The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-03 00:00:00

THE MURDER IN ST. GILES'S.

(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
Since the murder of Eliza Grimwood, in the Waterl:7,s
road, no case of that description equals in atrocity 0
11—
cold blooded determination the murder perpetrate", •
Monday night, on the body of Ann Tape, but who
married woman of the name of Brothers, for some Ye'

separated from her husband. IDS
It appears that the murderer and the murdered kc
to the house at about twenty minutes to eleven e'cl,l4.
and the latter asked an old woman, named Mary •'•
ld
mer, locum tenens for the landlady, whether they c°l/ea
have a threepenny bed fur the night. Palmer answer i
in the affirmative, and the murderer paid her threcVl",h;
Palmer then gave the woman a light, and she aro -3,
murderer entered the inner room, already. describelf
They had scarcely done so, when Palmer seated hr e
on the last step of the stairs "to have a smoke, 'td
said. and was barely five minutes there when she Ilefibt,
the parties quarrelling, and perceived, she thong re
the sound of blows. She called out, " What IL,ci
you doing to the woman ?" The murderer returr,er
no answer. 'Palmer then pushed the outer 0,-4
in (the door opening into the street passage), 76,
advancing to the door of the inner room, saw the bio
ceased silting on the bed, and the murderer Wit've
right hand above his head in the act of striking her.
old woman, Palmer, exclaimed, "Do not beat thesr
woman any more, you have beat her enough alreand
The assassin then rushed out. pushed Palmer aside,,,
hurried into the street. Eis victim rose from the wite
staggered towards the room door, and fell back 'ill 0§
inner passage in the position already described. IS ore
not until then that the aged woman, Palmer, who is at
sighted, saw the extent of the mischief. toot'
The unfortunate creature was 45, yea' ri old, e. a-600
strong woman, a once comely features, until dissebul
had disfigured them. She was-d.aniarried wonieo9,;fe,
abandtmA her husband ten years' aisl' He stills:4J
h'e
and lives in George street. Atter "s left herbusuP e,
she lived with a man named Ti 96, and assumed his 010
He has been dead some time; andiitlce she has le
life of prostitution. She was Well',knerwii *in St. Gilesef
and was a quiet woman--one'of the least ill-behaV"

her class. lioe'
The person of the murderer is known to the radio
hut not his name. He is sam.e'ihi3.t under the n3l sbe
h ight—has broad high shoulders, ohe higher than ho
,tll, r. His rice is nark and allid-= Ma hair black,
whiskers of th(- same colour, and `hi`tsven- small. He nit,
a rough hair cap, a dark velveteen jacket, and lig
coloured trousers. His agellitbout
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The police are as yet couiplete'lii* the dark as,te
perion Who committed this infamous ;murder.
t- were in c:rittilathm iir.the.course of TO vo
that Ihe teal actor in this ditiholital detll bad been ts.ol,
into custody ; but these rutriotirS, :on further itiq3l6l
prow,d unfounded. True it was, that a man na'%,
Medhurq, or Meadows, a widoWer, with whom the °a,
fortunate deceased had, at a former period, cohabiLed
had been by the mother of the murdered woman- to
..„0
as the suppo,ed assassin ; but this imputation bad e 0
complex Ply set aside by the positive assurance of the ivniffep
in the brothel that Meadows was tioitheMan vvhobadte''
. her°
the room in George-street on= Monday night. ?so
is n'w no doubt, however, that the murderer is 10°
not only to many of the unfortunate girls in that neig:;
bourhood, but also to the police-=known, we nieanvii.
sight—for his name is, as yet , undiscovered.
ti
latest intelligence at the dill. rent police stations
col)
'
ncthing to the information given the first day, e-
s
perhaps this somewhat meagre addition, that a
w%
LI/ 0
whose name need not at this' stagd of the procee
be given, called at the policetsation, in Maryleblo
and informcd the inspector ):A duty, that he ,4
fully of opinion that he knew the. Murderer; that no
had been schoolfellows together,' 'arid had been in °el
munication since ; that he (the'iiit'Ormant) met hiliihod
the day after the murder, and bad "been told that 118 is'
enlisted in the East India Company's service. Tbeol
formant had no dottlit from that person's manner,
of
from other circumstances thatThsti come to his icejer,
ledge, that that person had committed the murgith
A constable was at once ordered to go -re,
the informant to the East India Company'%
cruiting quarters in Soho-square, for the purP°s-00
ascertaimng if such a per-on had actually enlisted, ify
also of identifying the party: The result of thet,„fice
quiry is as yet unknown, but the whole circurns"-reol
seems too vague to justify any expectation that the
criminal is the party.
On inquiry at the George-street station-house de,rol,
porter received the general answer, that no 'no:
ligence, calculated to lead to any immediate 04
tection of the murderer, had been received,'
consequently it may be confidently stated that not
can be certainly known worthy of credence until the 11;00
ceedings before the Coroner's inquest shall have beta
reported, The warrant for the inquest has not YO
issued, but it is expected to sit to-day. Of 1
The house in George-street is still an object foal
abated curiosity, hundreds of persons attendingidei
the very earliest hour to gaze at- its external feting 0
and it is found a matter of necessity to have a PY3....e,
constables in attendance to preserve somedegree oft:. 00
The inmates, it need scarcely be added, are ullr
surveillance of the police.

