The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-26 00:00:00

MURDER AND SUICIDE.

(From the Second Edition of the Bath Journal of
Alonday.)
[This article was omitted in our Paper of yesterday by

mistake.]

IWe stop the press to notice a twofold murder
and suicide of a more horrible nature than it has
ever been our unpleasant task to record. This
(Monday) morning, about twenty minutes before
six o'clock, a man of the name of Beer, lodging
with his wife and child, at No. 1, Williams-place, at
the back of St. James's-street, St. James's-square,
murdered both the latter by cutting their throats
with a razor. Just before six o'clock, Mrs. Chapple,
another lodger in the house, sleeping in the next
room to Beer, fancied' she heard something like a
gurgling in the throat ; she immediately went to the
door and called-to Mrs. Beer, and asked if she was
ill, but having repeated her call two or three times
without an answer, she opened the door and went
into the room, and again asked Mrs. Beer if she was
ill, to which no answer could be obtained. She
began then to suspect that all was not right, and
told her husband to strike a light ; on entering the
room with which, she discovered a sight of horror
past the power of words to describe. The mother
was lying on her back, with one hand across her
breast, and her throat cut from one angle of the
jaw to the other, dividing some of the principal
arteries and windpipe ; and the little innocent, about
four months old, which appeared to have been lately
drawn from the breast for the murderous purpose,
was lying on its side, with its head severed, except-
ing by a bit of skin at the back part of the neck.
The bodies were weltering in blood, a pool of which,
under the bed, extended across the room. It was
evidently the result of a cool and deliberate intent,
for it appeared that the deed was committed while
the sufferers were asleep, there having been no noise
heard by any of the lodgers or neighbours, except-
ing that described by Mrs. Chapple, which was after
the deed had been perpetrated, and the murderer
had escaped. Mr. White, surgeon, of St. James's-
square, was called in at six o'clock, too late, of
course, to be of any service; and the result of his
examination tended to show that there was no strug-
gling, and the bed clothes were not disturbed.
There were other points that seem to prove the
deliberateness of the act. The bloody razor was
lying open on a box by the side of the bed, and
the case was lying on the dresser down stairs in the
kitchen, and with it a lath-hatchet, as :hough in,-
tended for use if the murderer had failed to accom-
plish his purpose with the razor. What was the
cause of this dreadful act the most distant idea can-
not be formed. Beer is described by the lodgers as
being a very steady -man, fond of his wife and his
home, and doatingly fond of his child, which he was
always caressing when at home ; nor have they lat-
terly seen any alteration in his conduct. All the
previous day, Sunday, both Beer and his wife were
at home, and appeared, as usual, very comfortable

:and happy, and retired to bed as usual at ten o'clock.
:Beer was a Journeyman baker, and had been em-
ployed as foreman by Mr. Darks, of St. James's-
street, for nearly the last twelvemonths, during
which time his employer had found him attentive to
his business, a trustworthy servant in his master's
absence, particularly obliging, and apparently happy.
Mr. and Mrs. Davies saw no alteration in his con-
duct up to the latest period, except that when he
came on Sunday evening to prepare for the next
morning's baking, he was about two hours later
than his usual time, but :he did his business very
properly, and seemed in his: manner as usual.
Immediately after the discovery of the above hor-
rible murder, the officers of justice were apprised of
it, and were quickly on the alert to apprehend the
perpetrator. Shortly after daylight a baker's jacket
with blood on it, was seen lying on the bank of the
river near
,Bedford-street, Walcot; in consequence
of which William George, of Bathwick, took a boat
to search the river, and found the body of Beer in
4tthe water, with life quite extinct, at the bottom of
Bedford-street. The body was thence taken to
Walcot workhouse, to await the Coroner's Inquest.

