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Carlisle Patriot - December 27th, 1844
 
DISCOVERY OF A LONG
CONCEALED MURDER.
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    Some of our readers will recollect that  a murder was prepetrated at
Parnell, in Warwickshire, on Christmas Day, 1842, in  the following manner: -
 
    James CROWLEY, a wild young man, had  been put from his father's house,
but had been allowed a pound a week, a cottage  and a horse. His father having
still some reason to dread some fatal act of  violence, on the part of his
son, had one of his farm servants, named William  TILSLEY, sworn in as a special
constable for his (the father's) protection; and  on Christmas Day, 1842, the
family and a party of friends having just taken  their seats at the dinner
table, the prisoner's mother suddenly started up, and  said to her husband, "For
God's sake, go upstairs, there's James coming across  the field with his gun
to shoot some of us."
 
    The man accordingly hurried from the  apartment, and the prisoner, who
had been seen by his mother through the window  advancing in the way she
described, went round to the back of the house, and  thrust the muzzle of his double
barreled gun through the pane of glass. In the  meantime TILSLEY went out to
expostulate with the prisoner, who, on seeing him,  retreated a few paces,
exclaiming, "It's you, is it?" and at the same instant  fired at the unfortunate
man, and shot him dead upon the spot. He then  shouldered the gun, and was
heard to say as he walked away, "I've another charge  for somebody else."
 
    No one ventured to stop him. He went  home, saddled his horse, rode to
Tring, and there left his horse at an inn, took  the train, but stopped at the
first station, where he bought a pair of  spectacles to disguise his person,
and was heard of no more till a few days  since.
 
    He has, it appears, been in the United  States in the interim, but has
resided ever since last March in Chester. A woman  with whom he has recently
co-habitated, in a fit of jealousy betrayed him. He  was taken by two police
officers at Chester, on Saturday; and in his examination  before the magistrates
he signed the following declaration: -
 
    "I have to say I am guilty of what I  should do again tomorrow. I did
shoot the man in open day. I think I did my  duty."
 
~Leeds Intelligencer.
 
 
 
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