The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-28 00:00:00

Double Murder in Leicestershire.

Great consternation prevailed in Leicester at an early
Lour on Saturday morning in consequence of a report be-

ing extensively circulated that a moat horrible tragedy had
been perpetrated at Syston, a village about four miles dis-
tant, at a late hour on the previous nigh+, and that the
murderer had been taken to Leicester and locked up at the
county police station. The murderer is a man named
Timothy Baum, aged 28, a wheelwright, living at Syston,
and his victims his wife, Jane Baum, aged 32, and his only
daughter, Emma Baum, 11 months old. The particulars of
this dreadful occurrence appear to be as follows :
About 11 o'cicck on Friday night the murderek's mother-
in-law, Mrs Jane Shelton, who lived with her daughter,
was asleep in a room adjoining that in which the prisoner
and his wife and chili were sleeping, when she was dis-
turbed by the cries of the child. On getting up and going
towards the prisoner's bedroom, she met the prisoner com-
ing out of his room with a bloody knife in his hand, and his
shirt also bloody. She asked him the cause of it, but he
made no reply, and at once made an attempt to cut his
throat, but he was frustrated in his design, as the weapon
was dashed out of his hand by Mrs Shelton. He then
rushed downstairs, but returned in a few minutes with the
knife-box in his hand, and was feeling as if in search for
the carving-knife, which fortunately did not happen to be
there. With great presence of mind Mrs Shelton also
dashed the knife-box out of his hand, seized him,
and dragged him into a bedroom, where she pushed him
into a chair, and cried out'' Murder." This brought to her
assistance a youth named Toone, an apprentice, who slept
in an adjoining room, and he speedily gave the alarm to the
neighbours, and prisoner was arrested, Mrs Shelton then
went into the bedroom and found her daughter lying in bed
with a stab in her throat, quite dead, and her child lying at
her side, also with its throat cut ircm ear to ear, and wel-
tering in an immense pool of blood.

Mr J. C. Robinson, surgeon, Sybton, was sent for, and
on his arrival he pronounced the infant to be still alive, bat
notwithstanding his medical skill the poor thing-only lin-
gered till about 3 o'clock, when it expired. As the prisoner
had been in a low way for some time past under Mr
Rokinson's treatment, the latter did not consider him in a
condition to be removed during that night. He was there--
fore kept under the surveillance of the police, and conveyed
to Leicester on Saturday morning and lodged at the county
police-station_

From the position in which the mother and her child were
found, the former with her left arm in bed, and the right
arm outside over the clothes, with her infant at her side,
there can be no doubt they were murdered in their sleep.
Death must have been instantaneous to :he mother, as the
stab, which was on the right side of the throat, was a very
severe one, close to the artery. We understand that the
unfortunate woman was near her confinement.

The prisoner was taken before the magistrates sitting at
the county police-effice on Saturday at noon, and was re-
manded till Wednesday.

The Yelverton Marriage Case. _

In the Court of Session, Edinburgh, on Saturday,
this case was called upon a petition on the part of
defender and respondent, the Hon. Major Yelverton,
to apply the judgment of the House of Lords, and
a note for the pursuer and appellant, Mrs Theresa
Longworth or Yelverton, praying leave to move the
court to supersede consideration of the petition, to
apply the judgment, and to allow a condescendence
of res noritcr to be received and added to the record
and remitted to probation. Mr J. Campbell Smith,
who appeared for Mrs Yelverton, said he did not
think the case was ready for discussion. He sug-
gested that their lordships should allow the proposed
condescendence of res noviter to be received and seen,
and allow the pursuer to print it along with two affi-
davits which they had in support of it, and which
he believed would make out a very strong case.
The Lord President said there could be no objection
to printing the manuscript note that the other
judges might see it, but to allow a condescendence
to be given in would be taking a step in one direr-

Lion, Mr. Gordon, for Major Yelverton, objected
to anything being done till their lordships came to
dispose of the motion to apply the judgment. That
was the proper time for making a motion if it be a
competent motion. After some discussion the Lord
President said : The pursuer can, without an order,
print this note, and append to it the proposed con-
descendence, and we will let the matter drop in
the meantime. The following io the condescen-
dence of res noviter which the pursuer proposes
to put in :—" Since the judgment of till

House of Lords, the pursuer in the declarator
of marriage has been informed of certain
facts that would have been proved had they
come to her knowledge before the proof was closed.
Rya letter sent to her in the beginning of August,
1864, she was informed that Major Yelverton, the
defender, had, when on a visit to his brother Fre•
derick, now deceased, during the last illness of said
Frederick Yelverton, acknowledged and admitted
he had married the pursuer in Scotland, and re•
newed his marriage vows in Ireland ; that he had
made said acknowledgment to the said Frederick in
presence of Sarah Mullins, who was at the time
attending him as sick nurse. The said Sarah Mul-
lins died in the Meath Hospital, Dublin, and when
she lay there in a dying state she was attended by
the Rev. George Campbell, A.M., a clergyman of
the Church of England and Ireland, and she in-
formed him of what had passed between the two
brothers in reference to Major Yelverton's marri-
age, and the said clergyman communicated to
the pursuer wftat he had been told by the dying
woman, after the reversal of the interlocutors of the
Court of Session by the House of Lords had sug-
gested to his mind that additional evidence might
be of consequence to the pursuer. She now desires
leave to prove that Major Yelverton acknowledged
to Frederick Yelverton, his brother (now deceased),
in presence of Sarah Mullins, that ho had married the
pursuer in Scotland, and that he had previously
made similar acknowledgments, so that the said
Frederick Yelverton fully believed that Major Yel-
verton had married the pursuer in Scotland. The
pursuer now believes that Major Yelverton had
made similar admissions to his father and other
relations; and she intends, if an opportunity be al-
lowed her, to examine them as witnesses."

SAVAGE ASSAULT UPON A CONSULAR AGENT.—
Richard Hoffenden, a foreign sailor, was apprehended in
Liverpool on Friday, by an Irish police-officer, Ohargcd
with having murderously assaulted Mr. Isaac Notter,
Belgian t;onsular agent at Crookhauen, by striking him on
the forehead with an iron belaying-pin some days since
It is said that there is but small hope of Mr, Notler's re-
covery.