The Daily Times. — 1860-08-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE WALWORTH TRAGEDY.  LATEST AND IMPORTANT PARTICULARS,  A MOTIVE FOR THE MURDER OF MARY W. STREETER.  The following facts, elicited by the activity of the police, throw a clear light upon the cause of one of the terrible series of murders known as the Walworth tragedy, namely, that of Mary Wells Streeter, the sweetheart of William Godfrey Youngman, who now stands accused of her death. If this assumption be admitted—and it is difficult to see how it can be controverted, inasmuch as the facts are there to speak for themselves—then the difficulty of discovering a motive for the other murders immediately vanishes. The murderer was seen " red-handed ;" he ruthlessly resolved to remove all the witnesses of his crime, and three more persons perished.  It appears that the young man made use of the most unfounded representations to induce the young woman to marry him, and to obtain the consent of her friends to their union. In the first place he represented that he had an independent income of nearly £2OO a year, that he intended taking a house for her at Brighton, and keeping her as a lady, when, on the contrary, he had not a single pound, and on the morning of the murder did not possess a single penny. It further  appeared from his correspondence, that for some weeks previous he had been strongly urging her to allow him to insure her life for £lOO, and on mentioning the fact to her father and friends, they so strongly advised her not to do so, that she positively assured them she sh4lld do no such thing, and they were in hope that she did not. In the last letter addressed by the prisoner 'to Miss Streeter, he strongly urged her to come to town, to bring all the money she could with her, and to borrow from her friends, and particularly stated that there was no necessity for her getting the wedding things made up, as they could be had in town. He also had the banns published at St. Martin-in-theFields ; but it is a very curious fact, and one which shows that the unfortunate young woman must have had some foreboding that something extraordinary was to happen, as on the Monday night she folded up her purse containing all the money she possessed—namely, 41 2s. 2d. in her petticoat, and stowed it away some distance from the bed.  Inspector Dunp, on searching the prisoner's papers, Nand the policy of an insarance effected by him on the life of Miss Mary Wells Streeter for 4190, payable to him OR her death. The insurance was effected at the Argus Office, Throgmoiten-street, and the policy was dated on the 25th of July, just six days before the murder. From subsequent inquiries it has been found that, at the general quarter sessions, held at Stafford, on the Bth day of March, 1859, the prisoner, William Godfrey Youngman, had been tried and convicted of stes.liag a gnagtity of plate belonging to his master, J. Reate, Esq., a thaffordshire gentiernarb and sentgnce4 to twelve months' hard labour. This imprisonment he served in the county gaol, and was discharged in March last. He then came to town, and procured a situation at Mr. Duncan's, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, by a false character, or rather false representations, and was discharged from there in the beginning of last month, when he renewed hie acraigt”qe with Miss ltre9ter. .