The Sun. — 1857-09-10 (London, England)

TERRIBLE MURDER FROM JEALOUSY.A NEPHEW SHOT BY HIS U.ACLE.  (Prom the New York Sun.)  A very deliberate, and apparently premeditated, in.urder:was committed in Philadelphia, on Monday afternoon, in the neighbourhood of Fourth and Cherry-streets. The murdered man was a young Englishman, named Wm. L.• Smith, and the perpetrator of the act was his uncle, George Freeth, who, meeting his nephew in the street, attempted to shoot him, but the pistol being knocked from his hand, the desperate man pursued his nephew into the Washington Hotel, No. 232, Cherry-street, and before he could be prevented, fired three shots , from a revolver into the body of his nephew. Freeth, says the Ledger, is also, an Englishman• He came to this country about 11 years since, with his wife, and commenced work as a jeweller. After becoming settled, he returned to England, and on his return brought his nephew, Smith, also a jeweller, with him. Soon after the arrival of Smith,, difficulty occurred between Freeth and his wife, 111 consequence ofit having been insinuated that Freeth had another wife living. Mrs. F., though a mother of seven children, applied for a divorce about four ' years since, and obtained it. Two years after this Smith married his divorced aunt, Mrs. Freeth, and one child has been the fruit of this union. This state of thing led to ill feelings and threats between the uncle and nephew, Freeth alleging that the deceased had threatened to take the former's life several times.  Smith and his wife moved into Fourth-street, between Coates and Brown, and yesterday Smith started down town to attend to some business. When at Fourth and Cherry-streets he stopped to talk to a friend named H. Harrison, and while he was thus engaged, Freeth passed up Fourth-street in an omnibus. As soon as Freeth saw Smith he got out of the omnibus, and approached Smith at the same time, saying, "Smith you are going on fine about me." Smith replied 11 saying "that he was not doing anything against him." Freeth made some reply to this, and said, "Did I not pay your passage to this country ?" Smith denied this. Freeth then replied, " I will shove you," at the same time pulling from a side pocket a paper and a six-barrelled revolver. Freeth pointed the pistol and said, "Smith you are a dead man ;" but before he could pull the trigger Harrison, who was talking to Smith, knockd the pistol out of his hand. Smith ran down Cherry-street, andFreeth picked up his pistol and ran after him. When Smith reached the Washington Hotel, he ran in, followed by Freeth. Both of them ran through the tar-room, to small, low ceiling room, towards a back room ; jot as Smith got into a small vestibule between the bar and kitchen, Freeth fired three times, two balls entering Smith's breast, killing him in about two minutes. The report of the pistol brought the landlord down stairs, who on reaching the scene, found Smith partially doubled up on the floor, with his head in a position indicating that he designed running up stairs. Freeth was standing near and at once said to the landlord, " I have done what I wanted, and you may send for an officer to arrest me." Word was sent to the Sixth Ward Station-house, and an officer took Freeth in charge. The prisoner mad° the same statement to the officer that he had mad° to the landlord, but before and after getting to the station-house ho became somewhat difficult t° manage. An inquest was held upon the body on Merida evening, and a verdict that Smith came to his death by a pistol shot fired by George Freeth.