The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-04 00:00:00

ATROcious' ifuntit ANIS VIOLATIM

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particulars of this revolting deed are briefly
as follow :—Mr. John Heath, a respectable farmer,
of Harbury Field, in consequence of the celebration
of a christening in his family on the Tuesday preced-
ing, gave his servants an entertainment in his house
on Saturday last. Among others who were in-
vited on this festive occasion, was Mary Lane, alias
Greenaway, the deceased, a young married vromao
of considerable personal attractions, who, about a
year ago, lived in the family in the capacity of wet
nurse. A labourer of the name of William Miller,
thin e
Mr. Heath's employ, was also present. During
evening, he told the deceased he would see her
home, to which proposal she made no answer; but
a female servant, overhearing what he said, replied,
No, she's not going home to-night." Here the
conversation dropped, and, shortly after, Miller
left the room, and accompanied the waggoners into
the stable. They had not been long there before two
females came out of the house. Miller asked who
they were; and, one of the Waggoners telling him it
was the servant girls belonging to the house, he
said—" No ! its old Mother Lane, and I'll be d—d
if I don't go home with her to night." The two
females he:ving separated, one returned into the
house, a".ad the other, (which as Miller rightly con-
jectty:ed, was the deceased,) left the premises, and
vve,:nt in the direction of Bishop's Itchington, where
the resided. Soon after this. Miller ran out of the
stable, and taking a short cut across the ileitis, was
seen to overtake the deceased Pear a gate in the
Windmill Field, not snore than a quarter of a mile
distant from Mr. Heath's house. The deceased
was never seen alive after this time; which was
between seven und eight o'clock in the evening.
The next morning, about eight o'clock, as two
brothers, of the name of Pratt, were walking on
Harbury Heath, they saw a pair of patens lying
near the edge of a pit. Not finding any one there,
and suspecting that was not right, they returned
to the pit; where they saw an umbrella. On look-
ing more minutely they observed something black
:floating on the surface of the .water, which, by
means of a stick, they drew to the edge of the pit;
when, horrible to relate, they found it to be the
body of a female dressed ;:a mourning. The face
was so much swollen that they did not immediately I
recognize it, but, on examining a portion of her
clothes, they discovered it was the deceased, Mary
Lane.

Messrs. Pratt then hastened to Harbury, and the
Parish Offiera instantly repaired to the spot, and had
the body taken to the New Inn. Among other
Person:, Called upon by the Headborough to assist
in 'removing the deceased from the fatal spot, was
7-91iller ; who, in executing his part of the melancholy
office, betrayed not the least symptoms either of sor-
row or of guilt. By the time the body was brought
to f-the public-house, a knowledge of the event had
speettii-through the village, and a suspicion falling on
Miller,,he:was immediately on his return taken into
custody.
Next morning (Monday) an Inquest was held be-
fore George Cattell Greenway, Esq. Coroner, when
a number of 'witnesses were examined ; from whom
were elicited the following circumstances materially
affecting the prisoner. :—Mr. Hiron, surgeon, of
WPrwrek, was called in, with Mr. Morgan, a medical
4entletnan residing in the village, to examine the
body. There were no external marks of injury on
it ; but other marks were discovered, of a'description
that delicacy forbids us to mention, fully proving the
nanal violence with which she must recently have
)een attacked. Other witnesses spoke to her hay-
lig money in her possession when she left Mr.
Heath's house on the night of the murder; and that
lone was found about her the next morning when
xtricated from the pit. When the body was dis-
nvered, several marks of a man's shoe were visible
pear the pit and in various other parts adjoining,
on being compared with the prisoner's shoe,
erlee!Aliitorresponded both as to size and general
ppe'aranee. A piece of the clayey soil, extracted
c:0;12 the edge of the pit, and more deeply impressed
vith the-footmark than any other, was' produced to
he jury. On minutely examining it, it evidently
ppared to have been made by a man's shoe, that in
he heel pert had a naillying slantways in a peculiar
irection. On examining theheel of the prisoner's rilio4
appeared that two nails were missing, buthetWeen
lel:toles-another nail different from the rest had been
nskilfully driven in, which caused it to take a slant-
directspeantrices. corresponding with the
opressioterminabe clay with the greatest exactness.
bout a couple of /aids from the pit is a dry ditch,
here there weri'marki as -of -two persons havingb
sea struggling; and _close to this 'spot, the print of
person's knee. The prisOner's small-clothes, made
F narrow ribbed corduroy, were compared with the
apression on the ground, and they precisely cor-
isponded. There was no foot-mark of a woman
sservable on the edge of the
.pit; but the impres-
on of a female arm was distinctly seen near the
rink, with an indention at the extremity of the
ark as if made by the nails of a person endeavour-
gto grasp the soil. The clothes which the pri-
mer had worn on the night of the murder, were
and the next morning immersed in a tub of water,
r which Ins assigned no satisfactory reason. The
avant girl who went, out of the house with the
!ceased, expressed a hope to her before they parted
at Miller would not attempt to go home with her.
was stated by a fellow-servant, that Miller, when
set off to follow the deceased, was not in liquor.
The Inquest, which (with the exception of a
ott interval) sat from ten o'clock on Monday.
arning to between seven and eight o'clock at
Olt, was adjourned to Tuesday morning, when the
iry returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against
rilliam Miller."
We have since heard that the prisoner denies
.ving committed the murder ; but admits a eri-
nal intercourse with her, but by her own consent.
he deceased was about 26 years of age, and was
trried at Christmas last. Her former husband, a
In of the name of Lane (who, by Borne, it is
ought, is still living) ran away from her about
wen years ago; and being since pregnant by
reenway, she was induced to marry him. Previous
that event, she bore a most excellent character.
The prisoner, who is about 40 years of age, and
native of Harbmry, up to the period of this trans-
tion, was always considered a very honest and in-
strious man.— Warwick Advertiser.

