The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-12 00:00:00

110.RRIBLE MURDER AT FERRITE.

Another horrible murder has been committed
in this county. The peaceable town of Penrith
was disturbed on Tuesday by the intelligence that
a wounded man had been found in a field at the end
of Gilwilley-lane, by Mr. Richardson's servant.
The man, who was a German, though much injured
about the head, :till breathed. Dr. Pearson was im-
mediately sent for, but before ho arrived the poorfel-
low had ceased to breathe. His body was conveyed
to the Penrith Union Workhouse 'lt appears il at
the murdered man had been in Pe'
Penrith for a day or
two previous to his death, and that he had lodged at
a common lodging-house, kept by a person named.
Swales, above the Old Brewery. On the night pre-
vious to his death he left Swales's house, and took
lodgings at another lodging-house at the Townhead,
kept by a person named Horsley. About six o'clock
he went into the Grey Bull Inn, kept by Mr. Thomas
Hyslop, where he had some ale. After staying some
time there, he went out. He told Mr. Hyslop he was
a gardener. He had been in the shop of Mr. Ded..
low, watchmaker, where he gave the same account of
himself, and said that he had left a wife and three
children in Newcastle-on-Tyne. He spoke German
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had with. him a £5 note and some gold, but Mr.
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going to Robertshaw's. He was last seen
at the: between 11 and 12 o'clock on Mon-
day night, and was found at about S o'clock on Tues-
day morning at the place above mentioned. It
would seem that the murderer had accompanied
his victim from the Townhead across two
fields, in which cattle sleep on straw by night.
It is probable they stayed for a while in this
ont-house, and on issuing forth early in the
morning, had gone about 50 yarj ds in the di-
rection of the Townhead, when, judging from some
marks of blood on the wall, a violent blow with
some instrument had been dealt out to the unfor-
tunate man ; and a few yards further from the wall
with
o trh six
blood, yards.as are r ntihe
tiio earth on the spot where the man's head had
laid was 02turated with blood. It appears lie had
then been dragged across to another eesotlrooiol n es( res ,
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stone had some hair upon it, as if it
had been used over the head. The place where the
poor man was found is one of the most lonely and
unfrequented, by night. About 2s. was found in his
pocket. The police immediately commenced a vigi-
lant search, and on 'Tuesday afternoon Thomas
Sowerby, alias Gray, a servant in the employment
of Mr. lletherington, of the Black Bull Inn, Pen-
rith, was arrested on suspicion of being concerned
in the murder. He had been sent to Patterdale by
his master with a lead of straw early in the morn-
ing. Mr. Superintendent Carson, on becoming ac-
quainted with the circumstances which appeared to
connect Sowerby with the offence, immediate y
went off in pursuit, and succeeded in, apprehending
him in the taproom at Mr. Gelderd s hotel, at Pat-
terdale. He was brought to Penrith, where he re-
; mans in close custody.