The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-12 00:00:00

MURDER AT PUTNEY.

Vern inp?ortlnt inflirmation Mt" conveyed to the
stat ion-hon RC in Regent's-park„ at nine .o'clock yesterday
meeting, from which there eau be little., or no-doubt.
notwithstandlug all the statements that have appeared.
that Good, the supposed murderer, if not already in
cn,:tody, is at St. Alban's or Hertford. The party
who brought the intelligence is a farmer, residing
at Whetstone, of the IMMO of Elliot ; he states
that between ten and dives o'clock yesterday fore-
noon he was let the Torrington Arms on Finchley
Common, when a man was drinking at the bar.
Elliot at first took no notice of hbn, but snbsequently
was struck by his appearance, which strongly resembled
the description of Good in the hi% circulated in and
about the metropolis. Elliot mentioned his suspicions
the landlord, who was also of the satn.a opinion. During
this conversation the man was ,Handing outside the
door, en the stepa of the inn ; ha betrayed a very un-
settled state of mind, and was yery dejected in his coim-
tenance; he had a large walking-stick and a bundle. Mr.
Elliot and the landlord were satually convinced, at
length, that the man was Gookatutwere consulting as to
the best method of Retir,: in order that he should be ap-
prehended, when he ram off the steps of the house into
the road, at the same Jaime hailing a St. Alhan's coa_di
passing at 4he time, on which he mounted, and before
Elliot or the landlord of the Torrington Arms In❑
could recover. themselves it order to dztain the
coach, it was some distance an the road towards Bar-
net. Mr. Elliot, itt giving the information, says he
has no doubt, the man is Goad, het there is one cir-
cumstance which makes this suspicion almost a cer-
tainty ; whilst the man was sit the inn, he went back-
wards, and after he had left, a coloured cotton hand-
kerchief was found by the pot-boy in the privy, which
was in a very filthy state, from the stains of hard clotted
blood ; no person at the inn over possessed the handker-
chief, and there can be no•doubt it was dropped by the
suspected patty.
Mr. Inspector Aggs, and two policemen of the S
immediately on receiving the above information,
proceeded in a post-chaise to St. Alban's, and it is to be
hoped that they will be fortunate In tracing the man.
The handkerchief is in possessiee of the landlord of the
Torrington *raw. It has not yet been ascertained
whether there are any Initials 19 it, as it remains in
the state it was found.

The following additional likiti,itlar3 relative to Good have
been obtained by one of our earroipendents from a source ni,on
which reliance may be plasei —.About eight or nine years
a;zo Good filled the situation of eoselisnah with a gentleman
who resided at No. 17. Brewton-place; and while in that ser-
vice he was suspected Of pillaring, and. was at length 'taken
into custody upon, a charge of robbitig his master of a cloak,
wet tried for the offence, and ordnoud to be transported
for seven years. tie we not, howeverossint out of the country,
but, after bele; at the hulks a,boost four years, was set at
liberty. Wbsaa Good was ie ins wash...E. he was coo.
bidered to be ,a sesrried man, •awl isi.s wife, or the woman
who represented isers-lf as too,. bilgud near the Two
Brewers' public-house slt Claphans, .and Good used to eo
home to see bar two or three titan a week.
had at this tine; one chili, thee quits en infant, which
is supposed to be the same child (bat sifsis with the prisons/3' a.
the time of the Seal discevery. Gmt.Dies taken into custody
upon the cbarge• of stealing the cloak at Southampton, by
Sergeant Bonny, mid is well kneessi by 'a great number of
other men belonging to the P division of police; he was
generally called " Irish Dan?' i* the neighbourhood of Brixton.
After his term of Irneritonment bed expired, he again returned
to Clapham, and remained there for stubs time, when it is be-
lieved be to Ireland, and upoi his returning to this
country he 'obtained a service witb r. Nottidge, one
of the Magistrates for Surrey. fro* Which service he
3443 discharged cutler the circumstances that have
already been detailed. Gnat i. described by those
who knew hiee well as being a passion's* and brutal fellow ;
and it was laaowss that he was the habit of ill-using the
horses that were placed in his care, and the neighbours
frequently expressed their anrprire that Mr. Stilells should have
kept him itchts 'Or rice. It is the opinion of persons acquainted
with his habits‘that he has not left Londe*, but that in all pro-
bability he is lywitenncealed in the " rotiteries" either of tit.
Giles's or Westminster.

