The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-12 00:00:00

MURDER.-BODY FOUN.

About six o'clock on Sunday morning, th.
dead body of a man was discovered floating under one
of the arches of Wye-bridge, in this city. Intl
tion was immediately given, and Howells and
stone, the police-officers, proceeded to the spot, a.
had the body taken out, when it was ascertained to be
that of William Dee, a labourer of Sutton, in this
county, who had been missing for about three weeks,
and whom Mr. Howells was making active Saracen's
The corpse was placed in the stable of the Saracen's
Heid Inn, on which side of the river it was taken out,
and on Monday morning an inquest was held upon it
before Mr. Samuel Hughes and Mr. John Gvvillym,
magistrates, in the absence of Mr. Cleave, the coro-
ner. It appeared that deceased, who was about fifty
years of eke came to Hereford on Saturday all e;
weeks, for the purpose pf making purchases, allu f
six o'clock in the evening he expressed his intention o
making the best of his way home, being at that he
im
rather in liquor and quite cheerful. He never, lll-
ever, reached home, and the place where the The
was was discovered is in quite an opposite direction. 1"
corpse was in a frightful state of decomposition, sus
much scr, that Mr. Jones, the surgeon, said it Ira
impossible to decide whether it was that of a Pis
drowned, or whose death was occasioned by
causes ; there was, however, no fracture of the Ixre-
of the head, nor any marks of violence ; in his ot ilut°b
e
the body had been three weeks in the water./b
pockets were found a silver watch, worth only
2s. 6d. in silver, one or two halfpence, a quantity
te'
of
different sorts of seed, and some tobacco. The %cu
had stopped at eight minutes to ten o'clock, but vve/
not down. It was singular that the hat of the deceas
was found floating upon the river below the bridge °
ill
the Monday after he was missed. Mr. Howells, g
consequence, had the river dragged, but no furt„,,,hepr
traces of the body could then be discovered. -"-
unfortunate deceased, who was rather tall, had on,
the time of his disappearance, a nevy smock-frock, an
witnesses swore that they observed a person answer"'t"
with tic°
his description and another man in company
girls in Bowse-lane, on the Saturday nightab°ve-
mentioned ; one of the girls had sineo disa
The inquest was adjourned until yesterday

and the body removed to the Infirniary, for the
of ascertaining, if possible, by post-mortem ex.
tion, whether death had been occasioned by drowning
or other means. Yesterday the inquest was resumed,
when several persons residing in or near Bowsey-lane
stated that on the night of Saturday three weeks they
heard noises from persons, men and women, fighting
in the lane about eleven o'clock, and several har.d
blows struck; one man was heard to say, hijZ
eyes, I have done him," after which all was quiet.
witness deposed that he saw from his window a ra.alle
ground, and two girls standing near him;
in a smock-frock lying with his face downwards on the
• • • • arcisofl
in a smock-frock lying with his face downy e left
him, and the other stopped with and cried over him.;,d
woman named Gough came up, and the girl took bid
of the man, who seemed senseless, and. dragged the
body along the ground to a house near the place;d
man had a smock-frock on, like that of deceased, g,
no gaiters, which the deceased also had not: in
noises and disturbance of fightingninon
are so co .
the lane, and the supposition that the man was„11:, s
state of intoxication, doubtless induced the w"—s
not to interfere at the time. Mr. John Griffiths, Pin:
stated that he had examined the body, and it was 'ite
opinion that the deceased was either dead of in a tar.
of insensibility previous to being put into the wateto
The investigation occupied the respectable rnagistriallt
and jury nearly the whole day, and after a most pat
ee
examination of a mass of evidence, with a perseve7
most creditable to all parties, the jury returned deadhi
verdict, " That the said William Dee was ibund that
in the river Wye, on the 6th of April instant, and s
he was wilfully murdered by some person or persot.i
one s
the jurors at present unknown." The above facts
given rise to a variety of painful surmises, as the ore
os
col-
of Mr. Carwardine, which must be fresh in theh e
the
cumstances of the death are supposed to resemblesil
lection of the public ; and it is remarkable that
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body of Dee was found at no great distance from
place where Carwardine was supposed to have bee"
thrown in.—Hereford Journal.

