The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday a surgeon of respectability attended at
the Justice-room to answer a charge against him for
having received, knowingly, some stolen property.
Mr. Cope went with a search-warrant to the
house of the defendant, and found him in bed,
yesterday morning. Witness asked how he came by
the surgical instruments which he had offered for
sale to Mr. Riley. Defendant said he had put a
lady named Barnet to bed, and that the instruments
had been given to him in payment of his attendance,
&c. Defendant at first said he had received the
instruments of Joe Barnet, but afterwards he said the
wife of Barnet had given them to him, in payment
of his services. Witness asked hint whether he had
any more property of the kind, received under the
same circumstances. He produced two small in-
struments, which, however, were not identified. He
had, he said, made no entry of the fact, upon look-
ing at his books. Afterwards he said he bad had
the instruments from Charles Barnet, whose wife
he had also put to bed. The time at which they
came into his possession was about six weeks or two
months ago.
Mr. Lundy, a surgical instrument-maker, residing
near Bartholomew Hospital, stated, that on the 9th
or 10th October his premises hail been broken open,
and plundered of surgical instruments to the value
of 2001.
Mr. J. W. Riley, a surgical instrument-maker, in
Little Britain, knew the defendant, who called upon
and offered to hint for sale a trepanning instrument
and other articles of the sort, which he said had
been left with him in liquidation of a debt. Wit-
ness thought they were part of the goods which had
been stolen on Mr. Laundv's premises, and gave in-
formatiOn to that effect. Defendant offered to take
38s. for the instruments, for which Mr. Laundy
would have charged about 10/.
The Defendant—No ; I stated that I was not at
all in want of money.
Mr. Hobler, jun., said that there was not the
slightest ground for the charge against the defendant,
his client, whose confused account of tl•:e transaction
was easily explained by the lateness of the hour at
which he had been obliged to go to bed on the night
preceding the day Mr. Cope called at his house.
Sir PETER LAURIE should admit the defendant to
bail on account of his respectable character.
GUILDHALL.
Thomas Croft, a well-dressed young man, was
charged with assaulting William Davies, a watch-
man of St. Dunstan's, Fleet-street, and Ellen Ful.
ler, one of the wretched young women who infest
that street, was charged with being disorderly.
The prisoner, when desired to give an account of
himself, said he was a shoemaker out of work, and
that he was supported by his mother.
Mr. Alderman WINCHESTER ordered him to find
sureties for the assault on the watchman.
BOW-STREET.
The proprietors of six public-houses, situate in
the district of this office, were yesterday summoned
before Mr. Mitisuum, and Sir RICHARD BIRNIE,
by Johnson, the informer, for keeping their houses
open during the hours of divine service on Sunday,
the 25th instant. Three of the summonses were
dismissed, o Ning to the signs of the houses having
been incorrectly described. The landlord of the
Blue Boar, Long-acre ; of the Black Boy and
Apple Tree, St. Martin's-lane; and the Duke's
Head, St. Martin's-street, were severally convicted
in the penalty of 2/. 10s., being a moiety of the full
fine under the Act of Parliament.
Mr. Fenian:, the music-seller, in the Strand,
was fined ss. and costs for neglecting to have the
pavement in front of his house swept clean before
ten o'clock in the morning of Friday the 22d inst.
LAMBETH-STREET.
James Taylor and Barney Meeron were brought
before Mr. WALKER, for re-examination, charged
with having stolen a quantity of harness, the pro-
perty of David Soames Hewson, a gentleman of for-
tune, residing at Bromley.
Matthew Chamkin, Mr. Hewson's coachman,
said that on the 18th of this month, on going to
his master's stable, he found that it had been broken
open. The double lock on the door was lying on
the ground, and the whole of the harness was taken
away.
Lewis Beecham, a saddler, in the Commercial-
road, said that the prisoner Taylor came to his shop
on the 21st of this month, and offered him a quantit
of harness for sale. He observed eagles' heads upo
the blinkers of the bridle, and knowing that sac
description of harness had been stolen, he detaine,_
the prisoner, and sent for an officer, who took him
into custody.
Mr. Hewson's servant identified the harness pro-
duced as his master's property.
Lea, the officer, in consequence of information

of conjectures.
It is no doubt in the recollection of a large por-
tion of our readers that the Rev. Mr. Parker, of
Oddingley, near Droitwich, in this county, was
murdered on Midsummer-day, 1806. The circum-
stances of the murder were these :—At about five
o'clock in the afternoon of the above day, as too'
persons of this city were walking near Oddingley,
they heard the report of a gull, and a few minutes
after the cry of " murder!" They hastened to the
spot whence the sound proceeded, and one of them,
who outran the other, came up to a man near a
hedge, with a bag in his hand, and asked him what
he had been about ? At this question he turned
pale, dropped the bag, in which was a broken piece
of a gun, and ran off. At this moment the person
who had put the question, seeing something on fire
on the ground, proceeded to the place, and there
discoved the body of the Rev. Mr. Parker, who had
been shot, and his clothes set on tire by the wadding
of the gun. His companion, coming up soon after,
ran to the nearest house for assistance, and the
other pursued the man who had run off; comieg
very close to him, the murderer turned round, and
feeling in his pocket, as if for a pistol, threatened
to shoot his pursuer, who, being intimidated, gave
up the pursuit, and the villain escaped. Upon
further examination of the body, it appeared pro-
bable that the murderer did not quite effect his ob-
ject when he shot Mr. Parker, for the latter bad
evidently been beaten about the head with the butt-
end of the gun, which was broken, one part of
which only, in his terror, the murderer put into his
bag.
