The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-27 00:00:00

THE LATE MYST.ERIOUS MUI7tREI

IN TIIE EDGEWAIZE-ROAD.

APPREHENMCII4 AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF V'.
MURDEREIL—We rAfa at length enabled to .announce th
the mys!'ery connected with the horrible discovery of tl
mutilated tf tt:`lt 9f a female in the Edgeware-road, on t
28th of December iat4, the finding of the head in tl
ltiegent's-canal, at Mile-end, a few days afterwards, jai
su6equently of the limbs in an osier bed in Cold lio
hour-lane, Brixton, is unravelled.
On Monday last Mr. Thornton, the Churchwarden
Paddington received information, which led him to belie'
that the unfortunate woman who had been so barbarous
murdered, and whose body was afterwards so horribly ta
tilated, was a female named Hannah Brown, who, f
two years previous to Christmas last, had residt
in Union,street, Middlesex-hospital. He immediate
informed Inspector Felt6m, of the S division, of the inf.(
mation he had received. 'That officer accompanied N
Thornton to the residences of the brother and sister
Mrs. Brown, when they ascertained that the ill-fated wool
had for some time been acquainted with a man nam
James Grecnacre, who formerly kept a grocer's shop opPOS
the Asylum for the Indigent Blind, in the Kent-rot
who had made her an offer of marriage, and 1.
matter had been so far arranged between the Parti'
the banns having been thrice publ s'red in the Churl
of St. Giles-in-the-Fields,. that they were to ha
been married at that church on Christmas-day. On t'
Saturday previous (Christmas-eve), Mrs. Brown left II
residence in Union-street (where she had carried on
mangling business) in a hackney coach, with a number
boxe3, cc n ahting a quantity of prol;erty, amountiog, it
alleged, to between 400/. and 5001. in money, and ab°
100/. worth of jewellery, and accompanied by Greenat
since which time her relatives have heard no tidings of
On Friday last her brother, the landlady of the house
Union-street, in which Mrs. Brown had lived, and ill
other persons who were acquainted with her person,
companied Mr. Thornton and Inspector Feltham to PI
dington poor-house, where they were afforded a view of t
head, which had been preserved in spirits, when, 111
withstanding the horrible appearance it presents
they immediately recognised it as that of th,
relative and acquaintance. Every exertion, was th
used to discover the retreat of Greenacre, and althoul
no clue to his residence could at that time
obtained, yet it was ascertained that on Mond
last a female, with whom it was known he had for so
time cohabited, had called at some cottages belonging
him in Carpenter's-buildings, Camberwell, and demand
the rent.

On Saturday morning Mr. Thornton had an intervi(
with Colonel Rowan, the Commissioner of Police,
Whitehall, who instantly gave orders to the different di
sions of Police to use their utmost endeavours to ascer"
if the villain was in their neighbourhood. At a late hour
the day that gentleman and Inspector Feltham, had a 17
vate interview with Messrs. Rawlinson and Shutt, the bs
gistratcs at Marylebone Police-office, who immediate
signed a warrant for his apprehension.
On Sunday, Feltham, ascertaining, at a late hour, that
man answering the description of Greenacre had for se''
time been residing at No. 1, St. Alban's-street, Kenning°,
road, Lambeth, he, accompanied by a police•constable oft'
L division, who was on duty near the spot, proceed'
thither about ten o'clock, and in a back room discover,
the object of their search in bed with the female abe
mentioned. In the room were a number of boxes strong
corded, and everything exhibited the appearance of eve,
preparation having been mado for a speedy nig':
On Inspector Feltham stating his business, Greenacre sal
" You are but just in time—to-morrow I should hare start'
to America ;" and on searching his clothes a receipt for t'
passage money was found. An officer having been Plae,'
in care of the property, Greenacre and the female,
refused to give her name, were then conveyed in a hae
ney-coach to the station-house on Paddington-green, vibe
they arrived about half past eleven o'clock. On the tbi
visit of police-constable T 132, about twenty minutes P.
12 o'clock, to the cell of Greenacre, he discovered him lyi
on his back in a state of insensibility, having made a In°
desperate attempt at strangulation, by tying his poek
handkerchief round his neck, and fixing a noose round
right foot. Mr. Girdwood, of the Edgeware-road, the P
rochial surgeon, was instantly fetched, who on his array
made an incision in the jugular vein, but no blood OW'
for full two minutes, after which about fourteen mine
having been taken, he gradually revived. On recoveril
his speech, he said to Mr. Girdwood, " I don't thank Y'
for what you have done, I would sooner have gone or
About ten o'clock this morning they were both rernov
in a hackney-coach to Marylebone Police-office, where till
will in the course of the day undergo an examination.
Mrs. Brown, who was about 47 years of age, former,
lived as cook in the service of Mr. Charles Barclay, of ti
firm of Barclay, Perkins, and Co., the brewers, and last"
in that of the Deputy (we believe John GreenwaY)
Bishopsgate Ward, in both of which services she amass:
considerable savings. Greenacre appears to be near
years of age, is a widower, and has previously been in Ar 1.51
flea, where he carried on the business of a washing-machn
maker and carpenter, but failed just before he returned '
England. lie has three children by his late wife.
It is said that the murderer has hitherto delayed II
departure from this country for the purpose of. receiving
pension, in the receipt of which he has been for some
If so, the mysterious workings of Providence are striking'
pourtrayed in this instance.

