Star.
London, England, 1818-08-11 00:00:00

• MURDER AT EPSOM.

Thursday the remains of Ely Cox, the young man
who was murdered at Epsom, on the morning of,
Sunday se'nnight, were interred at eight o'clock in
the evening, at Epsom Church ; the crowds who
witnessed his funeral were very great. The deceased
was only between 19 and 20 years of age. He was
a remarkable fine stout young man.
Sunday the Magistrates (who have met daily since
this transaction took place), who formed themselves
into a Committee to prosecute the affair with the
greater success, met again at the Coffee House, when
a man named Thomas Osborne, who had been exa-
mined before, and set at liberty, was again brought'
before them by May, of Union Hall Office, and exa-
mined upon suspicion of being the murderer of Cox.
,After his examination, 112 was committed, and con-
veyed to town on Sunday night, by May, and lodged
in Horsemonger-lane jail. The cause of his appre-
Ihension was, that a baker's boy, who delivered bread
at his house on the morning of Monday, the day
after the murder was committed, had stated, that he
saw an apron (such as prisoner generally wore) in his
house in a bloody condition; other circumstances
also came out during Irk examination. The prisoner
worked for Mr. Northey, at Epsom, in his gardens,
and prior to the murder he used to cut the fruit
trees with a clasp pruning knife; ,Monday, the day
after the murder was committed, he used a long case
knife to prune the trees, and such a knife as the pri-
soner used was found near the body of the deceased.
The prisoner's sister-in-law, and a man named Saun-
ders; who worked with prisoner at Mr. Northey's
gardens, deposed, that the knife found near the dead
body was very much like the one they had seen the
prisoner use, but they could not speak positively that
t was the same. Saunders stated also, that the pri-
soner-on the Monday after the murder was commit-
ted worked with him in Mr. Northey's
,garden, and
his conduct was very different from what it formerly
was; he was not so sociable as before, but kept at a
distance, and " appeared very shy." This witness
did net observe the injuries on the prisoner's head
on Saturday, the day before the murder was com-
mitted, nor on the Monday after, for he wore his
I hat, and that covered them.--There could be little
doubt that some of the persons, whoever they were,
that committed the murder, must have received
some personal injury from the determined resistance
made by Cox. The prisoner was found to have re-
ceived some injuries on his forehead, and also on
other parts of his head. The account he gives of
them is, that he received their on the day the mur-
der was committed, by falling from a fruit tree ; but
he brought no person I-ray:a-3 to whom he had men-
tioned having met with the accident. The prisoner
denied the assertions of the baker's boy, he declared
that no bloody apron was in his house, and said it
must be all an invention of the lad. The boy, how-
ever, persisted in his story. When the prisoner was
examined on this day week before the Magistrates,
he was asked if he wore socks in his shoes ? he very
calmly replied, " No, I do not." • On Sunday, when
the prisoner was again before the Magistrates, the
question about his wearing sacks was not agairi put
to him, hut it occurring to May that his former ac-
count might not be correct, he thought it proper to
examine his shoes, and to his surprise found a new
sock in one shoe, and an old one in the other, resem-
bling the one foand near Cox's
.dead body. The
prisoner Osborne is more strongly suspected from
his being a poacher, but it is not believed that he
was alone in the transaction. May, the officer, lett
London immediately after he had secured Osborne
in Newington Jail, having received information of
another person being concerned. The prisoner being
shewn the bloody knife found near Cox s corpse, said
that it was not his, and that lie was innocent of the
murder. The Magistrates, Mr. TROTTER, General
Howaant. , Mr.Wurrstorta, &c. were of-opinion that
there was sufficient evidence against the prisoner to
warrant his committal, and they committed hini for
re-examination on a future day.

Daratieut. Rms.—Yesterday morning, about half
past one o'clock, an alarming fire broke out at the
house of Mr. Heneker, the sign of the Duke of York
public house, Ratcliffe Highway. A man who was
passing by the house at the time, and observing a
great body of smoke issuing from the window, in-
stantly ran to the watchmen, and made an alarm.
In a moment the flames burst from the windows with
the most alarming rapidity. Mr. Heneker was in
the country; and had left his house in the care of a
man and two women servants, who had retired to
rest. Every effort was tried to rouse them, but for
some time in vain ; the watchmen at length broke
open the doors, and awoke them, and they escaped
the back way. The fire communicated to the ad-
joining house, and likewise to some old wooden houses'
At the back, and the wind blowing in that direction,
it threatened destruction to the whole neighbourhood.
Several engines shortly arrived, but at first there
being a short supkily of water,' the flames increased
to an alarming height. The houses of Mr. Heneker
and Mrs. Hume fell in with a tremendous crash, and
the adjoining houses which had taught fire were
burning rapidly. A poor woman was then observed
from a win low, surrouded with flames, screaming
and calling for assistance for herself and her help-
less children, but those who wished to assist her
were fearful in the attempt they slmuld lose their
own lives. At length finding no person coming to
her assistance, she rushed out, svith three naked chil-
dren in her arms. She let them fall, and returned,
and brought out another. She then ran about dis-
tracted thmking she had not got them all, and on their.
being placed before her, she fainted, and lay on the
ground as if dead for some time. One family were
buried in sleep when the fire had nearly arrived at
their apartment, and were awoke by the intense heat.
-The father let .the whole out by rot es, while the fire-
men played the water about them ; after which he
let himself out, and fell, but was not much hurt.—
Several persons ventured into some of the old houses
at the back, to try to save some of the property, and
while they were in, the roof fell, in, and they nar-
rowly escaped with their lives. A woman and her
child were burned very much is escaping front their
room ; they took shelter at Mr. Cohen s, but were
shortly after obliged again to escape, that house
having caught fire. The fire continued burning till
. between eight and nine o'clock yesterday morning,
and Ittithu- in the 'fumes was vt quite oat. It