The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-17 00:00:00

THE MURDER IN SBO.REDITOIL

SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER AND DIS-
COVERY OF THE BODY.—LATEST PAR-
TICULARS.
The detective police continued their exertions
until two o'clock yesterday in endeavouring to find
the man Raddon, but no clue whatever could be
traced of him until about ten o'clock, when the body
of a man was dragged up by the towing rope con-
nected with a barge which was being navigated
through the Regent's-canal. It seems that, at the
time named, several men were employed at Messrs.
Garrod's coal wharf, Whitmore-bridge-road, Hox-
ton when they saw the body of a male person sud-
denly rise to the surface of the water. They raised
an alarm, when deceased was got out on to the
towing-path. The deceased was not known at that
time, and when taken out of the canal the hands
were found to be firmly tied round with a pocket
handkerchief, and the arms were lying upon the
breast as if he, the deceased, had bound them
round to prevent his struggling and to hasten
his death. A police constable was called and
the deceased was placed upon a stretcher and
conveyed to the dead-house at the rear of
the Shoreditch workhouse, Kingsland-road, where
it was immediately identified as being that of the
murderer. The deceased's cap had been found float-
ing in the canal some distance from the spot where
the body was discovered, and there is no doubt that
he committed suicide by leaping off the bank near
the coal wharf, which is easily to be reached from
the main road.
Police-constable Buckley, of the N division, as-
certained that the accused (Raddon) must have left
home soon after the dreadful crime was perpetrated,
for he went to the house of the deceased's sister
(Mrs. Webb), residing at 6, Holloway-grove, at two
o'cloek on Tuesday morning and knocked at the
front door. The window was opened by Mr. Webb,
who asked who it was, when Raddon replied, " It
is Joe." He wished to come up stairs, but he was
informed that he could not be admitted at that
hour. He spoke in a low voice, and said that Mrs.
Webb's sister was dying. He was hot sober, but
knew what he was about. He then went away,
and it is supposed that he must have shortly after-
wards committed self destruction.
Yesterday afternoon about two o'clock the brother
of the deceased man (Raddon), and several other
relatives, called at the workhouse and identified the
body. The police searched the pockets of the de-
ceased, and the only things found were a clasp
knife, and a duplicate of a silk handkerchief,
pledged for 2s. on Monday last.
Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, Dr. Gay,
of Finsbury-pavement, and Mr. Clark, the medical
officer of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, proceeded to
the house where the murdered woman had been
discovered to make a minute examination of the
body by order of the coroner, Mr. John Humphreys.
The wretched female was still lying upon the bed,
as she was first discovered, upon the left side,
in a pool of coagulated blood. The limbs were
quite stiffened, and deceased presented a sad
and sickening spectacle. The blood from
the wound had saturated the bedclothes,
and had passed through the sacking of
the bedstead on to the floor, and from
thence had penetrated through the boards to the
ceiling of the lower room or back parlour. The
opinion expressed by the medical gentleman is that
the deceased must have been murdered while fast
asleep, and that the murderer had stood behind her
with his left hand over her mouth while he inflicted
the fatal injury with the right hand. The wound
nearly severed the head from the trunk, and had
penetrated the upper cervical vortebrm of the neck.
It would also seem that after the incision the mur-
derer had withdrawn the razor to the back part of
the head, as there were several spots of blood upon
the pillow, which must have dropped from the blade
of the weapon, which had likewise been placed upon
the sheet behind the shoulders of the deceased, as
there were marks indicative of the fact. The mur-
derer must then have leaned over the body of his
victim and placed the razor in the deceased's left
hand, which lay immediately by the front of the
face. The right hand was firmly clenched and covered
with gore. The deceased must have bled very
rapidly, and death must have been instantaneous,
and she could not have struggled nor have made any
noise. There were marks of blood upon the chin as
if the murderer had held the unfortunate woman's
mouth. In the centre of the room was found a pail
half filled with dirty water, where it is supposed
that the murderer washed his hands, for close by the
pail were found a wet towel, which bore marks of
blood, and an old scrubbing-brush, which had been
recently used. There was plenty of bread and other
articles of food in the cupboard, and the breakfast
things were upon the table in the centre of the room,
which would show that the murderer and his victim
had taken tea upon their arrival home.
The police and Mr. Waller, the summoning offi-
cer, made a further search of the room vesterday
morning, and in a drawer they found a number of
duplicates and a county court execution paper for a
distraint upon the goods of the murderer. The de-
ceased woman was very respectably connected, and
was a hardworking, industrious woman, clean in
her habits, although the apartment where she and
her paramour lived was very poorly furnished.
A number of police officers were in charge of the
house and body during the whole of yesterday, and
crowds of persons still remained in front of the
house at a late hour last night.