(Further particulars from the Bath Gazette.)
Beer was formerly foreman to Mr. Sheppard,
near the toll-gate on the Wells-road, where he also
for a short time, carried on business on his own ac-
count; but for about 12 months . past he has been
employed as foreman by Mr. Davies, of St. James's
street, St. James's-square. Beer was well-known
as a man of steady habits, loving to his wife, enjoy-
ing his fireside, and almost idolizing his child; he
was industrious in his busineSs, faithful to his em-
ployers, obliging to every body, in easy circum-
stances,* surrounded with comforts adapted to his
situation in life, and, to all appearance, good-tem-
pered and happy ! How can an event so extraordi-
nary and appalling be accounted for. There had
been no appearance of alteration in him in any res-
pect ? He was later than usual on Sunday evening
in his preparations for Monday's baiting, but he did
every thing as usual, and in his usual, way. That
the act was deliberate, there is not a shadow of a
doubt ; the razor-sheath and hatchet below stairs, and
the victims murdered in their sleep, show that it was
not a momentary impulse which hurried him to the
deed; but how long it had been contemplated, it
is impossible now to discover. On the prerious
day Beer appeared happy as usual with his wife and
child until the evening, when they went to church,
and the child was christened, after which a few
friends returned with them to their lodgings, and
had some beer before they departed. After they
were gone, Beer and his wife were heard quarrell-
ing by the people under them. What was the sub-
ject of their quarrels ? Who can or who will
tell ? The human heart has many openings by
which atrocities of all sorts may find an entrance,
if unopposed; or, as our law-formulary expresses it,
" not haring the fear of God." We have inquired
where were Beer and his wife all Sunday ? The
answer was, " They were at home, as usual, all
day," till the evening, when the child was christ-
ened. Whatever may have been the proximate
cause of his awful conduct, we fear he habitually
cultivated no principle which might have opposed
it. We may resume this topic next week. The
Coroner's inquest also may throw some light upon
the affair: the bodies are still waiting his arrival,
now momentar,44sxpected. • -
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v We have seen informed there were twelve sove-
reign., two guineas, and other money, found in his pocket
when the hody,was taken out of the water.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Yesterday afternoon an inquest was taken before
Mr. CARTER, at the George and Dragon, Barrett-
street, Lambeth, touching the death of Jane Long,
a little girl in her seventh year, who was burnt so
dreadfully by her clothes taking fire, that she. stir-
vived but a few hours.
After some remarks from the Coroner as to the

ncaution of mothers leaving their children alone by
:he fire-side, in such inclement weather, the Jury

found a verdict, in conformity to the Coroner's
charge, of " Accidentally burnt."
Yesterday afternoon the adjourned inquest on the
body of Robert Yandell, the pugilist, was con-
cluded at the Three Elms, St. Ann's-lane.—Mr.
Oilier, the parish surgeon, stated that he had opened
the body of the deceased; he did not attribute his
death to excessive drinking, but, on the contrary, he
believed the unfortunate man bad expired from the
effects of a dreadful blow on his head, which had
apparently been inflicted by a stick or staff. If
the deceased had fallen, he could not possibly
have struck himself on the vertex. The Jury upon

this evidence returned the following verdict—
" That the deceased had expired in consequence of
the wounds on his head ; and, from the evidence of
Mr. Oilier, they considered that the injuries were
wilfully inflicted."
Yesterday afternoon the inquest on Maria
Donell was resumed at the Sir George Osborne's
Head, Princes-street, Mile-end. Two medical gen-

tlemen who had opened the body of the deceased,
said there was the appearance of great inflammation
in the stomach, but they could not discover any
portion of the poison which -it was alleged the de-
ceased had swallowed. They were therefore un-
able to say whether the poison had caused her
death. A verdict was then returned, that " the
deceased died of inflammation in the stomach and
intestines, but how produced there was no evidence
to shew."

It is an extraordinary fact; and is a proof of
the salubrity of the air in that part of this county, that
since the 4th of April last, until the 17th instant, not a
single interment of a parishioner has taken place at Many-
mynech, though the number of the inhabitants at the
last census was nearly a thousand. The person buried
on that day was upwards of eighty years o?il.—Salopian
Journal.

