Star.
London, England, 1811-12-23 00:00:00

hour afteywards,l examined the window mete closely,
and saw the window-shutter, which had been taken
down, marked with blood, apparently with the print
zia hand, and there was also blood upon the inside
iron bar. When I first saw the window open, I beg-
ged somebody to go up stairs and search the house,
while I remained at the window ; I stopped at that
window to prevent any retreat ; Mr. Mallen, the
Chief Clerk of the Shadwell 'Police, and two police
officers, went with me to search for the offenders, but
without effect, at different houses, in consequence of
information that two suspicious persons had gone
along Shadwell High-street; soon after J got into the
house I saw John Turner, who had, as I was infor-
med, made his escape out of the window, and gave
him in charge to the watchman.
WILLIAM SALTER sworn—l am a surgeon, and live
in Ratcliffe Highway ; I have minutely inspected the
bodies of the several parties deceased, by the direc-
tion of the Coroner, and found the following marks
of violence on their bodies—namely, John William-
son had a wound extending from the left ear to within
two inches of the right. penetrating through the
trachea or windpipe, and down to the vertebra: of the
neck ; and the tibia, or large bone of the right leg, p
fractured a little above the uncle, apparently from a
fall, as if down stairs, because if it hail been done by
any other means, I think there must have been a la-
ceration of the integuments ; no marks of violence
upon any other parts. Elizabeth Williamson—the
right temporal and parietal dreadfully fractured, ap-
parently from a large poker, or some such instru-
ment, comprehending nearly the whole of the right
side of the head ; the throat cut from ear to ear,
through the windpipe, &c. no marks of violence upon
any other parts. Ann Bridget Harrington, the wo-
man servant—the right parietal bone laid open about
four inches in length and two in width, with the brains
exposed; and the throat cut about four inches in
length through the wind-pipe ; no other marks of
violence appears. I-conceive their throa:s to have
been cut with .t razor, as none but such sharp instru-
ment could have cut so deep without tearing the
parts, which is not the case in this instance, their
throats being cut by one incision. On each of their
bodies there is sufficiint causes of death appearing.

an I underwent a very rigid interrogation by the Ma-
i gistrates. A pair of white canvas er duck trowsers
were found in the prisoner's lodgings, in Pratt's bud-
dings, which are situated very near the house of the
deceased. The trowsers appeared to have been very
recently washed; they were then very wet, and upon
inspecting them closely there appeared to be evident
traces of blood. The prisoner said, that he had not
worn those trowsers for six weeks before, and that the
supposei marks of blood were nothing but the stains
of some marker's paint. The trowsers were found
under a bed in the prisoner's room.
A Medical Gentleman inspected the trowsers, and
was thoroughly satisfied that the stains were those of
blood.
The prisoner said that a milk-woman slept in the
same room where he lodged, and that the trowsers
were found under her bed. _ _ _

He has not been examined, but it is suprosed he will
be brought up this day.
Sylvester Dr's:oil, who was apprehended on Friday,
and on whose trowsers were m.trks of blood, will not
receive another hearing till Thursday.
Yesterday the officers, from Wiltechapel Office,
brought in..custody a man from the Downs on strong
suspicion.
On Saturday night the inhabitants of Rate WI and
Shadwell formed their patroles, each of them armed
with swords and pistols. Eady yesterday rooming
they examined every house_supposed to contain dis-
orderly characters. In their progress a most m;ra-
colons event took place : one of the patrole, unused
to fire arms, stood with about forty others at the door
of a house which was being searched ; tirelessly
playing with his blunderbuss, it went nil, and the con-
tents penetrated the palm of his hand. the ball Actu-
ally Hying in the midst of his companions, but for-
tunately no other individual received injury. This
sudden explosion fora short time created come alarm,
and occasioned the immed i ate union of the two pat roles.
A strong corps of Dow-street officers have alter-
nately remained in the neighbourhood rf Shadwell
and Ratcliff since Friday m..rning, to co-operate with
the Police Officers of Shadwell, flames, and White-

With respect to the statement of the prisoner, that
he was at home all night, from four the preceding
evening. until eight next morning; it was contradic-
ted by the testimony of the following witnesses :
THOMAS DANIEL stated, that he lived next door to
the prisoner, and saw him come out of his house about
half-past eleven o'clock on Thursday night, with a
light in his hand, and go up to Mr. Williamson's
house, and stand there for some time. He first saw
him go out when the alarm was given; he observed
him afterwards go home.
Tuomas DIENON lived next door to the prisoner;
when he heard the alarm of murder, he got up and
put on-part of his clothes, and upon looking out of
the window he saw the prisoner come up the end of
tile lane with a light in his hand, and saw him go up
to Mr. Williamson's door; this was about eight or ten
minutes after the first alarm.
DRISCOL, the wife of the prisoner, was examined,
and her testimony precisely corroborated her hus-
band's account of himself.