MARKET NE WS.-(YESTERD
CORN EXCHANGE.
On the w le, our Alarket was heavily supplied 16°1..0
pies of English Wheat. All descriptions, as on Mendliiher,
slowly at that day's depressed currencies. In Foreign :10oP
so little was doing, that the rates may be considered 'acid,'
nominal. In Barley and Malt next to nothing Was npliv
at late rates. Oats, owing to the immense 04801,
brought thrward, were selling on easier terms•
Peas, and Flour, without alteration.
ARRIVALS. Fr ate
NYlledt. _ Barley. _ Oats. 1 -1,60
English .... • • 2;580 qrs. 2,050 qrs. -7000—
Irish •• •• •• • • 430 2,830 I
Foreign ......

Malt, 3,950 qrs.
IV7IXTZCIIA.PEL, t Z
bi
We had a fair average supply of Meat on offer, W-1 or-../
t,eneral demand was heavy, at barely p evious rates• r
front 2s 4,1 to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d; Latlab'o pet
to 5s 8d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 2s 8d to 43
Sibs.. by the carcase.
COAL raArarET.
Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Adair 9 1611
153 6d ; Buddle's West Hartley, 16s; Carr's Hartlel'fif
Chester Alain, 15s 6(1 ; Davis, n's West Hartley, 16s 6(1
• Tantield, 14s 6d ; Hasting's Hartley, 16s; H01yWe,,,11,,60
16s 6,1; Nelson's West Hattley, I6s 6d ; New I;ter
I4s 6d • Ord's Redheu,J), 14s ; Old Tantield, 14s 6d ;,„;1';',0101'
worth 'West Hartley, 16s; Tantield Moor, 18s 6d ; 160
15s ; Taylor's West Hartley, 15s 9d ; West Hartlei,l69/
West Tyne Main, 14s; West Wylam, 154; 6d; l`lef
Wall's-end—Heaton, 17s ; New Walker, 15s 64,;10100,17
March, 15s6d; Urpeth, 16s; Wharncliffe, 16s 9d ; ri,„s" 0,7
17s 6,1; Braddyll's Hettou, 19s ; East Hetton, 163; l'isflu.
19s 6d ; Houghall, 17s ; Hetton, 19s ; Hylton, 16s 6d; '-gor
ton, 19s; North Hetton Lyons, 173; Richmond, 173kelloet
sell's Iletton, 18s 6d; Stewart's, 19s; Caradoc, 1934,..;010411'
lis 6d ; Leasingthorne, 18s ; South Kelloe, 17s; Ple."
18s; Adelaide, 17s 9d ; Brown's Deanery, 16. 9d it. par
Hartlepool, 15s ; Fox, 16s 6d ; Gordon, 15s 3d; Sou 9. 101
ham, 168 6d ; Seytnour Tees, 17s ; Tees, 18s 3d ; Tows% if
Anthracite, 20s; Cowpen Hartley, 16s; Hartley, I'l We
Lewiss Merthyr, 21s 6d; Sidney's Hartley, 163;._,_ 69'
liar, ley Netherton, 16s 6d.—Ships arrived since last

BIRTHS. r'D‘v
On the 28th ult., Mrs. Charles B. Bingley, of Gtest
borough-street, of a daughter. G* o°°'
On the 28th ult., at Yately, Hants, the lady 0. -- A
Esq., of a daughter. Ore
On the 28th ult., the wife of Mr. W. T. Clarke, of
James-street, Bedford-row, of a son. Ate''-' rii Peel
On the 29th ult., at Plymouth, the lady of A
Smi, Esq., of Calcutta,
Camdeof a son.
On the 29th ult., at n-road-villas, the wif° of lq'
Speed, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son. ,aloOs
On the 29th uit., at Cheltenham, the lady of Jaloos'
Esq., of a son. ~... 131'
On the 29th ult., at Montague-street, Rusaell-0111'''
S. Haines, of a daughter. 1011
On the 30th ult., at Streatham-hill, Brixton, the
ofJames Parkinson, Et.q., of a daughter.
Any Doe
On the 30th ult., at Little Hampton, Mrs. H
daile, of a son.
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MRRIED.
On the 27th ult., at SkirA
penbeck, near York, C. p rreg. stO
.'r
Esq., solicitor, Hull, to Julia. eldest daughter of th•
Britton, late Vicar of Great Bardfield, Essex.

DIED. °
On the 22d ult., at Portsdown Lodge, Mrs. Cassall -
a
Ausn, of Chawton,t
age
red 72. CotIV
On the 23d ult.;Cawswood, Cork, Miss Juliana 1
bertson, aged 82. warna
On the 28th ult., in Portman-square, Colonel '
Dlttri
Gra, late of th Greader Guards. el,
On ,the 28the ult.,n ati Fenton House, Hamlstes
Anne, widow of the late Rev. C. B. Charlewood. SOO'
On the 29th ult., at Brook-street, Hanover-square, •
the widow of Henry Hunt, Esq., M.D. —ri---01
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L0.,5,,,:, . Irrinted and Ilublished by MURDy.. So. -of
No. 112, strand, Printer. at The Sure Office, coati
Strand. in the Preeiact of the Savoy, laz To 4
Middlesex, Thursday, April 5,1845.