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11011RIBLE MURDER:"
EYE, AUGUST s.—This part of the kingdom has
again been the scene of a deliberate and revolting
murder. The perpetrator of the atrocious deed is a
farmer named John Alickleburgh, who occupies about
50 acres of land in his own right in the neighbour-
hood of Thraudeston, a scattered village and parish in
the Hartismere Hundred, three miles and a half north-
west of this town. He is a married man and has three
children, the eldest of whom, a girl, is 14 years of
age. The unhappy creature who perished was a single
woman named Mary Baker, who for two years and a
half had been in the service of Mickleburgh as a ge-
neral domestic servant. Although he NVQS married,
and his wife and family lived with him under the
same roof, it was evident that he had formed a strong
attachment for the girl, and from his representations
it would seem that an improper intercourse had
existed between them. The girl, however, was ge-
nerally considered a ',yell conducted person, and nothing
was ever seen up to the period of the tragical affair
that would tend to show that she gave him any encou-
ragement. On Thursday last a large cattle fair, with
shows and booths, was held. in the village, and Mary
Baker obtained permission from her mistress to attend
it, it being a general holiday among the domestics in
that part of the country. She first visited her sister, a
married woman named French, who, in the course of
the afternoon, accompanied her to the fair. A young
man named Boatman joined them, and was considered
to be the deceased's sweetheart. Mickleburgh having
learned where she had gone, also visited the fair. He
found her and followed her about, and seemed highly
incensed at her talking with the young man Boatman.
Wishing, however, to conceal his feelings from Boat-
man, he invited him with the deceased into a booth,
kept by a person named Eastaugh, where he treated
them to brandy and water and wine, and while there
the deceased's sister, Mrs. French, and her husband
came in,
called for more wine to treat them. He solicited the
whom he was also acquainted with, and
young man Boatman to drink more freely than he
did, apparently with a view of making him intoxi-
cated, and so obtaining possession of the girl. Boat-
man, however, resisted his entreaties, and between
six and seven o'clock left the booth in company with
the deceased. Before quitting, Mickleburgh asked the
deceased what time her mistress expected her home.
She replied, "About half-past nine o'clock," and, after
they had gone Mrs. French followed them, leaving her
husband drinking with Mickleburgh. Some time
transpiring, and French not coming home, his wife
returned to the booth, where she waited until they
came out. Mickleburgh then addressed her, saying,
" Tell Mary (meaning the deceased) to get home by 9
o'clock. I will be in the meadow (alluding to one ad-
jacent to his farm) just before nine, as I want to see
her." He appeared much excited, and she understood
that if the deceased girl did not meet him he would
be revenged. He parted with them and went in
another direction of the fair, while Mrs. French and
her husband proceeded to a public-house kept by a
man named Barrett, where the deceased and her
sweetheart (Boatman) were regaling themselves.
Within a short time of Mickleburgh parting with
the Frenches he went to the stall of a hawker in the
fair and purchased a stiletto knife, with a blade some
four or five inches in length and protected by a spring
back. In the course of the next half-hour he visited
the house where the deceased was. There was a sort
of village frolic going on, and all were enjoying them-
selves, the company amounting to about forty or fifty
people. What followed will be best gathered from
the unfortunate girl's own statement, which was taken
by a magistrate shortly after she had received the
fatal injury. She said—" I was sitting in this house
alongside of William Boatman, with whom I had been
keeping company, and my sister, Clara French:
About eight o'clock in the evening my master came in,
exclaiming, Ah, Mary, I see you.' I made no reply,
nor did I observe anything in his manner to excite
alarm. He left the room immediately, and returned in
about two minutes, and without saying a word he came
up to where I was sitting and plunged a large knife in
my side. I did not feel it until he drew the knife
out, when he said, Now, Mary, you have it now.'
I saw the knife in his hand. Boatman was sitting by
my side all the time. I recollect nothing more until
I found myself upstairs in bed. I solemnly declare
there has been nothing improper between me and
Mr. blickleburgh." Most of the persons in the room
witnessed the occurrence. He was instantly seized.
He offered not the slightest resistance, nor did he
evince the least emotion at the fearful act he had com-
mitted. He said that he had had his revenge, and
all he regretted was that his arm had not been
stronger, as he would have given her four inches
more of it, and he hoped he had finished her and she
would die. The poor girl survived but a very few
hours. The point of the stiletto had entered the
cavity of the stomach to the extent of four or five
inches, dividing all the vital parts.

•

Yesterday the prisoner, John ➢lickleburgb, un-
derwent an examination at the Town-ball, before the
Rev. T. Lee French and a full bench of magistrates,
on the charge of murder. lie was wretchedly de-
jected, and fainted during the course of the pro-
ceedingg.

Mr. PALAtER attended to watch the evidence for the
prisoner. .

