The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-11-12 (London, England)

THE SUNNINGHILL MURDER.  Since the mur.ler of Mrs. Butler in the lodge at Sun. ninghill Park, the seat ot Mr. Crutchley, the Berke police, under Mr. Superintendent Iremonger, it.' whose die tr.ct the crime was committed, have been unremitting in their search after the perpetrators 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 i might lead to the capture of the murderers, and these exertions have not been unrewarded. It seems that last Saturday week Superintendent Iremonger went to Buckinghamshire and visited Great Marlow Fair, in hope of hearing some intelligence as to two tramps, a man and a woman with a dog, who were; seen by Kentish, the Windsor carrier, but a short distance from the lodge a few minutes previous to the discovery of the murder. While prosecutbag his inquiries in a low beerhouse frequente;. by travellers, he ascertained that two tramps,one of whoin had just been left by the woman in whose company he had been seen, the woman being accompanied by a dog, had been arrested on the previous Wednesday for sleeping under a r.ck at Great Marlow and imprisoned in the gaol at Aylesbury for vagrancy. The men's names are William Smith an. Thomas Guest, and both, it is understood, were formerly in the Coldstream Guards. Super.ntendent Iremouger ivcertained that Smith at the time of his apprehension 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 treatment. 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 b 3 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 lodging-house, but without result, while Mr. Superintendent Hedger went cn to Oxford and. Wallingford in pursuit. On Wednesday Superintendent Iremonger again went over to Winkfield, and this lime 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 Win. Smith (the tramp) had called fot 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 persona Accompanied by Superintendeut Iremonger, the coach. man, by Lady Wiltshire's permission, 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 WiNia. Smith, who, dressed in prison clothes, was at the time of the visit picking oakum. The coacllnan immed:ately identified- tha latter prisoner, and stated that when he saw Win. SmithatWinkfield, he wore a blue guernsey with a white smock over it, either billycock or cap, trousers, and old lea;her shoe& The clothes worn by Smith on his admission into the gaol were then produced, and found to coincide,with the coachman's description, but the blue guernsey- waamissing. The clothes were examined, and ona ot ofblood was found on the smockfrock, while the shirt was clean, having lately been washed. The ricks at Marlow and also a pig-stye at Littlewin--green, where tke.two men slept on the night previous to their apprehension, have been searched, but the missing guernsey and stick, with which the murder is supposed to have, beet committed, have not been found. Smith will, on the expiration of his month s.imprisonment, be brought,hefore the magistrates on this more serious charge. e.is a man of forbidding appearance, with dark hair and whiskers. In the meantime Colonel Bl..hciy, the chief of the Barka i,onstabulary, has sent out parties in the. hope of finding the woman, and should they be succeaartil irrapprehending her, it is very likely that the real perPetrator of this, op to the present tune, mysterious murder, Will shortly be disclosed