The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-05-08 00:00:00

ATROCIOUS MURDER.

On Tuesday evening last, about half six o'clock,
as Mr. William Matrall, a very executive woollen
manufacturer, at Marsden, about seven miles fun
Huddersfield, was returning from the market at that
place, be was assassinated on the public road, OR
Crossland Moor.

The circumstances, as stated to us by an eve.isit,
nes: of this most barbarous murder are those :—Mr:
, Horsfall and a manufacturer, of the name of Fast.
wood, had left Huddersfield together, and at a short
distance before they came to the fatal spot,'llir. Ea ~
wood stopped to water. his horse, while Mr. liar,_
fall rode leisurely along the road; soon after he had
past the IVairen lan, a distance of about a mile soil
i half from Huddersfield, on the Matichester.roal,
four men, each armod vrith I horse pistol, appeared
In a small plantation, and placed the barrels of thPit
i pistols iu appertures in the wall, apparently pre.
! pared for that purpose; the muzzle of two of these
I pieces Mr. Horsfall distinctly saw, but before he had
time to extricate himself from his perilous situs,:on,
they all four fired, and inflicted four Wounds in the
left side of their victim, who instantly f‘.ll from his
horse, and the blood Mowed from the tt °ands in to;.
' rents. A number of passengers both horse and foot
rushed almost instantly.to the spot, and, after din
entangling his foot from the stirrup, he was with
some nitliculty got to the inn.
The murderers, after they. had Perpetrated the sand.
golispry deed walked to the distance of scone yards,
1404 .spun after hristening their speed, they ran
' towards Dungeon Wood, andentirtily escaped un.
alsto'vered, no pursuit of search having been made
after them„till the arrival of a troop of the Queen's
Bays, about three quarters of an hoar afterwards.—
One of the assassins is descriLed to tiffas about six
feet Lich, another iss a low portly man, and the No
: others as about five feet six or seven incites high, aed
rather slender; they all wore dark coarse. woollen
coats, and appeared to b.! working men:
From a professional Gentleman, who was called
in to visit Mr. Horsfall, we learn, that three of the
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wounds, out of the four, were slight, and unattend.
ed st ith danger; but the fourth, which was made by
a musket ball, proved fatal to him. The ball struck
the lower part of the belly oa the left tide, but dii
not.appeutr tolsa,reentered the cavity. It. passed be.
hind the integisments, obliquely downwards towards
the right Oiton ;and then penetrating the thigh, pass.
ad behind thelacsite towards the skin, whence it was
extracted. Re suss much exhausted at 'first, hy.the
loss of blood, but on the fallowing day (Wednessit)
. vvas so far recruited as to afford some slight hopes of
i his recovery., in the course of Wednehday night,
however, a fresh bleeding seemed to have taken
place, and the thigh beeatart largely swoln, with
some appearance of incipient mortification. Oa
Thursday morning, betwixt eight and nine o'clock,
he expired, having retained, till within a short time
of iris death, the perfect possession of his facul-
ties. •

Mr. llorsfall had a very large Woollen Manuf:,.-
tory at Marsden, wherein about 400 work people
were employed ; and in part of his premises the .e
are shearing machines, which have been erected shot
seven hears, and have attained considerable perfec-
tion ; this circumstance, with the additional one of
his unremitting activial'rizdetecting and bringing to
justice the persons en in the attack at Rawfolds
and other mills, had rendered him obnoxious in a
high degree to the machine destroyers, who knowiq
his premises %sere too well defended to justify an at-
tac4 on his property, committed a crime against his
person, that will embitter every . future day of
their existence. and, that will, in all probability,
through the retrilmtive justice of that Being, from
whom no secrets are hid; bring the blood-stained
I perpetrators of this worst crimes, to an iguopi-
nious end.
A reward of 20001. will, we understand, be of
fered immediately to any person who will give such
information as will lead to the conviction of any ouo
or more of the four men concerned in the murder of
Mr. Horsefall.—( Leeds Mcreurli, Atajj.)

An ewe, the property of Mr. John Scott, in Brett,
parish of Avendale7 now 13 years old, has yiclied
her owner thirty-three lambs, viz. two' each of the
three first years, three each of the next sere', and
two each of the three last years, of whichovly two,
who happened to be dropt in the night time, ha"
been lost. This valuable animal, which is °fa mixed
breed, between the English pett and emir sheep,
exhibits no symptoms of decay, except that her
teeth are now much shortened. She is of a black ca•
lour, and about the one-half of her lambs hate been
black, and the other half white.
Aloacßoxt NG.—After the battle between
and Cope on Tuesday, another, which afforded a high
treat to the spectators, took place in the neighbour•
hood of Southall, at the. dose of the ovenior, be-
tween Charles Brannan?, a light fastic professor, of
eight stone, and a countryman about forty, of coo:-
derable powers. The countryman had ixeri dri;11:-
.Ing freely. The fight took place in consequence e!.l
quarrel. Ferd was Brannain's second, and Nortoa
for the countryman. The countryman was a cum•
plete novice, and his antagonist showed oil at h 6
head, which was soon disfigured, and he got more
sober. On receiving a rattler in the neck, after
fighting about three quarters of an hour, .aud Wei!.
ing like a stuck pigot ben on his seconds knee he
turned his head, and witir grave aspect obscrod)
".This eant,the man as I jest• was alten
'produced' the greatest meitierrent imaginOle;
411thpogh the countryman fought another half how,
he still persisted at the commencement of every rourd
OW' his antagonist was neither the man he tioilleogcc,
▪ thli one he first be.gqn to fight with. lie.
.lenitirt gave iu, when hifieousky disfigured. 'AI
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the night time, have
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battle between Meilibl
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glut fistic professor, of
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