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The Sun. — 1851-07-18 (London, England)

THE LATE MURDER 1N BELGIUM.  The sale of a certain portion of the estate of Bitremont, at Bury, in Belgium, belonging to the condemned Count de Bocarme, took place on Monday last before M. Dugnolle, notary at Baugnies. It was by the special order of the Count that the sale was effected. The land was divided into twenty-one lots, but only about a third was disposed of, and they fetched good prices. The remainder is to be put up for sale on a subsequent occasion. The bidders were mostly the small tarmers or landowners of the neighbourhood. It was only on the 10th October last that Cuunt de Bocarme came into possession of the estate of Bitremont, though his father allowed him to live on it. Previous to that time he had, in addition to his wife's income, a certain sum annually from his father; when the latter made the division of his property amongst his children, the Count's share was about 240,000 f. Whilst the trial was going on, the Count and Countess de Bocarme joined in raising a loan for supplying their pecuniary wants and paying certain pressing obligations, and they signed a deed authorising the sale of a portion of the estate, to securee sale. payment. It was to cause the payment of this advance that the Count pressed on the sale. But no sooner was I the trial over, than the Countess, being acquitted, notified to the notary that she revoked what she had done. The Count, however, persisted in authorising the Madame de Bocarme's wish was to sell the chateau of Grandmetz, and other houses belonging to her brother, and to preserve the Bitremont estate intact. Finding that the notary declined to postpone the sale, she sent him a summons by huissier, but he paid no attention to it. On the 3d, as already stated, she arrived at Tournay, and went to the hotel where her brother used to put up. She )eft the town amidst the hooting of the populace in the evening of that day, and proceeded, accompanied by her son and a chambermaid, to the house of M. Dugnolle, at Baugnies. She was not expected by him, and, at half-past ten, went to Bury, at a distance of three kilometres, and slept in the house of Mr. Laurent, a notary. In the morning she walked with her son and chambermaid across the fields to the chateau of Bitremont, and wandered for some time about the old building, though the traces of her brother's murder still exist. Her manners were very easy, and her toilette elegant; but though she appeared in excellent health, her features were vale and contracted. She afterwards went to Mons. Her conduct, with respect to the sale, has increased the ill-feeling of the public towards her; whilst the delicacy of her unfortunate husband, in persisting to pay a sacred debt, has caused much compassion for him. Madame de Bocarme is at present at Brussels, but it is not true, as has been stated, that she has sought a reconciliation with her husband's mother. The chateau of Bitremont is under the care of a porter, and is shown to all visitors. The man takes pleasure in relating all the circumstances of the murder.
The Sun. — 1851-08-04 (London, England)

SUSPECTED MURDER IN HULL. (From the Hull Advertiser.) About six weeks ago a report was prevalent in the town that a young girl had left her mother's house, in Chapel-lane,-for the purpose of taking a walk, and that she had never returned. Murder was spoken of at the time, but the report, it would seem, never reached the ears of the proper authorities, and therefore no investigation was made into it. The girl's name was Mary Harland, who was about eighteen years of age, and who had been living as servant with a Mrs. Lamb, residing on the' Hessle road. She went home to her mother's on Sunday, the 22d of June, to spend the day; went out from there at night, and was seen no more alive after midnight. On the sth of July the body of a female, which had been picked up in the Ouse, was buried at Whitgift. It had a stab apparently completely through the neck, and a shawl was also twisted very tightly round it. From some circumstance or other, the fact of this body king picked up became known to Mrs. Harland, the mother of the missing girl, upon which she went over to Whitgift, when the body was exhumed, and she identified the remains as those of her daughter. Singu• Italy, however, still no steps were taken to discover the perpetrator of the murder—for it was evident murder had been committed—and it is probable the affair would never have been brought to light had not the Rev. W. Williams, perpetual curate of Whitgift, written to the mayor (T. W. Palmer, Esq.) the