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The Sun. — 1860-08-18 (London, England)

SUSPECTED MURDER AT STEPNEY.  Yesterday, shortly after 12 o'clock, a suspicious discovery was made at No. 9, Grove-road, Stepney, a short distance from the Tower Hamlets Cemetery, Bow-road. It appears that the deceased was a widow lady named Mary Emsley, aged about 70, who up to the time of her death was in possession of considerable landed property, situated at Stratford, Bow, Bethnal-green, Victoria-park, and other parts at the east end of the metropolis. She had, it is said, a number of agents and collectors who were carrying her large sums weekly, arising from rents and other property, which she had held since the death of her husband, a large contractor and brickmaker, well known at that part of London for his eccentric habits. The deceased had not been seen by the neighbours for some days, and a collector, named W. T. Emms, sent his son as far back as Tuesday last for two brass taps, which he was to put on to water-butts at two of her houses. On each day since Emms had repeatedly sent an dyalled, but though he knocked on each occasion loudly at the door, no one answered. The impression was that the deceased had gone out, as the garden gate was left unlocked. Yesterday, when Emms went, he had his suspicions aroused that all was not right, and he accordingly communicated with Mr. Rose, the deceased's solicitor, of Change•alley, who with Mr. Whittaker and another gentleman named Faith proceeded to the house in company with a police constable. They could not make any one hear, and proceeded through the adjoining premises to the backgarden, where they climbed the wall and made an entry at the back door. They searched the lower part of the house, which seemed in considerable confusion, and upon reaching one of the rooms on the second floor he discovered the deceased lying dead with the top part of her head forced in. There was a large wound of the scalp, and blood bad flowed copiously from the injury which had been inflicted, apparently by some hard substance, or life preserver. The floor was besmeared with blood, and it is supposed that the deceased had been killed by some burglars who had entered the premises to get her cash. The deceased kept large sums in the house, although she had an account with one of the City banks. Inspectors Kerrissey and Haynes, of the K division, proceeded to the house and made a minute search, and it is supposed that a great amount of property has been removed. The deceased lived entirely alone, having no servants, but is said to have been of miserly habits, and dirty and intemperate. Last evening Mr. Stevens, the Coroner's officer for the district of Stepney, took charge of the body for the official investigation before the Coroner (Mr. Humphreys), but the inquest is not yet appointed. A number of police constables have been sent out from Arbour-square and Bow stations, and late last night no clue to the guilty parties had been obtained. The deceased was, it is said, in the receipt of an income from her property amounting to about £5,000 per annum.
The Sun. — 1860-08-18 (London, England)

SUSPECTED MURDER AT STEPNEY.  Yesterday, shortly after 12 o'clock, a suspicious discovery was made at No. 9, Grove-road, Stepney, a short distance from the Tower Hamlets Cemetery, Bow-road. It appears that the deceased was a widow lady named Mary Emsley, aged about 70, who up to the time of her death was in possession of considerable landed property, situated at Stratford, Bow, Bethnal-green, Victoria-park, and other parts at the east end of the metropolis. She had, it is said, a number of agents and collectors who I were carrying her large sums weekly, arising from rents and other property, which she had held since the death of her husband, a large contractor and brickmaker, well known at that part of London for his eccentric habits. The deceased had not been seen by the neighbours for some days, and a collector, named W. T. Emms, sent his son as far back as Tuesday last for two brass taps, which he was to put on to water-butts at two of her houses. On each day since Emms had repeatedly sent and:called, but though he knocked on each occasion loudly at the door, no one answered. The impression was that the deceased had gone out, as the garden gate was left unlocked. Yesterday, when Emms went, he had his suspicions aroused that all was not right, and he accordingly communicated with Mr. Rose, the deceased's solicitor, of Change•alley, who with Mr. Whittaker and another gentleman named Faith proceeded to the house in company with a police constable. They could not make any one hear, and proceeded through the adjoining premises to the backgarden, where they climbed the wall and made an entry at the back door. They searched the lower part of the house, which seemed in considerable confusion, and upon reaching one of the rooms on the second floor he discovered the deceased lying dead with the top part of her head forced in. There was a large wound of the scalp, and blood had flowed copiously from the injury which had been inflicted, apparently by some hard substance, or life preserver. The floor was besmeared with blood, and it is supposed that the deceased had been killed by some burglars who had entered the premises to get her cash. The deceased kept large sums in the house, although she had an account with one of the City banks. Inspectors Ketrissey and Haynes, of the K division, proceeded to the house and made a minute search, and it is supposed that a great amount of property has been removed. The deceased lived entirely alone, having no servants, but is said to have been of miserly habits, and dirty and intemperate. Last evening Mr. Stevens, the Coroner's officer for the district of Stepney, took charge of the body for the official investigation before the Coroner (Mr. Humphreys), but the inquest is net yet appointed. A number of police constables have been seat out from Arbour-square and Bow stations, and late last right no clue to the guilty parties had been obtained. The deceased was, it is said, in the receipt of an income from her property amounting to about £5,000 per annum.
The Sun. — 1860-07-17 (London, England)

