The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-05 00:00:00

MURDER Ar EPSOM

do inimiaition woo takes yesterday babiro C. Mismett,
Esq. Cur seer Sir furry, at the Hammed Houark, Epsom,
as the 104 of Ely Cora, the gamekeeper of James Thaler,
piag. a she Weirdest Park, who was Rasa mordeted ow the
glom& aids isamee, ow Sordsy atterisams.
lb Joey king swore, went to Mr. Tamier's masigios. sod
took a view of the body; the decimal was IS yeses of age,
big face god week Wile very kb* asid the Mullet marks
Anal Lis work sod other pails OM body primed that lig
died 4 trioladt
Tim Joey biting rdefildlit MIS Solloltiog evident% was
takes :
George Nibs. gworiv.-•-:fle is servant to James %Maier,
Esq.; the deammed was vidiekeepev, nod used to have his
board is the house. On the 2il of dateast' shoot eight
u'elork the .retie., witness took breakfast as signal at
Mr Tessier's with the twee servants; the decearrad was ab-
sent ; witness weal tigeldirek, and am his rehire lie foetid that
the deceased had wit returned home; dieter king ready,
the servants sammetesi that sono-thimg had happened to him
Witness went to Ihe faro. null Inspired after him; he there
could Nara milloolt of .11 m ; witness weld hark, and asked
Smith.. fellikr sereltal, to mi with him tee look for the de-
ceased; they set Or taarther, god took own dogs with them;
they weal to eneekititisma corm% where the deceased used
to go, and perceives' a riil wash bind, Sher to over it,
aa 1 saw the deceased liog on the porta ; Waling sod
/WA mewl up to bids riaseinered that he was .1. nil.
They weal hark to tit him. mid got the servants to b..k
with them to carry theliody to 'lr. Tessier 's liouse. Mr.
Mayo. die surgeon, was sews for; he Mewled immediately.
The body was lying bra seta belonging to Sir Gilbert Heath.
mite; it approved tub orc beer thrown 11,111 the rails, which
divides Mr. Tegaiees•prentine from sir Gilbert Heat berm. 'a.
JulMtinsith sweit.—He 'is la 'uremia to James Teoie.,
he slept is • room sitridlolag that the deceased slept
is; as the asonnug ef.lhe 2.1 instant. betwera the hoar. of
Agee mad fear, he betted Ibe deceased gat up sod gee utit ,•
bitfidlhail gee filin'aqervrards till &boot two o'clock in Shoe
Shiriiiraihrarbegi bestow him guile dead. Shout fire in the
sanniing witness kard the report of a pistol. whirls he
Shots*, ease feu s the pot where the detoinid was found
Veitalka, gibe! he heard of the deceased bring found
demi, west to the spot and (hand him lying on his back in
Illitrooll yard; le• saw Hitt his neckerchief ha-I been twisted
Wry tight mod los reek. H'ituess was about 1.31( • mile
from the spid where lie heti...lithe report id the pistol
hbrscEiaelti sworn Ile is a bricklayer is Ms. T. ssier's
insiPily. On the 2.1 .notant, hearing the alarm about
cog s death, he mint with others immediately to see boa.
Mnyel, the came mug afterwards, sod fused
his right hand hael 'ken full in two places, sod a hand-
kereliwf was terrtgl mond his sock so very tight that
it had strangled fau • his arm was broke., and a swelling
was MO his ASA:I64 cameo by • Molesit kirk appaready.
Witless Idled thy deceased to carry him home. and &nod
a qoarstiti/rfosl ow the grousid. Th. or was* stick at the
back of t • AUrres meek pat through lb. kilut I.f the
handlterclelef,anif twisted r00..d till 81mM-reseed had implied.
Witmer, Imbed mood the place where ihr &erased lay. mod
Amid a chiaplkiife on the geoid which ems shut; the
knife wasesot Anton yards from the bode. He rim. saw our
Smith's's, was there meek up a kilt. which lee dnipp.d,rossi
wetter...task it i5p....(11..th knives wile 'produced. and es.
saved by the Cornier and Jory).Witoirsa did mot knew
to whom the hailers belonged.
. Joseph Abbrall emirs —Heise imago% On the 2.1 instant
hr went to the spot where Cot was found, acid saw km
lying us tive-eroonei mute dead; he saw in the wood yard,
shoot twentymite riots front the hudy sat the deceased, a
pistol lying on the ground, which witwess look up, acid
fun d. op," rsamia,j,,g is. shot it had remissly been ills-
chsigid ; there war a figure of a boar an the lock. which .s
the efelt of 111111144 Tarsier, Est ; the stuck of Site pistol was
Weikel". _

