The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-22 00:00:00

THE iIIANCIIESTER MURDERS.

The previous career of Taylor, the murderer of
Evan Meller, accounts for the strange manner in
which he and his wife have abstained from mixing
in the society of their neighbours and the life of
seclusion they have been living. It appears that
he was at one time a schoolmaster at Dunster,
Somersetshire, and misbehaved himself in some way
that lost him the appointment. At Crediton he
was a traveller for five years to a respectable firm,
but was apprehended and tried at the Devonshire
winter assizes, held at Exeter in 1856, on a charge
of aiding a servant girl to procure abortion, and
was acquitted. After his acquittal he became
traveller to an Exeter wine merchant, but was dis-
charged for embezzlement. In 1861 he was a wine
and spirit merchant at Bideford, North Devon,
obtaining goods on promissory notes. Before the
notes became due, however, ho had sold the goods
to realize money, and absconded. He was married
in March, 1861, to Martha Giles (his present wife),
the daughter of a farmer at Wincanton, in Somer-
setshire. He was afterwards charged with forging
a bill of exchange in the name of his father-in-law.
He was brought before the magistrates on this
charge on the 22d of May, 1861, but appears to
have been discharged, and on the 10th of June,
1861, he is known to have been in Manchester. Of
his wife, who is a very handsome woman, little is
known beyond her devotion to her husband and his
late children (who were by his first wife). It was
stated in evidence that after the muraei
ono hand with blood and then went and tried to
persuade the police that she, and not her husband,
had committed the horrible crime. In the dock,
she seemed to regard everything he did and said
with affectionate interest, and it is believed would
readily muffle?. her life to save his. The following
is a copy of a letter the male prisoner wrote, with
the view of obtaining a situation, in March last

" Sir,---Having closed my place of business since the dis-
tressing accident on the 19th of January last, I shall be
happy to devote myself to the management of your branch
shop. I have a thorough knowledge of the cheese, bacon,
and butter trade, can lay before you first-class certificates,
and herewith enclose a copy of one from W. B. Willock,
Esq., Brook-house, of the firm of Garnett Brothers and
Willock, my present landlord. I can engage to undertake
the duties forthwith, if required.
"I am, Sir, yours most obediently,
" W. IL TAYLOR."

A copy of a testimonial was enclosed with the
note. Much dissatisfaction has been expressed at
the failure to ascertain the cause of death of the
children, and it has been attributed to the chymist
not having had sufficient time to make the analysis
of the children's stomachs. Yesterday morning Mr.
Ellison, stipendiary magistrate of Manchester, with
the concurrence of the mayor, instructed Captain
Pa.lin, chief constable, to send the stomachs of the
children and the sponges to Professor Taylor, of
London, for further examination, and Sergeant
Bateman was despatched on that errand.;

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