The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-08 00:00:00

THE SUSPECT ED MURDER AT
SALT-HILL.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

SLOUGIT, TUESDAY EVENING.—This mysterious
affair still continues to excite the most intense in-
terest amongst all classes of persons for many miles
around the vicinity in which the melancholy circum-
stance took place. Since the adjournment of -the
proceedings before the Coroner and jury, on Satur,
day last, some very important evidence has been ob-
tained, which will tend, as I am informed, to throw
considerable light upon the mysterious death of the
unfortunate subject of the inquiry, which will be
resumed, after two adjournments, before Mr.
Charsley, the Coroner, at ten o'clock to-morrow
to ~rning.
The following facts I have obtained to, day, and
from the respectability of the parties through whom I
have derived the information, I am induced to for-
ward them for publication in full confidence of their
strict correctness.
It appears that the prisoner, John Tawell, soon
after he left the house of the deceased, was seen to
cross over the high road from off the footpath on to
the opposite side, and walk close to the palings of the
garden of Mr. Botham, in which was found, early
the next morning, the ounce phial which has been
previously alluded to and which contained a very
small portion of a white liquid having a slight odour
of Prussic acid. The phial, the contents of which
have been analysed, and the result will be given in
evidence to-morrow, was without a label to indicate
what it contained.
The prisoner pi oceeded direct from Bath-place to
the Slough (down) station on foot, where he arrived
at a few minutes past seven o'clock. •The half-past
six o'clock train from Paddington had then then just
arrived. He then got into Mr. Dyson's Windsor
omnibus, and told the driver (who will be examined
before the jury at the inquest to-morrow) that he
wanted to be set down at Eton, and upon being asked
at what part of Eton, he replied, " At the house where
Sir John Herschell lived." " Why," said a gentle-
man who was sitting by his side, "that is at Slough,
sir, and not five minutes' walk from the station."
" Aye, so it is friend," replied the prisoner, " but
that's where I want to be set down." Upon the om-
nibus arriving. at the late residence of Sir John
Herschell, the prisoner got out, paid his fare, and
was observed to knock, but very gently, at the door.
The vehicle drove off, leaving him standing on the
steps of the house. Within a very few minutes after-
wards the omnibus from Windsor to meet 7h. 42m.

up train at Slough, came along the road. The pri-
soner hailed it, got inside, and rode back again to the
station. The particulars of his departure from Slough
to Paddington, and his subsequent apprehension at
the Jerusalem Coffee-house, have already been made
public. From inquiries since made at Sir John
llerschell's late residencee, it has been ascertained

that the gentle knock at the door, on the evening in
question, was not heard by any of the inmates, and
that none of them had ever seen a person at the door
dressed in the garb of a Quaker.
For the purpose of being enabled to trace the small
phial and its contents (found, on the morning after
the supposed murder, thrown over the palings into
the gardens of Botham's Hotel) into the possession of
the prisoner, full particulars of all the circumstances,
together with a correct description of the accused,
were forwarded to the Metropolitan Police Commis-
sioners, in Scotland yard, in order that the necessary
inquiries might be made at the shop of every chemist
and druggist throughout the metropolitan districts.
A letter was received from Col. Rowan this morning,
stating that the required investigation would be made
to-day, and that the results would be forwarded to
Eton before the assembling of the Coroner's jury to-
morrow morning.
I give the following correct description of the per-
son of the prisoner, which may, perhaps, by the pub-
licity which will be given to it in the columns of the
public press, be the means of eliciting some informa-
tion, and thus forward the ends of justice :—He is
about five feet six inches in height, 61 years of age,
with a small, narrow face, and light hair, rather in-
clining to a grey colour. He has no whiskers ; his
person is rather thin. He has a trifling squint in his
left eye, the pupil inclining towards his nose. Ile is
attired in the garb of a Quaker, wearing a broad-
brimmed hat, black waistcoat, dark olive-coloured
trousers, white cravat, and a loose great coat. He is
somewhat quick and rapid in his manner, and ap-
pears to be a man of considerable intelligence.
The unfortunate deceased was a servant in his fa-
mily during the lifetime of his first wife, to whom, I
am informed, he was united in New South Wales.
She died between five and six years ago, shortly after
their return from Sydney to this country. The de-
ceased left his establishment enciente, and was never
subsequently in service, but was ever afterwards sup-
ported by the prisoner.

