The Sun. — 1828-02-06 (London, England)

MURDER AT BATH.  FURTHER PARTICULARS. (From the 2d Edition of the -Beak Journal.) We find, on further enquiry, a trifling inaccuracy in our former report, that the prisoner Gilham had confessed being the murderer, to Mr. Bourne the governor of the gaol, before he acknowledged it to the Rev. Mr. Marshall; and had stated either to him, or one of the 'prisoners, that he had kept the, stick which he used a month previously to the committal of his diabolical purpose. It has been stated, that when he burnt the stick, he likewise burnt his bloody clothes, The prisoner has a father;and mother, four brothers, and two sisters, of excellent character. The Rev. Mr. Joyce, the clergyman of the parish (Taplow, Bucks, near Maidenhead, Berks) where they live, addressed a letter to our magistrates, on behalf of the prisoner, shortly after he was taken.up on suspicion, and spoke in the highest terms of him, adding that if he had wanted a servant, he would have. taken Gilham into his service without any written testimony of his character.--so great was his confidence in his honesty. One of thebrothers of the prisoner, who has lived as gardener to the clergyman abovenamed upwards of nine years,came to Bath on Saturday; for the purpose .of seeing the prisoner. This was the most heart-rending circumstance connected with this dreadful occurrence, except . the murder itself. His brother appears a respectable and steady young man, of a prepossessing appearance,..--dad was .overwheltned with remorse. He was denied an interview with his brother at the Guildhall or prison; but the Magistrates ordered that he should be apprised where he could see him on the following morning, at five o'clock, when he was sent off to Shepton Mallet gaol. Accordingly, the brother waited at Devonshirebuildings until the chaise arrived, and the interview was more deeply affecting to those who witnessed it than language can describe, The prisoner is a middle-sized man, about five feet six inches high, broad across the shoulders, and generally stout in his make; he has a light counte.7 nance, and no person would suspect from his appearance that he was so dreadful a villain as he has proved. He had lived five years, previous to his engagement with Mrs. Coxe, with the Reverend Vansittart Neil, and left that gentleman's service with an excellent character. According to the statement made by the. prisoner on Saturday, in his examination, he did not cut her throat standing. It appears that as deceased was coming down to the kitchen, Gilham and his wife were going up to the garret, anti that immediately they entered the bed-room, Gilham observed to his wife, that he had a pain in his bowels, and must go down to the water-closet, when he met deceased in the kitchen, and with a bludgeon that he had previously provided, and which he had in his possession for a month preceding, he struck the deceased violent blows on the top and front of the head, which felled her to the ground, and that,he then fell , on her person, and with a clasp knife he had in his pocket he perpetrated the horrid deed. The wife was surprised at her husband's not returning, and had some intention of going down after him, but fell asleep, and knew nothing of the dreadful affair until she was alarmed by the firing of the pistols.