Star.
London, England, 1811-12-26 00:00:00

MURDERS AT SHADAVELL

Yesterday Mr. CapperMagistrate of Shattwel,
Office, attended oh Mr: Vermilloe (and not. Vermil-
lion, as before stated) in Newgate. Mr. allderm is
Wood, and Atkins; waited i.n the Magistratn in the
m"rning, and stated information which was c.f great
importance.
The ripping chitsel which was found it
son's housewas conveyed to Nengate, in order to be
identified by Mr. Vermilloe. 'rive conference was
private, and continued until four o'cl ick in the after-
noon. Mr. Vermilloe gave testimony to the irstru-
ment, called a Ripping Hock, being among the chest
of tools deposited in his house. We must here remind
our Readers that the said Riming Hoak, about two
feet in length, was found by the side of Mrs. William-
son, and it is the same which Mr. Vermilloe has de.
posed that he knew perfectly well. Mrs. Vermilloe,
who was so much affected on Tuesday night, that
her evidence was very inconclusive, gave in an un-
embarrassed manner, the decisive ii formation as to
the identity of the blood-stained instrument. The
unfortunate person in confinement has lik:wise given
information of an( ther man, wliom he conceives
must be conc. reed in the late inhuman murders. _

The Magistrates immediately forwarded directions
to the different officers to go in pursuit, and late last
night every exertion was used to find out the man al-
luded to, and we have the pleasure to state, no doubts
are entertainedsof his detection.
As far as can he officially learned, there were onl7
' two men concerned in both of the atrocious murders.
The fact of Williams having been seen running up
the alleys by the side of Willtamson's house after the
alarm was given, w.ll, it is said, be proved by a per-
son of the name of Johnstone on the next examina-
tion of Williams. _ _

The public now feel some consolation in the hope
that a clue for the detection of the villains who have'
committed the recent massacres, ss ill be accomplished
with the assistance of Mr. Vermilloe. We give the
following description of his person :
Williams, previous to the murders, had large red
whiskers, which seem to have been cut off very re-
cently, before his apprehension ; and his hair is cut in
a different manner to what it was before ; he is about
five feet nine inches in height.
• It turns out, that he has gone by another name be-
sides Williams, and that, instead of being a Scotsman,
as he represented himself to be to the Magistrates of
Shadwell Office, he is a native of Ireland.
Vermilloe, the landlord of, the Pear-tree public-
house, at which the supposed murderer lodged, was
liberated from the debtors' side of Newgate, this day,
and will be further examined to-morrow.
John Williams, in custody on suspicion of being
ooe of the murderers of the Marr and Williamson fa-
milies, is now heavily ironed, and confined in Cold-
Bath-fields House of Correction.

The Magistrates of the County residing at Ham-
mersmith, have sworn in thirty-two of the inhabitants
as special Constables, to act during the present alarm-
ing period.
'Tuesday morning, as Mr. Sturges, a Bigler, was
coming from Romford, with his cart to the London
markets, with poultry, &c. he was stopped by three
fellows, near Ilford, armed with bludgeons, who de-
manded his money ; but being armed with pistols.
and a blunderbuss, be told them if they did not de-
sist, he would fire ; on which the villains decamped
without their booty.
The house of the Rev. S. R. Saltere, at Hitching,
near Beaconsfield, was broken open on Sunday night
by four armed men, who, after assuring Mrs. Saltere,
who was alone in her chamber, that no violence was
meant, they ransacked the house of some articles of
plate amounting to about A'3o, and the like sum is
notes, when they retired. There were only two sere
rants and a little boy in the house, Mr. S. being
in town.
A Shrewsbury Paper says—" In addition to the
murders and depredations nightly and even daily
committed in the metropolis, the provincial Papers
that have reached us during the week, announce an
almost unparalleled catalogue of robberies ; and be-
sides those mentioned in our last, many others have
occurred in this neighbourhood. The house of Mr.
Tranter, of Colnbrook-dale • the corn-mill of Mr.
Weaver, of Buildwas ; the dairy and poultry-house
of Mr. Cherrington, of Kemberton ; the work-shop
of Messrs. Parsons and Firmstone, of Wellington ;
the workshop and counting-house of Mr. Perry, cur-
rier, of Kidderminster ; also the premises of Mr. Hill,
baker, of the same place, have all been plundered by
nightly depredators. A few days ago Mr. Howard,
of Burslem, was stopped by two footpads on the
Drayton-road; who dragged him from his horse, and
rifled his pockets of about £9.
A person of the name of Wight was recently brought
before the Judge of Police, charged with endeavour-
ing to steal a dead body from a house in the north
back of Canongate, Edinburgh. It would appear,
that a poor man having breathed his last, the pri-
soner, who formerly had been acquainted with him,
called upon the widow, and offered his services in
conducting the funeral. He brought a coffin to the
house on Friday evening last, into which the body
was put, and the cover screwed down.- He then pr
railed on the widow to leave her own house, and ac
company him, with her family, to his all night.
Having got possession of the key of the house, he re
curved at an early hour in the morning, accumpanie
by two other men, with a deal box filled with sand
and was in the act of removing the corpse, in orde
to substitute the sand in its place, when the neigh
bours having been alarmed, he was caught in th
fact and secured. When called upon by the Jud
to account for his being in the house, he confessed hi
motives, and that it was his intention to have sold the
body to the surgeons ; alledging, that as the widow
was a poor woman, and unable to defray the ezpences
of the funeral, the sum he would have got for the
body would have ',enabled her to do so. He was
committed for triaL
The following persons were last week committed
to Winchester gaol, viz. W. Fielder, charged with
having, on the 25th ult. at Portsmouth Dock-yard,
stolen siz pieces of copper-bolts, and 18 pieces of can.
die; A. Ferguson, 'l'. Cassidy, and T. Crompton,
privates in the 25th foot, for breaking open the lon
tine Inn, in Newport, and stealing a quantity of cop
per coin, some spirits, &c. g and Jean Mercier, a
French prisoner of war at Alresford, for breaking hi,
parole.


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