Star.
London, England, 1825-01-13 00:00:00

On MURDER AT WIIADDOMCHASE.

ATLESSURtt JAIktUARN 111,
• The prisoner, Glades I.lmu, has been Visited since
his confinement in this gaol by the Marquis 411 Chan-
dos, Lord Nugent,Lord C tiring:on, Sir George Dash-
wood King, and several other persons of distinction in
thecounty, and every mein% have been used, consistent
with the situation of the prisonee,toobtain from him

not only the motive that induced him to murder hi,

friend and companion, but also to '.btain some clue
_ _

that might lead to a discovery of the fate of Mangan,'
Messrs. Burnet?' postman. - Mrs. Lynn, mother of the
prisoner, arrived here or. Tuesday evening, with one of
her daughters, and repaired to the White Hart lon.
next the prison. Monday night, Mr. George De.vall, a
young man in the hou e of Sir Robert Biii :Act and Cu.
an intimate acquaintance of the deceased, as well as of
*the prisoner, arrived here, hearing a letter from Mrs.
Lynn, entreating him to relieve the dreadful anrety of
the relatives of Mangan, by acknowledging all he knevi
las to the absence of that individual ; and he sen

word that he should see him (if permittrd) on the
following day. Tuesday m•.rning, about 12 o'clock,
►Mr. Devall was admitted to see the pi in).,er. lie elk•

tered the cell with the letter in his hand : the prisoner
advanced towards him seemingly surprise I. and ex-
claimed, •4 Alt! George,. how d'ye do ? Why didn't
you being my sister with you? It was very kind to
come and see me r and then shook him by the hat*
heartily. In the afternoon, Mts. Lynn and her daugh:et
were introduced to the prisoner. His mother entreated
him to make a candid disclosure to her of the cause he
had for destroying-Abraham I-l Age. The pawner then
' detailed, somewhat wildly, the following 'roost singular
starrative:
" I and Abraham went to the Saracen's Head Inn-
yard, Snowhill, and got upon the Liverpool coach. I
saw two men in deep conversation with him, and two
Gentlemen were on the coach ; the two men who spoke
with Abraham I knew to be resurrection-men, and I

was convinced that Abraham was agreeing to sell my
body to them for the surgeons, two of who were on
the coach. Just before the coach started, one of the
resurrection-men, who was dressed like a sailor, got a
bottle of gin, and on the road they wanted me to drink
two gla,ses for their one, The men afterwards threw
the bottle away, and purchased another on the road ; 1
and Abraham got down at the White Lion, at Brickhill,
and the landlord and others were talking about robbe-
ries and murders; I did's% like the conversation, and I

went to the public-house opposite, and slept there that
night. On the following morning, I went to the White
Lion, and the landlord• said to me, I It is lucky for you
that you were not up sooner, or your body would have
been half way back to London by this time.' I got on
another coach with Abraham, and, passing by a com-
mon, I jumped down and ran away ; Abraham fol-
-11 lowed with my gun. When I got near a wood, I heard
the sounds of horns and trumpets, and I thought the
resurrection-men were after me, and that Abraham in-
tended to kill me ; and I am sure, if I had not killed
him, he would have killed me."

His mother then raid—" What have.you done with
your money ? You know I gave you five guineas
when you left me." He abruptly said, " Oh, I have
given it all away." She said, " You know you bad
your poor father's watch, which you declared • you
would not part withz-what hese you done with it?"
He answered, " They have taken that from me."
The prisoner then observed, that he had begun to
write to his mother the whole particulars, and to re-
quest her to come and see him, and he took up the let-
ter and thrust it in the fire. The priioner declared most
solemnly. that he knew nothing whatever of Mangan.
There being no evidence taken before the Coroner to
identify the body of the deceased, it became necessary,
for the ends of justice, that some of the relatives should
see it before its interment. Accordingly, George Hogg,
a brother of the deceased, and Mr. Tier, a brother-in-
law, residing in Kennington-lane, Lambeth, storied from
town for that purpose. The funeral was to have taken
place-on Tuesday, but as they did not get down till late
in the evening of that day, it was feared; on their ar-
rival at Aylesbury, that the interment had taken place.
They had exhausted their finances in travelling, and
having 15 miles to go to Whaddon, they made their
situation known to Sir George Dashwood King, who
advanced them money to pay for postchaise and Ind-
dental expenses, observing that there would be no op-
position, under such circumstances, to the charge being
paid out of the county rate. Sir George gave them a
letter of introduction to Mr. Lowndes, the Magistrate,
requesting that the bearer might see the body. They
arrived at Whaddon at nine o'clock on Tuesday night,
and were,accompanied by Mr. Lowndes and the con-
stables to the Church, where the body was lying in a
shell,, in the aisle. On the lid being taken off, George
Hogg was much affected on viewing the mangled re-
mains of his brother. He said that he could swear po-
sitively to its being his brother's corpse. It appears that
Hogg and the prisoner booked their places in the Li-
verpool coach in a fictitious name, the day before they
left London: A coat was left by Hogg at his lodgings,
in Glasshouse-street, Vauxhall, on his quitting London,
in the pocket of which was subsequently found the fol-
lowing receipt:
" Mr. Smith, two outs for Liverpool, at ball-past six o'clock in
the morning, paid 10s. to pay £3 10s. by the Tallyho coach, on
Wednesday. (Signed) " hi. J."
This document was brought to Aylesbury by the
brother George, and shewn to the prisoner by Collins,
the turnkey, who asked him if he knew anything of it ?.
The prisoner, on looking at it, after some hesitation,
said, " I know nothing about it." The paper was then
returned to Mr. Tier. The last few days the prisoner.
has been quite cairn, and sleeps soundly at night. He
is constantly watched ; but in consequence of his com-
posed manner, the strait waistcoat with which he was
bound at first has been taken off. This afternoon, at
three o'clock, be tig appointed for the interment of the
body of the muracred man, in Whaddon church-yard,
a considerable number of persons residing at Whaddoni
Winslow, and the adjoining villages, assembled. The,
parochial officers were present, when the bully was re--
moved, on the ishoulders ()flour men, from the interior
of the church to the grave which had been prepa. ed in
the chinch-yard. During the reading of the funeral
service over the corpse by the clergyman of the parish,
the most profound attention was paid to the solemn ce-
remony. The coffin was made of oak., and the in-
scription was as follows Abraham Hogg, died Ja-
nuary 6, 1825, aged 26."
The absence of Mangan, the postman to Sir R. Bur-
nett and Sons, still remains a mystery. Nolutther in-
formation has been obtained, although those Gentlemen
have sent persons in different urrections to make every
possible search. They have also sent a person down to
Aylesbury, to receive from the miserable Lynn any in-