The Sun. — 1864-11-07 (London, England)

THE SUNNINGHALL MURDER.—Since the murder of Mrs Butler in the lodge at Zunninghall Park, the seat of Mr Crutchley, one of the county magistrates, the Berks police, uuder'Mr Superintendent Iremonger, in whose district the crime was committed, have been unremitting in their search after the perpetratara of this cold-blooded crime. Not a day has been lost since the inquest, and no trouble has been spared to find some clue, if ever so slight, which might lead to net, b,,,n to theoeapi, rewftrapd l u,nreotthemur, Doomsder that it Saturday s,andthese exertions have week Superintendent Iremonger went into Buckinghamshire and visited Great Marlow Fair, in the hope of hearing some intelligence as to two tramps, a man and woman with a dog, who were seen by Kentish, the Windier carrier, but a short distance from the lodge a few minutes previous to I the discovery of the murder, While prosecuting his inqui ries in a low beerhouse frequented by travellers, he ascer-tained that two tramps, ono of whom had ju,t been left by the woman in whose company he had been seen, the woman being accompanied by a dog, had been arrested the previous Wednesday for sleeping under a rick and imprisoned in the gaol at Aylesbury for vagrancy. The men's names are Wm. Smith and Thomas Guest, and both, it is understood, were formerly in the Coldstzeam Guards. Superintendent Iremonger ascertained that Smith at the time of his appreheniion wore a blue guernsey with a white smock over it, and that the woman had gone on to Abingdon, having left  _ . Smith on account of his illtreatment. Furnished with this information, the superintendent last Monday proceeded to Winkfield, the parish in which the murder was committed, to see if any one could be found who could identify Smith, but without success. On Tuesday he proceeded to Abingdon, whither, it was stated, the woman had gone, and searched the lodginghouse, but without result. On Wednesday Mr Iremonger again went over to Winkfield, and this time was successful in finding some one who could identify the tramp imprisoned in Aylesbury Gaol, This person was Frederick Smith, coachman to Lady Wiltshire, at whose residence Wm, Smith (the tramp) had called for the purpose of begging, and had been turned off the premises by the coachman, who declared at once that he could pick Smith out from among any number of persons. Ao • companied by Superintendent Iremonger, the coachman proceeded to Aylesbury Gaol on Thursday morning at an early hour for the purpose of identifying Smith. Guest was first called in, but the coachman at once said he was not the man, and he was then shown Win. Smith, who, dressed in prison clothes, was at the time of the visit picking oakum. The coachman immediately identified the latter prisoner, and stated that when he saw Smith at Winkfield he wore a blue guernsey with a white smock over it, either a billycock or cap, trousers, and old leather shoes. The clothes worn by Smith on his admission into the gaol were then produc3d and found to coincide with the coachman's previous description of his apparel, but the blue gurensey was missing. The clothes were examined, and one spot of blood was found on the sraockfrock, while the shirt was clean, having lately been washed. The ricks at Marlow and a pigstye at Littlewick-green, where the two men slept on the night previous to their apprehension, have been searched, bat the missing guernsey and stick, with which the murder is supposed to have been committed, have not been found.  Smith will, on the expiration of his month's imprisonment, be brought before the magistrate on this more serious charge. He is a man of forbidding appearance, with dark hair and whiskers. In the meantime Colonel Blandy, the Wel of the Berks constabulary, has sent out parties in the hope of finding the woman, and should they be successfu in apprehending her, it is very likely the real perpetrator of this up to the present time mysterious murder will shortly be disclosed.