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

MURDER NEAR THE WATERLOO ROAD.

Ott Satuiday morning the inhabitants of Waterloo-road,
London, and the streets adjacent to it, were alarmed by the re-
port that a woman name! Eliza Greenwood, residing at No. 12,
'Wellington-terrace, had been inhumanly murdered in the
course of the preceding night. The report of the alleged mur-
der was first given by a man lodging at No. 12, Wellington-
terrace, who, at six o'clock on Saturday morning, was observed
'to run out of the house calling police, and ejaculating that naur-
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 up as a bed-room, he beheld a. female, about 25
vear3 of age, lying on the floor with her throat cut in a dread-
:lA manner, and quite dead. The body was lyitag near the en-
trance into the room, and there were several cuts or gashes
across her hands, as if she had struggled against her assailant.
-From the inquiries made by the police, it appeared, that the un-
fortunate woman, who is described as having been remarkably
-handsome, h'ad been for some time living with a man at the
house in Wellington-terrace.

On Friday night Eliza Greenwood left home in the early part
orthe 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. Ile 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 in the 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 he a Well-dressed man, rather tall and
of gentlemanly appearance, so far as the light of the night
enabled her to see. That she (the servant girl) then went
down stairs, and she heard her mistress and the gentleman
enter the back parlour, which is the bed-room, and shut and
lack the door after them. The servant girl, however, says she
heard no noise <hiring, the night, and that the first intimation
she had that )ter mistress was murdered was on hearing the
Man, under whose protection 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 to have
• 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
morning, when he got up and went down stairs, he saw the can-
dlestick on the mat at the street door, and being rather surprised
at the circumstances he went to the back parlour dour, 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.

•FCRTt-lER 'PARTICULARS.
(Prom the Standard of Wednesday.)

-On Monday evening, immediately after tbe'inquest was ad-
.journed on the body of Eliza Greenwood, the unfortunate
woman who was murdered on Saturday morning last, at No.
12, Weltthgton-terrace, in the Waterloo-road, Mr. Cooke, sur-
geon, accumpanie.d by other professional gentlemen, proceeded
to the house fur the purpose of making a more minute examin-
atiOn of the body after it had been divested of the clothes in
which it was enveloped than these gentlemen had,previoosly an
-lupportiltiiry of- arcomplishinv. The examination occupied
nearly three hours, and the result was as fullews
hotly of'7Eliza Greenwood, besides OM
'-livrAindi already described, a wontid-wasdiscOVered at the bottom
of the sternum, which penetrated the right cavity of the chest,
but not to -any very great depth. About three itithes lower
ffilotbel•pencture was found which had entered the abdomen.
There tifnother slight wound about two inches below
the left nipple; tae which*, although it was firstsupposed to have.
penetrate444tig heart, was found not to have entered far into
the chest. Reside the above, there was also a slight wound on
lhe'rorehead. The ab ,re wounds, with the exception of the one
oa the forehead, were of an irregular description, and had the

appearance of being caused by stabs. The in egulatity pro-
ceeded in' all' probabiliiyfrom the instrument with which the
wounds were inflicted havine, struck against a busk worn by the
deceased. 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 bad also com-
pletely severed the windpipe."
Notwithstanding a surmise to the contrary has been expressed,
Mr. Crooke is of opinion that the first wound inflicted on the un-
fortunate 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
home 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-
tion arose between the deceased and her friend, which lasted
about four minutes, during which the gentleman several times

said, "Am Ito go with coti?" The deceased then said the
cabman his fare, and they both proceeded in the vehicle over
Waterloo-bridge, and were set oown within about four doors off

No. 12, into which house they were seen to enter by the cab-
man. During the words which took place between them pre-
vious to their entering the cab the gentleman was frequently
heard to address her as " Li-zzy," 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 striet surveillance o-ver 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-
pied in smoking tobacco -most immoderately.
It has transpired that on the policeman who was first called
in after the discovery of the horrid transaction enteiing 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—
.trarnely, that at the period of the murder of Maria Martin, by
Liza Greenwood was at that particular time on a visit
-at a friend's house in the iininediate vicinity, and that she was
e'tlie first person who entered the Red Barn, where the murder
was committed, and beheld the mangled corpse of the ill-fated
Acid.

"IT'S ALL A MISTAKE ;" OR, A WORD FOR THE

'FAIL.

(Fi-Om the Morning Herald:

" Dixit abbas ad prioriq
'Tu es homo both morii,
Quia semper sanioris
Mihi das considi.'"
41., When Protestant England, some nine summers past, `
rl.-• Ilade a blunder—we wish we might call it hertast,
k Certain
,people agreed—the suggestion their own—
if;, To abjure all designs on her 'church and her throne.
The oath was propounded, and brimful of hope,
a:: 'Their leader wrote off to his master the Pope,
- Requesting to know if true sons of the see
iL",'Could break such a vow, with a conscience scot free.
lii"/The note reached the conclave his holiness sat in,
Which just then was discussing "good works" in bad Latin,
• And "Tace," says he, to a priest putting queries,
H. Which meant "hold your row, while I see what this here is."
The Pepe read, and muttered "Well, spire me tight !
It's a puzzler—l'll think of an answer to-night;
`peregere licet,' " says he to the qmirist,
And tossed dawn the note to the clerk who sat nearest.
Says that clerk to himself (Tim 0' Patrick his Dame),
' "Now his riv'rince intimls 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."
tio he wrote—" The Pope's love to yirself and all friends,
• "And pes•jury limes the message he sends."
Before Dan and his tail the epistle was laid,
And the sequent debates show how well it's obeyed!

t THE DEATH HT THE COUNTESS AMHERST.—We regret to
state that the Countess of Amherst died on Sunday morning,
In -shortly after 11, at the family mansion, in Grbsvenor-street. The
tate countess was a widow of the fifth Earl of Plymouth, and
was united to the Earl of Amherst, the 24th of July, 3800. 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
Qlymouth, and Viscountess Holmesdale, and several children
by the Earl of Amherst. Her ladyship's illness has been of short
duration. By the do th of her ladyship -many noble families
~.are placed in mourning'. .
r r:,DL II OF THF. Co'uNTESS or HARROWBY.—We regret to
-announce the dearh of this much-respected lady, who expired
ou Sunday af:ernoon, at the residence of the Earl of Harrowby,
in Grosverror-sqoam Her ladyship, who was married to the
noble earl in 17`2.5.,- was formerly Lady Susannah Levyson
Cower. dan:,,hter of the first Margivis of 'Stafford, sister to the
-,-.ager of Beaufort and To Earl Granville, and aunt
is •
Grace the llnke of Sutherland, Viscount Morpeth, the
Edwarct, Howard, M.P., Lord Eliot, and to George
9,‘„tzi.villl,..Har,liinrt, Esq., M.P., eldest son of the Archbishop
'I, 1, —Numerons families go into mourning on this melan-
choly oc,a„ion.
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