ps Ilse (-WV., lobo wits sent by 3k. (Wk. I was
Mtrn eorly an bore, sith suet upstairs with the mod; I saw the
ts.,. en ts.' .1% her h.srb t 1 • loop of blood, in her master's
feelill.4 It dt lett tide ail hid bed, sigh her head beaten to pieces;
Weir tr-orwt the hems rot the bed, to the tight side. and aim the
461 moo let- g m beel enerted sub clothe • ; 1 instantly turned out
• r me, I'd 111511.! lir,' Maus, bolas satisfied they were
blbdwid. / *borne* Use direst ea the housekeeper, which ap-
=gt, boa• liebOtra by more rerom'a finger, awl bar:
manbs ; Mtn/ am a geed dadof blot en the sheet. ou Master
itenimises boL

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Ij John% Prawn dersard— I am the moths! tef Cie lad witness,
irsol h r• henna the tircommi Emu. on euty.five years. I .aw the
ssw. Rupp, eber last 1114, CM Thursday evening. a t 00.% five o'clock
I ....h. won nem ins mew art lines hum the Auden into ilic house.
Idid ea "melt se her. On Enda, ninepins Ire, e'sout hall .past
gel sag tidied ire. sod told me that he was stranl esnientins
bappoemil at Atrium'', cottage, Incense the wi• cloy was
wen grid a... door ow- I mu:, •• laud bare mercy, Torn, you
don all we?" I *rat with him to the dour of the twinge and
Odd litlimesebeeper by hes name. and afters at.'a I Pilled
4MA Altaimest." I called at shadow toe %011ie little before I
ggignid, add. we receiving no ra..wet, I wanted up vain, and saw
do higgyginggee lying an the fsrheat bed-room tlota, by the side of
kw gegogyle led I the nom-tku- was voids upon ; I did not ob.
ume a;;;;;;;d•ir ; I welt down maim and 'melted Mrs. sherloek
aid deaden it matt. On thieving the room with 3lrs. Sherlock,
mit spy the houseiterrr ti•iite naked on tt.e floor; the hid in the
ass sewn, I. which the Impsekeeper st pt, had Leen lain In, and
lhi sighed we mach dtao:defed ; I did nos sr, thr „Id man
di sic iiibhe pelt wilted ; low IT, curtains IftIFJ drawn em
dbe sails when I stood. and intercepted my view. When Jlr.
Gobi,* snivel, I went or stairs again with Mrs. hherlock, atol
I sow distil man In btd. and front the horrible 'kale in whicell
am him lid his hpumeare per, covered with biood and motionkos,
Ima asilibi she, were dead. I left the room, Led did not tooth
Ile. I sem arm at She drawers and bums open. The house.
laver higigelly plealland Cos necemeries foe die 'sway. I t,crer
ewe dm ell mil IFNI nand I du not tliii.lt lie had much.
nimbi erne bid • 4.18111011 Ayres, and three grandsons.
They NS& it Odom. war Sawn. line of the grandsons, John
Alias died Imo di Ilia AMR a month ago. About a month
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I hard ea al osa ay be had snide a will, and that
1, his
slooli We hi as long as she lived ; he said
ahem Swig masy by hi.; he often said he had none,
dad deal If as Neal Wake midis Meer he most lemossge ~„,,,s,
18.1**/ anti spa, is wide aim. 111 speak the truth, I
me" mit dal 1 Ad ail believe di. old gentleman shim lie said he '
Wno ontegoy t 1 ihouhke„ and au dill many other., that he had
pagan,' 1 vas of slain that be cashed to conceal the fact of his

