Star.
London, England, 1823-04-10 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSION&

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Ye/MNYP"Mgcriffiflffell. P -iimuctia..Fi as
Edward Hood, iswcirnbrOker; 61 the mouth
4 444PifY .444.-,:r %,,,,,-- . • • ' •
.-• ?4.. to 444/v pf.pifli. prosecution, stated that his
OPOOkAviseorip4lLelll:l4 SktCori.the proprietor of
artlirat ,lefOke6in Frlsi§.4teft. , atalfields, to dist rain
,en saijhplictw e. 14;59114*T tpedefrndant's h us-
hp4"4ll.ll/Vt' 1 imakirilf;9o4l/M49,4l4";:dPulfrUitillianCtbokiol"4ll,bAl'ittrudc:feknnci:
,lets who laid his ftc.t.fil.tiien,,indirais.theiithreatened
if be.44.uoi ittseaudyletivitl;ehOU:se;khe would do
Iliut Mos taking air ,a_lird..k-Ulte At.Ol:initant.
! ~ Mt... Edward 11,,n1 -strovitA. ihkihoVelracts ; and,
lalthuggh.cross.examined bp ilti."i4t.try for the de-
fendant. nuthin&wfstrtlis‘edo lglifs omimotly.
• iir.;Sdwairt Posiltmd. aßint:t4,. tzpoplih stated
he was in conspantaA pi-, g .tio etw- the de-
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bodant itiike4hr.Pf94(4 PA. IPLPIT,OIer the
loud and should n, Ose.m.,tip h)y,Ail, In the: de-
lensive,-upd receive 44 of tit, sl4' t ' ''''' - - which
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disabled him for...U4myi.)-4744,44 .e to np
.a
tiLT
knile,.aad made use Isc watt e dessted
ttrr inn -14- strike ;,v!ertFis. 4.4:41c.:4bt t he' made
many attempts but witness CI:W*4 M hit hand) b 7
which it was .lievete),,T. lacerau4. . Mr. Hood's coat
was torn ream 'hisivickt. ititii-sittneiiiitad no doubt, if
be hAst not rescue44-40,,fie 14itild hate been killed.
This was the case for the:propeePtirm.. • - •
Mr. Au.rer. then Addressed - the. Jury . for the de-
fendant. The, Learned Counsel said a more ill-na-
tured; prosecution had -never been instituted. klis.
client was a poor Aittressed.aseul -woman, a widow,.
and at the time the await was committed, her hus-
band was living. The, prpsecptil had pot proceeded
against the poer .etrAture when her husband was
living, but now she is deprived of all protection, they
seek her destruction. He would Ileare.h4.olient en-
tirely in their hands, kgaping att...their.M44l4 that she
was in the most extreme state of pfratit,:,
The CHAIRMAN summed up. and .tho !Jury found
the defendant Gaing.r4udgment deferred.

L. B. ALLEN, P4sq,,Chief agistrate at Unton hall,
attended yesterdaY.ex,Camberwell Workhouse, with
several police officers, and examined the woman whose
throat we stated to have been cut .by a man who
robbed her ; and after a patient and very minute an
vestigation into all the circumsfances of the case, and
subsequently by the confestiost of the woman herself,
it was satisfactorily assersetned,that bee wounds pro-
ceeded heat her own act, au, het the story of her
having been robbed .was entitelre "Orkation of her
own. The raxor with which !he ftdmipared to de-
stroy herself was found in the fields, anOysts: proved
to, have belonged to her husband.
Yesterday the Magistrates of Union hall received
a communication from ittr.lP!azks„ the Vestry-clerk
of Clapham parish, desceibtpg a most inhuman mur-
der that was committed cbs preceding night on the
body of Mrs.Eliaabeth Richards, a widow lady be-
tween 70 and 80 years of age, ,who lived within two
doors ,of the Ebenezer Baptist, Chapel, .Clapham-
cominon. The unfortunate lady had resided in the
above house for the last thirty years, where she was
well
.known and respected by all the
..ighbouthood.
Her husband had been a pin-maker in the City, and
since his death she and another female occupied the
house in which she .was so cruelly murdered. it'ap-
peered that Mrs. Bell, the lady who lived with, the
*ceased, Went can on the night in queseion about
saves o'clock, for the purpose pfztteeding a meeting-
house' and left the deceased at home. At a few mi.
nutes after eight o'clock, site returned and knocked
its the doer;,which- was not opened to her; she re-
Katecl., her. *pocks twice; the third time the door
opened, and 3ilrs. Bell walked into the passage ; she
repeatedly called. out " Mrs. Richards;" no answer
ila,sitcPs. neither was there any light to be seen.
Adysinced towards the kitchen, and just at the
ititrancishe.stumbled over something that was lying
*the iota. She became exceedingly alartned, and
,rats oat of the house immediately to call for assist-
mate.. She obtained assistance, and lights were
ht, when a poker, which did not belong to the
hada", was observed lying outside the hall-door. Upon
going
into the house, the body of Mrs. Richards was
discovered lying stretched on the floor, near the en-
trance into the.kitchen ; an apron was thrown over
the face, and the greater part of it was thrust into
the deceased's mouth; a mark of violence was also
visible on the right side of her throat. Frown her ad-
vanced age and infirmities, she was not enabled to
make resistance against her murderers. It has oc.
curred to Mrs. Bell since the murder, that a person
passed out of the house from behind the door, at the
time she einem.' it. The pockets,4 the deceased ap-
pear to have been violently torn from her side; a
caddy, which had contained a little money, lay near
the deceased's head, empty ; a silver watch was taken,
together with a half dozen of spoons. There was
considerable property in the house up stairs, but it
was left untouched, as no doubt the murderers had
been disturbed in their work of plunder. Hall, chief
constable, and Glanuon, most attire officers,' have
been sent to Clapham, ia order' to. trace this most
atrocious murder
.Thity,fispil is-tbe bitches of the
house a piece of brown paper, folded aP in the form
of a letter, and tied with a piece of cord. 'which had
the following address written oa the beck of it:
N Mrs. Bell, hat Mrs. Richards's, Claphesp-easunon,"
in very illegible characters. It is supposed the mur-
derer gained admittance into the rnw. as house on
pretence of having this letter to to Mrs. Bell.
Upon the discovery of the appall* oiretaftstauce, a
Vestry-meeting was called, and a ieentrd of pl. of-
&red for the apprehension and eosivietitikof the per..
petrator or perpetrators. This sins, however; was not
considered, sufficient for the purpose,, Aid: another
meeting wae, therefore, held yesterday "reign, by
which the reward was unanimously increased to 100
Etsintsts, *AAA- resolution passed ihcomahuaicate ell
4:_partige/arsOf this dreadful crime, lad the pro-
ceest:tigs of the parish in consequence of it, to the
.Seeretan tifttate for the Home Department, leaving.
it to:his 44creileikris take what steps towards effect-
lag the discovery of theguilty he may think proper.
The. ;inhabit pm of the atighbourhood are is a state
of indescribable dismay ever since the horrible occur-
rence took place; and one of the. Magisuates, in ad-
dressing the meeting on she subject last awn. stated
Mon one individual in particular, such was the hold
that the dread of murder had taken of his imagine-
40M, 'had been nearly altogether deprivedof the use
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