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

ANOTHER MURDER AT DUNDRY.

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
Otage in which the terrible tragedy was enacted
13 an inn called the Three Compasses, kept by a
Parson named Stallard. Attached to this house is
a field, which, strangely enough, formed part of a
.
trill the occupier of which, an elderly man named
fiazell, 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,
'Or the moment, thought was a sheep's head, and
4213 Posing that there had been some sheep stealing
Sticktheir
and got it out, and they then discovered, to
~ horror, that it was the mutilated body of a
teaild. Shortly afterwards, concealed in a
4,21 e at one side of the pond, they dis-
rered some clothes, which had apparently
:lunged to the same. child. Mr. Shorland,
,`"e surgeon, was at once applied to, and disco-
"red, on examining the body, that the skull of the
16ceased 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
as 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 time 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-
Vards 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-
rd:a 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
;_ believed, from the information received, that she
soon be in custody. The matter, as may be
gPPosed, has caused a painful state of excitement
mughont the neighbourhood in which the dm-
°verY has been made.

lionamy Dobree completes his two years'
tilms of office to-day as Governor of the Bank of England.
Dobree, in conformity with usage, was Deputy-
"'erner during the two preceding years, and has,
therefore, held office through four most important and try-
g years hi the financial history of the country, maintain-
Ing with firmness and courtesy the best interests of the
!Establishment. He will be succeeded by Mr. Alfred
Latham, of the East India firm of Arbuthnot, Latham,
1071 Co., and Mr. Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, of the firm
' Finlay, Hodgson, and Cowill be the new Deputy-
.,
Governor.