The Statesman. — 1813-06-09 (London, England)

ANOTHER MURDER. effect: that when he immediately repeated the blew, f---am—, Mr. Bow sprang out of bed, and grappled with him A very dieentselderly widow woman, who' kept a for bfteen minutes, and at one time was nearly get: small chandler% shop within two hundred yards of the i ting the better of him ; but being exhaested by Lou Castle inn, at Woodford, was on Monday morningof blood, he was at length overpowered: Nicholson found murdered behind her counter. She appears to 1 then left him groaning on the floor. Be went. down have been sitting on a wooden chair at the back of stairs, stripped himself nak and ' thwab tl b'unisif all the counter, casting up, one slate, either the ceesipts over with a sponge, at the sinkt in e u ers pantry._ of the day, or the =mad of some articles which the He next went and openwindows of the drawing-room, that it might be supposed some person had perpetrate, of this horrid deid had eteudelf th perenteted the house that way : he then took his shirt chase ; when, it is conjeoluied, s i must Alive re-. iki t i, g which were corinsa ' • with blood (the ceived a violent blose %twirl Ibrermiliftyrirbich, a I ee in stockings. ft in his master's room), wentout at a large knife, with which she was in the habit of sheet liehade aled hie Mood linen. in a cutting the cheese,. dm. was plunged into her throat, the frontdoor . and.t lee leaves : he bus; Whereby the jugeldi vein and the windpipe wee • ° bus , codveoorrutga , 3 with not many yards from itw-atte9Pthen. both cut. WhenAiscovered, she was lying upon site door, without shutting theouter door, °and went her face on the floor behind the counter, and the to the servants'-hall :he opened his window-shutters bloody knife deposited upon a kind of wooden beach within a yard of the place where the body and went to bed (it was not yet four o'clock): he did not sleep though he appeared to be asleep when , on Saturday evening, after the shop \vas closed ; and n ' lay, The murder must have been committed late .. e.fo'r the • purposes. or., waking him at half" Past six 'o' lck He stated • the most iolemn c o 1 in .tras not discovered until-. Monday morning, as her . manner, that no person whatever was cencerned with iteighbOars hadheardlouriey she was doing out on him in this horrid deed ; and to a. question put to the relieving day, wilt& *being Sunday, no suspi- him whether be had any associate, answered. 6 How don arose from the windows remaining closed until . his life, before could he, when he never in Übe meMonday morning, when entrance was obtained by meet of his jumping up 'from the form, entertained the w e window. Her pockets were turned inside out, ~ .. the thought of .murder.'.. me can atsign no motive F, sod the till emptied : but some silver spoons were for what he did': he had no enmity or ill-will of any lying in the back parlour, untouched, and upwards kind against Mr. or Mr's. Honer. elf 301. ie a box in her bed-room. The doOr has a spring lock,. which was closed upon the heels of the This deposition wag regulirty given before the Ma. and attested by Mr. A. Cooper, Mr. Her, marderer/ who, no doubt, quitted the house by the O strafe, . , lient door. It is remarkable that thercis a cottage, e Lockwood, Mr. Mott, and ert Jenner, the Rev. Mr. with a family, nexe'door, which is merely divided by Mr. Boner. . a thin lath and plaster partithio, and no noise was that Nicholson had- been drinking a It appears heard. . . ._ • great quantity of the beer of the house during the was in, Coroner was expected to hOlt.bla inquest yes- Sunday ; and though it is .not stated that he f. terday afternoon. In the interim, ere understand, toxicated, yet the quantity might, have had some e two Magistrates, Mr. HALL and Mr. ,POret.EWetL, . fect on his senses. ._ have been actively employhtla examini'n'g witnesses, In consequence of Nicholson's 1 information, search and collecting evidence. At present suspicion at.. was made for the linen, and it was found in a laurel tubes to a journeyman tailor, who has been lately bush close to the house, covered with leaves, except I diachaiged' from his work .an the neighbourhood, about two inches : the stockings were very bloody, Innd was. seen •in the poor woman s shop flate ' and the iihitt was also rent almost to rags about the on the night of the Sattoday preceding the day neck. and front. on which the Murder was committed ; and the de -* NielsnAnn, who before the confession, looked ceased is said to have complained to a neighbour, glootnyi and nerceoand malicious, has since that pewho happened. to come into the shop at that time riod'been perfettly calm, aoditas even an air of sa(after the mamba left it), that he had alarmed her tisfaction in his countenance: He appears to repent ,s:ery inuchlls'; his. manner, and had made ' her very I his attempt at suicide, and it ikootApprehended that !llama', irf 440. c teed --iirarciaug her, and tnitng,i bilititild nowrepeat it,-though the watchfulness of "stingo.leageage. From other circumstances (if this [his attendants isoot On that Sccount at all remitted. th the man) there is no doubt bdt that he meant 'to 1 , He is at present in a tolerably fair way, but his relieve Peletriaod the minter oil the first Sigurdig34 ; ;every:is somewhat doubtful,because it is feared that after the receipts of the week were all coilectedlin j it may be iiiiesseryie se-open the wound, an opt.-iinitill; but was ditturied .by the woman in gses.el tatimferhich may be followed by dangtroug comeGoa eemimil ith whirl) was literal ecinel,..4lten. the' : qiieecel. Every thing which may tend .to agitate shop was at for the night. A. Imo of the' dmoriP• flibills4tediously avoideds and as few persons as pos-00 alluded to, witi thee& ipon the 'London it* le a , 1 Bibrc admitted to see him.' on Monday tnOrming,"near.StratfOrd, who had on' i I Mr.43Unarrode to town early in the morning, pair of Wieners eery bloody at the kneess Search is with theintelligence of the confession' to Bow-street, making later hini, ' .and afterwards ,communicated the same to the SeereUriof State. •  ' Sir