following letter:—  " Reedness, near Goole, July 22, 1851. " My dear Sir,—Will you permit me to inquire whether any inquiry is being carried on in your borough relative to the sudden disappearance of a daughter of John Harland, King's-entry, Chapel-lane, Hull? I buried a body on the sth of a young female, washed on shore at Ousefleet, in my parish, which was identified on the 16th by the mother, with other parts of the family, as that of the missing daughter, when wounds were clearly perceptible in the neck. lam surprised that the superintendent of police, to whom I addressed a paper by the mother, has not written to direct a further investigation, or to say that the magistrates in your town, where the deed is supposed to have been done, were endeavouring to ascertain whether the young man suspected of the murder was in custody. The mother, on identifying the body, said that on her return' the police promised immediately to proceed in the matter.' We have seen the deputy coroner, who so strangely overlooked the neck, and neglected to have any proper examination of the body, but he says that ho received and recorded the verdict of Found drowned,' and can do no more.' Today I have seen G. S. Lister, Esq., of Ousefleet-grange, under whose direction the overseer has appointed a medical examination, as the body is fast tending to decay, when I will write again; but perhaps you will kindly favour me with your thoughts on the subject, as, if a murder has been committed, it is not right to pass it over with indifference. " Believe me to be, yours most truly,
The Sun. — 1851-08-04 (London, England)

SUSPECTED MURDER IN HULL. (From the Hull Advertiser.) About six weeks ago a report was prevalent in the town that a young girl had left her mother's house, it, Chapel lane, for the purpose of taking a walk, and that she bad never returned. Murder was spoken of at thi time, but the report, it would teem, never reached the ears of the proper authorities, and therefore no investi• gation was made into it. The girl's name was Mary Harland, who was about eighteen years of age, and who had been living as servant with a Mrs. Lamb, residing on the Resale road. She went home to her mother's on Sunday, the 22d of June, to spend the day; went out from there at night, and was seen no more alive after midnight. On the sth of July the body of a female, which had been picked up in the Ouse, was buried at Whitgift. It had a stab apparently completely through the neck, and a shawl was also twisted very tightly round it. From some circumstance or other, the fact of this body being picked up became known to Mrs. Harland, the mother of the missing girl, upon which she went over to Whitgift, when the body was exhumed, and she identified the remains as those of her daughter. Singu larly, however, still no steps were taken to discover the perpetrator of the murder—for it was evident murder had been committed—and it is probable the affair would never have been brought to light had not the Rev. W. Williams, perpetual curate of Whitgift, written to the mayor (T. W. Palmer, Esq.) the following letter:—  " Reedness, near Goole, July 22, 1851. " My dear Sir,—Will you permit me to inquire whether any inquiry is being carried on in your borough relative to the sudden disappearance of a daughter of John Harland, King's-entry, Chapel-lane, Hell? I buried a body on the sth of a young female, washed on shore at Ousefleet, in my parish, which was identified on the 16th by the mother, with other parts of the family, as that of the missing daughter, when wounds were clearly perceptible in the neck. lam surprised that the superintendent of police, to whom I addressed a paper by the mother, has not written to direct a further investigation, or to say that the magistrates in your town, where the deed is supposed to have been done, were endeavouring to ascertain whether the young man suspected of the murder was in custody. The mother, on identifying the body, said that on her return the police promised immediately to proceed in the matter.' We have seen the deputy coroner, who so strangely overlooked the neck, and neglected to have any proper examination of the body, but he says that ho received and recorded the verdict of Found drowned,' and can 'do no more.' Today I have seen G. S. Lister, Esq., of Ousefleet-grange, under whose direction the overseer has appointed a medical examination, as the body is fast tending to decay, when I will write again; but perhaps you will kindly favour mo with your thoughts on the subject, as, if a murder has been committed, it is not right to pass it over with indifference. " Believe me to be, yours most truly, "
