The Sun.
London, England, 1814-02-08 00:00:00

MURDER AT VAUNEALL.

Soon after the murder of Moses Merry, two
men, Hylas Parish and. Charles Callaghan, were
taken into custody by Oddy's party of the Bow-
. street Patrole, on suspicion of being the Nur:. •
. (levers. A variety of suspicions circumstances
were proved against them; .but not, sufficient to
commit them on the charge. Sufficient evidence.,
'however, was procured to cdmmit them for trial
on a charge of burglary in the house of Joseph
Taylor, Esq. of the, Union-road, Clapham, and
they were sent to Horsemonger-lane Prison. Since
their confineMent, the friends of•Hylas Parish, as
the only_chance of saving his life if lre was .con-
cerned in the murder, have advised him to make a
confession, with which he has Complied, and
has confessed that he and Callaghan went to the
-house, of -the Misses Gbmpertz, at Vauxhall, for
-the purpose of. rubbing it. They'brOke- the
house open (the particulars, of which are before
'thee pub-lie) ; they were resisted in- 'their 'progress
•by the deceased (Moses Merry), who was shot by
his companion (Charles Callaghan), wlth a pis-
7tol ; he also confessed that he discharged a pistol,
but not at the deceased, be discharged it into the
ceiling of the room, with anintentlon merely of
frightening the deceased-;and npt • with a view to
glioot him, and denies that his shot hit the de-
ceaSed. In consequence of this confessioi4.a num-
ber of witnesses have been ,procared to corrobo-'
rate the confession
.pf 'Parish, forining a ecnn-
-plete chain: of eviclence;,and. 1 yesterday they at 7
tended at Horsemongr-lane' Prison, and were
sworn to their (depostti•ons, before Mr. NA 11 E,S,
the Magistrate, accompanied by Mr. Stafford,
the Chief Clerk of Ilow-street; in, the
.pre-
sence of Callaghan and Parish, when 'it ap-
:Reared• that the prisoners had purchased a pair
pf pistols together. On the night previous
to the min-der theywereseen at the Surrey Theatre,
together; after that they went to a public-house,
-where they drank gin mid other liquors.-
.A man
identified Callaghan and Parish to be near 'the.
.house of the Misses Ca‘mpertz betwetn twelve
and one o'clock, on the'same morning that -the
murder was committed between three and four ;
at least so' far as hii belitlf went, he not .being
able to swear positively to them ; and the stick
which the murderers left behind them a woman
attended, and proved thtit she lent to Callaghan
the night before the murder.
In consequence of this mass of evidence, Cal-
laghan will be tried for the murder of Moses
Merry. - . .

UNIoN-ITALL.--The soi- disan4 Colonel rerity
was brought up for re-examination on Satyrday,
when other charges.-i4;-ainst him were gone into.
ML. HARMER, the Solicitor, attended fur the pri-
soner, and submitted to the Magistrate that there
was no criminal charge our which to detain him.,
All the cases being those in 'Which credit had been
given; and the complainants must therefore seek
their remedy in' a civil,process.
A1r..131 RNIE observed-such might perhaps hlte
been his vicw of the case, but for one circum-
stance, viz. that whenever the prisoner had
,given
drafts he had given them for larger sums than the
debt, and .had- requested to.have the difference in
cash ; this, .in his .opinion, amounted to obtain-
ing money upon false tokens. If, however, Mr.
Harmer thought his client could receive any ad-
va,rgage from delay, 'he would commit hitnsfor re-
examination.

Mr.. Harmer signicying a wish that:it should be
sp, the Magistrate committed the prisoner for re--
examination.

William Guzzle, a tanner,' was yesterday
~charged by Tettertori, an officer of the excise,
NVlth forging the official stamp used by Go-
vernment for 'the stamping of skins. Tetterton
stated, that on going to the prisoner's house on
the-day mentioned in the information, he disco-
vered ninety-nine skins marked with a foiged
stamp, and one'dozen and two.not marked with-
theexcise hammer at all.. It also appeared that a
number of skins marked with a forged hammer
were found'bv, the ofiicer at Mr. 4argerstone's,
a currier in Bermondsey-street. -Mr. Mariei'-
stone,stated, that they were a part of a quantity
which he bought'of.the prisoner some time since.
The prisoner was fully coMmitted for trial at the
Assizes. •

A woman, confined iniGhisgow Bridewell, hav-
ing moved one of the stancheons• in the window
of her apartments in the fifth storey, leapt from
the window on Saturday morning, an(' yeas killed
on the spot.