chapel.
Saturday night the house cf. Mr. 0 rfe, the 'ego
of the Whit,. Rose, Ratrliff Highway, was strongly
guarded, in consequence cf inloimation that his f.i.•
mily would be attacked.
INQUEST AT SHOP Emelt
After the Coroner had retired horn the painful duty
of an incpCst in Gravel-lane, another was summoned
at Shoreditch, on the body of Mary Shepherd, an
unfortunate girl of the town, who was reported to have
been murdered on Thursday night in Cooper's-gar-
chns, Hackney.—Burgoine, a watchman, gave his
evidence as to seeing the girl in company with ano-
ther 'female of the name of Arnie, about half-past
one on Friday-morning. They were intoxicated.—
' He heard a quarrel about maney, but no blows pass-
ed. .shortly afterwards' the girl fell down, when the
beadle of the parish and the watchman came up;
seeing her situation, medical assistance was procured,
but hfe was extinct before it arrived. The Surgeon
was conv'nced she had sustained noinjury from 'wilily
effects. The watchman and the gii I gave tl.eir state-
ment.

A man of respectable appearance was taken before
the Magistrates on Saturday morning upon suspicion,
but nothing transpired which could warrant his ap--
prehension ; however, be was remanded till this day.
Government has very laudably issued the following
notice :

" Whitehall, December 11.

Whereas it has been humbly represented to his Royal Hier
nest the Prince Regent, that between the hours of eleven and
twelve on the night of Thursday, the 19th instant, as the watch-
man was going his rounds in New Gravel-lane, ShadwcU, in the
county of Middlesex, he observed a young man, who was a lodger
at the public house called the King's Arms, and kept by Mr. Jahn
Williamson, lowering himself down by two sheets from a two-
pair-of-stairs window, who told him that the family were mur-
dered, whereupon the door was immediately broken open, and
the bodies of Mrs. Catharine Williamson, and her maid-aemnt,
Bridget Harrington, were found, murdered in the tap-room, and
the said Mr. John Williamson was found in the cellar, in the
same state ; his Royal Highness, for the better apprehending and
bringing to justice the persons concerned in the atrocious mur-
ders. is hereby pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Ma
jetty, to promise his Majesty's most gracious pardon to auy one
of them (except the person or persons who actually perpetrated
the said murders) who shall discover his or their accomplice or
accomplices therein, so that he, she, or they may be apprehended
and convicted thereof. And, as a further encouragement, a re-
ward of Five Hundred Pounds is hereby offered to any person
I making such discovery s aforesaid (except as is before excepted),
to be paid on the conviction of any one or more of the offenders
by the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Ma-
jesty's Treasury. " a. IITDZIL"

