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HORRIBLE MURDLR IN .EAST:-,•
CHEAP. -
The police are still engaged in endea6u4ipg o diteoNeF,
rut:, at of Blexley, but their efforts have hitherto itravhstaAr
vail:ng, and up to a late hour last evening he had tot Leen
taken into custody. The King's Head, where the murder was
coramitted, is situated on the left hand side of Esetcheap, going
front King William-street towards Tower-street. It is N o. 44,
and from its external appearance, it appears to have been only
recently fitted up. Mr. Burdon was very much respected its
the neighbourhood, and is deeply lamented. The house has
been closely shut up ever since the dreadful occurrence. Fast-
cheap has been thronged by spectators (luring the whole of the
day, and it has been found necessary to station a party ..f po-
lice opposite the house in order to keep the thoroughfare clear.
The inquest on the body of Mr. Burden will be held this even-
ing at the Blue Anchor, St. Mary-at-Hill.
, Mrs. Burdon, the only witness besides her sister of the act
of a,sassination, made, yesterday morning, a statement to the
police to the following effect :—That between nine and ten
dekek on Tuesday evening (the assassination took place shortly
afte • ten) she heard the shop-door slightly open several times,
but she then thought it was done by a lodger. She states that
she is cow convinced that it was by Blexley, who was watching
to see when the sins should be clear of customers. It became
S 3 a little after ten, and then Blexley walked in, and without
uttering a word, walked round the counter, and then delibc-
rat, ly drpw from his bosom a knife, and with it stabbed his wife
in tar lower cart of the person. Directly afterwards he stabbed
deceased in the abdomen, who was sitting in a clsair dosing,
wit is a handkerchief over his face. The murderer afterwards
atti mpted to stab Mrs. Burdon, and then made his escape,,
going in the direc ion of King William-street anc Cletnent's-.
law . A man, who was standing outside, opposite Mr. Bur-
do..'s d or, saw the murderercome out, and tyre latter thinking
he eas about to be stopped, attempted to strike the man, who,
in,tantly afterwards, heat ing the cries of murder proceed front
within the house, gave information to the police.
As soon as the information of the murder reached the police
sift' ion-house in Tower-street, Serjeant Baddeley proceeded
forthwith to the King's Head. He found a crowd round the
deer, and with teifficulty obtained an entrance. Upon gaining
adisission, he perceived Mr. Burdon lying on his back in the,
bar parlour, quite dead, and attended by two surgeons, Messrs.
Smith and Croft. Ile saw marks of blood on the stairs, and he
the a searched fear the instrument by which the murder had
been perpetrated, and in a few minutes found a knife lying near
the ender inside the bar. '1 he police serjeant since discovered
that the knife was purchased for 7d. by Blexley, at five minutes
past one on Tuesday afternoon, at the shop of Mr. Davis,
en .er, High-street, Aldgate. Blexley, at the time of the
e, requested young Mr. Davis to sharpen the back of
tits, knife, anti to point it, saying that he wanted to use it for
graf. tug. Before the purchase of the knife, Blexley was seen
in the tap-ro .m of Leadenhall-market, and there obtained the
lout of two ..hillings on three razors. On that day Le appeared
to ire parties frequenting the house dull and desponding, and
his I euguage was remarked to he strange and ineonerant.
tin Sunday night Blexley slept at the Spread Eagle tap in
Graeechurch-street, acid passed the night of Monday in wan-
dering about the streets. The weapon with which he commit-
ted .he atrocious crime wss no doubt purchased out of the
mo icy he raised on his razors. Part of that money he spent
in gin before lie left the Half Moon in Leadenhall-market.
M• s. Blexley, the murderer's wife, whose age is but twenty-
one, continues in a dangerous state, but not without hopes of
hes ultimate recovery.