On Friday evening- last, as Mr. CALVERT, a
butcher, who resided in North Bar-stree►, Beverley, was
returning home from Bishop Burton, on horseback, with
a friend behind him ; just as the York coach (Trafalgar)
was corning, aad near the toll-bar,,Mr. C. passed the
coach at a brisk pace, for about forty yards, when the
horse-girthing broke, and precipitated all thee to the
ground. I‘lr C. was quite insensible ; and the coach
coming up some of the passengers alighted and unloosed
his neckerchief, but with no avail. There was but one
inside passenger, but the fool, or worse, would not allow
the dying man to be taken in. The poor man was kept
in that state till the coach arrived at Beverley, and they
sent a chaise to fetch him home. His head, at the right
side, was quite flattened; and after remaining in this state
till about two o'clock on Saturday morning he expired.
He was highly respected, and his untimely death ""
gretted by all the neighbourhood. His friend (Mr.
HARKER, of Bishop Burton) sustained no material injury.
--York Courant.

Not many years ago a Jew came to the Court
of King's Ilench to justify a bail for 1,800/. when, on the
usual question being asked—if he was worth 18001. and
all debts paid—he replied, “My Lords, upon my vord,
dis is a very great shoal; and, as I an not really vort de
half, I vill not justify, my Lords, for it ; but, as de at-
torney here did give me 201. bank note to justify, wat.
vod your Lordship have me do vid de moneys?" The
Earl of MANsFut.o, who seemed struck with the answer,
immediately replied, " You are an honest Jew, and I
would advise you by all means to keep the note;" which
MORDECAI ISRAEL, accordingly 41; and, as his Lord-
ship was going out of Court, the Israelite, with many
bows and serves, said—" I Lombly tank your Lord-
ship ; for you are the th-st person that ever called ins an
honest Jew."

Mr. Hunt came again to the Mansion-House yes-
terday, and, addressing the LORD MAYOR, said,
the principal reason of his then applying to his
Lordship was to correct a mistake of a Morning
Paper, which he held in his hand, which, if it went
forth uncontradicted, might do more mischief than
any attempt to remedy the evil complained of could
.do good. He held in his hand the Morning He•
raid of that day, which, after giving an account
that was substantially correct, of the represents•
tions made by him to his Lordship, added, " The
wretched state of Blackfriurs•bridge arises from its
being lowered and Macadamised." Now, he had
not said one word in complaint of its having been
Macadamized, nor did bis Lordship say one word
in condemnation of it. [His Lordship here said he
perfectly recollected that neither of them had ut-
tered a w9rd.against the bridge being Macadamized.]
Mr. Hunt said that his complaint was .that the
bridge was not Macadamized : when it Was Maca-
damizedt• it was the best bridge to drive over in
London, as Westminster-bridge, which had lately
been Macadamized, was - now ; but Blackfriars-
bridge had long ceased .to be Macadamized ; for
when it was worn the method of repairing it for
some time had been to throw a cart of large stones
into the hole. He was made to say that there were
holes in Blackfriars-bridge as large as the inkstand,
or an Alderman's head ; but the fact was, that there
were holes in it that six Aldermen might lie in.
He had no doubt that the object was to let Black-
friars-bridge remain in the present state till the nui-
sance became intolerable ; that then there might be
a pretence for pitching and paving it, which, if it
took place, would certainly be a most expensive
job, so that he was anxious to have it properly
Macdamized, not only for the safety of the public
but to save the city purse.
The LORD MAYOR observed that no doubt Mr.
Hunt's representation of the state of the bridge
would procure a speedy improvement.
Mr. Ilunt ex pressed his satisfaction and withdrew.
BOW-STREET.

Yesterday William Davis and Hannah Allan were
brought forward for a final examination, the former
charged with feloniously receiving 130 dozen pairs
of gloves, which had been stolen from the warehouse
of Mr. Towns, a wholesale glover in Fleet-street,
early in the present month, and the latter with hav-
ing a quantity of silks in her possession, supposed to
have been stolen.
The prisoner Davis was fully committed to New-
gate for trial for having received the same with a
guilty knowledge, there being no evidence to con-
nect him with the actual robbery.—The female
prisoner was discharged.
M A RYLEBONE.

