The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-04 00:00:00

MURDER NEAR EAST RETFORD.

(From Drakard's Stamford News.)
On Thursday, the 26th tilt; a most dreadful and diabo-
lical murder was committed in the parish of Sutton-cum-
Lound, near East Retford. The unfortunate individual
who forms the melancholy subject of the present narrative,
was Mr. Samuel Kay, of Sutton, a respectable butcher
and farmer, about 40 years of age. Mr. Kay kept the
weekly markets of Retford and Bawtry, and it appears
that on the day in question, he went as usual to Bawtry,
and at night returned by his accustomed route. He left
Bawtry about six o'clock in the evening, and proceeded
to Everton, and from thence to Mattersea, at which he
was last seen alive, except perhaps by his murderers.
Aliout nine o'clock, the horse and cart arrived at his own
house without him ; but as he had sometimes on other
occasions staid in the village and at other places on the
road, and allowed his horse and cart to proceed, little sur-
prise was excited in the minds of the domestics. During
the night, however, his servants and relations went in
search of him, but his body was not found until one
o'clock on Friday. His own apprentice found him wel-
tering in his blood on a heap of manure, about a mile
from his own house, and one hundred and fifty-five yards
distance from the road he had to pass. On examining the
body, Mr. Allison, surgeon, of Retford, had not found
any marks of violence, except about the face and neck ;
that there was a large incised wound, about four inches
in i length, extending from the left side angle of the upper
jawbone to nearly the centre of the upper lip, by which
all the substance of the cheek was divided down to the
bone, which was laid bare. There was a hole behind the
the angle of the jawbone, which would admit his finger
to pass to the extent of about four inches,—the end of
his finger being in the back part of the throat in front of
the bones of the neck. The wound appeared to have
been mode by a knife or some sharp instrument, and
several arteries and veins had been divided. There was
n ,t the least doubt on his mind that the wound was cal-
culated to occasion the death of the deceased in a very
short tioue,—though be might, after receiving the in-
jury, cry out in distress, or walk thirty or forty yards.
In the field where the body was found, there are three
corn .stacks, about 160 yards from the road, between two
of which he had been stabbed, as appeared by the blood
on the ground ; afterwards he bad made an effort to reach
the gate, but baying run about twenty-seven yards he
bad fallen as before described. Hi, pockets were rifled of
everything except a memorandum-book, and his watch
was taken away. A Coroner's Inquest was held on Satur-
day, which was adjourned until Monday, and again from
that day until Tuesday.

The remains of the late Marquis CONYNG-
HAm will be conveyed to-morrow from Hamilton-place
for interment, at Bifrons, near Canterbury, where his
Lordship purchased an extensive estate some years ago.
The present Marquis CONYNGIIAM, his brother, Lord
ALBERT, and Mr. DENIsoN, M.P., will be present at the
ceremony. We understand that the complaint of which
the Marquis died was a disease of the liver, which pro-
duced a very rapid decline.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SOUTHWARK.—The
City Authorities have given notice that it is their intention
to apply to Parliament in the ensuing Session for an Act
to authot ise the pulling down of the Fleet Prison in Farr-
ingdon-street, to make room for several important pro-
jected improvements. It is proposed to have a new Fleet
Prison, on a much larger and more convenient scale,
erected on a large piece of ground in St. George's-fields,
opposite Bethlehem Hospital. It is also intended to widen
and improve the roads leading to Bethlehem Hospital and
the site of the new Fleet Prison, and to stop up and dis-
continue the roads formerly called St. George's-mall, and
Joiner-street, Lambeth. The mall was some years since
celebrated as the site where stood the Apollo Gardens and
the Dog and Duck Tavern, houses formerly licensed for
the congregation of the most licentious and depraved cha-
racters of both sexes. By the interposition of the Surrey
Magistrates the licenses of these sinks of infamy having
been withheld they were eventually pulled down. Since
that period the sire has remained a barren waste. The
late Mr. HEDGER, the proprietor of the gardens and
tavern, accumulated immense wealth by the great over-
flow of company to both places of resort : he left large
fortunes to a numerous family, and also built alms-houses
in Webber-row, Southwark, which he liberally endowed.

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