Star.
London, England, 1829-07-02 00:00:00

THE BLACKHEATH MURDER.

PURTIIIIR PARTICULARS.
The wretched man, Lambourne, is still alive, but is
in a very feeble and precarious state; be passed a very
restless night, and groaned at intervals is great agony
of mind. It would appear that be has long borne the
character of a very intemperate and ill-disposed man;
and although his first wife had eight children by him,
not one of them had that respect for him that ought to
exist in children to their parent, in consequence of his
brutal conduct to their mother,who died about nine years
ago, owing to his habitual cruelty towards her, indepen-
dent of which hi. behaviour to his numerous family was
the most unnatural and neglectful, as the following in-
stance will testify. His youngest daughter, a fine girl
about 17 years of age, who had during her mother's
lifetime received every good example, and was by her
instructed to pursue the paths of moral rectitude, was
about five months ago turned out of doors by the
wretched man, and desired by him to seek her bresd io
the streets, as other girls did who were better than her-
self. The poor girl wandered to town and took re-
fuge at the house of a friend of her late mother's, in
Saint Martin's-lane, where she remained for some
time, till she at length fell into the hands of
a notoriously low procures: in the Almonry, West-
minster, and was at last seduced by the woman to her
miserable receptacle, and persuaded to swerve from her
virtuous course, and lead an abandoned life. After a
lapse of a few weeks, the news of the unfortunate girl's
miserable change reached the ears of her sister, Merib
Lansbouroe who is about three years older than herself,
who has lived in the family of Mr. J. Place, of Charing
Cross, for the last eighteen months, and is held in the
highest respect by her master and mistress.
Merib no sooner heard of the disgrace of her unhappy
sister, than she went to the hovel where she was har-
boured, and there found her amongst many other un-
fortunates, who were being plied with liquors by the old
woman of the house. The bluer, the moment she beheld
her, flew towards her, and after some conversation, the
unhappy girl agreed to the solicitations of her watchful
sister, and instantly lelt the place and her lewd com-
panions, and gave up all thought of her then mode of
living. She was sent back to Oxford, at the expense of
her sister, where she remains now in one of the poor-
houses.

It is a singular fact, that the girl Merib, who was in
the habit of visiting her late mother-in•law, bad asked
leave to go on the morning of the murder to Black-
heath, to see her; but being rather unwell, she put the
visit off, or, in all probability, she would have arrived
shortly after the dreadful deed bad been perpetrated.
She has been lung bad friends with her wretched father,
owing to his conduct at the houses where she had lived
servant, and through which she has lost several places;
and since she has been in her present situation he al-
ways called whenever he came to London, and would
never leave her till she gave him part of her wages,
and on his demand being rejected be always created a
disturbance, and threatened to get her turned away.
On the Sunday night previous to the murder, he called
at Mr. Place's, and inquired of the fellow servant if his
daughter was at home, when be was told she was not,
which was the fact ; he said it did not signify much,
but that he should very much like to have seen her
that night.
On Tuesday morning, upon Mr. Place reading an
account of the murder in the newspapers, be thought it
better to unfold the sad tidings to the poor girl, which
he did in as delicate a manner as was possible. He at
first told her that be had read in the newspapers that
her father had been charged at Union-ball office with
beating her mother, whom he bad nearly killed. She
appeared very much affected at the intelligence, and
said it was no more than she expected, for that some-
thing told her, when she was informed that her father
bad called, that he bad been ill-using her motber.
Subsequently to her having somewhat recovered from
her agitation, Mr. Place renewed the subject, and said
he feared he had not told her the whole of the facts ; the
poor girl expressed great eagerness to hear the whole
particulars, as she was prepared to hear any thing,
however violent, from her father to her mother, and
however poignant to her feelings. She then earnestly
entreated Mr. Place to read the account in the papers to
her. Her request was complied with, and he read the
whole of the dreadful particulars, as stated upon the
Coroner's inquest. No sooner had he concluded than
the poor creature went into strong fits, in which she
remained for some time, till at length she was, by the
assistance of a medical man, brought to her senses, and
placed in bed, where she still lies in a very ill state. Mr.
Burford, the constable, according to the request of the
miserable man, called yesterday morning, and said that
her father had a strong desire to see her. She sent
word that upon no account whatever would she see
him. When the reply aas named to the wretched pa-
tient, he shook his head and sighed deeply. The young
woman declares that she c' uld not form any conjecture
as to what could induce him to harbour any bad feelings
towards Mr. and Mis. Davidson.

" Domus et place's uxor."—Hoa.
Thy house, and (in the cup of life,
That hooey-drop) thy planing wife!
HAPPINESS, the gay to-morrow of the mind." is
insured by marriage ; " the strictest tie of perpetual Friend-
ship," is a gift from Heaven, cementing pleasure with reason, by
which, says Johnson, " we approach in some degree of association
with (*hada! intelligence."
Previous, however, to entering into this hallowed obligation, it
becomes an imperative duty, not only to regulate the passions, but
to cleanse the grosser nature from those impurities which the free.
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neglect of such attention are attributable many of those hapless
instances which, while they excite the commiseration of the bo-
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Luxurious habits will effeminize the body—a residence in the
tropics will relax the elastic fibre—but more especially does the
premature infatuation of youth too frequently compromise the na-
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