The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-04 00:00:00

TILE MURDER AT CUDHAM.

Sarah Bagley, the mother-in-law of the murdered
woman, has now so far rallied as to give strong hopes of
her ultimate recovery. She can speak with tolerable
facility, but is unable to state by whom or in what man-
ner she was so seriously maltreated. Her statement is,
that immediately after her son and grandson had left the
she fell into a dose,
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a frightful blow on the
head, which completely etunned her, and she remembered
nothing more until her son arrived in the evening. She
adds that she did not see the fellow who struck the blow,
neither did she hear any noise. Her case continues to
excite much commiseration in the neighbourhood.
It appears that a burglary was committed on the Sa-
turday night
,preceding the murder, at the residence of a
Miss Shepherd, near Thornbury, and it has been proved
that Palin sold abut that period, at Croydon, a black
frock coat and black waistcoat, fully corresponding with
a portion of the property stolen off Miss Shepherd's pre-
mises. Indeed, as Palin's character becomes more and
more known, the greatest wonder is caused at his having
been at liberty even for the few weeks after his discharge
from Dartmoor Prison, as from the day he left the prison
he seems to have been mixed up with numerous daring
burglaries and robberies. Only a few nights before the
murderous attack on the Bagleys, a clergyman's house,
a few miles from the scene of blood, was burglariously
attempted twice, and the reverend gentleman, at the
time the house was attempted, gave it as his opinion
that Palin was at his tricks again, and that he made the
attack on his house in particular through his refusing,
when applied to by Palin s friends, to sign the document
necessary before he could receive his ticket-of-leave.
Subsequently another house was entered a short distance
from the clergyman's, and a deal of property carried oft.

ALARMING ACCIDENT TO MRS. COLONEL SOMERSET.—
An alarming accident happened this week to the lady of
Col. Edward Somerset, M.P., one of the aides de-camp
of the late Field-Marshal Lord Raglan. Mrs. Somerset,
who had been staying at the residence of her father, W.
Miles, Esq., at Leigh Court, was driving out in a pony
phaeton, accompanied by her youthful daughter and a
young lady, when, on going up Markham-hill, the pony
became restive and unmanageable, and running the
vehicle against a heap of stones, threw all the ladies vio-
lently into the road. The animal, by kicking and strug-
gling, righted the phaeton, and then dashed off at a fu-
rious rate towards Ham-green, the seat of Mrs. Somer-
set's brother, Mr. P. J. Miles. It unfortunately hap-
pened that a number of children were playing at the
time in front of the Blue Bowl Inn, which lay in the
direct route, and the pony knocked down one of them,
the child of a labouring man, and the wheel °
taken
f the
phaeton passed over her head. The poor child
wdcal up for dead, and carried to her home, where
as-
sistance was immediately called in, r.nd although
in a very precarious state, some hopesof
are entertained. The ladies were zult seriously recoveryshhurt.e i 5