The Sun. — 1855-05-16 (London, England)

SMITH.  DELIBERATE MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN BY HER SWEETHEART.  COMMITTAL OF THE MURDERER. DUDLEY, Monday Night.---For the last three days Dudley has been in unusual excitement, consequent on the commission of a very deliberate act of murder on Saturday, and the examination and committal of the murderer to:day.  The murderer is Joseph Meadows, a whitesmith by trade, and he had bound himself for four years to a Mr. Rana, at Round Oak, with whom he boarded and lodged. His victim was Mary Ann Mann, who was servant atthe Sailor's Return, public-house, at Kates Hill, and who was the daughter of honest and respectable parents. On Saturday morning the murderer left home, taking with. him a carbine and some powder and shot belongingtc his master, who is a member of the Worcestershire . Yeomanry.sitting drinking were also drinking until nine o'clock. Two other men and ten Between nine directionyo a drHinkeiwngenitndtirheect kitchen.tothe Sailor's Return, and sat wags,_ they heard opposite to that in which the prtibseo deceased fall to the o'clock, while these two men were the report of a gun, and saw w the prisoner in the act Turning round they sa ground. One of them, named ' on the floor. of laying a carbine perintenwheolorT.eZe, said, , The other man ran to th Ingram, seized him, it i ii He merely replied, " I have a and charged with have shot that wenc on the left side of the head, immediatelye revolver oimnann:dyanpcloc raised her, her, the blood flowing from a xesiminz ``nlleorkyinouinroagee, young nSghetadkieend iinntoabcouusttohdaylf an hour.sn On the way to the e sta. The the have hadm ,th county police,by his crime, s and intention th Y gunshot .je wwkoeareonp7boe fi lion 'had on the previous night to put his the house dingxecion but failed lin tell. we he raedvdenedge tihsastweheet. so ; and said, "If could ing an opportunity of determined nobody else sould." not have her, I was in disappointed affection there That the act originated It appears that the seems little doubt' vised her to hare nothing of the deceased had adthe report that he was ng to do with the prisoner from and from other .. the father of an illegitimate child, circumstances which they dis eumstances of his previous life of ._approred ; and it also appeared that the poor girl lent no unwilling having on st.:veral occasions ear toht toth ees‘ea de admonitions, i attentions of the prisoner. Ilex conduct towards him in this respect was particularly marked on Friday night, ' fin:Pintirivrdnetrogoeu, and from that time at least it seems certain that the misguided man resolved on her destruction ; for on leaving the Sailor's Return lie went home, but not to bed, sitting up in the kitchen all night, and leaving in the morning with the murderous implements of his diabolical purpose as above _ described. To-day he was brought before the magistrates at the Town Hall, when the above facts f facts were deposed to, and be was committed r Robinsonr trial at the ensuing Worcestershire assize.% the M . likewise'a inquest. on body of deceased, and held a coroners a verdict of Wilful Murder against and the jury returned the prisoner, who was evening conveyed to the county gaol at Worcester.this  Loss of THE s_rtn.