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^ered behind her counter. She 

 appears to have been sitting on a 

 wooden chair at the back of the 

 counter, casting up, on a slate, 

 cither the receipts of the day, or 

 the amount of some articles which 

 the perpetrator of this horrid deed 

 had pretended to purchase ; when, 

 it is conjectured, she must have 

 received a violent blow between 

 the eyes, after which, a large knife, 

 with which she was in the habit 

 of cutting the cheese, &c. was 

 plunged into her throat, whereby 

 the jugular vein and the windpipe 

 were both cut. When discovered, 

 she was lying upon her face on the 

 floor beiiind the counter, and the 

 bloody knife deposited upon a kind 

 of wooden bench within a yard of 

 the place where the body lay> The 

 murder must have been committed 

 late on Saturday evening, after the 

 shop was closed ; and was not dis- 

 covered until Monday morning, as 

 her neighbours had heard her say 

 she was going out on the follow- 

 ing day, which being Sunday, no 

 suspicion arose, from the windows 

 remaining closed until Monday 

 morning, when entrance was ob- 

 tained by the window. Her 

 pockets were turned inside out, 

 and the till emptied : but some 

 silver spoons were lying in the 

 back parlour, untouched, and up- 

 wards of 30/. in a box in her bed- 

 room. The door has a spring lock, 

 which was closed upon the heels 

 of the murderer, who, no doubt, 

 quitted the house by the front 

 door. It is remarkable that there 

 is a cottage with a family, next 

 door, whicli is merely divided by 

 a thin lath and piaster partition, 

 and no noise was heard. 



The perpetrator of this murder 

 was one William Cornwell, a 



horsekeeper, who was tried and - 

 convicted in August, and after- 

 wards executed. His behaviour 

 throughout was marked bya brutal 

 insensibility. 



8. An inquest was taken ia 

 Sackville-street, Piccadilly, before 

 A. Gell, Esq. the Westminster 

 coroner, on the body of Roger 

 Brograve, Esq. who shot himself at 

 his apartments in the above street, 

 with a duelling pistol, on Monday 

 morning. From a view of the 

 body it appeared that the deceased 

 had the fore-finger of his right 

 hand round the trigger of the 

 pistol, grasping the butt, while his 

 left hand grasped the barrel. He 

 had evidently introduced the pistol 

 into his mouth in a sitting posture 

 in bed, and the ball had lodged in 

 the back part of his head. 



Trilleo, valet to the deceased, 

 stated, that his master appeared 

 much dejected since the second 

 spring meeting at Newmarket, and 

 more particularly so since Epsora 

 races. Witness followed his master 

 off the course after the Derby race, 

 who then mentioned to him that 

 he had lost an immense sum of 

 money. This was all the conver- 

 sation that passed on the subject. 

 The deceased had lost his appetite, 

 and witness thought he had not 

 slept since Friday night, when he 

 returned from Epsom. He got up 

 at four o'clock on the morning of 

 Saturday, apparently much dis- 

 turbed, and asked witness about 

 some keys which he always kept 

 in his ov/n pocket, and then re- 

 turned to bed; but he had been 

 walking in the night about the 

 room. He did not go out on 

 Sunday, nor attempt to dress; such 

 a circumstance never had happened 

 before. At half-past nine on Sun- 



