Star.
London, England, 1823-07-14 00:00:00

CHARGE OF MURDER.

Us Faturday morning the neighbourhood
Bermondsey was thrown into consternation b.. the report t'Azt
Mrs. Elizabeth Chamberlain, an elderly woman, who re5i,104,,,
Mangold-street, Bermondsey, bad been murdere-l. It was at
a very early hour that the alarm was given, and the streetnlone
was soon crowded with people.
At six o'clock Painter the con stable, who resi les near the
spot where the murder was s std to be committed, proceeded to
the house without delay. Upon entering the Trout rourt 9n the
ground-floor, he observed the unfort irate woman, who appe3r4
to be about 60 years of age, sitting in a chair nearly opposite
the door. She was leaning with her right arm on a table, ant
her head was in -1 reclining position upon her band, and she op,
peared to be asleep. He felt the body, and fotand that it ssts
warm, and he believed, until he closely examined it, that the%
was not extinguished. On nearer view, however, he raw a eget
wound over the Ida temporal artery; that the arms rere coveted
with dry crusted blood, and that the breath was gone. In ow
corner of the room he discovaed a great quantity of Nook
and behind the door he found a shawl and apron, evhch ran
steeped in Mood, and seemed as if they had been use.:
purpose of preventing the blood fa ont flowing under the Jeer.—
On the spot where the deceased sat no vestige of hloo!, WAS to
be seen, neither were there any marks of blood on the caulk
on which her head reclined, so that he concluded that the body
had been removed from the corner of the room, tt here the idoea
lay in such quantities, to the chair, after the compl:tion of tar
work of death. Painter, in masking inquiry of some of the lodger)
in the house and others, :ascertained that a man, who occtqiet
a room next to that in which the body was found, bad been hello
quarrelling, or " holding bi;;li words" with the deceased on th
previous night at about eleven o'clock. Painter thought it ha
th•ty to question this man, who was amongst those preseet, a-A
the subject of the dispute, and the desperate violence that had
been used to the deceased, and having received a very unsatis,
factory and confused kccount, took him into custody, strozo
impress:A, with the opinion that he was the murderer.
The prisoner was in the course of the day brought before
SWAPET and It. Ilions, &qrs. the Magistrates at Union-liars
when a statement to the above effeit was made by dr. Hai,
land, the Overseer of Bermondsey Par;sh.
Mr. I Lifland also stated, that from the appe,trante of the body,
and the condition of the things in the room when he entered, he
could riot conclude the deceased had committed self-dew-bents,

The prisoner betrayed no.fear or concern. ale appears toh
about 50 yeara of age, is blind of one eye, .did has a cot.nteuaret
by no means prepossessing.
The Magistrate, upon looking at him at the bar, desired the
his hands and clothes should be examined. The rtcer turned
up both his hands motion to which tin ribectioit was 111441 C
the prisoner), and found that the right band was stained wad
fresh blood.
Mae.strate—Pcisoner, '.:cr.v do you account for the marktil
blood on year hand,?
Prisoner—Why, I killed two fowl, the day before at tws
o'clock for my master, and their Vaud is still upon my hand.
Magistrate—llow (lid you kill the fowls? •
Prironer—l wrung their peeks, and killed 'em that way,
31.1;;istt ate—That method of dispatching fowls surely coil
not have 'tattled your hands In the way in which they MT ap
pear, after so long au interval? •
Pris:nl:•r—T7ist's the way I got the stains, however. neva
then vizert whether he hail not done some work since he IDS
killed the fowls? Ile replied that he had done some bomb
his tn:;ster's,garden, where he was in the habit of working.
Magistrate=—The work with the hoe would purely wear out
the marks of the blood?
Prisoner—Oh, no! The fowls bled very much. The blood
was so great that it even scattered over my treeches.
The Magistrates then asked the prisoner whether he whirl
to add anything to the denial which he had already made, be
told him that he was by no Teens obliged to say a word.
The prisoner said, he certainly had to deny everything tit
had been said likely to implicate him in the death of theism
woman. God knows," said he, 1, everything that pampa
my heart ; and he knows, that I would no more injure her tha
my own mother. Why, what would make me murder her? •
man at my time of life, and nearly three years living boa
house with he as a lodger! No, Gentlemen, lam quite law
cent of the crime."
The prisoner spoke those words in the most solemn tone, and
appeared to be greatly agitated upon hearing that he was top
to prison until the Coronet's verdict should be given.
klepersevered in denying the possibility of his being concerned
In so atrocious a transaction, although the Magistrate represtattd
to him that there was nu necessity in repeating the asdurancesi
his innocence, and that they were acting merely Item a sense of
duty to the Public in detaining him.
The deceased, be said, he had seen the night before he had
found her dead, and she appeared at that interview ro be bi liquor,
lie *advised her to go into bed, but she refused to do so, and um
very obstinate. lit then retired from her room into his ma
and immediately went to bed. After. sonic time he heard bit
" floundering " about her room, and he called nut to her, sop
posing that she was stripping herself, to know whether shestis
getting into bed He heard, or thought he heard her say, sbe
was, sod he went to sleep. In the morning, however, spier
tering her room, he found her sitting in the position described
He called to her, but she made no reply, and then he saw tit
room covered with blood like•a slaughter-house, and, conchs*
that she was dead, he ran into the street to Alum the people. k
was then five o'clock, and he had to run about for some nate hi.
fore he could get assistance.
The prisoner then earnestly begged that the Magistratesvedi
not have hiM locked up, as he was convinced that his lola
would bail him to any antount, from the conviction digit
would never commit such an act as he was charged with. ,
Remanded until the verdict of the Coroner's Jury shag k
made known.