ROAD.  Sir G. C. Lewis, Home Secretary, has de.. spatched Inspector Whicher, of the metropolitan detective police, to Road, for the purpose of endeavouring to dissipate the mystery which still hangs over the murder of the child of Mr. Kent. The inspector reached Trowbridge from London on Sunday evening, and proceeded yesterday morning to Road, -where he had an interview with the magistrates by whom the inquiry has been conducted. In the course of the conference Elizabeth Gough, the nurse maid, was brought before the Bench and was liberated. After sitting for about two hours with closed doors, the representatives.of the press were admitted. The Rev. R. Crawley said the magistrates had little to communicate beyond the fact that Inspector Whicher had been sent down from London, and , that the investigation had been placed in his hands A reward would be immediately offered, £lOO 11 the Government and £lOO on the part of Mr. Kents to any person giving such information as should lead to the conviction of the perpetrator of the crime, together with a free pardon to any acconiplice not being the actual murderer. The nurse,' maid had been discharged, and had been informen, that she was at liberty to go where she liked, and she had stated her intention of returning to the die' charge of her duties at Mr. Kent's house. It wag then announced that the inquiry would be adjourned till Friday next, and in reply to an inquiry whether the proceedings on that day would be public it wag stated that in the event of any evidence being then taken on oath the public and reporters would be admitted, but that at present the magistrates were unable to say what course would be pursued. Mr. Lopez, magistrate, wished it to be known that the house had been re-examined and re-searched in every possible way ; and that every inmate, except the infant, had been called on to state what they knew in reference to the matter. The best superintendente of the force had been engaged in the insvestigatioef and it was only an act of justice to the police and to the magistrates to state that they had used ther utmost exertions in endeavouring to trace on the guilty party. The two servants mentioned by Mr. Kent as having formerly lived in his env ploy, and as being parties likely to have had an ill-will against him, had both been found out by the police, and it was proved that they were maul miles distant from the scene of the murder on the night of its occurrence. He (Mr. Lopez) was only sorry that the magistrates had no more informaticon to communicate to the press in reference to 010 extraordinary case. At the conclusion of the sitting Inspector Whicher, accompanied by Superin' tendents Foley, Woolfe, and others of the county' constabulary, proceeded to Mr. Kent's residence, and made a further inspection and search of the. premises. The practicability of removing a child about the age of the deceased from its bed withoio waking it, or disturbing the persons sleeping in tll9 same and adjoining rooms, has been tested by the police, andbas been accomplished in three instances.
The Sun. — 1860-08-25 (London, England)

