Star. — 1826-10-18 (London, England)

NEAR LEATHERHEAD.  In the account which appeared in the Sr4R of yesterday, relative to the murders committed near Leatherhead, it was stated that three officers belonging to Union Hall Police Office had been dispatched into the country, in different directions, on receipt of the Rev. Mr. Bolland's letter, for the purpose of tracing the route of Mary Ayres (the grand-daughter of the deceased John Akehurst) and her paramour, both of whom, it will be remembered, together with two other persons, were seen in the immediate neighbourhood where the murders were perpetrated on the ensuing morning. at an early hour. From the testimony of some labouring men, who gave intimation of the circumstances to the Rev. Mr. Rolland, it appeared that the before mentioned persons were seen driving donkies towards Esher, in Surrey.— Agreeable to this information, it was decided that the chief constable should proceed without delay to Brentwood, in Essex, the fair having commenced on that day, and as the suspected persons were known to be in the habit of frequenting them. Mr. Hall soon arrived at his destination, and immediately commenced a search through the fair' and through. out the town ; the whole of the lodging houses resorted to by the lower classes were minutely examined, but he could not gain the slightest intelligence of the persons whom he wanted. The chief constable then crossed the country, and visited another village, at which a wake was holding, but he had as little success here as at Brentwood ; and after having distributed handbills, describing the murders through the whole hue of country which he passed, he returned to town yesterday about two o'clock, and quitted it again almost immediately, for the purpose of proceeding in another direction, with great hopes of succeeding its the apprehension of the suspected persons, Pople, the officer, who also set out on the same day with the chief constable, proceeded with all haste to Farningham, in Kent, where a fair had then commenced. He also thoroughly examined the fair, and he could discover no persons there answering the description of those whom he was looking after, although he saw a great number of tramper." (Mary Ayres and her paramour are tramper.), who had crossed the country to Farningham from Leatherhead, for the purpose of attending the fair in the former place. Pople, finding there was no clue by which he could trace them in that direction, returned to town yesterday morning, when'he related that a robbery had been committed in the Lion public-house, at Farningham, where he had taken up his quarters fbr the night. The thieves, it appeared, broke into the house after the family and lodgers had retired to bed, and possessed themselves of the whole stock of eatables, consisting of boiled and roast meat, cheese, butter, and eggs, which the landlord had lain in a good stock of, to meet the appetites of his customers during the fair. Very shortly after Pople's arrival in town he was dispatched in another direction after the persons who are suspected of having been implicated in the dreadful scenes that occurred at Fetcham. 6rassmith also having left town on the receipt of the Rev. Mr. Bolland's letter, for the purpose of proceeding into the neigh-, bourhood where the suspected persons were seen immediately subsequent to the murders, has not yet returned to town.  ihnguine expectations are entertained that Ayres and the man with whom she cohabits, will be in custody insintdiatcly.