The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-20 00:00:00

THE MURDERER RUSH.

A Norwich correspondent supplies a probable reason
why Hush, after ho had shot Mr. Jermy, sen., went
round b) the servants' door and risked detection b)
passing along their passages. He says, "It is explained
by the fact that in a box in a closet at the end of the
passage leading to the staircase hall Mr. Jermy kept his
papers and the mortgage deeds relating to Potash-farm,
and thst Rush's intention was doubtless to secure those
deeds at t.ll hex trds, for, according to the forged docu-
ments cancelling the mortgage, all the deeds and papers
of a prior date relating to Potash-farm were to be
burned. Young Mr. Jermy just reached the door open-
ing into the recess when Rush reached it, and therefore
Rush fired at him. After shooting young Mr. Jermy
be very likely went into the dining-room to shoot any
person there, and thus to prevent the possibility of his
being interrupted while he was employed in securing the
deeds. The two women ran to the same recess, and
further prevented his purpose being carried out ; and
when he came out of the dining•room he fired a: them,
doubtless with the view of escaping detection." A cor-
respondent of the Bury Post says:—" As everything
appertaining to the Stunfield•hall tragedy appears still
to be full of interest to the public, perhaps the follow.
ing particulars of the unfortuate but not to be despised
Miss Sandford, will be acceptable to your readers, and
may also act as a salutary caution to those who may
have any young friend seeking her livelihood as a go
verness—a class greatly to be pitied. They also tend to
show the extent—the intricate ramifications of the as-
sassin's complicated scheme of villany. Rush, as before
stated, put an advertisement in the paper for a gover-
ness for his children. Mrs. Sandford, the mother of ten
children, seeing this, took her eldest daughter to the
reference in the advertisement, a very respectable house
in a good street in town, where they found Mr. Rush,
occupying the first floor. The landlady had been in-
duced to represent that she knew Mr. Ru,l3, and spoke
of him as a worthy kind of man; and after various in-
quiries and witnessing her handwriting the daughter
was engaged to go down to Norfolk to educate Rush's
children. Some months after having been there she
was rather surprised at receiving no letters from her
mother, and the latter was equally so at receiving no
replies from her daughter. During this state of things
Rush, when in town, called upon Mrs. Sandford, who
very naturally expressed surprise at not having heard
from her daughter, where-upon Rush said ho believed the
fact was she was become engaged to a Mr. James, a com-
mercial traveller, but for some reasons she thought it
would be a match her mother would not altogether
approve, and there fore preferred not writing at all to her.
The fact no doubt was, Rush had intercepted these
letters both ways, and thus caused an estrangement be.
tween her and her friends, to facilitate his own pur-
poses and her ruin. She now felt her dependence upon
Rush, and in the simplicity and confidence of her nature,
and her ignorance of the world and its snares, soon
became first his victim and then his instrument. He
subsequently compelled her to write to her friends in
such a way as to repel any attempt on their part to
interfere in her welfare. So late as ten day before the
murder Rush again called upon Mrs. Sandford, and told
her her daughter was married, and had been in France
for six months with her husband, Mr. James. The
inference of all this is evident. It would have accounted
for her disappearance, had such taken place, of which
there is little doubt in the minds of those intimately
acquainted with the minutiae of attendant circumstacces."
—Twelve o'clock to-morrow is the time fixed for the
execution of Rush.

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OLD LONDON BRIDGIi. Twelve Parts. By
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THE LAND WE LIVE IN. Part
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HISTORY OF ENGLAND DURING THE-
THIRTY YEARS PEACE. Part VI. .Fird,
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MACPHAIL'S ECCLESIA.STACAL
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QUARTERLY EDUCATIONAL
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There happen to be so very few publications pre-
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promises a multitude of successors.

MEMOIRS OF FRANCIS HORNER Part I.
The celebrated work recounting the career of that
eminent and most excellent man Francis Horner—a
work penned by his brother, Leonard Horner, and
already familiar to thousands—is here commenced in
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the career of so gifted and good a contemporary of
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THE PHYSICAL ATLAS. Part I. By ,A.

K. Johnston, F.R.G.S.
This magnificent work—suggested by Humboldt
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Mr. Martin, well known from his " Colonial His-
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specimen.

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