The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-15 00:00:00

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V. W. ray. Alien. llnnipshlre. banker.
at tier Mira■ Ina. Allot —%pril I. H. A. l•luuie, Betarlak-
.4l4,•-*Nieril. corn-sirreaassi, at U...1141'141. London—April 4.
Ilarrleta Dennett, •Wilsoii.orett, firay's cow-
irciper. at 4. W. Williams. An a 1-COTOrf.
1:m4...e11er, at liuilJhall—April b. J. Amis. Little Britain,
Ilehmonser. at S. J. Neale and S. Warner.
11111.-slrr.•:. wlmlenale linen-drapers, at Guildhall—April S,
Whltebureli. Itounds.litch, cute:master, at tivildliall—
Ap, Maxelle4ter. butrlier. a: the Palace Ida.
ilmillmiter-111nreh t!3. 1.. 11. 'H. (I. Constant. Wellelune-
surar-rethier. at 4. ►►'. Newby.
Agri- I, l•umbrrlaud, currier, at the Glebe lan. Curker-
mouth.

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MOWER.

Woometru, 'MAR= 13.—Dltring the whole of last
week the Alastioraies wore daily ruiployetl in hohling
private examinations respeeting the atrocious murder of
.07. Parker and Somali Itrown, his housekeeper, whose
lament:di!, fate has excited feelings of the greatest hor-
ror throughout the town and neighbourhood of W.
The men In rust/bay ou anspiFion were on Mon-
day brought before the !knelt, and a long examination
was entered into.

A considerable difficulty at first arose respectiug the
identity of Xlr. Parka, his body heitsy; su lIIIICII Lunt as
to reuskr it impossible fur bis nearest friends to neer/-
nine a featnre. Every one slit, knew him was sent to
examine what remained of his body, but failed. At
length Air. Ilavea, a shoemaker, of the town, recog-
nised the shoe which hail brae found on Lis foot, from
the circumstance of his having burst it on both silks
some titre ago, when it was split to bins 10 Rtretrh. This
witness also proved that lie saw the deceased wear the
shoe but a few days previous to his death.
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It appears that ireat blame is also attached to the.
nightly wate4t of the glare on this oreasino. There
are in Woolwich live armed trhnten or patroles,
whose duty it is to tray. r. towu from end to 'NJ
rrery half hour. t ceoft a men, if he hail performed
his share of the duty poprtually, might to hare passed
the flreessed's house at the time when the bloody deed
is supposed to bare been committed, or, at least, when
the fire via. is ics infancy; hut when first met it was by
Joseph ore of the sentries on duty at the
Riding School in the nigh-street: lie was then consi-
derably behind his time. Arundel, who had for 110411 P
time tiren smoke rising above the sunsuit of the houses,
told the guardian of the night that hr suspected there
was a fire ; hut the latter said he had often been annoyed
by the same kind of he; it came from a baker's
oven, althwirls it afterwards ittrneil out that there was
no baker's near the spot. The watchmen, and particu-
larly this tuan, soulerwent a strict examination; be:
altt,:taxli there was withoitt doubt much liviity on their
part, there was nail biog. elicited :it criminate them further.

$. Howanl, a carpenter, residing within a few slows
of the late residence of .Ir. Parker, slated that he was
starred lietween mil and three to'cinek in the morning
of the lth instant, by the springing, at rattles. He
looked oat, and saw tire coming oat of the deceased':
house. There were, a! the time, seven or right persons,
principally military, I mind the door, tryivlr to break it
oen with some instrnisortst. Witnesitaigji a
ft:axe, n ills
whirls he knocked the doors ainksistilvers its sonic one
else fetched a ladder, Whiell wa• applied to one of the
windows, and wittier. mit Ist. 'l'hr rooms to the tight
atul left had separate tires sin the door, anti were berm
lug in various parts, althongh there was no a-
tion from one to the other. The etsitiverpane and
bed were lotreit, and a suhstanee of a lard black
mature, whirls was th glst to he pitch, was found
on the door. The carpet and blankets were nailed
roused the windows to beep the lieht ont, as he
supposed. and they shpts prevented the admission of
air to fan the dame. Witness. heard neither ery nor
Mans, althongla there was as Mart PO:Se made as lutist
hate teased any tiling' i•onl in 11w bonito. Me. Hay,
the barraelcosaster. hronglit the engine-, sail by hi. and
the soldiers' assistance, the tire was extingtsishell,—
Searrls was then utias!e for the deceit-sell persons, and
hoth their bodies were foam! Itrbited use parlour door,
near the betistead, shockingly militated. '1 he plate was
is gnat ronfosion, it-id a pair of silver stizar-tongs and
other articles of Elate, Kerr strrwed allont the fit;ar4 a
large tire hail been lit in the ',Udine of the floor, Oa
bail burnt cutupletrlr into the ceilsr'. Major Hallett
was also present, and gate evidence to the above
atfeet,

