The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-03 00:00:00

HORRIBLE MURDERS.

PARIS, JUNE I9.—The following extract of
a letter from Madrid, dated June 1, gives amore
detailed and accurate account of a most horrible
crime committed in the neighbourhood of Ma-
drid, than that which some of the Journals pub-
lished :
" On the 23d of last month a pedlar, one of
town
those
ocfalclehdopoirzectgsos,instothppe epdraotviancheoouf 6se iiluaxtihae.
laxara, where he had•frequently put up before.—
Haying an entire confidence in the owner of the
house and his wife, from his long acquaintance
with them, he left his pack in the chamber where
he had supped, and retired to another room to
Sleep. The woman of the house, at first moved'
only 'by. curiosity,' opened the pack; but the sight
of numerous articles Of female ciress, in silk,. cot-
ton, &c., together with a sum of money which it
containd, tempted' her to propose to her husband
to murder the pedlar, and make his property their
Own. As her husband hesitated to do the deed,
she, like another Lady Macbeth, seized a po-
niard, and stole on tip-toe into the room where
the pedlar lay fast asleep. She gave him two
stabs in the belly, and one in the heart, which
almost instantly produced death. The husband
and wife then conveyed the. body to the garden,
where they dug a grave, and buried it. A few
days afterwards the woman put on her daughter,
aged 'eight years, one of the silk handkerchief
found in the pack of the unfortunate pedlar.
The child went to school, when her mistress
asked her where her mother had bought so pretty
a kerchief. The' child replied that she did not
know ; but that her mother had a great many of
the same,' and others which were still prettier.
The schoolmistress told the child to ask her
mother to sell her one. On returning home, the
child told her mother what had taken place. The
latter became dreadfully alarmed, and, going into
the next room, told her husband that they were
in almost invevitable danger of discovery through
the indiscretion Of the child, and that the only
means that remained to prevent it was to put the
child to death ! She then proposed to him to
dig a grave in the garden, and said, I will send.
the 'child with your breakfast to you to-morrow ;
you will strangle her with a cord, and imme-
diately bury her. To this horrid plan the un-
natural wretch consented. It would appear by
the sequel that the child overheard this 'conver-
sation ; for the next morning, at seven o'clock,
when she was sent by her mother with breakfast
to her father, she found him standing near a
hole he had dug. After wishing him good mor-
row, she added, Papa, that grave is for me—is
it not ? These words, from the innocent lips of
his child, awakened the feelings of nature in his
bosom ; tears fell from his eyes, and, with a
tone of affected anger, he told her not to
come near him, but to return to the house.
When the inhuman mother saw her child return,
she became convinced that she must herself per-
petrate the horrid deed. She lighted the oven,
threw a large quantity of wood into it, and, when
it was thoroughly heated, she, after gagging her
child, and tying her hands and feet, threw her
into the flames, and closed the oven.door upon
her ! The thickness of the smoke, and its ex-
traordinary smell, attracted the attention of the
neighbours, some of whom entered the house,
and asked what there was baking, that could
occasion such an odour. The murderess at first
endeavoured to brave it out, and told them it
was no concern of their's what she was baking;
but her confusion and terror became so great,
that the neighbours resolved to see the cause of
it, and, opening the oven doors, they were struck
with horror on seeing two half-consumed legs—
the only part of the unfortunate child that had
not been reduced to cinders ! Some of those
present fled with horror from the house, and
went to inform the 'Corregidor. On the arrival
of the officers of. justice, the property of the
murdered pedlar, which was found in the house,
s possible."
led. to a search . for his body, which was disco-
vered in the garden. The perpetrators of these
almost incredible atrocities avowed their guilt,
farnodm lodgedeenco
they v
ethe ;prison
ri ison of
f Cssi
since transferred t
so.
the prison of Madrid. Their trial is expected a
to take place with as little delay e

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[GHER CLASS OF INHABITANTS OF
- PtIROS. -

PoHos, MAY 18.--At the present moment,
most of the members of the: Provisional Govern-
ment are residing here. lam personally ac-
quiinted with many of them, but I have only
hmi the honour of visit Ong two or three. Many
of them dress in the European costume, but

ethers wear the dress of the country or island to
which they belong. You are not, perhaps,
.Iware that the Greek dress is different in every
island, but I can assure you that not only are
their dresses various, but in many respects their
customs and manners are very' different. We
must, however, return to our original subject.

