The Sun. — 1827-07-03 (London, England)

HORRIBLE MURDERS.  PARIS, JUNE I9.—The following extract of a letter from Madrid, dated June 1, gives amore detailed and accurate account of a most horrible crime committed in the neighbourhood of Madrid, than that which some of the Journals published : " On the 23d of last month a pedlar, one of town those ocfalclehdopoirzectgsos,instothppe epdraotviancheoouf 6se iiluaxtihae. laxara, where he had•frequently put up before.— Haying an entire confidence in the owner of the house and his wife, from his long acquaintance with them, he left his pack in the chamber where he had supped, and retired to another room to Sleep. The woman of the house, at first moved' only 'by. curiosity,' opened the pack; but the sight of numerous articles Of female ciress, in silk,. cotton, &c., together with a sum of money which it containd, tempted' her to propose to her husband to murder the pedlar, and make his property their Own. As her husband hesitated to do the deed, she, like another Lady Macbeth, seized a poniard, and stole on tip-toe into the room where the pedlar lay fast asleep. She gave him two stabs in the belly, and one in the heart, which almost instantly produced death. The husband and wife then conveyed the. body to the garden, where they dug a grave, and buried it. A few days afterwards the woman put on her daughter, aged 'eight years, one of the silk handkerchief found in the pack of the unfortunate pedlar. The child went to school, when her mistress asked her where her mother had bought so pretty a kerchief. The' child replied that she did not know ; but that her mother had a great many of the same,' and others which were still prettier. The schoolmistress told the child to ask her mother to sell her one. On returning home, the child told her mother what had taken place. The latter became dreadfully alarmed, and, going into the next room, told her husband that they were in almost invevitable danger of discovery through the indiscretion Of the child, and that the only means that remained to prevent it was to put the child to death ! She then proposed to him to dig a grave in the garden, and said, I will send. the 'child with your breakfast to you to-morrow ; you will strangle her with a cord, and immediately bury her. To this horrid plan the unnatural wretch consented. It would appear by the sequel that the child overheard this 'conversation ; for the next morning, at seven o'clock, when she was sent by her mother with breakfast to her father, she found him standing near a hole he had dug. After wishing him good morrow, she added, Papa, that grave is for me—is it not ? These words, from the innocent lips of his child, awakened the feelings of nature in his bosom ; tears fell from his eyes, and, with a tone of affected anger, he told her not to come near him, but to return to the house. When the inhuman mother saw her child return, she became convinced that she must herself perpetrate the horrid deed. She lighted the oven, threw a large quantity of wood into it, and, when it was thoroughly heated, she, after gagging her child, and tying her hands and feet, threw her into the flames, and closed the oven.door upon her ! The thickness of the smoke, and its extraordinary smell, attracted the attention of the neighbours, some of whom entered the house, and asked what there was baking, that could occasion such an odour. The murderess at first endeavoured to brave it out, and told them it was no concern of their's what she was baking; but her confusion and terror became so great, that the neighbours resolved to see the cause of it, and, opening the oven doors, they were struck with horror on seeing two half-consumed legs— the only part of the unfortunate child that had not been reduced to cinders ! Some of those present fled with horror from the house, and went to inform the 'Corregidor. On the arrival of the officers of. justice, the property of the murdered pedlar, which was found in the house, s possible." led. to a search . for his body, which was discovered in the garden. The perpetrators of these almost incredible atrocities avowed their guilt, farnodm lodgedeenco they v ethe ;prison ri ison of f Cssi since transferred t so. the prison of Madrid. Their trial is expected a to take place with as little delay e  a~  +.  - [GHER CLASS OF INHABITANTS OF - PtIROS.  PoHos,