The Sun. — 1828-01-02 (London, England)

ANOTHER ACCOUNT, FROM OUR 0W.14 REPORTER. The neighbourhood of the house in which this atrocious murder has been committed, was crowded during the morning by persons anxious to ascertain the particulars of the horrid deed. On enquiry we were Worried that the name of the deceased was Elizabeth Effs. ghe had been for several years in the service of John Lett, Esq., of 11, Montagueplace, Russell-square, as housekeeper, and had gained by her integrity the confidence and esteem aim., master. Mr. Lett left town a short time since, and entrusted the care of his house, which he was anxious to dispose of, to the deceased It appears that she had several relations who were in the habit of visiting her, and to whom she very generously afforded pecuniary assistance On Tues• day morning suspicions %vete eleited that something had happened to the deceased, in consequence of the shutters not being opened as usual. These suspicions having been communicated to Mr. Justice Holroyd, who resides in the same street, that Learned Judge, after making:some preliminary arrangement, caused the house to be broken open. Search was first made in the attic wherein the deceased usually slept; the bed had not the appearance of being slept on, nor was there any thing to lead to the belief the: she had passed the night in the room. On entering the kitchen the body of the unfortunate woman was discovered in a pool of clotted blood, with her throat cut from ear to ear. She was lying near the fire-place. Beside her were a table and tkvO chaits ; and it was evident, from the appearance of the table, that the murderer .had just before been sitting by her. On the table was a beer pot, partly emptied, and on inquiry it was ascertained that when George Gardner, the pot-boy belonging to the Gower Arms, called at the house with beer on the previous night, at nine o'clock, there was a man standing in the hall with the deceased, Gardner says that this man was of rather a stout appearance; that he had on a blue coat and white apron. This person, to whom suspicion strongly attaches, was, from all that the pot-boy observed, on terms of intimacy with the deceased. Whether that circumstance, in the general description of the man, be the cause, we know not, but certain it is, that the police now deemed it their duty to take the sort of the deceased into custody: His name is Knight, and we understand that he is not to be brought up for examination until the result of the Coroner's Inquest is known. Upon the first discovery of the deceased it occurred to some persons that she might have committed the act, but very little examination was' necessary to prove the groundlessness of that supposition. There was no weapon near her, by which she could have inflicted the wound; but there was lying beside het a kal,,orcase, and little chiubt retrains that bet murdered had, in his hurry, omitted to carry cdir this which may, in all probability, lead to his detection. The razor-case cannot be recognized by any of the persons acquainted with the house, so that it must have been brought there by the author of this atrocious act. The pockets of the deceased were turned inside out, and several drawers in the house had been tided ; they haft. all the marks of bloody fingers on them; on the table there was a small work-basket, which was also besmeared with blood. Information of the murder was this morning communicated to the Coroner, and it is expected that the inquest will be holden in the eotitse of the evening. bete' persons of respectability, residing in the neighbourhood, have been admitted to .view the corpse, and one of them (an eminent surgeon) has given it as his decided opinion that the wound has been inflicted with a razor, or some such shaip Weapon. He is also of opinion that the deceased could not possibly have destroyed herself. The grandson of the deceased has been in constant attendance at Mon. tagtic,plke since the discoverfof the murder;