Charles !.amass, of Epsom, eosins is • fruit
emniesier On the astrining of the 'LI I.,si ant. oh mt live
u'eliSek, 'lse was going ap a place ealbd in
Emilia". tool about a voarier of a wile teem the W.N01.1.6g,i,
hr braid 'llia 'report of • pistol a gas. which h sisoneht
proceeded from the di4elidil of the wood, and as 14,114~
tire he hosed ewsiObrisesoy out. Oh bad r swim and she
peewee mode seiernf raw odor nonsense that he did inn
maJerstip•d 4 he heard the words bet very loot... Wetly, they
were faintly spokes.

John %filthiest, of F.psom, sworno—He is sertraot to Felts
I.aJStrike Feq. On Sunday last, the 2d imam, bowern
three and four u'elork in the sfiermam. he was informed
that dor deceased had been found dead its Sir Gilbert Heath-
mites grounds. adjnisiing to 21r. Tessier's He went 10 the
piaoh lied Snead suave persteM talbe set of oak rig vp the
body; he assisted in remoirog it to the home He af-
terwards looked about the place where she deceased vie
fouled, and hr famed • suet belarigiag to • shot lying on
the Knee, *Moil $ ymile from the place where the eh.
reared lay the gram about the plate was fora ap, she
aboalis wet' Leoken, and there appeared to bees beta a es.
were semi, shoot the Sprit.
John Winslow Mayd, swierien.-lie is a surgeon at Epic.;
as Sonde, last, shoot the hoar of three in the afteemoso,
be was scut fur to Ike prestoses'of Mr Tessier, 'to she J.
erased. ahem be Growl twig on the ground, ors the premises
of 11;tr Hilbert Hestboate The deceased was quite deed.
Mod wigwam believes, from the eppearance of she iota sad
fate of the deceased, that his death IM caused by his
win nrena:led. ela raising him eip he found • deep
iodirotatimi mood his meek, twisted by his neckerchief
barite, beim twisted mood, by • slit k beisnr fastened
is the knot, which had nosed all rispitatioa to (emir.
There woe • deep eat in the right hand of the ileoraterd,
appereotty date with • sharp inst,m•eut ; Mar lingere were
wended, the right arm was broken, and the /Memel
denial!, lofored by a elides. kirk. The thumb on the
kft hand was eat also, and the little doge, europletely
severtel. the body was 111161111 ed to the laundry of Mr.
Tessier's bower, and he stales eitamlued it, and f I ether
Marks of widener • bat affirms was deridedly of virility*
that Ow deceased die foie, sirtagulation. _ _ _

Thomas Page, of Epsom, ewurit.ww.He lives about fifty
yards trinss the preibisea at Sir Gilbert Heaths-vie. and the
spot where the body or Ely Cuts wee found. On Sunday twinn-
ing last, helmet-a the hours of four and hire, he was awoke by
the report of a gun or pistol, the noise ;crated to proceed
roma the revasises of Mr. Tessier. Hrs wife was also awoke
by Ow mew, wad they both gut up to the window, but they
did net we or bear were uatilahout the hour of idiocy there.
about% when witness gut up sad looked oil of his window;
he then Pew Thomas Mhos ne (a perms taken into custody
relderab, ii auspirlast If tisseasittisig the issurtkv), Who
I,bed is ea odioislisig home, and obis was shasiling at his
door sad told witness what was the liasead the day. Moores
saw Mho", illeswards go into lira house, Dad be did lot
hear any thing Calibre until the theme% wise Ws was Su-
Coated that Ely Cot Was murdered.
1 he vitamin were severally exatnialed, W they blew lb
wh• en the Loire, 'tad suck hammed; sons* of tens amid
that they bad area Gibers. with one Ike the clasped hair*,
but they could wet swear that the ova produced was the
same, our would they swear it was Mid hie bar.
The Comore then addressed site Jury, having 111111111111,11 up
the evisleu. e very ationtely Ile said their duly was to in-
"-- " How and by what -- oho deceased to Ids
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