Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1849-08-29 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FACTS IN CONNEXION ITII TIIE NIERDER.  The following facts in connexion with the discovery of the murdered man have not before neen made known. The back kitchen where the body was buried was the apartment generally occupied by Mrs. Manning in her cooking operations. Here sbe received the officers on the Monday afternoon, shortly before she determined on absconding. The appearance of the room at the time was remarkably clean and neat ; and it was observed by Barites that the flagstones with which it was paved had been recently and very carefully rubbed over with a hearth-stone, giving the floor a very white appearance, When Barnes again visited the house, on the Friday a ter it had been deserted, he remarked that the mortar or cement between the interstices of two of the stones had a brighter appearance than in the others. This induced him to pull out his pocket clasp-knife, on opening which, and testing with it tne consistency of the cement, he found it very soft. He was naturally surprised at this circumstance, and as he could observe no irregularity in the mode of laying the stones in question, he was at a loss to account for it. He next tried the cement between other stones, and found it firm and hard. This strengthened his suspicions, and he at once removed two stones, measuring together about five feet. Beneath these stones he found a bed of mortar carefully spread over the whole space. This satisfied Barnes that they could not have been laid by a workman, as 111:1$0118 only spread mortar round the edgos of the stones. He found the earth beneath the layer of mortar very loose, and on scraping it up. to the depth of about two inches, he discovered a stocking. He then dug down a little lower, still using his fingers only ; and when he had reached the depth of about six inches, after a layer of lime, his hand came into contact with the toes of the murdered titan, the body, as before stated, lying with the face downwards, in a bed of little, and the feet being tied up to the haunches. A post mortetn examination of the body, of O'Connor has shown that the murder was effoted by -violent blows with sortie such instrument as a plasterer's hammer. Two slugs had been fired into the skull; but they are not considered to Imre been an adequate cause of death, as they only lodged in the bone without depressing it much on the brain. The whole of the back part of the skull had been fractured into minute pieces, and several of these fragments were driven into the substance of the brain. No examination has yet been made of the stomach, to ascertain the presence of any narcotic drug; but in the grave under the pavement of the back kitchen, among the lime underneath the face of the body, was found a cut glow; scent-bottle containing a considerable quantity el laudanum. The lime, with which the floor of the grave was thickly strewed, had been pun:based by Manning himself about a month ago. It is evident that the pavement of the passage has been raised as well as that of the kitchen ; but the situation and size of the kitchen seem to have subsequently determined the dreterence of that place. No portion of Mr. O'Connor's property or raiment was discovered, except his umbrella and siime buttons front his coat.  The neighbours of the 31annings saw Mr. Manning smoking at seven o'clock on the evening of Thursday, the 9th, the day of the murder. During that night they