SASIUEL MALMOIR, a cooper, No. 97, New Gra-
vel-lane, opposite the house of the deceased, corrobo-
rated the testimony of the first witnesses, with respect
to the finding of the bodies, as already described.—.
After he came out of the house, he proceeded up New
Gravel-lane, where he saw two girls of the town, who
informed him two men had ran past them, one in a
white rough coat, and the other a short man. The
greater part of this witness's testimony which follow-
ed, described what those women told him ; but as
they were examined before the Magistrates on Friday
night, we do not report it.
Gsoncz CLEOGII, a beadle of Lower Shadwell,
proved that he was sitting in the watch-house ,at the
time the alarm was given of murder • and he pro- INeasnteants.—On Saturday morning early Mr.
ceeded with an iron crow, and assisted in gaining Kirwan, of 108, Pall-mall, discovered that the lower
admittance to Mr. Williamson's house. He went up parte his cousin's houseoppcs te,which is under repair,
stairs and found the grand-daughter of the deceased was on fire. He instantly called to the centinel at Carl-
asleep in a room on the second floor ; he afterwards ton House to force it open, who was at the moment
alarmed the officers at the Thames Police-office, and crossing the way for the purpose, when it plainly ap-
those of Shadwell -- peared to have been the work of an incendiary, as
WM. WARD, servant of Mr. Howes, pork-butcher, I Yesterday the eastern part of the metropolis pre. the stairs, a ladder, the door-frame, and several pieces
Shadwell, was present when the first alarm was given, rented a promenade of all descriptions of persons, at- of woad, all in distinct places. were on fire at *nee s
he saw Turner the lodger in the act of letting go the ! tracted by the recent atrocious murders of two farm- and to prevent the reflection of the flames through the
sheet, by which he had descended from the window; and lies, from the current reports of additional crier-
fan-light, two sacks were placed before it. Provi-
derous crimes. The concourse of spectators were
he afterwardsassisted in breaking open the door. Thisdentially, howevir, the parlour door was open, and
witness's testimony went chiefly to corroborate the ,the blaze seen through the windows, and the fatal
in Shadwelland Ratcliffe never equalled
others in the description of the state in which the de- consequences prevented. Mr. Kirwan, the owner of
on any former occasion, and the astonishment of the
ceased were found. the house, who lodged at Mr. Brown's, silversmith,
roupes of spectators, in viewing the premises of the
After the evidence was concluded, the Coroner de- i fate Mr. MARK and 'Mr. WILLIAMSON, were lost in next door, was called up, and, on his going out, a
livered the following charge to the Jury : 1 conjectures as to how the murderers made so ready I man came in to offer his services in removing Mr. B's
" Gentlemen—The frequent instances of murder ian escape. The public are informed 6f most parts- ! Property, but Mrs. B. very properly rejected them,
committed in the eastern part of this metropolis, which 1 elders relating to these two unhappy events, and lie and there is reason to think he was the incendiary,
no vigilance has been successful to detect, in a vicinity ' shall only state the most recent occurrences since our and that the intent was to take advantage of the con-
where the population of the lower classes of the corn- last publication.
i
fusion, to plunder Mr. B.'s property, a similar act
munity greatly preponderates, increased by the nuns- On Friday afternoon information was obtained that having lately taken place in Piccadilly, where an un-
ber of strangers and seamen discharged from time to a man of suspicious appearance was at Limehouse. inhabited house, next door to a silversmith, was set on
time at the East and West India and London Docks, About five o'clock the constables went in pursuit of fire, and the latter robbed in the confusion. There
and the influx of foreign sailors from all parts of the him, and took him into custody ; they had not pro- havarg been nobody but the workmen in the house on
Globe, imperiously call for the solemn attention of ceeded far before a patty of men came up, beat the Friday, they underwent a long examination on Satur.
those more immediately entrusted with the admini- constable who had him in charge most unmercifully, day, at Bow-street, but nothing appearing to crimi-
stration of Government ; for the late and present and the man was rescued. A cry was raised, when nate them, they were discharged.
murders are a disgrace to the country, and almost a the man was taken again ; the party again assailed Saturday's Gazette contains a Pmclatnation,offering
reproach on civilization ; while the exertions of the the constables, one of whom had his head severely a pardon, and a reward of two hundred pounds, fur
Police, with the ordinary power of the Parochial Offi- cut, and the man was rescued a second time. The the discovery of the persons concerned in breaking
cers, are found insufficient to protect men's persons pursuit still continued; the man was taken into cus- into and plundering, and afterwards setting fire to the
from the hand of violence, and the Coroner has to tody a third time, and the persons who had him in print buildings appertaining to Messrs. Thonias
record the most atrocious crimes, without the possi- charge met again with the same fate, when the man Andrew and sons, at Campstatt-bridge, near :simple,
bility of delivering the perpetrators to justice and pu- finally made his escape. Cheshire.
nishment, our houses are no longer our castles, and The rumoured reports of the murders of a publi- Saturday evening, about half-past seven o'clock, as
we are unsafe in our beds. These observations, strong can and two Police Officers, originated from this se- a girl, about twelve ,ears of age, was passing through
as they are, will be found warranted by the events riosis fracas. The wounds inflicted on the constables ' a court leading to Element's inn, she was attacked
