The Sun. — 1828-03-03 (London, England)

MURDER AT CAMBERWELL.  FURTHER PARTICULARS—(THIS DAY.) It appears that Irons had been out on Friday, and returned about six o'clock. The two female servants were then in the attic, and he rung the bell violently. The deceased came down and complained of it, and accused him of being drunk, and threatened to inform his master of his irregularities. They continued quarrelling after Harriet Fisk had joined them. He then went up stairs, and returned shortly, taking a seat in the kitchen, where the two females were sitting at • work. He sat with them thus for about a quarter of an hour, during which some recrimination passed between them, which ended by deceased saying that she would have nothing more to say to him. Some milk was then brought to the dairy, by the gardener, and the cook went to receive it. The last words she heard were from the prisoner, who asked deceased if she meant to get him out of his situation. When in the dairy, she heard a violent explosion. On returning to the kitchen, she saw the deceased lying on the floor with her head blown asunder. The prisoner admitted that he had done the deed, and said that he must answer for it. He poi...ted out a horse pistol, with which he said he had shot her ; and stated that he had doubly charged it. Assistance was procured, and the prisoner, who gave himself up willingly, was handcuffed, and asked the patrol to let him see her again. He then went to a window which looked into the kitchen, and observed—" Ali, there she lies, dead enough, and this hand has done it. It's horrible to see the blood, though." The blood was flowing across the kitchen, and the unfortunate girl was lifeless. He never expressed either a motive or sorrow for having done it, but requested the officers not to ill-use hint. On his way to Camberwell watch-house, he told Claridge, the patrol, that he should have been .23 in May, but he knew that he should be cut off before then. The prisoner had lived with Mr. Langton for about two years.— The deceased had been housemaid to him seven years, and would have been 28 on Wednesday next.— The corpse of the unfortunate girl, thus precipitated from the world in an instant, presented an appearance too horrible to describe. A large orifice under the left ear had been caused by the shot, which had divided all the arteries on that side, had detached the cheek bone from the scull on the other, and had lodged in the wall opposite. Her features, which had in life been regular, were so horribly distorted that no one could have recognised her. The whole was rendered indescribably appalling by the ends of a skewer which fastened the cheek to the head, sheaving themselves on each side of it. She was removed to the Regency public-house, Hearne-hill, where the inquest will be held this day at two o'clock. The prisoner was seen in the day with a new shot belt and powder flask, which he said he had purchased for shooting sparrows. The explosion was so strong that a considerable quantity of soot was brought down the chimney. On entering Horsemongerlane Gaol the prisoner looked up to the usual place of execution, and a spasmodic sort of " Ah,'' seemed to shake his frame. A circumstance which in no slight degree added to Cie distress of this accident was, that the mother of Mrs. Langton died the day before. The pistol was a large horse one, which was hot when taken from the prisoner's hand. There is no doubt that he bad it loaded and concealed about his person when the cook left the kitchen.  LIBERATION Or W. DYON AND HIS Sox.—After a most minute examination of William Dyon and his son, at Bawtry, ou Friday night, the evidence produced was found not only inadequate to support the suspicion of criminality, but was altogether so favourable, that the Magistrates liberated them on their own recognizances to appear when called upon. Nothing further has transpired ; but the utmost exertions are still making to discover the murderers.— York Herald of Saturday.