The Sun. — 1840-08-22 (London, England)

ANOTHER ACCOUNT. (From the Shrewsbury Chronicle of Friday.) This county has been disgraced by an attempt at min' der only less atrocious than that of Lord William Russell, inasmuch as the victim survives the attempt to destroy him. Wednesday evening a number of cattledealers assembled at Ludlow to do business at the fair, which was to be held early yesterday morning. Mr' Ludlow, a IN ell-known butcher from Birmingham, reached the town over night, and took a bed at the Angel Inn, where he went to sleep. A person giving his name as Misters, and stating himself to be a friend of Mr. Ludlow's, arrived also from Birmingham, and had, a bed in the same house, near to that occupied by Mr. Ludlow. About. four o'clock yesterday morning, Mr. T. Jobson, of this town, who was asleep in the house, was awoke by a terrific cry of " fire," in the adjoining bed-room, and, starting, heard the cry repeated, accompanied with violent scratching on the glass of the window, as if frantic attempts were making to throw it open. Mr. Jobson turned towards the bed-room, which he found empty, and thence went into the lobby, where he found the other inmates of the house assembling in the utmost consternation. One 01 them, in running to the place whence the cries proceeded, stumbled over a body in the passage, and, 00 lights being brought, a man was discovered on the ground, with his throat cut from ear to car, and a gash across his face, reaching from the upper part of the cheek across the mouth to the other side of the face. He was sensible ; made signs for peer and ink ; and wrote in a bold, stiff hand,," have been murdered by a villain." The lookers-ore were incredulous, thinking the man, (who is said to be a traveller in the ironmongery line, from Bristol), bad committed suicide ; and under that suspicion be wes carried to his bed-room, where a surgeon was sent for. who proceeded to sew up the wound. Meanwhile, it . was remarked to Mr. Ludlow that his friend was miss' ing. Mr. Ludlow abjured any acquaintance with as. person so styled, and the company proceeded to this person's bed-room, where they found him covered over the head with clothes, and apparently fast asleep- On arousing him, and telling him what had occurred, be appeared very much confused, particularly when Mrt: Ludlow declared he knew nothing of him ; and it being deemed prudent to make further search, drops a, drops of blood were traced from the bed-resod door of the sufferer to that of the prisoner, marks of feet, with blood-soaked stockings on „int, were distinctly visible between the two doors. An 1 quiry was immediately made for the prisoner's stockings' but they were nowhere to be found. Other parties, in examining the room, discovered marks of blood on the window-curtains ; and suspicion being aroused, a search was commenced in the yard underneath, and a razor, whereon the blood-stains were not yet coagulated, wee picked up after considerable search. It was manifest this could not have been thrown there by the sufirf. reooromemr eans windowtetroe e ffd t which hac tti coi ht hthheeenmipnursissttohiniaaevvre,e aeonspcdea nptechd(rl thrown fromnw ni atshut uhe ti s— razor hownis throat being at same time cut, yet lcavieg no traces of bleed on the floor. Mr. Ludlow then remarked that he remembered meeting the prisoner at last Shrewsbury fair ; and on our making inquiries last night from Mr, Goodwin, of the Unicorn Inn, in this town, we found that a person answering the prisoner's description, stopped two or three days at the Unicorn Inn, in the fair week, and was turned out, having no money to pay his bill. The suspicion is therefore aroused that lie hadbeen dodging Mr. Ludlow from place to place, well knowing he generally carried large sums of moneey about his person ; and that on Wednesday night b had gone towards his bed-room in Ludlow, and fit:l,lf the door locked (which was not Mr. Ludlow's hael'i: he bad imagined himself mistaken, and entering the next bed-room, had inflicted the dreadful wounds on tl:e unhappy sufferer, whose strength was yet sufficient 6° enable him to cry out, and thus scare the wretch away' and bring the whole affair to light. The man was ne" dead yesterday morning.