The Sun. — 1833-01-04 (London, England)

MURDER NEAR EAST RETFORD.  (From Drakard's Stamford News.) On Thursday, the 26th tilt; a most dreadful and diabolical murder was committed in the parish of Sutton-cumLound, near East Retford. The unfortunate individual who forms the melancholy subject of the present narrative, was Mr. Samuel Kay, of Sutton, a respectable butcher and farmer, about 40 years of age. Mr. Kay kept the weekly markets of Retford and Bawtry, and it appears that on the day in question, he went as usual to Bawtry, and at night returned by his accustomed route. He left Bawtry about six o'clock in the evening, and proceeded to Everton, and from thence to Mattersea, at which he was last seen alive, except perhaps by his murderers. Aliout nine o'clock, the horse and cart arrived at his own house without him ; but as he had sometimes on other occasions staid in the village and at other places on the road, and allowed his horse and cart to proceed, little surprise was excited in the minds of the domestics. During the night, however, his servants and relations went in search of him, but his body was not found until one o'clock on Friday. His own apprentice found him weltering in his blood on a heap of manure, about a mile from his own house, and one hundred and fifty-five yards distance from the road he had to pass. On examining the body, Mr. Allison, surgeon, of Retford, had not found any marks of violence, except about the face and neck ; that there was a large incised wound, about four inches in i length, extending from the left side angle of the upper jawbone to nearly the centre of the upper lip, by which all the substance of the cheek was divided down to the bone, which was laid bare. There was a hole behind the the angle of the jawbone, which would admit his finger to pass to the extent of about four inches,—the end of his finger being in the back part of the throat in front of the bones of the neck. The wound appeared to have been mode by a knife or some sharp instrument, and several arteries and veins had been divided. There was n ,t the least doubt on his mind that the wound was calculated to occasion the death of the deceased in a very short tioue,—though be might, after receiving the injury, cry out in distress, or walk thirty or forty yards. In the field where the body was found, there are three corn .stacks, about 160 yards from the road, between two of which he had been stabbed, as appeared by the blood on the ground ; afterwards he bad made an effort to reach the gate, but baying run about twenty-seven yards he bad fallen as before described. Hi, pockets were rifled of everything except a memorandum-book, and his watch was taken away. A Coroner's Inquest was held on Saturday, which was adjourned until Monday, and again from that day until Tuesday.  The remains of the late Marquis CONYNGHAm will be conveyed to-morrow from Hamilton-place for interment, at Bifrons, near Canterbury, where his Lordship purchased an extensive estate some years ago. The present Marquis CONYNGIIAM, his brother, Lord ALBERT, and Mr. DENIsoN, M.P., will be present at the ceremony. We understand that the complaint of which the Marquis died was a disease of the liver, which produced a very rapid decline.