The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-01 00:00:00

MURDER NEAR THE WATERLOO ROAD.

On Saturday morning the inhabitants of Waterloo-lod;
London, and the streets adjacent to it, were alarmed by the Ye-
port that a woman named Eliza. Greenwood, residing at No. 12,
Wellington-terrace, had beed inhumanly murdered in the
course of, the preceding night.. The report of the alleged mur-
der was first given by a man lodging at Nri". /2, Wellington-
terrace, who, at six o'clock on Saturday morning, was observed
to run out of the house calling police, and ejaculating that mur-
der had been committed. At the end of the terrace the man
alluded-to met policeman 31-, L, and having apprised him that
a woman had been murdered, he (the policeman) immediately
proceeded to the house, and on entering the back parlour.
which is fitted op as a bed-room, he beheld a female, aboul2s
veaca of age, lying on the floor with her throat cut in a dread-
ful manner, arid quite dead. The body was lying near the en-
trance into the room, and there were- several cuts or gash6a.
across her hands, as if she had strnggled'against her assailant.
From the inquiries made by the police, it appeared, that the uti
fortunate woman, who-is described as having been remarkably
handsome, had been for some time living with a. man at the,
house in Wellington-retrace.

On Friday night Eliza Greenwood left home in the early part
of the afternoon, and returned at twelve o'clock the same night,
when her servant, a young girl, perceived that she was accom-
panied by a gentleman, and having gone up stairs from the
kitchen without a candle, asked her if she should return down
stairs and strike a light. He mistress, however, desired her to
go to bed, adding that she should get a light herself, as she
knew in what part of the room the tinder-box was to be found.
As this conversation took place in the dark inthe passage of
the house, the servant had no opportunity of distinguishing the
features of the person by whom her mistress was accompanied,
but she describes him to be a well-dressed man, rather tall and
of gentlemanly appearance, so far as the light of the night
enabled her to see. Tnat she (the servant girl) then went
rtow❑ stairs, and she heard her mistress and the gentleman
enter the back parlour, which is the bed-room, and shut and
lock the door after them. The servant girl, however, says she
heard no noise during► the night, and that the first intimation
she had that her mistress was murdered was on hearing the
man, under whose pvotection •she was living, and who slept
in the house, giving the alarm, at six o'clock in the morning.
The man with whom the unfortunate woman was known tohave
been living for a considerable time, has given the following ac-
count of all he says he knows of the transaction :—He states,
that he slept in the house with the deceased on Friday night,
•but not in the same room, and that he was in the habit of going
out of a morning► as early as six o'clock. That on Monday
morninii, when begot up and went down stairs, he saw the can-
dlestick on the mat at the street door, and being rat her surprised
at the circumstances he went to the back parlour door, and
opening it:was horror struck on seeing Eliza Greenwood with
her throat cut from ear to ear. That he immediately gave the
alarm in the house, and apprised the watchman on duty of what
had occurred. He adds, that he was asleep in a room up stairs
at the time the deceased -came home with the gentleman, and
that he was not aware of the latter fact until he was informed
by the girl that such was the case. From the wounds inflicted
on the deceased's hands, there is no doubt that she had been
murdered.

