Star.
London, England, 1825-08-23 00:00:00

DREADFUL MURDL•R IN WALES.

A man of the name of John Evans, has been com-
mitted to Brecon gaol, charged with the murder of
Margaret Williams. The particulars which have trans-
pired respecting this atrocious affair are as follow :
About two o'clock in the morning, on Monday the
Bth inst. the unfortunate woman was called from her
bed by some one, when she went out of doors, very
thinly clad, and did not return. Suspicion was raised
that she had come to an untimely end, and as she. was
pregnant by the said J hn Evans, and some suspicious
circumstances being against him, means were taken in
the course of the day for his apprehension. GI eit ex-
ertions were made to discover the supposed murdered
body, but for some days in vain, Evans all the Ora,:
denying he knew anything about it; at length his bro-
ther-in-law. Dan•el Rowlands, stated that Evans had
brought the dead body to his house, on horseback, in
the night, requesting him to lend a spade, and afford
his assistance in burying the corpse. Rowlands likewise
stated that the spade was lent, and that he went some
part of the way with him, but from a horror of the
proceedings he soon returned ; he also diseribed the
direction in which Evans had taken the body, and the
probable place where it was buried, which being ex-
amined, the poi was discovered, in a retired situation ;
and on removing the earth the remains of the unfortu-
nate woman were discovered buried, with the thin cloth•
Mg she had on when she left her house at her side,
about two feet below the surface, the person burying her
having covered the grave with the original sods,.and
trod them with his feet without shoes, and carefully
spread the spare earth at some distance, to prevent a dis-
covery. On examination of the body, it was found that
death had been occasioned by the dislocation of the
neck of the unfortunate woman. When the circum-
stances attending the discovery of the body were made
known to Evans, he acknowledged his having buried
it, but denied committing the murder.

BETTING-ROOM, TATTERSALL'S, AUG. 42.
The attendance of subscribers was not very numerous, nor was
the betting brisk : Alderman, it will be seen, is retrograding, while
Cleveland, veering about as usual, has risen to 16 to 1 ; Whisker
and Trinculo have each gone back a little, and these are aU the
alterations we have to point out. Nothing was done on the Derby
and Oaks.

I. I. VI MI.
7 to 2 apt Memnon 16 to 1 apt Cleveland
7 to 1 apt Retigauntlet 18 to 1 apt Dauntless
9 to 1 apt Alderman 20 to 1 apt Whisker
9 to 1 agst Homer 22 to 1 apt Triaculo
14 to 1 agst Addy 133 to 1 apt Pastime ,
TROTTING MATCH.
The great match between the fast trotting mare Diadeaa,..oll
Mr. Herne's Nelson, was decided out Saturday over the two-Agile
eat on Halstead Course, Oxon, for WO sovereigns aside. The dis-
tance was sixteen miles, and ;he rice was as fine a trotting match
as ever was seen, and was won hi she mare as foams, each carry-
in= feather weight :

min. see.
The mare, 4 miles . . 8 ' 2
_ _

min. see.
The bone, 2 miles . . $ 5
Second ditto . . . . •" 2

ieeond ditto . . . . $ 1
Third ditto . . . . 756

Fourth ditto . . . . II 1

Third ditto . . . . 7SO
Fourth ditto . . . . 3
Fifth ditto . . . 6 6
Sixth ditto . . . . 6 10
Seventh ditto . . . 12
Eighth ditto . . . .

Fifth ditto . • . . •
_4

Si: t 6 ditto . . . . •12

Seventy ditto . . . 8 6

Eighth ditto . . . . it 20

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neck waited on his Lord- 64 .
MATCH. 64 Si
a return to Ayrshire, after SAILING 40 I
Thursday the Lady Louisa and the Venus contested 4 match
..ICHZQI.II2II and Lad y between them, for one hundred guineas a-side. The match was to
to lina gte ir 1%1
leftl irr'
to at
iv il his re-
sail from Blackwell to Gravesend, round his Majesty's ship
FrAssen, moored there, and back to IllackwalL Mr. Groves
esse
commanded the Venus, and Mr. Smith the Lady Louisa. the
'dal papers and dispatches contest afforded the nautical amateurs a great treat, and the
reed to visit that city in his riperilr sailing of the Lady Louisa was such as to lead her owner
, °li
purpose the Noble Earl left to believe that she can beat airy vessel of her dimensions, which is
13 tons ; the Venus is something under 12 tons.
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