The Sun. — 1854-08-18 (London, England)

DREADPUL MURDER BY A. BROTIIEB-IN-LAW.—Near tcroinafilrwmaesdclobsyedt.heLDieetipteutnyanGr Judge-Advocate General, my I was compelled to give evidence against him. I did BO w.* the Kir - • Greees trial was thought by a by station, and within afew miles of the spot where ever, called on Lieutenant I spoke eothing but the truth. The other evidence, ho the railway accident occurred ten days the follow. produced than more to criminate me support the prosecu- ing brutal murder has beezi legal friend of mine from Ireland, who was present., to be . perpetrated :—lt appears from what has transpired that a man named Hen tion ; and he called, in a state of considerable indignation • 17 on hey solicitor, Mr. Darvill, and urged that a letter should be written to the President of the Court-Martial. Youhave Shocklady lived with his brother•in-law, Henry Mercer, already heard how that letter was written and how it came farmer, of Kirby Hill. They were always on the beat into the public journals. The statements in that letter are. however, substantially true; and although I was not morally le • vient and terms, unless when Mercer drank, when he became responsible for its contents and never read it, I signed it at• quarrelled ' with Shockla,dy. On the day in the request of my friend, who delivered it to Colonel question, and just after his wife's confinment, Memel. Upton. I did not seek by any mean subterfuge either drank excessively ; and under the influence of drunken.to avoid the substance or the consequences of that noss hurried out of the house, armed with a heavy letter, for although the letter is in the precise narrative of the circumstance itra not l'te ll correct fork, towards a gate upon which Shocklady was sitting begging of have —the latter's sister following Mercer, and been more correct if it had stated what I have would • previously said about Colonel Garrett calling me a fool for my pains. out to him I have now stated how the causes ofthe second first and Mercer was making for her brother, called . him to return. Martha Webster, the sister, seeing that. charges against me arose. As to the third he put.charge I hate only 'again to state that the evidence I gave ore Lieutenant kill her brother Without giving ananswer, tc.• make off, and asked Mercer if he was going to Greer's trial was tree, and nothing but the truth; and the statements for ashichl am now tried were extracted from 'bine dealt him such a blow on the head with the dung. sued her brother, who ran off, and oom.ing up with me -rather than voltuiteered by ins. -As to the fourth fork that hee felled him to the earth, when he twice charge, Iwish only to observe that the letter to Lieutenant again struck him. The poor fellow never spoke, and Colonel Pipon, which was the basis of the fourth charge after a few heavy sighs expired. Mr. Woods, eaagainst me was essitam-ae a privileged communication and eon, opened the body, and a found a clean cut two. is unfairly used against me. On my first trial Major Pack, and-a-halfg inches long at the left side of the head, the Deputy Judge-Advocate, called on me, and told me he was as much my adviser as the adviser of the Court; and I n d another ,wound an inch long below the left ear, The skull thought, of 'course; that Colonel Pipon, as Deputy Judge- besides to the length of two-and-a-half * h Advocate oa the second court-martial, was also my adviser, was congestionwonn don and de effusion the inbc produced and therefore wrote to him, in consequence of the unfair u returned a vercourse adopted in the endeavour to criminate me on a trial murder against He in which I was not the prisoner. That letter, however, I diet a wilful thatw csersed death. The coroner's jury ral nry Mercer, who was