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

MURDER NEAR THE WATERLOO ROAD.  Ott Satuiday morning the inhabitants of Waterloo-road, London, and the streets adjacent to it, were alarmed by the report that a woman name! Eliza Greenwood, residing at No. 12, 'Wellington-terrace, had been inhumanly murdered in the course of the preceding night. The report of the alleged murder was first given by a man lodging at No. 12, Wellingtonterrace, who, at six o'clock on Saturday morning, was observed 'to run out of the house calling police, and ejaculating that naurder 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 up as a bed-room, he beheld a. female, about 25 vear3 of age, lying on the floor with her throat cut in a dread:lA manner, and quite dead. The body was lyitag near the entrance into the room, and there were several cuts or gashes across her hands, as if she had struggled against her assailant. -From the inquiries made by the police, it appeared, that the unfortunate woman, who is described as having been remarkably -handsome, h'ad been for some time living with a man at the house in Wellington-terrace.  On Friday night Eliza Greenwood left home in the early part orthe 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. Ile 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 in the 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 he a Well-dressed man, rather tall and of gentlemanly appearance, so far as the light of the night enabled her to see. That she (the servant girl) then went down stairs, and she heard her mistress and the gentleman enter the back parlour, which is the bed-room, and shut and lack the door after them. The servant girl, however, says she heard no noise <hiring, the night, and that the first intimation she had that )ter mistress was murdered was on hearing the Man, under whose protection 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 to have • 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 morning, when he got up and went down stairs, he saw the candlestick on the mat at the street door, and being rather surprised at the circumstances he went to the back parlour dour, 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.  •FCRTt-lER '