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

THE WANCIIESTEIt 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 ho 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, he 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
bis 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 murder she smeared
one halm WWI mood ana wAnt 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 sacrifice her lie to save his. The following
is a copy of a letter tie male prisoner wrote, with
the view of obtaininga situation, in March last :
" Sir,—Having closed hy place of business since the dis-
tressing accident on the 19th of January last, I shall be
happy to devote myself to:he management of your branch
shop. I have a thoroughknowledge of the cheese, bacon,
and butter trade, can lay 'efore you first-class certificates,
and herewith enclose a cor of one from W. B. Willock,
Esq., Br@ok-house, of tli firm of Garnett Brothers and
Willock, my present landird. I can engage to undertake
the duties forthwith, if I'er/tired.

" I am, Sir, yours most obediently,
" W. IL TAYLOR."
A copy of a tcstimciial was enclosed with the
note. Much dissatisfetion has been expressed at
the failure to ascertait the cause of death of the
children, and it has ben attributed to the chymist
not having had suffieiet time to make the analysis
of the children's stomans. Yesterday morning Mr.
Ellison, stipendiary maistrate of Manchester, with
the concurrence of th( mayor, instructed Captain
Palin, chief constableio send the stomachs of the
children and the spoges to Professor Taylor, of
London, for further ,xamination, and Sergeant
Bateman was despateld on that errand.;

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