The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-10-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HORRIBLE OUTRAGE AND MURDER NEAR LONDON.  ARREST OF THE MURDERER. A horrible murder haa been oommitted as Alton. The victim was a little girl between 10 and 11 years of age, the eldest daughter of a master painter and decorator, named Shepherd, of Herbert Villa, Cowper-road, and who has residcd in the neighbourhood for some years. Mr Shepherd had on Thursday week completed the sale of some house pior(erty, re( eiviug the amount partly in gold and partly in notes. Ihe feriner he immediately placed in is bank, hut retained the latter in the house. On Friday week he had occasion to go to London, taking his wife and youngest child with him. Of his four other childreu three were sent to school, and the eldest, by Kleine Ada, was left in the house, a labourer +lamed George Pavey, who was employed on the premises, and had been in Mr Shepherd's service some six months, being requested by his master not to leave until his return in the eveuine. The elder child was instructed to give her brother and sisters their dinner and take them beck to school, which she did, and returned to the house. When the children came home from school in the afternoon they were unable to get into the house, and they were taken care of by neighbours. Mr and Mrs Shepherd returned about seven in the evening, and band the honse in darkness. On entering the kitchen Mr Shepherd stumbled against the body of his child, which was lying in a pool of blood, her face covered with a handkerchief. He at once sent for the police and Dr. Murrell, and on the latter examining the child he stated that she had been outraged and murders). She had been dead about three hours. A closer examination showed that the poor child had been stabbed through the throat from side to side, and an ordinary table knife covered with blood was discovered lying upon the dresser. Upon investigating the premises Inspectors Smith and Savage observed that a bedroom door had been forced open and a box ransacked, but, though the room was in acme disorder, nothing appeared to have been taken away. Mr Shepherd had taken the precaution to put the notes referred to above in his pocket and take them with him. Enquiry in the neighbourhood soon elicited the fact that the workman George Pavey was seen to leave the house shortly after three o'clock in the afternoon, and a person who had called just before that time was unable to obtain any answer. Both of the doors giving access to the kitchen were found to b 3 fastened. From the circumstance that in one of the child's bands was found a thimble, a farthing, and two or three nLts, it is conjectured that she was attacked immediately upon her return to the house from conducting her sisters to school. Pavey did not return to his home, and every means were taken by the police to effect his capture. He is married, and formerly lived at Acton, but hes resided latterly at Notting Hill. Without placing any great confident* in him, Mr Shepherd had considered Pavey to be a steady, reliable man, and had kept him in constant work, partly on account of some physical disability under which he labours.  On Sunday -a---";;;; answering in every particular to the description of Pavey presented himself for 'Omission at the Workhouse at Kendon as a mina!, and the police were immediately communicated with. On the man being arrested blood stains were found on his clothes, and he admitiled that he was Pavey, without acknowledgiig that he had committed the murder.  George Pavey, a painter, was charged at the Hammersmith Polioe Court on Monday with the wilful murder of Ada Shepherd, aged 10 years, daughter of John Shepherd, a decorator, of Cowper-road, Acton. Ile was remanded for a week. An inquest on the body of the murdered girl was also opened on Monday by Mr Diplook, Coroner for West ,'sex. The jury returned a verdict of murder" against George Posey.