The Sun. — 1851-01-24 (London, England)

MURDER NEAR BURY ST. EDMUND'S. LAWSHALL, SUFFOLK, THURSDAY.—Since the discovery of the murder of Elizabeth Bainbridge facts have come to light which conclusively show that the deed was perpetrated under circumstances of peculiar deliberation and atrocity. As previously meneioned, the deceased was a married woman, but for some years had lived apart from her husband. She was about 30 years of age, and appears to have borne an exemplary character. Her parents, with whom she had resided since her separation from her husband, are in comfortable circumstances, living at a small farm, and are much respected in the neighbourhood. On the afternoon of the day on which she met with her fearful end she had been on a visit at her brother's house, the Harrow Inn. She left there between three and four o'clock to return to her father's, about a mile and a quarter distant, the alleged murderer, George Carnt, who had been lodging at her brother's for some days past, following her, as is believed, across the fields. It is evident, from the tattered condition of her dress and the state of the ground near the pond where the body was discovered, that a fearful struggle must have ensued between the unhappy victim and her murderer. It is conjectured that a refusal to comply with some improper overtures on Lis part led to a struggle, and that in a moment of revenge he forced her into the pond, where, from the shallowness of the water end the position in which she was found, it is apparent she must have been held down with considerable violence in order to destroy her life. The pond is in a very lonely situation, and the banks are thickly studded with bushes. On Tuesday an inquest on the body was held be fore Mr. Harry Wayman, one of the coroners for the county, at the Harrow public .house. The body of the woman presented the appearance of a fine healthy woman of ordinary stature, possessing rather pleasing features, and, with the exception of a slight bruise on the side of the head, there was nothing to indicate that she had met a violent death. Both arms, ; however, bore marks of having been tightly gripped, evidently inflicted while the poor creature was being held under the water. James Payne, the father of the deceased, stated that on Monday night, in consequence of his daughter being missed, he assisted in searching after her. He commenced the search bet Ween nine and ten o'clock at night, Police-constable Keeble and George Farrow accompanying him. They traced footsteps of one person along Mr. Bigsley's pastures and across two ploughed fields of Mr. Reeman, and then into two pastures belonging to the same gentleman. In the second pasture they lost the track. Just over the stile of that field, in a pasture of Mr. Payne's, was a pond, in which they first looked, and, not finding anything there, they returned over the stile and went to a pond in Mr. Reeman's pasture. They had two lanterns, and coulsd see the clothes of a woman in the ' water. They got the body out, but before they had succeeded in removia,g it he discovered it to be that of the deceased. She was quite dead and cold. By the
The Sun. — 1851-01-24 (London, England)

MURDER NEAR BURY ST. EDIIIUND'S. LAWSUALL, SUFFOLK, TIIURSDAY.—Since the discovery of the murder of Elizabeth B Ainbridge facts have come to light which conclusively show that the deed was perpetrated under circumstances of peculiar deliberation and atrocity. As previously mentioned, the deceased wes a married woman, but for some years had lived apart from her husband. She was about 30 years of age, and appears to have borne an exemplary character. Her parents, with whom she had resided since her separation from her husband, are in comfortable circumstances, living at a small farm, and ere much respected in the neighbourhood. On the afternoon of the day on which she met with her fearful end she had been on a visit at her brother's house, the Harrow Inn. She left there between three and four o'clock to return to her father's, about mile and a quarter dnitant, the alleged murderer, George Can't, who had been lodging at her brother's for some days past, following her, as is believed. acroi,,, the fiel.k. It is evid-nt, from the tattered condition of her dte,s and the state of the grotml near the pond where the body was discovered, that a fearful struggle mu,t have ensued between the unhappy victim and her murderer. It is conjectured that a refusal to comply with vowe improper overtures on his part led to a struggle, and that in a moment of revenge he forced her into the pond, when-, from the shallowness of the water