THE MURDER IN THE QUEEN'S-PARK, EDlNnuncit.—The circumstances and the perpetrators of this crime seem to be every day becoming more and more enshrouded in mystery. All that is yet known upon the subject is that the poor girl was in company with soldiers of the 13th Light Dragoons at various times on the night preceding her death, up to two o'clock on the Sunday morning, and that she was grossly and brutally abused, and afterwards cruelly murdered by some person or persons within two hours of that period. The chief difficulties in the case may be said to arise, first, from the want hitherto of witnesses able to speak to:any of the occurrences after two o'clock, and secondly, from the extreme difficulty always felt in individualising and recognising soldiers in uniform, especially when the soldiers are entire strangers, and have been looked at only casually and in an imperfect light. From these causes, while all doubt as to the actual murder, and the brutality by which it was preceded, has been set at rest by the post-mortem examination, and where there are abundance, almost superabundance, of witnesses to the poor girl's identity, and the fact of her companionship with the soldiers on Saturday night and Sunday morning, all attempts to fix the identity of the particular individuals under examination have hitherto been unsuccessful. Probably, therefore, the proof, if obtained at all, must be sought in other directions. The collateral or li circumstantial evidence has also, we believe, been very. scanty. A regimental button was said to be two days ago picked up near the fatal spot, and was handed to the authorities • but it turns out, in the first place, that the button, though marked with the figures " 13," was not of the same pattern as those worn by the 13th Light Dragoons ; and, in the second place, instead of being picked up on the spot by the woman who handed it to the authorities, it is now said that she pot it from another woman, who got it from a young man, who cannot be further traced. On FriOay, however, a switch, similar to those frequently carried by cavalry soldiers, war found at Clockmill-bridge, directly opposite the place where the murder was committed, and this switch is now in the hands of the Procurator-Fiscal. It may also be mentioned that when the soldiers at Piershill were paraded on Sunday afternoon for the purpose of being inspected by the witnesses brought down for that purpose from Edinburgh, the officers caused the clothes they had worn when out on the previous evening to be minutely examined, and that no stains or marks such as might have been caused by a scuffle of any kind were found upon them. On Tuesday a number of additional witnesses, including several privates in the 13th Light Dragoons, were examined, but, as has been previously stated, the examinations are conducted in private. COURTLY FISH,—The island of Khoajah Khizr, in the Indus, is said to be so sacred that the fish of the river, particularly the pullah, evince their respect for the island by never turning their tails when retiring from its shores,
The Sun. — 1860-01-28 (London, England)

IRELAND.  The state of two Irish counties (King's and Westmeath) has lately become a source of anxiety from thefrequent commission of outrages of the very worst kind in the districts indicated. Scarcely a week passes of late without an account of some of those sanguinary attempts upon life which it was hoped we had heard the last of when Tipperary could be compared to Down in social tranquillity, and when the absnce of critne:formed an agreeable feature in all judicial charges. The following particulors of a murderous assault upon an under-agent of Sir C. H. Coote, which it is feared will have a fatal result, and given in the Evening :—" On Monday night, about 10 o'clock, Mr. George Donne, an extensive landholder and under-agent on the King's County estates of Sir C. H. Coote, left the house of a friend in Tullamore, with whom he had been spending the evening, and walked towards his own residence, situated in another part of the town, accompanied by a man named Ryan. When they arrived near Mr. Dunne's house Ryan separated from his companion, and proceeded on his way to his residence in the country. He had previously—is bas been since ascertained—observed a man following him and Mr. Dunne, but not apprehending any danger he took no notice of him. Ryan had not proceeded further than the length of one street when he heard a shot. This did not alarm him, as he ' imagined that somebody was firing at rats.' It turned out, however, that the shot had been fired at Mr. Dunne just as he had reached his own door, wounding him dreadfully in the head, face, and cheek. One eye was completely torn from its socket, and the adjoining cheek riddled with slugs. Another slug is lodged in one of the collar bones, and several have penetrated the rib of the unfortunate victim of Riband vengeance. It is hardly necessary to add that Mr. Dunne lies without hope of recovery. But we have now to record a damning fact, which would be incredible in any country in the world save our own. The murder—for so, we fear, we may call it—took place at 10 o'clock on Monday night, in a country town containing 6,000 inhabitants, defended (?) by a stipendiary magistrate, two other magistrates, a county inspector, a subinspector, a head constable, with a full complement of constables and sub-constables ; and yet not a whisper of the outrage reached the authorities until nine o'clock the followine. morning! 'hirel offence for which Mr. Dunne has been executed was, of course, agrarian." s The Saunders's Neies of yesterday say police had been actively exerting themselves,l and succeeded in capturing a man named James -lan , better known by the cognomen of 'Champion man who strck Hand.' He is a resident of he Tullamore. Dunune having identified Hand as t him with the stone, and subsequently fired at and wounded him, the magistrates took the necessary depositions, and fully committed Hand to the county prison for trial the approaching assizes. also apprehended, named Fitzpatrick, was but he has been discharged. Another The cause of this daring and brutal outrage is yet a matter of conjecture."
The Sun. — 1860-12-06 (London, England)

