The Sun. — 1827-01-15 (London, England)

UNION HALL.—In the course of Saturday, Hall, the Chief Officer of this establishment, took occasion to complain of some misrepresentations which had gone abroad, in respect of the expences in the prosecution of William Page and' Mary Ayres, who were committed on suspicion of being implicated in the murder of Akehurst and his housekeeper, at Fetchana. It had been asserted that he and his brother officers went down to the latter place in a chaise and four, paid for by the county. This was an untruth, for a gentleman, who was at the office, connected with the Morning Papers, being desirous of obtaining the earliest particulars of the murder, ordered an additional pair of horses to the chaise at his own expence, that he might go to FOtcham and back, with the utmost expedition. There was also another assertion which had gone abroad, concerning the expence to which the Baron de Tessier had been put in the year 1818, in prosecuting a matt named Austin, who was charged with the murder of the Baron's gamekeeper. Now he (Hall) could not undertake to say what May, the chief officer of Union Hall, might receive, but with respect to himself, he would say that for all the trouble to which he was put in endeavouring to bring the murderers to justice, not one farthing had he ever received. He had that morning- been- •to May's widow. (May having died a short time after that murder), to ascertain what had been' paid to her husband, but she could not state. She, however, said that he was actually arrested a.short time previous to his decease, on account of the printer's expenses in printing bills and placards, offering a reward for the apprehension of the murderer of Ely Cox,  the gamekeeper. [Austin WAS tried and acquitted of the murder, but we understand he confessed, when dying, which event happened recently, that he was guilty of the dreadful deed After some other observations respecting a watch transmitted to the office, from Guilford, which had been found in the possession of Cobbler who was apprehended and discharged in the course of the last week, on suspicion of having committed a highway robbery near that pface, Hall added, that notwithstanding the Grand Jury had ignored the bill, he was still persuaded that Page and his companion were concerned in the murder at Fetcham. Richard Chin, a young man who was until recently in the employ of Mr. Morris, a butcher, at Walworth, was brought before M. SWABEY, Esq. for final examination, charged with burglariously entering his late master's house, and stealing (among other articles not produced) a coral necklace.  v. The evidence was chiefly of a circumstantial nature, and may be thus briefly summed up : The prisoner was seen in the neighbourhood of the. prosecutor's about midnight, on the 23d December (the night the burglary was committed), and a few days afterwards, suspicion having attached to him, a search-warrant was obtained to search a house which he was in the habit of frequenting, when a pawnbroker's duplicate for a coral necklace, was found in the possession of a young girl named Edwards, to whom the prisoner had presented it, for the trouble she had taken in pledging the necklace for him. Some plate and linen were stolen at the time, but no traces to discover either could be made out, although Pople, the officer to whom the case was intrusted, had used great diligence in endeavouring to find where they had been pledged or sold. The necklace in question was distinctly sworn to, and it was stated to have been lying on a box in the room from whence the other stolen articles were deposited.—Committed.