The Sun. — 1834-08-16 (London, England)

LATEST PARTICULARS-FRIDAY.  ANOTHER MURDER SUSPECTED TO HAVE BEEN COMMITTED BY  TILE MURDERERS OF MR. ASHTON. From accounts received from Chester Castle, it appears that Garside feels disposed to make a second and last confession of the circumstances attending the barbarous murder of Mr. Thomas Ashton, of which he was the principal perpetrator. He has mentioned the names of two men whom he states positively were the parties that employed him and his accomplices to commit the deed. One of them resides at Marple, and the other at Hyde, and they will probably turn out to be the men he alluded to on Saturday last, when remarking to the gentleman who visited him, that there were two nearer home who knew most about the murder. The one living at Marple whom he accuses is a spinner, who for a long time had been out of employment, excepting when making himself conspicuous by carrying the union flag in their different processions. The other is a clothes dealer, and we understand, in consequence of the disclosures, that measures have been taken for their immediate apprehension. The remorse of conscience which Garside appears now to feel is also likely to lead to the elucidation of other crimes committed by himself and his companions in guilt, and he has gone so far as to charge his fellow murderer (Joseph Mosley), with the committal of another murder, hitherto veiled in mystery, but which, until this time, was not considered to have been a murder. The facts of this newly-discovered atrocity, according to Garside's statement, appear to be that a man named Nadin was murdered about three years ago by the convict Mosley, near Mellor, in Derbyshire, who waylaid his victim, and having dispatched him, threw the body into the canal. He afterwards cohabited with Nadin's widow, and continued to do so until the period of his apprehension for the crime for which he is shortly to suffer the extreme penalty of the law. The circumstance of Nadin having been found dead in the canal is fresh in the recollection of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. A Coroner's inquest was held on the body at the time, and it appearing to the jury from the evidence then adduced before them that it was probable that the deceased might have fallen by accident into the canal, they returned a verdict of " Found drowned." A considerable time subsequent to the inquest, however, a legal gentleman received an anonymous letter, stating that Nadin had been murdered in the way described, by three men, whom the writer named; in consequence of which the men were apprehended and examined before the Magistrates, but there was no evidence to criminate them. The writer of the letter was advertised for and desired to come forward, but as he never made his appearance the men were discharged. The affair caused considerable excitement,, and the gentleman who Deceived the letter was indefatigable in endeavouring to trace the writing, but without success.  However, since the apprehension of Garside and Mosley, the writing has been found to resemble that of an acquaintance of Joseph Mosley's, who is also supposed to be implicated in the murder of Mr. Ashton. If, therefore, it turns out to be so, the fact is strongly corroborative of the statement of Garside, and leads to the conclusion that Mosley and his friend had, by sending the anonymous letter, attempted to throw suspicion upon others to avoid being suspected themselves. Nadin, it seems, was a cutting spinner, employed at Clayton's mills, and an acquaintance of Mosley's. It is, we understand, a fact that Mosley did cohabit with Nadin's widow, subsequent to his apprehension. We are in possession of other statements which have been made by Garside, implicating persons who have hitherto been unsuspected ; but, as it might be thwarting justice at present to give them publicity, it is better to omit them. Of course the disclosures made are causing great sensation in the manufacturing districts, and yesterday (Thursday) a private meeting of the master cotton manufacturers was held at Hyde, for the purpose of adopting means further to investigate all the circumstances contained in the convicts' catalogue of crime, and to take the best measures for apprehending the suspected parties now at large. The dispute between the Sheriffs is not yet amicably arranged. The term of respite expires on Monday next, and the theme of general conversation is how they intend to act on the occasion. It is considered that the recent Act of Parliament, which does away with the Palatinate, causes the duty to devolve on the High Sheriff of the county. The high Sheriff is determined to think otherwise, and there the matter rests.