and the pot.iLion in which she was fiaind, it is apparent she must have been held down with considerable violence in order to destroy her life. The pond is in a very lonely situation, and the banks are thickly studded with bushes. On Tuesday an inquest on the body was held be • fore Mr. Harry Way man, one of the coroners for the county, at the Harrow public-house. The body of the woman presented the appearance of a fine healthy woman of ordinary stature, possessing rather pleasing features, and, with the exception of a slight bruise on the side of the head, there was nothing to indicate that she had met a violent death. Both arms, however, bore marks of having been tightly gripped, evidently inflicted while the poor creature was being held under the water. James Payne, the father of the deceased, stated that on Monday night, in consequence of his daughter being missed, he assisted in searching after her. He commenced the search between nine and ten o'clock at night, Police-constable Keeble and George Farrow accompanying him. They traced footsteps of one person along Mr. Bigsley's pastures and across two ploughed fields of Mr. Reeman, and then into two pastures belonging to the same gentleman. In the second pasture they lost the track. Just over the stile of that field, in a pasture of Mr. Payne's, was a pond, in which they first looked, and, not finding anything there, they returned over the stile and went to a pond in Mr. Reeman's pasture. They had two lanterns, and could see the clothes of a woman in the water. They got the body out, but before they had succeeded in removing it he discovered it to be that of the deceased. She was quite dead and cold. By the
The Sun. — 1851-05-21 (London, England)

THE CONVICT BRIDGET LYONS.—The fate of this unfortunate woman, who was convicted, along with her husband Patrick Lyons, of the wilful murder of Margaret Fahey, at W arrington, is still uncertain. Prior to the execution of her husband, a respite was received from the Home Secretary for the female convict. No communication has since been received in connexion with her, and what may be her ultimate doom is not yet known.—Liverpool Mercury. The testimonial fund for the benefit of the family of Mr. Rushton, the late stipendiary magistrate, ._bas been closed. The total amount contributed is 8,5001.  t a . Mr. Gratwicke's Flirt (Kitchener) 2 Lord Palmerston's Buckthorn (A. Day) 3 The following also started, but were nut placed:— Count Bathyany's The Monk (Mann) 0 Mr. Carew's The Nun (Reeves) 0 Mr. Drinkald's M. Houdin (Ford) 0 Mr. Greville's Frantic Sir J. Hawley's c by Alarm, out of Haitoe(J. Matson) 0 Mr. T. J. Hayter's Tested (W Day) 0 Major Martyn's Lady Isabel ..( W. Abdale) 0 Mr. Merry's f out of Sorella's dam (Cartwright) 0 Mr. Osbaldeston's c by Heiman Platoff ..(Simpson) 0 Mr. Ramsbortom's f Hot•cross-bun Mr. Winch's Proudfoot, bro to Lightfoot ( Wakefield) 0 Betting-5 to 4 agst Elcot, 5 to 2 agst Buckthorn, 5 to 1 agst Flirt, and 6 to 1 agst f out of Sorella's dam. Elcot, getting a capital start, made all the running, but hung towards the lower rails opposite the stand, and won with nothing to spare by a length; Buckthorn a bad third, and Mr. Osbaldeston's colt fourth. Run in 1 min. 18 secs. The stewards, at the request of Mr. Gratwicke, have ordered that the winner's mouth shall be examined this day. Tho Heathoote Plate of 50 soya. (Handicap). Half a mile. Mr. Formby's Teeswater, 4 yrs, 7st 91b (Sherwood) 1 Mr. Drinkald's Thornhill, 5 yrs, Bst 81b...(liodney) 2 Mr. Mageunis's Forlorn Hope, 7st 91b (Dockray) 3 The following also started, but were not placed:— Mr. Drinkalu's Cyprus, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Ford) 0 Mr. Cook's Jersey, aged, Bst 31n (Buckle) 0 Mr. Burgess's Alicia, 5 yrs, Bst 31b (A. Day) 0 Mr. Gaman's Coola, 6 yrs, Bst (Slipper) 0 Mr. C. Lilley's Rose Pompon, 4 yrs, 7st 91b (Mann 0 Lord Waterford's Perdita filly, 7st 91b (Robertson) 0 Captain Oakes's Sisyphus, 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Sharpe) 0 Duke of Richmond's Kakistos, 7st 111 b (Kitchener) 0 Mr. Osbaldeston's Faux Pas, fist 131 b (Charlton) 0 Lord Clitden's Beaufort, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (G. Mann) 0 Mr. Ramsbottom's Alboni, 3 yrs, Est 101 b ...(Iliett) 0 Mr. Dennett's Prima Donna, 6st 71b (Sherwood) 0 Mr. Oweu's Stamford, 3 yrs, Est (Cox) 0 Mr. Douglas's Irene, 3 yrs, 6st (Pavis) 0 Betting-5 to 2 agst Forlorn Hope-3 to 1 agst Perdita filly-4 to 1 agst Alicia—and 6 to 1 agst Fauxpas. Won by a length. Forlorn Hope a good third, the others well up, with the exception of Jersey, who was beaten off at the distance. Run in 52 sec.
