The Sun.
London, England, 1818-02-16 00:00:00

-HORRID MURDER OF NlAllir MINION.

Another !wirier of a 11101 i fliooheal nature Was
iierpeterted at a quarter pAst eight o'clock on Sa-
.ttattlay night, at No. 24, Union-street, Mary-le-
bone. The natne'o'f, rite ;assassin is Wm, Retch,
natiVe 'of Staffordshire, lately in the employ of
Mr. Tiltman, a sales Man, in Covent Garden inzr-
ket, but has been since out of employment.. The
parents of the deceased ell's! lionesl industrious p=ine
:,people. The father is a carpenter, and the tno-
, !her and daughters cootriliuted to the support of
'the family by They occupy Apart-
Ments above staiis as ruci;:sers in the house. The
retch was marri«l to the deceased, who was a
flne'young woman, only eiglitteo years of age, in
`o ember last, ;Ind after being with her five days
only, he deserted her, mid site ascertained shortly
after that he 'had a wite, to whom he had been
married seven years, and has three children
Her father and mother took their (laughter
home again, and she had oo cotrmunication with
the tourdeter since. Previously to their marriage
he had heel) continually after her, and they first
(net at the Jerusalem Chapel, in Lisle-sarett,iLei-
cester-qpiare. On Saturday a letter was received
from •Iletch, addressed to Mary Ann Phil:ips, ap-
.pointing the deceased to, meet him at No. 19,
Tovenhatn-place, and stating that he was in dis-
tress, and wanted a trifle of money to enable him
to leave the country. Phillips lodged in the
house, and she communicated the contents of the
letter to the deceased, who wrote to state that she
had not the means ot'relieving him. About eight
o'clock•the assassin called at the house and in-
'tailed fur Rebecca Clark,. another of the lodgers,
and she conveyed a message to the deceased, who
was there, by calling her out 'from her parents,
Land stating that she wanted to speak with tier.--
.She left left them together in the passage of the
ground floor. In the mean time the youngest_
sister went out to purchase something at market
for the family, leaving the wretch and the, de-
teased in familiar conversation in 'the passage.----;-'
Shortly after, a noise in the passage',•like a staup-
ing on the floor, was heard by the people of the:
iintise in 'the kitchen urn they came
up and found the deceased 9n the floor, unable
to make one exclamation, the monster having se-
vered the head from the body, with the exception
of the sinews in the, pole of the neck. The wound
trust have beet, inflicted with some sharp instru-
In escaping.; the assassin knocked down a
boy in the street.' He .had on t ti,6 hats, and, he
wore a fustian coat,'hut lie had a blue coat-wider
his arm, which the.hoy saw him Pitt on in,the
street. From the marks of Wood it appeared
that the unfortunate deceased was held .against
the. wall when the diabolicalact was commUted.
The boy, whom the murderer knocked doyen
when rushitig,out of the house, saw him shut a
large clasp knife, rind-put it in hi* pocket.lt is
supposed, from the Ozprb and extent of the
wound, to have been a gardener's kniie,l,sooked
at !Ilse, end. The unfortunate yonng womaitrwas
in the act or ciou,lei of her infant
sister, not eight months old, "%%liea sherests, in a
fatal inennoo, crti!ed down to her pint-de:l'cl'. It
is a curious coincidence, that the hackney coach-
man who drove
.them to church to be ma:tried
pawed the home at the moment of the cry of 1
her murder.

iitn'frEllenhorough's servant was the first who
gave information at Marltimotr..;lp-street Office,
and, the-Officeti %vere promptly on 'duty. HatAs
went to the address, Tottettham:place, to get a
tine to the murderer, but, he had not been there.
lhe -letter which the deceased bad written to
state that she had not the means of relieving him
was sent to his living wife, WhO is servant to \Jr.
Turner, builder, St. James's-place, Hampstead-
roati, so that the t►►urderer had not been there.—
The Officer WUS informed that he had beet► there
about three days before, and that be had pulled
a razor out of his pocket in a strange significant
manner, which he laid upon the mantle shelf, but
he put it into his pocket again before he left the
'house. •

It'was only a few days since that the assassin
was taken before the Magistrates at Hatton-Gar-
den' Polke Office, Charged with not providing for
his three children., These ere the facts as de-
posed to .by the parties in the house yesterday.