The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-03 00:00:00

deep as could be made for the jawbone. This not
having effected as death of the poor man, who was
no doult incapable of resistance, the murderer pro-
bably made another cut, commencing at one side of
the neck and continuing it across the throat to the
other side of the neck, cutting the windpipe and the
carotid arteries, and nearly severing the head from the
body. In consequence of the deceased not making
his appearance on the Saturday morning at his usual
time to collect the toll, two of his neighbours, Mr.
William Crossley, butcher, and Mr. William Speak,
blacksmith, of King-street, went to the toll-house,
the door of which was found shut but not fastened.
They entered and called out, but no one answering,
they sent a boy up-stairs named Greenwood, about
nine years of age, who came in, and who usually
fetched milk for deceased from a neighbouring house,,
and told him to awaken Smith. The boy returned
immediately in great fright, saying " Jemmy had
cut his throat." Crossley and Speak then went
up-stairs, and found the deceased kneeling with
one knee on the bed and the other leg off the side
of the bed, the head and upper part of the body
hanging over the bed, and the body cold. It does
not appear that plunder could be the object of
the miscreant who has committed this bloody
murder, since the money collected for toll was left
untouched, besides some other money, the savings of
the murdered man. Various are the reports current
in the neighbourhood relative to the motives actuating
the murderer to commit this horrid crime, but up to
the present it is involved in complete mystery. On
Saturday forenoon, county Police Sergeant Heap,
stationed at Todmorden, apprehended a man named
Halliwell, a tailor, at Burnley, who had been seen
in the neighbourhood on Friday evening, and also at
an early hour on Saturday morning. Mr. Brierley,
superintendent of the detective police on the Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire Railway, apprehended a labourer
named Greenwood, about 22 years of age. Green-
wood resides in the neighbourhood, and both men are
suspected of being concerned in the murder. Halli-
well's cap appears as if it had been saturated with
blood. An inquest was held before Mr. J. Dyson,
coroner of the district, in the school-room of Mytholm
Church, at ten A.M. on Monday, which was adjourned
till Monday next, when it is hoped the authorities
will have been successful in obtaining some clue to
the detection of the murderer. The instrument with
which the murder has been effected, notwithstanding
diligent search has been made for it, has not yet been
discovered.

THE FRIMLEY MURDER.