The criminal records furnish the partioulars of a crime of a
sitnilar charactip cornmilted about Om year 1761 by a French-
man named Theodore Gardelle. Gardena lodged at the house
of a Airs. in Leicsater-sgea,ro. Oa Febrnary 19. 1761,
it appeared thistle went into her room for some purpose, and, as
t afterwards appeared is evidence and from the prisoneir's ron •
feisjOn, some altsweation took place betweew them ; he pudicil
her, and her foot catching *tate carpet, she fell ; her head
struck the bad-po.t with great violence, and the blood gashed
from her month. Ile ilk., it appointed, struck her on the
throat with a comb, until she was quite quiet ; he then laid
her on the bed ; went out of the room and locked the door.
Gardelle, in order to hide the evidence of the crime
he had committed, resolved upon destroying the body ;
he accordingly removed the iotestistes, which he threw
into a water-closet, then cut ne the limbs, cut the
body into pieces, and scattered them over the floor of
a loft that was not generally made use of, in the hope, as he
said, that the pieces of flesh would dry and perish with-
out putrefaction. He also burnt during the night some of the
bones of the wretched woman. It is•-a strange circumstance
that although there were other perioae.in the house for several
days, no suspicion of anythilleArong was entertained, and
while Oardelle Was burnuag*, of the body, upon a person
observing that there was an unpleasait smell to the house, he
replied, "Chat
the fire." The Th some one must have thrown a bone upon the
absence of the woman King at length
caused suspicioa, and Gardena
11 h
IMP questioned about her ; he
then said that he expected
par omo *night, and should set
up for her. It. Vpsored that he did not
ee to bed, but
occupied the 'HAM ditriaidug of the bed' in the manner
stated. Gardelle was at length saloon Into custody, and upon
a search belt* made, tion remain • thy body were found in
the loft. The prisoner subsequently made a confession 'of all
ithustreet.henhdo gusi:fe:t;wuthnitdcahteexhneisefurotemd
the circumstances above detailed. He was tried at the Old
Bailey Sessions ifs 101"Aprical
1717i6edi,pnzra:
in the Haymarket, opposite Pt
gaol in a cart,
Vic-
tim had resided. When the vehicle arrived opposite to it,
it made a stop, and Gardelle turned round and was observed to
to scene of his grime. After his
r
gaze attentively at execution,
the body was hung i% "pains upon
.H.ounartsyv Heath.

SIATIATICS OF TUX Orr Ror Or SCOTLAND.—In the
Rev. Mr. Lorimer's work, published sops rare so, the reve-
rent gentleman ha; shown that the Dsou-intrusion party were
the salt of the Kirk, amt that, during the cold reign of
iMode-
ratism, many evils of a serious nature prevailed. It s not a
little curious that, since the wild men attained the ascendancy,
there have -been exactly fourteen ministers deposed, seven of
whom belonged to the Non-intrusion, and seven to the Mode-
r9.te party in the Church. The crimes tisich led to the depo-
sition of the revs Non-intrusion brethren were fornication, or
other acts of grass immorality. The seven Moderates were all
membersanof of the Presbytery of Strathbogie, and came under the
b the Ecclesiastical Courts, ineans-,:quenee of rendering
obedience to the laws of the land ! :-.-Aberdeen Herald.

ELECTION COMMITTEES. •
LONGFORD.
The Learned Counsel then proceeded to explain at great
length the process of registration. The voter is r quired to
swear to an affidavit, which is kept among the records of the
county, thus affording a constant means of detection and
conviction of perjury if the voter has obtained his franchise on
an improper quatificat on. He stated that there was no registry
in Ireland at all. When they said the registry they
used the word to describe what was analogous to it. The re-
gistry in Ireland was only first the certificates (in the possession
of the voters themselves), next the bundle of affidavits ; there
was a book of the names of the voters, but it was only drawn up
for the convenience of the polling, and could not be produced
as legal evidence. In the English sense of the word, there
was, nothing like a registry in Ireland. The right of vote
depended entirely on the certificate, and if a person
loses his certificate. he loses also his right to vote ;
for this reason the affidavits are considered by the
law as the check, and answer the purpose of a public re-
eord. His whole argument was directed to showing that the
whole Irish system of registration, as far as the power of hives.
ligation goes, is more searching and extensive than that of Eng-
land, and he strongly contended that, in law, the decision of
tie Assistant Barrister must be considered final and conclu-
sive, and net to be altered by the Committee. In conclusion,
he pointed out to the Committee the extreme inconvenience
that would arise from opening the registry; there were al-
ready 283 votes objected to, and should an equal number be
objected to on the other side, the Committee would have to in-
vestigate the qualifications of between five and six hundred
voters, a large portion of the whole constituency of the county.
Sergeant WRANCHATI, in reply, on the part of the peti-
tioner, after some introductory observations on the line of ar-
gument used by his Learned] Friend, urged against these argu-
ments the decision in the case of the election for the
'say of Cork, in 1835. In that case the sitting Mem-
bers were returned by a majority of more than six hundred,
but that majority was composed of the votes of non-resident
freemen, and it was decided that these votes were invalid. He
met the alignment of inconvenience, by stating that the greater
number ofthe votes would be disposed of by the decision of the
Committee, on theprinciples on which the cases turned. The
principle of the vote being annulled by an insufficient qualifica-
tion, once asserted and laid down, the fargreater number of the
eases would be disposed of by that decision, without the necessity
for a detailed inquiry into each case. The argument of his Learned
Friend would go to give finality to the decisions of a Court that
had not even the power of sending for, or compelling the atten-
dance of, witnesses. Neither in Ireland nor England had the
barristers the power of sending for witnesses. The Learned
Counselthen described the operation of the Scotch registration,
showing that the decision of the Sheriff was never considered
final, as there was an appeal from him to the Sheriffs
of the three neighbouring counties ; nor could the
decision of these latter be considered final. Their
4ecision could be revised by the Court of Review, and the
House of Commons possessed a power, as a final tribunal, over
the decision of that Court. Inf act, in every case the Legis-
lature had reserved to itself the right of reviewing the decision
of the registering officer, whether he be Barrister or Sheriff,
both in Ireland and Scotland.
The argument was interrupted by the announcement that the
Speaker was at prayers. It will be resumed to-day.