The best house in Pores can bear no compari-
son with the neat and humble cot of the Englista
peasant. One of the best buildings is occupied
by Boudouri arid his family. He is a Hydriot,
and was lately one of the Chief Primates of that
island ; and has, moreover, for some years been
,me of the leading 'members of the Government.
!ri describing the dwelling of this individual, I
shall enable you'Ao form some idea of those of
the other Primates, but, with your leave, I will
:)reface my account by giving you 'a short de-
scription of the individual himself. He always
dresses in the Costume of his island, namely, a
short round jacket (generally of an olive colour)
-Aged with black silk braiding. It is made so as
'o fit closely to the back of the neck, but has no
ollar, so that the neck is left quite exposed.—
They never button the jacket. Under it, they
wear an embroidered waistcoat,. made either of
silk or clOth—generally, the dress of the Chief
is neater and plainer than that of the common
people ; some of whom wear most splendid
dresses covered with gold embroidery. Their
waistcoats are made very different from ours.—
only.thing I can compare them to, is our
ander-waistcoat, for. they,' like , them, are cut
down three or four inches in front. Of course,

this you may judge that' they do not button
ii front, but '.must -be • fastened behind. They
wear no collar or wrist-bands to their shirts.—
['heir trowsers are the most extraordinary part
~.)f their dress.•' How to describe them I am at a

ioss, but I will do my best : Suppose you were
to cut two holes in a wide sack, each large
anouah to admit a leg,
.and you were to
tray; this on, ' fastening the upper part round
vour waist, letting the remainder fall down in
lumerous folds as low as the. calf of the leg,
:our sack would then perfectly resemble a pair
Jf Hydriot trowsers. These trowsers are gene-
rally made of a kind of fustian, olive and
')rovvn the general colours. A crimson silk sash
sound the waist, worn very wide (and in which
.he soldiers and common people generally stick
heir arms) ; a pair of white cotton, or nankeen
silk stockings, with a shoe either very square-
'oed, or turning upwards in a point, but without
ties, completes the dress of the Hydriot Chief.
—The lower order rarely, indeed, sport , a
pair of stockings. Some of -these miserable
creatures Will 'saveidl.the money they can scrape
together in a year, living all the time with the
.nost rigid abstemiousness, merely,forsthe sAke
of laying the whole out in a rich suit. Such
votaries are they to dress, that it is not uncom-
mon for a 'man to spend several. years' hard
earnings in the purchase of gorgeous and costly
attire. It is, therefore, by no means a rare thing
ro see a Greek with a suit of clothes on his back

embroidered all over with various devices 'in
;old, worth probably 2,000 piastres (about 341.
English), and frequently twice that sum. It is
truly ridiculous to see these fellows in their
splendid apparel. without a shoe or stocking to
their feet, and frequently without a penny in
their pockets. But Greece is not the only
place where the rage for dress is prevalerit, it is
just the same throughout all the Turkish em-
pire. I have omitted to mention one indispens-
able requisite in the dress of both. Lord and
simplenamely, the Greek crimson skull cap,
which just covers the top of the head, and is
crowned by, a-small
.blue silk tassel. This is
worn by high and, low, both at home and abroad,
and is the only covering for the head among
those who do not wear turbans. They NN. ear
all weathers and seasons, and never sit at home
or walk abroad. without it. it is made out of
one piece of cloth, without any seam ; the tex-
ture is either coarse or fine, according to the
price, as you may judge, when I. tell you that
they are to be bought from two to eighteen
piastres. All this time have I digressed from
my original subject, and now I have so' little
room left, that I must really Apologise, and beg
to defer a description of Boudouri's house to
my next, in which I will also give you a short
account of Mavrocordato, as well as of his re-
sidence. In the meantime, I cannot conclude
this letter better than by finishing my brief his-
tory of Boudouri. He and Admiral Tombasi
married the sisters of Demetrio Vulgari, a Hy-
, driot Primate, and one of the members of the
Government. He is about thirty-five years of
age, five feet ten inches in height ; his counte-
nance is fine'and expressive. Like all other
Greeks, he sports the fiercely-curling moustachio.
He speaks remarkably good French, is extremely
polite and attentive to strangers, but eslpecially
so to Englishmen. He has a pretty good for-
tune, and has presented his country with two or
three very fine brigs of war. His father resides
j at Zante, and is highly respected.

LONGEVITY.—There are at present residing,
a few doors from the Nine Elms Tavern, Vaux-
hall, a Mrs. White, Miss Pitts, Mrs. Slade,, and
Miss Lynn, whose united ages are 368 years;
the former 104, the two latter ones 90, ale other
84 years.

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