The Sun.
London, England, 1806-08-23 00:00:00

SHOCKING MURDER;

A shocking Murder was .yesterday .morning dis-
tbvered to have been committed neat the King's
tench Prison:. The circumstances were as fOklow :
.'About three o'clockk7When the :watchman was going
tip Belvidere-row and. Calling the hbur, he heard the
Watch:do6 kept by,h.man the.name of Gibbs, a
c+farcoal-merchant, unusually noisy.* • went
Wards the gate; which is ralhdr in a'hye'corner,, and
Saw something white lying On the ground, supported
against a cart. He called out "Who's there ?"..and.
immediately Mr.; Gibbs opened his bed-chamber
Window, wh;ch-overiooks the "spOt, • and told the
watchman he was mach. afraid some robbers had got
into his,,pretnikeS; as the dogs :had.: been extreraelk•
nneair for some .time back, and had awakened both,
himand his wife. The Wdtcliman, Who was, filth-
self alarmed at the appearance of: the whit& tgure,
intreated Mr.. Gibbs to,coine down and help, iintooi
examine what It -was. Gibbs accordingly..qp,wr!
dOwn stairs vit•ii a light-, and they_ then founcf!'thi4_
it was the body:of a yottn,;- -Womarr,..initheagbnies •
of death, When Mr. Gibbs camedown stairs, just
as he had opened the front door, • she,fell ,forward,
and br-e.athed her last.: on examining Atie.
_body,
they found •-she . had i-eeeii-M several 'severe bruises
ututhe.head,• and-o'n one partieulail7 under the eaP;'
which seemed to 4.4,7q.*4.1) infUled with: the nib: of:
alaige Slick:
.Tbere were, alSo some
,marks of
'mice about het 'throat, as if the hadreceiv_ed_soMe.
kicks there: She bled only frOrn the nose done of
the wounds weteinfliaed with a sharp instruinent.-1
The watchman carried her. to the
.klunchpf.:-Grapes
public haute, in Great Suffolk-street,
,opposite which]
she remained. until 6 o'clock, -and Was then takerifO-,
the Work-house. - _
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The deceased appeared to be a very handsome
young. woman, about '2O years of age. She was
dressed in a white-muslin gown with long sleeves,
and yellow gloves ; her bonnet' was straw; trimmed
with
,pale pink ;ibband, and her shoes were velVet.
A woman of the town, who saw the body,. said,: the girl's name was Ann Webb; and that she saw*
ber thepreceding evening 'at ithe- Circus, .in corn-
,pany with a Gentleman, to whose person, .if she
,again saw him, she coold swear. This woman also
said, .that . thp 'deceased had lived; for a tofisider-
able.time,
.with a Jew, named Jacobs, in Martin-
preet ; but, she believed, had, separated from bini
a few days back, and gone to lodge hi Man-
gel-row. A Police Offieer hearing part of this story:,
brought the woman into the, WorkhOtise.hall, and'
immediately sent for the jew, and 'for: the' ownick
of 'the house .where it • was said the deceased last
lodged. • The story told him by the,former wits; -that
the name of the Woman was Green;and dial she
with.hirn for some time; but three or four days Since
they quarrelled, and he torned'.'her out. of 'thehouse,
and kept a box of 'elotheSi her 'property, in pledge
for'sorne money due to- him ,by her. The person
at whose house -she last, lodged- scon-obo7ated this
, .
statement, so far as saying that' deceased had, been..,
their lodger but for. a few da.y.s.back. It is the gen.e•:
ral opinion that the murder- waS. not perpetrated
lelvidere-row, where the-body was fuund y butlhat'
after the: ortal. \S ound
_Was,giveii., the ~nnfOriunates.
young ivornan was carried to; and. placed opposite,
. Mr... Gibbs's gate. The grounds on Which this opi-
Dion is founded are, that' a .waggoti: belonging. tpT,,,
Mr. Gibbs left his, preMises, ' for the country„, e5;-,.
italy at half past two o'clock; .and; 'at that time,the
body was not at the gate.. • After' Allis- hoar
Gibbs . not sleep, and he-heard mi. Pt ber hOise
but the barking of his 'dogs ;. so
,that it is more pro-,•
bable she was carried there alniost- lifeless, than that
ahe.,was aiSlually murdered there, which, Mu.st'have
.treated a-disturbance of sornii kind.
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