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having property': I remember, about fifteen years ago, the de-
ceased (Aketturst) coiled to me by my lien husband's name
(Brown), w lien lie ;vas taken ill in the orchard ; I went to his as-
sisiaece, and helped hint into his house, when he told me that he
had one hundred gulnena.
Mr. James Wight sworn.—l am an assistant to Mr. Baker,
surgeon, of beatherhead ; I was called from my bed in Friday
morning, between eight and nine o'clock, by a scream of Mr.
Baker's, who' lammed me that two persons were Trivet-I to have,
been murdered in the neighbourhood of Fetchant Common ; I
made the best of my way to the cottage of the deceased, and saw
the bodies; 1 saw three or four women in the kitchen, and an-
nounced that I was a medical man ; I went through a bcd.room on
the top of the staircase, which 1 wits inform:ll was the house.
keeper's bed-chamber, through a door leading into annther bed-
room on the same floor ; I saw an tweet female lying on her back.
her fret towards the door at which 1 entered. and her head near
the foot of the bedstead ; having ascertained that she was dead, I
proceeded to examine him the cause, being directed to it by the
blood which had accumulated upon the floor rotted her head. I
examined the posterior part of her head, and there found a lacerated
wound, with a partial depression of the occipital bore. which must
reeesurily have been the cause of her death. There were also
marks round the neck of violent pressure by a hand.
an attempt to
her tight round the reek ?
strCanogrolenear;—Do
woman,tbl tyit ipkresthseingni arks were caused by
Witness-1 think the marks were cowed by some roe holding her
down with their hands remind her neck, while striking her. Upon
critical examination of the bridges on her head, 1 think that the in-
jury was not caused by a sharp weapon, but by some blunt instru-
ment, the face of which was of the size of a crown.plece; :Inch an
instrument as a small mallet, or a hammer; I then hailed my at-
tention to the old man. whom I found lying on the bi d't on his
back, with his hand a little raked :he was in-ode the bed, and his
body was partially covered with the clothes; 1 saw blood on the
pillow, and a severe huasrated wound on the right tent) le, and, on
dotter examination. I found a division of the temporal artery, with
depression of hone, which had caused his death. There were other
marks of violence about the neck, hands, and Mine parts of the
body ; it appeared that the same kind of instenteent hail been used
to inflict the wounds on the deceased's person. I think they must
have been dead when I saw theM five or six hours; I have no
doubt the murder was committed on the preceding night. The
lower jaw of the old man was fractured on the right side, and one
of his hands was severely injured in struggling with his murderer.
The Cormier ordererd prociatna!ion to be made for any other per.
son who could give evidence teaching this inquiry to come forward.
No person answered.
The Fon man of the Jury. J. B. Mulkey, Esq. said, that be and
his brother Magistrates had used every exertion to discover the
murderer, but be was sorry to say without success, for so secretly
had rho crime been contrived and executed, that they hail riot been
able at present toolofain any thing in the shape of legal evidence
against any individual.
The Rev. Mr. Rolland said, that no person of a suspicions cha-
racter had been seen in the neighbourhood where the deceased per-
sons resided, except ore man, who was observed to be lurking about
there a fortnight ago.
Mr. Wooos, the Coroner, said, if there was a likelihood that
other evidence, tending to bring the author of this crime to justice,
would be brought forward in a day or two, lie should feel himself
bound to adjourn the inquiry; but when he was informed by the
Magistrates present that they entertained little hope of bringing
forward further evidence; he thought it would be a waste of the
time of the Jury to bring them from their 'millet en a future day,
w lien, in all probability, no further evidence would then be brought
before them. It was matt:feet, tram the evidence given, that a
murder as cold.blooded, cowardly, and inhuman, as ever stained
the annals of this, and he might say with truth, of any other coun-
try. had been penetrated, by some person or persons unknown.
The Jury. without en: waiting g moment. returned a verdict of—
" Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown."
(FURTHER PAIITICULAPS.)
Bell Public-house, Feteham, Saturday Night.
In the annals of Murder, this is. beyond comm.:eon. the most
deliberate and fiend-like piece of butchery. that ever monster in
human shape perpetrated. The consternation excited throughout
the county of Surrey, by this diabolical act, is indescribable, and
the scene of this tragical event, during Friday and this day, has
been visited .by thousands. The coolness and deliheration with
