The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-07-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

BRUTAL MURDER IN SUFFOLK. Late on Saturday night a brutal murder was perpetrated about three miles from Dias, in the panah of Worthain. Suffolk, the victim being a young woman named Eliza Dixon, aged thirty-three years, wife of James Dixon, a pork butcher and grocer. For the last three and a half years they had lived at N'ortham. They had been married about ten years and had six children' the eldest being seven )ears, and the youngest a babe of a few months. On Saturday night, just before ten o'clock, the deceased went to the Dolphin Inn, about five hundred yards from her home, to fetch Borne stout for supper. As she did not return within a few minutes. it was thought she had made a call on her way home, but at eleven o'clock, as she did not return, her husband went to the Dolphin and called up the landlord, who said she had been to the inn, and was served with some ,tout in a bottle and had a glass to drink. Diligent search was made, and during the night the poor woman was found brutally murdered by the aide of the road. The husband, on reaching the spot, had the ghastly view of the dead body of his wife lying across a shallow ditch. A pool of blood was close by; there was a deep gash across her throat, another under the chin, both eyes were dreadfully bruised, and there were about sixteen stabs and cute about the face, neck, and head. In her death struggles she had managed to move about three yards, her body being found about that distance from a large pool of blood, and In the intervening distanse there was blood on the grass. The remains were taken to her mother's house. The police were soon on the scene making inquiries, with the result that a young man named George Nunn, aged eighteen or nineteen, who lived with his parents about half a mile away from the scene of the tragedy, was arrested. It is stated that he left the public-house just before the deceased woman.  The deceased woman had a purse and 375. upon her at the time she Went to the Dolphin, but the purse and about 255. of the money were missing. The woman was of prepossessing appearance, and circumstances pointed to the possibility that she was defending herself against an outrage when she was brutally murdered. Her dress wee torn, and the ground presented indications of a severe struggle. At the Ilartismore Police-court, held at Eye, Suffolk, on Monday, George Nunn, nineteen, described as a labourer, residing with his parents at Worth= Long Green, was charged on suspicion with the murder of Eliza Dixon.—Prisoner was reßianded pending further inquiries. It appears that when ifrisoner was questioned by the police-officers he denied all knowledge of the crime, but patches of wet, indicative of recent washing, were found upon the clothes warn by Nunn on the Saturday night; stains were found on his wrist, and bloodstains were found upon a knife belonging to him, notwithstanding that apparent efforts had been made to wash it.  Mr. Ben Puttnam, a Northampton tislinbonger, has oruimitted suicide by jumping from the roof of his business premises to the ground, a distance of about 40ft. _  The Cheshire police.on Monday,brought before the biorthwich magistrates an old man named Henry Jeuketts, fonnerly of Liverpool. The prisoner was arrested addressing in foul language men and women as they left church. In default of paying the maximum penalty of 405., the prisoner was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Dr. Forbes Winslow has been instructed to visit and examine Mary Ansell, now under sentence (if death, with a view to report on her mental condition.  --Patric— • k O'Brien, thirty-two. grocez's usistant, of Cot% was killed at Bil (Ireland) on Sunday while attempting to enter an excursion train whits in motion. He was ctiot by the Tootboati nal fell beten the train an the platform. Re laavar $ wife and one child.  11le body of a man, about forty years of age, has been found on Wanstead Flats. Upon the clothing of the deceased was a note addressed "ft. (lather, Catholic School." It stated: "I am about to leave this world, it is al through the drink." It has been decided by tip War Office authorities that no applicable= can in future be acceded to for non-comnshistoned officers and men of the regular forces to take- pelt in sports or fates, or any other entertainments haring the nature •of military disolays, exceptirtg those under militarc control.