The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-20 00:00:00

THE SHAPWICK MURDERS.

INQUEST ON THE BODY OF HENRY FREE-
MAN, HUSBAND OF SARAH FREE %lAN.

SHAPWICK, FRlDAY.—lrnmediately on the termi-
nation of the inquest on the child of Sarah Freeman,
the jury proceeded to investigate the facts relative to
the death of Henry Freeman, who died about Christ-
mas, 1843; the result of which was that the jury
again returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against
Sarah Freeman."

PUBLIC RECORDS OF AMERICA.—The Legislature
of the State of New -York have directed the trustees of
the State Library belonging to that city, in consideration
of a valuable acknowledgment from this country, to
transmit annually to the Commissioners of Public Re-
cords here copies of the American session laws, &c.
Nearly 200 volumes or these records of the United States
arrived a few days since in a vessel from New York, ad-
dressed to "The Commissioners of Public Records of
Great Britain," and will be delivered to that department,
in pursuance of directions from the proper authorities,
without payment of the usual duties on foreign books,
being for the public service.
BATHS AT CREWE.—The Grand Junction Com-
pany have erected baths near their works for the use of
their workmen. We highly approve of this, as there is
nothing so conducive to health and comfort as cleanliness
of person. Nine-tenths of the diseases to which Eng-
lishmen are at present subject, " would take their wings
and fly away," if our countrymen would only habituate
themselves to general ablution at least twice a week.
The Grand Junction Company deserves great credit far
having constructed the baths, which are opposite the
doors of their extensive workshops, and we have no
doubt their intelligent workmen will avail themselves of
the convenience. The proverb that places cleanliness
next to godliness is a good one, and would be very ap-
propriate over every entrance to a bath. We hope soon
to hear that there are no " unwashed" at Crewe.—
Railway Chronicle.

RAMSGATE.--The preparations for the railroad to
this place have within the last week assumed an appear-
ance of great activity ; upwards of 100 men are now
employed at saint Lawrence at a cutting. The chief
contractor has, we believe, taken the late residence of
Sir Thomas Gray, at the entrance to St. Lawrence, for
three years.—Dover Chronicle.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY
POACHERS.

Saturday information was received of an assault
of a most deadly nature committed upon Henry
Tebby, a gamekeeper in the service of Rousby,
Esq., of Collisford House, near Bicester, Oxfordshire.
The keeper, it appears, was proceeding to Hethe,
about seven o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of
engaging a man to work on the following morning,
and was passing a plantation, when he heard the cry
of a hare, as if caught in a snare, and, going to the
spot, he met three men, one of whom he knew, and
addressing him, he said, " Ah ! Jesse Willis, is that
you ?—I• know you." The fellow instantly struck
him down-with a heavy bludgeon, and as he lay on
the ground all the three men beat him most dread-
fully, and then made off. He was so much injured
as to be unable to move for some time, but at length
made his way to the house of the Rev. A. Maguire,
a Roman Catholic priest, find requested that some one
might be sent.to Collisford to inform his brother and
his master of what had occurred.

The Rev. Gentleman himself immediately went
into the village to look for a messenger, and on the
way asked a man whom be met to go to Mr. Rousby's,
at Collisford, and inform him one of his keepers had
been dreadfully beaten by poachers. The man, how-
ever, who afterwards proved to be no other than Jesse
Willis himself, declined the mission, and some one
else was- sought for. In the meantime a constable
named Harris had arrived, and from what Tebby
told him he went into the village and apprehended
Willis, and took him also to Mr. Maguire's; and the
keeper, being asked if he knew that man, said, " Yes,
that is Willis—that is the man that struck me." Mr.
Jones, a surgeon, was sent for to attend Tebby,
who he found to be in a dangerous state, frightfully
cut, and suffering from a concussion of the brain.
The poor man was afterwards removed to his own
house, and the next morning Willis was taken before
the magistrates at Bicester, and remanded for a week,
a medical certificate being produced, stating the
danger in which Tebby was.