The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1838-06-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER NEAR THE WATERLOO ROAD.  On Saturday morning the inhabitants of Waterloo-lod; London, and the streets adjacent to it, were alarmed by the Yeport that a woman named Eliza. Greenwood, residing at No. 12, Wellington-terrace, had beed inhumanly murdered in the course of, the preceding night.. The report of the alleged murder was first given by a man lodging at Nri". /2, Wellingtonterrace, who, at six o'clock on Saturday morning, was observed to run out of the house calling police, and ejaculating that murder had been committed. At the end of the terrace the man alluded-to met policeman 31-, L, and having apprised him that a woman had been murdered, he (the policeman) immediately proceeded to the house, and on entering the back parlour. which is fitted op as a bed-room, he beheld a female, aboul2s veaca of age, lying on the floor with her throat cut in a dreadful manner, arid quite dead. The body was lying near the entrance into the room, and there were- several cuts or gash6a. across her hands, as if she had strnggled'against her assailant. From the inquiries made by the police, it appeared, that the uti fortunate woman, who-is described as having been remarkably handsome, had been for some time living with a. man at the, house in Wellington-retrace.  On Friday night Eliza Greenwood left home in the early part of the afternoon, and returned at twelve o'clock the same night, when her servant, a young girl, perceived that she was accompanied by a gentleman, and having gone up stairs from the kitchen without a candle, asked her if she should return down stairs and strike a light. He mistress, however, desired her to go to bed, adding that she should get a light herself, as she knew in what part of the room the tinder-box was to be found. As this conversation took place in the dark inthe passage of the house, the servant had no opportunity of distinguishing the features of the person by whom her mistress was accompanied, but she describes him to be a well-dressed man, rather tall and of gentlemanly appearance, so far as the light of the night enabled her to see. Tnat she (the servant girl) then went rtow❑ stairs, and she heard her mistress and the gentleman enter the back parlour, which is the bed-room, and shut and lock the door after them. The servant girl, however, says she heard no noise during► the night, and that the first intimation she had that her mistress was murdered was on hearing the man, under whose pvotection •she was living, and who slept in the house, giving the alarm, at six o'clock in the morning. The man with whom the unfortunate woman was known tohave been living for a considerable time, has given the following account of all he says he knows of the transaction :—He states, that he slept in the house with the deceased on Friday night, •but not in the same room, and that he was in the habit of going out of a morning► as early as six o'clock. That on Monday morninii, when begot up and went down stairs, he saw the candlestick on the mat at the street door, and being rat her surprised at the circumstances he went to the back parlour door, and opening it:was horror struck on seeing Eliza Greenwood with her throat cut from ear to ear. That he immediately gave the alarm in the house, and apprised the watchman on duty of what had occurred. He adds, that he was asleep in a room up stairs at the time the deceased -came home with the gentleman, and that he was not aware of the latter fact until he was informed by the girl that such was the case. From the wounds inflicted on the deceased's hands, there is no doubt that she had been murdered.  -