The Sun. — 1844-11-23 (London, England)

MURDER AT YARMOUTH. FURTHER PARTICULARS. The body was left in the same position as it was found till twelve o'clock at noon on Tuesday, to be viewed by the coroner's jury. In order to effect a discovery of the perpetrators all the police-constables of the town were sent out to search the inmates of the vagrant houses and brothels. Several parties were apprehended on suspicion. From inquiries made, it appeared that Mrs. Chandler had received 50%. in the week before and 150/. on the previous Saturday, the money consisting of a cheque for 1001., payable at Messrs. Gurney's bank, and five 101. notes. This money.had been paid to her by a relation named Mrs. Swan, a resident of Yarmouth. Another relation had sold an estate, and the produce had been divided among relatives, 2001. coming to Mrs. Chandler's share. It was supposed that this fact being known to some parties had led to the commission of the murder, as no money was found in the house, but subsequently Mr. Balls, the Mayor's officer, on searching Mrs. Chandler's apartments found the cheque for 1001. and five 10/. notes in a chest of drawers in her bed-room. For some reason, it appeared that deceased only a few days previous had told certain parties that she had placed her money under the bed for security. During the in.vestigation before the coroner, a man named John Dick, gunner at the town battery, brought a bag of money to the station-house, which his wife had found buried in the sand on the Denes, near the battery. She had been out with a basket of linen, and on her return home she saw several holes partly dug in the sand, and another hole with finger marks and impressions of footsteps near it. She dug up the hole, and seeing a bag she shrieked out. Her husband hearing a noise came to the spot and pulled the bag out of the hole. It was a large bag, and.contained a considerable sum of money in copper, besides a small bag inside containing silver and gold. There was a card direction fastened outside of the larger bag, with " Mrs. Chandler, Yarmouth—per rail—left free " written outside on it. The inside of the card had the address of Copewan and Son, Norwich. As soon as Mr. Dick had taken the bag out of the hole, a man named Royal, a fish-dealer, came up, and said, according to sir. Dick's account, " There is more in the hole—let us feel ;" and suiting the action to the word, he put his hand into the hole, and pulled out a small bag containing somegold and silver money. Mr. Dick further states that Royal said, " There ought to be a cheque too, and, feeling the bag, he said here it is." He wanted to take the money ank count it. Mr. Dick insisted that nothing of the kind should be (lone till they took the bags to the stationhouse. Royal then accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Dick to the station-house, and from their account, as above ~ivee Royal was detained on suspicion, he being ,s , known to the police as the companion to a gang of thieves in the town. Some of this gang, named Jeremiah Cooper, James Hall, James Hubbard, and Samuel Layton, alias Belcher, were immediately taken ir.to custody, and I nderwent a strictly private examination before the magistrates at the gaol, in front of which an unusual crowd of people had aasemblcd during the day, anxious to learn the result of the inquiry, which had not transpired when this report was sent off. On Tuesday, at twelve o'clock, an inquest was held before Mr. A. Woods, deputy coroner for the borough, on view of the body. A respectable jury had been summoned, consisting of eighteen persons. After viewing the body, which presented a frightful spectacle, they re-assembled at the police court at the Town-ball, and continued their inquiry for six hours. Seven witnesses weie examined, who deposed to the facts above stated, and the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown."