Star.
London, England, 1828-10-02 00:00:00

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DItZADFOL
MURDER.—This neighbourhood is in a
state of excitement from the discovery of a murder cons.
milted ton :the body of the wife of W. Stephens, a
bargeinan. A Coroner's Jury assembled on Sunday.
The body was found lying on one side, with the knees
drawn up, a deep cut through the larynx, and half
through the zsophagus, the external carotids, and the
superior skyroid artery divided. A clasp knife was
found in' the blood which surrounded the body, and a
horn-handled dining knife, round at the point, was lying
on the table. The room was literally deluged with
blood, and traces of blood were left, as if made with
the fingers, on both sides of the staircase, and on the
lock o( the do ar. The house in which the deceated and
her husband lived is in Wyebridge-lane, and is let oat
in separate doors of two rooms each.
It appeared from the evidence that the deceased had
been from bane 'several weeks, and returned on Satur
day, when she found the house locked. She got some
one to write a letter,which she left at the turnpike house
in Wyebridge, td be delivered to a young man named
Edward Barnett. This letter she afterward; fetched
f,om thetairopike-honse, and delivered to a little girl,
Jane Watkins,who was desired to call Barnett out of the
Queen's Bead public house;and deliver into him. This
the childdial, when be said. "I can't read it." The letter
was afterwards put into the hands of 'the ostler, who
on his examination, said that he could not rightly
make it out; he, however, remembered that he read
" Maria Marten, and the Red Barn," when Barnett
took it our of his hand, saying, 401 know where it
comes from," and went hastily away. The child had
been directed to tell Barnett that he was to meet Esther
Stephens at the (loucestershire-house, whither he ac-
cordingly went, and the child was afterwards sent to
tell him tbat 'Esther's husband had just come home, and
that ihe would not come to him for three quarters of an
hour. They were afterwards seen to go together int.-)
Stephenes house, and Esther was seen in the afternoon
fetching beer, coal, and watef—each time locking
'the door, which she was not in the habit of doing,
She went out lute is the evening, and was heard by
is man (nicknamed Blackbird), and his wile, who lived
on the floor below, to return about half-past one or two,
shortly after which, a KA: *as heard, which becoming
moreviolent, the woman jumped up, saying to her has.
band," Goo's sake, see what Stephens is doing
to his wife," when he hallooed out 4' What the devil,
Stephens, are you about? Are you going to murder the
woman?' When something was beard to fall on the
floor, and all was again silent. Little notice wastaken of
the 'Quilling and screaming, as Stephens and his sill
`frequently quarrelled and fought. A loud scream was'
heard by a man named Fuller, who lives nearly °pins.'
site, and he got up and opened the window, but heard
nothing more, although he remained some time at the
Window, during which the church clock struck three,
and the chimes played. This man was one of the first
persons who entered the house of the deceased after the
murder, hating been informed by a person named
Pierce, that 46'fiet of *the Kymin" was murdered, he
having discovered the door wide open, and ongoing up
had found her is a gore of blood.
SuipiCion attaches most strongly to E. Barnett, from
the circumstance of a pair of laced boots having been
found, which a shoemaker, named Mitchell, swore that
he had' made" for Barnett; a fustian shooting jacket,
such as he generally wore; a hat of a better descrip•
tion than the one ever worn by tha husband; and a
shot-bag, containing upwards of SOL in notes, sove-
reigns, and siiver, and which bag, with a good deal of
money in it, he is proved to have bad in his possession
whilst paying for 'some rum and water which be drank
at the Gloucestershire House.
Barnett is a woodcutter, and resides at Redding, near
Staunton, and is about 23 years of age.

Yesterday afternoon antinquest was held at the Pied
Bull, Walwot th, on the body of Charles Thos. Morgan,
wl.o, a short time ago, was a schoolmaster in the
Hackney-road.' it appeared by the evidence that the
deceased had been in a low desponding state ever since
the death of his wife, which occurred about a trsanth
time, and he had given himself up very much to
drinking.—Mr. Jenkinson, a surgeon,'deposed, be had
4ened the body of the deceased, and found the coats
'of the stomach highly inflamed; and he bad no doubt,.
from the general appearance of the body, that the de-
ceased's death bad been caused by eateuive drinking:
—Verdict accordingly.
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