The Sun.
London, England, 1814-08-06 00:00:00

HORRID lli.l.bt

Yeeterder morning, betweeb the hotiti
twelve and one o'clock, Miss MARY ANNE WELCH-
iktAN,-a very respectable young Woman, Who car-.
vied on businesS. as a dress-maker in the first floor
of a house exactly opposite the -.vatch-hottse of
St. GeorAe,. Hanover-square, in A:otint4treet,
was barbarously :murdered in the front room of
the first floor. The report of si pistol was hear(l
by the landlord and other persons in the- home
where - slier lodged, •soon after twelve o'clock,
which greatly alarmed them. immediately after-
wards they heard the discharge of,anotirer pistol ;
great alarm was -also created in the neighbour-
hood. It. Was not, however, at first discovered
that the pistols had been discharged in Miss Welch-
man's apartments, till the smell. of gunpowder
became extremely strong in the house ; several
persons in consequence proceeded to examine the
house ; they knocked at Miss Welehman's
door.several times, and receiving no answer, they
opened the door and entered the room. They
then beheld Miss Welchman a lifeless -Corpse on
floor, and the body a shocking spectacle, par-
ticularly her head, which on examination proved
to have beep shot in two places, and but-little re-
mained- of it. Two pistols were discovered on a,
table, which, on examination, proved beyond a
doubt to be the dez.ldv instruments which had
dote the horrid deed, a:, their state clearly imii-
cated that they had very lately been discharg-
ed. A man's hat was also discovered in. the
room, but tio man or puson of, any description-
could be found on the,premisee•, %Oro was sus-
pected of being the• perpetrator of the horrid deed
the hat that was foußd in the, room, on exami-
nation, led to the -discovery of the =Meter; as it
was ascertained to belong to a young-nian of the
mime of James Mitchell, and his .not being -found
on the premises was afterwards accounted for by
some persons who were in Mount-street at the
time, a short distance from the inmse in which
the deceased lodged, whO heard.the reports' Of the
pistols, and immediately after Clint saw•a man come
out of the window of the first,floor, and let him-
self down into the street by the assistance of the
! lamp-iron and tile door, who the'n instantly ran
otr with all possible speed down the Middle of the
street ; it was recollected that James Mitchell had
been admitted into the house between 8 and. 9
o'clock on Thursday evening,, to visit .Miss
man, and it was not k novvn that he had gone out at the
Jas. Mitchell bad been in the frequent habit
of sisiting Miss Welchman fur some time past., and
it was generidlyOnderstokid, and not dUullted,, but
that he was -imying his addresses to her •bv. her
consent, which circumstance coming to the know-
ledge of the deceased's brother, he had several in-
terviews with .her upon the subject, to endeavour
to persuade tier against continuing to countenance
tilt courtship of James Mitchell, he being an im-
proper connection for her to,form. At length she
listened to her brother's advice', and promised to
act' accordingly, and it is supposed that the de-
ceased and James Mitchell had several interviews
upon tfre subject, and that Thursday was the
meeting fixed upon for the question to be finally
settled.
Yesterday morning the relations of the deceased
attended at the Public Office, .lioni-street, and
gave information of murder, and the full des-
cription of James Mitchell-, who, it is hoped, will
shortly be iu custody.

CORONER'S IN..ZITEST.

