The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-07 00:00:00

HARRIERS.

B. V. 11.—Wednesday,Kingcomb-barn, Chesilborne ;
Saturday, Toomer-gate, at half-past eleven.
Brighton—Monday, Patcham; Wednesday, Thunders•
barrow ; Saturday, Dyke, at a quarter to eleven.
Brookside Monday, Newmarket-hill ; Thursday,
Telscombe-tye, at half-past ten.
Thanet—Monday, Updown ; Wednesday, Minster-
mills, at half-past ten.

THE MURDER:NEAR iIYTHE.—Two men, named George
Dumper and Thomas Wran underwent a lengthened ex-
amination on Wednesday, at Hythe, Hants, before the
magistrates of the county, on suspicion of' being con-
cerned in the brutal murder of Joseph Wran, a sawyer
in the service of Mr. A. It. Drummond, of Cadlands,
who met with his violent end late on Christmas eve.
The deceased was between 50 and 60 years of age, and,
on the night in question, after receiving his week's wages,
discharged some trifling debts and repaired to the Nelson
Inn, of this town, when!. he indulged rather freely, and
departed, about half-past 11 o'clock, somewhat inebri-
ated. On the followin g morning, a little before day-
light, his body was discovered lying in the road leading
to Frood-lane common,, near, which he resided. It was
shockingly mutilated ; the scalp was cut in a variety of
e co
directions, the skull WEWS fractured right across the head,
as if it had been split Fin two by a violent kick from a.
th
heavy ironed boot. Tbie state of the ground near where
had corpse lay, taken place, and portions of the brains of the de-
evidentlty showed that a severe struggle
ceased were strewn about the ground. There was_ a
large pool of blood ab out a foot from the head of
or
the
deceased, and, splinter ed to pieces, a heavysotioedk
bludgeon, with portiox is of human hair and blood tached. It transpired 'that the prisoners hadbeen sect
far from the spot where his remains
which
he di
with the deceased late qm the night of his deathsycogvnedr:cr
much rescni:
Dumper had been seen with a stick
u , ixacter
indifferent ea`rning
the unhappy man. W.le bore a very
" and on thew for a
and had often been is a " trouble,
left
his home, turne d
bled the weapon which; had been usedwabo t the 1d °I
after the murder he suddenly
es
of
copses in the
and cas°Pseat length
out in search of him. The
nd he vi-
Sunday,the
searched, a
...
__
neighbourhood were'
s and fin.oLe'ou
in the public
time defied all search_ All classes
driven frora his hidei•pi_g_ place,_e
Yth captured
On
his room being
parish coi.istable
.1% _ „mu.
be saturated with
road lea ding to DI di , limb
re fauna iro
wsers '''e his under frock and en
searebeil, his tro
also marks on
blood ; there we7llh.
lead recently been washed.
Subse-
:
the she ,ulder,
e whichu-rested the other prisoner, Thomas
quen.fts the
1 police
the deceased, on suspicion of being
inhah
Wra'n' nephew
Dumper in the commission of the atro-
cious Lted w The prisoners were committed for trial at
CiOUS ( lee d. .
on the charge of wilful murder.
rt 3 OF A FLOOD.—The fine viaduct at Halt-
BEI 'so
ty , which carried the Alston branch of the Newcastle
whi s 4,
Rai Tway across the Tyne, had been reduced to a total
wre ck by the recent floods. The amount of damage
the ue xt assizes
done its enormous. The bridge cost 20,000 i., and a
moi .ety 0-4 f that sum will not restore it.