Up to eight o'clock last evening no further intelli-
gence relative to this dreadful tragedy had been re-
ceived by the police authorities at the chief office in
Great Scotland-yard. The officers engaged in the
case have been instructed not to relax in their exer-
tions to discover anything which may lead to the de-
tection of the murderers, or tend to increase the sus-
picion against the men at present in custody. There
are some circumstances in connexion with these men
which, not transpiring publicly on Tuesday, have
hitherto escaped notice. It appears that they have
long been known to the local police of Guildford and
Godalming as very daring and expert thieves, and the
feet that they generally pursued their nefarious opera-
tions together seems to have led to their apprehen-
sion. When the circumstances of the attack upon
Mr. Hollest's house and person became known, the
local police, with that acuteness w hich belongs to the
craft, at once suspected that the parties in custody
might have been engaged in the affair. A close watch
was accordingly set upon the usual haunts of these
men, and after the lapse of a few hours, during
which they had been severally followed, the three met
on Sunday evening at the Rose and Crown beershop,
in Guildford, where their apprehension was effected
as already stated. Oa being taken into custody
they expressed their willingness to accompany
the officers wherever they chose, declaring at
' the same time their entire ignorance of the
crime with which they were charged. On being
questioned as to how they had passed the previous 48
hours, they denied having been in each other's com-
pany. The man who calls himself Hiram Smith, but
whose real name is Richard Trower, said that he was
at Kingston-on-Thames on Friday night, and went to
the theatre at that place. He added that he got a
lift from Guildford to Kingston in a fish cart, and re-
turned on Saturday by the railway. Levi Harwood
declared that he was on London-bridge at eight o'clock
on Saturday morning, looking for work, but finding
none, he came down to Guildford by the same night's
train, on the South-Eastern Railway. Jones accounted
for his time in a similar manner, and nothing was
gleaned to fix guilt upon one or other of them. Har-
wood was the only one upon whom any money was
found. He had two sovereigns in one of his pockets,
which he stated he had had by him for some months.
Only a few halfpence were found upon the others. It
is deeply to be regretted that in consequence of the
want of a proper lock-up-house at Guildford the pri-
soners were allowed to be together during Sunday
night. If implicated in the matter they bad thus an
opportunity of arranging their defence so as to avoid
contradicting each other. The magistrates felt this
evil so strongly that on remanding the prisoners on
Tuesday they directed that they should be conveyed
one to Guildford, another to Farnham, and a third to
Godaiming.
It was only after the arrival of the prisoners at
Frimley, on Tuesday morning, that anything ap-
proaching evidence of a eriminatory character was
obtained against them. Oa the village constable
(Macey) seeing them, however, he instantly recog-
nized Hiram Smith as a man he had spoken to in the
village on the Tuesday previous to the murder. Smith
was then selling crockery ware, and he had only left
the parsonage- house a few moments before he spoke
to Macey. The latter states that, upon coming up to
his cottage-door, Smith alluded to the deceased, and
said he bad just parted with him about threepence in
the price of two dishes. He added that he had tried
hard to get some "chuck" (bread and meat) out of
stated to
s have residence.
been recognized
him, but had failed. Smith does not deny this state-
ment, which, at least, shows a degree of familiarity
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village of Frimley.
Macey, the village constable, was the first person to
reach the parsonage-house after the alarm had been
given. He went up into Mr. Hollest's bedroam, and
found him lying down, with a cloth bound round his
abdomen to stop the flow of blood. Macey inquired if
he thought he was much hurt. The unfortunate gen-
tleman said he thought not, and at one proceeded to re-
late the circumstances of the attack. Mr. Hol-
iest told Macey that he never heard or saw anything
until he observed two figures standing at the foot of
his bed. After the pistol was fired Mr. Ilollest said
he continued to wrestle with his assailant, and was
rapidly getting the better of him when the other man,
who had been engaged with Mrs. Holiest left her,
and, coming to bisZcomrade's assistance, enabled him
to escape out of the apartment. Mr. Holiest added
that he did not know he was shot until he saw the
blood trickling down his legs after he had fired his
gun across the lawn.
The frequency of robberies of late in this part of
the country has caused great alarm among the resi-
dents in the neighbourhood. It will scarcely be
credited that within a very few months burglaries
have taken place at the residences of Major Birch, of
Clare Park, near Farnham ; Mr. Lindsay, of Hemp-
ton-lodge ; Mr. Stovold, of Runfold, near Farnham ;
Lady Wyndham, of
-grove Sutton, near Guildford ; and Mr.
Tickill, of Frimley, all of which are within a
circle of 10 miles.
The dreadful circumstances of the present case have
aroused the attention of Government, and yesterday
morning a placard of which the following is a copy,
was extensively circulaled :
"BURGLARY AND MURDER.-1.50/. REWARD.
"The dwelling house of the Rev. George Edward
Holiest, at Frimley-grove, Surrey, having been bur-
glariously entered by several men on the night of the
27th September, 1850, when one of them shot and
wounded Mr. Holiest, of which wound be died on the
29th, a reward of 100/. will be paid by her Majesty's
Government, and a further reward of 501 on behalf of
the disconsolate widow, to any person who shall give
such information and evidence as shall lead to the dis-
covery and conviction of the burglars. And her Ma-
jesty's gracious ardon will b 3 granted to any accom-
plice (not beings he person who actually fired the shot)
who shall give such information and evidence as shall
lead to the same result."
There is great reason to hope, in the event of the
parties in custody being guilty, that one of them
may impeach his companions. IVhile at Frimley
yesterday Harwood is stated to have asked one of the
(dicers whether any, and what reward, had been
E' offered for the discovery of the offenders.
The following is a list of the articles carried off by
the thieves :—A gold watch, No. 1,889 (maker's
name James Murray, Cornbill), with a short chain,
key and seal, united, and a plain bloodstone ; a silver
engine-turned hunting watch (out of repair); a small
old-fashioned gold watch with white dial ; a cone-
shaped plated sugar basin ; a silver antique snuffbox
with a device (figures) on it, gilt inside, and small
holes; a small silver box with hinge lid; a silver
pencilcase by Mordan " M" • , a gold ring with blood
Forget stone (engraved in old English - Me Not") ;
an engine-turned silver pencilcase (with plain blood
stone); two lads' rough blue cloth overcoats (with
name marked on tape inside) ; cup and paten (pocket
communion), and silver top to -a short camlet
cloak (dark brow pbottle ,
n, lined with serge); a black case
of silver instruments, with silver edges to lid, en-
graved "Colin Donaldsou" containing a six-inch
rule, a small pair of scissors, knife al
with plain silver
handle, toothpick, and compasses.; : ld-fashioned
silver tablespoon (much
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plate (King'_ worn in the howl) ;
8 pattern) knife, pick, and spoon, to fit
case ; a silver pencilcase with yellow stone, broken at
the
he silver tops of
es and about 51. i
two cruetbottl • ; t
n gold and silver
moneys,