which this crime was executed are evinced by the care taken by
the murderer to leave no trace of, or clue to, his chsotvery. The
only crime recently committed in this county, which can be
paralleled with the present, is the murder of Mr. Chertnel
and his housekeeper, at fiodalmitig, about seven years ego,
for which George Chennel, the old man's son, and William Chal-
croft, a labourer, guttered the penalty of death. In company
with several Magistrates of the county, about an hour ago, I
went to the cottage of the deceased perwins. in Cock-lane. Fetcham
(so called, from there having been., some time ago, a public-house
called the Cock in the lane), and I never witnessed a sight Ito truly
pitapat'. The exclatinvions of the spectators, on viewing the re-
, mains or the poor bettensive old creatures, were tintegly expres-
sive of the horror they felt on witnessing the shocking spectacle.
The COltnge is isolated, but there are three other C:ltLiges in the
same lane. at equal distances from one another of about 100 or Ilk)
yards. The statement that the cottage is situate a quarter of a
mile from any other habit Mon is PIJ far incorrect. The cottage
has Eve rooms in it—three upon the ground iloor,:and two sleeping.
rooms above. There is a door in the centre of the cottage, and a
small window to the front kitchen, with panes of glass of a
diamond shape, on each aide the door. There is also one window
to each of the bed-rooms in front. The cottage is in the centre of
an orchard. The perpetrator of the deed (and it is the general
opinion that only one person was concerned in the murder, and
one who Liiew well the habits and defenceless condition of
the old people), to obtain admission into the house, toe;: out
of the window the centre pane of glass, and, having ietrodoced a
hand, opened the window, and wretched away a thin bar of
iron. Whoever the murderer was, he could not be very large in
person, as the aperture through which he entered the wash-house
window is not above In inches in width, and two feet in depth.
The sties leading to the bed-rooms Ore close to the front door,
on the right hand. In the roam nt the top of the staircase,
which was miserably furnished, having nothing but a tester bed and
an old chair therein, slept Elizabeth Haines, who had been for
thirty years the companion of the old man, John Akehurcp From
the situation of the clothes of her bed. it was evident that she had
got out of bed in great haste—probably to assist the old man, when
he was contre.ding with the murderer • on passing through a door
leading front time bed-room of Elizabeih Haines to that of the old
man, the first ebject that presentel.itaelf was the body of the unfor.
tutiate female, lying on het back, with her arms extended, her right
hand across her breast, and her left chise to one of the legs of the
bedstead; her right eye was blackened by a violent Llow, and
there was a severe injury on the right side of the neck ; the blood
had flown so copiously from the back of her head, that it actually
had passed through the bed-room floor and the ceiling of the kitchen
to the kitchen-floor, and an earthenware pitcher had been placed to
receive the blood Ile it dropped. The old man was so infirm that
he had been nearly bedridden fora considerable time. His head
Was shockingly beaten at the back, and his few retraining grey
hairs were clotted with blond. and the pillow on which he lied
rested was soaked with blood ! On a chair by his bedside was a
snub -box, a can of water, and a handkerchief, for his use. Under
• hedge, in a chic next to Cock.lane,were found a new pair of shoes
and a sealet waistcoat, belonging tut the old man, which the mur-
derer had carried os' and thrown away, after Ire left the house. It
is nut believed that much property was catered oft' by the murderer.
There were marks of dirty shoes egaial the wail, under the win-
dow through which the murderer entered; and part of the brick-
work. which projected, had been broken oft: The old lean, some
years ago, was in the employment of J. Barnard flunkey, Esq., of
F deism!' Park; lea latterly he 11%4 contrived to subsist upna a
little eteney which he had saved by indttory and economy. and the
produce of hi. orchard, wild: he upon the average for about
W. per annum. On Friday morning the deug'der of Akelturet.
(who is 67 years of age) and her two sone, who reeitle a few yards
distance from Fetcham Common, received information of the death
of the ell man and him housekeeper. The daughter, and one of her
sons. sat up all Friday night with the dead bottle.. During this
day Mr. Donkey. lite Rev, Mr. Bollard, and other County Magi-
crates, met at the house of Mr. Hibbs, a reapectable farmer, and
'duvet ewer/ means that could suggest themselves fur bringing to
light the perpetrator of this bloody &ed.
The following hand-bill was pretty generally circuitted through.
out the county t—
" Public Office, Union Hall, Oct. 14, 11126.
" OXE UUSAHIIID HUINEAS EEWARD.

