The Sun. — 1855-09-07 (London, England)

THE CUDHAM MURDER.  Robert alias Thomas Paling, the person ssopected of having been guilty of the murder of Jane Bagley, was traced by an officer of the detective force, named Johnson, to the village of Whitfield, in Gloucestershire, where he was apprehended on Wednesday last. He was at once brought back to Bromley, where he underwent an examination before Mr. J. Wells, one of the magistrates of the county, yesterday. The following evidence was taken : George Bagley stated that the deceased, Jane Bigley, was his wife. On Saturday morning, the 25th ult., he went out at 20 minutes past 5 to his work, and returned about 7in the evening. He fouid the house abut up as he had left it in the morning, and upon listening at the door he heard some one groaning iu the cottage. He got in by the window,*and he found his mother weltering in her blood. He then went to the room where his wife slept, and found her lying dead in the bed, the bedclothes which were covering her body being deeply stained with blood. His son was with him at the time, and be immediately despatched him for assistance, come neighbours arriving soon afterward% He afterwards found the pair of tongs produced in the kitchen. They were covered with blood and hair. William Bagley, the deceased's eon, corroborated his father's evidence. On searching the cottage he (witness) missed, after the murder, a jacket, waistcoat, and a pair of trowsers. Those produced are some of the missing articles. They had been in his (witness's) possession six months before the murder, having been given to him by his brother, who had entered the army about that period. Jessey Freeman, farm labourer, residing at Cudham, deposed that on the morning of the 25th inst. he was with other men mowing in a field adjoining Bagley's house, when they saw a man running away from the direction of the cottage, about 21 minutes past 6 o'clock. The man wore a dark coat, dark trowers, and black hat, and had a bundle under his arm. The distance of the man from where they were mowing was about 120 yards. He believed the prisoner was that man. He was of just the same description, and same height. Generally -peaking the prisoner had the same appearance as the man who ran across the clover field from Bagley's house.  James Johnson, police constable, 108 R, stated, from information he received, he apprehended the prisoner on Wednesday morning, at the house of Mark Wheeler, at Whitfield, near Bristol. The prisoner was in bed at the time. The clothes identified by the witness Wm. Bayley as his, he found amongst the prisoner's clothes is the same room.  William Crane, who was at work with the last wit• ness un the morning in question, and saw the man running across the clover field, corroborated Freeman's evidence, and identified the prisoner as bearing a strong resemblance to that man. He did not See the features of the man running away from the cottage. Mrs. Jemima Blake, who kept the Black Horse public-house at Biggin's-hill, identified the prisoner as having been at the Black Horse, a mile and a half from Bagley's house, on Friday, the day preceding the murder, at half-past 12 in the afternoon. He left the house about twenty minutes to 2. Mr. Inspector Bagster informed the bench that that was all the evidence to be produced that day against ti :e prisoner. If the accused were refnauded for a week the evidence would be by that time complete. • The 1;4114 accordingly remanded the accused.