FEARFUL ACCIDENT ON TILE NORM
LONDON RAILWAY

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Yesterday afternoon, about two o'clock, a very
alarming accident happened to a passenger train on
the North London Railway, at Bow, which was
nigh involving the most disastrous consequences.
The train was from Camden-town, and having made
the usual stoppage at Bow station, proceeded on its
way to Fenchurch-street up the curved incline
which connects the North Loudon with the Black-
wall line.' Owing to the rise being rather severe,
a speed of from 12 to lo miles is seldom exceeded
in going up the bank. The writer was a passenger
in the second carriage from the engine, and on the
train reaching the top of the incline, abreast of the
works of the Great Central Gas Company, he was
startled by a violent jerk and crash, followed by
two other shocks of as severe a character, and a
rolling or jumping motion of the carriage, as if it
was off the line, and in less than half a minute the
train Was brought to a sudden stoppage. On alight-
ing, a most fearful scene prests:nted itself. The en-
gine, No. 32, a large powerful six-wheeler, was
lying on its side, enveloped in steam, completely
across the down line and the road used by the
Gravesend (Tilbury), Woodford, North Wool-
wich, and other trains. Next to the engine was a
second-61as passenger (break) carriage, and the
escape, of the Occupants appears most marvellous.
The front of it, used as the guard's break, was shat-
tered to pieces, and how the guard was preserved
from instant death. seemed most surprising. This
carriage, with the next, had been dragged off the
line, and apparently had been shattered and ripped
by a rail, which had been torn up by - the engine,
and was standing up perpendicular between the two
carriages. Fortunately there were not many pas-
sengers in the train, and more providentially still,
they all escaped any serious injury with the excep-
tion of an elderly lady, Mrs. Sutherland, who sus-
tained a serious contusion on the face. They
jumped and scrambled out of the carriages as best
they could, and made their Ne- to a more distant
part of the line, it being fired that the hissing
prostrate engine, which -
as forth dense
sending
volumes of steam, Inif:; w
nt explde. The excitement
for the moment 'flaying someowhat subsided, in-
quiries were made after the engine driver and
stoker, a
7,(1. it was ascertained that they too had
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been most miraculously spared. The poor fellows
b'ad stuck to their posts to the last, and as the en-
gine slewed round and turned over they were
thrown forward some few feet on to the permanent
way, and escaped, save a few bruises. As soon as
they had somewhat recovered they did their best to
lessen any further mischief arising from the some-
what dangerous condition of the engine, and the
guard, with as much expedition, gave the necessary
signals to stop all trains, up or down. Mr. King,
the superintendent of the North London, and Mr.
f Wightman, the superintendent of the Blackwall,
with other officials, were soon on the spot, and the
most vigorous measures were taken to restore the
road, and remove the engine, which completely
stopped the Gravesend, Woodford, Victoria Docks,
North London, end other traffic.
On examining the line where the accident oc-
curred it would appear that the engine left the
metals on the inner side some 50 or 60 feet before
it went over. In its course the wheels came in
contact with the sleepers and rails of a crossing,
which eventually threw the engine round as before
described. The permanent way was ploughed up,
the sleepers cut through, and the rails torn up and
twisted. The cause of the engine leaving the line
is yet to be explained. The keeping up of this part
of the road is said to be under the charge of the
engineer of the Blackwell Railway Company, and
it is stated that the line where the engine went off-
was found to be of proper gauge. The escape of
the passengers is mainly attributed to the reduced
speed of the train in going up the bank. It is also
a most providential circumstance that the engine
took “ slant inwards. Had it been the other

