The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-30 00:00:00

MAW AND POLICE.

At Norwich, on the 28th inst., John Self, aged 20,
was convicted of the murder of Jemima Stimpson, aged
15, on Saturday, the 17th of this month. The murderer
is the son of a farm-labourer, occupying a cottage on the
road from Wymondham to Norwich ; and, according to
the testimony of several witnesses, up to that time was a
person of most respectable and irreproachable character.
It did not appear that any attempt had been made upon
the virtue of the unfortunate girl, nor can any reason be
assigned for the horrid deed,

In the Sheriffs' Court, Newington, an action was
brought yesterday by a gentleman of the name of
Boys, in the house of Baring, Brothers, and Co., against
Nr. Cross, the proprietor of the Surrey Zoological Gar-
dens, to recover compensation for injury done to his prot.'
perty by the fire-works, when the Jury found for the
plaintiff—Damages 301.
At Marylebone office yesterday, a woman of the
name of Maxwell was committed to take her trial for
stabbing her husband. While the husband and a woman
of the name of Cooper were sitting together in a public-
house, the prisoner came behind him, and in a fit ofjea-
lousy stabbed him in the back with a dessert knife.

The conductor of a Paddington omnibus, of the
name of 'iron, was fined 20s. at Guildhall yesterday,
for loitering in the street and insolent behaviour.
Randall, the convict, who knocked down and robbed
the Plymouth gaoler on Sunday and escaped, has been
recaptured at Liskeard.
A gentleman, and, at. one time, man of property,
died last week, after having been in the police force two
months. It appears his health was very delicate, and
the night duty killed him. Blame was attached to the
police-surgeon for want of proper attention to the case.

•
THE MURDER AT EXETER.—The Coroner's
Jury have returned a verdict of " Wilful murder by
drowning," against persons unknown. The case is there-
fore left to be sifted by the magistrates. There are seven
or eight in custody, all young men (under 21), resident
in Exeter, who have been long leading profligate and
dissolute lives. One of them is a young man named
Pitts, who appears to have been at the Cattle Market Inn
the ni!:.,:ht of the murder. He is about eighteen years of
age, son of a washerwoman in the Bonhay, and by busi-
ness a tailor. The other is a young man of indifferent
character, named Brimstead, son of respectable parents
on St. David's Hill. Suspicion had fallen upon Pitts, he
having been seen in the house on Friday night. He
kept out of the way until Sunday morning, when he was
met by a person who told him the officers were looking
for him. He made off and was lost sight of for hours. COUnT--rIISMONAELES.
In the meantime Stukes, one of the nightly watch, made The two Spanish Princes, the Dukes of Seville and
an examination of Pitts, bed-room, in which he found of Cadiz, have returned to Hathaway's Hotel, from their
his jacket, the shoulder and sleeve of which were very i tour through the greatest part of the United Kingdom:
much stained with fresh blood. Pitts was not found The Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Surrey, and Lore,
t-qul Lady Fitralan, have left Arundel Castle for Dork
until the orening, when he was seen in Alphingtor-
— The grand performance of Purcel's sacred music at
ina
street by one of the persons looking for him. He im-
mediately made off in the direction of Okehampton-
Westminster Abbey took place yesterday. The choir
street, but was pursued and taken, after running a con- I
siderable distance. t and Abbey boys sang with great effect.