At -three o'clock yesterday afternoon A. Gem.,
Esq. Coroner tot:Westminster, held,an inquest at
the Barley-Mow; in. Mount-street, when the fol-
lowing testimony was adduced Welshman
was on the eve of succeeding to the business of
Miss Macey, who- was about to retire, and had
disposed of it to her. Mr. Wat kills, who was an
inmate at No. 27, stated that be had livcd in the
house between three and four years. A few mi-
nutes before I'2 o'clock .on Thursday night he was
alarmed' by the housekeeper. Miss Macey had
declined business, -and Miss Welchman was"
about to take to it. She had received the
ar-
dresses of Smith, alias Mitchell,. sonic time,
but latterly he was very troublesoMe, and she
,had rejected them, bat he still pressed his visits,
-although she had_ denied herself. - He called
himself James Smith at the house._ She liad de-
clined his visits on ascertaining who he was. Smith
had called there that- evening early, bat witness
went to bed. Miss \Veichntan used sometimes to
see him in the passage only. When alarmed be-
fore twelve, the housekeeper desired Nvituess to.
`get Up, and he had previously heard some words
between Smith aold th 6 deceased. He heard 'the
report of a pistol or gun distinctly,- after-hearing
the deceased 'scream' very loud, and which %YRS
followed in about three moments by anotherre-
port of a like nature. Witness armed himself
with a pair of tongs and went up stairs, when.he
found the deceased bleeding, and seemingly dead.
Thewindows Of the front room were open, out
of which the assassin had escaped- front off the
top of the door, a height of 12 feet. He had-left
his hat and a brace of pistols in the room. Smith
always appeared to witness to be of sound mind.
Mr. Russel, a surgeon at 21, Mount-street, was
called to the deceased about twelve o'clock. He
found her in a person's arms ; -she was insensible,
but yet alive; she had lost.much blood, and on
examining the right temple lie found a wound
enough -to admit the tilt of his finger, anti- the
temple was much swollen. He was infoemed,,twci
pistols bad' been discharged, and he found another
wound on the left side, near the top of the head,
where he supposed oneof the balls had lodged, as
one ball Only was found in the room; Which in his
judgment was resisted by the substance at the tem-
ple. He had no doubt the ball on the left side
the head :had caused death.. He also examined
the pistols and found both had _been dischrged.
Miss Mary Macey stated, that She was in .btssi-
tress with her sister, and the deceased had lived
with her two or Aline years, and was her fore-
woman. The offender went first by the name of
Mitchell, and afterwards Smith, or Mitchell'
Smith; I-Ic first introduced himself io Miss
Welchman as,a Purser, and formerly countenance
was given to his visits, ,but latterly lie prOved'
himself Very dis,agreetibip, and the deceased had
forbade him the house, yet he' Stilt troubled her
once or twice a day. She once refused to see him

fliogetl ir. lie ca if bifdre (11 k oTi
Thut..sda‘, and sat a I the evening in th
rdoin, which' is the ntichli on t first floor,. as
witness and her young persons were in the front
foom. was abusing the dect.ase:l,and %I-anted
her to do out and sup N'vith him, trh t. i slit,: re-
fused, and she bade hint leave the ir6nse frequent'
Iv, he refused to do. He Enid ire wthnld not
go tiAtil the deceased gave up a leiter of his,
which she had destroyed. Witne s and her work-
people %Vent down to supper about eleven O'clock;
and the deceased followed them la about five
minutes after, and Said she must he aione ‘Vith
niith about five minutes, antrsh; returned to
Lien ; soon after silt': gavo a loud scream, tAnd the
instant after'the report of a pistol was heard, fol-
lowed by that of another. Witness dill not oup
stairs, and cotild not tell what halipened
The windows were shut; and the shutters huh cd,
when witness went dOwlfstairs; and it is evident
the' assassin, premeditating- the fnul tied,- had
opened them \Olen MiSs Welchman down
stairs for a minute or 't\ro, as be had not tune to
do so between the report of the pistil's and the
time be escaped, and he could have got off no
other way. -
The constable who produced the hat and pistols,:
which he foundln the room, a!so produced, a piece:
of the comb which one of the balls had shot, from
the head.

The deceas? I was a fine vvonin, between fonr
and five aid‘ twenty, of, most amhible manners
and exemplary conduct.—Verdict, Wiffut Murder
against Smith, alias Mitchell.
The mnrde'rer is about five feet -five and a half
or six inches in height, swarthy complexion, ,with
forcible black eyes, and has the appearance of a
shabby gentleman, rather than a servant.
• -Another account says—" This fellow, who
first introduCed himself .to this young Lady by
holding an umbrella over tier on a wet evening,
afterwards visited her,at her ri‘sidefre, a,; the pur-
ser of an East Indianian, but he was, subsequently
found to he no otberiperson than a servant out of
place. The unfortunate deceased, on ascciaining
this fact, bad refused to admit of his company any
longer, and-she had requested hint often to de
cline his visits. Ile lived rormeily with Captain
Death, but lastly kith Sir J. Clarke
,Jervoise; in
1-lanover-s'quire.,"

.I‘l J K. iNi` Ell ()Y.
[I. lady mrtrderetl.].

