The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-10 00:00:00

THE USK MURDER.

The investigation into the confession of murder mane
by a man named Thomas Rosser at Hereford on Saturday
ast has resulted in the elicitation of several important
Facts tending to confirm the truth of the prisoner's state-
ment. Th. Thvioas Rosser, who is a puddler
'rom Sydney, in the Forest of Dean, states that being on
ramp towards the iron works of South "Wales, he was on
he Saturday following Whitsun Monday (the 15th of June)
1867, in the town of Usk, in the county of Monmouth,
where he accidentally met a girl, who afterwards told him
that her name was Jane Edwards. He went with her to
he Bridge Inn, where they had some beer together, and
n the course of conversation she asked him if he was
foing to Monmouth, and if he intended to ride or walk.
Ele replied that he should go to Monmouth on the morrow
being Sunday), but that he had no money to pay his rail-
vay fare. His companion then raid that if he was going
.o stay in Usk all night he might as well stay with her.
Ile prospect of getting her money then suggested the idea
rf murdering the girl, and leaving her in the house. He
went to the back door, which looks on to the river. At the
•ear of the house was an old iron fire-grate, which had been
urned out of one of the rooms, and from this
Irate he wrenched an iron 'bar, which he concealed
ruder his coat, and re-entered the house and induced
he girl to go for a walk with him by the side of
the river. When they got below the bridge he took the
ron bar from his breast, and struck her on the back of the
lead, instantaneously rendering her senseless. He then
searched her pockets, from which he took 155. in silver,
'tad then determined to throw her body in the river. Be.
'ore doing so he took her bonnet from her head, and
;earing a ribbon from it he placed it in his pocket.
Elm ing thrown the body into the river he left Usk, and
!or two years he had been tramping, with the cruel
murder he had committed haunting him day and night,
luta, at length, he felt impelled to confess his crime. A
lumber of circumstances, corroborative of the above
statement, have been brought to light, and in a box
)elonging to the prisoner the ribbon described by him has
)een found. As it is supposed that the skull of the un-
!ortunate young woman will still shew the fracture
inflicted by the iron bar, an order has been issued by the
:oroner for its exhumation and examination.

STRANGE OUTRAGE IN A CHURCH. -- In the
cathedral of St. Julien, at Le Mans, in France, the. e is a
;omb with a group in terracotta of eight persons, life
size, representing St. Peter supporting the Saviour, who
B lying in his grave clothes ; St. John consoling the
Virgin, Joseph of Arimathea at the feet of Christ,
Uary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James and John.
A. few evenings ago a wooden shoemaker entered the
lurch, and with a hammer knocked off all the heads of
;he group. He is supposed to have been either drunk or mad.
INTERESTING DISCOVERY.—A remarkable dis-
mvery has just been made in the old church of St. Gervais,
Paris. Some persons who were repairing the woodwork
it one of the sides in the left of the nave discovered a secret
door, giving access to a small chapel hitherto not known,
the walls of which are entirely covered with excellent paint-
ings in the Renaissance style, in good preservation. The
church is extremely rich in artistic relics, possessing, among
other things, a fine Albert Durer and a remarkable
Perugino, besides some stained glass of Jean Cousin, the
father of the French school of the sixteenth, seventeenth,
and eighteenth centuries.

THROWING VITRIOL ON A GIRL.—A sad affair
has just happened in a worsted mill at Wakefield. A
eirl, named Hannah Chadwick, who resides at Eastmoor,
and a lad, named George Nottingham, who lives at Bragg-
end-lane, are both employed at Messrs. Fallon and Shaw's
worsted mill, in Back-lane. During dinner-hour a quarrel
arose between them, and the girl threw a quantity of
water upon the lad. Soon afterwards they recom-
menced work, but in a short time the engine was stopped
for a strap to be put on. During this interval of leisure
the lad appears to have been determined to have his
revenge on the girl. He went into the dyehouse, and,
seizing a quart jug almost filled with vitriol, he went to
the girl and threw it over her. She was dreadfully burnt
about the breast and neck, and now lies in a dangerous
state. The lad was taken into custody.
THE NEW METROPOLITAN OF CANADA.—The
Rev. Ashton Oxenden has accepted the cffize c f Bishop
of Montreal and Metropolitan of Canada, to which he was
elected last month by the clergy and laity of the diocese.
The Guardian observes on the election :—" The choice of
the electors has fallen on a man of moderate principles, of
high character, and of good repute for the service he has
rendered to the Church by his devotional works. Sec.
tional influences have not prevailed ; local partisanship
has suffered a defeat. Moreover, the representatives of
each view feel that their sentiments have had free expres-
sion, and that the final choice, whether agreeable to them-
selves or not, is at all events the deliberate voice of the
duly elected representatives of the Church. It would be
difficult, as it seems to us, for those who maintain the
superiority of our English system, to prove that the whole
process of choosing a bishop here is more free from
objectionable elements, or more satisfactory in its result.'