The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-13 00:00:00

SLADE THE MURDERER.

A very copious, and apparently faithful, nar-
rative of the murder of Mr. Waterhouse, has just
appeared, printed at Huntingdon, and published
in town by Messrs. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy.
The work is " got up" in a very neat style, and
is embellished with three admirable lithographic
prints, by Hullmandel. We extract the follow-
ing passage relative to the dissection of the mur-
derer, and the conduct of his parents :—" On
stripping. the body, its muscular strength, and fine
proportions, excited the admiration Of the medi-
cal gentlemen present. He had died in fill
health, and appeared much stouter than when
alive ; and it is a curious' fact, that the culprit
had even grown comparatively fat during the pe-
riod of his imprisonment. He never ate so
heartily, he said, as he did in gaol; and through
the kindness 'of the Under-Sheriff, he wanted for
nothing that might contribute to his norriish-
, went and support. •On etamining the body,the
peculiar conformation of the great toe on each
foot, produced considerable sinpnse ; it extended
in length about an inch beyond'the others. His
countenance seemed a fitting index to the mind
of a.murderer--cruel, deliberate, and ferocious.
A plaster mould has been cast from the features.
On Tuesday morning the brain was dissected in
the presence of most of our medical authorities.
From deferring the dissection as long as possible,
to accommodate a greater' nuniber of young sur-
geons, the brain had undergone a' considerable'
change, and it was therefore almost impossible
to elucidate the different parts with that degree
of anatomical accuracy which might have been
attained at an earlier period. . The investing
membrane, called the dura mater, was, how-
ever, extremely tense and firm, and in several
places inflammation between It and the pia mater,
or immediate envelope of the brain, was discovered,
and must have existed for some time. Firm ad-
hesions had in consequence takeii place : but these
appearances are, we believe, by no means uncom-
mon ; few people who have suffered from fever, or
severe blows on the head, are without them.—
Slade, previously to his execution, confessed that
he had at different times received blols upon the
head, and described the external situation of two
of them, which corresponded 'exactly with the in-
ternal adhesions. The internal viscera of the
chest and of the body were in an extremely
healthy state,. not having apparently ever suffered
from illness. The conduct of Slade's-relatives
during the whole of this trying.affair. has been
expoSed to considerable censure. In persons .of
their' condition, it would be absurd to expect
that acuteness of feeling and .nice sensibility
which shed an indescribable charm over the in-
tercourse of intelligent and refined society ; but.
the Shades appear to be.wanting even in common
humanity. His sisters were 'not ashamed to attend
the races, whilst their brOther.was immured in a
solitary cell,. under sentence of death. His
mother talks of -JoShua's guilt, and of his vici-
ous habits, without the. least display of parental
feeling .; and hie father was seen trudging home,
on' the night before the execution, with a load of
wood which he had been plundering from the
neighbouring hedges. On Monday the old man
came to. Huntingdon, to inquire of Mr.-Cole,
keeper of the prison, whether Joshua had left
any thing for him—any old' clothes or doctor's
bottles, that he might sell. Being answered in
the negative, 'Do you know;' added he, what
has been done with the body ?' No,' replied
Mr. Cole, Ido not: have been told, le-
joined old Slade, '.that they only want the heart
and two or three other-things - out of VM,:ftil
speech so which no answer was returned. °fit
this callous, unnatural deportment, may be traced
the germ of Joshua's guilt. Yet, who can sell
how much' of the apparent insensibility of the
Slades may not be 'imputed to ignorance and
want, and to the absence of spiritual instruction
peculiar to the village ? Nothing tends aO effec-
tually to shut up the heart and deaden the feel-
ings as long-continued poverty." .
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• INCREDIBLE STORY OF A HAWIC:I--It1:141-:‘
pened one day, that.abbas Mina, fatigued with.
hunting, had sat down on the top of the hill with
a favourite hawk on his •hand ; he called for
some water, and a cup was brought from a
neighbouring spring ; the hawk dashed the cup
from the king's hand as he was about to drink ;
another was sent for, but the• bird managed to
spill it likewise ; a third, and a fourth'Shared the '3
same fate. The monarch in a rage killed the
hawk. Before he had time to take another cup,
one of his attendants noticed that the -water was
discoloured. This gave rise to suspicions ; and
the spring was found to have been poisoned-with
the venom of a snake .or some poisonous plant:
Shah Abbas, inconsolable at his rashness,n de-
stroying the bird which• had saved his life,. built
a dome to his rnsmory, and is said to have often
visited it.—Sketches of Persia., • •

MORE SEA SERpENTSI-SEA SERPENT
WOUNDED.--Ca twin DaVid Thurlo, jun.' of
the schooner Lydia, of Deer Isle, when. abOut.
sib Jeagues E.S.E. from Mount Desert Rock, .
left his vessel on the 24th ult. in•his boat to try
foi; mackerel, •when: a monster of the Serpent
kii)d appeared, •and came along-side his hoat.i;',
he, having a harpoon in his boat, threw it at him,
:which took; affect; and he ran off' with the boat
in 'tOw": after running a short distance he stop-
pe4 and rose his head out of water six' or seven
feet : he started again, -the warp parted, and the
serpent made off with the'harpoon. ih his body.
Captain Thurlo then 'resuming his fishing, When
all At once the serpent came up again -very near :, .
them ; Captain Thurlo then rowed for his vessel, e
which was about three Trifles ; the ser-
petit then rose his head out of the water as be-
fort, and continued following them at about the ,
sanie distance from the boat till they reached the
ves'sel.' Captain Thurlo thinks there were two
of them, an that the-one he harpooned was not
thei one that followed pith to•the4/estel. They,
weiie-70 or 80 feet long, dark coloured, and had .
large scales. Captain Thurlo had the most per- •
fect view of his head when he rose out of the
water,- and states that it resembled'exactly that of
a shark.—Boston Courier.

ANOTHER SEA SERPENT.—As severaFgen-
tlemen of Norfolk, (Virginia), were fishing near
the;Rip Raps, a huge aquatic animal suddenly
thrust its head above water, within a hundred.
yards of their. boat. The apparition startled the
whcile party.' The head 'was of the size, shape,
and! colour of a large pumpkin, with eyes of
about the diameter of the bottom of a quart
bottle. After gazing stedfastly at the fishermen,
for near a minute, the creature shook his head,,.
dreg{, it under water, and.. moved on toviiir4:
Cape Henry, leaving a long wake in his
T 4 party were awed into silence by its
denland terrific appearance, so that no ,attefanr
was `made to 'secure the intruder.--:Al
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