As I have not seen an account in any of the
papers of the -horrid murder of poor Mick
111•Eboy, which happened about a quarter of a
mile from this town, on last Saturday night,
,or
rather. Sunda' morning., I think it right to inform
yon, that through the mediuM of yOnr paper it
may`become known, and not die away like :the
untrder of Martin Gorman aml others, whose
murderers walk about without fear of detection,- •
The unfortunate vitiiin.of faction, (and from eir-
ennstances _which 'have since lranspired I might
add rebellion too), was a young man of good
character, And tile only support of his aged parents
and sisters, one of whom accompanied him to
town, where a fray took place betwe'en hint :end
some or the Faction ; they soon went out of town,,
and every thing appeared quiet again ; M'Eboy's
friends however detained b.im and his sister till it,
was very late, that the others might he all gone
home, as several. attempts had been, made 'to as-
sassinate hiin. But the Faetinn, firm to the,ir
hellish purpose, had collected thirty or forty men,
and waited in the hedges and outside a gate near
the Chapel ! The unsuspecting man and his sister
approached, and was knocked down, and his skull
fractured—he was only able to exclaim, "
I ant murdered !" she then v: cut and got, his
head in her lap, but some of then) returned; sati-
'ing, " may be he is only foxing," when, horrid
to relate, after cutting and hacking- into in a most,
shocking manner, they drove a shoe, through the
bottom of his stomach into his intestines ; ,they
then asked his Sister did she know of them ?—She
'said she wished site did ; and they, thinking their=
serves tinknoWn, only gave her a few kicks, and
then went triutuphantly theitugh a part of 'the
town called Chapel-lane, exclaiming,, that that
was the way they would serve every, one who- had
not the pass word ! ! •
It is said that they attempted several times to
swear him, but he said, as he had always kept
from harm, he would do so still ; and upon,being
further spoken to,, foolishly said, " the first of
you attempts to swear me, I will inform against
ydn.;" this is thought to ,be the real cause of his
assassination. .The Coroner not being at home;
permission was c,iven by two Magistrates to have
hint interred, after having examined the witnesses,
and pronounced the perpetrators Guilty of Mur-
der; winch verdict was yesterday evening confirm-
ed by the Coroner, who had the grave opened, and
examined the bOdy, according to' law. I. -have
omitted several circumstances to make it as brief:-
as possible, but one I.think is of so black a dye,
that it had better
,be mentioned :—Al'EbOy's sis-
ter Was.met by some of the villains wlten going
home to get people to bring her brother home, and
shockingly treated; and after his relations got
him home on door, he being still breathing, and
it daylight, they ventured to send for a Doctor,
bat the person who went very narrowly'escaped
with his life, from 'tlre vast vollies of stones thrown
from behind the hedges at him.—(Dublin Journal,
Aug.
_2.)

Yesterday the Lotus CIIANCELLOR resumed his
sitting at Lincoln's-inn-hall. The time of ,the
Court was chiefly. occupied With common•nio-
tions:---nothing of interest occurred. The Court
Will sit till farther notice.
A short time since the Honourable East. India
Company's ship, the Metcalf, Was plunder,ed of
part of her homeward-bound cargo, consisting of
muslitis and bandanas to a considerable amount,
supposed to be 10001.
At. Dorchester Assizes airy Cook was 'convict-
ed hf the wilful murder of her female infant at
Netbedittry, and left for execution on the Ist of
August, and her body to be anatondied.
On Saturday sennight, Olk:er, a hawker
and pedlar, ,was taken up at Sunderland, for
rt
ter ing base 3s. pni-ees, and was COMlllitiVd to
Durham gaol. A quantity of bad shilliogs 'and
sixpencm, was found on person ayd on his'
stall.