Star. — 1831-04-02 (London, England)

THE LATE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR NF.AR OAKIIAII. About a month ago there appeared a paragraph in the ! d Champion anti the Newt, stating that " an old woman named Levison, w; o lately died at Braunaton, near Oakbaat, made confessien on her deatt,. bed to the minister, that she, along with her then master, one Smith, had been concerned in the bloody and cruel murder of a beast-jobber, a stranger who had conic to her master's resi lence to restive money; that she held his head while Satith beat out his brains with a coal-hammer." Mr. W. Hinds, late a schoolmaster, of Benton, having near 30 yearn since lost a cousin, named Samuel Johnson, who disappeared in a mysterious manner, seeing the above paragraph, immediately wrote to the minister of Besunston for further information relative to the murder; and the gentleman very politely answered his inquiries.— The result is, that Mr. Hinds has ascertained that the person thus murdered was the identical beast-jobber, Johnson, aho left Freiston about Christmas 1801, with considerable property, and a quantity of cattle to sell at Christmas, which it now app. ara he sold ; and on his return called at Oaktam to meet Smith and a man named Hackett, to receive money for beasts sold to them at Lammas pre • viously. Hackett settled with him, hut Smith failed to come, end in consequence Johnson went to Owston-lodge (about 2 or 3 miler from Oakhaan) to Smith's house for the money, but he never returned from thence. Smith and the woman lately dead—whose name the minister says is Levi robbed and .croelly murdered Johnson, and buried his body in the stack-yard. Smith, who had previously been in indifferent circumstances, launched out into business for some years, but after a time he failed and died a pauper, and was buried at the expense of the patbh. Smith used annually to erect haystacks upon the place where he had buried his murdered victim. On Smith leaving the place about twelve years ago, some men who were digging for gravel found the bones of parr Johnson, and they were collected, and atterred in Knossieo.in t hurcinyard, about two miles front a place called ()wenn \f .t where they were found.— Johnson was a man of good character, and had been intrusted with much cattle by many of the respectable gresiers round the neighbourhood of Freiston and Boston. it in supposed that he had about him property to the amount of 1,6001. or 1.1;001. The inhuman murderer Smith has been dead five years last January, and his worm lace , died only a few weeks ago. Johnson's uncle, who resided at Freiston, had made himself responsible to several graziers for the amount intrue‘d I to hint nephew, of whose integrity he had such an opinion, Spat he paid nine hundred pounds to the graziers. Two letters, purporting to be written by the deceased, but which at the time were generally believed to be forgeries, were received by his friends at Pension, stating, that he had hired himself to a buzeher at Epping. It n. supposed these letters were written by the murderer for the pur. pose of diverting the attention of the deceased's friends. The above narrative proves that murder, although long hid, hi generally dim. covered, and brought to light ; and though, in this instance, the guilty parties escaped human justice, yet we find that a retributive Providence visited one with all the miseries of poverty in his old age, and the other with all the horrors of a death-bed repentance.  The name of the. Oumng Outan, in Africa, is Rang Otou, which is believed to mean wild ann.' In confirmation of the name's signifying wild man,' the Africai.s maintain that there are two races, a black arid a whitepwhich they consider as a harmony with what takes place is the int• man species; and it is true, as stated by some of the o voyagers, that there is a, popular opinion that the Ourang Outans are men, who refuse to speak, lest they sbouk be made to work.— Westminster Review.  .~  t!I  .31 1  i ..r  I  ~. ~  1 (  i  t`  ~ 'i  ! i i I.k V  I   F1K1RP.7`.7779-,71e , •  " Jocund morn  II I .: i 1  _ r  !~!!~  Discount • • •••••tk f_ .•c ••r• f9N(.113A31A OF TH 14: