The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-11 00:00:00

FUNERAL OF COX.

On Thursday last Ely Cox, the young man who
was rilurdiet ed at Epsom on the morning of Sunday
se'smight, was interred at eight o'clock in the
evening at Epsom Church ; tie crowds who wit-
►:essed his funeral were very great, and they evinced
one general feeling of execration against his tour-
deters. By the plate upon the coffin of the de-
ceased, it appeared' be was only between nineteen
acid twenty years of age. lie was a rematkable
line stout young man,

APPPLEIIENSION OF THE SUPPOSED MURDERER.

On Sunday the I'lagis►rates (who have met
daily since this transaction took place) who formed
theicselves into a Committee, to prosecute the
affair w ith the greater success, tnt.t again at the
Coffee-house, and a man named Thomas Osborne
was brought before them by May, the officer of
Union-ball, and examined upon-suspicion of being
the murderer of Cox. After his examination he
was cominitted, and conveyed to town on Sunday
night by May, and lodged in Horsetnonger-late
Gaol. -

The cause of his apprehension ►v,,s, that a
baker's boy, who deliveted bread at his house on
the morning Of Monday, the ddy after the murder,
had stated that he saw on apron (sueh as prisoner•
generally wore) in Isis house, in a bloody condi-
tion, and from other circumstances which are
stated below, that came out luting his exami-
nation.

The prisoner tvorkedfor Mr. Northey,at Epsom,
in his gardens, and prior to the murder he used to
cot the fruit-trees with a clasp pruning knife; anti
on Monday, the day after the mm der was com-
mitted, he used a long case knife to prune the
trees, and such a knife as the prisoner used was
round near the body of the deceased.
The ptisoner's sister-in-law, and a mass named
Saunder's, who worked with prisoner at Mr. Nor-
they's Gardens, deposed, that the knife found near
the dead body was very much like the one they
had seen the prisoner use, but they could not
speak positively that it was the same. S loaders
stated also that the prisoner on the Mouthy after
the murder worked with him in Mr. Northey's Gar-
dens, and his conduct was very difirrent front
what it formerly was ; be was not so sociable as
before, but kept at a distance, and " appeared
very shy." This witness did not observe the
ita-
juries on the prisoner's bead on Saturday, the day
before the murder was committed, nor on Mom-
day after, for he wore his hat, and that covered
them.

There could he but little doubt that some of
the persons who committed rhe murder must have
received some personal injury from the deter-
mined resistance made by Cox. The prisoner
was found to have received some injuries on his
forehead and also on his head. The account he
gives of them is, that he received then► on the day
the murder was committed, by falling from a fruit
tree; but he brought no person forward to whom he
had mentioned having met with the accident.—
The prisoner denied the assertions of the balter':i
boy ; he declared that no Woody apron was in his
house, and said it must be an invention of the
lad's. The goy, however, persisted in his story,
%%lien the prisoner was examined on this day
week before the Magistrates, he was asked if he
wore socks in his shoes? He very calmly replied,
No, I do not."
On Sunday, when the prisoner was again be-
fore the Magistrates, the question about his wear-
ing socks was not again put to him ; but it oc-
curred to May that 'hig former account might not
be correct, and l►e thought it proper to examine
his shoes, and, to his surprise, fount( a new soak
in one shoe, and an old one in the other, resem-
bling the one (mind near Cox's dead body.
The piisoner, Osborne, is more strongly sus-
peered from his being a poacher, but it is not
believed that he was alone in the transaction. •
May, the, officer, left London immediately rifler
he had scented Osborne, in Newington goal, hav-
ing received information of another person being
concerned.'

The prisoner being shewn the bloody knife
(punt! near Cox's corpse said, that it was not his,
and that he %vas innocent cat the murder.

The Magistrates, Mr. Trotter, Gen. flowitrth,
IVhitmore, &c. were of opinion that there
was sufficient evidence ag,inst the prisoner to
warrant his committal, and they committed him
forfe-examination on a future day.

]'OWE IL EFFSCT or CONSCIENCE --A few
months ago the body of a young wonnin was dis-
covet ed in the water near Banning, in Kent, %vitt)
marks of violence which seemed to indicate that
the had been murdered. Nothing, however,
transpired which could tend to fix the guilt on
any individual, and all further inquiry into the
circumstances had ceased, when on Monday a
young man at Maidstone declared himself to be
the murderer. He said, that ever since the exe-
cution of Hussey the horrible thought of his own
guilt had rendered his life a burthen to him, that
Ire could hind no rest night or day, and that he
had at last come to a resolution to deliver himself
up into the hands of justice.

WHIRLWIND AT CROYDON.-.-On Friday evening,
when a mom ent before there appeared to he a
perfect calm, the inhabitants of Croydon, near the
Church, were I hrown into alarm by the suddco
rising to a :great. licight in the air of fourteen
pieces of cloth that had been pegged down in the
bleaching-ground of Messrs.S. and T. STAREY; Ofie
pitice of which was so twisted tizund, the sleePl"
of the Church, that it required a great le,ngth of
time to disentangle it, and another piece Qw-a krge
I.e.elkat wads in-t*Church-r4t.