The Sun. — 1867-08-31 (London, England)

THE MURDER AT LUTON.  Yesterday afternoon Mr. Piper, the deputycoroner for Bedfordshire, resumed at the George Inn, Luton, the inquiry respecting the murder of William Bradbury, aged 48 years. The deceased was a labourer in the employ of Mr. Sowerby, of Petteridge Bury. On Saturday, the 3d inst., he was paid his wages, £lBs. He expended in buying clothes, which he wrapped up in a bundle. At 25 minutes to 12 o'clock he left the Old English Gentleman, a publichouse in Luton, as that was the last time he was seen uninjured. At a previous examination three bonnet-block makers, named William Worsley, Levi Welch, and James Day, deposed that at 12 o'clock they left the Royal Oak Inn, Round-green, for the purpose of going out on a poaching expedition. After proceeding up the road a short distance they found the deceased lying down at the side of it. He was covered with blood, and they at once returned to the inn, and said they had seen a man who had been run over. After some further evidence had been given, Mr. Kitt Tomson, surgeon, said deceased died at 5 o'clock on the Sunday morning from the effects of a fracture of the skull. The top and back of the skull were broken, and the wounds were caused by a blow from a heavy smooth instrument, such as a gun barrel. He must have been struck a blow from behind, and he had then fallen and injured his forehead. There were two pools of blood in the road, one on the left side and one on the right. Between the two pools of blood the dust in the road had been scraped up as if by a person being dragged along. On Thursday week Superintendent Pope arrested Worsley, Welch, and Day on a warrant charging them with the wilful murder of the deceased, and also with stealing from the dying man's person a pair of trousers, two shirts, a hat, a waistcoat, and some money. The three were taken before a magistrate and remanded. The superintendent said that he could disprove the statements made by the three prisoners. They were not the first to give the alarm, and they were 20 minutes with the deceased's body before they were discovered by a man who had walked from Luton. On Saturday the police discovered the clothes that had been stolen from the dying man, in a field near the scene of the murder. They were divided into two parcels, and one parcel had been were tuckedintoaandhethde other elhoeOr yards from where the menfound, portion of the clothes was placed in another hedge 100 yards from that spot. Yesterday Benjamin Scrivener, a labourer, said that on the Saturday in question he went to the Royal Round-green, at a quarter to 12 at night Oak, ;he remained there five minutes, and left with a man named Lawrence and walked to Stopsley. They passed by the spot where Bradbury was afterwards found, but they did not see him lying on the road. They left Worsley, Welch, and Day at the inn. It was about three minutes to 12o'clock when they passed by the roadway where the deceased was discovered injured.  John Lawrence, a thatcher, said that on the night in question he was in company with the last witness at the. Royal Oak. It was half-past 11 o'clock. He left the house at five minutes to 12 o'clock. The inn was then about to be closed. He did not see deceased ]ying in the roadway, and if he had been there witness must have seen him. Witness could see the road perfectly. Mr. Tomson, surgeon, recalled, said that he thought it was possible that the wound inflicted on the deceased could have been inflicted by the iron  winch produced. (The winch was an iron handle, said to have been used in winding up machinery). Day,-living at Stopslex, said that he is a labourer. On the night in question he was at the  \Vheatsheaf in Luton. He left Luton at 12 o'clock. He went at once from there to Round-green. When