The Sun. — 1864-11-07 (London, England)

TIIE SUNNINGIIA LL MURDER.--Since the murder of Mrs Butler in the lodge at Sunninghall Park, the scat of Mr Crutchley, one of the county magistrates, the Berks police, under-.21r Superintendent Iremonger, in whose district the crime was committed, have been unremitting in their search after the perpetratais of this cold-blooded crime. Not a day has been lost since the inquest, and no trouble bas been spared to find some clue, if ever so slight, which might lead to the capture of the murderers, and these exertions have not h3su unrewarded. It seems that last Saturday week Superintendent Iremonger went into Buckinghamshire and visited Great Marlow Fair, in the hope of hearing some intelligence as to two tramps, a man and woman with a dog, who were seen by Kentish, the Windser carrier, but a short distance from the lodge a few minutes previous to the discovery of the murder, While prosecuting his inquiries in a low beerhouse frequented by travellers, he ascer- rained that two tramps, one of whom had just been left by the woman in whoa company he had been seen, the woman being accompanied by a dog, had been arrested the previous Wednesday for sleeping under a rick and imprisoned in the gaol at Aylesbury for vagrancy. The men's names are Wm, Smith and Thomas Guest, and both, it is understood, were formerly in the Coldstream Guards. Superintendent Iremonger ascertained that Smith at the time of his apprehendon wore a blue guernsey with a white smock over it, and that the woman had gone on to Abingdon, having left Smith on account of his illtreatment. Furnished with this information, the superintendent last Monday proceeded to Winkfield, the parish in which the murder was committed, to ace if any one could be found who could identify Smith, but without success. On Tuesday he proceeded to Abingdon, whither, it was stated, the woman had gone, and searched the lodginghouse, but without result. On Wednesday Mr Iremonger again went over to Winkfield, and this time was successful in finding come one who could identify the tramp imprisoned in Aylesbury Gaol. This person was Frederick Smith, coachman to Lady Wiltshire, at whose residence Wm, Smith (she tramp) had called for the purpose of begging, and had been turned off the premises by the coachman, who declared at once that he could p'ck Smith ott from among any number of persons. Ac companitd by Superintendent Iremonger, the coachman proceeded to Aylesbury Gaol on Thursday morning at an early hour for the purpose of identifying Smith. Guest was first called in, but the coachman at once said he was not the maa, and he was then shown Wm. Smith, who, dressed in prison clothes, was at the time of the visit picking oakum. The coachman immediately identified the latter prisoner, and stated that when he saw Smith at Winkfield he wore a blue guernsey with a white smock over it, either a billy-cock or c tp, trousers, and old leather shoes. The clothes worn by Smith on his admission into the gaol were then produc 3(1 and found to coincide with the coachman's previous description of his apparel, but the blue gurensey was missing. 'I he clothes were examined, and one spot of blood was found on the smockfrock, while the shirt was clean, having lately been washed. The ricks at Marlow and a pigstye at Littlewiek-green, where the two men slept on the night previous to their apprehension, have been searched, but the missing gue,osey and slick, with which the murder is supposed to have been committed, have not been found. Smith will, on the expiration of his month's imprisonment, bo brought before the magistrate on this more serious charge. lie is a man of forbidding appearance, with dark hair and whiskers. In the meantime Colonel Blandy, the chief of the Burks constabulary, has Kilt out parties in the hope of finding the woman, and should they be successful in apprehending her, it is very likely the real perpetrator of this up to the present fate mysterious murder will shortly be disclosed.