Saturday evening two fellows racing their bones along VA
cot-Place, Lambeth, ran over a poor boy carrying a heavy lei
of linen, and so much injured him that he was taken up for dead:
he was carried to a surgeon's in the neighbourhood, and taw
what recovered, but he continues in a dangerous state.

BIRTHS.
Saturday oe'nnight, the wife of the Rev. Gerrard Tboas
Andrewes, of a daughter.
Monday, at Lincroft House, near Litchfieldi the Lady il
Arthur Male, Esq. of a daughter. •

MARRIED.
The Rev. George Pearce, of Thorpe )goad, to Laura NW
beth Buck, youngest daughter of the Rev. IL B. Matthew',
of Hingham.
The Rev. Wm. Wright, of Witham, Essex, to Georgia"
daughter of the late 11. C. Aberdein, Esq. of Witham.
The Rev. John David Glennie, of Sandgate, Kent, to hifi
Maria, youngest daughter of the late J. M. Woodyear, att
the Island of St. Christopher.
The 30th ult. at Anthony Church, Neil Clarke, Esq.
tenant R. N. to Miss Rooke, daughter of -- Rooke, Bit
Wilcnve, near Torpoint.
At Weymouth, D. Brown, Esq. H. P.l4th Light Drelligh._
to Eleanor, youngest daughter of the late Charles Mana JR'
ge
of Caversharn Park, Oxfordshire.
Thursday, at Nutfield, in Surrey, J. A. Bailey, Kaq. boa
H. N. 69th Regiment, to Ann, only child of tee Rev.
Sandford, Rector of Nutfield, and formerly Fellow and Total'
Jesus College, Oxford.
At Ballina, county of Mayo, Captain Lorenzo Nicks," WA
of the Ist West India Regiment, to Eleanor, second &OW
lof M. Fenton, of Castletown, county of

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DIED.
Wednesday se'nnight, aged 84, the Rev. H. F. Diorkill
S.rtridge-house, near Horrabridge.
July 4, at' Greenwich, the Rev. Wm. Morgan, D.D. b 4
Chaplain of the Royal Naval Asylum, aged 67 years.
'Aged 79, the Wu. J. 'fiche% of Hedon, Author of the Ifr
tory of Hull.
In his 45th year, the Rev. R. Freer, of Cunabetlataltlet4
Shoreditch.
Aged 80, the Rev. Alexander Baynes, Vicar of MOP.
the-N*okt., Yorkshire.
At Wappenburgh, near Warwick, the Rev. Robert PMilk
upwards of 30 years Roman Catiolic Priest of Bristol
At South Willingham, Lincolnshire, aged 67, the Ree.ll4.
land Curtois, Rector of that parish, and *.car of Luddite.
and Ludford.

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