The Sun.
London, England, 1822-07-30 00:00:00

BARBAROUS MURDER.

A shocking murder was recently committed in
Paris, on the person Of RICHARD YARWORTH,
a young man, aged 24, son of Mr. R. YAR.
ORTH, of London, printer, and father of a
large family. The unfortunate victim of barba-
rity was a compositor, and had been employed
for tivo years in a printing-office in Paris. The
details of this shocking affair are communicated
in a letter from his brother to his father in Lon-
don, of which the following is an extract :

" Wednesday, July 17, 1822.

" DEAR FATHER.-My hand trembles so at this moment
that I am scarcely able to write to inform you of the dread-
ful circumstance which has taken place. On Sunday, the
7th of this month, I left my unfortunate brother at home in
the morning, as he would not go with me to the Louvre,
which I visited that day, he feeling rather low spirited, so I
went with another young man of the name of James. In the
afternoon I went outside the barrier, and stopt out rather
late; when I returned home it was past one o'clock, 'and I
could not gain admittance into my lodging, so that 1 was ob-
liged to wait at the door till 4 o'clock in the morning,when I was
let in by an Englishman. During my stay at the door three of
the national guard came up, and inquired if I belonged to the
house; I answered in the affirmative; they then proceeded to exa-
mine the ground close to the door, and I perceived by the moon-
light that they were iooking at some blood which appeared
to have been shed profusely near the spot. When I got up
stairs I was rather surprised at not finding Dick in bed, as he
never had, since my arrival, stopt out the whole of the night.
On the following day I had no tidings of him, and I felt rather
alarmed, and made inquiries of the whole of his acquaintances
and friends whether they had seen or heard any thing of him,
but all that I could learn was, that he had been at an English
house on the evening of Sunday, and had left there about
twelve o'clock to return home, when he parted from a young
man at no great distance from the house where we lodge.
—The time passed on, and I made all the inquiries pos-
sible, but still I could gain no intelligence till Wednesday morn-
ing, when I got the overseer, a Frenchman, to go with me and
make inquiries ; we went to the house of the national guard, and
learned from the drummer that as the patrol of the troops of
the line were going their rounds on Sunday night, they disco-
vered a young man lying at the door of the house where we
lodge weltering in his blood, apparently lifeless ; that they had
taken him up and placed him on a mattress, and proceeded
with him to the hospital called the Hotel Dieu ; and that
while they were carrying him there he faintly groaned out
0 God ! 0 God !' but he still remained apparently life-
less, till they began to dress his head, when he uttered a
most pitiful shriek, but lie still remained in an inanimate
state. As soon as I learned this I went tc the hospital,
with a young man of the .name of Serbitt, and found my
poor unfortunate brother tied down in a bed, with a strait jacket
to confine him, with his head in a most horrible condition ; his
forehead had been laid open with a large knife or sabre, so that
you might put your two fingers in the wound, and his skull had
been broken to pieces with some heavy instrument, so that the
brain had been bruised which caused him to be delirious, while
both his eyes were closed with the blows he had received. This
was the first morning that he had been restored to light or reason
since Sunday night, three days havingelapsed without either ; we
could just perceive that he had an indistinct view of the objects
around him; we went up to him and inquired how he was,
and he said better, that he did not feel so much pain in his
head as he had done. He knew the young man that was
with me, and faintly said, Ah, Serbitt !' but he seemed as
if lie did not recollect me, for lie did not seem glad to see
me ; he never called me by my name, or spoke to me, till I
asked him if he did not recollect me ; he answered very
faintly Yes ; ' I told him he would get better ;hi replied
O yes, I shall get better;' he then inquired of Serbitt how
long he had been there, and whether he had not been four
days there? I asked him if he recollected how he came
there, but he said he could recollect nothing of what had
occurred on Sunday, but it seemed that his recollection
had left him. The nurse came to us and told me and the
young man that we must go, as he was in an unfit state
to be disturbed much. He endeavoured to lift his arm to
shake hands with us, and then he felt the hardship of
his case, in having his arms confined, and it seemed to
hurt him very much that he could not even give us a part-
ing shake of the hand. I left the hospital in better spirits
than I entered its gloomy walls, being overjoyed to find him,
and firmly persuading myself that he would recover, not
exactly knowing the state his head' was iii, and, anticipated
seeing him again on Friday perfectly in his senses, so as to
give me some account of this affair. On Friday Mailing I
called on Serbitt to go with me to the _hospital, c-ompara-
tively speaking, in good spirits, taking him some money,
thinking that he might want other nourishinent besides hos-
pital allowance, and another person gave me some. jelly to
take to him ; but you may judge of my. despair when en-
tering the - gate of the hospital, two or three Miserable
wretches flocked round n e to inform me that my 'Poor un-
fortunate murdered brother was dead. ;He who ,received
me when I arrived in Paris with all the affection of .a friend
and a brother! We had always been constantly together
since I arrived in Paris, and were scarcely ever patted, ex-
cept at work ; he would part with the last thing for me,
and would often go without that I might not. On Sunday the
14th he was taken to his last home, and you may judge of
my despair and misery at seeing the remains of my murdered
brother covered with the earth ; I could scarcely . support
myself, and was obliged to have the assistance of two persons
to keep me from falling to the ground—the companion of
my youth, my brother, and, I may say, the only true friend
I had in the world, barbarously and cruelly murdered !
expect to be in London in a week or a fortnight, and shall
then be able to state the whole of this cruel and bloody act
more fully. Dear parents, endeavour to console yourselves,
and though you have been visited by some severe misfortunes
lately, remember you still have children left, who will yet
become your comfort and support in 'our old age. I cannot
leave Paris at present, on account of the investigation which
is taking place by the Erglish Ambassador, and I have some
hopes that the barbarous and bloody monsters will Le brought
to justice."—(British Press.)

DARING ROBBERY.—A most impudent and.
singularly daring robbery was committed on Sunday after oo i,
at the house of Mr. Westwood,watchm ker and jeweller, in
Princes-street, Soho. The family of Mr. Westwood were,
at the time, all absent on a country excursion. Three
men, it appears, were on Saturday night taken into cus-
tody, being found round the door with keys, which they
seemed to be fitting to the key-hole. The thieves on
Sunday obtained entrance by false keys, and made a general
clearance of the stock of the shop, consisting of wateies, chains,
seals, and jewellery, to the amount of 1,7001. with which they
escaped unobserved. Hand-bills are published announcing the
robbery, and giving a description of the stolen property. The
three men were yesterday brought up to Marlblarougis-street,
but there being no satisfactory evidence against them, they were
discharged.
HARWICH, JULY' 25.—0 n Friday last the
daughter of a family residing in this town, abo t nineteen
years of age, absented herself from home; and, as no things
could be heard of her all that night, the most alar nir g
apprehensions were entertianed for her safety. On the folow-
ing Sunday evening she was discovered in a state of con eat-
ment, under the protection of a married tradesman, with
whom, it appeared, she intended to elope. She was con-
ducted to the residence of her disconsolate family ; and such
was the poignancy of her emotions at the unhappy situation to
which she had been betrayed, that in the course of the ensu-
ing morning she attempted to put a period to her existence by
means of suspension with a handkerchief. Her object was
frustrated by timely interposition, her dreadful situation being
discovered previously to the extinction of the vital spark—
The author of these calamities has absconded.—( Colchester
Gazette.)