The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-20 00:00:00

Murder of a Female.

Two young men, named Richard Miles and James
Batchelor, were examined at the county magistrates' office,
at Sevenoaks, on Monday, on a charge of having murdered
a woman, named Bridget Goodall, on the night of the 9th
inst., near Westerham.

The facts showed that a very atrocious crime had betin
committed. The deceased woman, who was generally
known in the neighbourhood as '• Irish Nell," was in the
General Wolfe publichouse, at Westerhatn, on the night of
the 9th inat„ drinking, until about 10 o'clock, when she left.
The prisoners were also in the house, and they departed
about the same time. On the following morning, between
five and six o'clock, the body of the deceased was found in a
road called Water-lane. She was lying on her back, quite
dead, and her appearance altogether indicated that she had
been subjected to the most shocking treatment. Her face
was pi eased sideways close against the ground, and her bon-
net was bent up and had a quantity of blood on it. In one
of her hands was some hair. The body was examined by
Mr. Rathill, surgeon, who stated that death resulted from
congestion of the brain, caused either by a blow or stran-
gulation. He added that his impression was that one person
held her down whilst some one else abused her. It was then
ascertained that the unfortunate creature was seen wii h two
men about 1 o'clock on the night in question near Water-
lane, and a little later screams and groans of a female were
heard, and the footsteps of a man running down the lane
were heard. In consequence of information conveyed to the
police, Superintendent Coleman, of the Sevenoaks division,
went to the house of the prisoner Batchelor, and he admit-
ted having been in her company on the previous Saturday
evening. Batchelor then accompanied the officer to the
lodging of Miles, the other prisoner, and he also admitted
having been with Batchelor, and that they were with her
down the London-road. The superintendent then took them
into custody, and on the waistcoat of Batchelor and his
"slop" were found some smears of blood. He stated that
he had scratched his face. On the ball of the left hand of
Miles was found some blood, which was dry.
Mr. Richards having addressed the Bench on behalf of
the prisoner, they were fully committed for trial at the next
assizes.

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Gold Speculators in New York.

•
The Washington correspondent of the Cincidglif
Gazette gives the following account of the Ntw
York gold market :—" Whether in gold or stock'
everything in Wall-street depends upon haling tw:.
earliest news, and consequently there is not a lea:,
ing stock-dealing firm in New York that does 11:
have from one to a half-dozen correspondents
Washington, charged to spare no pains or exPerlso
_
in furnishing them, by telegraph, and lour
generally
cipher, the earliest intelligence of any ettocess,
disaster in the field, any important action of trou
Treasury Department, any rumour of foreign co ;
plications—in short, anything likely to affect tehir
hopes or fears of the community, whici) find thet•
barometer in the wavering of the gold malt()
These correspondents are generally men sucP°se
have the confidence of the officials, or access to eare;
despatches ; and, for obvious reasons, their agigne
ment is kept as secret as possible. Last summa'
,It/
New York banking house, in a boastful moms'd
claimed that it could always have news withill
hour after the President had it ; and another leah
said to have number, d among its correspondents tot
chief of staff of a great army in the field.
course the services of such men are not enlists.io
without a 'consideration' proportionate at once s
the risks they run in furnishing the desired peg
and to the nature and accuracy of the news its° jo
In general this consideration depends on what of
made out of their information. Occasionally oneatz
these correspondents make a lucky strike
more often he furnishes news for weeks and IDOL,
without its having such an effect on the marketed
to bring him more than the merest driblets of pro.ti
But the chance of 'something brilliant' flasit,
fascinations, and the stock operators have Do kb
culty in inducing well-informed people to fur13,111:0
them all the news they get. A bureau of the
vernment resolves to recommend a tax on a Pafit
cular article—before the recommendation reached
Congress, certain parties in New York have it, Oad
have bought up all the article they can get; 611.4
when the rise comes they pocket the proceedre
seems utterly impossible to prevent this. Whet
news of important battles is coming in, Goverool,7lo
has sometime attempted it, but the effort was ,t
as it was foolish. A censor has been established
the telegraph office, and he has wisely super Bat
every despatch saying a word about the war. •
a servant girl comes in with a hurried screvil °II •
torn sheet of delicately-scented French pePer,t•th
lady's hand—' George H. Montgomery,
Avenue Hotel, New York, Do come home at °DO
Mary cannot live 24 hours longer—Laura golitc
mery.' How can he stop that ? But George pg
Montgomery' is a myth, and Mary's illness r°e6.,
Hooker's defeat, and the hotel clerk has been 1D
eructed to send any such despatch by the speetlfhe
ot
means to somebody's bank down town ; :of
firm makes the money, and the Government eena
keeps blinking like an owl over the despatcheo, s".
rigidly stopping everything relating to the WBr:g
and Mr. Staunton felicitates himself over hec;i
made those newspaper pests send their accounts it
mail rather than by telegraph ! How little se°sBo
takes to run a Government,'said some wise man! Coaot
during the summer a leading newspaper editorhrod
disgusted, and determined that the gold gar be
should not monopolise all the earls- news. bet
went into the cipher business tco, but being red
raw at it his first effort was not quite so goto.
some subsequent ones. He forwarded the Pyrite
to his leading Washington correspondent. •`-ri,"te
soon the operators in his city who knely,"hlect
solely a.s a devoted newspaper man, were asteds:a.
at receiving for him this dispatch from liresbnl3;s
ton Have sold for you 15,000 bushels of °°,,r"
35. The market looks squally.' The paPeilot
nounced the next morning that the main b°!:•',01
Lee's army had crossed the Maryland line, and 'got
moving into Pennsylvania; and his chief rival
very mad and complained to the War Depart t
that he was bribing the telegraph company; 7,tie
was whispered about among his friends tha'4,-to
and-so was neglecting his business and going,
very rash speculations, and—he caangea
cipher."