The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-05 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

It has been stated that Bousfield was by trade a car-
pentsr. This appears not to have been the case, since
at au early age he was taken by the band by a solicitor
well acquainted with his father, and introduced into his
office as office-boy. By good conduct he rose in the • fa-
vour of his employer, who made him one of is clerks ;
but, according to a statement made by Bousfield himself
to a friend, dismissed him summarily from his service'
because he got married without giving him any in-
timation of his intention. Deprived of his situation
as clerk, Bousfield endeavoured to obtain other em-
ployment in the same capacity. Being for some
time unable to succeed, he determined to qualify himself
for obtaining a livelihood by manual labour, and paid a
premium for the purpose of being taught the art of
French polishing, Having, as he supposed, become a
proficient in this, he sought work in the usual way by
going from shop to shop, sometimes getting a job, but
much more frequently making his round of applications
in vain. As his earnings were insufficient for the sup-
port of himself and wife in a respectable manner, a to-
bacconist's shop was fitted up by his father-in-law, so
that his wife might be able to acid something to their
income. After this, employment at French polishing
appeared to become more difficult to obtain, and Bous-
field looking about for some other occupation, at length
got upon the stage as supernumerary, at the usual low
rate of wages, and remained in that capacity at the
Princess's Theatre up to Christmas last. He then ap-
plied at Covent-garden, which. Professor Anderson was
about to open, and, being engaged, figured in the pan-
tomime as what is technically called a " young man,"
ranking one step higher than a mere supernumerary,
and increasing his wages some ris. per week. He is de-
scribed by those who knew him well at the theatre as
having been an exceedingly civil, but, at the same time,
an extremely taciturn man, seldom speaking except
when first addressed, and then as briefly as possible.
He is also said to have been a man of strictly temperate
habits, and even quite unaccustomed to smoking out of
his own house. At the seine time he appears to have
possessed little energy or perseverance, and this fact
may possibly account for the charge of laziness brought
against him by some who allege that he cared to seek no
employment beyond that at the theatres.
Mr. Jones, the father of the murdered woman, dur-
ing his examination at the Marlborough-street Police-
court, admitted, rather reluctantly, that his deceased
daughter and the prisoner bad, to his knowledge, occa-
sionally quarrelled since the birth of their third child.
but stated he was not aware of any quarrel having
taken place between them on Saturday last. It appears.
however, to be a matter of certainty that the ill-fates
pair for some time before the murder had led a life of
extreme unhappiness, so that their domestic quarrels
formed a subject of almost daily gossip amongst their
neighbours.
On Saturday he left home at the usual time, filled his
r accustomed part in the Pantomime, at Covent Garden
r Theatre, passed the evening without anything of an ex-
traordinary nature exhibiting itself in his deportment,
returned home without delay at the conclusion of the
performance, went out to fetch some milk, and was not
again seen until he presented himself on Sunday morning
at the Bow-street Station.