The Sun. — 1851-10-01 (London, England)

FURTHER PARTICULARS.  From the account kindly furnished by Mr. King, the surgeon, it appears that the boy, aged one year and nine months, bad the whole of the front portion of his throat cut through, dividing all the arteries, the head alone adhering to the body by the vertebrae. The child (a girl), aged between four and five, was not injured in the front of her throat. From appearances it is presumed that she must have been eating bread and butter in her bed at the time when her unhappy father entered the room, and that on observing him approach with the weapon of destruction bedewed with gore, she turned upon her face, and thus presented an obstacle to her being destroyed by an attack in front. Accordingly it would seem that the murderer must have forced the point of the knife into the nape of the neck, where only a small puncture was visible ; but the cervical vertebrae and spinal morrow had,.nevertheless, been completely severed, and the knife must evidently been twisted round in the wound in order effectually to accomplish his murderous purpose. The state of the child, also a girl, who at present survives, evinces the dt sperate struggle she must have made in defence of her life, for there are several frightfully gaping wounds in various parts of her body. Three are in the neck, the weapon fortunately missing the jugular vein, and several on the hands—very deep on one of the thumbs, indicating that she had seized the murderous knife in self-defence. None of her injuries are mortal, but considerable danger is to be apprehended from hemorrhage. Faucett was not found leaning over the sink, as before described, but in the garden, into which he rushed after inflicting upon himself in the back kitchen wounds which caused him to fall upon his back and expire in about five minutes. The wound in his throat had a most ghastly appearance. It was gaping so wide as to have admitted the insertion of an entire hand. The jugular vein and carotid artery were completely cut through, and the head nearly severed from the body, showing the evident determination of the unhappy man to destroy his own life. On the arrival of Mr. King, he proceeded to the parlour at the back of the shop. His attention was first directed to the surviving child, who was sitting on a chair, but on looking round he saw the youngest child lying as if thrown in a corner of the room, quite dead. By her side was a tray, containing three slices of bread and butter (a portion in her mouth), as also a cup upon the ground, broken to pieces. The bread and butter, as well as the bed-clothes, were literally soaked with blood. The whole scene was most appalling. It is believed that the dreadful tragedy has no parallel since the lamentable occurrence which took place in Southampton-street, Pentonville, many years since, when Steinberg perpetrated crimes of equal magnitude and with equally melancholy and awful results.
The Sun. — 1851-01-22 (London, England)

LAMBETH.  Mr. William Shirley Brooke, a musician and composer, and who was also said to be a teacher of languages, was brought up on a warrant charging him with threatening and attempting to strangle his wife. Mrs. Brooke, whose manner and appearance were most laiylike, deposed that for the last two years out of the seven she had been married to the defendant, her file had been rendered miserable and wretched by the conduct of her husband, in drinking to excess, making use sif the most violent threats, and illusing her. For the last two months ho had given way to his passion for drink and violence to such an extent that he became almost intolerable, and on Sunday morning last he attempted to put his threat of strangling her into execution, by twisting her bcdgown about her tt.roat while in bed, so that she actually felt herself being suffocated, but by an effort she drew herself away from him, so as to enable her to alarm the servants in the house aed bring them to her assistance.  In reply to a question from the Magistrate ai to the cause of her busbsrui's inoleßee, Mrs Bfooke said, that i 4 consequence of Mr. Brooke's indifference in the !Airsuit 01 his profession, and the income set led upon him by his friends being wholly inadequate to their maintenance, her friends enabled her to purchase the furni ture of the house in the York-rosd in which they resided, and by letting it out in lodgings support herself. Her doing this appeared to give great offence to her husband, tor since she had done so he had not given her the slightest peace of mind, and she had now to beg his Worship to bind him down not to molest her for the future. She should not, she said, trouble him for anything, and all she required was to be left to attend to her house in peace—a blessing she had long been a stranger to. .  English, the constable, said on going to, the house to serve the warrant on Mr. Brooke, one or two persons said they were very glad that something had been done to restrain Mr. Brooke, as they had been in daily apprehension for some time back that murder would have been committed.  Mr. Brooke, whose appearance was rather ferocious, his face being nearly covered with long black hair, when asked what he had to say to the charge, replied that he was labouring under au affection, for which he was obliged to drink; and he would admit that, while under the influence of spirits, his temper was not the best, and he might have committed himself. With re,p(-ct to the charge urged by his wite, of attempting to strangle her, he should submit to his Worship's own judgment, whether ho thought it likely that, if he used the violence spoken to by Mrs. Brooke, she could have called out for assistance?  Mrs. Brooke here repeated that all she required was peace, and her husband's keeping away from her ; and the magistrate ordered Mr. Brooke to find two sureties in 201., to keep the peace and be of good behaviour towards his wife for two months. SO