. .
" MAME. AT FETCHAM, NEAR 1•EA111 r. EAD, Su URE Y.
--Whereat the ham...! of John Akeliurio, an aged irflrat person,
si-
tuate in the pariah of Fetcham, near Leatherhca I, in the coun•y of
Surrey, Witi felonioualy entered In the COUTIM of the night of That s-
day, or early on the morning of Fride.v. the 13th instant; when the
raid Join Akchurat, together will LIM-dart,' flames, were most
barbarously murdered, by some pawn or persona unkcoon:
•• The above reward of (Inc Hundred Ottinena will be paid to
any person or amens apprehending, or giving such infermalion to
Itirhuil :staples. Chief Clerk at the above Office, as may lead
W !he aft•relenaton and conviction of the offender or offenders."

Whitt; the 111agistraies;;;;h41;ita cn—nsultation at the house
of Mr. titbits, abosti lour o'clock this afternoon, Hall, the chief
officer of Paton f tail Piii:ce ()thee, and NA:, arrived in a post-
chaise, having la their cuttnily a man, who gave his name James
Junes. on suspicion of lacing concerned in the murder. So soon as
the eleesmatance was known. great numbers surrounded the chaise.
*1 he prisoner was taken to a room at tire Bell Tavern, bailee the
key. 31r. Bolland. the strongly protested that he hail no know-
ledge of, or participation in, the murder.
Hall stated that the prisoner had been apprehended that morn-
ing, between II and 12 o'clock, in the lobby of the King's Bench
prison ' • lie had some new clothes with him. which he had recently
purchased, and paid tor with a sovereign. The cause of his appre.
pension was front Isis haying said that two persons had been knocked
I on the head with a hammer, and had been robbed of a sovereign
and some Oleo, which was all they had. On the.prisoner being in-
termitated, at the King's i;ench Prison, as to his knowledge of the
murder. he said that a butcher, residing at lreatherhead, had on
Fridl morning aequain.td Lim of the circumstance. The Rev.
Mr. Itullaisd quelitioneil the prisoner, but such was his equivoca-
tion, and FM fr,rently did lie contradict whet he had before assert-
ed, that it was itillossible to believe a word he said. 1., however,
was aseerlaineti flint he had been for sonic days at Lestherhesel
and in the neighbourhood. On being asked where he had obtained
the sovereign, lie said that on the Thursday night he picked up a
handkerchief (which flail.
the officer, produced) near the Dukes
Bad, at bratherlicati, in the corner of which he found a sovereign,
a half sovereign, and ds.
11a/I stated that the prisoner informed him that he had had the
handkerchief in his possession for years.
The prisoner denied it, and then admitted what HA said was

trus. lie also said that his father and mother resided at Guilds ,r:1,
and that he had deserted from the Surrey 31ilitia. On being (pus-
tinne I ns to where he was on the night the murder was cotrtiirted,
he replied, that he slept in Leatherhead watehhouse, having assisted
the constable In the fair during the preceding day, to apprehend
some pick'', cket.. The constable gave him one shilling hie his
services. Ile enlisted with a corporal of a reertii:ing party on NVed-
nerday, and got one shilling from him. Ile knew the county of
Surrey very well, having been horn and bred in it, but he did nut
know Feteham or Leatherhead Common.
The fres. Mr. unhand said, it was evident that he had com.
mated some robbery ; it was nonsense to say he had found the
money, and though he might not have been implicated in the murder
he sl,”thl commit hint for examination on a future day. The pri-
soner was committed accordi,gly.

TIIE LATE ACCIDENT in B.4IITHOLOME IV CLOSE.

