The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-05 00:00:00

MARCH OF MURDER.

Within the last forty years, some very strange
murders have been committed in the county of Suf-
folk. The last person hanged for murder in this
county was a man named Thrower, and his convic-
tion and execution took place ip 1811, twenty-one
years after the murder was perpetrated ! Thrower
murdered an old man and his grand-daughter, at a
place called Chatfield Bridge; he beat their
brains out with a hammer, which he had borrowed
of a man named Head. He and Head were after-
wards transported, and in the year 1811, when the
Marrs' murder was the general topic of conversation,
some suspicion fell on Thrower; but no one knew
what had become of him for above twenty years.—
An attorney at Chatfield, named Williams, was in
conversation with another attorney at Cambridge, on
the subject of the Marrs' murder, and said to him,
" We suspect that a man named Thrower murdered
the old man and his grand-daughter at Chatfield, in
1790; but we don't know what is become of him."
The Cambridge attorney replied, that he had a le-
gacy to pay to a woman named Thrower, whose hus-
band has been absent from her twenty years, and he
had learned that the man had returned to England,
and was residing near Swaffham, and the wife could
not receive the legacy till she had obtained the hus-
band's signature. The Chatfield attorney immedi-
ately
went in pursuit of Thrower, and apprehended
him for the murder, near Swaffham ; when Head
came forward, and confessed that Thrower had bor-
rowed a hammer " to do a job," and that Thrower
afterwards boasted he had murdered the old man and
his grand-daughter with the hammer, and had thrown
it in a pond near the old man's honse. The pond
was searched, and the hammer was found. Upon
Head's evidence, corroborated as it was by the find-
ing of the hammer and other circumstances, Thrower
was convicted, hanged, and gibbeted.
A man named Smith was hanged with Thrower,
for murdering two of his children. Smith and his
wife were both found guilty of the crime. They
had actually tied up three of their children in a room,
and starved two of them to death. The survivor,
upon whose evidence they were convicted, was at
the time of the trial reduced to a mere skeleton,
having had but two potatoes to eat for the fortnight
previous to the apprehension of her parents. Mrs.
Smith pleaded her pregnancy after her conviction,
and nine months afterwards she was executed.

A farmer, named Nicholls, was executed about
thirty-five years ago at this place, who was convicted
of the murder of his daughter, a girl about fifteen
years of age. He lived at Fakenhum, and sent the
girl to a village to make a purchase ; on her way
home, he i►.duced his son to strike her with a stake
on the neck, and she fell dead ; they threw her body
intr.: a deep-ditch.
Roger Banstead, an opulent farmer, was hanged
and gibbeted for the murder of a farmer named
Briggs. The parties lived at Lakenheath. Banstead
had impounded on of Briggs' cows; and Briggs,
instead of releasing the cow by paying the fees to
Banstead, v.sed to go every morning to feed the cow.
Banstf:ad was enraged, and he induced a boy in his
service named Harper, to take his gun, and as Briggs
was feeding the cow, to shoot him. The boy
levelled the gun at the heart of Wggs, and the in-
jury was fatal, though brigs was able to walk to his
home before he expired. The boy, Harper, was
pardoned by the King, and qualified to give evidence
against Banstead, who was convicted upon the
clearest evidence.

Two men, named Tebble and Mays, were hanged
and gibbeted about forty years ago, for murdering a
Mrs. Phillips, a widow, who kept a small farm at
Haswell, in this county. Tebble, Mays, and a fel-
low named Wiseman, went to rob the house. One
of the gang knocked at the door and told Mrs.
Phillips that her cattle had got into the clover. She
went out to remove the cattle, and was murdered by
Wiseman, while the other two robbed the house ;
prisoner returned to the house and told his com-
panions " that he had settled the old woman," and
they were so terrified that they left the house with-
out taking the plunder they had collected with them.
Wiseman left the country and went to America, and
the other two were taken up in a public-house in
consequence of one having threatened the other—
!" that he would tell of his murdering old Mrs.
Phillips." They were hanged. Wiseman returned
' to England afterwards, but was not prosecuted ; he
died within the last two years.
Betty Burrows was hanged for the murder of
Mary Booty. The two women lived' with a man
named Steward, at Bury. Mary Booty was his
favourite, and in a fit of rage and jealousy, Burrows
threw Booty out of a window and killed her.
BURY, MONDAY NOON.—The witnesses against

Corder have just arrived at this place, from Polstead.
Not one of the visitors in twenty will be able to get
admittance into the Court to witness the trial, the
place being wretchedly small and inconvenient. It
is a fact that a celebrated operator in London (Jack
Ketch) has been sent for, to prepare for the
finishing" of the law, in case a conviction takes
place.

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