When the deceased fetched the bottle of stout from
the Windmill Hotel, on the evening of the fatal oc-
currence, she borrowed a corkscrew of Mr. Botham's
barmaid. Upon being requested to return the cork-
screw and the bottle as soon as she had done with

them, she replied, " You may depend upon my
bringing them back in the morning."
The prisoner, who was born in Norfolk, about three
miles from the city of Norwich, has also friends and
connexions at Northampton, a town he visited about
three weeks ago. Mr. Ball, the superintendent of
the Northampton police, has been instructed to cause
the same inquiries to be instituted amongst the che-
mists and druggists in that town as those which are
to be made to-day amongst the same class of trades-
menin London by the metropolitan police.
When Mrs. Tawell visited her husband in custody,
on the afternoon of Friday last, she brought with her
from London a morning paper
of that day, containing
a report of the proceedings before the Coroner and
jury of the day before. The prisoner read the whole
of the evidence with great apparent composure.
The daughter, residing with her parent at Berk-
hamstead,. is not (as I have previously stated, from
information communicated to me in error) the child
of the prisoner by his first wife, but the daughter
of his present wife, by her former husband, Mr.
Cuthbert.

The prisoner, who is in daily expectation of receiv-
ing remittances from abroad, appears to be at the
present time extremely short of cash. When his wife
was with him on Friday evening last, he wished her
to leave with him some money, but she had but a
sovereign in her possession, and consequently his re-
quest could not be complied with. He has since re-
ceived a parcel containing a change of linen, from
Berkhamstead, without the required pecuniary aid.
The special messenger who was sent to that town on
Friday, with a letter from the prisoner to his wife,
was to have been paid a sovereign for his trouble, but
he could not obtain it. The money has since been
paid to him by the prisoner's solicitor.
The greatest precautions are taken by the Eton
superintendent of police to insure the safe keeping of
the prisoner. At night he is handcuffed and secured,
by means of a chain, to the bed-post. He appears at
all times to be fidgetty and ill at ease, and extremely
restless at niAht, obtaining but little sleep till towards
the morning. On Sunday evening he read several
chapters in the Bible, and prayed fervently for a con-
siderable time after he had retired to rest.
From the inquiries he has made as to his mode of
conveyance from Slough to Aylesbury, he appears to
anticipate the result of the inquiry before the Coroner
and jury, which it is expected will be brought to a
close to-morrow.

The result is looked forward to with the deepest
nterest.

Mr. Tawell, although he ceased to be a member of
the Society of Friends upon his conviction and trans-
portation, has nevertheless not only continued to wear
the distinguishing garb of that body, but has regu-
larly attended religious and other meetings connected
with the Scciety from which it was not in their power
to exclude him, sometimes travelling considerable
distances to be present on such occasions.
On his first return from Sydney he discharged all
his debts with the most punctilious regard to the
presented a consider-
able claimssu omf
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person
with whom he had
previously been in partnership, in consideration of
any loss which he might have sustained from his un-
fortunate connexion with him.

After remaining in England for some time, he again
returned to Sydney, where he added considerably to
the wealth he had previously accumulated.
In Berkhamstead and the neighbourhood the pri-
soner hasilong been regarded as an exceedingly cha-
ritable man ; indeed, we have heard that his gifts in
charity frequently amounted to 201. a week, and al-
though this is manifestly an exaggeration, he could not
have enjoyed the good opinion of the poor which he
did, had not his largesses been considerable.
While in Sydney he made himself remarkable for
his advocacy of the cause of temperance, and, at his
own expense, on one occasion " started " a cargo of
ruin into the sea, rather than allow it to be the means
of demoralising the colonists.

CARLISLE AND LANCASTER RA ILWA Y.—We are
assured from all quarters that the works of this line are
in a very advanced state, notwithstanding the late un-
favourable weather. The ground has been broken in no
less than thirty places, and there are already 3,000 men
employed along the line. When the spring advances, and
the workings are more fully opened out, it is computed
that at least double that number will be employed. We
are glad to learn that the Company have hitherto expe-
rienced very little difficulty in their transactions with the
owners of the land traversed—indeed, we have not heard
of more than one case that is likely to occupy the atten-
tion of a jury.—Carlisle Patriot.
NORTH CURRY.—On Friday night, between the
hours of twelve and one o'clock, an unoccupied cottage,
in Moor-lane, was discovered to be on fire, and was en-
tirely consumed. The fire apparently commenced at a
corner of the thatch, and was no doubt the work of an
incendiary. The poor man, of the name of Fudge, to
whom the cottage belonged, had purchased it, and laid
out the hard earnings of many years in making it com-
fortable, and intended almost immediately to occupy it,
when some vile wretch, it is supposed out of spite, ruined
his prospects for even—Somerset County Gazette.