Do the people at the Horse Guards ever read ?
Have they any books on the official shelves ? They
must surely possess a Post office Directory and a
Johnson's Dictionary. The Commander-in-Chief
and his Staff must have occasion to direct letters to
obscure individuals, and orthography is not every
soldier's strength. Absurd pedants might perhaps
expect to find some edition of the " Maxims of Na-
poleon," the works of Joniini, or the " Peninsular
War." This is extravagant. But there is Hart's
Annual Army List. It is the recognised book of
reference—stamped almost with official authority.
It is as necessary to the Commander-in-Chief as the
Navy List is to the First Lord of the Admiralty, or
the Oxford Calendar to a Vice-Chancellor. Is it
too much to assume that the heads of the Army
have access to this most useful publication ? If they
have, it is but too plain that its leaves remain un-
cut, or that its contents arc scandalously ignored.
Only a few weeks ago the Duke of Cambridge
declared in the House of Lords that he was ear-
nestly anxious to administer the patronage of the
army with a single eye to the public service. An-
xious as he may be for justice, that illutrious per-
son has again and again dwelt upon the importance
of being supported by public opinion. Without
this support he never ceases to declare it to be
utterly impossible to do his duty to the army or
to the country. It may be so. Certain it is that
all-powerful as the Duke of Wellington was, and
fully alive as he was from his very boyhood to the
national evils of jobbing military appointments, he
practically supported the very system which he pri-
vately denounced. Certain, moreover, it is that
Lord Hardinge pursued the same fatal policy. After
what the Duke of Cambridge has promised it is im-
possible to believe that he willingly perpetuates the
old system. lf scandalous appointments are made, it
must be because even a Royal Duke is not powerful
enough to resist the influence brought to bear
upon him, or because in the hurry of business he
has committed a mistake. But in either case he
needs the support of public opinion. And he shall
have it. If any mysterious power is brought to
coerce even a Prince of the Blood against his duty,
that power must be restrained; if due information
has been wanting, that information must be sup-
plied.
The Gazette declares that the Hon. Charles Grey
has got a regiment. This gentleman entered the
army in 1820, and became a lieutenant-colonel in
1831. No doubt his purse was ample or his influ-
ence great, for his promotion was rapid. His active
services are none—literally none. No houourable
scar disfigures his body—no medal adorns his
breast. Like other clothes-horses in the shops of
Pall-mall, he has borne the Queen's uniform, but it
has never been soiled by travel or blackened by
powder. His duties have been confined tb those of
a Royal Equerry. As such, there is no reason to
doubt that he has done whatever was expected of
him. His duties may be laborious for aught we
know, and after the lapse of time may deserve some
reward. Every labourer is worthy of his hire, and
if those whom he served considered him to merit an
increased salary they ought to have supplied it.
But, strange to say, this Equerry, who has never
left the pleasant paths of the Mall, has been se-
lected for the Coloneley of a Regiment. An appoint-
ment Which ought to be reserved for men wno have
spent their lives in the field of battle has been be-
stowed upon a man who has no more claim to it
► than Cardinal Antonerd or Mr. Bright. Is it pos-
sible to believe that such an appointment as this
can have been deliberately made tis Surely it must
have been unintentional, or some overwhelming in-
fluence must have carried away the Judgment of
the Horse Guards. If people in high places have
any belief that mankind are all alike, let them re-
flect for a moment upon the feelings with which
such an appointment as this will be regarded:
Open Ila7t where he details the war-services of
the Altai; who Lave got nd regiments, Even now
some underling at the Horse 101nards might be got
to remember the look of some of these famous
veterans in their youth—men who had served
their country before the Hon. Charles Grey had
left the breast. It would be instructive to hear
what the working soldiers say of justice at the
Horse Guards. Contrast two cases. The Hon.
Charles Grey has got his regiment. General John
Cox has got none. And who is he ? Except a few
months he served throughout the whole of,the
Peninsular War with the 95th (Rifle Brigade),
beginning with the affair at Obidas on the 15th
August, 1808. He was engaged with the enemy
at Roleia, Vimiera, and the surrender of Lisbon ; he
served with the British army under Sir John
Moore, and was present at the battle of Corunna -
he fought at Talavera, at many minor affairs, and
at Almeida he defended the bridge against every-
attempt to force it; besides the affairs of Mor
Morta and Jula he took part at the battle of Busacc );
he stood behind the lines of Torres Vedras, and fo 1- lowed the retreating army of Marshal Massena, tb Le
rearguard of which ho constantly engaged a t
Pombal, Redinha, Condeixa, Casanova, Foz d'Aruct
Ponte de Mareilla, Frexeda, and Sabugal; for fly e
successive days be was at Almeida, at Marialvas
Bridge, and at the battle of Fuentes d'Onor ; he
besieged and stormed Ciudad Rodrigo, joined in.
the battles of Vittoria, Pampeluna, and the Pyre-
nees. Finally, he took part at the famous field of
Waterloo and in the capture of Paris. Nor were
these exploits fuchieved without danger. At
Virniera ho wa'- wounded by a musket-ball, at
Redinha he rece'ived a contusion, at the storming of
Ciudad Rodrigo his left arm was fractured, and a
ball was lodged in his leg while driving the enemy
from the heights , of Taibes. For ten years he fought
and bled for his , country : and, all he has received
for his service s is what ?—a war medal and ten
clasps. Much I sonour—great glory. John Cox did
everything and *,
got nothing. The lion. Chas. Grey
has done nothing and got much. Nor is this a soli-
tary instance.
is filled with, Page upon page of the useful Hart
Uncomplaini
11g, like good soldiers, these silent
the services of neglected officers.
pages stand v.
is Foto*aril*. the system of the