Glasgow Courier. — 1844-05-30 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LONDON POLICE INTELLIGENCE.  MURDER OF A WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN BY  HER HUSBAND.  One of the moat atrocious murders that has ever fallen to our lot to record was last week perpetrated in the neighbourhood of Nottingham, of which the following are briefly the particulars, as far an they have transpired ;--It appears that a woman named Ann Saville, with her three children (two girls and a boy), of the respective ages of 7, and 4 years, came out of the Nottingham Union Workhouse on Monday week, where they had been for the last three months, at the request of the woman's sister, • Mrs. Brownsword. Mrs. Saville, being at liberty, went in search of her husband, who was a frame-work knitter, working at Mr. Sutton's shop, Radford, and who, it has since appeared, has been paying his addresses to a young woman, named Elizabeth Tait. On her him, he returned with her to Nottinghaih, and it was 2 that she and her children should sleep for the night at Ir. gamuel Wardle's, Wood Street, Meadow Platta. The next , morning the huaband went down to Wardle's, and after his wife and children had breakfasted, they all went away together for the purpose of visiting a sister of Seville's who, he said, lived at Carlton. In the coarse of the same day, be came to Wardle's, and asked if his wife had come back, saying she had turned stupid and would not go with him. The poor woman with her children had not returned, and he professed to be very uneasy. At night he went to visit the girl at Radford whom he wanted to marry, but she refused to have anything to say to him, telling him she had learnt, on good authority, that he had already • wife and three children. He said " She is not my wife she never has troubled you, nor never will; she's safe, and the children provided for." The next day he went again to Wardle's and said be thought his wife must have drowned herself and the children, and this, with the contradictory statements he had made from time to time, caused Mrs. Wardle to suspect him of having made away with them; and communicating her suspicions to the polies and her neighbours, an immense concourse of people assembled, and the police took hint into custody on suspicion, and to secure him from the ill treatment of the populace. On Thursday be was brought up before the Mayor and Aid. Heard, and underwent • long examination, being properly cautioned, as to bow he had been occupied since the last time he was seen with his wife. He said that he was taking her to his sister's (Sarah Hardstaff), in Earl Street, to ask for them to remain there for a week or two, "until he could get a few things together;" but before they reached the house, when at the top of Sherwin Street, "she burst out crying, and said she'd go no further," and taking the youngest child out of his arms, Went back with them to Mrs. Wardle's, and be had never seen her since. While this examination was proceeding, information was brought to the Mayor that the bodies of the missing woman and children had been found in the 'pinny on the foot-road between Col wick and Carlton, with their throats cut. The children lay together; but the mother was at some distance, frith a razor in her left hand ; but the supposition that she bad committed the bloody and remorseless deed which that fact might warrant, is destroyed by traces on the grass of her body having been dragged for some yards. The prisoner was then remended, to await the result of the Coroner inquisition, which was te be held on Friday. Saville is a rather dark-complexioned man, with black hair intermixed with grey, very thin towards the crown; stands about five feet six inches, and was attired in • Shabby brown surtout and brown walsooat, with blank trousers. He was married to the deceased, whose maiden name was Ann Ward, between eight and nine years ago, at Sneinton Church.— Nottingham Journal.