The Sun.
London, England, 1814-10-05 00:00:00

ATROCIOUS AILTRIY:,:t.

Yesterday afternoon one of the most tritrocioLs
murders which have ever stained the annals o' hu-
man eyime, was committed on the body.of ELI-
ZABETH DOBB I NS, a poor washerwoman, resid-
ing at MillEeld-farm,
It appears, that about three o'iloCk, *lmams
Doantss,the husband of the deceascd, who is
turneock to the northern division of St. Patients
parish, returned to=his habitation from his 'ordi-
nary labour, and on entering - a room on the
ground floor, he discovered hisiwife lying on the
grown!, weltering in her blood, -with her head'
under a copper ftirnace. At a short distance from
her he-pet evived a kitchen poker, which was con-
siderably bent, and was covered with brains and
blood, having evidently been the instrument with
which the wound on his wife had been inflicted
The wretched man immediately lifted his wife
from her prostrate situation, and placed her on a
chair. On examining her head, 'he found it laid
open fromu the right eye to the back of her skull,
the frontal bone having been fractured in a most
dreadful manner. Life was still remaining,
but he saw that little hopes of her recovery
-could be entertained. Ile, howc..'er, went out
to pt ochre Some assistance, and found the pri-
soner in th.custody of *Tattles Ceel, and two other
bricklayers,' from whom he learnt tliat they had
taken him in a field near the spot„ belonging to
Mr. Thomas Greenwood, on suspicion of baying
toleit a 'bundle which he had in his possesSion.-.--
-Dobbjus at once eonnuanicated the horrid scene
which he Lad discovered in his own house, and
it was concluded that the prisopyr was,the perpe-
..trator. In this persuasion, they conveyed him to
the hotise of GIM I! GE I VCRS ;. . one of hiS Ma-
jesty's Justices of Peace for the County, residing
in-Rentish T9wn, who promptly entered into an
investigation of the circumstances of the case.

James Ceel was first.examined; he deposed, that
as he was at work .neon a new, wall building in
Milltield-lane., be. saw the prisoner- pass him with
a bundle in his hand, with which he crossed the
foot of Ili.2,rhgate Hill into Mr. Greenwood7,s
Suspecting from the cantious• mode of his ingress
that he had not obtained this property honestly,
he imilowed him, and MI coming to bint bound
hitn examining ,the bOndle, which ;appeared to
contain xveatifig- apparel. tic asked hitn how he
had conic by them ? and he said he had botrght
therwor a gypSey for 95.. Not satisfied with this
accounti he took hitn into custody, and was con-
ducting- him towards the roaA, when Dobbins met
hiM and informed him of his wife's inurder,"and
examined the bundle, and finind it contained
clothes which his wife had received to wash.
.Elizaireth Jones deposed,..that she tad washed
for the deceased part' of the clothes contained in
the bundle found on thy. prisoner. •
Thos. Oliver, . landiord, of the Bull and Last
public-house, deposed, 'that two of the shirts
which xv‘ere: found in the bundle, were his; and
had been sent by him to the deceased for the pnr-.
pose of being' W-4shed.
.111 the While- Was a so
found a bill for. clothes washed, which was in the
hand-writing of the deceased.

G. Ilenoing,. an assistant to Mr. Sandys„- sur-
geon, in.Kentish-town, deposed, that having heard
of the catastrophe of the deceased, he went to the
premises of the deceased and examintri her wound.
She was quite (lead, aid he had. no doubt but her
death %vas occasioned by the blow from the poker
which was found by her husband on the floor, or
some such weapon.
Mr. Michael Vistcr, a truss-maker in flcaid.
street, was also examined, and corroborated this
testimony, and produced three pieces of the scull,
and 'also the poker, which was bent and bloody.
The prisonet having been previously searched,
the contents of his pocket were produCed. They'
consisted of a tohaceo-hoc, and a discharge from
his Majesty's ship the Gladiator, at Portsmouth,'
of a -man. named Thomas Sharp, describing him
at five feet two inches and a halt high, of a light
complexion, and with a mole upon his right cheek.
The Prisoner, an bearing this' part of the dis-
charge read, -said his name was ThomFis Sharp,
and pointed out the mole. He neither denied nor.
affirmed his guilt.

. Mr. lvcas; under all the circumstances, - con-
sidered that-there was little doubt of the prison
er's.guilt,, and therefore committed him to Cold
Bath-fields Prison..

The prisoner was dressed in a fustian jacket,
and seemed to feel the horror of his situation,
lie was bound with ropes, anti warded with three
constables, and the persons by whom he was ap-
prehended, to the place of .his confinement.

A gentleman from Scotland, bf the• name of
CAMPBELL,- Who had for sonic -time been reside.a
atGilsland, in Cumberland,- was missing a fort-
night ago, leaving behind bin► a trunk containing
considerable propety : last week his body was
found in the Irthing, tit some distance from Gils-
land, with his throat cut. -

On Friday the 23d ult. a murder of a most bar-
barous nature was perpetrated at Broadwood
Kelly, in Devonshire, by one Alexander Beaty, on
Elizabeth Martin, whose head he severed com-
pletely from her body with a commoit hook. A
Coroner's Inquest brought in a verdict of " Wil-
ful Murder," and Bealy was committed to Qte
County Jail.

Accinrist.—Saturday a fine boy; the son of
Sejeant GaisnAut, ofthe 10th Hussars, who so
gallantly took General LEFEBRE prisoner in Spain,
and afterwards presented the General's pistols to
his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, %vas
killed at Romford by a gentleman's carrage, the
wheels of which went over his body. The child
lingered in great agony 24 hours. The mother
of the bay was so much affected by the fatal ac-
-cident, that on Monday and yesterday she ap-
peared to be in a stata of mental derangement.
Monday afternoon, as , Mr. HARDCASTLE, of
Tower-street,. was coining from Sydenham in a
one-horse ehaiSe, the horse suddenly started on
the road between Walworth and Newington, ran
against a cart loaded with dung, by which it was
overturned, and nearly shattered to pieces. Mr.
HARDCASTLE was much hurt.

Saturday se'nitight, a commercial traveller's
horse and tl;ere sold in Carlisle-market, by
order of the Commissoners of Custoths, for hay-
ing a quantity of French lace is his possession_