The Sun. — 1840-03-18 (London, England)

MURDER AT ISLINGTON.  Daring tile whole of ye-stcrday the neighbourhood of Islington was involved in the utmost excitement, in eonseque::ce of the discovery of a most inhuman murder, perpetrated cn the person of Mr. John Templeman, an elderly gentleman, who resided in an obscure cottage in 1.,13 cock's-fields, at the back part of Liverpool-road, .1 adjacent to liarnsbury-park, Islington. It appears that for some years past the deceased gentleman occupied the above cottage, and resided by hirniell in a most retired manner, occasionally amusing himself with his garden, consisting of an acre of land. His residence was surrounded by numerous other detached cottages, commanding a view of the Hampstead and Highgate hills, and is romantically situated. He was possessed of an income arising out of some houses belonlino' to hint in the neighbourhood of Sonterstown, and by all accounts was in the habit of boasting of and exhibiting his money to his neighbours, which it is said led to the catastrophe which has so fatally ensued. On Monday last he proceeded to Somers.tows for the purpose of collecting his rents, and on his return home in the afternoon he sent for a. woman who lives adjacent to his cottage, and whom )ae occasionally employed as charwoman, for the purpose of procuring some necessary articles, and to request her son-in-law, whom be also employed to job in his garden, to attend upon him, and upon. her arrival at the cottage she found the old gentlemuxi taking tea by himself, when he laughed, and told her that he had been to collect all his rents, and he had. been paid all in silver instead of gold ; and at the same time telling her that her would be in bed at six o'clock that evening. The I woman, whose name is Thornton, left the cottage and returned home ; and yesterday morning, at about eight o'clock, she sent her daughter with some writing paper, which the deceased had requested her to purchase for him, when she knocked at the door, and called him by name, bat not receiving any answer, she returned and informed her mother, who proceeded to the cottage of the deceased, and looked through the parlour window, and not seeing him there as was his usual custom prior to that hour, she proceeded to the window of his bed room, which is upon the same floor, there being only two rooms in the cottage ; and upon elevating herself upon a stool, she peeped through the window which she pushed open, and she perceived the bed all tumbled, and the pillows and bed-clothes saturated with blood ; and on stooping over she was horror-stricken at beholding the deceased stretched upon the floor, with both his bands tied with a cord ; a bloody atocAing was tied round his head, so as to bandage his eyes ; the floor and carpet were covered with blood, and the chwoeased's head was literally dashed to pieces, and he 'was a corpse. Mrs. Thornton neglected to give any infor nation to the police, and delayed telling anybody of the discovery she had made, until the a rrival home of her son-in-law at eleven o'clock, who is entployed as a private watchman at Sadler's Wells Theatre, when instead of giving information of the murder to the police, he was despatched to make the circumstances known to the deceased's grandson, Mr. Herbert Tern, pleman, so!icitor, ot. Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square. In the course of the afternoon, a foreigmx of the name of Capriani was brought before the Magistrates at Hatton-garden, suspected of having been,. 'amplicatsd in the murder, and after a lengthened exailai nation he was remanded to a future day, in order that. ;a more full investigation of all the particulars of the In arder might be made.