The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-09 00:00:00

ANOTHER MURDER AT DU2VDI2II.

The excitement consequent on the terrible murder
of old Mrs. Waterman, for which her murderers,
Arthur Wedmore and Charles Wedmore, were ex-
ecuted at Taunton as recently as Friday last, has
not had time to subside ere the committal of another
very barbarous homicide has been discovered in the
same neighbourhood. The circumstances connec-
ted with the discovery are as follows :
• At a distance of a hundred yards or so from the
cottage in which the terrible tragedy was enacted
is an inn called the Three Compasses, kept by a
person named Stallard. Attached to this house is
a field, which, strangely enough, formed part of a
farm the occupier of which, an elderly man named
Hazell, was murdered under circumstances which
have never been thoroughly elucidated some years
ago. In this field is a pond, to which, on Saturday
afternoon, a daughter of Mr. Stallard went for the
purpose of dipping out some water. On approach-
ing it she observed something floating, which she,
for the moment, thought was a sheep's head, and
supposing that there had been some sheep stealing
going on she called her brother. He procured a
stick and got it out, and they then discovered, to
their horror, that it was the mutilated body of a
child. Shortly afterwards, concealed in a
hole at one side of the pond, they dis-
covered some clothes, which had apparently
belonged to the same "child. Mr. Shorland,
the surgeon, was at once applied to, and disco-
vered, on examining the body, that the skull of the
deceased had been fractured, apparently by being
beaten in on the top with a three cornered stone,
and also that a wound six inches long had been
inflicted on the back of the neck. Information
was given without delay to the police, and
Superintendent Jones, Police-sergeant Drewett,
and Acting-sergeant Moore, of the county con_
stabulary, were immediately engaged in investi.
gating the matter. Suspicion falls on a woman
of loose character, who is well known to the police
as cohabiting with and having had children by a
man who lives at Bedminster Down, near Bristol.
A short tine ago she was at Dundry, and had
with her a child of about four months old, similar
to that found. She called at the Compasses
Tavern, and Mrs. Stallard noticed that the little
creature appeared as
.if neglected, and mentioned
her opinion to the mother. Some days after-
wards the woman was there again, but without
the child, which she said she had buried at Bristol.
The clothes found were submitted to Mrs. Stal-
lard's inspection, and she expresses the strongest
belief that they are the same which the child had
on on the evening when the woman brought it
with her to the house. The police feel so well
founded in their suspicions that an officer has
been despatched in pursuit of the woman, and it
is believed, from the information received, that she
will soon be in custody. The matter, as may be
supposed, has caused a painful state of excitement
throughont the neighbourhood in which the dis-
covery has been made.

THE WEATHER.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS.

This Day, I
between 8 and' B. E. M. D. 1F.C.1. B.
9 a.m.
------ —..-..
Nairn 3040 46 42 S.S.W. 3 8 0. 2
Aberdeen
Leith BO4B 45 41 S. i 3 4 c. 2
Berwick 30'54 43 39 S.S.W. i 2 6 c. 3
'Ardrossan
Portrnsh
Shields
Galway i 3041 b 2 51 ,S.E. 6 5 c 4
Scarborough 130•62 V O.S.E. 3 4 c. 4
49 48 37 S.E.
1 2 6 C. 2
Liverpool 306.!
Valentia .... •• i S. F,. 5 9 0. 2
130•61 44 41
Queenstown , INg 54 51
Yarznouth. •,. • S.S.L ' 4 7 o. 5
E. i 6 2 e. b
London '3o 57 43 43
Dover 13052 45 E. ,42 b.
41 EN E 7 5 C 5
Portsmouth
Portland ! 30'54 42 39 -. 3 sm. 1
Plymouth
le; ;
Penzance 130.53 .50 47 'E.N.E.'' , 4 1 b: 6
1. . I
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reduced

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EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected an-.., edll
iical rise
to 32 deg at mean sea level ; each 10 feet of vel
each 10
causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution,. and e. E.
deg above 32 deg causing nearly 3-100tys
Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moisten
d (true—.
• of wlll
inetic• bulb (for
evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction .
) . Cloud
not magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—es
uralaouds etached) ;
(1 to 9). I. Initials :—b , blue sky; °., misty (hazy)• o
f .1
1.,
fog. ; h., hail ; 1., lightning ; m•,
t thunder. A letter
overcast (dull) ; r., rain; a., snow;
much rain. •
S. Sea disturb-
repeated augments--thus, r,r.,
.
&no (1. to 9).