Star.
London, England, 1814-10-05 00:00:00

ATROCIOUS MURDERS.

Yesterday afternoon a most atrocious murder ;via
perpoigated on the body of Elizabeth Dobbins, a pour
wAsiteistroman, residing at Millfirld Farm, Mi
lane, Kentish Town.

It appears, that about three o'clock, James Dob-
bins, the husband of the deceased, who is tiirncoek
to the north division of Pancras parish, rritifning to
his home from his ordi •iry labours, at.d on entering
a room on the ground floor, he discovered his wife
lying on the floor with her head under the coppei fur-
nace. At a short distance from her he found a
kitchen poker, which was considerably bent, and co-
vered with blood and brains, having manifestly been
the instrument with which the wound on his wife 'ad
been inflicted.

On examining her bead he found it hid open from
the right eye to the back of the skull, hiving been
fractured in the mast dieadful manner. .Life being
still remaining, he went out to procure some assistance,
and met a man in the custody of limes CO, from
whom he leaint they had taken him in a ti- I,t near
the spot belonging to Mr. Thomas Greenwood, upon
suspicion of having stolen a couple of bundles, which
they found in his possession.
Dobbins at once communicated the horrible scene
that he had discovered in his on n house, and it was
concluded the prisoner was the murderer. In this
persuasion they conveyed hini before GEORGR Ivens,
Esq. a Magisttate for the county, residing in 1L:1164i
Town.

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games Ciel was first examined, who deposed, that
as he was at work upon a new well in Milltiell-lai:e,
he saw the prisoner pass him with a bundle undtr
his arm, with which he crossed the foot of Highgate
Hill into Mr. Greenwood's field. Suspecting Ilona
the cautious mode of the prisoner's progress that ha,.
had not obtained the property honestly, he followed
him, and on overtaking him he. fetirid him examining
the bundle, which apparently contained wearing ap.
parel : he asked him how he had come by them? and
he said he had bought them of a gypsey for 9r. Not
satisfied with this account he took him into custody,
and was conducting him towards the road xshen Dob-
bins met them, and informed him of the murder of
his wife. Dobbins then examined the bundle, and
perceived that it Contained clothes which his wile had
received to. wash.
Elizabeth Jones deposed that she had washed for
the deceased part of the clothes contained in the bun.
die found on the prisoner.
Thomas Oliver, landlord of the Bull and Last pub-
lic house, deposed that two shirts, ehich stere found
in the bundle, were his, and had been sent to the de-
ceased by him for the purpose of being washed. In
the bundle was also found a bill of clothes which was
the hand-writing cf the deceased. •
George Hemming, an assistant to Mr. Sandys, sur-
geon, in Kentish Town, deposed that having ficird
of the catastrophe, he went to the premises of the de-
ceased, and examined the wound. S!ie was quite dead,
and i.e had no doubt her death was occashaieo by a
blow from the poker found by her husband on the floor,
or some such weapon.
Mr. M. Vister, a truss--oaken, in Bond-street, who
also examined the deceased, carroborated this testi-
mony, and produced three pieces of the skull, and
also the poker, which was bent and bloody.
The prisoner having been previqusly searched, the
contents of his pockets were pifiditced ; they con.
sisted of a tobacco-box, and a discharge trout his Mao
jesty's ship the Gladiator, at Pl rtsniuutli, of a mass
named Thomas Sharp, describing him as 5 feet
inches high, of light complexion, and wit'i a mole
upon his right cheek. The prisoner, hearing tbis
part of the charge read, said his name was "I mamas
Sharp, and pointed out the mole. He neither denied
or affirmed his guilt.
Mr. 'vitas, under all the Circumstances, considered
there was little doubt of the prisoner's g uilt, and there-
fore committed him to Cold Bath-field: Prison.
Friday, the 231 ultimo, a murder of a most bar.
barous nature was perpetrated in Broaduood Kelly,
in Devonshire, by one illexander Bealy, on Elizabeth
Martin, whose head he severed completely from her
body, with a common hook. A Coroner's inquest
brought in a verdict of Wilful Murder, and Bealy was
committed to the ccunty

An elderly gentleman, resident at Camberwell, was
stopped by a single footpad, on Friday evening last,
in Maiden•lane, near Highgate, who presented a pis-
tol to his breast, and demanded his money in a tre-
mulous tone. The dusk of the evening had approach..
ed, and the gentleman was just enabled to ascertain
that the robber, who wore a crape over his face, was
not a very old offender; he told him to take away
his pistol, promising to conform to his wishes. The
robber complied, and waited patiently while he slowly
unbuttoned his two coats, and fumbled in his pockets.
By this time two men approached. This circumstance.
however, did not seem to attract the notice of the
footpad, who stood passively at the he id of the horse,
as it absorbed in thought. The old gentleman took
advantage of this circumstance, and calling to the
men for assistance, they secured the robber, and con-
veyed him to a public-house near the spot. He suf-
fered himself to be disarmed without speaking a
word. Upon their attempting to remove the crape
from his face, he seemed much disturbed, and e:idea-
v
voured to prevent them. They effected, it,
and to the surprise of the accuser, he recognised his
own nephew. The exclamation of both parties, at
the moment, disclosed this secret ; and an explana-
tion followed, which ended in the discharge of the
men who had assisted in securing the offender, and
an arrangement which, no doubt, proved satisfactory
to the young man, who seemed deeply aff,cted at his
situation.

CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE, OCTOBER S.
Our Market continues abundantly supplied with Wheat, both
English and Foreign, and having but lew buyers this m
the sales were very heavy at a reduction of lull 2s. per quarter.
Grey Peal ere ea. per quarter lower, many samples appearing,
and but a trifling demand for them. New B:,r ey corneamind:ly
to hand, and what Utile arrived to-day readily °Whim! les
rims. in other articles there is no swims&

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