which have lately taken place, within a short distance in the performance of their arduous duty, are not by two robbers, cne of them stopped her mouth while
of the spot where we are now met, and by the nume- dangerous ; the fury of the rioters was increased from ' the other took from her two papers of ss. worth of
rous verdicts of Wilful Murder which, during the a supposition that the constables were part of a press-' halfpence; they both ran off, but were pursued by •
last S months, have been returned by Juries against gang. The man suspected surrendered himself to some persons passing at the time,- with the cry of
persons unknown, not one of Which has yet been dise the Magistrates on Saturday, vista his shirt complete- "stop thief! and one of them was stopped by the parish
covered. Until some more appropriate remedy be ly stained witl; the blood of his antagonists, and ace ' patrole, iti Plough-court. and the parcels of half.
pointed out, it appears adviseable, in the present agi- I couuted satisfactorily the reasons for the opposition in pence Sound .near where he was taken. He was
tation of the public mind, that parties of the military, this unfortunate affair. His statement was combo- brought to the Public-Office, Bow-street, and under-
under the direction of the civil power, selected from rated by several witnesses, and he was discharged. 1 went an examination before Mr. GRAHAM and Mr.
the Militia or Guards, should patrole this district Partridge, one of the officers of Shadwell, was or- ' BUMS* and committed for further examination.
during the night. Your verdict, lam sorry to say, dered to examine two men taken in custody at Dept- 1 Thursday morning, between two and d three o'clock,
will, in these cases, be given generally on the evi- ford, on suspicion of being concerns,' in the murder the house of Mr. Norton, grocer, Marquis-court,
dente, as the perpetrators are unknown ; but it may of Marr's family. The officer immediately proceed- Drury-lane, was beset by a desperate gang of thieves.
be hoped, by the aid of that DIVINE PROVIDENCE, ed, questioned the suspected persons, and being saris-: They made their way into the bed-room of Mr. N.
who seldom permits murder, in this life, to go un- fled there existed no positive evidence against them, but the latter on hearing a noise, immediately jumped
punished, with the exertions which will be used, these, conceived it unnecessary to bring them befue the out of bed, and throwing open the window, vo.ife-
inhuman monsters may be discovered and brought to Magistrates. I rated fs Fire," when the villains made off. On Sa-
justice. Your verdict will be wilful murder against Late on Saturday night, a genteel person was turchiy morning the house was again attempted by
some persons unknown." brouglA to the Shadwell Office, under suspicion.— I the same gang, but an alarm was given, and the
The Jury, after a patient consideraton of the whole The Magistrates were convinced the prisoner had no! thieves made a second precipitate retreat without d-
oss the evidence, from two o'clock until seven on Sa- participation in the late hotrible transactions; but , fisting their purpose.
turday evening, returned a verdict of" Wilful blur- detained him a few hours iti custody, in order that 1 Friday _.
night the house of Mr. Davidson, in Sr.
der against some person or persons unknown." witnesses should be brought to prove an alibi. The 1
James's-sqnare, was broke open, but the family being
EXAMINATIONS AT SHADWELL OFFICE. prisoner's friends came forward, and circumstantially
alarmed the villains decamped without their booty.
related the reasons of leaving his lodgings. It ap- '
Mr. HENRY Jomesoo, a person of considerable re- I Friday night the 0. P. theatrical public-house in
peered the prisoner suspected a criminal intercourse
spectability in St. Paul's parish, Shadwell, . and two
existed between his wife and a man where he lodged. , Ruesel-court, Drury-lane. was broke open and robbed
women of the town, deposed, that just at the tone the
of four
When he came home, he packed up his working- rest coats, two sou la gal s, and a quantity of
alarm of murder was given they saw two men come s
clothes, and by stealth departed, with the intention of table-linen. It is supposed that the thieves had se:
running up the lane towards Ratcliffe Highway. it oin to Chatham, as a punishment to his wife.— ' creted themselves in the house before the family went
One of them appeared to be lame, andeotsld not keep g, . _ .
~
he clothes in his bundle being found dirty, and dif- tobed, as -the
•thstreet-door was closed in the morning.
up with his companion. He appeared to be exhatts-
firing so much from his appearance, the constables and did not exhibit any marks'of violence. -
ted either with running or some violent exertion.
were not satisfied with the statement he made to them.' Mr. BROWN, of the Shovel public house, New-rea?.
This man was the shortest of the two. They heard , further .
On investigation before the Magistrates, he ' St. George's in the East, at Shadwell Office, that his
the tallest man say. " Come along Mahon (or `-'
I was, however, discharg
They made their way towards the Bluegate6elds. ed. house was brs,ke into about one o'clock sesterday
Hughey), come along," or words to that effect.—
Yesterday a suspicious character was brought to t morning, and again at sit o'clock, but the villains
Mr. Butler's, opposite Shadwell office, for security. were alarmed mild effected the r escape.
Sylvester Driuvl was brought up for examination, .
_II

The Coroner, in 1,i3 address, hoped that the ag-
grieved feelings of the public would not be tantalized
with a belief that the unfortunate girl was barba-
rously murdered ; leaving the Jury to decide on the
facts before them, he had no doubt flair verdict would
appease the public alarm. ,The Jury immediately re-
turned their report—Died by the Visitation of God.
The girl Arnie is in custody, charged with an at-
tempt to take from her deceased companion, a dollar,
18-penny piece, &c.