The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-03 00:00:00

MURDER IN LISBON.

LISBON, JULY 23.—A whole family, consisting of four
persons, was mudered, last night in a house not 100 yards
distant from my residence. - The victims were a French
widow of the name of Lobo, her daughter about•lB
years of age, her son a boy of twelve years, and a ser-
vant woman. The alarm was first given (unfortunately
too late) by a young Englishman, who lives in the house
opposite, and who having heard a scuffle and seen a man
go to the balcony and throw a little dog out, which he
knew was a great pet of the family, immediately suspected
that something wrong was going on, and at once ran off
to call the police guard. Meanwhile some other neigh-
bours who had heard the noise, and were looking out
to see what was the matter, saw a man leap out of
the first floor window and run on. This took place at
about one o'clock in the morning. Shortly after the
police came, and having forced the doors open, found
the mother, the little boy. and the servant dead ; but
the girl, who was still alive, cried out, as soon as she saw
them, that the murderer was her own cousin Lobo, a
student of medicine, living at No. 4, Rua de S. Bento,
and that he had had no accomplice in the deed. Imme-
diately the guard set out in quest of him, and seized
him in a few minutes after he had reached his home,
where they found him with his hands and clothes
Steeped in blood, and with a quantity of bank notes
and Government bonds, of which he had plundered
ms victims, about his person. He war at once
brought back and ' confronted with the girl, who again
declared that be was the murderer, and that he had
requested her
and he did not life h
hou ;e that night as
to allow him to stay in the
servant had died that evening,
T-heto pass the night in the same house
with a corpse.
in g, but fortunately fogrirlhdied at nine o'clock this morn-
eweonudlsdof justice she lived long
enough to give the fullestt
wretch would in all probmaebevidence, e but for which ihceh
was
to have gone by the stea
relationship to the family Oporto next day, and his
suspicion. The sensation caused by this
him from
has been so great that I have just tis dreadful crime
the C rto pro se
heardethteast the Minis-
ter of Justice has gone down to
that by a legislative act the multitude of dilatory orms
by which trials are protracted for years in this country
should be dispensed with in this instance, and that the
criminal should be tried by a summary process and exe-
cuted without delay.
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MELANCHOLY CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER.
—On Sunday morning last an elderly labouring Ivan,
named John May, who has brought up two grandsons'
at Laindon Hills, Essex, their mother being dead, de-
sired one of them to go to church, when, the lad re-
fusing, a quarrel ensued, and the old man turning
round hastily, with an oil bottle in his hand, swinging
it, struck him with it in the temple, which caused a
concussion of the brain, and uaetappily occasioned the
boy's death. An inquest has been held, and a verdict
of " Manslaughter" returned against the grandfather,
who has been committed to the Convict Gaol, Spring-
field, on the Coroner's warrant. The prisoner, who is
between sixty and seventy years of age, and bears the
highest character, evinces the most distressed feelings.
Deceased's name was John Parker, and he was about
sixteen years old.—Chehnsford Chronicle.
THE CROWD AT LIVERPOOL LAST WEEK.--
Immense as is the amount of accommodation in Liver-
pool, it was quite insufficient to meet the demand made
upon it during the meeting of the Agricultural Society.
A guinea a night was in many cases paid for a bed ;
and at some of the inns the guests were obliged to put
up, not only with sofas and chair-beds, but with sleep-
ing places on the floors. The railway companies and
innkeepers must 'have made a splendid harvest. If the
weather had not been as disagreeable as possible on
Tuesday and Wednesday, the influx of visitors, immense
as it was, would have bpou still greater,--Liverpool. Times,