The Sun. — 1826-04-22 (London, England)

MURDER NEAR OXFORD.  A murder has been committed this week in t 4 small village of Ensham, situate six miles from Oxford, on the road leading to Cheltenham, which, from the respectability of both the unfortunate victim and the person standing charged with the murder, has produced a most powerful sensation in that part of the country, where they are both well known, having 'resided there fur many years. The person murdered is a young man, about 20 years old, of the name of Thomas Maley. Hie mother, who is la widow, formerly kept the Red Lion Inn, in that village, but for the few last years had been living a retired life, being in palsession of a small annuity, and was looking forward to the time when the deceased, her only son, who had just completed his apprenticeship to Mr. . Wilkins, a builder and wheelright in the village, would be able to contribute towards her support and Comfort. Her friends arc highly respectable, the town clerk of Oxford, and Mr. Cox; the banker, of the same place, both being wady allied to her. The perpetrator of the horeid deed is Mr. Edward Arnott, a man upwards of seventy rears of age, of good and opulent connections, and following the business of a farmer and baker. The eircumstatices under which it occurred, we understand, are as follow:--The deceaspd, in company with another young man, was, on the afternoon of Mon.. day last, walking near the house of Arnott, when ',their attention was called, by hearing a person in the houpn repeatedly cry out " Murder r They immediately hastened 'to the Iva, 1 and having passed through the front garden, were iin the act of entering the house, when they .saw Arnott advancing from a back room towards them with a gun in his hand, and heard him with an oath declare, that if they did riot go away, be would shoot them. They instantly drew back. and the deceased, who was last, was in the act of closing to the door, when Arnott levelled his gun, and fired at them ; and the ball, after passing through the door, entered the body of; the deceased, who exclaimed, "' I am murdered," and dropped down.— Medical assistance was procured, but without avail, as the ball had penetrated to the vitals, so as to cause instant death. The report of the event soon brought a crowd to the spot, by whom Arnett suffered himself to be secured, without the slight.. est resistance. He is said to be a man who, in former instances, has shown himself to be of the most ungovernable temper ; and the present calamity affords a most melancholy proof of the dire effects which sometimes ensue from uneontroulled passion. It appears that it was his own wife that he was ill-treating. He had dragged her down stairs, and was proceeding to use still further violence towards her, when her cries, joined to those of her daughter, brought the unfortunate deceased to the spot, and thus diverted hia rage from her to him. The ion with which the fatal deed was perpetrated, was one of three which he always kept loaded, as a protection against thieves. The body was removed to the Red Lion, the very house the deceased's 'pother formerly kept, and where himself was born. Ott the fell° ing, day, a Coroners' Inquest was held there, the result of vvhie was a verdict of Wilful Murder against Arnett, who was the . ame day conveyed to-Oxford, and lodged in the gaol of that piac!.  . ; . The late Bishop of DURHAM died by no means in friends knowing that no applicatiQmlvere ever made to him in so wealthy a strains has been considered by the public; but his vain to assist any persons under pecuniary difficulties, are net disappointtyd. His Legacies to Public ICharities are said to have amounted to no leas a sum than 20,000/. Among his donations were—to the Church Missionary Society, 500/. ; the Magdalen Hospital, 500!.