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The Sun. — 1860-10-02 (London, England)

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, Monday. Information 1 has reached this town of a very frightful murder, which was perpetrated at Urpeth Corn-mill, in the county of Durham, and about seven miles from Gateshead, on Saturday night. The victim is a bailiff in the employ of the Bankruptcy Court in this town, named Thomas Harrison, formerly a  police inspector here ; the murderer, Milner Locliey, a pitman, working at Leazingthorne Colliery, near Bishop Auckland. It seems that about three weeks ago Lockey was separated from his wife on account of his brutal conduct. Harrison has recently been put into possession of some crops belonging to one Bell, a bankrupt, and he lodged with Airs. Lockey in a cottage closely adjoining Urpeth-mill. On Saturday night between eight and nine o clock, Saturday being pay day, Lockey had come across from Leazingthorne, a distance of 16 miles, and entered the wife's cottage. At the time Harrison was ill in bed. When Lockey came into the house he said to his wife,—" How is thou ?" And from his manner his wife became afraid. Lockey then observed to her,—" Thou'll not be long here," and immediately drew a knife out his pocket and struck his wife a blow with it on the chest. The bone in her stays caused the blow, however, to glance off. He struck her again with the same effect ; then lowering his hand, he made a blow at the bowels ; but the knife entered the thigh, inflictini, a wound an inch deep, which penetrated to the bone. The wound, however, is not likely to prove fatal. Harrison observing Lockey stabbing his wife, rose up in bed awl remonstrated with him, begging him bot to kill her. Lockey immediately on inflicting the last stab in his wire, turned round, and with an oath, plunged the knife into Harrison's left breast. He inflicted a wound six inches in depth, and while the knife was in the wound he turned it in all directions. Harrison fell back dead. When Lockey entered the house and attacked his wife, his two children ran out and alarmed the neighbours. Two farm labourers came, and they reached just as Mrs. Lockey was running from it; she having wrested the knife from her husband. She passed the labourers, followed by her husband, and though he was unarmed they appear to have made no effort to stop him. He chased her up a hill, but she got among some uncut barley, and he lost her. Lockey then made off. The country-side was alarmed, and a messenger was sent off to the County Police Station, at Chester-le-Street. Sergeant Robinson and some other officers arrived during the night. They immediately began to beat about the woods in search of Lockey, and kept on all night. At half-past 9 on Sunday morning Lockey was captured in a pig stye, closely bordering a large wood. He had been out under a holly tree during the whole of the fearfully wet night. The murderer is 50 years of age. The deceased man, who was in delicate health, was 46 years of age. The murderer and his wife have each been twice married, and there is little doubt have lived on most unhappy terms some time. The murder is causing considerable excitement in this town, where the deceased was well known.