(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
On Saturday morning we were admitted, by permission of Mr.
Sherman, the proprietor, to view the ruinous breach occasioned by
the falling-in of the granary floors. On entering the eastern end
of the building, a most terrific appearance presented itself ; it could
be likened only to the similarity of an immense chasm formed by
the ravages of a fire, the apace that had fallen in comprehending an
extent of forty-five feet in length by twenty-four feet wide, and
that only a sixth part of the floats which are above the first. The
premises were originally built by the late Mr. Seddon, for show-
rooms and workshops fur the manufacture and display of up.
holatery, and were of course built proportionably high, none of
them being under tight feet from the floor to the cielinl. The
premises were disposed of to the late Mr. John Willan, in conse-
quence of Mr. Seddon having obtained more eligible premises.
After the rescue of the two men on Friday evening, nothing further
was done, though two valuable hones still remained buried in the
ruins, but so deeply covered that it was impossible they should
not be dead of suffocation. On Saturday Morning, the premises
were visited by a surveyor, and the extent of damage Is estimated
at from 2,t1001. to 2,5001. The occasion ot the portion of floor
giving way was, that the man in charge of the men employed to
stow the corn deviated from his instructions, and allowed it
to be piled twice the depth that Mr. Sherman had ordered it,
thus occasioning a pressure beyond the power of the flour to bear.
There were between 2 and :MOO quartets of oats strewed in the
several lofts, about no quarter, of which were placid upon that
part which was carried down. In estimating the probable loss he
may anstain, these oats are ineltv'el. as they cannot be rendered fit
-for horses to eat. itt consequince of having kot mixed up with the
broken plaster from offihe ceilings. There were five stage-teaches
and two waggons on the ground-floor at the time of the accident,
two of which arc utterly destroyed, and the other three very con-
siderably datraged. 'these Fee were a part of the member em-
ployed in the journey from London to Newcastle. under the name
of " Wellington." During the whole of the very anxious period
Ord the two men were being extricated, on Friday evening, Mr.
Sherman was the very soul of peru vering intrepidity and coolness,
personally exerting himself in all directions, and directing the
labours of others. ll;set.nduct throughout the trying scene, con-
sidering the property he bad at stake, was highly praiseworthy.
Hawkins, the maralialinan, and a posse of the city police, were of
very considerable service in repressing the populace. whose only
with was to get into the lower warehouse to such an extent as to
perfectly preclude the possibility of any of the people known to
the proprietor doing the leastgood. Among those who were most
prompt in rendering good service were the,journeymen of Menem
Seddon, the upholsterer, who went immediately from their work
to rescue the two men that were buried in the ruins.

CORONER'S INQUEST'.

MYSTERIOUS CABE.

On Saturday, at tiieeo'ciTsClZaniisqZ:tion took place at the
Ship and Mermaid, Snow's-fields, Bermondsey, before Richard
Carter, Esq. Coroner for Surrey, and a moat respectable Jury,
touching the death of Thomas Burnside.
The Jury having been sworn., accompanied by the Coroner, were
about to view the body, when the beadle informed them that the
body war soldered in a leaden coffin, and enclosed in a wooden one,
and from the secrecy with which the death, as olio the secretion of
property belonging to the deceased, bad been conducted, the parish
officers had instructed him to give information to the Coroner, and
thereby cause an investigation.
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The-Coroncr then ord'rcd the beadle to cause the coffin to be
opened, and a surgeon to be sent for to examine the body, and foe
the purpose of giving proper time he should adj.uirn the inquest
until half-past six o'clock in the evening.
At tb' time appointed the Jury were in attendance, and the
examination of witnesses took place.
Stephen Wilson sworn-1 reside at No. 2, Palmer's-rents, four
doors firms the deceased ; I have known the deceased about three
years ; I and my wife occasionally attended upon the deceased ;
the last tin,- I saw deceased alive was on Tuesday evening ; late
on Wednesday evening I went to the deceased's bed-room door,
and knocked several tinier, but received no answer, and having
heard deceased say that a Mr. Gibbs was his executor, I went to
Trim and inrormed rim of my suspicions that the deceased was
dead ; in about lialrari hour Mr. Gibbs and his nian-servant ar-
rived at the deceased's kouse, and an en:ranee was effected through
the window into the deceasM's room.
William Huckerly sworn-4 am servant to Mr Gibbs, of No.
33, Walbrook, in the City, and vas with Mr. Gibbs when the last
witness informed him of his suspicions about the deceased, owing
to his non app arance. I and my toaster went to the deceased's
lo,igings arid knocked at the door, but received no answer. I and
theiast witness procured a ladder, and colored the deceased's apart-
ments by forcing open the window ; when i entered I saw the de-
ceased` lying on the bed ; blood and froth were oozing from his
mouth ; I spoke to him ; he did not answer; .1 then felt his body ;
it was then quite warns ; my master was at the door ; no surgeon
wassent lot.

COAONER—What, the brtly warm, and neither you nor your
master went for a medical gentleman ?—I shoo!, him by the hand,
but he did not answer.

