The Northern Daily Times. — 1853-11-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE MURDER NEAR WINDSOR.  The mysteries of this affair seems clearing up, now tha the police are on the track. Several little things have been found out serving to point out the murderer. The excitement in the neighbourhood is very great. Burnham Abbey Farm, the scene of the murder, has been visited by hundreds. Indeed since the murder committed by Tawell some eight years ago at Slough, about two miles from here, nothing approximating to the horror now entertained has been witnessed, or could have been anticipated. Notwithstanding the perfect freedom which Haddo (the groom) has enjoyed subsequent to the discovery of the burning body of the deceased, the suspicions .of the man's guilt were strong, and as the police silently, yet minutely, investigated the circumstances attending the awful occurrence, they became further fortified. Upon the police taking Haddo into custody at the farm, he deported himself in a manner which, to their experieneed judgement in criminal matters, betrayed the insolence of a person studying to play the character of one innocent of the crime, yet betraying, in the boldness of the embodiment, the reverse of the impression that a consciousness of innocence might have made. The prisoner was not then aware of the matter in possession of the police, nor indeed, is he at this =Aleut, and consequently he preserves the same insolent bearing in the police station at Eton, where he is now under remand.  The superintendents, acting, upon the information furnished by Mrs. Bunce, wife of the foreman of Mr. Goodwin's farm, of the deceased's complaint to her a few hours before the murder, of the offensiveness of Haddo in his language, gleaned the fact of the young woman having, on the night prior to her unhappy death, been to Burnham•village to post some letters, and of her being accompanied a portion of the distance home by a former fellow servant named John Marsh, of Mills Farm, at Brittle, who had been paying her some attention, and whose regards were reciprocated. This it appears, had considerably augmented the dissatisfaction of Haddo, who also had been manifesting •an affection for the deceased, who, so far from encoufaging his passion, repulsed him, and, indeed, treated his advances as emanating from one beneath her in station, she, in fact, holdino,o• the position of housekeeper, while the prisoner, though called a groom, in point of fact only performed the duties of stable man, and was of a disposition far from calculated to impress with favour a young woman of taste, such as undoubtedly. the deceased was for one in her walk of life—a fact amply testified by the little matters found in the unfortunate girl's bed room subsequent to the butchery inflicted upon her. The police having satisfied themselves of the jealous feeling of the prisoner, made a minute examination of the 'lite had been in and discovered that on the night of the murder the plate was not removed, convincing them that no burglar had committed plate teen etaatskhi. atrocity.leeyn, hf few rbienegns andth e et bw oe pencilthe casesthere w a smais valuables missed y her quantitymaster It was also perfectly clear to them removable.ne t for their intrinsic The he p li ewe ofratrht,hbe further discovered s. merelycover et do give a colouring for a suspicion of robbery, whereas, if aeplunderpremises, ithess tt lot at th et the r is spoont e where he Haddo'sre t h the first bedroom, wasdt ha that inflicted ic ed was close .his bedroom, as he asserted to the coroner, when the girl was here attacked for the first time, he must have heard the deadly struggle. The police have also gleaned material contradictions of Haddo's statements, which will be laid before the coroner's jury at the adjourned inquest. They have, in abdition, just become masters of grave facts, which they do not consider themselves at present justified in disclosing.