Star. — 1805-09-13 (London, England)

MURDIR.—About half pail eleven o'clock on Wednefday night a horrid murder was perpetrated' on the body of a perfon unknown ; the circumfiances of which, on the belt enquiry we couldmiake are as follow :—At the time above hated, a lad, ;bout fifteen, the apprentice of a tradefman, palfing through the narrow lane at the corner of Holborn-row, Lincold's Inn-fields. called Whettione-park, at the end of an alley called Feathers-court, leading to 'Holborn, beard fome blows given ; law a man fall ; heard him moan piteoully ; and faw a man in a dark coloured (mock flock, who. had given thofe blows, run away down the lane. The boy immediately gave the alarm to a man who keeps a publichook the coiner of Feathers-court, who came out with a candle, and law the deceafed lying fenfelefs, with his face much bruifed and wounded, his front teeth knocked out, and bleeding. He immediately called the watch, and other affiflants, and after welling the face of the deceafed, and finding him with fcarcely any fymptoms of life, had him can ied, for aillitance, to the (hop of a furgeon in Holborn, from whence, though appearing to be pall all furgical aid, he was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hofpital, but, on examination, was quite dead. The body (hewed no other marks of violence but about the head and face, which were feverely bruifed and wounded, but not apparently by any fharpinftrument ; neither was there any fracture of the Ikull, or any of the bones, though it mull be obvious that the deceafed died in confequence of the violent blows he received. Notwithflanding the general alarm excited at the moment the body of the deceafed was found, there was no clue left by which the perpetrator of the murder could be traced. except that he ran into Holborn, whither the watchman purfued, and railed the hue and cry. The coachmen at the next Rand reported that a man anfwering the defcription given by the boy who law the tranfallion, had been (kulking about their carriages, but that he ran off towards St. Giles's ; fo that all further purfuit feemed ufelefs. One of the Bow-ftreet Patrole going his rounds, and palling through Charles Itreet, Soho, law a man coming rapidly towards him, dreffed as above defcribed, and flopped him, on fome fufpicion from his appearance, alking the way to Soho-fquare. The fellow aufwered him rudely, pulled him off, and ran on, when the Bow-ftreet Officer, who had a flrong recognition of his perfon, called out flop thief: The fellow immediately redoubled his (peed, but was met by one of the Patrole from Marlborough-ltreet. who tripped up his heels and fecured him ; when he was taken to the next watch-houfe, where the rumour of the murder of Whettione Park had jun reached, and the defcription of the perthn by whom it was committed exactly anfwering that of the prifoner, he was kept in dole cultody, and yelterday brought before the Sitting Magittrate at Bow-street, when he underwent a foil examination. The boy who had feen the fatal tranfaeion identified his periim. Many marks of blood were (till apparent on his thin-neck, Beeves and hands, about which he could give no fatisfaaory explanation, but denied any knowledge of the tranf• aftion. He is a tall, robult, defperate-looking fellow, has the appearance of a liable keeper, or ion-porter, and calls himfelt 114. Moji. He was recognized as an old offender by fome of the Officers, and is Paid to have lately returned from tranfportation. A woman who reticles in Feathers-court, with whom the prifoner is alledged to have cohabited, was alfo taken into cuilody and interrogated. It appear. ed that the deceafed was killed oppofite to her door, and fhe was not quite lure whether the had ever feen him before, but would give no pofitive evidence about the traufaeion. The prifoner was committed to Newgate. The Corriner's Inqueft had not fat yellerday evening on the body, but it remained in the dead room at St. Bartholomew's Hofpital for infpeeion. The deceafed was reputably dreffed, in a blue coat, leather breeches, and boots, had the appearance of a countryman juft come to town, ant, in all probability, had been wheedled into the villainous alley, where he met his death, by fome' of that horee of prollitutes who have fo long inferred it, as the common rendezvous of themfelve‘, and the midnight plunderers who are their affociatc.