TITHE DEMAND AGAINST ~EB.S.
LABOUis , .t
—An extraordinary and novel case, and one whie?„e,
is hoped will not again be brought before the 1,17_5
Just eL
was heard on Thursday last by his Majesty's
of the Peace at their Monthly Session held at !n..`..
Ship Inn, in the town of Feversham. •Thp Rev. IA In_
Henry Crawford, Vicar of Linstead, suminoned sorne,
of his poor parishioners'
for the recovery of small tithes
P•
Vicar
summons they had refused to pay. The ...ev.
appeared personally to prefer his charge, and had als.e_
his tithe proctor (to use an Irish phrase) in attend,
said to be due to him, and which it was stated in the
ance. The case of William Waters, which crest
t(h\eVaotaetrhs)olfef;i2r.s.
considerable interest, was first heard; he is a lush
in g man in the employment of Mr. Neame, of Rush '",
Mr. Neame was present at the time, and stag
that Waters was an industrious man working at
his estate at fifteen shillings per week wages, :lot
he had a wife and six small children dePeu he
honirehdisofeamrnri.ngpsarfloirngdaiolyf
Lsuinbsstisetaedn.ce,ltaanpdpsetah: er
„I oil
Far
ost,, week
the
fore
vicar's
i theca
r, s
agent, rent
ge
not f,
t thee'
man owed the sum of four shillings for two 10-
tithe, that he (Frost) had never demanded it:ife for
ters, but that he had only once asked Waters gout DAY
it, and that she was unable to pay it. Witt le Re'
further application for the said four shillings' thereby
Vicar obtained a summons, and the man was 1,- ~ ma"
compelled to lose his time and appear before t";ithes,
gistrates, not to complain against the claim for - MP
but to expose the harshness of his treatment. user
Neame ca's '
Neame addressed the magistrates on waters ssive.
and described the proceedings as unjust and oPP,reut re'
Mr. Neame would not recall the expression, L' f ?kir,
peated that it was oppressive, if not on the part:, had
Crawford, it was so on the part of his agent, wc0r01"
doubtless acted under his direction. Waters in- Lin'
the magistrates that he had lived three years in vivo
stead, that he had paid the first year's tithe f his
that
eottsgeo:
asked for, and that he would have borrowed °Frost
master for the remaining two years, had MI..
.0 h°
asked him for it. The reverend gentlemen i;Lit be
was happy,to hear of Waters's good character, irigiao
assured the magistrates that he did not know lied'
Waters. It need scarcely be stated that the 1100
ings against Waters were, from illegality, with 00`
when Mr. Neame handed over to him them earli°
paying his tithe, which he did in the presence a; 00
the satisfaction of a numerous assembly of P
anxiously waiting the result.—Kent lieral

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, the lady
-0:1 the 11 th inst., in Old Palace-ya,......r,131
Jervis, Esq., M.P., of a son. youth
On the 10th inst., the lady of James Mallock,
ampton-street, Bloomsbury-square, of a son. he °O.
On the 10th inst., in Hanover-square, the lady of t
H. Lascelles, of a daughter.
MARRIED. IPPIa
vv. it to
On the 10th inst.; at Plaxtol, Kent, the Rev*,; f'sr''' of
grave Park, youngest son of the Hon. Mr. Just';,,, ss4'
Elizabeth Jane, youngest daughter of Edmund Yat' of
Fairlawn, Kent, and of Ince, Cheshire. Arden'
On the 9th inst., at Longdon, the Rev. Thomas upter
Longcroft Hall, Staftbrd, to Isabella Mary, eldes..til:re,
the late Rev. E. Cooper, Rector of Hamstall Rio"-
the same county. f the Se'
On the 10th inst., at Paris, at the Church 0. rt _to
tion, Faubourg St. Honore, Baron Louis Robert Jisefrocciol,
of the sth Hussars, son of Count de Noe, Peer °J.3,01,e',,,
Louisa Helena, eldest daughter of the late John, pr031;,-isoet
of York-place, Portman-square, and the Island 0' )I‘P ill
On the 10th inst. at Leamington Priors, Archib,.3.costcler
of
Esq., late a Member of Council and Collector 01 datign
the Island of Mauritius, to Mary Magdalene, eldest Gcnersiiire•
Thomas Delves Broughton, Esq., and niece t..°,0, Ghe
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John Delves Broughton, Bart., of Doddingto ti
street'
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On the 27th ult., at his residence in Uppet,r,:ffsbi
Godfrey Meynell, Esq., of Beadley Hall, .°`"' flar
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Shawfield Lodge, Bromley, Kent.
On the sth inst., at Bank Hall, near Burnley' of Sit
greaves, Esq., of Otmerod House, Lancashire.oe botttev 130.
On the 19th inst., in Grosvenor-square, at seylo -toe °I
William Alexander, Lieut.-Colonel the 14°11' the 1)$
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thurst, third son of Earl Bathurst. HestrseeervtActiral
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Waterloo.
Qn the 10th inst., in Devonshire-
Jane, relict of the Rev. Lucius Coghlan,
the late Very Rev. Sir George BisshopO, j3s' $Oll3
more.
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Whorlton, in her 73d year. gaior-Genee
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