The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-28 00:00:00

Little more than three years agu the murder of
an aged couple, attended with circumstances of
great atrocity, was perpetrated in the rural and
secluded village of Bolton-upon-Dearne. On the
night of the 4th of December, 1856, it will be re-

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membered that Luke White, an aged person, who
was the village postmaster, and kept a small
druggist's shop, a:d was a local preacher, while
apparently engaged in preparing his sermon for
the following Sunday, heard some one come to his
shop door, and on going to see what was wanted
he was knocked down and ratillessly murdered.
His wife, hearing a noise in the shop, appeared,
while going along the passage leading from the
house into the shop to see what was the matter, to
have been met and also murdered, both bodies bring
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was enshrouded in the most iimipe enetrable mystery.
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trators of the horrid crime, and the coroner's in-
quest, after sitting for a considerablz time, was
obliged to return an open verdict. The only per-
son, to whom the finger of suspicion pointed was
White, the village constable, but no object could
be shown nor could the slightest evidence be ad-
duced to in any way connect him with the dreadful
deed; but, on the contrary, it was shown that the
deceased had been one of his warmest supporters,
and had that day been engaged in getting up a
memorial to Colonel Cobbe in &your of White being
permanently stationed in the village. However,
nothing coming to light, White left the village,
and has since been living to some extent as a sus-
pected man in his native town of Barnsley, in
anxious expectation that something would turn up
to unravel the mystery, and to restore him to the
position he had formerly held in the estimation of
the world. Recently, however, we are glad to
say, circumstances have transpired which are likely
to throw some light upon the tragedy. On the
day the murder was committed a hawker was said to
have been in the village of Bolton, vending car a
and small wares, but no clue could be obtained to
him afterwards, nor could he in any way be eon-
orof
the West
con-
nected with the commission of the deed. During
the past week an Irish hawker, who is said to be
a underoing six years' penal servitude
Ports-
mouth, has made certain statements to a companion
relative to the affair. These were communicated
to the Governor of the gaol in which
superintendent
lie at
is Pts
under-
going his imprisonment, and information has since
been forwarded to Mr. Astwosd,
Riding constabulary at Doncaster, who
has long exerted himself
to
out
understand,
b interviewt
theai n
a
tragedy. Mr. Astwood, we
has been
to -Portsmouth, and had
an
hawker, who has Pointedd i
du
theinitoyint
upradr
et
commitrieesd,
stating that, although he himself
the murder, he was in the house wbeng
couple were lying dead on the floor. The names
of the perpetrators have not vet been mile() known,
ntheaitnhemr.hhaats nature of the confessicn fu they
stand he conbita::slee tbeenl stated, although we u;der-
participilti :n in they mexurodneeir.a, te,srbleVinhioteFt la'ec
toil;
ea.inny.
(luit.i4 :i-o. e 11.',n made forsome days, and infor-
mation of the filets having been communicated to
lhe Secrt tary of State, we are informed warrants
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have already been issued for the removal of
the prisoner from Portsmouth to York , and for the
apprehension of the parries crimiriated. The
hawker has given some particulars as 10 the articles
he was selling in the village at the time, and the
persons to whom he sold them ; and the police are
now making inquiries with a view to the affair be-
ing unravelled. The matter is exciting the greatest
interest in the district, and it is 14oped that the
mystery in which the tragedy has s, j long. been en•
-eloped will soon be cleared away.