The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-06 00:00:00

DREADFUL MURDER.

A murder, unequalled for atrocity by any that
has taken place in this neighbourhood, since the
one at Pendleton, in April,lBl7, was committed in
the vicinity of Bury,on Saturday night last,and has
created general horror and consternation in that
neighbourhood. It appears, from the accounts
we have heard of this dreadful affair, that an
old man, whose name we have not been able
to learn, and his wife, who was also advanced
in years, lived at Birtles-cum-Bamford, on the
road between Bury and i"..ochdale. On Satur-
day night last, a neighbour, who had been
reading to the aged couple, left them about half-
past ten o'clock, at which time the woman was
preparing to refit.e to rest, and had loosened part
of her dress for that purpose. Of what occurred
afterwards, nothing is known, except from the con-
sequences which presented themselves on the Sun-
day morning, when it was discovered that they
were both savagely murdered. The man was found
in his chair, with his skull dreadfully fractured,
and it appeared, from the situation in which he
and his wife were discovered, that whilst the mur-
derers had been doing their bloody work upon
him, she had endeavoured to save his life, for she
was found with her arms clasped round his neck,
and her head beaten almost to pieces. The mur-
der appeared to have been effected by means of,
an old shovel and a poker, which the murderers
had met with on the premises,land which they left
behind them in the house. Of the exact timeat which
this dreadful crime was committed, nothinx is
known ; but there is strong reason to sup-
that it was very soon after the neighbour
quitted the house, for the woman's dress in
the morning was in the same state in which
it was at that time; and it is not at all un-
likely that the murderers had watched the neigh-
bour leave the house, and then rushed in and ef-
fected their purpose. If the object of the villains
was plunder, as there is every reason to suppose,
they were completely disappointed ; for, so far
as can be ascertained, no property what-
ever was missing from the house. The
man was the owner of several cottages, the
rents of which, it is conjectured, the mur-
derers calculated on finding in the house, suppos-
ing, probably, that he would have received them
on the Saturday. It happened, however, we
learn, that he had not received any of them;
and it is believed that no money, or, at the ut-
most, a very small sum, fell into their hands.
From the mode in which the murder was commit-
ted, it is highly probable that the parties
who perpetrated it carry away wiih them some
marks of the bloody work in which they had
been engaged ; and we have been informed that
three persons, who are known, were seen on Sun-
day morning, passing through Hey wood, sprinkled
with blood, and were traced froth thence to this
town, where, no doubt, a\very active look-out
will be kept for them.—(Manchester Advertiser.)

An Inquest was held on Tuesday last on the
bodies of two persons found dead, and horridly
mangled, near Bury, in Lancashire, as mentioned
in the above account, and a verdict of Wilful
Murder, by a person or persons unknown," was
found by the Jury.

A MURDER was committed on the 10th June
last, in the forest of Facq, upon the road from
Pont-a-Mousson, to Nomeny, where two women
were found strangled. The author of this horrible
crime was unknown ; but the vigilance of the
Magistrates was not relaxed, and by the re-
searches that were made, they found that the
Cure of Eply had on the same day crossed the
Sellle, with an Individual, who seemed much
agitated, and who freely confessed himself to
be a deserter, and intended to take refuge
in Prussia. Soon after that, a similar crime was
committed in a wood in the neighbourhood of
Namur. The newspapers announced that the au-
thor of the crime was arrested, and in the hands
of justice. The circumstance struck the Procu-
reur du Roi, who, it appears, immediately dis-
patched the carate of Eply and the boatman, in
whose boat they crossed the river, to Namur, to
be confronted with the prisoner. Both of them
have been, and are now returned ; and it is said
that they recognized the prisoner as the man
they had before seen on the river, and who was,
no doubt, flying, after having committed the
double murder in the forest of Facq.—(Joz;rnal
des D ebats.)

The packet ship New York,Captain BENNETT,
which sailed on Saturday for New York, had 33 passengers,
among whom were Mr. Owen, of New Lanark, accompanied
by his son, returning to his establishment at Harmony, and
the members of the Italian Opera in London, who have been
engaged by Mr. Price, of the New York Theatre.—(Liverpool
Advertiser of Tue.lday.)

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