The National Register.
London, England, 1813-06-13 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULAP.S.

Mr. Read and Mr. Stafford have been indefatigable in their exer-
timer durin,e., the week, in eadeavonring to trace out the niardever
of ilq-,..5.%'1111C1P:, ILE ‘VOOMOCti. In the putnished reports of his
Horrid transaction, a great deal has been said respecting a joniney-
man tailor being suspected as the pet ',ignitor of the horrid deed,
arising from what a Mrs. North, a neLlihnur Of the deeersed, said,
viz. that on Saturday selmight she Wa4 in company %rid* the deceas-
ed, when she pointed to a Illan 1010 was tao;ling ner Ole clueciwca's
house, warn Mrs. Stephen's said was a cumstomer of het's, but
whenever he came to her shop sl:c felt afraid of him, and was fear-
NI he would do her a mischief some day. Mrs. North did not know
the man, bin understood him to be a journeyman tailor. Flom this
statement, no less than three journeymen tailors have been taken
into custody on suspicion; at least one has been confined in the pri-
son. Clerkenwell, and t•.ro have been examieed before Mr Read,
who had erameetions at Woodford; they in.oved to he loose and un-
steady characters. but nothing criminal attach( to them ; and they
proving, most unquestionably, that they erre ret at Woedford ht
the time of the murder, they were not der disci( iu eu-te,tly. The
one who was confined till Wednesday evet:ira: in the New Prison,
Clef kenwell, oceasionaliy w raked at Wouthl.,u d. and in Londo: ; and
when at Woodford, he was in the habit of purchasing, things art Mrs.
Stephen '.• shop. Ile got into enstedy kiln a very extraorditwry
cii-eunistanec.—He was in company with a person in Louden, a lu n
the sulject of conversation was the nintilcr of Mrs. Stephens, awl
that person reported that it was Sunday, by mistake, he had met
the tailor, instead of Monday, the murder not having been diseo.
verect till Monday ; and it being said that the tailor was talking
ahout and describing the murder on .;tuiday, no donbt was enter-
tained at first hint he was tf;e murderer, or he could not have known
the particulars a tlay before any body else.
On these circumstances he was taken into custody, and com-
mitted by Sir David Williams. Mr. Read afterwards attended him
in the pi isqn, and took his full narrative, wherein roily explain-
ed his business and connection at Woodford ; gave a full and parti•
cular acennut as to where was on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday,
and the nights of those days, which was very satisfactorily con-
firmed by the person at whose house he slept, and several other
persons whose company be had been in. The man also acknowledg-
ed his error, in stating it to be Sunday, instead of Mondi.v, he was
in company with the prisoner, when he told,him Mrs. Stephens
was milli:red. The prisoner was, of course, discharged.
Mrs. Stephens was seen in her shop on Saturday night, about ten
o'clock, or a quarter after, sittitg behind her counter as usual, her
shutters not being up. About eleven o'clock, a tetnale who omit.
pies the adjoining house to the deceased, and is confined to her
bed with the rheumatic gout, heard .Mrs. Stephen's door bane-to
with very neat violence, so much so that it made her house shake,
and immediately she heard some footsteps run away very fast, and
there is no donbt but that it was the murderer. From the situation
and position Mrs. Stephens was found in, when her neighbours en-
tered the house, it is supposed she was in the act of settling her
.week's accounts, as she had got her slate in her hand. The half-
pence were counted up, which were left ; but the silver and notes,
if any,. taken. It is supposed the villain attacked her over the
counter, with the mallet. The Surgeon who examined the body is
of opinion, the eats iu her neck were given after the blows with the
mallet.

No other &predation% were committed in the house. Bank
notes to the amount of .SL. %%etc fvund in the drawer en the fir3t.
floor.