Hr. Patten, on his examination, state'', that he was
c.ilied to Lien the hodie, the morniog a!ter the murder
they nere tooth by the lire, but
the skulk were entire. of 31r. Parker he ex-
amined first. and lie timnn.l the parietal bone 'mtten in as
if With a h.tnillier. or so sin It Inaoy ins:riiment ; the
frontal bone also of the skull was fractured in three or
four piectio, and pressed in spot' the brain. He nest
directed his :ittentinto to thr female loody, whirh was
not so much linnit ht' a great deal : there aas an exten-
sive triangular mond over the richt eye, apitatentir
in-
dieltvl with k I,,iyonet, whirl, rommoinicated to a frac-
ture at the back of tits skull, and a probe eonlil be put
through one to the other'. The fare w.:+ aistiKitreal very
much by a royeti,ioto of blows, :tint there teas cossider-
able laceration at the back of the tirels.
Several witnesses were brought forward as evidence
against the in.,; in custody. It apreareol, from their
statement, that one of tlie prison' rs, who was in the
habit of urcasiunally working in Mr. Parker's garden,
and consequently knew all the ways of the house, bad
been observed abniit there in the roars, of the slay. Be-
tween her and six io'elock a man knorkrd at the door,
hot he 'lid tint go in. as Mr. P. gave him his answer
Irani the win low. Poth the prisoners are acquainted,
and one of them, from the extreowst state of poverty.
was, the day after the dreadful catastrophe, drunk, and
passing hunk-times. It was well k -n, that the de-
ceased lint the day before went to the Hank to receive
his dividends, and brought bovine notes, and of conrse%an
endeavour is making to truer them. Pron. what 'has
already transpired. is supposed that the assassins mi-
tered from the back lane, through the garden. as fook
marks were observed in the latter, and tracedfrom flit
lane to the back dour. The Magistrates. Chartist
wardens, and principal ishabilanis, are indefatigable
in their exertions to discover the
murderers. Mr.
Parker was a 'flan of e‘tetitlselpniperty, and a *Mil
holder in many cosmic*, as "warmt by papers limisk
"Orr his death. 1

.1 man, of the name of Hayward, a josraeynaan shoe-
maker, residing in Long-alley, 3411,r-he-lois, was yester-
day mornine apprehended upon a warrant charging bin
witk Higb Treason.
Box match was made at edit on Monday
evening. for llolwrt Burn and Sluing to fight in a 24-
feet ring, for 100 guirsea• a tide, on the Pith of May.—
Five pounds a side was the deposit, which is to he wade
A'. aside In three weeks. at Kern's, in Windmill-street;
and the whole to he made good seven days before fight.
or the deposit to be forfeited.
PACT I. !Ir li T Atli II: IsT . As Payne
and !Stephen Wyer, both of Minion, Wilts, were fight-
ing at that place last week, 0014 both the combatants
were prostrate on the ground, James 'fbrgete, acting as
second to Fissle, garc Wver two violent kicks on the
haek and loins. Weer afterwards stood up and fought
two more rounds, when he wm knocked down, and car-
' ried off the ground less. He lived three days after-
wards; when he die.l, leaving a wife and six helpless
children.—A coroner's warrant has here lamed for the
committal of Payne and Targeteon charges of utas-
t olangliter.

DICSTRI/CTIYII FIRIL—A few sights hark a dreadful
fire broke out at a public-house, is New-cross. on the
Kent-road, which, for several hears, burnt with great
fory. *whip to the non-arrival of eoghtes froas town, aad
tie 'treat scarcity of water. T. pobtio-liessoe, towed."(
with fire or sit atirrountliug twasseseats, fell a prey to
the tlevoitt+bg element Two peons were wad hart
by the fairing in ula roof. bat nose killed.