The Lancaster Herald, and Town and County Advertiser. — 1832-04-07 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

THOXAS BAINDJUDOIG .4. ,  HORRID MURDER NEAR' °EDNA*  We are sorry to state that an atrocious tour* sripipirtgo mitted in the vicinity of Oldham, on Monday . * last, in a new beer house, occupied by an old m years of age, and his son, both of whom appear arai been treated in the most brutal and ferocious manner by a party of ruffians who broke into the house for the purpose of plunder. Information of this shocking circumstance was received yesterday morning in this town, communicated in a letter addressed to the Mayor by one of the Manchester constables, who seems to think that the murderers have fled in this direction with a view to escape to Ireland. The police, under the active superintends's., of Mr. Palmer, were immediately on the alert to diamer if any suspieous characters had entered the town, but 4liey have not yet been able to obtain any clue to lead to thlt apprehension of the murderers.  We have since reeived the following circurnstaiatial account of this atrocious deed from our Oldham correspondent :  On Monday night, between nine aud....tte, Weleek, most barbarous murder was perpetrated-Ana. theAttly two inmates pf the lonely but well-knowu peblio.kousa, called %Niko! Jacks," situated in a dreary valley amongst Saddleworth lUlls. The two victims of this 4rea4ful affair were the publican, a man eighty-five yearsoK aige, commonly called Bill o' Jacks," but whose proper name was William Bradbury, and his son Thomas, a rohnsCalg able-bodied person, forty-seven years of age. , The ,dieig: ful event was not discovered till late in the foredobji'dit der following day, when a little OVA relative of thi'ditieleiet; calling for some yeast or bartn, found the two:victims iit-e dying state, weltering in their blood, and presenting a spectacle truly horrible. She instantly went out, and meeting Mr. liegginbottom, surgeon, of Upper Mill, be returned with her, but pronounced the two sufferers in a hopeless state. The younger was so dreadfully wounded, having fifteen wounds on his head, and his skull broken, that he died in great agony about three o'clock on Tuesday. The old man, though aeriously injured, survived till on. teclock on Wednesday morning, when, be died, after suffering considerable affliction from inhuman blows on the head, legs, and left band. Ile 'stated, before he died, that they were murdered by five Irishmen; and being alone the deed was executed unseen. Seven pounds in money, and several suits of clothes, were taken awl% at is supposed, by the inhuman monsters; who, it is sup?, posed, effected the deed by using the pokers, a borSe pistol, (which has been found broken, along with a bullet,) and a sword stick. A noise was heard in the horse, about half-past nine o'clock, by a person who passed on the road, but he takingvit for that of company, took no notice. A Mr. Platt, who accompanied the younger victim the same evening at dusk ou,un errand, and 'parted with him half why, saYstite7„pathree men, apparently Irish, one of them in a litilliens slop, another in a black coat, and a, filiftilt 'drab trowsers and fustian jacket, who lnrked•in sd for considerable time; and it is highly probable they were the 'aliens who attacked the two victims 'dice the younger had .returned home. A James Whitabe# saw the younger deceased going on an errand a little beOwe the occurrence, and another person saw 'five Irishmen het putliahouse is the nhighbourhood before dusk: who Mt the house exelaming “they had spent up." Thei„ peiiie are on the alert after the monsters, sad ouspicireekileee biles oe awn* "delta"' who workeknoßT, !.bi11a.914 but have diseppeared since the event.—Liesrpod affissi,„