The Sun. — 1858-07-10 (London, England)

THE DAGENHAM MURDER.  Yesterday morning, Inspectors Whicher and binson, of the detective force, were busily engaged in making inquiry at Dagenham respecting the mysterious murder of George Clarke, the police constable of the K division, and, from important information they have received during the last few days in the village and its outskirts, they fully expect to bring forward two witnesses who can give corroborative evidence in connexion wish this tragical affair.  It is the intentica of the Police Commissioners of Cie metropolitan force to instruct counsel to attend this (Saturdv) morning for the prosecution of the accused, Gee. Blewitt, at the Court House, adjoining Ilford Gaol, where the prisoner will be brought up tor re-examination at 10 o'clock. The following is a copy of the placard issued by the Government shortly after the discovery of the murder " One; Hundred Pounds Reward.—Whereas on' the nigle.t of the 29th of June, or the morning of the 30th, George Clarke, a constable of the K division of the metropolitan police, was brutally murdered while on duty by some person or persons mi-1 known, in a corn-field in the parish of Dagenham, in the county of Essex, a reward of 1001. will be paid by her Majesty's Government to any person who shall give such information as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of the offender or offenders, and the Right Hon. the. Secretary of State for the Home Department wi.:ll advise the grant of her Majesty's pardon to any accomplice (not being the person who actually cornrcated the murder) who will give such information 3.s shall lead to the same result.  " Metropolitan Police-office, July, 184 G." There was also a reward of 101. offered for the discovery of the body of Clarke, a few days subsequent to the murder, which has not been paid, although the money is due to the young man Page, who, it will be remembered, first found the body of the deceased in the corn-field on the morning of the 3d of July, 1846. Yesterday forenoon Mr. Superintendent Howie proceeded to Dagenham and other places in EQs‘a, to trace, if pos.,ible, persons connected with the murder, and to obt:/in some testimony relative to a female who, it is alleged, washed the clothes of the man Chalk after the perpetration of the fearful tragedy. A plan of the spot where the murder was committed has been taken, showing the farm of Mt. Collier, the mansion of -31!s. Sarah Stone, Mr. Britton's farm, the cottage of the accused !George Blewitt, the high-road from Romford, the eleven-acre field, pond, and the corn field which the murderers must have crossed in pursuit of the deceased Clarke from the barn where it is alleged the prisoner (Blewitt) and his companions were burg,lariously engaged on the night of the murder.  It has been stated in one of the morning journals that the throat of the deceased was not cut. On the contrary, the neck exhibited two inertll wounds,- which the medical gentleman (who was examined on Monday week, and ga?e testimony at the coroner's inquest in July, 1846) stated on oath nearly separated the head from the trunk. The stock which the deceased wore was completely cut through, as the surgeon sail, by a double-edged knife or dirk.