The National Register.
London, England, 1823-04-14 00:00:00

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• PROM russaAr NIGHT'S GAZZII7I.
BANKRUPTCIRS SUPIRSEDED.
W. fiterete. Osfeed„ bluer soollthist.
J. Beaune, Pine Apple Bar, Wotinware Road, caspeialo.
BANKRUPTS.
T. Huntington, Garland. Comberland, innkeeper. Solicitor.
Mr. Addison. Verularu Buildings. Gray's Inn.
H. P. Evans. Birmingham. broker. Sol. Mr. Walker, Litt.
coin's Inn Fielos.
J. Marius. Whhtagas, Woreestorshire. carpenter. Sol. Mr.
Platt. New Boswell Court.
Sold, Lewi
He&n, Kingston upon Hall, merchant. Sol. Mr. Stale.
T.SeasUwood. Drayton in Halo. Shropshire, banker. Sob.
Moen. Sow and Cu. Bartlett'. Buildings.
1, MON. Chatham. slopseller. U. Mr. Imes, Bury MINN.
• St. Miry AIM
W. Vv•wiXte. C tarles Street. Middlesex Mospital, mach.
maker. - Sol. Mr. Mayhew. Chancery Lane.
DIVIDENDS.
April ti, I. Richards, Liverpool. merchant-IL W. Kama.
Xew Coon, Se. SWithin's Lane merchant-M. J. R. Oliver,
ihekhoieb, iserbeer-19. W. Lane.
Paddingtaa. alsorlager-i.l
'IJ D. Isiffts, Wisdom Sense, err-i 9, H. lawn and R.
Si. Marther Loath t Creek cables' asakent-011.
limadAlitali. ablest maker-me, W. Butcher,
I%taintekire. vanav-alay.. and J.
esd J. R. Hodgson Limped. arookanta-3, J.
and J. &kicked. Seagate Market. ehessanaeagers-e. W. Or-
qehart. Sion Collage Gardens. meretwart-o, J. Trouhridge.
• Shaftesbury, socking nsanufacturer-e. T. and W. Jackson,
• Liverpool. aterehants-to. G. Austin, Long Acre, coach plater
..-Juna!rti, T. Colima, Westhouse, W. RI is, Castletield. J.
sen. Burley. W. Holdsworth. Bradford, and J. Holds.
• worth, Morley. Yorkshire, fax spinners.
CERTIFICATES to be granted April 29.
E. Davis. Chance's? Lane. victualler-A. Bennett. Fountain
Court, Mmories, packing ease tnaker-S. Brown. Vine Street,
Lambeth. cooper-C. Read, Downes Wharf, Lower gast Smith.
Geld, coal merchant-J. Shackle, Milk Street, hosier-J. and
J. Stickland, Newgate Market. cheesemongers-J. Grove,
Drury Lane, grocer-T. Lane. Chandos Street, oilman—B.
Beverley. Barge Yard, Bucklersbury, merchsl4-E. Boyle,
Leicester Square, printer.

HURLER A7' CLAPHAM.
On Wednesday last the 'Magistrates of Union Hall
received a communicatiim from Ale. Franks, the vestry
clerk of Clapham parish, describing a most inhuman
murder that was vitr:titled on the preceding night on
the body of Mrs. Elisabeth Richards, • widow lady
between 70 and 80 years of age. who lived within two
doors of the Ebenex:r Ilaelist Chapel, Clapham Com-
anon. Toe nufortimate Indy had resided in the above
amuse for the last .p years, where she was well known
and respected by the neighbourhood. Her hUsband had
been a pin maker in the city, and since his death she
and another female occupied the house in which she
waif so cruelly murdered. it appeared that Mrs. Bell.
the lady who lived with the deceased, went out on the
night in question about seven o'clock, for the purpose of
atteudiug a meeting house, an! lett „the deceased at
house. At a fewminines after eight o'clock, she re-
turned and knocked at the door. which was not opened
to her; she repeated her knocks twice; the third time
the door opened, and Mrs. Bell walked into the pas.
sage; she repeatedly called out "Mrs. Richards,., sac
answer was given., neither was there any light to be
seen. She advanced towards the kitchen.alsOnsst at the
entrance she stumbled over something that was lying on
the floor; she becanie exceedingly alarmed, add ran out
sit the house insmodiately to call lei aseissaitee.. She °b-
ugled assess:me, and lights werebeought. when a poker,
whack 41r1 not belong to the Inhale, was observed Sing
outside the hall door. (hum g,aing into the house, the
badY,Ollltria..Richards was discovered lying stretched' on
the or, near-fhe entrance into the kitchen; an apron
was thrown over the ti.ce, and the greater part of it was
thrust lino the deceased's mouth; a mark of violence
was also visible on the right side of her. throat. From
iter.silvaneed Agit and infirmities. she was not enabled to
make any resistance .:tteurst her murderers. It has oc-
owned to Mrs. Bell singe the murder that a person
pii•ed out of lOW bathe from behisLl the door, at
the lime she entered sit. The pockets-of the deceased
appear to have been violently. torts from her aide; a
caddy. which had contained a mile money, lay hear the
deotased'e head, empty; a Weer watch was taken, toga
Cher with half a closets ol spoons. There Was consider-
able property in the house sip stens, but it was left'
untouched, as no doubt the murderers had been die-
swiped in their work of plunder. Hail. chief constable,
and Glannoti, tuost active calicen, have been sent to
Clapham. in order to trace this must atrociuuua murder.
They found its the house a piece of brown paper, folded
sip in the form of a letter, and tied with a piece of cord,
which had the following *duress written Olt the Lack of
it: " Mrs. B. 11, hat Mrs. Richards's, Clapham Coll-
ation," its sery illegible characters. it is supposed that
the murderer gained admittance into the deceased's house
on pretence of having the letter delhered to Mrs. Bell.
----Upon the discovery of the appalling circumstance, a
vestry meeting was called. end a reward ol 001, nflitsed
fur the appreitemion end conviction of the perpetretor
or perpetrators. Tins state, however, was not considered
sufficient for the purpose and another meeting .was
therelore heW on Wednesday eve g. by which the
reward was intern 111 l ,usly increased to 200 guineas, and
a resoltetioti passed to conuntinicate all the particulars of
she dreadful creme, and the proceedings ofthe parish to
consequence of it, to the Secretary of State for the Home
Department, leaving it to Ins tliacretmis to take what,
steps towards edechog the discovery of tile guilty he may
thili.k proper.
INQUEST.
On Thursday forenoon, at chore o'clock an enquiry took
place at the Plough Tavern, on Clapham Common, Wore Wet.
Crehh, Esq. deputy coroner for the county of Surrey and Pushy
*I Lancaster, stud a very respectable assemblage of gentlemen
of the allege of Clapham, as Jury, on view of Ike body of 31es.
Elisabeth Richards, aged 71, win) was most cruelly murdered
40 the evening 431 Tuesday last.
The Jury haring twee empanstelled nod sworn, were briefly
addressed by the corouer, and afterwards repaired to the late
residence of the deceased to view the body, which la) on a red
Witte dumber of the unfortnnatts holy. Ou the right side of
0104 was a auk which had -aped the shin, at ...Nl:fitly