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

THE NATION,U,"

ton acknowledging !dope:lto be the murderer. The following par-
ticulars may be relied upon AS authintie
He states, that on Sumlay night, after the groom I: ft hiin. he fel
asleep upon a form in the servants' hall. the room where he w.s
accustomed to lie : that he AWCke at three o'clock, ht' diaTnala
from the tom : Ircjumped Hp, and was :mustily seized with au
hich he could not resist, that he would marder his master and mis-
tress: he was at this time half undressed; be flora' oft his waist-
coat, and polled a sheet from his bed, with which he wrapped him.
self up; he then snatched a poker from the grate of the servants'
hall, and rushed up stairs to his master's room ; he made directly to
his mistress's bed, and strnek her two blows on the bead; she
'wither spoke nor moved : he then went round to his master's
bed, and struck him once actors the lace; Mr. Rolex %cos
noised, and tiom the confasiou produced by the stuuning vio-
lence of the Wow, imagined that ilonar was then coming to
bed) and spoke to that effect : thud when he immediately repeated
the blow, Mr. liewar sprung on: of bed, and grappled with hicu for
IFteen minutes, and at one time was nearly getting the better of
Lim; but being exhausted by logs ut blood, he was at length over-
pow( red : Nicholson then left him groaning on the floor. Ile went
down stairs, slant himself naked, and washed hier klt all over with
a sponge, at the sink in the butier's pantry. lie next went and
opened the windows of the drawing-room, that it might be supposed
some person had entered the house that way : he then took bis
shirt and stockings which were covered with blood. (the s?::-.et he
bad left in his master's room), went out at the i'g—r; (loot., and con.
eealed his bloody linen in e taiga covering it with haves: the bush
was opposite the door, and not mammy pods from it ; he then EC-
turned without shutting the outer-door, and went to the servants'
hall ; he opened his whitlow-shutters and went to bed (it was not
yet tour o'clock): he did not sleep, thoneh he appeared to be asleep
when King came for the purpose of waking him at halt past six
o'clock. He shited, in the most solemn manner, that no person
whatever was concerned atilt him in this horrid *geed: and to a
anestion put to him, whether he had aey associaita answered,
' How could he, when he never in his life, before the moment of his
jumping up flow the ton entertained the thought of murder.'
He can assign no 'native for what he did lie had no enmity or
ill-
will of any kind against r. or Mrs. lionar "
This deple.ition wilt regale:ly given be:ore the magistrate,
attested by Mr. A. Cooper, Mr. Herbert 3enher, the Rev. Mr.
Lockwood, Mr. Mott, and Mr. !lunar.
It appears that Nieeolson had been drinking a !great quantity of
the bete of the house Maher Smola". ; amid Clough it is not stated
that lie wasintoxicatcd, yet :he quantity-might have had some effect
011'116 senses.
In consequence of Nieholsoa's irformation, search was made for
the linen, and it was found ia a lunge!-bush close to the home,
wered with leaves, except about two inehes : the eie.:kings were
very bloody, and the shirt was also rent almost to rags anion tile
.Peek amid tilniN
Nicholson, w hn, before the confession, tool: rd gloomy and tierce,
and malicious, liag, since that period, been perfectly ceeo, and has
e% en an air of tatistactit n iu his countenance, He appears to re-
peat his attenait suittide,and it is not apprehended that he wouhl
.now repeat it, tleagli the watchfulness of his attendants is not on
that account at all wernitted. He is at present in a tole' -iefe
way, hut his recovery is somewhat donotful, hte;e:A: is is feared
that it may he ni eussary to re-open the Ns :01 operation which
inay be foilowed by dam:elan., cooseipances. Leery thin.: which
may tend to agitate him is studiously avoided,_and as few persons
as possible me admitted to sec him.
Mr. Bonar rode to town early in the morning, with the intelli-
gence of tle confession to ilow-stivet, and afterwards minutia
cited the eame to the Secretary of State.

ANOTHER MURDER.

A very decent elderly widow woman, who kept a small ehand-
lerki shop within two hundred yards of the C.tstle Ire) at Woodford,
was on Monday moruiug found mardered bthind her counter. She
rapt earl to have been sitting en a wooden chair at the back of the
•cl'inter, eastivg up. on a slate', ei:lier the receipts of the day, or
tivie amount of some artieles which the perpetrator of this horrid
si ed had pretended to pmehase; when, it is conjectured, she must
li se reCt ived.a violent ilkw between the eyes, after which, a large
ife, with which site was in the habit 'ot cutting the cheese, We.
as plumed into her throat, whereby the jugular vein and the wind-
'. ~e wet(' botti eat. When tli.covered, she was lying upon her face
aa• . the floor bellia; the counter, and the bloody knife deposited
tuna kind at woudeu bench ‘sithiu-a yard of the place where the

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bodykiy. The nmrder must have been committed late gut Saturday
evening, after the I,linp wan cloned ; stud was nut dkteovt red wail
:‘Tra.flav morning, as her neighbours had heard tier say she was going
out on the following day, which being no suspicion arose,
front the Windows 'entailing elose43 until Monday morning; when
entrance w;:s ob!eim.d by the wiralow. Her pockets were tirrited
in•ide out, and the 6;1 emptied, but hone ilver.spoons were lying
in the back parloor untouched, aud op‘Aards of 301. in a box in her
bed-room. The door has a sprieg Lick, which was closed upon the
heels of the murderer, Nan, no doubt, quitted the house by the
front door. It is roar:ll:Cite that OK re i. a cottage, with a family,
next door, which is iiierOy divided by a thin lathe and plaster par-
aod no noise was heard.
On Wednesday, a C••roner's [ugliest was held at the casti.e
before Charles Parker, Esq. Counter for the County, to take a view
of the body. The .Imy, after a short coteultation, returned a ver-
dict of 11'i fist Herder, against a per ‘on or persons onkuuti. No
trace is yet made of the perpetrators attic horrid deed.