The principal witnesses examined were the young
man William Boatman, Mr. and Mrs. French, and some
other persons, but the only additional fact that came
out in their statements was, that the prisoner went
into one of the out-houses after he had first entered
the room of the public-house and had seen the de-
ceased, and deliberately opened the knife. As before
observed, he returned to the apartment, and plunged
it into the unfortunate girl. The shawl, gown, and
stays v‘ hich she wore at the time were produced, and
they bore holes in them corresponding in size with
the blade of the knife.

William Sayer, a licensed hawker, proved selling
the prisoner the knife between six and seven o'clock
on the evening of the murder. He wassober at the
time.
Mr. Miller, surgeon, of Eye, stated, that he had
made a post mortem examination of the deceased.
He found a punctured wound about half an inch
long, and between four and five inches in depth, at
the lower part of the left side of the chest, between
the eighth and ninth ribs. It passed into the spleen,
and into the mesentery. It caused death.
Juhn Baker, a police-officer, stationed at Mendle-
sham, deposed that he was at the fair. About eight
o'clock in the evening he was informed that a young
woman bad been stabbed. Went to Barrett's house,
and found the prisoner seated by the side of John
French. He told him that he was charged with stab-
bing the deceased, and took him into custody. Pri-
soner said, " You may take me and do what you like
with me. I have done what I intended to do, and I
hope I have done it effectually; had my arm been a
little stronger I would have given her three or four
inches more of it. I have always done what I liked
with her since she has lived with me." Witness be-
lieved he was tipsy at the time. When Sillett,
another officer, came up, the prisoner said, " Ah!
Sillett, you may take me," He repeated the wish
about the strength of his arm, and &aid, "I mean for
revenge." He stated that e went to a stall in the
fair and purchased the knife ; he gave tls. for it.
He added, that he then went to Barrett's, and when
he got into the house Mary Baker, the deceased, said,
"Ah ! master, here am I." Prisoner answered, "
you shan't be long before you have this piece of steel."
He then went into the back-house and opened the
knife. When it was open it was like a dagger. He
also said, "If I have not killed her now I hope she
will die. If she don't come to my proposals I have
got the best brace of pistols the world can produce
i"
He added, that on the Wednesday night before
his
wife went to Diss Mary slept with him. prisoner s
wife came to see him at the station-house about six
o'clock in the morning. He said to her, "Now you
rwo ago
know all about it ; if you had died a year
searched
this would not have occurred."
Witness searched
him, and found a large claspknife.
enough
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for
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etrhy, knife I did itß wenitchh,
nest assizes. The Coro-
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committed
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The e%idence closing,ltahre
the prisoner for trial at the
ner's jury came to a similar
murder.,,
turned a verdict of

—On Saturday
B schools°Pl
ENTERTAINM
was
Bazley, cotton-spinners of Manchester,
Messrs. Gardner
th ir works at Halli 11 -
_ wah e
EsP-Thse7lWorttihre
we , near Bolton.
an examination:eL.
eclon, and was highly creditable both to the
ulation was conducted chiefly by Richard Gard-
The exam
ner, Esq.,
d thepupils; the system of tuition, which is that
teachers an
the answers in arithmetic, physical
by the orough-road Schools, hasprovedmost
promoted .
successili •
e• political geography, ast
ronomy, history, &c., were ex-
ceedingly caen,;'dingly ready and characteristic, and elicited repeated ap-
probation. The company, consisting of upwards of 1,000
workpeople, and several gentlemen of the neighbourhood,
then sat down to tea. The spacious lecture-room was decorated
after, the most elegant taste. Appropriate addresses were
then delivered by Thomas Bazley, Esq., one of her Majesty's
Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, who occupied the
chair, and by Messrs. Richard Gardner, Malcom Ross, Peter
Ainsworth, Dr. Watts; and Mr. Gourdin, from Charleston,
U.S. After many loyal and philanthropic toasts had been
enthusiastically responded to, followed by the spirited per.
formances of the workpeople's band, the guests withdrew,
with hearty expressions of gratification at the sight of the
employers and the employed thus meeting on terms so ami-
cable and laudable. The schools, together with library and
news-room, were erected five years ago, by Messrs. Gardner
and Bazley, at a cost of upwards of 5,0001.
LOLA AGAIN.—We read in the Assemblge Nationale
crowd of
—" A strange scene attracted yesterday
a vastsElvses. In a
pro-
menaders to the Rond.Point in the Champ
en issailed each
two elegantly attired wom
et to work
dashing equipage,
polite, and then s
other in languages nything but
other's faces. In a short
with their fists and nails in each
time both toilettes and features were considerably damaged.
vanquished, uttered loud
At last one of them, finding herself
and some gentlemen
hdlent
cries of distress, went to her assistance.
whose arm champagne a
The victorious lady. t_
froom the carriage, and the defeated
Strength, was expelled
coachman to drive he to her hotel. She iS
lady ordered the
well known to the public by her adventures in some courts
le learnt who she washey
When the peep t
of Germany.
expressed ,urpr.l. ~
0I that the was not more ekilltd in the nob!.
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