The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-16 00:00:00

,
ing eireumstafie.es of the murder, mittleouttely suspected
that be had a hand in it, and rtecordingly mentioned the
tom Irk, to it.turnkey or the Remit, fought hart
atiVf. police-office. When Yom Was ape
pretended, he hail a bundle of new clothes tinder his arm,
'he Alleged to -have pnychased that mernieg for 175,,
and' More being foiled Obis pocketS on searehieg
Watt 'strengthened against` hits ' flit being
eputittionett Where he' got the money, and froin What ptirt
► thkcountry, he had ,arrived, he eqUivocated Very melt;
' but at length said that he had come up that nuitaitet from
Leatherhead, and added' that he found the Money that
. purchased the new clOthele and part of which was in his
pocket, tied up in 4 White handkerehiefht Leatherhead fair,
on Thursday night. •
Vl' en Porde the ofbeer proceeded to ask him some
questions relative to the murder at P(4101114111, Jones said,
pulling up the sleeves of his. coat, " You may see that I
haVt no 1,100(1 Uplen me; and if you examine those clothes,
lane will not find n speck of blood open them." The sus-
pieion Excited against jones was therefort considered so
etrong; tot to warrant. his detention, and he was immedi-
Ot'ely taken down to Fetchamn, tere he underwent an
'Aitimination• before Mr. Rolland, in the course of which
ho equivoeated so gressly, 'that scarcely a word he tit-
'. toed ,was; be believed. At length, however, on
,theestened with .commiti al to prison, he became
exeeedingly *hunted, anti told a very different story of
the finding of the money. It ultimately, however, was
'aseertaiited, that a man, named.Rall, had been robbed at
Leatherhead fair; and that a handkerchief found on the
Parson of the prisoner belonged to that person. Mr. -Rob.'
Una aceordire.Ay committed him for further examination ;
t. the:same tine obaerving that there was considerable sus-
, . picionatattelied to hits conduct. The prisoner was,:there-
.. fore, loeked up in the ,aatge.on Saturday night; and the
persons from whom he declared he had °bighted the parti-
.,.eithne of the tourdee. were directed to be sent far, in order
tai diseover, whether • there was any truth in his assertions,
During the examinatithe Jones frequently protested his
innocence of beritig tiny participation in the murders; and
eonelioie!rhe was attacked with lira whit h lasted
r-7 ;fir tune. Indeed, this omen's conduct and
Avehivioni"sinee. his apprehension have been so mysterious,
diet, independent Of the charge of robbery that Will be pre-
. 4,erettlUagiatist hint, thiCSigistrates etrietly • investi-
geteVelletina. there ore trotods for suspecting that he was
implieeted iatttlre natirdlifte.'''' •
• 'HADDITIbIIAL -PARTICULARS.
{aßetilitt)'lAST
it was the crouton 'of Elizabeth Raines, the housekeeper,
since Akehursthad been' bedridden, to retire to bed in the
r'vritittg by nine o'clock, and sotnetiinee, in the winter,
• earlier. There was a fair et Leatherhead on Thursday lust,
the night this murder was committed ; and it was first
eetiijicidied that some person from the fair had been
tflkiVerpetrater, and its the bodice )Vere still warm
, ttblt
`found on the folloWing Morning, it is supposed
that' it vas after' midnight when the deed' was done.
'the mode by which the murderer effected un entrance
through the witalishouse window into the cottage at
firer: ("awed the pollee-officers to' suspect. that, what.they
Pall A regular cracksmun, or, in Other Words, a practised
burglar, front the metropolis, had committed the murder
for the sake of, plunder, because the pane of glass was
taken out of the window in as workthanlike a manner as if
giarier bad iiQhe it; but other circumstances have ire
thenfintlitilar;the Magistrates, to believe that the murder
"vas eint*iteil by some one who had a knowledge of the
j,ariief,a.'sed'was. well acquainted with the neighbourhood.
he'ciremnittenee of the police officere finding a pair of
the 'old Melee shoe's and a waistcoat under a hedge in a
el,fOtat on the opposite side' of. Cock-lane! about 150 yards
,from' the r!ottage, 'has giVeit rise to much conjecture, not
fitviairahle to the opinion, that a person whose object wins
Phlnfitr connuitted the !wittier. The shoes and waistcoat
were new; anti if they •liall been earrit.la from thit.house by
thief, he would, in all probability, have taken other wear-
ing apparel, arid' leerely those. articles; and having
