The Sun. — 1847-11-29 (London, England)

HORRIBLE MURDER AT MADRID. -44tacatis- Nov. 22.—A murder was committed on graesday loot which his---giveg,: rise to` the otrongeo worts, though at. fiati& appOttre'd;lnerely on ordinary case of robbery as the Object, stud of murder as the Means of effecting it. Senor Fullers, chaplain of the Duke and Duchess of Rianzares, occupies a house or suite of apartments, situated in the lower story of the po anliayc epeof rs otnh e l livinga tte r in with hthime Cale de la walsa feinaise Rejas. hous e k e eTpchre, who is spoken of as being good looking, though not very young. It appears that the chaplain had gone out on the afternoon in iquestion to purchase some, books in the Calle del Leon. which is quite at the opposite part of the town. He returned at five, and found Abe unfortunate woman lying dead on the floor in a pool of blood, with her head nearly cut off, in fact only retained by some fragments of skin. It is said that there were marks on her person which indicated that she made a desperate resistance. A gilt button, with some blue cloth attached to it, is said to have been found on the ground. No cries were heard. The murderer, whoever he was, had washed his hands afterwards in the wash-hand basin. It does not appear that any suspicions have fallen on the chaplain, who is said to have found, on looking about the room, that four dollars and some copper money which he had left there were missing, and also a small miniature portrait. The idea of robbery having been the object has, however, given way to other reports, upon which the Eco del Comerci• has the following remarks. It says :—" In our number of yesterday we copied what the Popular said about the horrid murder committed in the house of the Duke and Duchess of Montmorel, and respecting which very significant rumours have been circulated. No one could give the news earlier than the Eco, since, from its proximity to the Calle de las Rejas, it m sbwihourct,ryaat efet because hdfsti raherdouveei ini cynstt ftcrwukpheolneaess sort i or eswnharo e.nrinsrle, news, had occasion to know it early in the morning—an Iseicsloei ainnst:, ec riEooucfs°acnnr ecclesiastic, cs ce ha iosc hus,ru resistedc prudenceh, m i might have rhuadravesen denied, naturally increased by the circumstance of the murder having been committed in a house of such category, where it is not easy that they can allow persons, un: less well known, or who state the object which takes them there, to enter, since no one will believe that free entry is given in the house of the Duke and Duchess to all who go there. But there is more : the murderer seems not to have feared any surprise, and to have acted as if he had ben in his own room, since he washed the hands, which he had stained with the blood of his victim, in the wash hand basin. It belongs to the tribunals to appreciate the commentaries that are made in consequence of this event, arid the suspicions connected with it, if indeed they do not hold back before the considerations which retain ourauawNnhlenoessoedult Nevertheless saoweialsenri hfstthehoohow:efeul aess nseeskr atrocious servants tell one another selves."  It is astonishing how little the journals occupy thpinselves with the murder committed in the palace of queen kiln J!!,1114. . •1.- -1-,,lnct, has been arrested, but that he is able to prove that he had been away for four hours when he returned that afternoon, while the medical men who were called in state that the murder could not have been committed more than three-quarters of an hour before they saw the body. It should be obseryed that there is a constant guard of soldiers who parade before the Palace, and that neither the sentinels nor the porter of the establishment had seen any one enter or leave about that time, and, consequently, the inference that it must have been committed by some one in the Palace is almost beyond doubt. The murdered woman "had recently arrived, it is said, from Valencia, and was about thirty years of age. The body was taken to the usual receptacle at the Hospital de San Carlos. The local tribunal of the district is said to be occupied in investigating the matter.  -------