An advertisement in our present Paper is
'ongly illustrative of the moral benefits of the
rangues made by the friends of social order at
e Pitt Clubs. It appears, that on Monday
;rlit last, three gentlemen of this fraternity con-
cted themselves in so riotous and outrageous
nanner as to create the most serious alarm to
e inhabitants of the Wellington-road, and to
danger the life of a lady and her infant
ughter. The watchman, in the discharge of
duty, apprehended two of the party, and con-
yed them to the watch-house, when they as-
tried fictitious names, and in that way obtain-
their liberation. One of these worthy Pittites
[led himself Mr. William Richardson, Wel-
gton-road ; and the other, Mr. John Patter-
n, of Kirkgate. A reward is offered for their
3covery.—Leeds Mercury.
Williams, who made his escape from Clerken-
u, was on Saturday tried at the Old Bailey upon two
Itges of felony, upon both of which he was found guilty.
Another indictment has been preferred against
,ylor and his associates of the Christian Evidence Society.
was returned " a true bill" by the London Grand Jury,
the Old Bailey, en Saturday. Unless it should be re-
ed by certiorari into the Court of King's Bench (as
former one was), the trial will probably come on at the
esant Oldsalleysessions. Taylor, at the conclusion of
delivery of his usual quantity of trash, yesterday, at the
Pttr ? alluded to the " approaching conflict," and
w. in the event of his being imprisoned, other per-
as ho were hu' betters," would be engaged to fill his
ace at the Areopagne, it being determined to carry on
e Proceedings there. Tlie t
a beenremoved , ling on the indictment which
into the Kintee Balch •
me on Ant month, at a la expected to

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH', JUNE 2.—The Cambridge sailed
on Wednesday for Sheerness, to be paid off. Cap-
tain T. Martin, R.N. promoted from the Jasseur,
came passenger. The Cambridge brought 200,000/.
on merchants' account.
On Thursday Vice-Admiral Sir Lawrence Wm.
Halsted, K.C.8., returned from the command in the
West Indies, in the Isis, 50, Captain Hugh Patton,
having been relieved on the 18th April, by Vice-
Admiral the Hon. C. E. Fleming, who arrived at
Port Royal on that day, in the Barham, Sir Thomas
Louis, Bart. from England. The Isis sailed from
Port Royal, in company with the Barham and Druid,
on the 2lst of April, and the Havannah on the 3d
of May. Admiral Fleming was left at the Haven-
nah ; the Druid was going to Porto Rico. The
three ships tried their rate of sailing; the Barham
(razeed 74) answers well; but both ships were beat
by the Druid.
• On Thursday arrived the Niemen, 28, Captain
Simeon, from Bermuda, which place she left on the
13th of May.
On Wednesday evening arrived the Oynx, trans-
port Lieut. Decourdeaux, agent, in sixty days from
Rio de Janeiro, with invalids from the squadron.
Mr. James Biggar, late surgeon of the Ganges died
on the passage,
The Esk, Capt. Purchase, has captured a Spanish
polacca, of about 200 tons burthen, with 450 slaves
on board, and carried her into Sierra Leone.
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart. re-hoisted
his flag, on Monday, in the Hussar frigate, Captain
Edward Boxer, Commander Sir Richard Grant,
which ship arrived here on the previous day from
Deptford. Sir Charles will sail about Wednesday
next, for the North American command.
The Bramble, Lieutenant Favell, arrived yester-
day, from Chatham, with smugglers, to be put on
board the Hussar. The Briton, 46, Capt. G. F.
Seymour, C. 8., having been fitted to take the Mar-
quis of Hertford to St. Petersburgh, is on her way
to the Downs. The Fairy, Espoir, and Hearty,
have been commissioned at Chatham. Captain
Courtenay is appointed to the Fairy, Lieut. Jewry
to the Hearty, for the packet service.
The Dartmouth frigate, Capt. Thomas Fellowes,
C. 8., sailed on Wednesday, from St. Helen's, for
the Mediterranean, to relieve the Seringapatam.
Sir Thomas Hardy will proceed on his next
cruise with experimental ships, in the Galatea fri-
gate, Capt. Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart., Com-
mander. Thomas L. Robins is appointed to his flag-
ship. The experimental ships are undergoing such
alterations as the experience gained by the projectors
in tfie late cruise may suggest. They will then take
on board every description of provisions and stores
necessary to a foreign station, for the purpose of
showing their capacity and other qualifications at sea
as combined with velocity.
Commander J. N. Campbell is appointed to the
Albion ; Commander R. Dickenson, to the Genoa;
and Commander M. Wroot, to the Spartiate (pro=
melted from being Flag Lieutenant), lying in the
Tagus; Commander G. W. Btidges, to the Prince
Regent; Commander E. R. P. Mainwaring, to be
Inspecting Commander at Devotiport.
On Wednesday, 120 convicts were= taken from
the hulks at this place, and put on board the Layton
(superintended by Mr. William Evans, Surgeon,
R. N.), for Van Diemen's Land.