-FURTEIFII PARTICULARS.
(From the Standard of Wednesday.)
On Monday evening, immediately after the inquest was ad.
ponied on the body of Eliza Greenwood, the unfortunate
woman who was murdered on Saturday morning last, at No.
12, Wellington-terrace, in the Waterloo-road, Mr. Cooke, sur-
geon, accompanied by other professional gentlemen, proceeded
to the house for the purpose of making a more minute examin-
ation of the body after it hail been divested of the clothes in
which it was enveloped than these gentlemen had previously an
opportunity of accomplishing. The examination occupied
nearly three hours, and the result was as follows
" On examining the body of Eliza Greenwood, besides the
~rnunds already described, a.wound wasdiscovered at the bottom
1' the sternum, which penetrated the right cavity of the chest,
but not to any very great depth. A iiout three inches lower
another puncture was found which had entered the abdomen.
There was also another slight wound about two inches below
t)he.left nipple, but which,. although it was firstsupposed to have
penetrated to the heart, was found not to have entered far into
cchest. . Beside the above, there was also a slight wound on
11/5-,Ntehead. The above wounds, with the exception of the one
on the forehead, were of an irregular description, and.had the
IRpearaupe.ior being -caused by stabs. The irregularity pro-
'CcOeti„,,in probability from the instrument with which the
%.7411.140 Aeia.iutlicted having struck against a busk wornby the
ileceaSect -The wound on the back of the neck penetrated be-
tween the third and fourth vertebra, and the-wound in the throat
had completely divided the carotid artery, and had also com-
pletely revered the windpipe."
Notwithstanding a surmise to the contrary has been expressed,
Mr. Crooke is of opinion that the first wound inflicted on the un-
Cnrtunate woman was that at the back of the neck, and that it
was inflicted nut only by a heavy instrument, but by a most
powerful arm.
.Since the discovery of the wounds on the body of the deceased,
it is now put beyond the shadow of a doubt that the weapon
used in the perpetration of this inhuman massacre was not a
razor, as was at first imagined, but an extremely sharp-pointed
instrument, and one of the medical men is strongly prepossessed
with the opinion that all the wounds, those in the neck included,
were inflicted with one of those long-bladed Spanish knives with
a spring to prevent its closing at the handle end of the blade.
Inspector Field has succeeded in discovering the cabman who
conveyed the deceased and the individual who accompanied her
'borne from the Strand Theatre. His statement is that the de-
ceased was accompanied by a gentleman answering the descrip-
tion deposed to at the inquest. After calling the cab a-conten.
lion arose between the deceased and her friend, which lasted
about four minutes, during which the gentleman several times
said, " A.m Ito go with sou ?" The deceased then paid the
• cabman his fare, and they both proceeded in the vehicle over
Waterloo-bridge, and were set down within about foar doors off
'No. 12, into which house they were seen to enter by the cab-
man. Daring the words which took- place between -them pre-
vious to their entering the cab the gentleman was frequently
-heard to address her as " Lizzy," the name she was generally
known by.
Hubbard, the man with whom the deceased cohabited, is
still in the house, from which he is not allowed to depart, the
police keeping a strict surveillance over him. He has scarcely
tasted a morsel of food since the dreadful occurrence, but has
remained in a state of mental abstraction, his time being occu-
lied in smoking tobacco most immoderately.
It has transpired that on the policeman who was first called
-in after the discovery of the horrid transaction entering the
-room in which the body of the deceased was found, he observed
the man Hubbard take up 7s. in silver, which were lying on
the dressing-table, and quietly put them in his pocket. The
circumstance at the time excited no surprise, but it has since
-given rise to-a deal of-conversation and surmise.
A remarkable fact is related of the unfortunate deceased--
namely, that at the period of the murder of Maria Martin, by
--Corder, Eliza Greenwood was at that particular time on a visit
at a friend's house in the immediate vicinity, and that she was
the first person who entered-the Red Barri,- *here the murder
was committed, aud beheld the mangled corpse of the ill-fated
girl.

"-IT'S ALL A-.MISTAKE ;" OR, A
.WORD 'FOR VIE

TAIL.

(From the Morning Herald.)

" Dixit abbas ad priorisi
Tu es- bongo Boni moris,
Quia semppr sanioris
Mihi das consilia,' "

When PrOtesiant England, some nine sulniners past,
Made a blunder—we wish we, might call it herllast,
Certainpeople agreed—the-suggestion their own—
To abjure all designs on her church and her throne.
The oath was propounded, and•brimful right:pre,
Their leader wrote off to his master the Pope,
Requesting to know if true sons of the see
Could break such a vow, with a conscience scot free.
The note reached the conclave his holiness sat in,
Which just then was discussing "good works" in bad Latin,
And " Toce,".,says he, to a priest putting queries,
Which meant " hold i,ourrow, while I see what this here is."
The Pope read, and. muttered "Well, .spira me tight!
It's a puzzler—l'll think of an answer to-night;
so pereyere licet,' " says he to the querist.
And tossed down the note to the clerk who sat nearest.
Sacs that clerk to himself (Tim O'Patriek his name),
"Nor his riv'rince intinds me to answer this same;
What he manes by that Greek I've no sinse any way,
But its clear as the crathur it's what I'm to say."
Sn he wrote—" The Pope's love to yirself and all friends,
"And perjrity Beet's the message he sends."
Before Dan and his tail the epistle was laid,
And the sequent debates show how well it's obeyed

THE DEATH OF THE COUNTESS AMHERST:—We regret to
State that the CoUntess of Amherst died on Sunday morning,
abortly,after 11, at the family mansion, in Grosvenor-street. The
fate countess was a widow of' the fifth Earl of Plymouth, and
was united to the Earl of Amherst, the 24th of July, 1800. She
was a daughter of the last Lord Archer, and mother of the Mar-
chioness of Downshire and Lady Harriet Clive, by the Earl of
Plymouth, and Viscountess Hohnesdale, and several children
by the Earl of Amherst. Iler ladyship's illness has been of short
duration. By the death of her ladyship many noble fainiNes
are placed in nr6urnintr. ,
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF HARROWAY.—Ve regret t 6
announce the death of this mfich-respected lady, who expired
on Sunday afternoon, at the residence of the Earl of Harrowby,
in Grosvenor-square. Her ladyship, who, w.,s married to the
noble earl in 1725, was formerly
.sLadv Susannah Levyson
Gower, daughter of the first Marquis •of -:Stafford, sister to the
Duchess Dowager of Beaufort and to Earl Granville, and aunt
to his Grace the Duke of Sutherland, Viwilunt Morpeth, the
Hon. Edward Howard, M.P., Lord Eliot, and , to . Georg ,•
Granville Harcourt, Esq., M.P., eldest son of the Archbishop"
-s:fork• Numerous families go into mourning on this inelan-
evwrY occasion.