By a Juror—Pray, who is Mr. Gibbs, that we hear Se much
about ?—Mr. Gibbs is an independent gentleman ; he Uric:nor
to the deceased.

Juror—ls there any oti;er executor? Yes, a Mr. Thornton,
an unuertaker in the Borough ; my master sent me to him.
COROXER (with surprise and indignation)—W hat ! send for an
undertaker before you send for a doctor, and that, toe, while the
body mac yet warm ? l hits, indeed, if true, was most srarge—
nay, inhuman. . . . .

Jurcr—When did you see the deceased last?—On iVednesday
night.
Juror—When was he cafiined in lead l'—Esrly on Titursday.
Juror—Who is the undertaker?-11r. Thor-mon, the other
executor.

Juror—When you went into the room you found the bed-clothes
on the deceased—pray, what has become of them ?-oh, my wile
wan ordered to remove them to Westminster to be washed.
Juror—Pray, what money was found in the room—how much,
and what became of it ?—'i here was money found in the room.
but how much 1 cannot say ; nor can I answer positively when and
by whom it was removed.
Juror—Now, Sir, on your oath, did not a gentleman, an ac-
quaintance of the deceased, knock at the door, which was opered
by you, and request admission, to be mosent at the examination of
the deceased's body and room, when you shut the door in his face?
—lt is true i did ; such were my orders.
Jutot_Were not the executors to the deceased also executors to
another relation who died lately, and has not the th ceased relations ?
—They were-1 believe there are two relations living.
Henry Storry, Esq. surgeon, deposed be was present at the open-
ing of the coffins, and had examined the body, but it was in such a
state of decompostioo he could not tell the cause of his death.
The Lollop:ER addressed the Jury and said, that it to hint
peared very strange in the one executor refusing an old friend of
the deceased's admittance into the room ; but it was equally ex-
traordinary in the other executor (Thornton) enclosing deceased
in a leaden coffin, almost immediately, and neither of them being
present to explain their reasons for thus acting. Too much praise
could not bepa•sed upon the conduct of the beadle (Painter) in
causing an iuvestigat'on of this mysterious, to say at least, tiMeeling
case—not even a relation was acquainted with the Math. Nur
could to., much he said in support of the laudable cooduct of the
pariah officers of Saint Saviour's, Southwark.
The Jury concurred in sentiment with the Coroner, and mad-,
many remarks upon the unaccountable secreting of the money, as
also the bed.ziothes, and returned a verdict, •• Died by the Visi-
tation of God."

The deceased was a ticket porter, and had amassed an income
of &UM per aanum„, which it is supposed will come to the executors.

THE LATE Mn. Paren.—On Tuesday morning, as a
joiner in the r inp:oy of Mr. lielhouse was taking down a
cupbolrd in the warehouse which Wag occupied by the late
Mr. Price, and in which that unfortunate gentleman was
so inhumanly murdered, he found an old horse-pistol,
brass-mounted, and rusty on one side of the barrel, to-
gether with about an ounce of powder in a brown paper,
which was tied with a piece of twine simils: to that which
grocers use. The cupboard in question was placed in the
room adjoining that in which Mr. Price was found, and
immediately over the coal-place, from which Evans, ac-
cording to the evidence of Mary Price, took a shovel-full
of coals a little before the dinner hour. There is a beam
' which runs across the room pretty near the wall, and be-
tween this and the wall the cupboard was fixed ; but there
being an aperture between the cupboard and the beam, it
had been plastered up, and, to make it !sok uniform, WAG
plastered the whole length of the beam, snaking the beam
appear wider. It was on this ledge, immediately over the
cupboard, that the pistol was found. No one could have
imagined that there was such a ledge, and its secrecy may
account for the pistol having escaped the scrutiny of the
poliee-cflicers in their search for the hammer. The pistol
weighs 1116., and is Ili inches in length ; it was not
loaded ; the pan was down, and it was on half cock. Mr.
Iludson, the brother-in-law of the deceased, has it in his
possession, and we understand is taking every pains to as-
certain to whom it belonged. Evan% it is reported, has
taken country lodgings not a hundred miles from the gaol
—.2lluncherfer Paper. at Xirkdale, near Liverpool,