The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-07 00:00:00

MANCHESTER, APRIL 4.

A dreadful murder, equalling in atrocity any deed of
blood recorded in the annals of crime, has this week oc-
curred in the township of Saddleworth, a few miles from
Oldham. Near to Dobcross, a romantic village in the
county of York, but on the borders of Lancashire, an
aged man li,a dwelt fir several years with his son, tie for-
tnerbeing upwards of eighty bears of age, and the latter
verging upon fifty. For some time past they have kept a
" Tom and Jerry," or retail beer-shop, and th fir house
has been much resorted to by the vil.agers.
The place was open for the sale of beer as usual on
Monday night, and on Tuesday morning the murder was
discovered. A granddaughter of the old min, who re-
sided in the vicinity, went to the house yesterday morning
and knocked at the door several time,, but no one an-
swered. She then gave the alarm to some of the neigh-
bours, and on forcing the door open the old man was dis-
covered extended on the flier, apparently dead, but still
breathing, and his sun lay on the fl ,or a lifeless corpse.
lloth bodies were covered with blood. The head of the
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murdererske i
son had been beaten into pieces. The father's head was
sboakingly fractured and cut, and his arms, legs, and
breast, bruised and lacerated.
A surgeon was sent for without delay, and everything
that human skill could devise was resorted to, in the hope
of saving the old man's life ; but baying lingered in great
agony until this morning, he expired. The old man, it is
sail, had been reported to be worth some money, and the
villains who have committed the fat,l deed might have
thought that he kept his wealth in his house. The son
left home in the evening for the neighbouring village, to
purchase some hukstery anti candles, and when his body
was discovered, the candles were found in his pocket. It
would therefore appear, that the murderers bad entered
the house whilst the son was absent, and that on his
making his appearance they attacked him, and at once put
an end to his existence. In the house were left by the
thick atick,but hollowed
like a flute. The former was doubtless the instrument of
death,ndgastla large horse pistol and a
the barrel was clotted with gore, and covered
with brains and human hair! Not the slightest suspicion
has fallen on any one in the neiglib,urhooo; and an opinion
prevails that the murder was perpetrated liy three Irish
I .pourers, who were seen loitering on the toad near the
house the same night.
Toe house was robbed of almost every article of value
which it contained. Scarcely a drawer or cupbiard in
the place had escaped the lynx-eyed vigilance of the
murderers.

HORRID DEATH.—Last week a man be-
longing to Kinnaird Colliery, and who for some time past had
exhibited tokens of mental aberration, put a period to his
existence in an awful manner. His son had for several nights
slept along with him in the dread of something happening, hut
on the above :light the unfortunate man, with that cunning
which often characterizes lunatics, arose at the midnight hour,
and taking the key went out, carefully locking the door after
him, and running to one of the Carron Company's coal-pits,
which are very deep, jumped into it, and was found at the bot-
tom, some time after, a dreadfully mangled corpse,—Scutimaws,