DE6NPORTi MAY 3.—Came in, by contrary
winds, the Romney, .50, Captain N. Lockyer,
C. 8., and sailed yesterday for Cork and Quebec.
Sailed on Saturday, Sophia transport, with a de-
tachment of the 71st Regiment, for Quebec; And
the Vigilant, on a cruise.—Hampshire Telegraph.

TILE MARICETS.-(1111$ DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE.

Last week's arrivals of all kinds of Grain were mode-
rate, owing chiefly to the boisterous and contrary state of
the wind. This morning the fresh supplies are again
scanty. In consequence of the additional clause. in the
Corn Bill, Wheat has advanced this morning Ss. per qr.:
and there is much talk about raising the price of Flour,
but this is not yet fully determined upon. Barley con-
tinues very scarce, and the prices quoted may be consider-
ed as nominal. Beans and Pease remain much the same
as last quoted. There is a fair demand for Oats, but not
near equal to the quantity for sale : the prices of last week
are maintained for this article, yet sales are made only in
small quantities either to necessitous town or country
buyers.

PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP.
tlrliest, Red (old) -.4. Beans, Small (new)...553.
White ((old) --F. —s.
Red (1826) ... 54.1. 58s. Tick (new).... 465.
Fine s9s. 625. • (old) ....
. -

Superfine.. Ms. 646:
----White (1626). Ms. 586.
.- Flee 6os. f 4.6.
Superfine.. 653. 6Ss.
Rye (new) Ses. Ws.
Barley
- Fine, nominal 40s. 445.
- Superfine --s
Malt 496. 5:1..
- Fine 575. 653.
Pea'e, Grey (new) 486. 50s.
- Maple (new) sls. 525.
White (new) 4.19. 483.
- Boilers

--- Harrow (new) 50s.
(old) —s.
—5. —4.
221. 265.
28s. 30s.
2Ss. 31g.
335. 36g.
325. 345.
31s. 365.
Ns. 40s.
unsettled
425. 43g.
!try 40e. 435.
16e. 17..

Brank .

Orts, Feed_

Irmo

- Poland -
Fine.

Putatoz.....—
Fine

•--- Scotch
Flour (per sack)
---- North COM
Bran

ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURINC LAST WEEK.
t; 2 R
From =0
4 Whence. 4, 4
r :4 r
------ - --- - - - ---.
Qrs. er4. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks.
Aldb °rough till - -.-- 6 ng
Allemout h 283 - - 536 - - -
. Colchester - - 600 - - - 394
r. Harwich - - -
-.-
- - - -
Leigh
49 - 100 - . 8 -41 Mallon lB9 20 20 -- 59 16 616
Hastings ..... - - - - -.
Hull - - - 455
Ipswich BO _35 405 - 10 - 765
Kent
Lynn 42,1 -- 1361 - - 631
Pi ,oie
Southernpton - - - - - 350
South ivold - 495 - - - -
Stockton
Woodbridge 2Ol 28 - - - - 100
Yarmouth - - 1291 - - - 15011
Dundee - 100 - - 13 8 -
Inverness
3413 185 4372 1029 217 101 5572
I luau. 111
Waterford - -- -- 412 .-- -- -
FOARIGN. 4 1
Amsterdam -.- -- 1395 -- -- -- i
Bensylil
Boulogne
Brake - 15 _ - 50 _
Caen 253 -- - - - ...-
Calais - - - 110 - - -
Datitzic
Freybcrg - -- - 280 65 - -
Gibraltar
-
Groningen - - - MO 30 _ -
Hanthurgli - _ -
Harlingen... - - -. NO - - -
liookziel
Leer
Leghorn - 811) - 389 1375 - -
Nelci tad t - - - 1110 -..-- -
Riga - - -- - - - -
Itotterclani - Frio - 1205 - - -
Smyrna -. ••••••• on. ••••• ••••
........... .r.......... ........+. .........—.
...........—.• .

Total..!
#OGRVGATF.
Rye, B—Tares,

137031
QUAN
o—Lin

12101
rTITY C
'weal, •
, 0-111

I 43113
11, 071 T 1
1659..-R
41.

P 279
lapesee

2067 1
MS OF
0,-.]

1.101
r PULS:
'Brahri

I 5572
IS.
; 92-

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