A terrible tragedy has occurred this week in Chelsea. The
Rev. J. Hear' lived in Paulton Square, with no attendant but a housekeeper named Ann Goss. Mr. Healin owned a house in Wellington Square, which needed some repair, and employed a plasterer, named Walter Miller, to do it. On Wednesday night Miller went from Mr. Heulin's house to Mr. Piper, a van proprietor in the neighbourhood, and asked him to remove a box from Paulton Square. Mr. Piper came, and began cording the box, but finding his hand all bloody, suspected something wrong, and gave Miller into custody. In the box was found the body of the old housekeeper. Mr. Henlin has disappeared, but Miller was dressed in clothes identified as his, and it is believed by the police that he murdered the clergyman in the empty house, and made away with the body, perhaps in a box, perhaps by throwing it down a drain, and then proceeded to the residence, where he murdered the housekeeper. It is supposed he had a confederate, either a woman or a man dressed in woman's clothes, who was present when Piper began cording the box. This person has escaped, but Miller, who either took laudanum on his arrest or acted insensibility, is in custody and will live. The temptation to the murder appears to have been some gold Mr. Heulin had about him, but after its commission his plans seem to have widened, for some title-deeds of Mr. Heulin's were found in his room.
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