The Sun. — 1852-07-01 (London, England)

DREADFUL MURDER AT SAWLEY. (From the Derby Mercury of yesterday.) On the eve of our going to press, we have received information of a fearful crime which was perpetrated yesterday (Tuesday), at a lone cottage in the neighbour• hood of Sawley. The particulars which we have et present been ahle to obtain are necessarily very meagre; but, from what we can gather, the following is something like an outline of the facts : It appears that an elderly couple, of the name of Waters or Walters, lived in a solitary cottage upon Mr: Thompson's farm, in the lane between Sawley and Wilne, and about midway from either place. The husband, a labourer, was employed in hoeing turnips on the farm, and his wife—e woman of about 60 years of age—bad been, in the morning, to Draycott, shopping' Sac must, on her realm, have found the culprit in tlie cottage, for the flour and other articles which she ban been purchasing were found on the door-step outside; and the supposition is that she had found the mut': derer in the act of plundering the house, and that he must immediately have commenced the attack upon her. Some boys were in the neighbourhood at the time, and one of them, about 14 or 15 years old, hese_ ing a noise, went to the cottage, where he saw a strange man beating the poor old woman with a hatchet or, some other heavy weapon. The man caught sight of him, and said he would stick him; and the boy imrenr diately ran off to Wilne Mills to give an alarm. A nun' .ber of people immediately hastened from thence, and on, their arrival they found the windows and furniture of the house had been smashed, and the strane man ~ L still inside. A woman had also seen him beating ills poor creature, and had gone away alarmed ; 5° another boy, who had turned back from his aasocia,te; had seen him carry the body across the yard. P had, however, found time to bury the body in 0 dung-heap, but a portion of one leg remained ups covered, which led to its discovery. The murderer 1151 placed an inverted trough over his head. He resist% for some time all ingress into the cottage; but ; boy threw a stone through one of the window-pane; which had been broken, and hit him over the eye' causing a severe wound and knocking him down. "h was at once seizuel and placed in safe custody. A body of the murdered fenaelo was quite cold when found. She appeared to have been dreadfully beaten about the head and face. The murderer is an entire stranger;:, the neighbourhood, and he refuses to give his vane' though he says he comes from Suffolk. He appesrg„.° be about 25 years old, end five feet seven or eight inches high. He had no coat, waistcoat, shoes, or stockifibi' but he wore a checked shirt and trousers. The dread ful occurrence seems to have taken place about half-105 one o'clock in the afternoon. A hatchet was afterward;,,, found in the yard. The floor of the house wag eiTa vered with blood, and some human hair was I°°"ea on the wall. He refused to say anything about t't crime, but appeared to the bystanders either drunk insane.  We understand that Ur. Whiston, coroner for the dig triet, received information of the offence in the evclloo' and that he at once proceeded to Sawley.  A