The Sun. — 1845-04-01 (London, England)

LATEST PARTICULARS—(THIS DAY.) (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)  The house, No. 11, George-street, St. Giles's, where the unfortunate woman Ann Tape was so inhumanly murdered last night, and where the body still remains under the care of the police, was this morning completely surrounded by hundreds of persons anxious, at least, to look upon the place where the murder was committed. The deceased, one of that degraded class who earn a living upon the streets, was well known in the neighbourhood ; and the miscreant, who has escaped for the present, is also sufficiently known as, we believe, to make his capture by the police not a matter of extraordinary difficulty. The murderer was dressed in a velveteen shooting coat or jacket, glazed cap, and knee-breeches. It was currently reported this morning at an early hour, that an individual answering the description of the person who committed the cold blooded and cowardly assassination of the unfortunate woman, had been apprehended by the police, but, on inquiry, it unfortunately turns out that there is no foundation for such a rumour.  The circumstance which gave rise to this report originated in the fact that several persons, nearly resembling the deseription of the murderer, bad been brought to the station-house by the police ; but these persons having sufficiently proved that they had no connexion with the circumstances of the murder, were at once discharged.  The details of the inhuman transaction having been extensively circulated by route through the different stations, the police were on the alert to trace every detail connected with it, and they have succeeded in ascertaining when and where the weapon (a carving knife, not a stiletto, as has been erroneously stated) was purchased. The period when the purchase was made is stated to have been about ten o'clock, only an hour before the murder, and Mr. Oldham, the cutler, of Highstreet, St. Giles's, thinks he can identify the person who bought it, and whose description answers in every respect the description given of the supposed murderer. We are enabled, from the courtesy of the persons c,,nnected with the George-street station-house, to say that the constable Allen, 159 E, was called at a little after a quarter to eleven o'clock yesterday evening, and requested to go to No. 11, George-street (by the way, one of the relics of London tradition, being once tenanted by Oliver Cromwell, and the interior of the house presenting at least one feature of interest to the antiquary, namely, a magnificent oaken staircase, said to be the work of Inigo Jones), where he found in a back room the unfortunate deceased lying bleeding from a number of wounds in the throat and breast, and the knife remaining in the left side of the neck to a depth of at least three inches. The constable drew the knife out, and then, by direction of his inspector, hastened for Mr. Fitzgerald, of Highstreet, who at once attended; but though he reached the place in five minutes after the police-constable had first been called, the woman was dead, so effectually had the murderer accomplished his purpose. The surgeon stated that a more frightful mass of wounds he had never witnessed, and no medical skill could have averted a fatal termination. The constable states that he saw a man run off who answered, in every respect, to the description of the murderer, but as he was not, at the time, aware of the circumstances that had taken place in that neighbourhood, the person passed unnoticed by him. Inspectors Haynes, Shaw, and Thornton, of the detece tivepolice, who have already shown themselves so efficient in similar cases, have been specially ordered to trace the murderer in this instance, and it is to be hoped that through their exertions the miscreant will soon be brought to the bar of justice.  ROYALTHIS EVENING Will be repeated MARGARET CATCIIPOLE, The Female Horsestealer. Onega and Pechuana (Red Chieftains), Messrs. Cony and Blanchard ; Margaret Catchpole, Miss Vincent. After which,