The Express. — 1867-11-25 (London, England)

BRUTAL MURDER IN STAFFORDSHIRE.  On Saturday morning a murder was discovered at Mosley, near to Wolverhampton. Morley is about four miles from Wolverhampton, on the direct road to Birmingham, and is made up of collieries and ironworks, and of the homes of the ironworkers and miners. At about 8 o'clock on Friday evening, Esther, aged 35, the wife of Moses Bsgott, furnaceman at the Monway Ironworks, belonging to Mews. Marshall, of Morley, took her husband's supper and delivered it to his aselstant at the gate of the works. On her way home she called at a beerbonse and drank a pennyworth of ale, and at 9 o'clock, when nearer to her home, she passed a neighbour, bade her good night, and said she was in haste. Her husband re'turned home at 2 and sought her in vain at her mother's house. At daylight he went one way and his father another, both seeking her. At 8 o'clock the father was called to, as he passed along the high road, by three boys, who said, •' Here master, here's a woman ! Lying dead in a shallow subsidence in an old colliery field, not 50 yards from the road side, open to it and nearly level with it, Moses Bsgott, sera, was shocked to find his eon's wife whom he was seeking. Her clothes were disordered and her features were much disfigured with blood, which seemed to have escaped from the mouth and nostrils. There was a great deal of effused clotted blood =damns about the mouth; there wereabruions about the lower jawalikeos the right and the left aide, and also about the chin. On the left aide of the throat, too, there ins an abrasion, such as a finger-nail would produce ; and there were slight abrasions on each hand. The body was removed to a neighbouring inn, and superficially examined by Mr. W. H. Beacon, surgeon, of Bilstou, who describes the ap1= COO as above, and gives as the opinion he has of the cause of death, that it was produced by violent compreseion of the mouth and nostrils. Upon the high road, only forty-seven yards from the lame when the boys accidentally found the body, there was a considerable quantity of blood, and both there, also around the body, and between it and the spot where the blood was lying there were distinct traces of a desperate struggle having recently taken place. Whilst it is true that one of the pockets of the deceased was turned out, still the object of her murder could I scarcely have been plunder, fur she had a watch in the bosom of her dress secured by a chain round her neck, which was still there when she was found. The face of the watch was broken, and the deceased's bosom was much bruised as if she had been trodden upon. She was a robust, well-built woman, and was evidently able to offer vigorous resistance to the assassins who took her life. Some time ago she summoned her husband before the magistrates, and after that they lived apart for a time ; and they have only re. cently come together again. The police of the Staffordshire constabulary, under Captain Holland, are investigating the occurrence • but at present they are without any clue likely to legato the apprehension of the perpetrators of this outrage. It will have been observed that the surgeon's examination having at present been only superficial, the first chject of the murderers can only be supposed from the condition in which the poor woman was found, and the means which were resorted to to deprier) her of life.