On the day following the murder Mr. Barnet)),
held an inquest on the body, and a verdict of" Wilful
murder by some person or persons at present un-
known" was returned. But, although the evidence
was not clear enough to warrant the Jury in fixiree
the guilt on any individual, the description given of
the murderer's person, his being missing from the
neighbourhood from the time of the murder, and
other circumstances, leaving little doubt that Richard
Heming, of Droitwich, carpenter and wheelwright,
was the • murderer, the county magistrates, a few
days after, offered a reward of 50 guineas for his ap-
prehension, and at the same time a proclamation ap-
peared in the Gazette offering a reward of 100
guineas to any person making a discovery of the
persons concerned in the murder.
On the evening of the murder Heming was seen
at Whittington, near this city, and it was asserted
that he was seen to come out of the Trench Woods
on the following day, to a person's house at Od-
dingley. Be this as it may, all traces of him were
lost, and some time after a report prevailed (circu-
lated perhaps purposely) that he had gone to Ame-
rica. Still, however, a belief was entertained, for
years after the murder, that he was somewhere con-
cealed in the neighbourhood of Oddingley, and not
many years ago it was confidently asserted that he
had been made away with, and that the body was
concealed under a clover rick which was put toge-
ther at the time the murder was committed, and re-
mained undisturbed for several years.
To explain the origin of these reports it is neces-
sary to state state that at the time of the murder it
was believed that Mr. Parker, who had lived on
very bad terms with some of his parishioners, had
been murdered from motives of revenge, and that
Heming had been employed to effect his destruction.
Years rolled on, and the subject comparatively died
away. But, contrary to all anticipation after the
lapse of above twenty-three years, the body of the
murderer has been discovered—discovered too under
circumstances which seem to afford dreadful evi-
dence that, after he had been employed by others
to effect the murder of a fellow-creature, he, himself,
by the retributive justice of Providence, fell by the
hand of a murderer ! On Thursday last a man who
was employed to take down a barn at Netherwood,
in the parish of Oddingley, found in a corner of the
barn which was not flagged, a skeleton, on one side
of which was a carpenter's rule ; and the shoes,
tolerably entire, with some remains of dress, were
also found. The man who found the skeleton was
Heming's brother-in-law, and the skeleton is
Heming's ! In this latter fact both the brother-in-
law and Heming's widow agree; the latter swear-
ing that the carpenter's rule and the shoes belonged
to her deceased husband. The teeth (which re-
mained remarkably entire) bear evidence to the same
fact. That the wretched murderer was murdered
there can be no doubt. On the left side of his fore.
head, and in other parts, the skull is fractured ; the
blows must have been most violent, as the skull is
broken into more than 20 fragments. The grave
was of exactly the same length as Herring's body
(five feet three inches.)
It seems probable that the miserable wretch was
made away with soon after he had murdered Mr.
Parker. lie might have required more as a reward
for blood than his diabolical employer thought him
worthy of. The barn in which the bones were
found is situated close to the road leading from
Crowle to Droitwich ; the spot chosen for the grave
(one corner of the barn) being close to a pool
which received the drainings of the fold-yard, ap-
pears to have been selected in the expectation that
its contiguity to the pool would hasten the decom-
position of the body.
Intelligence of this discovery being conveyed to
Mr. Smith, Coroner, he directed the barn to be
watched, anti on the following day went to Odding-
ley, accompanied by Mr. Pierpoint, surgeon. The
spot where the body lay having been minutely ex-
amined, the bones, together with the rule, were
removed to this city, and Mr. Smith very properly
summoned as witnesses every individual likely to
throW light upon the subject, with the 'view not only
' of identifying the body, but also in the hope that
some facts might be elicited which would throw light
upon one or both of the murders.
- Mr. Smith has communicated with Mr. Peel upon
the subject of the inquiry, and is still in correspond-
ence with that gentleman.
The inquest was held upon the body at the Talbot
inn, in the Tything, near Worcester, on Tuesday
morning, when a number of witnesses were examin-
' ed, whose evidence left little doubt that the body
was that of Heming.
Among the witnesses was Mr. Thomas Barber, a
publican, who deposed that he knew the Ilev. Mr.
Parker, and worked for him. One day, not long
before his death, Mr. Parker was in witness's shop,
talking of various matters.,, Mr. Thomas Clewes, of
. Netherwood Farm, came in at the front door, arid
Mr. Parker, who saw him coming, went out at the
, back door, wishing witnets good morning. Clewes
began to use foul language respecting Mr. Parker,
and said, " There's fifty pounds for any man as will
shoot the Parson," meaning Mr. Parker. Witness
knew that Mr. Parker and his parishiouers were at
variance. Witness heard of Mr. Parker's murder,
and that it was supposed to be done by Heming.
As it was thought necessary to examine other wit-
nesses, in order that all the circumstances should un-
dergo the strictest investigation, the inquest was ad-
journed till Friday (yesterday.)—Worcester Journal.

A meeting of the county of Renfrew, to con-
sider the depressed state of the country, takes place on the
Ith of February. From the subscriptions to the rtqui-
sition, there is good reason to expect an honest and able
exp:sltion of the subject:— Glasgow Chronicle.