The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-01 00:00:00

THE YARMOUTH MURDER

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YARMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Since the announcement of
Yarham's apprehension, a variety of circumstances have
transpired tending to throw light upon this murder,
which stands almost unparalleled for the amount of
brutal and unnecessary violence which accompanied it.
In consequence of a statement made by Mrs. Dick,
alleging that she had had a conversation with Yarham,
in wich he admitted a guilty participation—indeed, that
he had inflicted the wound that terminated the existence
of his victim, the magistrates of the borough determined
to take the first advice with respect to any ulterior pro-
ceedings that might be required to satisfy the ends of
justice. Their great difficulty arose upon the following,
points:—Whether Yarham, having been originally in-
cluded in the indictment, and subsequently admitted as
evidence for the Crown, could be afterwards indicted as a
principal. With a view to adjust the question, instructions
were given to Mr. Holt, the clerk to the bench of magis-
trates, to prepare a case for the opinion of counsel. Mr.
Charles Evans was first applied to, and that gentle.
man recommended that the opinion of the Attorney
General should be taken. Mr. Holt accordingly pre-
pared a case for the opinion of the Crown adviser, under
the sanction of the town council. The opinion returned
was to the following effect:—That the fact of a man
having been admitted approver was no bar to an after
prosecution as a principal, if it could be proved satis-
factorily that he broke faith with the prosecution, and
did not reveal all the facts within his knowledge. Upon
the receipt of this opinion a warrant was placed in the
hands of Captain Love, the superintendent of police,
who, accompanied by Sergeant Coleman, proceeded in
search of Yarham. In consequence of a rumour pre-
valent here that Yarham was living in Gloucestershire,
under the feigned name of Samuel Young, the super •
intendent proceeded to that county, but was not sue•
cessful in obtaining any tidings likely to lead to the ap-
prehension of the suspected person. He afterwards
visited London, Deptford, Chatham, and other places,
and was continuing his search when he received a com-
munication from the deputy Mayor, stating that the
father of Yarham had called upon him, and intimated
that it was the wish of his son that his name and address
should be given up to any person in authority who might
require it. Captain Love proceeded again to Gloucester-
shire, and apprehended Yarham in the manner that has
been already announced. He was brought to Yarmouth
on the following Sunday morning, and on Monday was
remanded until this day. To-day the magistrates met
in a private parlour at the gaol, for the purpose of again
remanding the prisoner. Ihe examination W 11.9 to have
been in public court, but at a late hour yesterday even-
ing- an intimation was made to the Mayor, that in conse-
quence of some fresh evidence another remand would be
desirable.

Capt. T ove stated in the presence of the prisoner that
he was unprepared to•day to complete the case, but that
he believed, if the prisoner was remanded for another
week, additional materials would be ready to be pro-
duced against him.

The following letter to his father and mother shows
the state of the prisoner's mind, and the line of defence
he will probably adopt, should the magistrates determine
to send him for trial. The letter is a verbatim copy:—
" Dec. 7, 1845.
" Dear Parents,—'We received your welcome letter,
and was glad to hear that you where all as well as could
be expected under the circumstances, though you did not
send us word the particulars ; but yesterday week, Nov.
29th, I received a newspaper and letter from Sarah's
ister, in Chatham, and on looking over it I was thunder-
struck to see a long paragraph of a confession that I was
said to make to Mrs. Dick previous to my leaving Yar-
mouth; in fact, three weeks after the trial, when at the
same time I was not in town but a fortnight, and can truly
say that I never saw Mrs. Dick after the day I came down
in the train from Norwich. But it appears some per-
snos have nothing else to do but to invent lies ; and who-
ever it was that are so base and wicked I wish that the
Almighty would strike them dumb, and then we should
be able to discover who are our friends and who are our
enemies; but, however, it is no use wishing that. I should
think their own conscience, for knowingly inventing a
lie, is sufficiently to punish them ; but let them say what
they like, bless the Lord, I am as innocent of that as the
child unborn ; and the reason that I did not wish you to
tell, or let my address be known, was not on account of any
guilt that my enemies and yours should not know, as I
believe some of them would glory in letting my employer
know, or anybody else, when they could annoy me by
so doing, and that is the reason I have not wrote to any
body besides you and Sarah's sister, and her only once.
Tell Mr. and Mrs. Freeman that is the reason I have not
wrote to them ; but if they know my address I should
like to hear from them at any time, but not to keep
it from anybody that is in authority, ns I hive written to
Mr. G. Palmer, to Mr. Cufand, and Mr. Kemp, some
time since, and about the railway, there is one from
London to Gloucester, and it is 16 miles from Glos'ter
to me and there is a mail coach run through every
night and a van every Saturday, but I cannot say