A few days since a Miss K-, of Bedford, nu,
tamed the consent of her parents to visit her aunt st•
where it was supposed she still was. A communi s
cs,
tion, however, was on Friday received, announcieg her sopa'
in the north, having made a trip to Gretna with a Mr.
of Cambridge. The couple were well received on their '
turn, and have been again married.—Aylesbury News.
The Borough of Leeds will meet on Tuesday o°i:a
at twelve o'clock, to raise its voice once more against i",
unjust and vexatious impost, Church-rates, and in favour
t
the admirable measure proposed to Parliament by his Meicels
Ministers, for removing for ever a grievance from the '"to
senters, and a source of contention and odium from the c'
blisbment. It is expected that the Mayor will preside; knti
a,
it is hoped that the Liberal candidates for the borough? wsio
of whom have supported the Ministerial measure in Pediatric
will be present.—Leeds Mercury.
On Saturday an application was made at the station.;
house of the B diTision of police to convey a young s/cdrale
named Frances King, of Great Peter-street, Westminster, ebb
had taken poison, to the Westminster Hospital. A cons"' bi
immediately went to the residence of the unfortunate girl, 0:0
had expired just before his arrival. The deceased had ban,
living as servant to Mr. Banks, of Blandford-street, Porten
square, and is supposed to have committed the rash act from
disappointment in an attachment she had formed.
On Saturday last, between two and three o'cl°C`
the report of a gun was heard to proceed from the canal h°:
belonging to a person named Hodgetts, res;ding,at WcrtFreoe
ter, and a boy, named William Bishop, was seen running to
the spot. On entering the boat, the infant son of 11°,clgeecift:
aged four years, was found lying on his back, with a cire-eed
wound in the chest, from which the blood profusely 155-ot
and a gun, just discharged, was resting against the side erg
-
taking the child up it was found to he quite dead. liodgii`ae
soon after the occurrence came home, and -charged.
with shooting the child, which he denied, but imatedi2etcall
after absconded. The same evening an inquest was bc,7tee
the body, when the surgeon declared that the muzzle ° riot
gun must have been placed against the child's chest ; ,the
art,
were carried away, and there was a large wound in the be r•
which would cause instant death. The Jury returned ayed
diet of manslaughter against William Bishop, and a de°da
of ss. on the gun,— Worcester Journal.
On Saturday evening great excitement ".nr,
created in the neighbourhood of Paddington, by a report
currently circulated that the mystery connected with the 'leo,
tragical affair, which has excited so much of public atteurriee
is at length in the courre of elucidation. From inclulteed
which we instituted at a late hour last night, we are e!ladtcel
to state as a fact, that the parochial authorities of Padchnr' ye
have for some days been in the possession of facts which leBeot
no doubt that the whole of the circumstances connectedocw
only with the discovery of the mutilated trunk in the Peer
ware-road on the alternoon •of Wednesday, the 28th of D c oar
her last, the finding of the bead in the Regent's Can" l' lobs
Mile-end, shortly afterwards, and subsequently of ih,e with
in an osier bed in Cold Harbour-lane, Brixton, but rt:s° uebt
another transaction of as black a die, will shortly be hi.°
`o light.
it wed

MUSICAL SHOES.—Not five centuries ago • tiered
to be the fashion to wear shoes that would cr:derea,
squeaking noise as the wearer walked. A gentleman e'houl‘'
a pair oepumps, and gave express directions that they sops,
be musical, as he termed it. Jobson took borne the P 1
and the gentleman tried them od ; they fitted very %lc: wag
but alas ! there was no tone in them ; conscquentlf
going to return them on the maker's hands, when theApj
of the last said, " Recollect, Sir, pumps are ioto ben'
dancing, and not for singing." " Right, right," said t'-
tleman, " I forgot that."—Musical World.
Tr or° -
unhappy prisoners were
Two brought to ,iog,
Saturday and lodged in the town gaol until the next nmr until
when they were taken to Bodmin, where they will remain Thie,
their trial on a charge of murder on the high seas' dcePii
captain, who is about twenty years of age, appears who I°
affected at his dreadful situation ; while the Irate' lien ins
about 19, preserves a gloomy silence, and evinces a Az
difference to all around him.— IVest Briton.
nt P O'CI°CI
On Saturday eveniner, between five anu si-- tir
e
an accident occurred to Sirt Henry Halford, the erniAra6e the
sician, whilst returning from the residence or his in thd!
Duke of Northumberland (who is slightly indispor
quitted:tAblifP
Strand. Ain f
minutes after Sir Henry ba- rap.
courtyard in his chariot, the coachman was driving Lroke,
along Charing-cross, when suddenly the fore axeltrefout tbe
and Sir floury was precipitated head foremost agal jos
front. window, but fortunately did not sustain any sers ,itue
jury. He was speedily released from his precariontateuriej
tion, and iininQdiately returned to bis residence in a
coach. •