The Sun. — 1856-02-05 (London, England)

FURTHER PARTICULARS.  It has been stated that Bousfield was by trade a carpentsr. This appears not to have been the case, since at au early age he was taken by the band by a solicitor well acquainted with his father, and introduced into his office as office-boy. By good conduct he rose in the • favour of his employer, who made him one of is clerks ; but, according to a statement made by Bousfield himself to a friend, dismissed him summarily from his service' because he got married without giving him any intimation of his intention. Deprived of his situation as clerk, Bousfield endeavoured to obtain other employment in the same capacity. Being for some time unable to succeed, he determined to qualify himself for obtaining a livelihood by manual labour, and paid a premium for the purpose of being taught the art of French polishing, Having, as he supposed, become a proficient in this, he sought work in the usual way by going from shop to shop, sometimes getting a job, but much more frequently making his round of applications in vain. As his earnings were insufficient for the support of himself and wife in a respectable manner, a tobacconist's shop was fitted up by his father-in-law, so that his wife might be able to acid something to their income. After this, employment at French polishing appeared to become more difficult to obtain, and Bousfield looking about for some other occupation, at length got upon the stage as supernumerary, at the usual low rate of wages, and remained in that capacity at the Princess's Theatre up to Christmas last. He then applied at Covent-garden, which. Professor Anderson was about to open, and, being engaged, figured in the pantomime as what is technically called a " young man," ranking one step higher than a mere supernumerary, and increasing his wages some ris. per week. He is described by those who knew him well at the theatre as having been an exceedingly civil, but, at the same time, an extremely taciturn man, seldom speaking except when first addressed, and then as briefly as possible. He is also said to have been a man of strictly temperate habits, and even quite unaccustomed to smoking out of his own house. At the seine time he appears to have possessed little energy or perseverance, and this fact may possibly account for the charge of laziness brought against him by some who allege that he cared to seek no employment beyond that at the theatres. Mr. Jones, the father of the murdered woman, during his examination at the Marlborough-street Policecourt, admitted, rather reluctantly, that his deceased daughter and the prisoner bad, to his knowledge, occasionally quarrelled since the birth of their third child. but stated he was not aware of any quarrel having taken place between them on Saturday last. It appears. however, to be a matter of certainty that the ill-fates pair for some time before the murder had led a life of extreme unhappiness, so that their domestic quarrels formed a subject of almost daily gossip amongst their neighbours. On Saturday he left home at the usual time, filled his r accustomed part in the Pantomime, at Covent Garden r Theatre, passed the evening without anything of an extraordinary nature exhibiting itself in his deportment, returned home without delay at the conclusion of the performance, went out to fetch some milk, and was not again seen until he presented himself on Sunday morning at the Bow-street Station.