taken them, it 11,-o; twin why should be (111osit them
in a cavity et the bottom of a luqi44e, in an adjoining close?
Surely, it is hstyimil belief to Suppose, that, after commit-
'mg such a 414.4;tdr441 4') were so thvoelited for the
porpolie of 1,, ::111.;,..1 4)11 air a more convenient. opportu-
"4.Y• It i., comiidel cif more than probable, that the
murderer's ;Inject was not to rob the house, and that the
f!"•ll)er',y so lound Map; placed there by the murderer, to
n'P2fte it' appear that it thief, disturbed in plundering the
aortae, had committed the horrid crime. It is unfortunate ,
for the ends ofjustive, that no pereme on the morning of the
murder was diseovered, or even thought of tracing the foot-
marks muter the window through which the murderer
tittered. The soil is hoot and clayey, and important evi-
depoe might have been obtained, if such a course had been
taken ; hut the moment tha murder was known, hundreds
surrounded the cottage, and entered the gardens, and all
trace of footsteps was thereby lost. 'The cottage,: orchard,
end paddock, had Been willed by Akehuret to his daughter,
Mrs. Ayres, who is Ithout seventy years of age. ' This
old sonata sat" in the house, attended by one of her
sons, who ii(ipears to he forty years of age, when the
.fury viewed the bodies, and he observed, that he
had passed hat it. wretched night, in sitting up in the
Cottage, with ,his towhee Auld a youth, not that he
feared' any thing, bet Ida eoMpiltiicois fuel asleert, end he
did not like, it. Ile related. the feet- of a painter hav-
ing,
been transpetted for eomtiritting a herglary, two yenta
. .
ago g:LanahLthvyS cottage, under the following mr-
vionstetices :—The,robber entered the house at night), un-
obsorved by the old couple, rind the ,olit woman soon
afterivards hearing tenoise, was alarmed, and went to the
top Of the Stairs to learn the Mute, when the robber seized
her and demanded her money. She gave him about , las.
, and he• departed, Ile' was afterwarde apprehended and
coevieted. ,It WM:Milted by the grandson to a gentleman
wiur visited the cottage on Saturday, that probably this
robber bad crimmitted the murder to gratify feelings of re-
venge ; but we understand that such cannot possibly be the
fait, hi!to.lisciTtnio.A that. he. is heyond the seas,
rn persatence of his 'sentence, The, farMers, and cottagers
its rite-neighboorfauel, and particularly their wives and
childon, are much terrified at .this event. Some parts of
ther.l4llage of Parham are very lonely, and the cottage of
the'Aei'aiased is obscurely fituated. The road to it down
Coat-lane is serpentine, and one view of it strongly resembles
the ilark lane loadins• to fitobert'a house, in Gill's
114116 While the etifewer's. Jury, were eittinkonSatur-
' Ay sU Ise, I,+;'..ttaill'i!.44ritit4lo4-'it.terrogateet some of
tho tlte am. to where they. were on
the night kr I 'the murder, and as to the manner which, and
the Ogle wlms9,- they hetird ref this murder. Nothing was
Preaoa eau int noticed. The prisoner
Jones was furthers exainined, and it appeared that he
left Letithetheati on r rititty tiMining, for. London, and or-
rived in the lior""gh aboui, devout o'clock, having
walked Fut of the way, and tode outside a Nisch the re-
mniuder; lieleo ht t n
Ttti vt
in committing robberies at
LearhOrheeol ; Mitt it W 44 clearly ascertained, by the
Rev. 14. r. Bated, who; e*fimitied him, that ho had not
been sit Veit:ham beftae the officers brought him there

soner.
Itt
uaO tt tounr awl the
04 Report 4)1 the COroner'S we forgot
to
mention- the gent letnaplY colidnt.
Magistrates or the COunty, to the ilePortecit ; these gru.
ut.
denten r94press,4ll,-cv:,t that tticy cr til 111 fiord better
necobbooilitti)ti to tbe.a...otlemendouncetett with the Prey®.

per/SOll takes tip keedom in Oa town
of" Ablieick, he is obliged by the charter of 'that plaza
to jump intl.) an adjacent bog, and sink up to his
ant. 'J'liiii'eutorn wits imposed by King John, who,
trnitelfing that way, and his horse sinking fast in the
hole, I,i.nik_thni method ro,punish the people of the
town fd.i" not lcopinit; the road in better order.--r.Lin-
coin niefeury.:
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_the iittAhty a-the foyer raging in Romney
Marsh, that thikeen inirsOns ware last 'Neck lying
tleo in the :Anal' Parish of Warehorne, which con-
tain* about 400 inhabitents-Liticoht Mercury. •