On Tuesday morning a young man of fashionable
appearance and good address, was charged before
Mr. GRIFFITH with felony and fraud. He gave his
name Spencer Barrington Bloon!ficid.
Mr. t ropley, of No. 10, Tunbridge-place, New.
road, stated, that in September last the prisoner
engaged board and lodging at his house." He had
the use of a horse and gig, which he called his own,
and represented himself to be the appointed surgeon
of two Institutions. Mr. Cropley gave him credit
for a month, not doubting that he was a peraiakof
respectability. ,•The money, however, was not
forthcoming, and instead of the horse and gig being
his own property, a livery-stable-keeper came one
day to the complainant's house with a bill for the
hire of it, and the complainant told Mr. Bloomfield,
that unless he paid for what he had already received
he would not be permitted to sit down again at his
table. The defendant left his house, and he had not

been able to find him until that morning, and lie
gave him into custody, not for his debt respecting
board and lodging, but on suspicion that he had
stolen an Itinerary, Akenside's Pleasures of Imagi-
nation, and three other volumes, which disappeared
with him.

Mr. Taplin, of Hart-street, Covent-Garden,
stable-keeper, complained that the prisoner, by re-
presenting that he was about to be married to a
lady of title and fortune, induced him to let him

have on hire a horse and gig for ninety days certain.
The lady lived at No. 10 Tunbridge-place, and see-
ing it was a genteel house, and concluding it was
the property of the lady, although the bargain was
for him to be paid fourteen duys in advance, he
suffered the account to remain unsettled, and he now
finds that the person who passed for the prisoner's
servant, and drove him about the town, is his own
brother. The prisoner one day hired a close car-
riage, a " very handsome turn out," to be married
in, as he said, but it all proved to be untrue.
The prisoner denied all knowledge of the books.
Many others complained of his having got into
their debt, and he was detained for want cf bail,
under the charge of felony.
Yesterday the prisoner was again placed at the
bar, and other charges were brought against him ;
one of them was made by Mr. Joseph Hughes, of
67, South Andley-street, tailor, who stated, that in
1826 the prisoner, by representing himself to be
nephew to the Bishop of Chester, and also to the
Bishop of London, induced him to furnish him with
"clothes. The bill ran up to 24!., and after it was
delive:ed to him in one of the Alpha Cottages
where he then lived, he introduced his brother as
a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, and he was
supplied with clothes also. After that the com-
plainant was never able to find him, until on the 6th
of September, 1828, he met him walking arm-in.
arm with his brother in Regent-street. The corn-
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plainant was walking with his wife, and he left her,
and going up to Bloomfield, asked for payment of
the hill, and Bloomfield, struck him violently in
both his eyes and knocked him down upon the pave-
ment. He was for some minutes sens:less, and
could not see any thing for three weeks afterwards.
In answer to this, Bloomfield wanted to make it
appear that Mr. Hughes struck the first blow ; but
this was denied. Bloomfield then said he collared
him, and called him a swindler ; and that was also
denied.

It was stated by one of the witnesses (Mr. Ber-
doe), in the course of his evidence, that the pri-
soner's parents are obscure individuals, residing in
Suffolk, and that two of his brothers are bricklayers.
Mr. Berdoe said he had had him under his notice
for seven years. Sometimes he called himself Paget,
sometimes Reid, sometimes Spencer, and someti;nes
Smith. There were five or six connected together;
one of them keeps .a carriage, ;;Ird the coachman in
livery is one of the party. Ile was remanded till
thin day.

On Friday, Edmund Walker and Eliza Plum ap-
peared again before Mr. HOSKINS, to answer any
other charge which might be limuolit against them.
Mr. Joseph price, o Birmingham, stated, that
about the 'od of June Walker came to his ware-
house in that place. He (the complainant) had
some suits of necklaces in the house, and Walker
said if they were cleaned up he could dispose of
them in Birmingham. Walker called again in four
or five days, and said he had got a cks4omer for
them, and they were put into h Lands as an agent,
and he was to hi r, Lack 3.5 guineas. About six
days after that, instead of bringing the money, he
told the complainant a person had tillien them up to
London, but they should bo retnrned on the follow-
ing Tuesday or Wednesday, but he never heard of
him afterwards saw,; .las:name ,the,paper.
lie had made great inquiry after him for three